Plimsoll’s Course Backed by Sailors and Workers in Birkenhead
Reports from Europe note English sailors and workingmen at a Birkenhead meeting on the 25th endorsed Mr. Plimsoll in Parliament and pledged support. Other items include a large flood damage in southern France, a cotton mill lock-out in England, and a drought in Minho Portugal.
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Don Carlos
Alphonso
Alphonsists
Porto Rico
Birkenhead
England
Mr. Plimsoll
Geneva
Switzerland
Maj
Fulton
Wimbledon
London
House of Commons
Plimsoll
Union Bank of London
Duncan, Sherman & Co
Paris
Dundee
Scotland
Glasgow
Grant
United States
St. Gothard
The Lightning Train At Night A Mythic Ride
A compact verse depicts a monstrous lightning train racing across a dark sky. It blends legendary motifs of Aladdin, Mohammed, Saint Abaris, and Fortunatus with a vast iron dragon frame and brass ribs. The image ends with a sooty rider guiding the fiery steed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trael
Croquet Lads and Elopement at Stockton Brook
In Belgravia style narrative, two young barristers recount a summer at Stockton Brook where croquet and romance with Dot Elton lead to comic misadventure. Smith and Ned chase brown eyes and a bustling heiress as captains Bruce stirs trouble and Dot elopes, leaving both pairs wiser about croquet and romance.
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Sam
Smith
Chancery
Vonareg
Belle
Dot
Greenwich
Dora Elton
Ned
Gen. Elton
Fred
Capt
Bruce
Fox
Miss Elton
Jones
Elton
Stockton Brook
Hetty
Jet
Blackstone
Peach packing booming as machinery expands industry
Baltimore packers anticipate unusually large canning peach business while workers shift with new machinery. Western Massachusetts hay crops lag, bees thrive, and a new matte finished product appartine is introduced. Engineers probe mine safety lamp explosions and glass linings offer cleaner, durable hospital and fermenting surfaces.
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Baltimore
Massachusetts
Lewiston
W. Y. Sun
Moqui Pueblos Visit on a Mesa Above Arizona
In August a traveler and guide ascend to a cliffside town near the Colorado Chiquito, visiting the Moqui Pueblos perched 400 feet up. They discuss daily life, crops, bread made from roasted corn, distinctive dress, marriage customs, and a belief system tied to Mother Earth and Montezuma. The account notes their isolation, stone houses, water reservoirs, and unique musical and ritual practices.
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Zuni
Moqui
Colorado Chiquito
Arizona
Mexico
Guagave
New Mexico
Montezuma
Samuel Woodworth Ciizens
National Updates From the Civil War Era Headlines
Returns show spring and winter wheat near average across the nation. DoJ to prosecute 39 mail contractors for nonperformance. Hugh Donahue walks 1100 miles in 1100 hours in Boston. Atty Gen Pierrepont rules against Chorpenning claim. Avery resigns as Treasury Chief Clerk after indictment. Gilfillan succeeds. Mrs Celia Burleigh, suffrage leader, dies in Syracuse aged 48. Duncan, Sherman & Co fails amid cotton bets. massive losses reported. Five killed on Northern Pacific bridge accident. bloodless. State election dates announced across multiple states. Earthquake tremor felt in Connecticut. John Mason & Co sugar failed in Philadelphia. other failures noted. Avery arrested. Tobacco Exchange Bank closes in Louisville. Yellow fever alarm in Fort Barrancas. Minnesota Republican convention nominates slate led by Pillsbury.
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Department of Agriculture
Postoffice Department
Department of Justice
Boston
Hugh Donahue
Mary Frames
Indianapolis
Pierrepont
Avery
Treasury Department
Washington
Grand
St. Louis
Bristow
Pensacola
Fla
Mountain Meadows
Ann Elizabeth Hoag
Lee
Brigham Young
Ord
Department of Texas
Fort Marion
James Gilfillan
Syracuse
N. Y
Celia Burleigh
Centennial Board of Finance
Philadelphia
Tobacco Exchange Bank
Louisville
Fort Barrancas
Minnesota
St. Paul
Market report from New York and Chicago on agricultural goods and livestock
Flour and grain prices shown for New York and Chicago markets with No 2 spring wheat values, corn, oats and barley. Cattle, hogs, lambs and pork figures listed by grade, with cash and futures quotes and regional price ranges in East Liberty and Chicago areas.
