A Nearly White Indian Tribe on San Clemente Island
On San Clemente Island near Del Mar accounts describe a fair complexioned inland tribe once living there, their demise after Alaskan raiders, and the later rescue of a lone survivor Hetty Green’s millions noted as a separate column on her wealth and frugal style and stock dealings.
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San Clemente
del Mar
San Francisco Chronicle
San Diego County
San Gabriel Valley
Santa Barbara Islands
Alaskan Islands
Island
San Nicholas
San Pedro
Los Angeles
San Gabriel
Santa Barbara
Monterey
Pacific
Nidever
Work and Workmen in the Nation
Reports show varied wages from $3.50 to $5 a day for Omaha plumbers and 35 cents an hour for St. Louis carpenters. New York City unionists push for an eight hour day. Dakota sees strong prospecting. Bloomdale in Wood County Ohio offers free gas and land to attract manufacturers. phá
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Omahs
Ashland
Georgia Pacific Railroad
Birmingham
Ala
St. Louis Carpenters
Macurgists’ Union
New York
Cuicago Brickyards
Tar
New York Furniture Workers’ Union
Curcaco
Dakota
Bloomdaley Wood County
Keokuk
France
Louisvile
Batimore
Philadelphia
Muncie
Anglo-Saxon Coal and Iron Company
Alabama Great Southern Road
Population of Switzerland Rises Over 2.9 Million
The December 1 1888 census records Switzerland’s population at 2 934 057 an increase of over 100 000 since 1880.
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Switzerland
Harrison's Chair A Costly Gift From Texas Republican
D M O'Connor of Refugio Texas, a wealthy stockman and ardent Republican, gifted a horn chair to Benjamin Harrison. Crafted in San Antonio with polished horns, it features a gold plate inscription, diamond initials, Texas star, and historic mottoes. The chair cost over $1500 and showcases home industry prestige.
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D. Ms
O’connor
Refugio
Tex
San Antonio
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Benjamins Harrison
Harrison
D. M. O'Connor
Benjamin Harrison
United States
Texas
Tippecanoe
San Jacinto
Thermopyla
Alamo
Texas Line
Blind detective nets counterfeiters by street scam
A Boston blind cigar vendor identifies a confidence man who passed a counterfeit five dollar bill. The SHARP returns to the stand to buy more cigars, is seized when the blind dealer nails him, and police find counterfeit notes on the swindler.
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Winter Street
Boston Transcript
Captain Jane Smith Builds Independence on a Hundred Acre Farm
A New York Sun correspondent visits Captain Jane Smith in Shiloh to detail how she and her sister, left with minimal means, built a self sustaining farm. They cultivated crops, spun cloth, wove textiles, raised hogs and poultry, and paid for the farm with earnings from their labor. They describe daily work from dawn to night and pride in home manufacture while preserving family relics and community respect.
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New York Sun
Shiloh
Jane
Miss Jane
Jane Smith
Captain Jane Smith
Miss Smith
Mother
Samoan Beauties and Their Graceful Dances
A description of Samoan village queens and their attire, rituals, and dances. It covers the role of Tampa, the palace-like duties of the town queen, dressing rites by elder attendants, and the Siva dance led by young maidens. It ends by praising Patua’s daughter as “The Dream” of motion.
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San Francisco
Patua
Mataafa
Entertaining Horse Tales From Towns Far and Wide
A Baysville Georgia horse fitted with false teeth after a recent accident. a Norwich Connecticut horse swallows a ball of twine and is relieved of 11 inch string. a West Plains Nebraska drover trains a horse to drive cattle home each evening. a Franklin County Texas pony dashes over a river bluff and survives. a Maryland horse avidly eats oysters left in its stall. James McCord's Dakota farm horse has eight feet, indistinguishable to the shoulder but with two extra feet at the pastern. hair trends include long manes for both sexes and a desert method using adobe paste to straighten and shine hair, praised over civilized shampoo.
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Baysville
Norwich
Conn
West Plains
Neb
Franklin County
Tex
Maryland
James McCord
Lodi
Dakota
Amphibious Spinster Near Elbertson Creates Stir
A Savannah News item describes a city maiden near Elbertson who cannot live out of water for long. After a few hours away from a bath she faints and almost suffocates, needing immediate cold water immersion. She maintains a private pool of fresh water in her room and spends most of her time there, in all seasons, while her health remains otherwise good.
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Elbertson
Savannah
Simeon Prigg and the Soup That Grows Hair
The Chicago Herald recounts Simeon Prigg’s odd rise from baldness to a hair growing soup invention. A kitchen accident yields a tuft and sparks a business boom, with Prigg patenting the recipe, funding a grand ad campaign, and profits soaring to 376,538 dollars in a year.
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Prigg
Long Consulta
A New Kind of Letter Box Promises Postal Change
The Post-Office Department seeks a safer more convenient street box. A Chicago draughtsman and mechanic show a cast iron two compartment model for letters and newspapers. It self reports tampering with sealed indicators and locks. a bell signals collection time and a thief would trigger repeated openings to expose interference.
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Post-Office
Chicago Tribune
General James A. Beaver Named Chief Marshal for Inaugural Parade
The Pennsylvanian leader General James A. Beaver, aged fifty two, a native of the state and distinguished Civil War veteran, is chosen as chief marshal for the inaugural parade. A lawyer by trade, he has twice served as Governor and is highly regarded in the Grand Army of the Republic.
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James A. Beaver
Pennsylvania
Beaver
Keystone State
Alsace
Bellefonte Fencibles
Andrew G. Curtin
Grand Army of the Republic
Simeon Prigg Dies After Hair Regenerator Fall
Simeon Prigg, inventor of the Miraculous Hair Regenerator, collapsed after a rainstorm setback and died yesterday of a broken heart. The public grinned at his device as dollars faded, ending his ambitious venture.
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Prigg
Simeon Prigg
Lederer
Chicago Herald
Rain
Beholders Debate Rowing Challenge Between Harvard and Columbia
A playful exchange references rowing rivals Harvard and Columbia. Beck Hall from Harvard challenges Columbia fellows to row this season, with Mason De Punk from Columbia signaling readiness if opponents prove strong enough.
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Beck Hall
Harvard
de Punk
Columbia
Mason de Punk
Puck
Very Nearly Patti Sleeps Thirtees Hours Out
Fragmentary OCR reads like a quirky phrase about Patti and sleep, with garbled lines and stray exclamations. The readable portion suggests a humorous or mistaken statement, but lacks a coherent event or identifiable subjects beyond Patti and a miswritten time.
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Patti
Areata
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Alaska
Hetty Green
Wall Street
Harrison's
Georgia
Arizona
Desert
Simeon P
Legion
America
Priggs
Yory
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