Bonanza Mine Echoes From Virginia City Rise and Fall
The article chronicles John W. Mackay and the discovery of the Great Bonanza on the Comstock lode at Virginia City. It recounts the stock boom, the ascent of Consolidated Virginia and California Mines, and the later crash that ended the Bonanza era, noting key figures like James G Fair and William Sharon and the industry’s lasting legacy.
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John W. Mackay
Comstock Lode
Virginia City
Montana
Placer
Alaska
Charles Howard Shinn
D. Appleton & Co
Mackay
California
Nevada
Dublin
Irginia
Mackay William Sharon
Comstock Jody
James G Fair
James C Flood
William §&.O'Brien
J M Walker
Mackay and Fair
James Gair
Fair
Consolidated Virginia
Bonanza
Shinn
Pacific
Diedesheimer
Bison Mint
Mutty
James
Mr. Shinn
Virginia
Hluw
Barrasca
Comstockeys
Ancient graves unearthed by Tennessee floods
Flooding in Tennessee uncovered 12 deep graves beneath a green knoll once thought an old Indian cemetery. Scientists now propose the site held prehistoric mound builder remains rather than Native graves, noting careful burial signs and no prior local record. The flood also damaged fields valued at $60 an acre, washing away soil and cotton.
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Tennessee
A Rich Man Killed in Journalistic Scare Heads
The Century editor condemns snobbery in headlines that identify tragedy by wealth rather than person. It questions whether scare heads reflect sensationalism or a broader greed for money, noting Americans’ varied views on class and the vanity of labeling individuals by fortune.
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Observer of
John Jones
Jonesville
Mary Marigold
Marlborough Road
Laurel County
Out of Sight Fritz Scheel’s witty Philadelphia reply
The Philadelphia Times recounts how Fritz Scheel, then director of the Philadelphia Orchestra, embraced American slang. Upon greeting him at Woodside Park, Scheel responded with a sharp quip, saying You don’t see me, illustrating his quick wit and flair for language.
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Fritz Scheel
Philadelphia Orchestra
Philadelphia
Scheel
Elias
Woodside Park
Fritz
Schéel
Phiadelphia Times
Sailor Tale of Anita Ship From Genoa and Teneriffe
The Italian vessel Anita registered at Genoa and later sold at Teneriffe is to be broken up. Built in 1548, the Anita resembled Columbus’s Santa Maria and completed her final voyage from Naples to Teneriffe six to seven weeks ago. Once famed for a stout build, she endured many storms but was the slowest ship afloat, taking 205 days on a Baltimore to Rio Janeiro route.
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Anita
Genoa
Teneriffe
Naples
Baltimore
Rio Janeiro
N.Y. Sun
Garlic odor staged séance betrayal in Genoa
London Mail reports a plan to trap a spiritualist in Genoa by secretly adding garlic to her meals before seances. The two covert food trials aimed to force a reaction from claimed spirits amid alleged garlic odors.
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Genoa
London Mail
The Lie as a Universal Tool in Society and Law
A treatise on lying as a universal prop for crime and social life. Lying taints private actions and public affairs, with polished wrongdoing and biased experts undermining justice. It argues truth training for the rising generation as the only remedy.
The Winning of a Friend
A shrewd Hebrew merchant named Lejee builds a giant department store and buys Weber’s 40 foot corner lot, despite the elder German watchmaker’s wish to keep his small corner office intact. Weber finally consents to sell, drawn by his sons’ need, only to find the old office preserved, surrounded but untouched, when the shop opens.
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Lejee
Weber
Greta
Jan
Blessing on the Big House Through a Friend in the Office
A lingering remark places Mr Weber in a memory filled office scene. The speaker notes the fire, discarded tiles and the desk while reflecting on friends lost and changes seen in the street below.
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Mr.Weber
Book Lover's Predicament in Paris Tales
In Paris a well known octogenarian bibliophile chased rare finds in secondhand shops near Place Saint Michel and Place Dauphine. A plain housekeeper bought a bundle including a red morocco edition. a remark about its value led to a marriage for its first edition, the Heptameron, and the countess’s portrait endures after the wife’s death.
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M. Brisson
Paris Temps
Place Saint Michel
Place Dauphine
Morocco
Morisson
Comtesse
Marguerite
Coldest Winter Tale From Duluth Echoes Across Plains
In a small western station about 500 miles west of Duluth, six travelers share grim winter memories from Twin Cities pipes to North Dakota blizzards. An Irishman adds that the coldest winter he ever endured was a Duluth summer.
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Duluth
Northwest
Twin Cities
North Dakota
The Drink Evil Among Women Across Cities and Times
A letter condemns heavy drinking by women of high society, recounting weekends in Hull and trips to Trull and New York. The writer claims underage, dissolute gatherings, public drinking on trains, and frequent hotel retreats signal moral decline and looming debauchery for families and children.
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Hull
Trull
California
New York
Irish Husbandry and the Swinford Patch
A London Mail correspondent describes Mayo tenants clearing stone fields to survive. Stones fill three crops, yielding walls and heaps, while rents force emigration. Vast emigration to England continues as farmers toil nine to ten months elsewhere to pay rents. The piece laments conditions in Swinford and notes a never ending westward stream of emigrants.
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Swinford Union
County Mayo
London Mail
Ireland
Acre
Cleragh
England
Aoni
County
Mayo
Pat
Treland
Philadelphia
Old Plantation Bell Shifts From City Junk Shop To Country Farm
A Detroit Free Press tale follows Old Jack who owned a Civil War era plantation bell. The bell rang for church meetings and Sunday services after being carried north in a push cart. He sold it for one dollar to a farmer buyer who plans to restore the old time ringing for dinner bells on a rural farm.
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Detroit Free Press
Jack
Old Jack
The Name of Cuba in Early Indian and Colonial Texts
The island of Cuba was known by that name by the Lucanyan Indians who were with Columbus when he discovered it. Cleveland Maine Daler. Jealousy's Other Name. Jealousy is but another name for inordinate self-esteem. Milwaukee Sentinel.
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Cuba
Columbus
Cleveland
Maine
Jealousy
Milwaukee, Sentinel
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Brooklyn
Sean
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