The Evils of White Flannel and Odd Hair Tales
A Pittsburg Dispatch sketch notes white flannel suits shine in sun yet reveal a diagonal black seam of hair on a man’s back. Rome Sentinel and Corphia Times recount a Circassian-like hair case in Montague, Lewis County and a dramatic dolphin shark duel off Townsend Inlet with porpoises.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
Charles R. Cummins
Montague
Lewis County
Mr. Cummins
Foss Cummins
Handshake Advice From Doctor In Heat
A downtown physician warns against indiscriminate hand shaking during hot weather. He notes moisture and open pores can spread disease and urges restraint, criticizing Americans for greeting many strangers as a mere courtesy. The note mirrors a Chicago Tribune opinion.
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Chicago Tribune
Clean cisterns after drought to avert disease
After drought, examine and repair water tanks and cisterns, then cleanse them thoroughly before refilling. Bad water spreads disease via sediment mixed with new influxes. Neglect has caused deadly diphtheria and typhoid fever. regular cleansing is essential.
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Hall
Fruit Instead of Flowers on Steamers Suggestion
Purser of an Atlantic liner endorses sending fruit rather than flowers to departing friends. He says fruit stays fresh on the water with new refrigerators, while flowers wither and are discarded after their fragrance is absorbed by the salty air.
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Atlantic
New York World
Notable Dead Bennoch Linked to Hawthornes Circle
Francis Bennoch, a London born businessman with literary interests, dies. He was Hawthorne’s intimate friend, Julian Hawthorne’s godfather, and knew Longfellow Bryant Bayard Taylor and Emerson, with influence across New York and Boston literary circles.
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Francis Bennoch
London
New York
Boston
Hawthorne
Julian Hawthorne
Longfellow
Bryant
Bayard Taylor
Emerson
Post offers $100 for city population estimate
The Washington Post offers a prize of 100 dollars to the entrant closest to the city population. The prize will be divided if there is more than one correct guess.
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Hood
Peculiar
Sarsaparilla Lowell
The
Washington Post
Fem Sayre
Jonas Igg
Johnny Feeds the Bear Disaster at Wilmington Zoo Visit
A Sunday school trip from Wilmington to the Zoological Gardens ended tragically when 12 year old John Conway had his finger bitten by a bear through the bars. Guards alerted, he was taken to the German hospital for treatment.
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Johnny
Wilmington
Zoological Gardens
John Conway
Brain
Treasent
Philadelphia
Disease Imported From India Reaches Brooklyn Ship Beriberi Case
Brooklyn health officials report beriberi in a case aboard the J Warus from Macassar. A sick passenger was hospitalized at Long Island College Hospital. Captain Harus died at sea May 20 and first mate Hartman died June 10. Dr Bullwinkle links the deaths to beriberi.
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India
Brooklyn Health Department
Beriberi
African
J. (. Warus
Macassar
Dutch East Indies
Brooklyn
Long Island Colege Hospital
Henry Bullwinkle
H.arus
H. Hartman
Bullwinkle
Twins Born With Unusually Large Teeth, Doctors Aghast
Mrs Cat Kimy No 44 Kindel avenue gave birth to twins. Doctors noted both babies were exceptionally large and well developed. One twin revealed two large lower front teeth an eighth of an inch long, pearly white and like a child six or eight years old. Such a case with twins had not been recorded before.
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Cat
Kimy
Kindel Avenue
Hir
Cinginnati Enquirer
Progressive Clergyman Promotes Unrestricted Church Reading Room
Dr Meredith of Brooklyn advocates progressive church farming entertainment for youth. He has opened a second street reading room with no smoking restrictions and would not oppose billiard tables bowling alleys in the church setting.
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Meredith
Brooklyn
Delicate Child Expected to Live Through Summer
Mrs Cobwigger laments her frail son’s condition while Rev Dr Primrose remarks on his resilience after surviving the Fourth of July. Hodch notes the boy’s precarious health and cautious prognosis.
Col Edward Bradford Leads London Team in Historic Siege
Col Edward Bradford, commissioner of the London side, stands among Britain's renowned army leaders as divisions clash in a torn and chaotic transcript of a historical assault. The passage notes Bradford's prominence amid the urban defense and recurring attacks.
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Edward Bradford
London
Iceberg Ocean Transit Concept Drawn From Ice and Snow
A Chicago Inter Ocean editorial imagines a flotilla of towing icebergs as luxury passenger ships from New York to Europe. Each island would host ice palaces with skating, games, basins of salt water, and on board cooking, promising a two day Liverpool to New York crossing and a new ice traffic boom.
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Newton
Galileo
New York
Liverpool
Ocean Greyhounds
New York Harbor
Chicago
Sol
Iceberg Transit Company
Chicago Inter Ocean
Honey Boring Exposes Cliff Storehouse Of Bee Honey
In Tennessee and Kentucky a bluff on the Cumberland River near Franklin is honey rich. A three inch bore from the top reached a central fissure and yielded barrels of honey carried to nearby farms. The venture began after a staked effort by a well borer named Starks and local farmers.
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Tennessee
Fox Bluff
Cumberland River
Franklin
Starks
Louisville
Philadelphia Ledger
Three Presidents' Sons
A Philadelphia Press correspondent notes coincidences among presidential sons: Garfield’s son departs a bank as another president’s son enters. It mentions Ulysses S. Grant’s quiet life in the city, and Alan Arthur Grant living in New York and Europe, a cultured, apolitical heir to a former president.
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Garfield
Grant
New York
Europe
Alan Arthur
Philadelphia Press
Japanese Mikado Creates Golden Alien Merit Order
The mikado institutes the Order of the Golden Alien to honor military merit on the 2 555th anniversary of the coro nation of Jimmu Tenno. Seven classes. first four insignia in gold, last three in silver. Design centers on a two edged sword with jeweled hilt and a falcon perched on the hilt with wings extended.
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Japan
Jimmu Tenno
Chicago News
Speculation In Farming Drops Prices At Market
An Long Island farmer sold a crop at Gansevoort market for twenty cents per bushel after paying forty cents to farm hands for picking. Had he arrived four days earlier he could have earned 1.25 dollars per bushel. The market was then supplied by other farmers.
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Candler
Grimes
Georgia
Kentucky
Wilson
Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
Long Island
Gansevoort
Parental Caution and Puzzled Exchange on Winter Events
A fragment shows a hurried departure by Parental Caution and Mr. Leight amid a baffling dialog. The dialog mentions a daughter and references roles such as a plumber and ice business, set against a dreadfully mild winter atmosphere.
Envy of Statues Spur Parisian Sahara Project
A Parisian financier Lehren who profited from the Panama Canal seeks funding to transform the Sahara into an inland sea. He travels to promote the project, urging public vigilance to prevent misuse of funds and unchecked ambition.
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Lehren
Sahara
Selecting a Boarding House Tale
A man visited the narrator with a method to locate boarding places. He entered a meat shop, asked the butcher for tips, was directed to two possible boarding spots, visited one, and secured board. The account ends with the storyteller sharing further insights.
Bleak Prospect in Pierre Free Press Commentary
The piece rails at national and state writers over Deadwood coverage, calling for better editorial quality and condemning current coverage. It references health topics and promotes a tonic, mixing opinion with advertising language in a dated editorial voice.
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Pierre
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