Exiled Russian Priest Honcharenko’s California Refuge
In Alameda hills near Hayward California, exiled Russian priest Honcharenko houses a wary life. Surrounded by rugged roads and hidden cabins, he advocates peaceful liberty for Russia, forming the Decembrists society and printing pro liberty tracts to smuggle into the empire.
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Ruenia
Bulgar
Amen Iurgenet
San Francisco
Sas
United States
Russia
Alaska
Eugene Schuyler
Honcharenko
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Ukraiia
Svoboda
Father Honcharenko
California
Decembrists
Count Tolstoi
Alexandria
Egypt
Tolstoi
Si'erra
Alameda Hills
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Jd Nan
Liberty
Siberia
China
Kiatha
Bution
Will M. Clemmens
Pianos of Paper and Odd Lightning Anecdotes
An essay notes paper piano cases and other experiments in piano making including ivory and silver pianos for export markets. It also recounts startling lightning effects with skin bleaching, dismemberment, and rare accidental phenomena such as coins melting in pockets and gear damaged while wearers remain unharmed.
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Dudley
Pri
London
Hyderabad
Six Times a Bride: Louise Campbell's Eventful Life
Louise Campbell, 54, of Brooklyn and Santa Ana area, died recently after a life marked by six marriages and deep travels. Born Louise Taylor in Lansingburg, she married five men across years of hardship, wealth, and service, including teachers, merchants, and ministers. Her marriages took her from Alabama to New Orleans, Europe, India, and the United States, with a final union to Albert E. Campbell in Houston in 1885. Her will includes gifts for a monument to her first love in Montgomery and a memorial tablet for her fourth husband in Clinton New York.
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Cal
Louise Campbell
New York World
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Brooklyn Dublin
Almon Rolling
Rollins
Montgomery
Ala
Rolins
Alabama
Clarence Cushman
New Orleans
Cushmans
Europe
Munich
Cushman
Rome
London
England
York
Plainfield
Oscar D. Williams
United States of America
Fort Sully
N. C
Mra Williams
Missouri
Louisville
Edward Lukes
Covington
Cleveland
Syracuse
India
Hong Kong
Honolulu
Lukes
Sandwich Islands
America
Albert E. Campbell
Campbell
Hoston
California
Almon Rollins
Clinton, N.Y
Purity in love valued by girls and moral men
In the Ladies' Home Journal editor Koward W. Bok writes that girls prize purity in men as men do in women. The writer notes that most women marry upright, world wary but using reality over seeming. A lasting, virtuous life attracts the best wives and yields the highest reward from women.
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Koward W. Bok
Ladies’ Home Journal
German engineer trails new noise‑dampening deck for trains
Boedecker develops a bridge decking system to cut train noise on iron bridges. An inch and a quarter plank deck rests on timber supports and is covered with felt and asphalted layers for water tightness. Slag gravel ballast soils the surface and drainage centers the setup, weighing 600 pounds per yard on an eleven foot wide span, costing 28 cents per square foot.
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Boedecker
Prayer to Saint Florian Protect This House
Bavarian peasants with a fear of fire invoke Saint Florian in a humorous plea to guard their own home while warning to burn others, reflecting local superstitions and protective rituals.
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St. Florian
New York buckwheat leads in acreage and yield
New York tops the figures with 280 029 acres and 4 675 735 bushels of buckwheat. Chesaning Michigan funeral director quotes a grim boast. English women wear larger shoe sizes on average than American women. A New York lodging house will offer free lodging to tramps under a no bath no bed rule. Dr Murray’s New English Dictionary features a long entry on Devil. Russia hosts about 36 mortgage banks issuing real estate loans. Columbus Georgia reports a new record. An umbrella nonpayment led to a conductor’s fine. Since hostilities China Japan see 150 000 guns shipped from Birmingham. Ohio court holds wives liable for husbands support when unable to provide. Goshen Indiana resident claims the nation’s oldest violin, tracing to a fifteenth century Italian owner. He bought it for 50 dollars.
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New York
Murray
Russia
Columbus
China
Japan
Birmingham
Ohio
Murderers at Austrian Convent Prison Wondered In Reader Tale
A Cornhill Magazine writer tours a Neudorf convent prison housing female inmates charged with theft arson murder and infanticide. He notes surprising calmness and equality among inmates from 16 to nearly 60, including Marie Schneider a notorious European killer. The piece contrasts perception with reality and recalls their fresh start behind convent walls.
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Helles
Neudorf
Cornhill
Marie Schneider
Austria
Aus
Encounter with Herbert Spencer at the Turret Study
An afternoon scene reveals Herbert Spencer’s visit to a professor and his drawing room. The writer narrates a tense meeting marked by Spencer’s sharp rebukes of Highlands and innkeepers, while the professor escapes via the back door before dinner. The encounter ends with Spencer departing after a stormy interview referenced by Miss Stoddard.
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Sar Ad
Dominic
Herbert Spencer
Sch
John Stuart Blackie
A. M. Stoddard
Amusement and virtue in civic life
Rev. Dr. Peabody of Rome New York argues amusements are essential and virtuous. He contends that makers of toys plays and pure amusements are public benefactors, subordinating leisure to noble ends and fortifying virtue.
Christianity as divine purpose guiding a Christian world
A Universalist preacher from Dorchester endorses Christianity as God’s eternal plan for a Christian world and the only path for living for God and man. The note contrasts this with English tradesmen’s indignation at German ordered supplies for the Ashantee expedition, including dried potatoes and root vegetables.
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God
George W. Brooks
Universalist
Dorchester
Mass
Germany
Java Spiders Spin Strong Webs Across Forests
In Java forests a newly identified spider species builds webs of extraordinary strength that reportedly require life to cut through. The discovery highlights potential ecological and biomechanical interest and prompts further study by researchers.
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Java
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the Blackie
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