Death mask of McKinley sent to Washington and Princeton
The McKinley death mask taken after the president's death near Buffalo is sent to Washington for safekeeping among capital's sacred mementoes. A duplicate will go to Princeton University for a renowned collection, compiled by Lawrence Hutton of New York, including masks of Cromwell, Napoleon, Washington, Lincoln, Booth, Sheridan, and others.
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McKinley
Buffalo
Washington
Princeton University
Lawrence Hutton
New York
Cromwell
Napoleon
George Washington
Lincoln
Edwin Booth
Lawrence Barrett
Richard Brinsley Sheridan
Word in Season Inspires Self Worth in Young Girl
A famous woman recalls a kind French teacher who gave her a lump of earth to nurture. She transforms ugliness into beauty through patience and sunlight, learning that inner potential can win friends and affection despite initial doubts.
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Adam
Immense Yakima Reservation potato crop eyed for export
An irrigation grown potato harvest on the Yakima Indian reservation in Washington yields an estimated 46,000 tons worth about 1,000,000 dollars. Export volume is projected at 2,000 carloads with one farmer cleared about 10,000 dollars.
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Yakima
Washington
Alcohol production in Germany in 1897
Germany produced about 95.53 million gallons of alcohol in 1897. Two thirds came from potatoes of domestic origin. Roughly 12,500 country distilleries operated, with 5,226 producing only 264 to 2,642 gallons each.
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Germany
Cleptoscope Aims to See Surface From Submarine
A Roman engineer M. Triulzi developed the cleptoscope a tube with crystal prisms enabling observers in a submarine to view the surface. Experiments on the Delphine vessel were successful allowing photography of surface objects from below in the presence of Minister Morin of Marine.
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M. Triulzi
Delphine
Sig. Morin
Marine
Weather and Drunkenness In New York Arrests
The New York Post notes arrests suggest weather influences drunkenness with colder, clearer days linked to higher arrests. Calm conditions show 23 percent below average three year rates, hurricane winds raise arrests by 50 percent, while high humidity appears to boost highball consumption as dampness makes winter days seem colder.
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New York
New York Post
Wool Exports From Bagdad Exceed One Million
Bagdad ships more than 1,009,000 dollars worth of wool each year though there are no two woolen mills operating in Arabia.
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Bagdad
al! Arabia
Army Impedimenta and the Traveling Disinfecting Wagon
The article notes armies burdened by many curious vehicles and new gear. A traveling disinfecting wagon moves between camps to disinfect soldiers clothing, alongside a movable forge and other improvised facilities.
Fishermen Losses Toll in Gloucester Season
The fishing season closing has cost Gloucester Massachusetts fifty two fishermen and the toll on the port is a grim reminder of the sea's danger.
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Gloucester
Mass
King of England Taught Bootmaking by Prince and Fraillis
The king of England is described as an excellent bootmaker, a craft learned through the prince con sort who Fraillis children taught some trade.
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England
Beaconsfield at 22, Disraeli the Vivian Grey Author
A young Benjamin Disraeli at age 22 is pictured after publishing Vivian Grey, a novel that earned high regard in literary London. The image carried the caption the author of Vivian Grey and marks an early moment in his rise.
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Lord Beaconsfield
Benjamin Disraeli
Vivian Grey
London
Alaska Is Fertile Says Governor Brady Thanksgiving
Governor Brady in a Thanksgiving proclamation praises Alaska’s abundance despite stereotypes. He notes rich sea harvests and growing mineral wealth, limited natural disasters, and optimism for tillers, while honoring victims of the Islander disaster and President McKinley’s death.
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Alaska
Brady
McKinley
Expelled French Professor M Herve Faces Military Controversy
M Herve, 65, renowned mathematician and Paris professor, has been expelled from his chair at the University of the City of Paris over anti military articles. Once a member of the French Academy and a Legion of Honor knight, his writings are said to incite army insubordination and prejudice against military service, making him a leading topic in Paris political circles.
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M. Essouard Herve
Paris
France
Educa
Normal College
French Academy
Legion of Honor
Europe
M_ Herve
University of the City of
M. Herve
Predicta Famine in China Forecast by Christian Herald Commissioner
The Christian Herald commissioner reports from Lian Fu Shen Si that autumn crops will feed for a few months but cannot cover until next harvest. He warns of a repeat famine in spring and estimates Shen province deaths at 2,500,000 or 30 percent of the population after a four day trek through north of the Wei Ho river, seeing hardly 200 people.
