Boulogne Dome Seen From Dover Stuns Sailors
An English Channel sighting reports Boulogne cathedral dome visible from Dover with naked eye on a clear day. Arabi Pasha reveals a tight financial position after receiving £50 a month from Egypt to support a large family of sixteen. Newberry Library in Chicago acquires Prince Lucien Bonaparte collection of 15 000 volumes once offered at $200 000, bought at a much lower price.
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English Channel
Boulogne Cathedral
Dover
Arabi Pasha
Ieludes
Newberry
Chicago
Prince Lucien Bonaparte
French Explorer Finds Deep Natural Cavern in Hautes Alpes
E A Martel reports a cave in Hautes Alpes shaped like a natural well. He sounded the shaft to about 1027 feet without reaching the bottom, and his discovery has drawn significant attention for its unprecedented depth.
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E. A. Martel
Department of
Hautes Alpes
Doctor Voges Finds Napthalene Eases Mosquito Bites
Buenos Ayres National Board of Health director Doctor Voges reports on a Paraguay trip discovering napthalene as an effective treatment for mosquito bites. He says it neutralizes the poison and prevents swelling even after inflammation, and that rubbing fresh bites with napthalene avoids swelling.
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Voges
Buenos Ayres
Wealthy travel habits weigh on city homes
A sharp observer notes that affluent people vacationing at resorts abroad leave the finest city houses oddly empty in summer and winter. He laments the trend, arguing nature offers a superior roof elsewhere, yet paradise is not to be found by abandoning home.
Tower of Remembrance blown up near Gravelotte a fort view
In Gravelotte a large force of officers witnessed the destruction of the Tower of Remembrance erected in 1838 by Germans at a cost over £40,000. The watch tower, once an observation post, was found unsafe for the nearby Metz fort and access to the monument has been barred by military authorities.
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Gravelotte
Metz
New York Landlord Debunked With Philanthropic Tenements
The City and Suburban Homes Company of New York proves good housing can be profitable by building high quality tenements in poor districts and keeping rents low. The firm, investing two million dollars, just declared a four percent dividend, challenging the claim that better housing cannot pay.
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City and Suburban Homes Company of
New York
Entvy
Woman to Build Ten Cottage Homes for Homeless Girls
In Oakland a wealthy donor plans ten cottages each housing ten girls with a house mother. The park setting includes trees lawns and gardens. Girls form families, attend public schools, and learn housework then receive trade education to earn a living upon leaving. The approach emphasizes freedom and minimal institutional restraint.
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Eest
Oakland
Cal
Sugar Refineries in Louisiana to Swap Coal for Oil
Seven of the largest sugar refineries in St. Mary Parish Louisiana will switch from coal to oil as fuel. They currently burn about 150000 dollars worth of coal annually. They will spend about 25000 dollars to adapt furnaces and expect to replace 150000 dollars worth of coal with less than 50000 dollars worth of fuel oil. It is anticipated that all sugar plantations in Louisiana will use Texas oil next season.
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St. Mary Parish
Louisiana
Pennsylvania
Texas
Bill
George
Tillie
Tother
Lansing Iowa pearls set record in local discovery
The Associated Press reports Lansing Iowa produced several pearls on a clam bed near the Queen Mary site. A Swede named Benson found a gem weighing under 66 grains that sold for 1800 dollars, hailed as the finest among a dozen pearls found in a single day.
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Lansing
Iowa
Associated Press
Benson
The Future's Open Shore and the Flag of Freedom
A prophetic oration foresees Europe’s jealousy and war against Greece as a cycle of history. It envisions Asia’s force, Europe’s armaments, and a coming Armageddon leading to lasting peace. The speaker pledges a triumph of liberty and a renewed people’s champion.
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Asia
Greece
Europe
Wal
Forcing a Duel in a Kentucky Town
In Knoll county two rivals plan a gun duel over Tillie Adams. A staged churchyard shootout at Rev. Ball’s revival erupts into chaos as crowd, вера women, and constables grapple with the escalating hasty duel.
Sermon Sparks Wedding of Brammer and Adams in Odd Ceremony
The preacher declares a holy sammony and bids neighbors to honor a union. Bill Garrison and George Peterson endure the moment with pained smiles, muttering that they and others were fools in the crowd.
