The Shah in Vienna and His Wild Doings
Curious tales recount the Shah of Persia during visits to Emperor Francis Joseph. In 1878 he stayed at a summer castle near Vienna, dining with hands, causing chaos, and demanding executions. A 1889 visit featured a Hussars display and a dramatic incident where a sabre caused a Persian secretary to bleed, yet the Shah praised the regiment.
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Francis Joseph
Shah of
Persia
Francis Joseph of
Austria
Vienna
Magrad-Lin
Hussars
Conunt Pejaccivics
Ewing
Legation
Distributing the Mail In the Sudan Campaign
Mr Nourse recalls a wartime kindness at Korti where a native postmaster and a soldier named Charlie reorganized a congested mail room for the army. The improvised aid cleared out piles by company, delivering letters by night and newspapers by the next day. The companion and later the commandant proves to be Lord Wolseley.
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Lora Wolseley
Mr. Nourse
Korti
Nourse
Deel
Chey
Charlie
Postotice
Chsrile
Lord Wolseley
Crossy offers Choptank River estate to aid widows and children
Baltimore resident Stewart Crossy offers his 460 acre Choptank River property with buildings including an owl mansion to house sailors widows and educate their children. The site includes steamboat landing, depot, store, factory and mansion. Grassy seeks $100 gifts to furnish and a managing American Humane Society of Mary is proposed.
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Genutde Bent Wvo
Jobs Stewart Crossy
Baltimore
Nad
Choptank
Crossy
Owl
Maine
Grassy
Instituton
American Humane Society of Mary‘qual
Curious facts of geography and science in old notes
This digest compiles varied data from a past period: London and Chicago area figures, U S currency per capita trends, Gloucester fishing values, and North American cave animal species. It also lists university endowments, dental gilding patents, Hannah More gossip methods, and a gigantic Japanese wooden statue of Tachiman with a brain anatomy interior and penny admission.
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United States
Gloucester
North America
A. S. Packard
Brown University
Leland Stanford
California
Columbia
M. Y
Harvard
Chicago
Cornell
Yale
Johns Hopkins
Pental
Hannah More
Tachiman
Steamer Australasian Fire Rescue Near Whitefish Bay
On October 17 at 11 PM the wooden steamer Australasian bound from Lake Erie to Milwaukee caught fire beneath the boilers in the firehold. Fire reached coal bunkers and soft coal cargo, threatening the seventeen crew members. The steamer steered for Whitefish Bay as Bailey's Harbor life savers reached and towed aboard the crew after cutting a side hole to flood the hold and extinguish flames.
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Lake Erie
Whitefish Bay
Bailey’s Harbor
Coin material notes in Japan and Siam
The excerpt contrasts coin composition, describing Japanese coins as generally iron and Siamese coins chiefly porcelain.
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Japan
Siam
Moose Herd Forcing Escape Ends in Tree Rescue
Two pine land prospectors Ben Jackson and Gustave Herman trek near Rainy River in Tower Minnesota. They stumble on a moose breeding ground and flee as a herd of at least 500 moose stampedes. Jackson climbs a pine while a massive bull tramples his rifle. Herman fires and misdirects the bull, allowing Jackson to survive as the herd passes below.
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Ben Jackson
Gustave Herman
Tower
Minun
Jackson
Rainy
Herman
A Billionaires Colony Plan at Altadena Near Los Angeles
Chicago publisher Andrew McNally promotes a millionaire colony at Altadena California. He owns 4006 acres, many sections planted with citrus. Roads a resort club house and a subdivision are under construction as twenty or more Chicago and New York millionaires buy plots. Each buyer must invest 250000 in improvements and reside part of each year.
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Andrew McNally
Chicago
Altadena
Los Angeles
California
Mr. McNally
New York
The President as an Entertainer Reveals Personal Pleasures
A Washington observer recalls President Cleveland's fatigue with official life and his preference for private visits from friends. He notes two commercial travelers who regularly meet the President, sharing stories of hunting, fishing, and sport, while emphasizing the President's warmth to guests not seeking favors.
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Weashbington
Cleveland
California Reclaims Tule Wetlands into Farmland
Inland seas in California are transformed into cultivated fields in the San Joaquin Valley. A three mile canal 100 feet wide and 10 feet deep was dug, with levees 20 feet wide at the base tapering to wagon-road width at the top. Dredges removed mud and pumps drained the basins, yielding rich farming land.
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California
San Joaqquis
Fragmented Quotations Compiled in Multum in Parvo
A collection of aphorisms and quotes from various authors including Napoleon Shakespeare Shelley Pope Swetchine Fuller Periander Carlyle Melville and Shakespeare. The notes reflect on virtue gratitude victory and wisdom with emphasis on concise pithy reflections.
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Shelley
Rubinstein and the Munkacsy Portrait Anecdote
An anecdote recalls Rubinstein amused by the New York episode when Munkacsy’s Christ Before Pilate, shown to a dealer, drew a clerk’s claim that Munkacsy is the greatest painter since Rubens. The reporter had little art knowledge and had written about Rubinstein.
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Rubinstein
Munkacsy
Christ
Pilate
New York
Rubens
Rubinstsin
Fragmented OCR Plain Text Item
Readable fragments describe a ledger style entry with numbers and letters. No clear people places or events are identifiable from the provided text.
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Shah
Ohio
Hartford
Cong
London
Minnesota
Napoleon
Melville
Michigan
Silver Lake
Maitland
Mailand
Warsaw
Indianapolis Express
Mailand Express
Mail and Express
J. J. Arthur
D. BL
Martin
Cincinnati
Aliam
Diam
Hanoi
Belvidere
Ill
Globe Telegraph College
Lexington
Marr Re
C. M. Wedrick
J. C. Hay
Indiana
Silver Lake, Indiana
Victor J. Evans & Coo
Evans Building
Washington, D. C
Elkhart
Elkhart Carriage and Harness Manufacturing Co
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