Trade Struggle Over West Africa Hinterland Warns of Arbitration
James Pinnock, Liverpool African merchant and former Royal Niger company director, describes decades of west African trade and exploration. He warns the hinterland's wealth may trigger a French-British clash, urging arbitration to prevent war and urging open trade to avert French encroachment.
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James Pinnock
Liverpool
Royal Niger Company
Daily Mail
West Africa
Niger
West African Company
Central African Trading Company
Taubman Bros
Sir Taubman Goldie
Miller Bros
United African Company
National African Company
Mr. Pinnock
Porto Novo
Dahomey
Say
Nikki
Lagos
Niger Coast
Africa
France
South Africa
America
England
Council of Nations
Senegal
Caisse Des Depots Et Consignations
Gambia
Sierra Leone
Gold Coast
Finnock
Manchester
London Mail
Court Reporter: Repeated Convictions Highlight Case
In a Paris police court conversation cited by the London Globe the President notes the defendant’s 37 prior convictions. The prisoner reflects on human imperfection with a stoic, taunting line.
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Paris
London Globe
A Portrait of Wordsworth by Lamb’s Quip
A Pall Mall Gazette remark recounts a friend telling Charles Lamb he had never seen Wordsworth. Lamb reply jokes you have seen an old horse, so you have seen Wordsworth, implying familiarity through resemblance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Lamb
Wordsworth
Pall Mall Gazette
Boom and Bust in Birmingham Real Estate Plague
A New York Tribune correspondent details how boom towns across the south suffered from wild real estate schemes and inflated paper ventures between 1880 and 1890. Birmingham, Alabama, emerges as a cautionary tale with paralyzed energy, high land prices, and a shift toward valuing actual trade conditions over speculative forecasts.
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South
Northwest
New York Tribune
Iron Belt
Birmingham
Alabama
Fort Payne
Cardiff
Union
Cahaba
Warrior
Coosa
Keep the Cellars Clean and Healthful
Advice urges thorough spring and fall cellar cleaning and constant removal of decayed vegetables to prevent health risks. It criticizes damp, poorly ventilated basements as disease sources and calls on housewives to treat cellars with as much care as their parlor, noting often neglected sanitary duties.
Unfortunate Illustration in Kansas City Trial
In Henry's court Ella Downend sues Kansas City for 5000 for injuries after tripping on a sidewalk step. City attorney George Jones argues the step is negligible and akin to the witness chair, then trips on it himself, causing laughter in court.
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Henry
Kansas City
Ella Downend
George Jones
City
Mr. Jones
Kansuas City
No Legacy to Cigarette Piends
Heirs of the late George G. Seat on of Rockford Illinois are warned not to smoke to receive legacies under his will. He left four nieces and six nephews sums from 100 to 200 dollars with a proviso that if any legatee uses cigarettes or alcohol to excess that portion shall go to a charity chosen by the executors.
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George G. Seaton
Rockford, Lils
Philadelphia Press
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Horse Hills
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East Third St
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Klondike
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Associated Hermits
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Katharine de Forest
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New York
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Thanet
H. P. Spofford
Wild Belen
William Black
Poultney
Harper’s Magazine
Pacific
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Siberia
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Charles Fslummis
Roden
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Richard Harding Davis
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