Paris Gay Midway Center Of Exposition Fun
Paris reporters describe the Paris Exposition Midway as inspired by Chicago attractions with two main areas the Rue de Paris on the Seine and the Trocadero hillside. Visitors face costly entrances averaging 30 cents with many sights free after entry. the Globe Celeste and other features attract crowds but some suffer from recent accidents and failures.
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Paris
Chicago
Bank of the Seine
Antwerp
Cairo
Antwerp Fair
France
Globe
Saint-Saens
Freak Amateur Architects Create Curious Houses
The piece recounts odd failures by nonprofessional builders and self drawn plans. Cottages lacked fireplaces, a lawyer’s design omitted chimneys, and a villa was built without drains or proper access. It notes a De Morgan controversy over pyramid construction and Melchisedec’s eye.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Views Concerning Great Pyramid
Charles Piazzi Smyth ex astronomer royal of Scotland died recently. Born at Naples he took the name Piazzi after the Ceres discoverer. He served as astronomer royal in 1845 and later resigned over conflicts with officialdom. He spent retirement in Clova Yorkshire studying solar spectra and cloud forms. He is best known for his eccentric views on the great pyramid.
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Great Pyramid
Charles Piazzi Smyth
Scotland
Naples
Hartford’s rain troughs aid summer streetcar travel
Eaves troughs installed along open cars in Hartford carry rainwater from roof edges to the street via iron pipes. The device aims to reduce constant dripping that troubles conductors and waiting passengers on wet days, suggesting other cities might adopt the idea.
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Hartford
Minister Conger Demands Missionary Release
A Chinese official detains an American Bible Society missionary on a trumped up charge but Minister Conger intervenes asserting U S rights. He tells the officer the missionary must be freed and the man is released immediately after the exchange.
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Conger
American Bible Society
United States
United States of America
Howling Terror Phonograph Shouts Ten Miles
A Brighton inventor tests a phonograph with a four foot trumpet that repeats words clearly at ten miles and even twelve miles for shorthand capture. The device could warn ships from a lighthouse and broadcast messages over crowds and city noise.
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Brighton
Horace L. Short
Devil's Dyke
London Mail
Saint Francis and the Wolf of Gubbio Tale
A retelling of the Saint Francis tale in which the wolf terrorized residents until the saint spoke with it. The wolf pledges peace after a paw on the saint’s head and is fed for life, dying content two years later to the town’s mourning.
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Gubbio
St. Francis
Brother Wolf
Wolf
Iraneis
Hair Lifting Experience Recounts Narrow Escape by Captain Rowe
Captain Rowe of the Cleveland police recalls a life threatening moment from his youth. While working as a marble cutter, a windlass door detached and he was saved from a fall when the rope caught his arm. He yelled for help as the door crashed above but a lineman below avoided danger unaware of the incident.
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Rowe
Cleveland
Ohio
Middle
Prospect Streets
The W. L. Douglas Shoe Company Highlight
The Denver Post notes W. L. Douglas Shoe Co of Brockton Mass dominates with a $3.50 men’s shoe, direct factory-to-wearer sales, 1100 workers, union labor, and a payroll of 17435 dollars weekly. The brand claims over one million men wear its shoes.
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Douglas
Brockton
State Board of Arbitration
United States
Denver
Colo
Einke
W.L. Douglas
Wye Douglas
W._L. DOUGLAS SHOE CO
Mass
Buried Alive: Precautions Against Premature Death
The September Journal of Suggestive Therapeutics by Alexander Wilder M D argues premature burial is a public risk. It recommends keeping a corpse in a warm bed for at least thirty six hours after death and questions reliance on physicians certificates. Free copies are offered while stock lasts.
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Journal of Suggestive Therapeutics
Psychic Research Company
Times-Herald
Chicago
Alexander Wilder
Newark
Wilder
Giant Octopus Report From Congo Free State
A Belgian officer returning from the Congo Free State describes river Uelle octopuses called miga. He claims these creatures attack native canoes, capsize them, drag victims to their caves, and feast on them. The tales resemble Rider Haggard fiction.
