Flying air ship unveiled by Philadelphia inventor
Philadelphia inventor John E Praut showcased a cigar shaped aerial ship with two large bird like wings. The machine 15 feet long weighs 1500 pounds and lifts 2000 pounds more than its own weight. It uses a novel link motion to vary wing speed and aims for a 109 mile range with coal oil fueled tubular boiler. A company forms to build the first unit soon.
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Philadelphia
John E. Praut
New Orleans Picayune
Why Their Wishes Failed In Mrs Hart's Wishing Chair
A Chicago Midway tale from the Dublin bedlam era recounts ten cent wishes in Mrs. Ernest Hart’s chair. Sir John Powers and a bridgeport craftsman recreate the Donegal Castle chair using whisky tower props, papier mache rocks, and Blarney stone fragments, misdirecting buyers into a Chicago miscue.
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Ernest Hart
Donegal Castle
Plaisance
Bridgeport
Chicago
Donegal
Ireland
Hart
Sir John Powers
Dondgal Castle
Chicago Mail
Curiosities in Plants and Global Flora Facts
The text notes Linnea’s flower clock with a circular plot of flowers opening at different hours. It mentions the Trish potato native to Chile and Peru, the English evening primrose as a night flower, and tall Australian marsh gum trees over 300 feet. It cites 70,000 plant kinds, 50 breadfruit species, 200 palm species, and predicts over 22,000 miles of railroad built in the country this year.
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Linnea
Chile
Peru
Australia
Reverend Talmage Urges Women to Work and Self Dependence
The preacher denounces idle living for women, arguing industry sustains safety and happiness. He cites sewing girls’ hardships, unequal pay, and hypocritical profiteers, urging women to pursue skilled labor, self support, and public justice while praising industrious examples of faith and virtue.
Discovery of Aztec Relics by Mormon Leader
Moses Thatcher, a wealthy Mormon figure, returns to San Francisco from Mexico. He describes a Sierra Madre area in Chihuahua where a Mormon colony is thriving and notes extensive ancient masonry and caves with well preserved chambers and inscriptions. He mentions land purchase, cave interiors, and a Belgian scientist finding relics, asserting the potential of the area as a site of a vanished civilization.
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Moses Thetcher
San Francisco
Mexico
Sierra Madre Mountain
Chihuahua
Thatcher
Growth of Ssesith People Across Western States Over Time
The article notes a dramatic rise in Ssesith in western states over fifty years, citing per capita figures from 1559 to 1890 and Rhode Island's 1830 average as $1459. It quotes the Cincinnati Times-Star remarking on Italians under multiple governments within one constitution.
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Rhode Island
New England
The
Cincinnati Times-Star
Do You Wish the Finest Bread and Cake
An advertisement extols Royal Baking Powder as the purest and strongest option for superior baking. It warns against gift offers and cheaper substitutes containing alum or acids and urges households to choose Royal for wholesome, digestible results.
Makes Flies Its Prey
Noted botanist Doctor Marshall of Shelby Tennessee explains the insectivorous plant traps flies with a funnel shaped hood and a digestive fluid pool. The trap’s downward pointing needles prevent escape as the fly struggles and drowns, a gruesome spectacle observed in nature.
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Marshall
Shelby, Tenn
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Congo River Railway Charges High Tariffs
The Congo River Railway in Africa, outside the Panama route, has the world’s highest tariffs. Its 25 mile line charges $10 for a one way through trip or forty cents per mile first class. Ice rates for second class, meaning standing in freight cars, are $1 or four cents per mile.
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Panama
Congo River Railway
Africa
San Francisco Chronicle
Artificial Coffee Adulteration Warned by Household News
The Household News reports artificial coffee is widely produced and sold to mix with real coffee. Grains are stamped colored and roasted to resemble genuine coffee and fool unobservant buyers. Color mismatch and hardness reveal the fraud, while some products imitate raw coffee grains. Also notes that neuralgia affects twice as many women as men.
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Golan
Heaven
Washington
New York
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
Latimer
Ridley
Aitertari
Imnep
Don
Beenie
Fragmented 19th Century Remedy Fragments in OCR Mix
A garbled OCR note combines medicine ads for Syrup of Figs and Catarrh Cure with broken lines about toxins, reconciliation, and a hailstorm. It references Pontecat, Bra Malls, F.S. Cursig Co, Tours France, and Monte Carlo bank earnings, all in stray phrases and incomplete claims.
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F.S. Cursig & Co
Tole
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