Senator Irby in Harvard duel tale of tragedy and misdirection
The account recalls Senator John Laurens Manning Irby of South Carolina involved in a Harvard duel with Scribner's son during a dispute recounted by Coolidge. Irby fired first and allegedly missed while Scribner fell dead after a red substance was applied to his shirt. Irby fled to South Carolina after learning of the alleged trick and never returned to Harvard.
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John Laurens Manning Irby
South Carolina
Tillman
Irby
Coolidge
Piney
Palmetto State
Harvard
Charles
Scribner
New York Press
Garden South Promises Mild Winters for Southern Settlement
The Monon Route advertises home seekers excursions to the South offering one way first class fares with return within thirty one days and liberal stop overs. Tickets valid on Aug 17 18 31 Sept 1 14 15 Oct 5 6 19 20 with departures from Chicago via Monon Route and information from Frank J Reed G P A Chicago.
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United States
Monon
Frank J. Reed
Chicago
Learn While You Can Embrace Knowledge Early
A compact exhortation to value knowledge in daily life. It argues ignorance is costly beyond books and urges understanding before information slips away. The message emphasizes timely learning because future needs are unpredictable.
Cheap Excursions to the West and Northwest 1896
The North-Western Line announces low fare excursion tickets to numerous West and Northwest points on September 1 15 29 and October 6 20 1896. For details contact connecting lines ticket agents or W B Kuiskern G P and T A Chicago Illinois.
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North-Western Line
Chicago & North-Western Ry
W. B. Kuiskern
Chicago
Woman Undertaker Miss Anna Flenner of Atwood
Miss Anna Flenner of Atwood Newfoundland became a practical embalmer and undertaker after she and her brother opened a furniture and undertaking goods store many years ago. Her brother started a business career a few years after, and she joined him in the venture.
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Anna Flenner
Atwood, NL
Anna
Miss Flenner
Bread on the Waters amid Burma cyclone aid
Reported is a $25 donation from Burmah native school children to rebuild a church wrecked by the St. Louis cyclone. The church had previously aided the school, and the act shows mutual support in disaster. Also noted are very low excursion rates by the Missouri Kansas and Texas Railroad for Homeseekers and Harvesters on September 29. For details contact local agents or Jas Barker in St. Louis.
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St. Louis
Burmah
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
Jas. Barker
Gen's Pass
Agt
M. E
Dr. Kay's Renovator Ad Promises Cure With Faith
An advertising line urges readers to use Dr. Kay's Renovator as a cure while noting faith must be followed by a response. The message also contrasts prayer with expected outcomes and warns against sin.
Li Hung Chang Eats His Own Chinese Cuisine at Banquets
A London Standard piece describes Li Hung Chang dining on his own Chinese menu before official banquets, then feigning eating at the table. He reportedly keeps two meals daily, drinks tea, eschews rice, and employs many cooks who work long hours while he maintains strict standards and even threatens punishments for subpar cooking.
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London Standard
the Elysee
Prince Bismarck
Friedrichsruh
Bismarck
Li Hung Chang
China
Slow Burning Powder Origins and Grain Shapes
The article explains slow burning gunpowder, first made in Germany and called cocoa powder. It outlines composition around 79 percent saltpeter 3 percent sulfur and 18 percent charcoal and describes grain shapes including hexagonal and prismatic forms to improve burning and gas pressure near the muzzle.
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Germany
St. Nicholas
Le Woune Changs Pipe Described In China
The Birmingham Past notes Li crafts a silver smoking pipe with a water reservoir, horn mouthpiece, and vertical silver tube. The design places the pipe proper into the water, requiring frequent replenishment and risking smoke being drawn into the water if misaligned.
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China
Birmingham
Thrifty Dutch Nobleman Buys Shad to Ship Caviar Roe
A Dutch nobleman staying at a Broad Street hotel exemplifies frugality and enterprise by buying shad along the Atlantic coast to harvest sturgeon roe. He ships the roe to Holland in hogsheads, processes and cans it, then returns it as a high priced Russian caviar for American epicures.
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Broad Street
Atlantic
Holland
Philadelphia Record
A Lynie's Wish And Joy In Scarce Times
A reflective note from the Atchigon Globe on preserving joy like a crop. It suggests a man who finds happiness may gather more than he can use, implying prudent sharing and restraint during shortages.
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Atchigon Globe
Bleaching Straw Hats by Sulphur Burn Method
A historical note describes a small scale straw bleaching process. Wash straw items such as hats, dry lightly, and place under a glazed pan. Melt brimstone in a pipkin, ignite, and enclose with damp cloths to trap sulfurous acid gas. After about two hours the straw should be nicely bleached.
