Centennial Items at the Exhibition Describe Rich Displays
The Moorish Villa opens to the public as visitors flood in plus a $60,000 diamond necklace shines in the Main Building. Pennsylvania and Philadelphia contribute $34,572,180 to the Exhibition, with beer and wine brewers adding $37,199.74. Delegations from across the country visit to study exhibits in Machinery Hall and the Kansas Colorado displays. A cider-making machine from Oregon turns apple pulp into dry cider paper, while the Switchback railroad offers a scenic ascent near a coal mine town awaiting visitors.
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Philadelphia
State of
Pennsylvania
Agricultural Hall
Delaware
We and Beer Brewers
The
Philadelphia Ledger
New Hampshire
Daniel Webster
St. Louis Dispatch
Kansas
Poers
Kansas and Colorado
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe Railway Company
Colorado
Aountain
J.C. Bissell
Oregon
Unitedates
Maine
Keokuk Drummer Serenades a Vacant House
A Keokuk drummer famed for versatility audiences, and guitar skills, goes serenading with a friend in a neighboring town. They target a house and play until dawn only to find the residence empty, ending with broken guitars and vows never to serenade again. The tale, from the Gate City of Keokuk Iowa, adds humorous local flavor.
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Keokuk
Ife
Iowa
Gate City
Stray Papers Tell of London Street Arab and a Fatal Night
Mr. John Ownsby recalls a fogbound December evening in London when two boys fashioned a life like a drunk father from old clothes and straw. The scene, staged to mock an affectionate son guiding home a drunk parent, ended with an omnibus narrowly avoiding the frail figure, the driver in distress, and a tense near tragedy on the greasy pavement.
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John Ownsby
Minster
Fragmentary Civil War Era Quotation Memorably Grim
An apparent historical excerpt depicts a speaker lamenting a mother’s death and a lingering mosquito infestation. The speaker muses that the skeeter will never return home to its offspring, while noting the biting danger and the puzzling absence of the mother. The fragment evokes themes of loss, hardship, and haunting memory.
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Skeeter
Spinning-Wheel Remembers Past Industry and Patience
Harper's Bazar reflects on the spinning wheel as a symbol of old time industry. It traces its use from England and Puritan New England to Revolutionary and Civil War South, noting home spinning, weaving, dyeing, and the role of women and slaves in sustaining clothing and textiles across eras.
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Nuremberg
Merry England
Ienry the
Telemachus
New England
England
Earl of Chatham
Washington
New York
Colonies
Longfellow
Priscilla
Cumberland Valley
Daniel Webster
South
Mason and Dixon
Harper's Bazar
Ingenious Rohrer watch stud from Castle featuring tiny pendulum
A Rohrer of Castle, Pennsylvania, invents a set of gold studs with a miniature watch that keeps excellent time. The piece weighs one and a half ounces, faces like a silver three cent piece, and resembles a small compass. Winding and setting occur via top and bottom studs, and a pendulum moves correctly in any orientation, even inverted. Rohrer has refused numerous offers for the curiosity. Some people are just like a buggy wheel is always tired.
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Rohrer
Land of Romance in a Texas Cowboy Tale
From the All Mall Gazette style piece, the text lauds an imagined land west of the Mississippi blending California Mexico and Texas with Aztec and Spanish American conquest mythos. It centers on Arthur Jones, a heroic Texas rancher, defending a senorita from painted savages in a dramatic rescue scene amid fandangos and gallant gunplay.
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Mayne Reid
East
Mediterranean
Mississippi
California
Mexico
New
Texas
Caballero
Arthur Jones
Plutes
Arthur
Mme Roger and the Rise of a Paris Dressmaker
A former needlewoman, Mme Roger, rises from humble work to fashion prominence after catching the eye of a wealthy patroness. The tale follows her ascent in Parisian couture, marriages, a legal link, and eventual retirement with a fortune as she encounters her former protégé years later on the Champs Elysees.
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Mme, Roger
Mme. Roger
Rue Louis le Grand
Couturiere
Roger
Paris
Champs Elysees
Mme
Boston
Tragic Collapse at Haulbowline Dock Construction
An enormous granite block lowered into the Haulbowline dock foundation crushed a laborer who was beneath it. The body remains embedded in the concrete layer, discovered too late for recovery without extensive effort and expense.
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Haulbowline
Ireland
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