Many varied notices from a late century paper
Eide Williams a 22 year old colored woman dies near Louisville Alabama born in Virginia and saw Washington several times. Alexander becomes postmaster of Elizabethton Tennessee. Hermitage visitors will gain railroad spur. Winchester West Virginia enacts kerosene pool law. FM Spawn 19 eats massive quantities challenging stomach limits. Czar Nicholas shows a gem map of France. George Foster Robinson linked to Seward assassination alive in Pomona. A cloud of bugs fools Trenton fire department. Southern cotton yields and unreal potential for 100 million bales. Paris exposition pacing national pride with large American display. Senator Hearst famed for wit and learning.
Population figures from 1900 Chicago city directory
The 1900 Chicago city directory estimates the population at about 2 001 000, noting the census will likely exceed this by around 20 000. Between 1890 and 1900 the increase neared 1 000 000, unmatched by any U S city except New York, with notable speculation from neighboring exhibitors.
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Chicago
New York
Boy with a Hobby Captures World of Locomotives
Four year old Hume Richards of Chicago is hailed as the youngest locomotive driver. He can name locomotive parts, describe functions, and identify railroad initials on cars. At times he rides in cabs, studies wrecks, and dreams of world travel, knowing ships, battles, and oceans. He was born in Chicago on July 18, 1805, and now lives with his grandfather in Lincoln, Nebraska.
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Hume Gibson Richards
West
Master Richards
Chicago
Canada
Rocky Mountains
Tove
Isand
United States
Uncle Sam
Chicago Tribune
Lincoln
Neb
Richards
Henry A. Richarde
Washburn Emerges as Favorite for Vice President
William D. Washburn, long a Minnesota political figure and former U S senator, is urged by Republicans as a strong vice presidential candidate. Born 1831 in Maine, Bowdoin graduate, lawyer and businessman, he built a career from state surveyor to congressman and senator with a reputation for culture and dignity.
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Capitol
Senate
United States
William D. Washburn
Minnesota
Congress
United States Senate
William Drew Washburn
Liverpool
Bowdoin
Minneapolis
Minneapolis É& St. Louis Bailrop
The Bicycle Trolley Dreamed by Detroit Inventor
A Detroit inventor patents a bicycle trolley system with a steel frame suspended by a wire network. The rider’s power is transferred to wheels on a trolley wire, enabling fast travel beneath the wire. Plans include a national company with toll gates and telephony along the route.
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Detroit
Women postal clerks and railway line update
The article notes thirty thousand women employed in the driftwork postal department with 330 head postmasters and over 900 subpostmasters. It also reports electric roads in Dortmund with a railway running between the northern and southern extremes of the city.
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Dritiwk
Bortia
Siege of Mafeking Ends After 217 Days of Barrage
Mafeking endured a 217 day siege with Col Baden-Powell’s defenders holding out amid hunger and bombardment. Boer forces crossed the border two days into the siege, cutting rail and telegraph lines as British scouts fed news back to England.
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Mafeking
Buller
Kimberley
Baden-Powell
Bechuana
Transvaal
Bott
England
Trunagaal
Mafeking Siege Chronicle Ends and Relief Moves Stir Town
Historic siege narrative recalls Baden-Powell at Mafeking, lunch for a Boer messenger, and stalwart resistance as shells fall. After months of bombardment scarce food drives rationing and hunger, while relief attempts begin and the town endures on horse meat amid growing fatigue. A London inventor unveils a clock that photographs each employee on arrival and departure.
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White Ming
Baden-Powell
Crane
Cranje
Reuter
Col. Duden-Powell
Ra Hla
Mafeking
Chicago
Century Civil War Veteran Hiram Cronk Turns 100
Hiram Cronk of Dunn Brook Oneida County N Y is the lone surviving War of 1812 pensioner. Born in Frankfort Herkimer County he joined with his father and brothers at Sackett's Harbor serving about 100 days. He votes democratic, worships as a Methodist and recently celebrated his hundredth birthday with a family reunion.
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Hiram Cronk
Dunn Brook
Oneida County
Frankfort
Herkimer County
Cronk
Hiram
John
Jeptha
United States Army
Sackett's Harbor
Davis
Canada
Andrew Jackson
Cleveland
Prince Gustaf Eyed as Sweden's Heir Amid Abdication Talk
Reports say King Oscar II may abdicate on June 9 to allow Prince Gustaf, heir apparent and radical critic of current policy toward Norway, to take the throne. Gustaf, unpopular in the royal circle, is seen as opposed to the king's moves regarding Sweden's officers and rapport with Britain and the Boers stance at home.
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Prince Gustaf
Sweden
Norway
Favor i
Oscar
Britain
Gustaf
Prince Karl
Oscar II
This Clock in a Wonder by Joseph Jenson clockmaker Rich Geld
A clockmaker Joseph Jenson of Rich Geld Win unveils a clock showing hours halves and quarters with the moon phase via a revolving globe inside a transparent globe. Marked noon twelve over the globe, it tracks moonlit regions as the globe moves. Additional hour representations appear for precise local times. Davwen City notes two steam Green Gate 14 patent free exilpgulehers, a laditer truck, and two house curtsey at hess url ban a pada tire.
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Joseph Jenson
Win
Progress
Dawean
Hess
Pungent Paragraphs From Old Gags And Banter
A collage of quips and witticisms from 19th and early 20th century papers. Jokes cover fashion, racing clocks, luck at cards, and social foibles. Notable lines include an absent minded professor and a real estate operator debating a town name Shilling.
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Yonkers
London
Detroit Journal
Philadelphia Press
Mr. Jones
Royal Aquariums
Shanty Boys of North Wood Camps in Adirondacks
The article describes lumber camps in the Adirondacks with large log shanties for men and cook camps, detailing bunks, deacon seats, and communal life. It notes camp roles, meals, music, dancing, and social routines around a central roarin log hearth, plus ancillary cabins for gum pickers and storage structures.
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Adirondacks
Ube
New York Sun
Tome & Hands
North Woods
Adirondack
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Eide Williame
Louisville
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Washington
Alexander
Elizabethton
Carter County
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Senorita
Nashville
Hermitage
Winchester
W. Va
Spawn
Alto Paes
Ilke
Czar Nicholas Jr
France
Paris
George Foster Robinson
Seward
Lewis Payne
Booth Gang
Booth
Pomona
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Payne
Trenton Fire Department
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Allen
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Hume Richards
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Charles Dilke
Sir Charles
Shepperton
Vensela
F. Apeny
Constantinople
Saga
Anid
Europe
Maré Jim
Daniel Murray
Congression Whrary
Sula
Col. Baden-Pereil
Hay
Glenn Cronk
Hiram Crone
Shanty Boys OF
North Wood
Boller
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