Yellowstone Geysers and Goblins in a Capricious Journey
A narrator recounts a Yellowstone Park excursion with a party including an old lady from Chicago and a maiden from New Hampshire. They witness Old Faithful, the Giantess, and the River Side Geyser, ride beaver-dammed roads, encounter troopers, cowboys, and Larry the Irish innkeeper, and end with a perilous descent into Grand Canyon of the Yellowstone and a sunset that defies description.
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Yellowstone Park
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Hell's Half Acre
Chicago
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Ollendorf
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Satan
Bethesda
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America
Krakatoa
Atlantic
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Simla
United States
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New Hampshire
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Lawa
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Arkansas
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Kings and Queens and a Migration on Novel Boards
Article previews two new board games: Kings and Queens on an 80 square diamond board with knights, pawns, and a queen crowned in a battle for headquarters, and Migration using an outer circle and four triangular quarters where pieces shift around the board without capture.
Wild West board games fascinate players with Indian scouts
The article details Wild West, Tiddledy Winks Tennis, and Militaire an array of games. It describes setup rules players spirits and outcomes from forts to Black Hills and Lone Tree ranch with peculiar commands and jumps.
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Fort Kearney
Black Hills
Yort Kearney
Buffalo Bill
Lone Tree Ranch
Detroit
How to Play Militaire Board and Other Indoor Games
The article describes moves on a Militaire Board with figures and safety jumps for officers and soldiers, then introduces a cross-shaped game Louisa with four players moving along outer arms to a central castle. It notes dice driven moves and mentions card and word games popular indoors.
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Anthorn
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A Noble Charity Shelter For Orphans In Peru
In Arequipa a 300-year-old convent houses a cradle box for infants ashore in a city wall. Sisters of Charity care for 426 children, training them in trades as they grow, with a nightly revolving cradle and a strict, silent regimen.
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Peru
Woman's Hospital
Sisters of Charity
Mother Eve
Santa Catarina
France
Italy
Sister of Charity
South America
Church of Rome
Mother of Sorrows
Alana
Snow Owls Sighted Across Long Island In Winter
Brooklyn Standard Union notes Arctic snow owls appear on Long Island during winter with birds shot at South Beach Babylon Sag Harbor and by the Zachs Inlet Life Saving Station. Ornithologists say winter occurrences do not predict weather though locals prize mounted specimens.
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John Akhurst
Long Island
Brooklyn Standard Union
Guoning
Babylon
George Sarton
Zachs Inlet
Sag Harbor
America
Europe
Asia
Georgia
Long Iland
Island
Red Jacket Medal Relic Used In Indian Troubles Story
Mrs Elizabeth Townsend Meagher widow of General Thomas Francis Meagher donated the Red Jacket medal to New York state With custody entrusted to the Red Jacket Club at Canandaigua The medal was presented by Washington in 1792 to Red Jacket the renowned orator of the six nations in western New York and nearby regions.
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Elizabeth Townsend Meagher
Thomas Francis Meagher
New York
Red Jacket Club
Canandaigua
N. Y
Washington
Red Jacket
Six Nations
Medal Commemorates Chieftain for Six Nations Peace
The country praised the chieftain for guiding the Six Nations to peace and a silver oval medal was created. It features George Washington presenting the pipe of peace to Red Jacket on the face, and a vintage eagle on the reverse, worn by the chief.
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George Washington
Selling by Meter and the Rise of Watt-based Pricing
The article notes a shift from flat rate lamp sales to meter based electricity pricing. It explains rating lamps by watts rather than candle power and selling current by meter. It also discusses motors and dynamos priced by watt capacity and amperes, with England leading the practice and American manufacturers adopting it, spurring demand for meters and measuring instruments.
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England
Installing Theater Lighting Plants
A London electrical journal urges stricter safety in theater electric lighting after recent fires. It warns wires crossing and careless contractor work ignite blazes, stressing that electricity, while safest when managed properly, can become dangerous without stringent supervision and proper technical oversight.
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London Electrical Journal
Brook
Talmace Tabernacle
Invention of the Electric Motor and Whitish Tales
A Davenport Vermont blacksmith half a century ago helped insulate wire by tearing up his wife’s wedding dress. Historian TM L Pope recalls the anecdote amid other telegraph era misadventures including James Reid, then a pioneer, and waxed cloth insulation that sparked a beeswax boom before October frosts ended that practice.
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Davenport
Vermont
L. Pope
James D. Reid
United States
Due Fermline
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Threshing by Electric Light
Electric lighting extends threshing into night, aiding machinery owners who rent out threshers. Farm labor limits can be offset as machines finish faster, freeing workers for other tasks. Fuel savings arise from a continuously hot boiler, avoiding re-heating each morning.
Electricity Enables Sheep Shearing In Australia
Australian sheep farmers adopt electric shearing on Rankmouks estate. Ten Wolseley machines run by a turbine-driven dynamo with an overhead line. The single season return nearly recoups the installation cost as the clip of 13 000 sheep is processed efficiently.
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Rankmouks
Wolseley
Banks
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