Centennial plan for national capital celebrated in Washington
Smith D. Fry reports a December centennial gathering led by Gov. McMillin Archishop Keane and Senator Depew to promote a permanent celebratory origin of the capital. Proposals include purchasing south Pennsylvania avenue land building federal structures and a commemorative arch and avenue from Capitol to White House with state and national exhibits and a permanent memorial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gov. McMillin
Archishop Keane
Congress
Pennsylvania Avenue
Capitol
White House
Botanical Gardens
Armory Square
National Museum
Smithsonian Institution
Agricultural Department
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Washington Monument
Potomac
Harrison
Union
Chicago
Tennessee
Springer
Republic
National House of Representatives
National Guard
Grand Army of the Republic
Spain
Depew
Washington
Keane
Wasington
Smith D. Fry
Added to his stature in an odd limb mix up
A rail yard switchman and a motorman both lose feet and receive artificial legs. The tall man gets long legs by mistake while the short man admires taller limbs, refuses to swap, and the maker ends up supplying a second tall pair and waiting for a buyer. The tale ends with a humorous note on mistaken sizes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Dreamed Gift Frock Sparks Husbands Suspicion
A fragment from the New York World notes a wife recalls a dream where she received an exquisite new frock from someone, provoking a potential confrontation with her husband who questions the giver's identity and asks to sleep again to dream the truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
N. Y
Agent the Spider on Fly Paper Trick
Dialogic vignette features Tommy and Papa debating patience and catching flies with a spider motif. Judge material hints at a playful classroom or comic strip exchange about cunning and method. The lines emphasize problem solving and humor through household objects.
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Spider
Tommy
Papa
Foreign Gossip Highlights Global Society and Trade
A survey of world affairs notes Calcutta females as one-third of the population, England land values, and Khartoum access from Cairo by rail and boat. It mentions a London plum pudding with a diamond jewel, European populations in Ceylon, Queenstown harbor, Napoleon’s Kop in Natal, and women pharmacists in Russia and major cities.
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Calcutta
England
Khartoum
Cairo
London
Ceylon
Ireland
Queenstown
Drakensberg Mountains
Natal
Russia
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Kirv
Rauxogen: New compound found by Dr Fahrig's lab
Dr. Ernest Fahrig of Philadelphia museums laboratory reports the discovery and refinement of Rauxogen a non commercial amorphous aluminum compound that yields color in crude form and exciting hues with metals. It promises scientific research aid and potential medicinal use against throat infections while offering dyeing applications.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Fahrig
Philadelphia
Sure-Footed Heer Horses
A Cincinnati Enquirer summary notes Boer horses resemble Welsh or Scotch ponies, famed for sure footing though lacking great leaping ability. The report contrasts their steadiness with dramatic rock-to-rock leaps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Enquirer
Public Library Quirks and Quiet Cries for Books
Chicago Chronicle recounts bustling library evenings where patrons ask oddball queries and librarians play along. A shy suitor seeks How He Won Her, a bemused staffer answers naming mishaps, and patrons request titles with clever misreadings like Elbow Room and Adam Slede.
Kaiser Grants New Prussian Titles Stir Nobility Ranks
In Prussia Emperor William I widens the nobility by creating a new duke dom and elevating several counts to princes. The move provokes unease among mediatized and higher noble lines and contrasts with earlier cautious royal titling.
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William I
Prussia
Napoleon
France
Prince von
Bismarck
Frederick
Willam II
Lauenburg
Count Munster
Dohna-Schlobitten
Eulenburg
Knyphausen
Hutzfeldt
Duke of
Trachenberg
Belover
Holy Roman Empire
Bentinck
Solms
Stolberg
Ebenburtig
Florida Departure Prompted by Flocking Geese Tale
In a Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph snippet two youths exchange slang filled farewell lines. Mr Fitzpercy says he is going to Florida while Miss Homewood notes the geese have already flown south, hinting at an end of the season departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Homewood
Mr Fitzpercy
Florida
Doucher
Fitzpercy
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Humorous snippets from papers across the era and outlets
A collage of light hearted quips and cartoons from various newspapers. Jokes touch on babies, lobster names, professors, deafness, dentistry, and delayed payments, reflecting prankish, passed around humor of the era.
The Black Watch Through Centuries of Gallant Service
The Black Watch, famed regiment in Royal Highlanders, traces 18th and 19th century campaigns from Flanders to America and Egypt. It bore scarlet dress and tartan, later adopting khaki in Africa, while preserving its proud record and inscriptions on the standard.
