Yale Victories Spotlight Football Era and Local Plans
The 1891 college football season is hailed as the best yet with Yale’s triumphs over Harvard and Princeton highlighted. The piece urges building a Western Pennsylvania league, defends rugby roughness while calling for rule enforcement, and notes Pittburgs rising football interest and potential for strong future teams alongside discussion of baseball management and boxing matches shaping the local sports scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Pittsburg
Shortidge
East End Silms
Gamp
A Dollar Investment In Bulbs For Winter Bloom
A concise guide on spending one dollar for winter flowering bulbs. Recommends mixed bulb sets, single flowered hyacinths, tulips, crocuses, and narcissi, with pot culture and staged blooming. Provides specific quantities and prices, plus color schemes and timing for a bright window display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Praia
Snowdro
Trumpet Major
Pyrenees
Grorce D. Clare
Bernhardt Birth Certificate Reveals Parisian Origins
The birth certificate for Madame Sarah Bernhardt has been found. It states she was born in 1844 in Paris Latin Quarter, not Havre as she believed. Her mother, a Berlin Jewess, worked as a milliner on Rue de l Ecole de Medecine near Marat’s assassin house. her sister Jeanne was born two years later. The birthplace is an old dilapidated house.
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Teo
East Liverpool
Jeannette
New Castle
Pittsburg
Bernhardt
Pall Mall
Sarah Bernhardt
Havre
Stirling
Rue de l
Pallad
Debt of Italy fuels visit as Triple Alliance frays
A Chicago Dispatch column muses on M De Giers visiting Paris to see his granddaughter amid Italian debt and shifting alliances. It questions Italy’s role in the Triple Alliance, compares national debts with France, and foresees possible realignments. The piece also criticizes Prof. Wiggins and his moon theories, contrasting them with practical science.
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M. de Giers
Paris
de Giers
Italy
Humbert
di Rudini
France
Trance
Ttaly
Germany
Austria
Wiggins
Thales
Hiparchus
Canada
Ancient China Population Figures Stir Public Imagination
An economic and demographic meditation on China cites revised estimates from German statisticians Supan and Wagner placing the population at 350,000,000. The piece compares vast totals to Europe, the Earth, and the Moon, noting a national debt of 38,500,000 dollars and urging readers to grasp the scale of nine figures.
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China
Supan and Wagner
United States
Europe
Xerxes
Mitchell-Rochefoucauld Alliance Marry in Europe Honor
The Mitchell-Rochefoucauld alliance unites Miss Mattie E Mitchell daughter of Senator Mitchell of Oregon with Duc Francis de la Rochefoucauld a French noble. The match blends American wealth with distinguished French lineage amid hopeful implications for international goodwill. The Duc is portrayed as a model of virtue with a celebrated sister noted as one of the most beautiful women living.
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Mitchell-Rochefoucauld Alliance
Mattie E. Mitchell
Senator Mitchell
Oregon
Duc Francis de la Rochefoucauld
France
Mitchells
Aliss Mitchell
Rochefoucaulds
Mitchell
Togo
Duc
Two Moons in the Sky Hint Sparks Cautious Talk
A remark about there being two moons in the sky prompted cautionary discussion as observers noted the need for careful phrasing and verification of astronomical predictions.
Malagasy Queen Ranarlona and Madagascar in French clash
A portrait of Ranarlona Ranavyalona, queenly figure born 1861 on Madagascar’s southeast island, married to Rainilniarivony. The piece notes Malagasy royalty lineage, France’s protectorate tension, and potential war as Madagascar’s 20,000 to 50,000 strong fighting force could resist French advances through interior guerrilla warfare and lack of roads to major cities.
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Africa
Madagascar
Ranarlona
Ranavyalona
Rainilniarivony
Rasphenius
Andrianampoinimerina
France
The Purple Dye Story Through Time and Power
The piece traces the Tyrian purple from murex shells to royal robes, noting Cicero era costs and imperial bans. It highlights the rediscovery by William Cole of Bristol who linked purpurea lapillus to the original shellfish and the enduring allure of purple as a symbol of authority.
