Many World Figures Highlight Weekend Notes
A jumble of short items covers voter counts in Chicago, New York fashions with jeweled daggers, Princess Midas of Australia, the Russian emperor’s fishing habit, Bishop Orberly’s Indian duties, hospital weapon ideas, New York Jewish firms and cigars, wheat in Minneapolis, and garden design revolutions. Also notes on an observatory visitor, Bonanza Five rumors, and a Boston monument plan with Frederick Douglass as orator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gienera Shermeen
Preallas Becior
Mitts Aste
Rugel
Harleg
Samuel Gompers
Federation of Labor
New York City
Wiliam Tell
Pocahontas
Jann Staith
Ufe
Bacon
Stiasepeare
D. Conway
India
Queen Victoria
Glasgow
Thomas Sunrise
Onelda
New York
Pullan
Conn
Bilza Harriman
Wo Christian Temperance Union
Los Angeles
Cal
Tolevco
Gaul
Metropolis
Pesthe
Haniel
Torlne
Harrison
the Young
Beallsville
Gamalela
Odessa
Rench Academy of Medicine
Max O' Rell
America
Boston
Max Bell
Max O'Rell
Fisk
Clinton B. Fisk
Mistesippi
Arkansag
Ste
Fisk School
Alab Ville
Fisk University
Mallabe
Atmumt
Cburch
McClintock Association
BFP
Hatchinsen
Ol Hateh
Munvers
Masa
Lyne
Milwaukee
Chicago
Board of Trade
Bie Philethropy
ROSA BONHEURS OF THE FUTURE OUR GIRLS ART STUDENTS
Young women art students return from sketching tours with lively portfolios. Prof Hecker praises NY girls for rapid improvement and ambition, noting graduates teach, teach in schools, or run studios. Trips to Hudson region mountains fuel studies in still life and portraiture with high potential earnings and growing talent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tothasioum
Thele Werk
Sumer
Rom Mountain
Lakeside
Tadive
Carl Heckres
Prof
Hecker
New York
Italy
Huson
Orange Mountains
Hudson
Yonkers
Mountsina
Europe
Diamon Aml Nauira
Foreiga Contract Labor Puzzle Stirs New York
Confusing notices arise as United States law on contract labor complicates immigration. The steamship Hoola docked with two dozen Swedish girls under marriage contracts, confusing customs inspectors who fear landings may breach the law. After deliberation, officials concluded marriage could avert labor duties, a conclusion applauded by some and questioned by others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
America
Solszeo
Women Wage-Earners Leader Highlights Knights of Labor
Mrs Barry heads the Knights of Labor women’s department as general investigator and organizer. She describes conditions of U S women workers, cites growth to 50 000 to 65 100 members, notes few strikes, and explains how women form and run local chapters with male guidance fading as women lead meetings and activities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ie Lamara
Barey
Latur
May Tam
America
Totter
Barry
Knights of Labor
Derenca V. Powderly
Mra Barey
Washington
General Assembly of the Knights
Richmond
Amsterdam
Mia Barry
Ogwowen
Mra Barry
Sasenbliet
Hallaykers
Knights of Laebor
Mn Fork
Matt and Express
The Black Hills and Early Gold Acreage Tales
A sprawling reminiscence recounts the Black Hills region near Sturgis with Sioux Indian resistance to ceding land and tales of early gold finds. It notes miners finding nuggets, treachery in stagecoach robberies, and widespread, often dubious mining schemes around Lead City and Fort Meade, including hydraulic mining hype and inflated shares.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lees
Mack Wille
Sydney
Australia
Uncle Bam
Great American Desert
Diane
Missouri
Sone
Baie Urewlil
Moore
Jose
Sturgis
Whitewood Creek
Treasury
Rds
Rmil
Windia
Asweasmente
Santry
Dywood
Lead City
Otter
Harvey Hovel
Rapid
Nevada
Califor
Fort Meade
Boston Culture Debate Over Sip or Eat Soup
Town Topics notes a playful exchange on whether to sip or eat soup, with Boston culture cited as the guide and a quip about those who have never lived in Boston. The remark ends with a jab at outsiders who disagree.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lick Observatory
Sirius
Boston
Not Much Strength Required Lady Hammocks Please
A fragment from a social column shows a quip about marriage and strength in a playful exchange. The lines mention a dealer and a lady debating a hammock strong enough for one or two, with reference to being married three months.
Victims of the Great Chicago Fire
A historic tally notes 317 corpses recovered after the Chicago fire sweeping the city on August 8. Authorities fear many remains were too charred or scattered for precise identification with morgues on Milwaukee Avenue and several streets yielding grim evidence of the disaster.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Ken Miller
Prive
Godertaker
Milwaukee Avenue
Lugton Street
Clark
Dearborn St
Abe Street
Mmn
Marin Lang
Grant
Laalin
Jackson Street
Clinton
Mary Dungher
Dearborn Avenue
Indiana
Uble
Clark Street
Kingeburytreet
Erie
State
Walnut Streets
Ube
Raime
Coreman Len
Distance of the Sun and the earths distant measure
The piece argues the sun’s distance is thousands of times the earth’s size, noting an observer’s limited base challenges precision. It surveys historic estimates from 41 million to 2.4 billion miles, highlighting methods by Le Verrier, Foucault, and Newcomb and concluding patronizers overstated accuracy in the London Spectator.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bia
Lone In
Ansen
Emilee Stone
Withveeke
Stone
Mars
Fireau
Foucault
Simon Newcomb
United S
London Spectator
Peach grower sells carload of peaches for a postage stamp
Byron Saisberry, a Delaware peach grower, visits a Contental hotel cafe with a carload of peaches preached as a joke about paying a postage stamp. A commission merchant processes the fruit, delivering a receipt and claiming the grower’s share.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dulladelphia Arrord
Byron Sainebercy
Deleware
Contental Hotel
We City
Bie
Theo
Saadiq
Byron Salesberry
Salon
Fragmentary riddle text from a historic page
The readable lines present a disjointed scene about an Intelligent Compositor and household goods, with partial phrases suggesting deliberate pride and a stray reference to a discharge. The garbled OCR yields no clear event or identifiable entities.
Fragmented world news fragmenting public life and figures
A sprawling jumble of names, events, and opinions appears, touching naval design, medical figures, theater painters, charity work, politics, and economics. Notable items include a British Admiralty ship description, deaths in Jacksonville and Los Angeles, Bavarian royal costs, labor demographics, and various biographical sketches.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Alma Record
Midas
Alice Cornwall
Minca
Russia
Longilla
Finland
Orberly
Illnnis
Chicago Times
Scenetany Esphorr
Jewish Gasette
City of
Minneapolis
Chicago Board of Trade
Limner
Cremyntos Went
New York Society
Duke of Marlborough
Oregon
North Beadh
Bonanza Five
Mr. Flood
Germany
Bonanza
California
John W. Mackay
Bostow
Frederick Douglass
Douglass
Chepua Attocks
Austria
Rosa Bonheurs OF
The
Black Hills
Britth Admiralty
Francie J. Goull
Jacksonville
Lerington
Mass
Bom
Mitchell Post
G A. Ry
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