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Christian Herald
China
Lian Fu
Shen Si
Shen 8
Wei-Ho River
Heat in La Rochefoucauld ovens inspires bizarre tale
In La Rochefoucauld, France, a folk claim says women enter ovens when the heat reaches 301 degrees. The story circulates in bakers' circles, blending superstition with local lore about fiery workplaces.
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la Rochefoucauld
France
British worker abandons clay pipe for two-penny cenreites
The Pall Mall Gazette reports that the British workingman has nearly stopped using his clay pipe and shag and now prefers a two-penny packet of cenreites.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Grow Old Gracefully Says Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Elizabeth Cady Stanton at eighty five praises a joyful life with no pains or regrets. She credits vigorous old age to favorable circumstances, humor, sympathy, and an earnest purpose beyond personal ambition. She urges a sound body, exercise, diet, dress, and sanitary habits, living in the present.
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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
New York Sun
Quentin Roosevelt Wants Home Over Washington
Quentin Roosevelt, son of the President, born at 1735 N street just before the Spanish American War, longs to roam the White House and observe public business from Oyster Bar home. He once asked to walk on flower beds on stilts, ignored by a gardener, and lamented wishing to be home instead of president’s residence.
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Quentin
N Street
Rough Riders
Washington
White House
Oyster Bar
The Two Classes of Human Eyes, Simon Claims
Professor J. M. Simon states two eye types the cold indifferent eye and the warm flattering eye. He notes gray eyes as strong and common among eminent people while cautioning that gray may be weaker than other colors. He adds gray eyes can charm and influence his consideration of men with that eye color.
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J. M. Simon
Child questions theft of father’s trousers in tartan attire
An English soldier in a Scottish regiment wears the traditional tartan and kilt on sentry duty. His wife and young daughter visit, and the child, seeing her father in the outfit, asks with innocence if she may have the little frock once the thief who stole his trousers is found.
Volumes in the British Museum Library Rise Over Two Million
A recent count shows the British Museum library surpassing two million volumes. It includes more than 16 000 London newspapers 47 000 provincial titles 10 000 Scottish papers and an unspecified amount from Ireland.
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British Museum
London
Ireland
Damascus Mecca railway opens with religious ceremony
The first section of the Damascus Mecca railway was inaugurated with a ceremony designed to appeal to Moslem sentiment. The proceeds funded the project and sacrifices of many oxen were offered and their meat distributed to the poor.
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Damascus
Mecca
England Still Depends on Foreign Wheat for Food Supply
The article notes that UK agriculture now largely relies on imports with 24 million of 32 million quarters of wheat consumed annually coming from abroad, costing about £49 million. This underscores England’s reduced role as a food producing nation.
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England
British Isles
Our Duchess and royal favors at coronation
The Duchess of Marlborough, formerly Miss Consuelo Van derbilt, becomes the consort of the Churchill head. At the coronation Queen Alexandra will be attended by four fair duchesses dressed in cloth of gold and adorned with robes and coronets.
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Duchess of Marlborough
Consuelo Vanderbilt
Churchills
Alexandra
Flirting Banned At Welsh University Campus
Students at the University College of North Wales face strict rules on male female interactions. Men may not meet or walk with women off schedule, or visit lodgings. only authorized social events, field matches, or college business allow interaction. The measure echoes British caution but would spark U.S. protests.
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University College of North Wales
le@aly
Old Britain
America
Question on Adam and Eve’s foreseen fate
A dialogue between a thoughtful man and his minister debates whether Adam and Eve would have sinned even knowing the consequences. They acknowledge warnings but conclude they might have chosen the same path and found happiness despite leaving the garden.
Booth Tarkington A Young Indiana Legislator Candidate
Booth Tarkington, 31, of Indianapolis, native of Indiana, is a candidate for the Indiana legislature. After Purdue studies and Princeton, he began writing the stories that made him famous.
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Booth Tarkington
Indiana
Indianapolis
Purdue University
Tarkington
Princeton
Me an the Old Woman Sole Proprietors Humorous Circular
A circular from a Laredo Texas business man presents a self described versatile figure as proprietor of a hotel annex sample room restaurant fish hatchery gas plant chicken farm saloon lunch room billiard hall and more. The sheet features portraits with captions This is Me and This is the Old Woman.
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Laredo
Texas
Luxembourg Bridge Aims for World’s Longest Single Span
The great bridge under construction across the Valley of Petruffe in Luxembourg is slated to surpass the Cabin John bridge as the world’s longest single span of masonry when completed.
