Disguised Women in Armies Across Centuries
Military records recount women who served undercover as men, with cases from 1769 to 1872 in Europe and India. Notable instances include a Portsmouth recruit named Paul Daniel and a German corps member whose sex was revealed after a theft charge. The piece notes eight women colonels in the Sherman army and lists imperial and royal high ranks in Britain and Germany.
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Paul Daniel
Portsmouth
Daniel
Germany
Grenadiers
East India Company
India
Poplac
Sherman Army
Empress
Frederick Charles
Prussia
Sophia
Duchess of Edinburgh
Duchess of Connaught
Queen Victoria
Curious Trees and Plants From Around the World
A historical note describes diverse trees and plants with unusual products. It mentions fruit trees with solid fruit, weeping Canary Island trees that distill water, Sicilian ash yielding sugar like maple sap, Andes wax trees resembling beeswax, Africa's utter tree producing large salted secretions like butter, and South American mick trees with sap akin to cream. It also notes China’s fiber producing strands and a dangerous man eating plant resembling Venus flytrap.
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Jay Wead
Canary Islands
Sicily
Andes
Africa
South America
China
Rees
Tropics
The Kaiser and Empress Rise With the Lark
The Kaiser and Empress are the earliest rising European sovereigns. They retire by 10 o'clock, with the Emperor up at 5 o'clock in summer and 6 in winter. The Empress rises a bit later to prepare the first cup of coffee for the ruler. Their children are raised to follow these early hours. The Emperor of Austria also breakfasts with the lark.
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Austria
Ape Attacks Burglar in Paris Home
A French sea captain living on rue d'Alesia kept a savage ape as a pet in his rooms. The burglar who entered during the captain’s absence was mauled by the ape and nearly strangled before bystanders intervened. the assailant was taken to hospital and later went mad.
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d’Alesia
Paris
Reing
Hat etiquette settled at Biggs-Well theater
Boggs confirms the theater managers will post signs asking all ladies under 30 to remove hats during the show. The agreement marks a final resolution to the long debated hat rule.
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Biggs
Boggs
The Curse of the Boers and Mischievous Baboon in the Cape
A vivid prod about baboons terrorizing Cape Colony livestock and terrors among Boers. It describes the baboon Adonis as a強 anthropomorphic foe killing dogs and attacking goats sheep and cattle while startling ostriches and provoking panic at wire enclosures.
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Cape Colony
Adonis
Speed of Clouds in Winter Travel at 230 Miles an Hour
A 19th century view explains cirrus clouds as high level wisps drifting across the sky. It notes their speed, six miles above in heat, a mile lower in winter, with winter rates exceeding 100 miles per hour and sometimes 230 miles per hour.
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Rome
Flore’s theatrical marriages draw much attention
Postal cards announce the marriage of George the Turtle Boy nicknamed the Legless Woader to Amelia Gardiner Derickson, seven foot singer. A New York wedding interrupted when a man’s false nose flew off as an alderman pronounced vows. a rival lad caused a small disturbance.
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Flore
George
Woader
Amelia Gardiner Derickson
Tinkelstein
New York
What Mexico Grows Rubber and Crops In 1896
The article reports Mexico's 1896 outputs including rubber at 1,000,000 pounds and corn value over 77 million dollars. It notes vast plantings, and lists crop values for wheat 30 million, rice 6 million, beans 10 million, sugar 12 million, pulque 2.9 million, cotton 8 million, coffee about 8 million, and tobacco five dollars per unit.
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Mexico
Why Do Men Struggle With Time And Courage
A series of reflective questions explores why people avoid facing facts and why excuses arise. It ponders walls between truth and belief, the impulse to appear smart, and the pressures from creditors. The text probes human behavior without providing fixed answers.
Washington Lumber Industry Expands in 1897 Shippings
Washington shipped 7 737 carloads of lumber and 17 873 carloads of shingles in 1897, with vessel shipments totaling 398 434 098 feet of lumber and 85 037 135 lathing pieces. Exports reached California, Alaska, and 23 foreign countries, reflecting wide distribution. A separate note reports profitable bootblacking business in New York with Italian owner running five branches and employing a female cashier. Rent exceeds $6 000 yearly. total expenses near $150 000.
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Washington
California
Alask
New York
Metropols
Cshoice
The Hero of Durgal in Luck
Piper Finland, hero of Darga Ridge, has an offer of marriage from a well known Indian society figure who promises a home and an income of 20000 dollars a year. A theory questions why many great men write poor laudations as excuses to use typewriters.
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Durgal
Piper Finland
Darga Ridge
Recent Inventions Highlighted In A Variety Of Gadgets
A collection of innovations includes a rubber backed currycomb with rubber rings replacing teeth, an automatic switch using a diamond plate and a movable wedge, a bottle seal with a neck capsule and lead seal, pivoting circular heel designs for shoes, a stepped vegetable slicer with a sliding carriage, and a night light diffusion device for disinfectants and perfumes.
Devious Definitions and Daily Misogyny
An OCR fragment presents a list of loaded paired definitions. It contrasts male and female stereotypes and assigns biased, insulting labels. The piece hints at social norms and gender rhetoric from an older publication.
Depth of the Atlantic Described in Wild Banter
A humorous dialogue notes how far noon is from Earth as a boy explains his errands. The speaker contrasts a goal with a job and then shifts to a claim about the Atlantic’s depth. The narrator states the Atlantic between Canary Islands and West Indies has a very deep, gradually deepening bottom toward 19,000 feet.
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Atlantic
Canary Islands
West Indies
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Victor J. Evans & CO
Evans Building
Washington, D. CG
Silver Lake
C. M. Wedrick
S. B. Burdge
SNL
Diam
Silver Lake, Indiana
Armere
Conner
W. J. Fitton
Elkhart
ITV
GSO
Elkhart Carriage and Harness Manufacturing Co
Indiana
Orororoura
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