Mexico City Built Over Swamp with Floating Foundations
A dramatic description portrays Mexico City perched above a swamp in a basin amid mountains. It explains the ancient Aztecs chose the site, Spaniards rebuilt there, and deep foundations are risky due to mud and subterranean lakes.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Ramlin
Paris
Washington
Texcora
Pennsylvania
Plaza
Maidem
Garmenta
Montezuma
Montesuma
Cortes
Popofeatapet
Ixtaccihust
Chapultepes
Mexico City From Its Cathedral to the Market
A vivid tour describes Mexico City’s vast scale and contrasts. The writer notes clean streets, extensive drainage projects, and a government takeover of churches, then moves to the cathedral view, the National Palace, markets full of flowers, and cosmopolitan life on Paseo Avenue with riders, Indians, soldiers, and a bustling street scene.
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Venice
Amsterdam
Washington
Mexico
New York
Geccer
Lake
Tezcoco
Isex
Catherine
Shah Johar
Akbar
Delhi
India
Mreh
Exicans
Juarez
Cortes
National
Senate of Mexico
Treasury
Montezuma
City of
Rena
Dwayne
Fifth Avenue
Emperor Iturbide
Paaxe G. Caxreyten
HaHa Bay Saguenay Adventure Draws Tourists to Historic Ha Ha Bay
A writer recalls Tadoussac and Ha Ha Bay on the Saguenay, describing early French settlement, lush blueberries, lumber towns like Chicoutimi and St Alexis, and a wild river landscape. The piece contrasts Canadian rustic charm with old-world Catholic and French heritage while noting the tourist influx and regional blending of cultures.
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Correstondengo
Vem SacuEwar
Saguenay
Tadoussac
Parkham
Garneau
Tadaussac
St. Lawrence
Montreal
Giles
Tadaussao
Saguena
Tadsussac
Part
Cacouna Bay
Champlain
Tadanseao
Kirke
childeSesus
Ha-Ha Bay
Dhech
Ha- Ha Bay
New York
Sete Terete
Warren
Pace
St. Alexia
St. Alexis
Lumberville
St Alexis
Chicoutimi
Canada
Pat
Maeaneneringes
Nova Scotia
Indei
Jean Ball
Tavish
Archibald
Maris
Saguensy
Map of Rome in Marble Fragments Unearthed Near Tiber Embankment
Ancient marble slabs once affixed to a municipal building facade showed a detailed map of Rome. Rediscovered during Tiber embankment work, the fragments reveal paths and structures and hint at a long fate from sixteenth century excavations.
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Rome
Marble
Augustus
Tiber
Paul III
Stresta
Beaver Farm Prospect Amid Sealed Beavers and Market Hope
A Georgia correspondent recalls Dick Kilgore's beaver farm near Bascom. Local chatter cites a planned closed season in Bering Sea reducing seal skins, boosting beaver pelts value in New York. Kilgore reportedly owns about 200 beavers, with weathered males and females to be culled this year.
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Bascom
Esteerday
Georgia
William
Dick Kilgore
England
Bering Sea
New York
Gutta
London
Eiflgore
Beaver Farming and Behavior Described by Kilgore
The article details beaver life and farming ideas from Kilgore, noting their anatomy, cementing dams with mud, and carrying loads with webbed hind feet. It discusses feeding, reproduction, and the potential profitability of beaver skins and musk for medicines, predicting growing beaver shipments next year.
Diving for Pink Pearl Experts Barely Underwater Four Minutes
Divers in the pink pearl trade struggle to stay under water beyond two to three minutes. Some veterans manage four minutes, but long submersion risks paralysis or suffocation. A rope-hauler guides each dive, with the line and weight aiding descent and ascent.
Does Not Spout Water in Imagination Pictured Whales
The text contrasts whale respiration with human breath, noting whales breathe like humans and can hold breath. It explains a whale’s spout is just moist air exiting a blowhole, not a fountain, and describes the spout as steam pipe like and turning white in cold weather.
Reverend Darer Praises Chamberlain's Cholera Remedy
Johnstown preacher Rev Solomon E Darer of the German Baptist church reports using Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy on several occasions. He notes it gave relief within about twenty minutes in cases including a boy with cholera morbus and calls it a good remedy.
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Johnstown
Solomon E. Darer
Woman's life saved with Champlin Colic Remedy in Pennsylvania
A Hillsboro neighbor suffering cramp colic was treated with Chamilsin's Colic, Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy. The wife used it according to directions and reported perfect satisfaction and gratitude for the life saved. Joshn county, Pa
Dreadnaught set to sail from San Diego for Calcutta voyage
The clipper Dreadnaught under Captain John Allaire prepares to depart from San Diego on March 18 1875 for Calcutta via Singapore with Hollister & Co on board. The crew and families bid farewell as a strong, capable crew under a popular master braces for a long voyage across the Northern Pacific.
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John Allaire
San Diego
Cal
Northern Pacific
Ees
Hollister & Co
Calcutta
Singapore
Ian John Alisie
Dreadnaught
Roderick Shelton
Allaire
William Hollister
Rod Shelton
Mollie Manson
Hollister
Molly
Edward Manson
Tennessee
Walter—Walt
Kien
Tennel
Dght
Captain Allaire
Bascom
Andrew Hollister
Firma
Allsire
Little Walt
Lewis Barker
Kate
Rod Shelson
Ceene
Tain
Jour Baen
Pere Yeno
Nol
Annes
Sieet Vom
Dread
Mr. Hollister
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