Progress in Amateur Sports and Boxing Clashes Review
A sweeping year end review covers baseball league strife of 1890 1891 changes and the rise of amateur football rowing and sprinting with notable notes on Gibbons Bowen Lyons and Sullivan Slavin fights. The piece critiques Queensberry rules debates and praises amateur progress while outlining Lyons case steps and Pittsburgh club positions.
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Ecain
American Association
National League
Hana
Hanson
Althoud
The Nature of a Fog Revealed by Dust Particles
A New York Evening Sun report explains fog forms only with floating particles. Experiments show tiny dust amounts seed fog. atmospheric dust is widespread. Principal components include carbon about half, quartz and iron oxides around forty percent, plus sulfuric acid from coal combustion.
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New York Evening Sun
Time Telling Dog of Colonel Barksdale
Bellefonte story recalls Colonel F. N. Barksdale of the Pennsylvania Railroad who trained a dog to indicate the hour. The animal learned to anticipate each hour’s strokes from a clock that strikes on the hour, tapping its paw to count the number of chimes.
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F. N. Barksdale
The
Pennsylvania Railroad
Colonel Barksdale
Feathers at 6200 a Pound
There is a general mistake about ostrich feathers color and price. Natural feathers are white black or gray and dyed to suit. They are costly luxuries on ostrich farms in Africa selling for £200 a pound and rise with dyeing curling and treatment.
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Africa
Boston Bank Collapse Sparks Public Scrutiny of Trust and Pride
A rousing critique of Boston bank culture links Maverick Bank’s failure to blind faith in local banking pride. It argues reputations, family influence, and social prestige mask risky dealings and porous oversight, warning that appearances shield frailty as directors’ fortunes hinge on inherited trust rather than solid accounts.
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Dispatch
Boston
School Street
Five Cent Savings Bank
Maverick Bank
Tocsin of
Waterloo
Missionary Board
Horticultural Society
Gates of
Thebes
The Costly Lust for Money in a Changing Era
A reflective critique on how inherited greed and ambition shape the next generation. It links fatherly business ruthlessness to sons’ shattered nerves and moral decline, warning that wealth worship fuels social envy, reckless spending, and erosion of honor. It calls readers to purify themselves before a looming reckoning.
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Jupiter
Gramercy Park
Farrowdale
Ted
Two Suns Racing Around Each Other
Miss Maury reports Harvard photographic spectra of Beta Aurega reveal a double star system with two suns orbiting each other every four days at a separation of 7 to 8 million miles. If equal mass, each body nearly doubles the sun’s weight and each moves at about 70 miles per second.
A Talk on Prophecy and Self Made Prophets
A reflective piece on predicting and prophets, describing the writer’s private “Tomb of the Prophets,” the folly of homemade forecasts, and advice for those who yearn to prophesy publicly while noting the futility of post facto claims and the value of early, careful prediction. The tone mixes humor with caution about credibility.
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Saul
Horace Greeley
Nuine
Dreath
Johnstown
Clevend
Garfield
Harrison
Blaine
Gas prospects in Utah seen from Salt Lake City
The Dispatch from Salt Lake City reports gas appears in artesian wells in the valley. A large well 12 to 15 miles east of the city shows 420 feet of six inch pipe with gas rising, and a nearby 90 foot well records 100 pounds pressure. No rock has been reached in any wells drilled to date, keeping rock depth uncertain.
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Utah
E W. Hammond
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
Coffee of Central Africa described by Major Jephson
Major Jephson of the Stanley Emin relief expedition notes highland wild coffee berries in Central Africa. He states the local Kalа Abyssinia origin and finds varieties in Karagwe Ankori and Uganda rival the finest Arabian coffee in flavor and foresee it becoming a major commerce once Central Africa opens. The remark appeared in the Mayflower October issue.
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Major Jephson
Stanley-Emin
Great Lakes
Central Africa
Kala
Abyssinia
Karagwe
Ankori
Uganda
New York
Snowball Ice Cream Service at Suburban Christmas Dinner
A Detroit Free Press note recalls ice cream shaped as snowballs served on wooden plates painted with holly and mistletoe, crafted by a household daughter. The setup used enamel paint and sprays for decoration, with ice resting in fluted paper cups. A separate Detroit Free Press snippet shows a widower hearing an ampitious will remark from an attorney about his deceased wife.
A NICE TOWN TO GET OUT OF Bow Tort Times
The Philadelphia visit described, noting Independence Hall and the Mint, feels like a familiar repeat. The writer contrasts impressive architecture with crowded, overdone sculpture and a stale visitor experience, calling the city pleasant to live in but tedious for casual sightseers.
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Philadelphia
Chestnut Street
Independence Hall
Mint
Continental Congress
Willow Baskets Show Strength Beyond Looks
A general mistake misleads buyers about baskets. White willow looks best but is not the strongest. White slips are cut in fall and stored green. spring reveals bark peeling. Buff baskets use dried slips steamed and peeled, less handsome but far stronger and longer lasting.
Carlsbad Sprudel Salts touted by gout sufferer
A New York writer with gout recounts how strict dieting and various remedies failed until he used Carlsbad Sprudel Salts for six weeks. He reports relief from all gouty and rheumatic symptoms by week four and urges publicity. The bottle bears the Eisner & Mendelson Co. signature as sole agents.
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Eisner & Mendelson Co
New York
Emulsion Aids Recovery By Easing Cod Liver Oil Taste
A vintage advertisement extols Scott's Emulsion for saving lives by masking cod liver oil taste and by delivering half digested nutrition that swiftly strengthens the body, promising easier digestion and quicker recovery through Bowne chemists and South Avenue pharmacy.
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Scott
Bowne
Arenna
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