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Modder River
Black Watch
Trethe Army
Flanders
America
Loulaburg
Liconderoga
Spain
Havana
England
Egypt
Pyrenees
Waterloo
Alma
Sevastopol
Lucknow
Tel el-Kebir
China’s trade system contrasts with modern transport
Leslie's Weekly notes China's sound banking and stable internal commerce while criticizing the absence of modern transport. It describes primitive canal and mule caravan logistics moving coal, dried fruits, silks, and wines, with cart and sedan chair travel and sleds in winter. The Baltimore American quips about an operatively folded vermiform appendix.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leslie's Weekly
Aristocratic Stift for Noble Canonesses in Prague
Chicago Daily News reports on the Austrian Stifts Damen founded by Maria Theresa, a life retreat for high birth women in Prague. Canonesses may marry if offered, receive substantial pensions, housing, carriages, theater boxes, and medical care, while abbesses include notable figures such as Marie Antoinette, with duties to pray for the founder. The palace setting overlooks Prague, M oldau, and Weissberg, with royal and cathedral connections nearby.
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Nradschin
Marie Theresa
Fantr
Walbburga
Lementina Taaffe
Taanffe
Marie-Antoinette
Spain
Stifts
Prague
Marie Antoinette
Moldau
Weissberg
Saint Vitus
Saint
John Nepomucon
Hohennia
Rudolph Tan
Saint George
Saint Wenceslas
Berchanl
Hohemia
Louisville
Chicago Daily News
Amatedry and Amateur Photography in Symmetry of Verse
A Philadelphia Times comment notes that amateur photographs resemble amateur poetry in lacking metrical symmetry, suggesting that unfocused creative efforts often miss crafted balance in form.
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Philadelphia Times
Onions as Medicine and Remedy Claims
The text extols onions as a universal medicine claiming they cure colds when eaten at night and act as a plaster to reduce inflammation and deafness. It suggests an onion juice extract calms nerves and aids sleep, attributing all effects to a single property of onions.
Japanese women divers work along Japan coast
More than a hundred Japanese women divers, aged 17 to 60, line the coast. They earn pay based on workload while gathering seaweed, sea cucumber, and other seafood products.
The Broadway Temple: Columbus First Baptist Goes Theater Style
The Chicago Democrat describes Columbus First Baptist Church new Barachurch as theater like with lobby boxes a kitchen dining room and a bicycle parlor. The 42 foot drive and 60 feet back from the street set the urban layout while colored marble halls and a proscenium arch frame a 40 voice choir and a modern platform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Broad Street
State Capitol
Chicago Democrat
Decree Denies Alimony Reopen for Improved Husband
The court rules a divorce alimony settlement stands as final a contract and precludes reopening when the husband’s circumstances later improve. In the Isabelian dress vs A H Andress case the common pleas uphold negotiated alimony terms as fair at the time and bar new inquiries.
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Common Pleas Court
A. H. Andress
Aintter
Cincinnati Enquirer
Border Town Curbs Chinese Women in Trade Hub
Reports describe Maiwatchio on the Rus sian border as a town inhabited solely by men. Chinese women are banned from living there and barred from entering beyond the great wall of Balkan Mongolia. Town residents are said to be traders restricted to male inhabitants.
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Republic
District of Columbia
Depew
George Washington
Horatio Gates
Longfellow
Abraham Lincoln
Grant
Napoleon
France
Washington
Lena
Empire State
Maiwatchio
Russia
Great Wall
Balkan
Mongolia
Elephants Protect Children in Gentle Rescue Tale
A Sungiese woman explains that elephants take care of children, never harming them. When danger appears, the patient elephant curls the child in its trunk and carries them to safety on its broad back.
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Pearls OF Wisdom
Senator Depew
Senate
Chaunceyo M. Depew
New York
Chauncey M Depew
United States
Benton M'Millin
Archbishop Keane
Elis Patrona
THE
Public Library
Chicago Chronicle
Kaiser
Harlem
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Harvard Lampoon
Esaid
Ohio State Journal
Giannipots Press
Clofpenny
Philadelphia Press
Oe -East
South Africa
China
Brooklyn
Tuhemin
Casonessen
Abbesaca
AS Woman’s Church
First Baptist Sanctuary
Columbua, O
Columbus
Barachurch
Bose
New Columbus Baptist Church
Cincinnati
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