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Jinehan
Thomas Benton Brammer
Matilda Jane
Susan Ann Adams
Bill Garrison
George Peterson
Sanford's Punch Bowl Watering Trough in Bangor
A granite punch bowl gifted to Capt Charles Sanford by steamboat friends became the Bangor water trough in Pickering Square. After a shipboard presentation, the bowl sank when hauled ashore but was recovered and installed on the wharf to serve weary horses.
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Pickering Square
Bangor
New England
Charles Sanford
Boston
Front Street
Sanford
Babylonian Explorations Unearth Ancient Nippur Temple Library
Prof. Hilprecht of the University of Pennsylvania reports the discovery of the Great Temple library at Nippur, destroyed in 228 B C. After eleven years of excavations, 15 000 clay tablets have been recovered revealing early civilization, law, literature, and architecture from 5 000 years before the Christian era.
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Nippur
Hilprecht
University of Pennsylvania
Babylon
Babylonia
Temple of
Nineveh
Eegypt
Abraham
Huprecht
Adam
Earliest Protestant Church Built in Jamestown
The first Protestant church in America began with ship sails used as walls in Jamestown, Virginia. A stump pulpit and unhewn log chairs formed the early service before 1611, then a governor directed log cabin. A brick 56 by 28 foot church with an 18 foot square tower followed, rebuilt after a 1676 fire and used until 1723 when the capital moved to Williamsburg.
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America
John Smith
Jamestown
Thomas Dale
Williamsburg
Chicago Record-Herald
Training Boys for the Sea in German Shipping System
The Germans train boys for steamship service through a three year course on fast freighters. After year one the boy becomes an ordinary seaman and after year two an A B. A year later he serves on company ships to finish and qualify for the Imperial navy as a reserve officer.
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Imperial Navy
King’s Ten Maces at London Crown Ceremony
The King of England possesses ten maces kept in the Tower of London. Each mace has a distinct degree, and all will be used at the coronation. Lords refuse entry to the House of Commons mace stating it travels with the Commons only to their lordships’ door and remains outside.
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England
Tower of London
House of Commons
Commons
Ghost Ships Haunt Ocean Lore From Flying Dutchman to Palatine
An old chronicle recounts specters at sea with ships like the Flying Dutchman and the Palatine near Block Island and New England. It describes the cursed fate of sightings, burning wrecks, and crews of skeletons encountered by sailors off Salem and Massachusetts shores.
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Marryat
Vanderdecken
New England
Palatine
Block Island
Salem
Massachusetts
England
Improving His Voice by Canon Darman at Shillingstone
Canon Darman, longtime rector of Shillingstone, once translated the Inferno and later served in the diocese convocation. He recounted a parishioner who stood in a windy archway to sing bass next Sunday, joking he was trying to catch a booze.
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Canon Darman
Shillingstone
Somerset and Dorcet
Cornhill
Engines Using Petroleum Fuel on Southern Pacific Line
The Southern Pacific Pacific system operates 779 engines with 50 added last year and 103 on order. Ninety five engines now burn petroleum with a plan to convert all engines. If each engine uses 21 barrels daily for 200 days, total consumption would be 5,854,200 barrels. Oil fuel could save about 4,203,000 annually versus coal based on prior oil use experience.
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Southern Pacific Company
Pacific
Town Boys the Farmers in City Observation
Principal Thomas W. Boyce argues city children are the real farmers in noticing nature. He cites eighth graders who misread passages from Snow Bound, missing farm life details like a sun circled day portending a storm and a well sweep, highlighting urban unfamiliarity with rural scenes.
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Thomas W. Boyce
First District
Milwaukee Sentinel
Mr. Boyce
Pisa
Busy modern life and women’s leisure weighed
A brief Harper's Bazar paragraph argues that the rush of contemporary life erodes neighborliness and humane traits among women. It urges quick evaluation of every activity to ensure necessity, noting the old century gave more leisure that the new will grow to possess.
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Harper’s Bazar
Vanderlip Sees Europe on Four Month Tour
Former Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Frank A. Vanderlip returns from a four month European trip visiting continental capitals and holding talks with finance ministers. He notes English becoming the world’s commercial language and that French speakers in France are less inclined to use other tongues.