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Congo Free State
Uelle
Rider Haggard
Harry Tuck Sherman
Chicago Record
Atlanta university opens model house for housekeeping
The School of Housekeeping provides a model house for instruction with eighteen bedrooms and facilities for kitchen dining reception and sewing. Students will work under trained teachers and learn needlework laundry and nursing as part of the curriculum.
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School of Housekeeping
Atlanta University
Cassarets Candy Cathartic Health Benefit Ad
An advertising claim promoting Cascarents Candy Cathartic as a cure for ailments from headaches to cancer by cleansing the bowels. The copy promises painless, easy movements and urges a 10 cent start, warning to beware of imitations and noting the genuine tablets bear C. C. C. stamps in metal boxes.
The Marchioness Li of China and her famed beauty
The marchioness Li, wife of Lid Hung Chang, is described as a great beauty and one of the cleverest women in China. She is over 60 but said to appear 35, with a wardrobe of nearly 4,000 garments.
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Lid Hung Chang
China
Long-Bearded Mich men boast giant facial hair
John J. Tanner of Brighton has an eight foot beard and stands six feet six inches tall. Mr Gulles of Ortonville wears seven foot whiskers. Both decline to enter museums.
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Michigan
John J. Tanner
Brighton
Mich
Governor Tanner
Mr. Gulles
Ortonville
Allen's Foot-Ease advertises cure for foot ailments
The notice promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for swollen burning sweating feet corns and bunions with a 25 cent price and free sample offer. It also mentions John W Gearty on Sanibel Island shipping 70 000 watermelons from 2000 acres and expecting more before season end per a Savannah paper.
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John W. Gearty
Sanibel Island
Great Vessel Under Construction By White Star Line
The White Star Steamship company reports a new ship under construction that will outclass the Oceanic in displacement and horsepower. It will measure about 750 feet in length with a displacement near 82,000 tons.
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White Star Steamship Company
Benne Plant Extract Offered for Summer Childcare
A midwestern ad urges parents to keep Benne Plant extract on hand to treat early signs of summer bodily upset in children. The J. & G. Maguire Medicine Co. of St. Louis promotes the product as a life saver for young patients.
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J. & G. Maguire Medicine Coo
ST. Louis
Missionary doctors expand reach of Christian hospitals
Chinese native doctors do not deserve their name. Missionary doctors from London and New York medical schools have gained access to every class. Li Hung Chang built them a grand hospital in one city for the work one of them did in saving his wife. In many cities, Christian hospitals open the door to Christian faith.
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London
New York
Li Hung Chang
Catamounts Said to Haunt Harmony Township
Farmers in Harmony township Warren county New Jersey claim a herd of catamounts is in hiding. Chickens turkeys and even young cattle are disappearing in noticeable numbers.
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Harmony Township
Warren County
New Jersey
Ladies Can Wear Shoes One Size Smaller After Using Allen’s
Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy New York advertises Allen’s Foot Tease a foot powder that makes tight or new shoes easier to wear. It claims to cure swollen hot sweating aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. Available at druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents with a free trial by mail.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy, N.Y
Electric omnibuses duel with steam railroad at Lake Ontario resort
Electric omnibuses are ordered to operate between Lyons and Sudus Point a summer resort on Lake Ontario to compete with the steam railroad.
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Lyons
Sodus Point
Lake Ontario
Giraffe Skin Prices Vary Across Regions
The report notes giraffe skins fetch a low price in South Africa today between ten and twenty dollars, with substantially higher values in Europe.
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South Africa
Europe
Ten Years Pain Ends for Ohio Teacher
A Higginport Ohio schoolteacher describes decades of monthly agony and failed medical treatments until Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound provided relief. She credits the remedy after consultations with Mrs Pinkham and offers to answer letters about her case.
Nebraska the Land of Plenty promotional appeal
A promotional note extols Nebraska as a land of plenty with rich farming, cheap land, and good health, urging readers to request brochures and promising inexpensive rail excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month to tour the state. The offer is from P S. Eustis General Passenger Agent Agricultural Chicago Illinois.
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Nebraska
Corn Belt
West
P. S. Eustis
Chicago, Ill
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Chinese Sea
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DENS
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