Rail demand and a string of accidents fill the week
A Puinavepuia telegram notes rail iron demand surging with mills full and deliveries prioritized. In Lewiston a train killed Pierre Gondreau and two women from a wedding trip. Melodramatic actor Albert Fechter dies in Richland Center. Scaffolding collapse at Chicago Music Hall injures several. two die. Yellow fever cases rise in Memphis and New Orleans with multiple deaths.
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Puinavepuia
Raila
Atecl
Lewiston
Pierre Gondreau
Rose Martin
Celina Morin
Onantes
Albert Fech
Richland Center
Fechter
Memphis
New Orleans
Chevallier Juthonville
Canal Bank
Georgia
State House of Representatives
Texas Pacific
Fort Worth
Weatherford
Art Memphis
St. Louis Board of Health
Origin of Lawn Tennis Across Ages and Nations
This piece traces tennis origins from ancient Greek notes to Herodotus and Galen, noting its evolution in England France and Italy. It highlights the shift to lawn tennis, cost considerations for sets, and essential equipment for four players, citing W. H. Boardman via St. Nicholas.
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Galen
Herodotus
Atyx
Christ
England
France
Italy
Henri ST
Henri of Navarre
St. Bartholomew
Henry Viitl
Edward Halle
W. H. Boardman
St. Nicholas
Health permit rules limit wharf operations at Bt Fonis
A fragment notes that ships may not land at the city wharf or discharge freight or passengers within Bt Fonis without a permit from the Health Commissioner. The text implies regulatory oversight of waterfront activity and public health authority authority.
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Bt Fonis
London News and World Events in a Stormy Era
Describes famine in Cashmere capital shrinking to 30000, Lord Chelmsford's resignation, and a devastating England storm with hail five inches round. Reports from Cane Town on Cetewayo’s defeat and Zulu dispersal, Channel bridge project, shipwreck near Ushant with twenty seven dead, and agricultural prospects in Britain. Also notes Pope's interest in Panama Canal and renewed Egypt Abyssinia tension with Gordon moving to Khartoum, Nordenskjold Arctic voyage delays.
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Cashmere
Lord Chelmsford
Zululand
England
London
Cane ‘Town
South Africa
Cetewayo
Giundi
Oham
English Channel
Louis David
Antwerp
Naples
Ushant
France
London Times
Wales
Rome
Signor Gidia
Panama
Egypt
Abyssinia
Ismail
Gordon
Khartoum
Nubia
Copenhagen
Nordenskjold
Behring
Fortified Sub-Treasury Guards Million-Dollar Hoard
The New York sub-treasury guards millions in coin and notes with an impregnable fortress. Iron shutters, steel bars, rifle loopholes, and three steel turrets equipped for Gatling guns protect the building. Top story defenses aim at grenades, while riot violence history recalls 1863 mobs and Governor's Island artillery.
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Sam
New York
Foriméh
Governor's Island
Baltimore American
Vast Atlas of Oddities and Plain-Fact Ventures Across Lands
A collage of notes cites an English fish hooks maker in New Haven at 22 424 772 units, a 1800 year old wine bottle dug from Pompeii ruins, and a discussion on English rents. It also covers a Canadian canal idea, Burmese unrest, Persia politics, a trance-seer in Rosedale, a French palace ruin proposal, New Jersey coast holes, and quirky notices from Hartford and Chicago about lost umbrellas and remarkable letters.
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New Haven
Pompeii
Ebt
DranatPowEiuson
Rosedale
Heaven
Earth
Chamber of Deputies
France
Tuilleries
Europe
Soins Culottes
Atlantic
Coast Pilot
United States Coast Survey
New Jersey
Sandy Hook
Hudson’ River
Hudson
Hartford Times
Chureh
San Fernando Street
The
Hartford, Igimes
Hot Day Tensions Prompted Gun Talk in Saloon
In Trinidad Colorado a heat wave drives patrons to remove hats and wipe brows as a stranger in a Rome saloon draws a revolver and declares he will shoot anyone who mentions weather. He vows to guard against talk of heat and rain while promising to pass six times daily. The scene ends with silence and no frost rumors.
