Geo H White NC congressman praised as unique figure
A lengthy portrait lauds George H White a North Carolina congressman as the only Black member of the House, detailing his mixed heritage education in North Carolina and Washington his career as a teacher lawyer and legislator and his influence on race progress through perseverance and public service.
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Ashington
Congress
Geo. H. White
North Carolina
Achor
Washington
Enard University
Nsed
Rolina
Willike
Élantic
Supreme Court
White
H. White
Quaker Revival Fraught With Youthful Rudeness
In Ida County Iowa a Quaker revival hosts tough youths from nearby towns who mock worshipers with crude jokes and loud talk. Sweet, a leading Quaker figure, warns them but they persist. An egging incident escalates as three youths are involved and two others attempt to intervene before the scene calms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends
Ida County
Towa
Ida
Joud
Sweet
Darrectnd Gray Courtship Revival Scrambles Public Grief
Minneapulia Times reports on renewed courting between Darrectnd and Gray shortly after the death of Gray's wife. The piece notes public concern over propriety and hints at social rejection, while presenting a fragmented account of the couple's actions and remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray
Lear
Black
Japanese Mothers Seen as Ideal Parents and Kindergartners
The article extols Japanese mothers as naturally skilled caregivers who deeply devote themselves to childrearing. It contrasts them with Western mothers, praising Japan where motherhood is highly respected, the wife chosen for strong maternal traits, and the mother seen as the maker of the race receiving utmost consideration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chinen
Providence
Pittsburg Dispatch
Waby
Japan
The Piano of the Future and the Electrophonic Plane
An article on Dr Richard Eisemann of Berlin patenting an electrophonic plane that eliminates levers and hammers in pianos. Pressed keys send current to electro magnets and microphones interrupt the circuit to produce string vibrations, yielding a instrument with distinct high tonal qualities. It also touches on the Fox spiritualism saga starting in Hydeville New York and its later spread to Rochester and New York City.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Eisemann
Berlin
von Helmholtz
Abduction and Daring River Project Across the Divide
The long description recounts a Colorado Grande River diversion plan to tap waters above Lulu pass and run them via high ditches across the continental divide. It details the brutal elevation, dense timber, and harsh conditions that sapped workers and forced many to desert. Two key protections guard the canal against washouts, including an automatic split- device to prevent breakage on near vertical slopes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Colorado
Great Continental Divide
Gulf of California
Gulf of Mexico
South Platte
Platte
Missouri
Mississippl
Damming the Grande and Laramie Waters to Chambers Lake
The plan mirrors an earlier Colorado project where waters of the Laramie River diverted across Medicine Bow, forming Chambers Lake. A five mile ditch, cut along steep rock faces, feeds a canal that delivers 18 cubic feet per second into the lake. The venture paid for itself in its first season.
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Grande
Laramie River
Medicine Bow Range
Chambers Lake
Poudre Valley
Laramie
Larande Wien
Medicine Dow Ranges
Yven
Peculiar Case Delays Galway Church Reopens 1892
A Galway church has not opened for 35 years due to an angry owner who built a high wall blocking access. The owner has died, his heirs sold the ground, and the church plans reopening in the 1892 time frame.
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St. Patrick's Church
Galway
Ireland
Wroth
Mehop
Work of Professor Cope Ends a Life of Pioneering Paleontology
The obituary lauds Edward Drinker Cope as a foremost vertebrate paleontologist, noting his relentless work, clear intellect, and public teaching. It highlights his Neo Lamarckian evolution stance, prolific publications with US Geological Survey and American Naturalist, and key contributions such as phylogenetic schemes and the descent of reptiles, horses, camels, and ungulates. Cope’s influence, personality, and untimely death at maturity are celebrated as a great loss to science.
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Edward Drinker Cope
Aeiener
Richard
Wen
Science
Darwin
Huxley
Spencer
iHueckel
Lebty
Virchow
Koyalevaky
B. D. Cope
Zenlis
Joseph Leidly
Copa
United States Geological Survey
American Philosophical Society
Academy of Natural Sciences
American Naturalist
Herbert Spencer
Cope
Poe
Weinmann
Etienen
Neptune
Galle
Leverrier
Perry’s 595 Pound Man Dominates Local Life
Philip Silas Rucker of Perry weighs 595 pounds yet remains in robust health. At 36, he runs a ruling contracting business with credit and wields notable political influence in the party. A native of Ottumwa, he is regarded as a leading territorial citizen. His wife, Esther Schoonover, formerly weighed 106 pounds.
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Perry
O. T
Philip Silas Rucker
Rucker
Ottumwa
Citisens
Mr. Rucker
Ais
Esther Schoonover
Weles
Longest transatlantic table to span Brest and New York
A sensational plan proposes a summer laying of a trans Atlantic table between Brest and New York. Claiming a length of 50 magical miles, the venture envisions a colossal cake and envelopes valued at four large ships, extending across vast distances.
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Brest
New York
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Bmack Statesman
Geo, H. White
Mydeville
N.Y
John D. Fox
Newark
Hydeville
Wayne County
FOX
N. Y
Margaret
Kate
Rochester
Nive Plens
Prof. Cope
Scientific World
Weare
E, D, Cope
Oklshoma
Temenes
Bente Rentabe
Philip 3
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