Remarkable portable lamp touted to rival gas and electric light
London bystander reports a portable lamp claimed to generate its own gas with a secret Italian substance. The device needs no external machinery, costs at most one fifth of ordinary gas, and emits bright white light comparable to electricity. It floods rooms from a compact, candle-stick sized apparatus that is clean and odorless.
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London
Manchester Courier
Electric locomotives expected to supplant steam power
Eastern railroad workers show strong interest in new electric locomotives from major companies and predict electricity will soon replace steam as motive power with some side lines already transitioning.
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Eastern Railroad
Record of 1893 earth removal and dike construction project
The record details removal of 4 620 000 cubic yards of earth and 190 000 tons, construction of eight miles of dikes, with an estimated cost of 2 500 000 dollars. The scope and cost reflect the major civil works of the period.
Novel Engine Lathe Displayed at Cornell University
A nickel plated engine lathe for Cornell university’s mechanics department is touted as the most remarkable tool of its kind in New York. The lathe features complete nickel plating, gold plated nuts and bolts, and silk plush shelves for gold and nickel plated tools and accessory parts.
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Cornell University
Department of Mechanics
New York
New Fishing Hook Fires Cartridge to Shoot Fish
Inventor James R. Booth of Barrie Ontario Canada unveils a hook with a cartridge tube and spring firing pin. The device explodes the cartridge on contact sending liquid bait and launching a projectile to strike the fish.
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James R. Booth
Barrie
Ontario
Canada
Coloring Leather by Electric Dyeing in Germany
A German process uses electricity to color leather. Leather rests on a zinc table acting as the positive pole while dyeing material is poured on and the leather connected to the negative pole. Current drives the dye into the leather and patterns can be impressed by a pattern plate on the negative side.
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Germany
Horseless carriages show strong city driving claims
The New York to Ardsley Country Club race demonstrated self driven vehicles adapt well to urban life. A French entry competed but an American carriage won. The Scientific American praised how the horseless carriages dodged around cable cars and wagons, arguing they show greater control than the ordinary horse and carriage.
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New York City
Ardsley Country Club
Hudson
Scientific American
Glass Water Pipes In Germany Inventive Construction
A report notes German production of water pipes shaped from glass and coated with asphalt to prevent fracture. It claims this method reduces breakage risks and enhances durability in harsh conditions.
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Germany
World previews the latest electric locomotive design
A new electric locomotive measures 38 feet by 9 feet 6 inches by 13 feet 6 inches and weighs 150000 pounds. It offers thorough moisture protection and resistance to acids and alkalis and cannot be penetrated by gases.
Fly Exterminator Recipe for Quick Fly Suppression
A simple home remedy uses half a teaspoon of finely ground black pepper mixed with double the amount of brown cougar and moistened with condensed milk. Flies are attracted to the bait and will eat it, but the mixture is poison to them. When watched, flies often die shortly after approaching the plate.
Fertilizer Mixes for Gardens and Lawns
The text details fertilizer blends for gardens, lawns and fruit trees. It lists ammonium sulphate, sodium nitrate and other compounds with specific parts by weight and notes aging two and a half pounds per tree.
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Poy
Edison’s New Lamp From Roentgen Rays Demonstrated
The report describes a novel lamp developed from Edisons experiments with invisible NX rays discovered by Roentgen. A glass bulb is evacuated and coated inside with a fluorescent material that glows when X rays touch it. Wires sealed at the ends supply current, producing N rays within a fluorescent shell and a mild steady light with no perceptible heat.
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Mr. Edisons
Prof
Roentgen
Deepening of Hudson River to Twelve Feet Near Albany
The national government funds are advancing projects to deepen the Hudson River to twelve feet for navigation to Broadway Troy and to the state dam head of navigation. Work aims to complete within two years with channels 400 feet and 300 feet wide respectively.
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Wadston
Hudson River
State Dam
Albany
Broadway
Troy
Notes of Science and Practical Household Tips
Gilt picture frames darken. wash with a sponge dampened with alcohol or oil of turpentine and air dry. Aluminium replaces magnesium for flash photography. dew behavior varies by color. small magnets lose magnetism when disturbed. boiling water softens corks for bottling. choose poultry with small bones and white skin. glycerine from lye used in soap making.
Man of a thousand or twenty thousand a year
A Boston Globe note quotes a mother and daughter discussing Harold. The daughter calls Harold a man of a thousand, the mother retorts he is worth at least twenty thousand a year, reflecting on his value and prospects.
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Sam
Harold
Boston Globe
The Cheerful Idiot and the Scorcher Chronicle
The Indianapolis Journal notes a witty exchange about the sun as the original scorcher. The cheerful idiot adds that Joshua made the first arrest for scorching, framing a playful, facetious debate.
