Savannahs lighthouse girl greets ships from Elba Island
Florence Martus, the lighthouse girl of Savannah, has waved a hello to passing ships for eleven years from the Elba Island home ten miles from town. She lives with her mother and brother on the bleak riverbank while George Martus tends the lights guiding pilots through a treacherous channel. Seamen return her welcome with three toots of the whistle as they pass, making her the belle of the sea trade in the south Atlantic coast.
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Jack
South Atlantic
Savannah
Florence Martus
Savannah River
Martus
Elba Island
George Martus
Miss Martus
Many Tasks for a Viceroy's Tactful Wife
Edward Page Gaston outlines duties for Lady Curzon as viceroy of India wife. She may receive a native maharajah alone and greet him on the threshold, then praise seeing him in her home and inquire after his family. Tokens are limited to photographs, not gifts.
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Edward Page Gaston
Curzon
India
Viceroyalty
Viceroyal Mansion
America
Quotations on Duty and Providence from Eminent Thinkers
A collection of brief excerpts from Emerson Ruskin Kant and others. The lines touch on purpose faith duty freedom and providence as guiding concepts for life and conduct.
Clever Little Stories and Humorous Exchanges
A humorous collage from a 19th century periodical includes schoolroom quips about months with 28 days a medical student misanswering mor and ape a temperance tale with Pat and a saloon a private soldier introducing his sweetheart to his sergeant a quarrel over a red haired friend and a flirtatious exchange about marriage ending with the line Let us marry, I think so my precious.
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Mor
Ape
Pat
Westminster
Smithson
Molyneux
Ethel
George
Gossip on Felix Faure and Adolphe d Eméry from youth
A fragment notes Felix Faure as a diligent apprentice and describes Adolphe d Eméry as a good fellow who would not rise to prominence, based on an early journalistic acquaintance. The anecdote places them over thirty years ago amid bohemian circles.
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Felix Faure
Adolphe d’Emery
The Ganges River Revered as Sacred to Indians
The Ganges or Mother Ganga is hailed as India’s supreme sacred river from its Himalayan source to the Bay of Bengal. Pilgrimages of six years are undertaken to cleanse sins, water is carried home to relatives, and shouting Ganga at distance is said to expiate past misdeeds. British oaths are sworn with Ganges water and tribes such as the Nilgiris worship rivers as Gan gamma, reflecting a widespread divine view of water.
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India
Ganges
Ganga
Himalayas
Bay of Bengal
Neilgherry Hills
England's Biggest Man John Sanderson Buried in Cambridgeshire
John Sanderson age 39, weighing thirty stone and 5 feet 11 inches, is buried at Guilden Morden Cambridgeshire after dying at Addenbrookes hospital. His coffin required a house window to be removed for entry, a reflection of his notoriety as England's famed giant.
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England
Guilden Morden
Cambridgeshire
John Sanderson
Royston
Addenbrooks Hospital
Cambridge
London Newa
Notice of Cicero Election to Consider City Incorporation
The Cicero town board on March 18 1899 ordered an election for April 25 1899 seeking voter approval to become a city under an 1872 act. The town president must publish notice and the town attorney file copies with election commissioners for official ballot placement, as signed by Town Clerk J R Drent.
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Cicero
Board of Trustees
J. R. Drent
Cicero Seeks Bids for Oak Park Avenue Outfall Sewer
The town invites duplicate proposals for brick and pipe sewer construction on Oak Park avenue per current specs. Bids due 2:30 p.m. April 1, 1899 with 10 percent certified check. The town reserves right to reject any or all bids. J R Drent Town Clerk March 20 1899 Austin Dl
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Oak Park Avenue
Cicero
Supreme Court
Board of Trustees
J. R. Drent
Austin
Mass Meeting on Austin Annexation Chicago Protest
Citizens of Austin prepare for a mass meeting in Lower Library hall on Saturday night March 25 at 8 p m. to organize against annexation by Chicago and appoint a committee to lead a vigorous anti annexation campaign.
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Austin
Lower Library Hall
Chicago
Global curiosities and ancient finds across nations
The item surveys 80,000 native Christians in China and 70,000 in Japan, notes a huge sewing machine in Leeds, and reports Japan punishes a night barking dog. It mentions Siberia’s 1900 Paris exhibition, royal furs in Russia, 4,500 year old cedar boats near the Nile, and a new razor sharpening device using a circular abrasive coated cloth.
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China
Japan
Leeds
Siberia
Paris
Russia
Nile
Man cures fistula with Arnica Salve instead of surgery
Renick Hamilton of West Jefferson Ohio endured eighteen months of rectal fistula and was told by doctors he would die without costly surgery. He claims to have cured himself using Bucklen's Arnica Salve, five boxes purchased from local druggists Traill & Cooling and Chas P Miller at twenty five cents per box.
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Renick Hamilton
West Jefferson
Ohio
Traill & Cooling
Chas. P. Miller
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