Back to the Old Country Strikes at Anthracite Miners
Wilkesbarre center of a migration as 45 000 migrant workers leave the region during the anthracite strike. Slavs Lithuanians and Italians lead the exodus with Poles Hungarians and Russians among the rest. Those remaining are urged to work harder, while lodging conditions and shop disputes highlight tensions with native workers. The piece notes how the more thrifty send money home and invest in farms, and compares perceptions of different immigrant groups amid unrest and Prohibition style alcohol violence.
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Wilkesbarre
Philadelphia
Europe
Father Toth
Meee
Hazleton
Honeybrook
Leutenant
Bane
Lithuania
Wilkesberre
Hussia
Hungary
Blue Danube
A Man of Mystery in Kitchener Biographies
A reader questions conflicting biographies of Lord Kitchener, noting varied claims about his birth in Ireland or England, family origins, education, and early service. The piece highlights inconsistent dates, places, and parents’ roles, ending with a preference to return to simpler, Homeric questions.
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Alexandria
Kitchener
Berry
Lord Kitchener
Bijou
Harrow
Aper
Butler
Nee
Nerel Engineers
Chanzy
Loire
Engineers
Daily Chronicle
Alteam Partem
Review of
Egypt
Suakin
Charles Low
France
Ice Mines in Arizona Propose Northern Ice Quarry
The Philadelphia Inquirer reports plans to mine ice from caves near Flagstaff Arizona. Promoters claim vast, near inexhaustible ice supplies could serve lumber camps towns and railroads across northern Arizona New Mexico and California. Explorations by E R Dalton reveal a deep ice cavern and smaller passages full of ice awaiting further exploration.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Arizona
Flagstaff
New Mexico
California
Great American Desert
Los Angeles
Phoenix
Albuquerque
Las Vegas
Clark's Valley
Arizona Lumber Company
E. R. Dalton
New York
Historic White House Abandoned by Executive Office
Washington Letter notes first time since Adams that almost all executive work is conducted elsewhere. Describes past relocations, major events during British invasion, Madison and Monroe era moves, and the rebuilding after the White House fire.
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Washington
St. Louis Republic
John Adams
White House
Jackson Place
Roosevelt
Chester A. Arthur
Garfield
Arthur
General Arthur
Senator Jones
Nevada
Ben Butler
Statesman
Massachusetts
Jones Home
Congress
Maj. O. L. Pruden
Gray House
Butler House
Elberon
J. Stanley Brown
Executive Mansion
Hayes
Hayes Occupied For A Time A House Near the Soldiers’ Home
Cleveland
Red Top
Buzzard’s Bay
McKinley
McKinleys
Canton
Harrison
Grants
United States
General Grant
House of Representatives
Grant
Taylor
Eighteenth Street
New York Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue
Nineteenth Street
Monroe
Madison
Bladensburg
Wellington
Tennallytown
Dolly Madison
Mr. Madison
General Ross
Admiral Cockburn
Sp. m
Capitol
Congressional Library
Treasury
State, War and Navy Departments
General Washington
Mr. Carroll
Potomac
Georgetown Heights
Virginia
Little Falls
Great Falls
Cutts
Treasury Department
Ghent
Senate
Baltimore
Plattsburg
Lake Champlain
Duke of Leinster
Hoban
Physicians and Metaphysicians in American Medicine
A historian of medical crankery is urged to study antis turning away from true science. A metaphysician and a self styled healer promise to cure disease and remove its cause, while Exodus Society editors tout the Science of Being. They claim hospitals and sanatoriums are blotches to be toppled from within through destruction of what sustains them.
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Exodus
Exodus Society
Ene
The Relic Hunter in Washington Relic Feud
The Times-Democrat laments relic hunters who invade the White House grounds to steal or gather artifacts. It notes relics vanish quickly, with many items from ships and battles lost to time, and warns that relic hunters are perennial and often dangerous. The piece questions why such artifacts disappear and what becomes of them.
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New Orleans
Alabama
San Juan Hill
Santiago Bay
White House
Fragmented Thought on Human Endowments and Existence
A reflective fragment asserts that inherent human endowments suffice to triumph over life’s complexities. It argues that perfection lies in the beginning and that material phenomena cannot enhance what is already complete. The tone is philosophical and declarative.
Burning Textbooks At Graduation A Cautionary Note
Detroit Journal reflects on graduates burning their textbooks with irony and warns that some reference books retain lasting value. It questions whether all learned material is readily discarded and suggests real life events may require rereading core passages from those books later.
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Detroit Journal
The British Museum Reading Room as Refuge for Failures
A vivid portrait of the British Museum reading room in Bloomsbury as a refuge for social failures and idlers. Observers describe the regulars, from aging scholars to aspiring actors and destitute readers, and recount nuisances, wanderers, and reform efforts that shaped the space and its uses.
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Bloomsbury
Drury Jane
Camden-town
Kentish-town
Norous University
British Museum
Royal Commission
Britth Museum
Muuseum
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Man OF
Mystery
Charles Mildmay
Huou
Crotter House
County Kerry
Gunsborough Villa
Ballybunion
Crotta House
Crotto
Ireland
Crotto House
Thirteenth Light Dragoons
Twentyninth Regiment
Ninth Foot
The
Pall Mall
Binstead
Hampshire
Times
Cossington
Leicetershire
Lakenheath
Suffolk
Horatio
Horatio Herbert
Colonel Kitchener
E. Berry
Coal Trust
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Mitchell
Baer
Philadelphia & Reading Railway
Messrs. Truesdale
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railway
Fowler
New York, Ontario & Western
E. B. Thomas
Goof
Switzerland
Government
the Relic Hunter
Katharine
Mee” Kidder
the Iceman
London Mall
London
Bae
Ming
Indy
Lyrea
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