A Land of Promise Cape Town and the South African Gold Boom
Cape Town's diverse population and the four white-ruled regions are outlined. The piece notes English and Dutch communities, mixed races, and subsidized shipping by various governments. It details mackerel trade from Table Bay, Captain Chase's successful voyage, and a rush to South Africa's gold fields including Johannesburg, with high transport costs hindering profits.
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Frica
South Africa
Cape Colony
Orange Free State
South African Republic
Natal
Watal
Cape Town
Table Mountain
Table Bay
Mackerel Trade Boosts Table Bay Fishing
The text notes strong demand for mackerel from Table Bay after captains began fishing there. It presents a colonial view of Cape Colony governance with the Queen appointing governor and judges, a progressive government, and a developing railroad network from Cape Town to Kimberley, plus future rail extensions toward diamond and gold fields.
Opening of Mashonaland by British South African Company
The article reports Lobengula of Matabeleland enforcing harsh rule and forbidding whites from touching gold in Mashonaland. It notes a British company with a $20,000,000 capital and a royal charter preparing an expedition to Mashonaland around April 15, withCLAIRE A, OR expressing optimism about white settlement benefiting South Africa.
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Johannesbere
South African Republic
Matabeleland
Mashonaland
Lobengula
Mashonas
Hi Country
Lobenula
Mashonland
England
British South African Company
South Africa
Claire A
New Fever Remedy Antikamnia Enters Market
The Louis Globe Democrat notes opposition to antipyrin spurred a new coal tar based remedy antikamnia. It targets headache neuralgia locomotor ataxia sciatica and other pains. It is claimed to not affect the heart or create a habit and contains no opium codeine or lead contains dangerous gastric disturbances risk.
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Louis Globe-Democrat
Europe
Sharps and Flats: New York swindlers prey on victims
A wary social study of Wall Street predators and urban con artists. The piece labels brokers, promoters, directors, theatrical swindlers, and con artists as a broad network of sharps and flats who exploit fools for profit, with examples of fake offices, reckless promotions, and deceitful schemes.
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Dispatch
New York
London
Paris
United States
Wall Street
Wall
Euiao
Legion
Bunko
T. Murray
Cape Town Diversity and Trade in the Cape Colony
The article describes a mixed Cape Town population blending Dutch Malay Hottentot and other groups. Labor is abundant yet scarce among independent locals. Malays work briefly then rest. Monday is a local “bine” day. Cape Town hosts English firms, wine production, ostrich farming decline, and imports from England. Shipping lines connect to England. American goods are scarce and costly due to scarce skilled labor. Table Mountain’s “table cloth” cloud signals winds. Diamond fields near Kimberley gained fame. Ophir in Africa is a debated source of ancient gold.
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Cape Town
Hottentot
Cape
Ospe Colony
England
Free Biste
South African Republic
United States
South Arica
America
Table Mountain
THE NEW INDIAN MESSIAH RISES AMONG CHEYENNES
An Indian runner reports Cheyenne scouts seeking a new Messiah or second Christ in the mountians beyond Salt Lake. The figure is described as bald or bearded with a wig, an old man who teaches a four night dance and rites to a high priest, drawing belief from the Rosebud agency performance. Fort Custer guards prepare for capture as Major Carroll suggests a Mormon spiritualist influence.
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Helena
Christ
Mountuina
Salt Lake
Rosebud
Major Carroll
Fort Custer
Extraordinary fall at Gibraltar prompts guard report joke
A Gibraltar incident from about a decade ago shows Lt M- falling 1 000 feet after overindulging at a mess, with guard O Donohue reporting nothing extraordinary. Lord Napier confronts the guard, who replies that it would be extraordinary if he had fallen that far and not died.
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Stock Exchange
Wall Street
Lower Broadway
Chambers
New York
Aegorety
Gibraltar
O’ Donohue
Elphinstone Guard
Lord Napier
Magdals
Gibral
Air
O'Donohue
Different Directions In Coffin Craft Across Nations
In America the undertaking fraternity prides itself on embalming and preserving bodies for time. In England burial customs shift toward wickerwork and light coffins to speed decomposition and avoid delays.
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America
England
Yes
Portrait of Walt Whitman in Camden on eve of 71st birthday
In Camden New Jersey Whitman now 70 frail with paralysis grants a brief upstairs interview in his Mickle Street home. He recalls war service exposure caused his illness and speaks of a golden age for American letters, praising peers and urging continued literary progress.
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Walt Whitman
Camden
N. J
Walt Whiteeman
Mickle Street
Mr. Whitman
Gray
Stout
Fancy
Edwin Arnold
Asia
Oscar Wilde
Whitman
New York
Madison Square Theater
Abraham Lincoln
James Russell Lowell
Edmund Clarence Stedman
America
Highineas
Shem. Goodby
Beatrice is Dead After Morning Canoe Tragedy
Geoffrey discovers Beatrice is missing after she went out in a canoe the previous evening. He finds her canoe and Beatrice's shoe, confirming she has drowned. The confrontation with Owen Davies and Elizabeth Granger unveils the death and Geoffrey accuses Davies and Elizabeth’s father of pressuring Beatrice, while Beatrice’s body remains missing.
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St Iast
Bryngelly
Geoffrey
Vicarage
Betty
Hope
Beatrice
Mr. Granger
Miss Granger
Miss Beatrice
Geoffey
Cven
Edward
Elisebeth
Standard
Missy Beatrice
Oome
Wales
Beastrice
Paistees
Seeebb
Owen Davies
Elisabeth
Elizabeth
Death
Mr. Bingham
Granger
Blackguard
Elizebeth
Davies
Bata
Saata
B Davies
Loates
Renee
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Great Diamond Fields
Wery
Greenmarkeet
Delmonico’s
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Chicago
Indiana
Feaud
Commerce OF Cafe Tower
the Mineral Resources
South Afica
Ophir
Afica
Wlii
New York Herald
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