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Joshua
Indianapolis Journal
Did He Magistrate Chatters With Elderly Witness
Comic Cuts presents a brief gag where a magistrate misreads an elderly witness remarks on age. The exchange plays on confusion between age in years and months prompting a lighthearted misunderstanding.
Local Ottawa shoppers praise Williams Pink Pills
A Ottawa shoe dealer Fred Haeberlin credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing his wife of neuralgia headache and nervousness after a three year use. He says the pills improved her health rapidly and that he helped popularize the remedy in Ottawa. John Hardin also endorses the pills for digestive and rheumatic relief. Pink Pills are sold 50 cents a box or six for 2.50.
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The
Journal
Ottawa
Ill
Fred Haeberlin
Dr. Williams
Chicago
Graham & Yentzer
George Yentzer
John Hardin
Priceless Russian Fur Cloaks Among Nobility
The article notes sable cloaks valued in thousands, including Mrs John Mackays 15000 cloak of 10000 skins. It cites a dagger of fur sent to Empress Dagmar costing 60000 and weighing sixteen ounces from Irkutsk. Russians and aristocrats own lavish wraps while others face cold and hunger.
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John Mackay
Dagmar
Irkutsk
Siberia
Saxe-Coburg
Russia
Judie
Potoka
Grefulha
Leuchtenberg
Year of object lessons prompts thrift tale
A Kansas City man gives his wife one dollar to buy a calico dress and spends sixteen dollars on a second hand wheel. The anecdote frames thrift and prudent spending as a moral lesson for the year.
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Kansas City
Language curiosity about vowels in order
A claim asserts only two English words contain all vowels in order. The examples given are abstemions and facetious, though discussions note variations and puzzle-like exceptions may exist depending on treatment of y and vowel sequences.
Halvs Catarrh Cure and Other Notices
A collection of vintage ad snippets and brief notices. Advertisements praise remedies for teething and consumption, claim Cure for Fits, and cite prices, places, and testimonials from Michigan and Illinois. Also references a Carnot monument unveiling in Chalons sur Marne and crop-payment terms in Iowa.
Antiquity of Sean Goap Mentioned in Bible and Ancient Soap
A Grocer's Review excerpt claims Sean Goap is ancient, cited in Jeremiah and Malachi. It notes Gauls making it over two millennia ago from beech tree ashes and goat fat. A Pompeiian soap shop buried by the 79 A D ash fall yielded soap still efficacious after 1,800 years.
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Sean Goap
Malachi
Pompeii
Pompei
Monon Route Sells Cincinnati and Dayton Excursion
The Monon Route offers a six dollar round trip to Cincinnati and Dayton on Saturday September 26. Tickets are valid for departure on all trains that day from Chicago and returnable through Monday September 28. A new fast flyer to Cincinnati runs Chicago 11 50 a m arriving Cincinnati 7 45 p m. Night trains depart Chicago 8 58 p m and 2 40 a m from Chicago. Ticket offices are at 232 Clark Street Auditorium Hotel and Dearborn Station.
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Cincinnati
Dayton
Monon
Chicago
The
Clark Street
Auditorium Hotel
Dearborn Station
Bechuanaland King Khama’s Early Morning Wedding
In England last summer Khama of Bechuanaland protested Rhodes charter liquor sales and then staged a modern Palapye wedding. He wore a frock coat and Merit trousers. his 20 year old bride wore white satin with a tulle veil. An English missionary minister presided and a wedding cake was served. The unusual detail was the 9 am ceremony.
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Khama
King Khama
Bechuanaland
England
Rhodes
Palapye
Walking goby found in Indian Ocean and West Africa shores
A queer fish known as the walking goby or hopping fish occurs in the Indian Ocean and along West Africa. Crowds resemble tadpoles and bask on mud or mangrove roots. Observers suggest an organ in the tail or water storage in gills to aid brief air respiration.
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Indian Ocean
West Africa
Haddon
Forbes
Liverpool
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Senator Irby
Harvard College
God
California Vig Syrup Co
Ter
Lynie
Scientific. Corner
Current Notes OF Science and Industry
Shoota
Edison
Notes of
Halvs
Price
Henry
Puck
Piso
John A. Miller
Au Sable, Michigan
Hiawatha, Mo
Iowa
J. Mulhall
Waukegan, Ill
Carnot
France
Chalons-sur-Marne
Kansas
Grirl
Lydia Qh
Veuerable
Pinkam
Bydia E. Binkham
Ayer
W. N.Y. Chicago
Imnsylvane
Columbia
Standard of the World
Pope Mfg. Com
Hartford, Conn
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