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New York
Chicago
Milwaukee
Northwestern
East Liberty
Foreign Gossip Roundup of European Affairs and Miscellany
The London News cites high deposit rates as England’s banking woes. Quail thrive in England and Europe, with plans to introduce them to Ireland. Austria uses traveling agricultural professors. British officers face dismissal for not meeting new standards. The Ottoman Empire bans Arab horse exports. The Manchester bishop laments the poor man’s church. A couple travels to St Petersburg amid royal tensions. A Bonapartist paper notes Toulouse floods. Paris editors file from residence. June 19 dispatches from prison. Hairdressing soirees become London spectacle. Japan’s coin system uses 1000 cash for $1 for foreigners. Dr Kenealy’s remark about enemies likened to dew on a lion’s mane. Ferdinand’s death stirs private pensions with Francis Joseph. Emperor may pay the old pension still.
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The
London News
England
Ireland
Isle
Austria
Manchester
Urmston
Church of England
Eornspurcu
St. Petersburg
Alexis
Toulouse
Paris Financial Journal
Paris
London
Paganini
Japan
Kenealy
Troilus
Cressida
Ferdinand
Hungary
House of Austria
Francis Joseph
New U S Postal Cards Feature Simplified Design
The Postoffice Department adopts a light gray postal card with a simplified design. The stamp is square with emblematic borders and a Goddess of Liberty center, no water mark, black printing, and a 1 cent denomination. Forty cards per sheet, holders may order 10 000 pieces. factory stock runs about 5 million. Postal card sales rise 18.6 percent to 107,616,000 in the last fiscal year.
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Postoffice Department
U. S
U.S
Barber
Springfield
Mass
Icelandic eruption ends as ash covers 800 square kilometers
The Icelandic volcanic outburst has ceased but caused widespread devastation. Ash blankets 800 sq km of the ground to over an inch deep, with an estimated 4000 tons of material. About 5000 people, or one fourteenth of the population, are driven to penury, likely spurring emigration to Alaska.
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Iceland
Alaska
Cambridge Advertising Rates For Local Notices
Advertising rates show ten cents per line for local notices first insertion with five cents per line each subsequent insertion Fifteen cents per line for local in reading matter Obituaries five cents per line Death and marriage notices free Special notices priced per line with first insertion and a lower rate for repeats
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Cambridge News
Ecvesiacch
Slow Boats Through History Reveal Faster Atlantic Travel
Mack Twain argues in Atlantic Monthly that riverboat speeds over the New Orleans to Cairo route have declined as measured distances shrank. He compares the J. M. White, Eclipse, and R. E. Lee trips, asserting later speeds do not prove faster records despite claimed records.
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John J. Roe
Madrid Bend
St. Louis
Fort Adams
Grand Gulf
New Orleans
Eclipse
Shetwell
Shotwell
J. M. White
Cairo
R. E. Lee
Mack Twain
Atlantic Monthly
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Drs. Cooper & Jefferson
Cambridge, Ohio
West Market Street
Shaffner & Beymer’s
A. J. Amstot
Main Street
Washington, Ohio
Cc. T. Sweet
Cumberland, Ohio
Cc. F. Hunter, M. D
Antrim
Ohio
Wwe
A. Cooper
Robert McKahan
Lucar Tree P. O
Guernsey
Onto
Wm. M. Sions
Kirk House
Grant House
W. &. S. M. Kirk, Proprietors
Lambert Thomas
Zanesville, Ohio
E. Harper Jeffri
Lambert Thomas & Co
North Water Street
Delaware Wharf
Art Gallery
Quaker City
Madrid
Seo de Urgel
Iga
Mohammed
Earth
Heaven
al Barak
Saint Abaris
Apollo
Fortunatus
Aladdin
N.Y. Graphic
Temple
Col. Tomline
Robinson
Bodger
Q. C
Rodger
Belle Heartley
Taffy
Toffy
Bob Sawyer
Bradshan
Adam
Tom
Victoria Station
Marion
Eva
Ethel
Nora
la Lillyvick
Hebes
Ietty
Mamma
Papa
Mrs. Bruce
Belgravia
T. O. Mann
Carpenter and Joiner
Mackey’s Art Gallery
Cambridge
India
Morton
Starr Hotel
West Side Public Square
Cambridge, Onto
J.C. Ferbrache
Times Building
Connor & Dyson
Point Pleasant, Ohio
J. Woodford
Pix& Street
Mary
Guernsey County
H. C. Parker
Winfield and
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Vuino
J. W. Campbell
Scott & Brown's Drug Store
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McCollum & McKinney
South End Mill Street
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