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William Cole
Bristol
England
Requirements of the stage in Sarah Bernhardt’s view
Sarah Bernhardt tells a New York Sun reporter that stage success requires a face capable of wide expression and a physique with proper height and contour. She argues facial expressiveness embodies inner emotion and cites Jeanne d’Arc and Cleopatra as examples of needed bodily presence.
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New York Sun
Sarah Bernhardt
Jeanne D'Arc
Cleopatra
Sarah
The Orlof Diamond Story and Journey to Russia
An account of the Orlof diamond, prized as one of the world’s most famed jewels. It passed from Shah Nadir during an Indian war to a French soldier who sold it for 10000 dollars, then to a Hebrew dealer, later bought by Catherine II of Russia for 450000 dollars in 1775, tying it to the czar’s collection.
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Russia
Shah Nadir
Catherine II of
Duty to the Church and the future of the church
The essay argues a balance between loving the brethren and the brotherhood, tracing early church tensions between Paul and Peter and later Protestant Catholic divides. It advocates a future church that values both individual salvation and institutional wisdom, welcoming new methods while preserving core customs and urging love for the church and all Christians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Peter
Society of the Brethren
Peter
Paul
Apostolic Company of Christians
Episcopalian
Presbyterian
The
Baptist
St. Paul
Jerusalem
Alexandra
Rome
Athens
Capernaum
Gallilee
Mediterranean
Jesus
Brotherhood
Christ
Church
Apostolic Church
Eact
At. Peter
Brethren
Jesus Christ
Reunited Church of the Future
Christendom
Grong
Hopers
Tales From Wilder and a Birthday Debt Lesson
A Mesa man gives his wife a promised birthday gift of one dollar in a humorous tale. The narrator recalls veterans swapping war stories and a cavalryman who hoarded hay for his horse, then shifts to Christmas gifts and a deceitful husband who drains a bride’s inheritance. A Williamsport stop features a pint-sized newspaper hawker bargaining with a suited reader.
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Dispatch
Inck
The Jingle of a Coin and Feigned Deafness
Dr Wallace Smyth of St. Louis notes that a coin dropped on a stone floor betrays a person feigning deafness. The device, used to evade conscription, has fooled six alleged youths in Paris, revealing the pretenders with a quick turn toward the sound.
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Wallace Smyth
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Paris
Suppose and Somber Night in a Reader’s Mind
A disturbed narrator endures a sleepless vigil, haunted by a teasing demon listing dire events and misfortunes. The verses pivot around anxious imagining of disasters to come, from rheumatic illness to rent hikes, each "Suppose!" sharpening the dread as the night deepens.
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Charles
Virginia
Medical Examination of Schools Speaks on Diphtheria Spread
Health Commissioner Dr. Samuel H. Durgin of Boston argues that rising diphtheria in dense wards is partly due to the lack of medical inspection in public schools. He notes that school medical exams could rapidly detect ill children and prevent contagion, reducing the risk of outbreaks in entire schools and among serious diseases.
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Samuel H. Durgin
Boston
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Slevin
Decanse
Wis
Peter Jackson
Pittsburgers
Pennsylrania
Eeason
Vale
Blues
Merrard
Princeton
Harvard
Wirinceton
Wales
Samateur
Ane Remot Ndao
Moe
Adare
Geneal
Association
Billy Darnie
Athletics
Philadelphia
Billy
William
William Barnie
Billy Easid
Barnin
Chicago
National League
J. P. Fox
Joseph McEwen
Johnson
America
Flowers
Nuttal
Finney
Sullivan
Slavin
Australia
Jackson
John L. Sullivan
Teposterous
John L
London
J. L
Timfe
Jake Kilrain
Joe Choynski
Billy Wood
Woods
Roven
Denver
Choynski
Wood
la Blanche
Jack Dempsey
Billy McCarthy
Charlie Turncrese
Pringle
Triple Alliance
Miss Mitchell
Peter and
Organization OF the Future
Corinth
Old Jerusalem
Church of the Future
Tales From Wilder
Mesa
Jim Whilliger
Jim
Enah
Bill Batch
Bill
Williamsburg
Goliath
David
Marsa. P. Wilpee
Wil
Seppo
Papa
Dorflinger
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