Lion on Express Car Rampages Through Train
Terrifying lion released from its cage on a Cumberland Maryland to Philadelphia express car attacked poultry crates. Conductor and crew stayed clear as the beast ripped through crates, killing birds and causing panic among passengers and onlookers. Train halted for water then resumed toward Philadelphia to capture or kill the animal at the next stop.
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Cumberland
New York Journal
Philadelphia
Hagenbeck
Heton
Seinure
Chinese Court Historians Keep Silent Through Dynastic End
The St Louis Republic notes that Chinese historians, bound by dynastic secrecy, record rulers' virtues and vices only during their tenure. Completed works are locked away in iron vaults until a new dynasty rises, when a fresh history is compiled. The present dynasty has endured since 644, delaying any published court history.
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St. Louis Republic
Dairy and Poultry Testing Methods From Farmers Review
A Farmers' Review excerpt discusses cream testing rules for fat in cream by weight, outlining a calculation method using a 0.42 cm space, 0.42 bottle capacity, and 18 grams of cream. It explains deriving percent fat from fat reading and cream weight, and notes Wisconsin Dairy School attribution.
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Weigat
Ap. &R
Poultry Management Advice From an Old Farm Column
Poultry guidelines stress culling lazy hens and pushing late movers to the market. Feed ground beet meal and wheat screenings carefully to avoid corn cockle seeds, warn against overworking hens, and outline modest profit expectations around six to ten percent after expenses.
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Witte
Horses in Germany exports draw attention abroad
American horses gain traction in Germany with a Berlin stock company importing U S horses for work use. Hamburg newspapers note Holstein rivals, sugar factory demand waning as Berlin purchases rise. A shipment of eighty horses heads to Milan for tramway work, showing ongoing cross border competition despite freight costs.
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Germany
Hamburger Nachtrichten
America
Berlin
United States
Saxony
Thuringia
Brunawick
Hamburg
Milan
Italy
Berliner Bahnhof
Simple poultry remedy and alfalfa advice from National Stockman
A poultry keeper endorses three to four days of fasting to cure indigestion in hens and suggests one daily lean meal for a week after. The piece also notes alfalfa thrives only on good soils and urges drainage and manuring on clay or peaty soils, citing National Stockman.
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National Stockman
Girl Gambler Blumpkin Heads Dawson Drama of Risk
A Dawson frontier town tale follows 18 year old Rose Frances Blumpkin as she gambles nightly, turning large sums on craps and beating the bank. Her life of glittering cards and gold stacks sparks town talk about doom or rescue.
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Dawson
Rose Frances Bidrephin
Mise Blumpfein
Anil
Jess
Mise Blumpkin
Savage Japanese Crabs Battle Ends in Fatal Duel
A vivid, though grisly, account describes two Japanese crabs fighting fiercely. The victor claws a foe’s limb, then holds the torn claw aloft as the defeated crab lies dying in the sun. The scene ends with the triumphant crab reveling in victory.
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Japan
Hlin
Twlaby
The Gambler Rose Blumpkin Heads for Dawson Doom
A long stylized feature traces Rose Blumpkin, a Seattle diamond dealer and vaudeville performer, to Dawson Alaska, drawn by rich profits but succumbing to gambling. It catalogs warnings of female gambling, moral collapse, and psychological ruin, portraying her amid a crowd of sensationalist spectators and a battles between vice and conscience.
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Helther
Dawson
Pretty Rose Brumpiin
Mise Blumpkip
Pike Monument in Washington to honor General Albert Pike
A bronze twelve foot statue of General Albert Pike will be erected in Washington at Indiana avenue and D street by the Scottish Rite Free Masons southern jurisdiction. Florence sculptor Tentanove is crafting the model for a granite pedestal twenty two feet high, with an estimated cost around fifteen thousand dollars. The centennial lodge anniversary dedication will feature James D. Richardson of Tennessee delivering the oration.
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Washington
National Capital
Order of Free Masons
United States
Albert Pike
America
Tentanove
Florence
Italy
Indiana Avenue
D Street
Flat Lodge of
East Todlans Learn English in Indian Schools
Indian schools increasingly teach English to young pupils described as dusky subjects of the queen. G. Gill & Sons of London created a chart to aid language acquisition. The chart covers pronunciation for both Persian and Nagri scripts.
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East Todlans
G. Gill & Sons of
London
Liver focus cures a modern body strike problem
An odd vintage health blurb extols Candy Cathartic as a liver remedy to restore normal digestion. It warns of a systemic breakdown from excess, urging readers to cleanse the liver with Cancarets and to beware unsafe substitutes described with opaque, sensational language.
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Jahortas
Aly
Ory Co
Chicuza
Avery
Balloons In the Philippines Mention by Bishop Thoburn
Bishop Thoburn writes to the Indian Witness on the Philippines noting that every alternate business is a liquor shop and soldiers widely indulging in drunkenness, with many coming from Christian homes.
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Baloons
Philippines
Thoburn
Rinehart Indian Pictures Featured in 1900 Calendar
In 1898 the Indian Congress at Omaha gathered about five hundred tribes in a grand spectacle. Photographer Rinehart captured notable chiefs, producing a set of color pictures now praised as historic. Chicago Great Western Railway licensed four images for a 1900 art calendar, 6x8 inches, offered to readers who send 25 cents to F H Lord, Chicago.
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Government Indian Bureau
Indian Congress
Exposition Grounds
Omaha
Hattie Tom
Lave
F. H. Lord
Adams Street
Chicago
The Rail Collision Joke and Cure Advertisement
A South Walter railway accident prompts a joke about two trains passing on a single track. The note includes an 1899 reader letter praising Dr. Woodulf Drops for rheumatism relief, with testimonials and pricing offers for a sample bottle and full bottles.
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South Walter
Jason Crow
Oscarville
Woodulf
Chicago
It Is a Puzzle Yet Clear in Her Brother’s Question
A Washington Star excerpt shows a tense moment as a sister contemplates a mysterious text. Her brother asks what she is talking about revealing the confusion between poetry and a stubborn, cryptic prescription.
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Washington Star
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Beier
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Sea iSon
Wea
Formia
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Dairy and Poultry
Parrington
Wisconsin Dairy School
Madison, Wis
Farmers’ Review
Virginia
Rosh
Pike Monument
Albert D. Piet
Charleston
D. C
James D. Richardson
Congress
Tennessee
Rinehart's
Indian Pictures
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