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the Treasury
Frank A. Vanderlip
Europe
Finance
France
Society Is Hollow in Exchange Dialogue
A girl pleads with her father about society, tears in her sapphire eyes. The father retorts that society is hollow because he must pay bills for the gang at her blow-outs, revealing his priority of money over polish.
English Inn Wine Perquisite Case Ends With Payment
An Englishman staying at an English inn ordered wine for Yneheen but drank only a third at a meal. At dinner he asked for the rest and was told the remaining wine at table went to the waiter as a perquisite. The landlord backed this, Wien sued for the value and costs, and the claim was paid.
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Wien
When Love Improves a Woman’s Complexion
A note suggests that a woman’s complexion improves once she falls in love. The statement appears as a light observation in the column.
The Torturing Feed Bag Critique and Its Harmful Effects
An observer denounces the feed bag used on horses as a muzzle. It describes the bag choking breathing holes when clogged with grain and notes wasteful, cruel effects. The piece closes with a moral on trust and responsibility.
From Paipit to Consulate Dr Nason to Grenoble C P H Nason
Rev Dr C P H Nason who resigned from the Second Presbyterian Germantown Pa is named United States consul at Grenoble France He graduated Williams College 1862 in Carter's class and received his degree two years ago He previously acted as pastor of the American church in Paris in 1889.
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C. P. H. Nason
Second Presbyterian Church
Germantown
United States
Grenoble
France
Nason
Williams College
Carter
Williams
Cergyman
Veteran college professor to lecture at interdenominational class
President Henry G. Weston of Crozer Theological Seminary, aged over 80, will deliver four lectures next week at an interdenominational Bible class in Lake Orion, Michigan. He previously moderated the Baptist General Association of Illinois in 1849, tracing his early labors in that state.
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Henry G. Weston
Crozer Theological Seminary
Lake Orion
Mich
Baptist General Association of Illinois
Lord Roberts A Fearless Fox Hunt Rider With Steady Eye
Lord Roberts is renowned as a fearless rider in fox hunts and is valued for his country knowledge and horse flesh expertise rather than mere daring. Though he has faced several croppers, his light steel-built frame has kept him from serious harm in the hunting field.
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Lord Roberts
Six Doctors Treat Kidney Trouble Patient in South Bend
Six doctors in South Bend Indiana treated J O Landeman for kidney trouble over three years before he found relief with Dodd's Kidney Pills. After two boxes his health improved dramatically and the remarkable recovery stirred local interest in the treatment.
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South Bend
Ind
J. O. Landeman
Dodd
Landeman
St. Joseph Coanty
Mr. Landeman
Com Paul’s Singular Taste for Champagne
Com Paul Kruger smoked heavily for years and drank large daily amounts of beer, but he only tasted alcohol once after an alliance signing in Bloemfontein. He enjoyed a bumper of champagne and has not touched alcohol since.
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Paul Kruger
Bloemfontein
Orange Free State
Paul
Defiance Starch Sells 16 Oz At 11 Cents
A grocery ad urges customers to choose Defiance Starch the only 16 ounce package for 11 cents while other 10 cent brands offer 12 ounces. It promises satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded and ends with a wry line about labor and theft.
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Defiance
Yellow Clothes Need White with Red Cross Ball Blue
A short promotional snippet touts Ball Blue as a fix for unsightly yellow clothes urging shoppers to buy large bottles. It cites fortitude patience and faith as virtues and claims Wizard Oil aids athletes with a rejuvenating rush. Love and sympathy are praised as the best rewards.
Allen's Foot-Ease Offers Quick Shoe Comfort
One size smaller after using Allen's Foot-Ease powder relieves tight shoes and foot discomfort. Cures swollen hot sweating aching feet ingrowing nails corns and bunions. Available at druggists and shoe stores with a trial package free by mail. Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY. Last summer thousands of free band concerts in London. 10 cents starch con.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Man Quotes on Fences Define Human Relation to Land
A succinct reflection notes that humans uniquely attempt to divide and control land with fences while keeping others at bay, highlighting human societal behavior toward property and neighbors.
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