Plan to Reach the North Pole by Icebreaking Warship
Baltimore mariner T A Lewis proposes a bold Arctic voyage using a large armed cruiser with ram torpedoes and dynamite to punch a path through Davis Strait and Baffin Bay toward a open polar sea. He argues a July sail window exists and that the western route via Bering Strait offers easier passage, noting dangers of impassable ice and the need for swift summer movement.
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T. A. Lewis
Baltimore
North Pole
Cumberland Inlet
Davis Strait
Spitzbergen
Bering Strait
Polar Sea
Mr. Lewis
Hudson Bay
Baffin’s Bay
Smith Sound
Grinnell Land
Jones Sound
Heilprin
McCormic Bay
Atlantic Ocean
Pacific
Japan
Arctic Sea
Point Barrow
Siberian
Arctic Circle
Greenland
Pole
Wrangell Island
Grave of U S flag designer Samuel Reid located
The grave of Samuel Chester Reid who designed the present flag has been located at Cypress Hills Cemetery Brooklyn. Reid born 1783 died 1861 in Naval Hospital Brooklyn buried in a lot bought by his brothers. A Cypress Hill cemetery worker confirms the Reid grave lies in the middle rear grave of the lot and a monument will be erected.
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Samuel Chester Reid
United States
Joseph M. E. Burnett
Captain Reid
Reid
Rankin Post
New York
San
His Mother's Ring Returned From Paris Mystery
T. E. Roessle of the Arlington hotel in Washington received a package from Paris containing a diamond engagement ring in an old fashioned setting. No letter explained the sender. The ring, stolen from his mother 30 years ago, had vanished without trace and was only now identified as the family heirloom.
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T. E. Roessle
Arlington Hotel
Washington
Paris
Mr. Roessle
New York World
Maine Boy Named A Godsend Lutkin by Clergyman Mistake
A Maine village man named A Godsend Lutkin earned his famous name from a clergyman’s mishearing during christening. The Lufkin estate, left by their grandfather Peleg, flowed to the first grandson, with Godsend receiving the title and substantial property after his father urged the name in jest. The tale, recounted by the New Yorker’s correspondent, notes the family’s long landholdings and the unusual name-born fortune.
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Godsend Lufkin
Maine
Godsend
Old Peleg Lufkin
George Lufkin
Lutkin
New York
Ian
Indigo Woman of Brooke County Shocks Doctors
Miss Elizabeth Mercer of Brooke County West Virginia has a rare blue discoloration of the skin and recurring skin scales that leave blue marks on white surfaces. Physicians report charcoal colored scales but indigo hue and she refuses treatment preferring to stay at home rather than change her appearance.
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Elizabeth Mercer
Brooke County
W. Va
Miss Mercer
Cincinnati Enquirer
Rare 1804 Silver Dollar Mystery Surfaces in New York
Numismatists note another 1804 silver dollar has appeared in New York, with one seen in Chateau, Mon. The piece history ties to the famed 1804 issue and theories about how so many coins vanished remain debated, including bonds to Marines and Algerian trade. A second specimen recently sold in New York.
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New York
Chateau
Mon
L. E. Altwein
St. Joseph
Parmlee
Boston
Tripoli
Africa
Congress
Orient
Algiers
United States
Philadelphia
Billy Seymour
Montana
America
Canal Street
Felix Delos
New York Sun
State Department appeals for prompt aid to Cuba relief
Washington December 29 The State Department urges Americans to help Cuba where famine and distress persist Secretary Sherman appealed for money clothing and supplies The department reports 5000 was received and will be sent to Consul General Lee for urgent disbursement The relief plan relies on subscriptions and newspaper support with distribution overseen by Consul General Lee and Cuban consular staff
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Washington
Cuba
State Department
Sherman
Day
Lee
Department of State
Wm. G. Holdridge
Beadle
Mary L. Riegel
A. D
Mary L. Brecon
A. Riegel
Intervention Pressures Cuba Aid Debate
New York dispatch notes Senator Morgan of Alabama denounces Secretary Sherman’s call for aid to Cuba as intervention. The piece ties de Lome’s stance to avoiding a Catholic bishops’ plea and argues the administration should seek congressional appropriation rather than a forced loan to back Spain.
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Morgan So
New York
Journal
Washington
Sherman
de Lome
Cuba
Senor de Lome
Morgan
Alabama
Republic of
Spain
United States
Kingdom of
Congress
First Cuban Cabinet Formed Under Autonomy Regime
Havana reports the governor general has accepted a new cabinet: Jose Maria Galvez as president, Rafael Montoro as finance minister, Antonio Govin as interior minister, Francisco Zayas as education minister, Arturo Amolard as commerce minister, Rafael Fernandez Castro as posts and telegraphs minister. Also included is Marquis Montoro as minister. In a separate item, Miss Sadie Hanley of Chicago recounts thwarting a highwayman who grabbed her throat. she dropped her purse, he fled, and she later recovered the money from a front lawn.
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Havana
Blanco
Senor
Jose Maria Galvez
Rafael Montoro
Marquis of Montoro
Antonio Govin
Francisco Zayas
Arturo Amolard
Rafael Fernandez Castro
Sadie Hanley
Chicago
Miss Hanley
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Pittsburg Commercial Gazette
S. C. Reid
Lufkin
Sen
Ator Morgan
James O'Niel
South Dakota
Towit
Beadle County
Mary L. Risee
Omaha
Lincoln Realty Trust Co
Mary L. Rieger
William B. Willard
Fifth Prince Meridian
Mary L. Reigel
B. W. Kerr
L. A. Hinton
Borth
Mary L. Brece
Lizzie Vaughn
Richards Trust Company
Mary L. Riege
Mary L. Riese
Augusta P. Searles
Mary Bootz
Augusta R Searles
Hitchcock
Clarksville
DeWitt
W.S. DeWrrt
William
Julia A. Demaree
John H. Miller
Office of the Register of Deeds
Huron
Bea County
Joan H. Millier
Joan
Pye
Urmons
State OF
Fifth Judicial Circuit
Richards Trest Company
a_ corporation
Nettie C. Hall
Charles T. Hal
Charles T. Hall
Fendants
L. C. Kemp
Circuit Court
Said County
L C. Kemp
State OF South Dakota
County of Beadless
Samuel R. Critchfield
County of Beadle
Joan H. Miller
Joan L. Pyyle
George F. Billing
Rosa Killing
Keadle
Frederick T. Day
Wisconsin
Nortgages
Lillian Carpenter
Office of Register of Deeds
Fouth Dakota
S. D
Lilian Carpenter
Richarps Trestco
Nicholas Hotaling
John Wood
Charles Hotaling
J. M W. Alexander
Joan Woop
Robert J. Hawthorne
Millie Weethorss
Thomas H. Campbell
Office of
the Register of Deeds
One Hundred and Thirteen
St. P. M
Sa Beadle County
Court House
Thomas H. Campseny
Joan L. Pyre
Louis E. Paquin
Louisa Pagram
Louisa Graham
Aren
Richard Ramsell
South Ora
Joan L. Prue
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