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Petruffe
Luxembourg
Cabin John
Hungarian 1851 landing honored by New York crowd
More than forty thousand Hungarians in New York commemorated the fiftieth anniversary of Kossuth’s 1851 landing in the city. The celebration highlighted the voyage and the stature of the Hungarian patriot in exile.
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New York City
Kossuth
Beebe Plain Post Office Straddles Two Nations
A unique Beebe Plain building sits on the US Canada line serving both Vermont and Canadian Quebec by one roof. A previous dual role as general store saw whisky flowing across borders within the same walls. Father and daughter run the two national post offices while a boundary post marks the line and has moved with costly disputes.
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Beebe Plain
Vermont
Quebec
United States
Canada
SINGERS HONORED FOR EDWARD VII CORONATION
Twin sisters Miss Mary McFarland and Miss Marie McFarland of Denver Colorado have been chosen to sing at King Edward VII coronation ceremonies next summer. They meet the future king during a European journey and the royal command to sing comes directly from the king.
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Mary McFarland
Marie McFarland
Den
Colo
Edward VII
McFarland
Europe
England
Prince of Wales
Hend
Apparatuses for Making Coffee Then and Now
The piece notes thousands of coffee making apparatuses and pots costing about 25 dollars, while experts argue whether boiling is essential. It mentions foreigners using saucepans for clear strong coffee and recalls tasting coffee from dried leaves in Sumatra years ago, comparing it to fine tea.
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Sumatra
Record voice carries eight miles in canyon echo
A man shouted the word Bob at one end of the Colorado Grand Canyon and his voice was heard clearly eighteen miles away at the opposite end, marking a notable long distance echo in the canyon.
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Grand Canyon
Colorado
American Vines in France Boost Yields but Lower Quality
French vineyards have seen very large wine yields due to importing vigorous American vines after phylloxera devastation. The tradeoff is that the wine quality reportedly lags behind that produced from traditional old French vines.
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France
Religious orders increase worldwide in late 19th century
The document notes a growth in religious houses from 1846 to 1900. Belgium alone had about 79 convents and monasteries housing 12,000 inmates in 1846, rising to 2,200 establishments with 27,000 inmates by 1900.
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Belgium
Chenab Canal irrigation cost and crop value
About $8,000,000 was spent on the Chenab irrigation canal in India. Crops from the irrigated area last year are valued at twice that amount.
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Great Chenab
India
Paris Statistics Link Good Surroundings to Humanity in TB Fight
Published figures from Paris indicate that better surroundings correlate with improved humaneness in combating pulmonary tuberculosis.
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Paris
Reform in Men's Dress A Berlin Club Promotes New Style
Prof Herman Widner leads the German Male Dress Reform Club in Berlin advocating a humane, comfortable fashion. The proposed design borrows from Hussar uniforms with a short jacket, padded waistcoat, fuller sleeves, and tight trousers with decorative braids. Members seek bold color cloths to aid portraiture and invite further European artist designs.
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Herman Widner
Berlin
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Louis XIV
Widner
Moss
Beau Brummells
Europe
Maori Volcano Cooking Turns Ground Into Stove
In New Zealand the Maori cook potatoes and vegetables using volcanic heat. They dig a deep pit, layer straw and earth, place produce inside, cover it, then leave it to heat. The ground serves as a stove and storehouse until the food is ready, then is unearthed for eating.
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New Zealand
Detroit
Free Presa
Eastern Farm Lands Prices Fall in the East
The Detroit Free Press reports eastern agricultural land values have fallen several years, about 5 percent from peak prices, due to declining fertility. Central and western states show less decline while the Northwest varies, with laborers gaining relative footing as farm product prices drop.
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Central
Northwest
Detroit Free Press
The Most Valuable Orchid At Philadelphia Show
Mrs. George B. Wilson of Philadelphia exhibited eighty orchid varieties at the recent Philadelphia flower show. She displayed a unique Phalaenopsis Harrietta valued at ten thousand dollars, the sole example of its kind, originally bred by Erastus in his city greenhouses and named after his daughter Harriet.
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George B. Wilson
Philadelphia
Erastus
Harriet
Ruddy Dame Weathering All Seasons
An older character named in a Thoreau context endures harsh conditions and may outlive her offspring, illustrating resilience across varied weather. The remark hints at endurance and longevity amid changing times.
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Thoreau
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