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Rome
Picketwire
Trinidad
Col
The Profits of Farming in Indiana
The Indianapolis Journal notes wheat crops in Indiana may reach 40 to 50 million bushels this year, adding 35 to 40 million dollars of wealth with low risk. It asserts land value can equal crop value and that corn profits rival wheat, urging further farm efficiency and research to match English and New England standards.
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Indiana
Conia
England
New England States
Indianapolis
York
Eancees
Podbeug
Chicago
Arcane
Banley
Louis
Wwe West Anee
Toledo
Michigan
Eestes J
Ah Rahley
Ver
Narrow escape from bear attack near Porter's Lake
Lucy Kirkham 11 of Brooklyn N Y spent the summer with her uncle two miles northwest of Porter's Lake when a black bear charged as she whistled cows to pasture. She climbed a sapling as hunters arrived and shot the bear, which weighed 210 pounds, saving her.
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Lreedley
Lucy Kirkham
Brooklyn
N. Y
Kirke
Porter’s Lake
Cor
New York
Sun
The Negro Exodus Heading South This Fall
A correspondent reports a large anticipated Black exodus from Southern states after harvest, with Mississippi, Louisiana, Alabama and South Carolina showing strongest movement and November expect to see around 100000 leaving. Georgia, Tennessee, North Carolina and Virginia show fewer symptoms while the fall movement aims for destinations yet unspecified.
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Kansas
Mississippi
Louisiana
Alabama
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
North Carolina
Virginia
Movement of blacks to Midwest states sparks investigative committees
Washington correspondence notes that in Alabama one district has two investigating committees and Kansas is watching the ground. The movement may spread to Illinois Indiana Nebraska and Wisconsin with Wisconsin highlighted due to timber resources and reported success of Black migrants there.
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Washington
England
New York Herald
Mexico
War Department
Army
Texas
Republic
Diaz
Canada
Consolidated Bank
Toronto
Dominion
United States
Scotland
Ireland
Newfoundland
France
India
Hamilton
Ont
Volcano
W. Va
Havana
Cuba
Montreal
Exchange Bank of Canada
Alabama
Kansas
Illinois
Indiana
Nebraska
Wisconsin
Advantages of Plain Living in a Family
Faith Rochester argues for plain simple but nourishing meals with varied grains vegetables fruits and meats. She notes fewer dishes per meal suit small families but larger ones need more variety to respect tastes and health. She claims plain living lowers costs labor and illness and cites a long track record with four children and one sore throat treated without medicines.
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Faith Rochester
A Diver's Fatal Descent Near Governor's Island
James K. Jenkins, famed as a daring diver, vanished beneath 75 feet of water while recovering an anchor in the ship channel between Governor's and Ellis Islands. A ruptured air-tube, a heavy load, and rescue efforts failed as Jenkins died before the crew could lift him.
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James K. Jenkins
Governor’s
Ellis Islands
Hugh Rowan
Jenkins
Bogan
John Reardon
Edward Netticutt
Joseph Westhall
Peter Connolly
Connolly
Netticut
Reardon
Wetherell
New York Sun
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Center Point
Iowa
Walker
Dubuque
Tater
Brigham Young
Carrington
Brigham Young, Jr
Salt Lake
Fort Eurora
Sitting Bull
Miles
E. P. Leésueur
Rochester
Solomon Senn
Conrad Engleman
Sean
Eagleman
Maj
Walsh
Dominion Mounted Police
Long Dog
Bull
Buffalo
New Music Hall
State and
Randolph Sts
Terre Haute
Tashington
Foriowine
Navy Pension Fund
Midis
Clc
Secret Service Division
Treasury Department
Globe National Bank
Boston
Mass
Dedham National Bank
Dedham
San Francisco
Darien Canal
de Lesseps
Paria Congress
Scesseceesees
Pacific Railroad
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Kentucky
Luke P. Blackburn
Maryland
Baltimore
William T. Hamilton
Washington County
C. J. M. Gwinn
Thomas J
Spencer Jones
Montgomery
Court of Appeals
Afghanistan
Tenth Hussars
Seventeenth Foot
Germany
Vatican
Yokohama
Japan
Tokio
Gen Grant
Homs
Itig
Serinagur
Lakes Huron
Ontario
Liverpool
Erie Canal
Wélland Canal
Canada Pacific Railway
Burmah
Bhamo
Irrawaddy
Persia
Count Monteforte
Vienna
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