Daring Five Year Battle to Build Minot's Ledge Lighthouse
A special letter recounts how Captain Alexander and crew, faced with towering waves and ice, battled five brutal years to erect Minot's Ledge near Massachusetts Bay. They battled wrecks, tides, and a violent sea to place stone and iron, enduring cold, hunger, and near drownings before the lighthouse stood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minot's
Hardehtye
Tillamook
Atlantic
Maine
North Carolina
Pacife
Alocansor
Massachusetts Bay
Boston
Alexander
Beasts in India and wild animal killings in central provinces
The annual report on extermination of wild beasts and venomous snakes notes 1132 snakebite deaths and widespread carnage by tigers and panthers. Post mortems in Damoh found no misattributed deaths. In Raipur and Nimar districts wolf and tiger depredations rise. 233 tigers and 493 panthers were killed for rewards totaling Rs 17,759. Golfers face beer at Jubbelpare tanks amid efforts to control wildlife.
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Central Provinces
Bombay Gazette
Damoh
Bhavnath
Raipur
Nimar
Balaghat
Jubbelpare
Gardening as Diversion and Health Benefit
A historical note on gardening as a remedy for insomnia and stress. It argues that leaving the city for garden time can restore health, citing Lord Mansfield and Meehan's Monthly to illustrate garden leisure as moral and restorative. The piece emphasizes peaceful suburban environments and the personal joy of horticulture.
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Lord Peneance
Pensions Granted to Duke Wellington Upon Death
The death of the Duke of Wellington reduces the English public pension by 20000 dollars yearly. Two pensions were granted previously to the Iron Duke: 10000 dollars annually from 1810 for Talavera’s victory and 10000 dollars from 1812 on his advancement to an earldom.
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Duke of Wellington
Talavera
Viscount Wellington
George II
Wonderful vein of fuller's earth found near Ocklockonnee river Florida
Experts report a newly discovered vein of fuller's earth along the Ocklockonnee river in Florida to be exceptionally pure and substantial in yield. Unlike other mines it reportedly contains no rock, flint, gravel, or sand mixed with the earth.
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Ocklockonnee River
Florida
Theatrical Scenes and Personal Choices Across Colonies
A survey of Australian splaygoers defends their tastes against American stars. Nance O Neil’s Sydney Melbourne triumphs, while Toole and Edward Terry illustrate cross ocean contrasts. Emphasis falls on audience acuity, star reception, and a daughter Elizabeth shunning the stage to pursue teaching.
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Nance O'Neil
Sidney
Melbourne
Nance O'Netia Ters
London
Paris
Australia
J. L. Toole
Edward Terry
New York
Mottergon Mundy and Joseph Jefferson Reach 72
Mottergon Mundy and Joseph Jefferson are reported to be 72 years old and in better health, with Mr. Jefferson abstaining from tobacco and stimulants.
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Mottergon Mundy
Joseph Jefferson
Deepest England Mine Reaches New Depths at Agecroft
At Agecroft colliery near Manchester engineers lowered 725 yard shafts to a trencherbone seam, delivering three large boilers down the shafts in one piece for fixing. It marks a historic feat in colliery development as boilers were previously lowered in pieces. The bishop of London is noted as a leading classical scholar.
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Mollers
Agecroft
Manchester
England
Marcia Van Dresser Stars in In the Palace of the King
Marcia Van Dresser, alongside Viola Allen, plays the Princess of Hbbli in Lorimer Broddard’s dramatization of F. Marion Crawford’s latest story. A Memphis native with Knickerbocker roots, she rose from understudy to principal contralto with the Bostonians and later appeared with Alice Nielsen and in Daly’s company. Her rich stage career spans The Great Ruby, Robin Hood, and The Viceroy, with the Princess role aligning closely to her strengths and historical beauty.
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Marcia van Dresser
Viola Allen
Hbbli
Lorimer Broddard
F. Marion Crawford
Palace of the King
Miss van Dresser
Knickerbocker
Memphis
Tenn
Chicago
Bostonians
Jesale Bartlett Davis
Bloé
New York
Alice Nielsen
Augustin Daly
Blanche Bates
Countess Charliom
Ada Rebin
Lady Garnett
The
Alan-a-Dale
Dolores
Flora McDonald
Rob Roy
Floretta Tin
Viceroy
Ebbil
Mise van Dresser
Philip 11
Spain
Woman Electrician Mrs Ayrton Leads European Field
Interview with Mrs Ayrton highlights her rise as a leading English electrical engineer. She discusses early interests, invention of a line divider, publication efforts, and becoming the first woman member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers in 1899. She notes women’s growing role in instrument making, training paths at South Kensington and Finsbury, costs, and promising job prospects.
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Silvanus Thompson
Paris
London
Ayrton
Mrs. Ayrton
Girton
Electrician
Prof. Ayrton
Mia
Central Technical College
South Kensington
Finsbury Technical College
Ferrand
Women's Congress
Iit UN Ax
Shape in a Pauper's Grave in Coffeyville Kans
Rev Edward Dunbar once wrote There's a Light in the Window for Then Brother dies a tramp in Coffeyville Kap and is buried in a pauper’s grave A marble slab now marks his site noting Howard Dunbar author of the hymn and his wandering life across the country
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Edward Dunbar
Cofayville
Kap
Jnil
Leavenworth
Minneapolis
Dunbar
Coffeyville
Howard Dunbar
The Decline of Fine Letter Writing with Cheap Postage
A compact reminiscence notes how high postage once forced concise letters on small hands, with crossing pages and newsing gassips. It laments cheap postage transforming chirography from concise to expansive, arguing the art of setter writing has faded as paper and prices loosened restrictions.
Powerful Union Sets Tone for Iron and Steel Wages
The Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers signs a new wage scale based on market iron prices with a five percent puddling rise. It affects more than 700 firms, including Manolis Steel, the world’s largest rolling mill, employing over 7,000, with widespread wage impacts across U S mills.
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Amalgamated Assocaation
Tron and Steel
Amalgamated Association
Pittsburg
New York
Detroit
Cincinnati
Manolis Steel
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Oregon
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Gether
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Vottraé
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Ife
Dhen
Vienna
Nora
Ibsen
Helmer
Theodore J. Shaffer
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
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