Western Automobiles Drive California Wheat Harvest Boom
The article extols giant California traction engines used for plowing, cultivating, seeding and harvesting vast fields. Fifty horsepower, sixty inch wheels, and wide flanges power up to sixteen ten inch plows, four six foot harrows, and a press drill to harvest forty five to seventy five acres per day. It notes one harvester can head thresh clean and sack seventy five acres in a day, crossing rough terrain with ease, yet warns moist northern soils hinder their success.
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California Wheat Fields
Immdense
California
Noted Railway Man Collis Huntington Dies at Adirondack Camp
Obituary honors Collis P Huntington president of Southern Pacific Rail road. Born Harwinton Connecticut, he rose from modest beginnings to a multi millionaire rail founder who built the Central Pacific and Southern Pacific systems. He funded homes for workers, built schools, founded Newport News Va and Huntington Industrial Works, amassing wealth around 25 million dollars.
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Collis P. Huntington
Southern Pacific Railroad
Vine 3Xnot Lodge
Adirondack Mountains
Harwinton
Litchfield County
Huntington
South
Oneonta
N. Y
Pacific Coast
East
California
Isthmus
San Francisco
Mark Hopkins
Congress
Leland Stanford
Charles Crocker
Plains of
Utah
Central Pacific Railway
Los Angeles
Arizona
New Mexico
Texas
Portland
Ore
New Orleans
Old Mexico
Guatemala
Southern Pacific Company
Virginia
Chesapeake and Ohio Road
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Old Dominion
Atlantic
Golden Gate
Newport News
Huntington Industrial Works
Hampton
Fifth Avenue
New York City
Treaty Rights of Missionaries Recall Historic Steps
Apropos of events in China, the article recalls the sequence of legal and diplomatic steps that defined English missionary rights under treaty provisions. It outlines how protections evolved amid shifting imperial policy and foreign leverage, noting key dates and governing frameworks.
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Tientsin
China
Law Journal
Mixed Terms Highlight Poor and Criminal Court Life
A Louisville Commercial observation discusses the poor and weak who work with the criminal courts. It notes limited education yet sharp minds formed by suffering and experience and includes a joke about a French Negro prisoner miscalled a respected felon awaiting trial in Circuit Court.
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Louisville
New Orleans
Circus Court
Eclipse Causes Fervent Fasting Along the Ganges
Hindus along the Ganges watched a solar eclipse with terror praying and fasting. Thousands bathed in the sacred river with all ages kneeling on the bank shouting Hori boh as they feared the sun would be swallowed by the demon of darkness.
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India
Ganges
Dundreary's Thin Horse Wind Keeps Hay In
Edward A. Sothern known for Lord Dundreary hired a slim livery horse in New York. At a tavern a friend asked why the horse wore a rug. Sothern replied the blanket keeps the wind from blowing the hay out of him.
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Dundreary
Edward A. Sothern
Lord Dundreary
New York
Ned
Funny Incidents Involving British Royalty and Verne Memoirs
London reports recount a Prince of Wales at a charity opening when his wig fell as he saluted, provoking laughter and a quip at dinner about the president aging. A Duchess of York and Duchess of Teck are noted for humor, with a joke aimed at May. Jules Verne notes his success stems from stage adaptations, not his books.
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Prince of Wales
Duchess of York
Ireland
Duchess of Teck
May
London Correspondence
Columbus Dispatch
Jules Verne
Edmond de Amicis
Verne
Kansas teacher gives kiss rewards to pupils
Miss Millie Daniels, a Nemaha County Kansas teacher, has sparked statewide chatter by rewarding pupils with kisses for a full week of attendance. The novelty of the method has drawn attention from educators and readers alike.
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Kansas
Millie Daniels
Nemaha County
Miss Daniels
Wilson
Lady's Exaggerated Bicycle Theft Tale
A London Tit-Bits humor piece has a lady bicyclist hysterically claiming her high geared hollow axle self oiling detachable tire movable spoke studs and double ball bearings bicycle was stolen with her baby attached to the handlebars. The officer questions the account.
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London
Notable Exchange on a Bicycle Misfortune
A garbled Gazette fragment recounts an incident where a heavyset woman on a bicycle collided with a man described as reckless and drunk. The narrative notes the woman weighed 240 pounds and the man colud quip his last words to a doctor, “It didn’t know it was loaded.”
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Cycling Gazette
How She Foresaw
A witty exchange notes bad luck after a broken mirror. The Cleveland Leader frames the quip as a humorous reflection on superstition and foresight.
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Wwe
Cleveland
Giving Them a Chance in The Chicago Record Quote
A brief quoted dialogue contrasts belief in prestige from ancestors with modern efforts to earn recognition. The piece notes a skeptical view of inherited status and references a demigod versus a demijobn misprint.
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Chicago
Defenseless Girl Asked for Arm as Gentleman Duty
A Philadelphia Press quip quotes a gentleman claiming it is his duty to arm a defenseless girl. The line sparks debate over chivalry and protection. The text ends with a lighter query about Mrs. Austins new dress, reflecting mixed society topics.
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Philadelphia Press
Mrs. Austin
Town and Country’s Australia: town surpasses country in beauty
A reader notes Australia stands out as the one place where the town surpasses the countryside in beauty, praising the urban landscape and local charm over the rural setting.
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Australia
Snakes Guard Homes in Brazil Against Rodents
In Rio de Janeiro households, the giboya a large domesticated snake about the arm in girth is sold to protect against rats as rats become plentiful. The snake is said to hunt for pleasure rather than hunger and will return to its owner’s house even after being moved far away, much like a domestic cat.
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Brazil
Rio Janeiro
SAPOLIO Promotes Spotless Town Characters
A playful patter advertises SAPOLIO through town figures the Mayor the Butcher the Maid the Judge and Doctor Brown. Each character boasts cleanliness implications while praising SAPOLIO as the shining solution. The piece riffs on spotless imagery and local pride.
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Sapolio
Doctor Brown
Lean
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