A Utah Statehood Question Stirred by Mormon Revelations
A Washington correspondent reports on Dr. William M. Paden’s critique of Mormonism and polygamy in Utah. He recounts a compact granting statehood in exchange for ending polygamy and warns Congress can enforce it to protect federal authority. The piece discusses present day revelations and the risk of Mormon political power, noting polyga my practices and business influence.
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Washington
Philadelphia
Reed Smoot
America
Mormon Church
William M. Paden
Mountain Meadows
New York
Bait Lake
Apostle Smeot
Utah
Congress
Senate
House of Representatives
Paden
Apostle Smoot
Salt Lake City
Salt Lake
TRUE MONTE CARLO IN EL PASO GAMBING HUB
El Paso is described as a continental gambling center with 94 open houses within two miles of the customs house and 46 more across the Rio Grande in Juarez. The piece notes vast daily turnover, salaries, and the social fabric of the trade, including its legality, patrons, and notable figures like Colonel Cy Ryan.
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New York Telegram
United States
el Paso
Commonwealth
Union
Texas
Custom House
Rio Grande
Jaurez
Mexico
East
Middle West
Far Southwest
Faro
New Mexico
Arizona
Chihuahua
Sonora
Cy” Ryan
Astor House
Colonel Ryan
Maxim See s Very Wide Field for Inventors
Hudson Maxim outlines an article on inventions that should be, from lighting to food, energy to medicine, predicting a future where lamps burn longer, solar engines store power, food is grown in glass gardens, wireless communication spans the globe, and travel becomes faster with safer transport systems. He emphasizes vast improvements in coal use, solar energy, and medical delivery, envisioning a highly engineered, economy-conscious civilization.
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Woman's Home Companion
Hudson Maxim
Mr. Edison
New York
Philadelphia
Oceanic
Liverpool
Ericsson
Globe
Peking
Brooklyn
Antipodes
American
France
Italy
Spain
Portugal
Hungary Seeks Single-Use Bottle to Guard Wines
Hungary complains bitterly about adulteration of its choicest wines by unscrupulous middlemen. They propose a bottle used only once, filled in their own cellars at vineyards, to prevent refills with inferior goods. Distillers, medicine makers, and perfumers also suffer loss without a receptacle that cannot be refilled with inferior article after use.
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Hungary
Secrets of Hidden Treasures From Global Legends
The piece recounts tales of hidden wealth and vanished secrets from Isaac Marks’s claimed gold vein near Cefu, a Tasmanian copper find, Bardello ruby hoards, and Theodore Dean’s armor plate process. It notes the long-buried German war treasury in Spandau, plus a drowned Englishman in Fiume who studied soil fertilization via novel microbes.
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Pearson's Weekly
Cefu
North Wales
Isaac Marks
Mount Lyell
Italy
England
Theodore Dean
Genttleman
New York
Dean
Spandau Castle
Berlin
Julius
France
Rose Street
Glasgow
Gulf
Quarnero
Fiume
William Fotheringham
Fotheringham
Gulf of Quarnero
Shafter and the bear memoir from UC campus life
In San Francisco Call a tale from Old Mitch recalls General Shafter hunting bears with Miles in Yellowstone. Shafter misses a first shot at a sow and cubs, charges through the brush, coming down a slope toward the wagon before a companion finally kills the bear. Shafter mocks Miles later, breaking the breech to reveal an empty shell.
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San Francisco
Mitch
University of California
Shafter
Miles
Yellowstone
General Shafter
Town of Yquitos Wifeless Yet Thriving and Idle Courts
A Louisville Courier Journal correspondent reports Yquitos Peru, a town of 15000 where marriages are rare and women largely self-sufficient while men seek quick fortunes. The German consul notes no church marriages for years and widows accept new partners, a pattern driven by economics rather than morality. The city lacks permanent homes and institutions, with women managing households solo as men chase profits.
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Yquitos
Peru
Louisville Courier-Journal
Aquitos
Rockefellers
Morgans
Goulds
Yquitoy
India
Rockefeller
Texas
John
No Woman Hits $10,000 Salary Says Boston Official
A Boston dry goods financial manager argued no woman earns 10 000 yearly, condemning Rev Dr Hillis New York claim that a New York woman reaches 10 000. He asserts women can perform duties as well as men, though bookkeepers face strain and salary gaps persist in lower grades. He notes many women buyers earn 4 000 or more and expects eventual progress but not total displacement of men in industry.
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Providence
Boston Advertiser
Boston
Hillis
New York
Whims of Great Men Buyers Drawn From Washington Post
A Washington Post feature recalls Blaine Ingersoll McKinley and others as shoppers. A store manager relates Blaine’s impulsive purchases, McKinley’s wife influence on color choices, Ingersoll’s cash generosity, and Senator John Sherman as a shrewd, fair buyer with steady pricing.
Funny Chinese Notions in American Medicine
A critique details Chinese medical literature as commentaries on ancient masters and notes the alleged lack of dissection. It satirically surveys Chinese anatomy and physiology claims, claiming skulls and pelvis are single bones, varied ribs, and a supposed subital patella. The piece links health to five elements and planetary correspondences, alleging disease from disrupted quintic harmonies.
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Machaon
Fodalirius
Troy
Tobacco Tales Across History and Heroes
A Chicago Tribune piece recounts how famed figures like Raleigh Napoleon Blucher Shakespeare James I Swinburne Tennyson Bismarck Spurgeon Huxley and Newton all intersected with smoking. Anecdotes describe pipes tobacco boxes and cigars shaping moments from Waterloo to Koniggratz and beyond.
Missing Willam B. Smith Report Ties to Fair Estate
A New York telegraph note says William B. Smith, brother of the late Mrs. Charles L. Fair, is missing from home. Relatives sought police aid and a man named J. Smith from New Market, New Jersey, is traced to Denver and Boulder, then north toward Fort See A z tordo with a plane for moving the Fair estate.
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Col
New York
Willam B. Smith
Charles L. Fair
J. Smith
New Market
N. J
Denver
Fair
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