Lake George Visitors Spot Morosinis and a Snake Island
At Lake George as tourists sail the famous waters they spot Victoria Morosini with her father and sister at Saratoga and join a day trip from there. Cephas Platt claims Rattle Island stockpiled snakes for showy tours attracting curious guests. English tourists eschew slang while Mamie Woolsen from New Orleans hunts small game with a dog on Round Island.
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THE
Dispatch
Longside
Lake George
Saratoga
Adirondacks
Green Mountains
White Mountains
Bismarck
Morosini
Jay Gould
Victoria Morosini
New York
Comic Opera
Victoria
Goulds
C. P. Huntington
Rattle Island
Cephas Platt
Platt
St George
Mamie Woolsen
New Orleans
Round Island
Not supplied wood scaring passersby in Starke
A Starke farmer installed two moving freight cars in his yard to force pedestrians to bring firewood. He knocked a fence paling to let dogs chase people, prompting defense with pine knots. Authorities later poisoned the cars and the owner sits under a Jerusalem oak lamenting the situation.
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Savannah News
Starke
Polyglot Bible Edition of 600 Copies Ends Era
The Polyglot Bible begun in 1502 and finished in January 1517 under Cardinal Ximenes was limited to 600 copies costing 50,000 ducats, about $5 million today. A vellum copy tied to Ximenes sold in 1829 for nearly $3,000, underscoring its rarity.
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Cardinal Ximenes
Ximenes
Supcone
Cardinal
Blobson's Great Anti Fat Thin Peak Feat Promoted by Professor Dingbats
In a playful exchange, a thin bather confirms a prior meeting, and a stout bather introduces himself as Blobson, inventor of the supposed Anti Fat Thin Peak feat. Professor Dingbats of the School of Physical Culture is referenced in the dialogue.
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Blobson
Professor Dingbats
School of Physical Culture
Shakel
Puck
Hong Kong Finance Blossoms Amid Speculation Boom
The traveling correspondent notes Hong Kong’s rapid financial rise from humble huts to a bustling market. He details high trading volumes, cross‑border investments, and dramatic share swings, highlighting banks, local companies, and looming calls for expanded banking capacity while warning of gambling risks.
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Tongking Coal Mining Company
Paris
Hong Kong
Borneo
Malay Peninsula
Manila
Space
Far East
Hong Kong Land Investment Company
China
Hong
Wen Ana
Lai Kong
Turtles Tug Of War Bizarre Market amusement on Wall Street
Dr. Brown in Fulton Market near New York’s Metal Exchange creates a turtle tug of war using two four inch turtles and chalk marks. Bets determine which creature drags the other ten feet across a floor line. The game draws market men and may spread among Wall Street venues.
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Horo Kone
Hong Kong Stock Exchange
Stock Exchange
Hong Kong
Queen's Road
Rialto
London
New York
Paris
Canton
Calcutta
Bombay
Bagdad
Princes of Finance
Manitoba
5. A. Brown
Fulton Market
Metal Exchange
Dr. Brown
Brown
New Fulton Market Club
Wall Street
Three is an Assemblage Mr Clint Ross
A fragmented item references Clint Ross and a playful line about a “little dumpling” and Miss Skate-Oo, indicating a whimsical or private note without clear news context or full details.
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Clint. Ross
Old Boulogne convent sheltering English and French nobility
The Convent de la Retraite in Boulogne, a historic complex once a palace, monastery, and Jesuit college, hosts English and French nobles. It houses orchids of gardens, ramparts views, a cloistered nuns’ garden, and a grand chapel where a boys’ first communion was celebrated with a bishop’s procession and altar girls.
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la Retraite
France
Henry VIII
Jones
Marshal Ney
Boulogne
Order of the
Betraite du Sacro-Cmur
England
Haute-Ville
Basse-Ville
Chateau de Boulogne
Napoleon III
Grandeur and Ghosts in the Grand Salon of Hauteville
A reflective diary voice recalls the Grand Salon as chaste and serene with a life size Pope image, contrasting Napoleon era balls and Hauteville women with French soldiers. The narrator fantasizes slipping through a hidden corridor to glimpse the silent room and its haunting echoes, confessing cowardice. GrRetrude Franklin Ateheton.
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Aslon
France
Napoleon
Hauteville
Grretrude
Franklin Atheeton
A Sociable Snake Becomes a Star Boarder in Jackson
A Jackson resident recounts a remarkable snake captured at Whitmore Lake last winter. The reptile leapt from a fishhook, then lounged on ice and shared a lunch. Now a summer boarder, the snake saves a child from drowning, retrieves pickles with its tongue, waters the lawn, and spouts sprinkling water while avoiding the keep-off-the-grass sign.
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Jackson
Mich
Saturday Star
Whitmore Lake
Outing on Trumbull Avenues Ends With Engagement Break
A man boarding at Woodward Avenue asks a Detroit conductor how far to the end of the line and whether the ride will take about an hour and a half. He reveals he plans to back out of a yearlong courtship with a widowed fiancée, seeking time to collect his thoughts and prepare excuses.
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Detroit
Presa
Trumbull Avenues
Woodward Avenue
Widder
United States
Revenge Plot Mentioned on Train in Old Transcript
A passenger and conductor discuss a plan aboard a train. The passenger seeks revenge on Gam Elson, a figure from their town who owes him $2, and indicates intent to strike as the train passes. The dialogue is recounted by a judge.
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Phillydelphy
Gam Elson
Poe
Chinese gymnastics and the ancient roots of physical education
The article traces gymnastics from ancient China as a health and education tool. It details Kong-Fan routines for standing, sitting, and recumbent positions, plus therapeutic massage, breath control, and tongue exercises. It argues Chinese calisthenics influenced liberal education and viewed the body as a hydraulic system for health.
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P. Amiot
Chinais
Ya-Kang-Chi
ou-Hi
China
Harvey
P. H. Ling
Axe. C. Hallbeck
Something Stronger Than Sullivan in Chicago River Challenge
A sports note imagines John L Sullivan escaping a Mississippi mess and then facing the Chicago river race with odds on the creek. The piece frames Sullivan as the decisive contender and predicts his rule of the event.
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Chicago
John L. Sullivan
Mississippi
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