Novel First Woman in Live Stock Brokerage Emerges
Miss Jennie Goodwin of Kansas City, 24, formerly a stenographer for live stock commissioners, opens an office at the Kansas City stockyards. She aims to provide stellar service, declined partners, and has attracted attention from cattlemen and traders, with sales help from an experienced hog man. Her popularity grows as she forges a solo path in a male-dominated field.
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Live Stock Commission
Jennie Goodwin
Kanss City
Live Stock Commissioners
Southwest
Kansas City
Miss Goodwin
A Paris Ballet Star Shines in Mystic Hair Fashion
Mile de Merode rises as the Paris ballet idol at the grand opera scenes. Though only a coryphee and not a leading dancer she captivates with beauty and serene stage presence. Her pale blue domino and bouquet offerings at masked balls last winter drew adoring crowds.
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Paris Ballet
Mile. de Merode
Grand Opera
Paris
Leon
Ardo
Prelow
Carlyle’s Old Home to Become a Chelsea Museum
The Carlyle house in Chelsea has nearly full funding at £2089 for purchase and will become a museum of Carlyle relics. The unimpressive dwelling with nine small rooms and a modest garden may disappoint some visitors, though the attic skylight recalls Carlyle’s attempt to escape neighborhood noise.
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Carlyle
Chelsea
London Daily News
Holy Prophet Ilja A Monastic Brig Reaches Odessa
An Odessa letter describes the Holy Prophet Ilja a brig from Mount Athos moored on the lower quay. A convent crew of monks sails under the Turkish flag with Greek cross mastheads and practices daily worship in the fore castle. The vessel, 105 feet long, carries 200 tons and plans to haul bricks to Constantinople then flour and provisions to Marinpol for a year.
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Rophet Ilja
Odessa
Mount Athos
Ilja
Elias
Jeromonach
Iraklis
Herculius
Constantinople
Marinpol
Edinburgh Honor For Dr Weir Mitchell
The University of Edinburgh awarded a second ornament to Dr Weir Mitchell of Philadelphia, his second honor after a prior award from another institution. The recognition highlights Mitchell's standing in medical circles.
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8. Weir Mitchell
Philadelphia
University of Edinburgh
Letter from a lady seeks permission to shoot her lawyer
A letter to the Governor from a woman claims trouble with her attorney and asks for approval to shoot the lawyer at night. The Governor has not yet expressed a view on the legality of such an act.
Bears Fed On Human Flesh In Hungary Scare
Two Roumanian bear trainers were arrested in Debreezin Haiduck District Hungary after admitting they killed four boys and fed their bears human flesh. The exhibitors claimed their animals ate the flesh during examinations.
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Roya
Ferd Beara
Debreezin
Haiduck
Hungary
Ransom Reappointed After Unconstitutional Appointmen
Matt Whitaker Ransom, once minister to Mexico, was deemed in 1886 by the attorney general to gain from elevating the office he sought as senator. He has just been reappointed to the post.
Edison Might Revolutionize War with Electric Shock
A biographical sketch proclaims Thomas A Edison the greatest inventor of our era. It claims he has discovered a plan to use electricity to replace heavy artillery, with one dynamo capable of outperforming a hundred guns. The piece notes Edison’s birth in Alva Ohio on February 11, 1847 and his lifelong pursuit of science starting as a railway news butcher and telegraph operator.
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Homas A. Edison
War Department
Edison
Alva
Ohio
Adrian, Mich
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Boston
Raskalls
Barell
Jess
London's Trilby and Edison and Miss Douglas
The article notes Miss Dorothea Baird as a probable Trilby in London Haymarket production, with a detailed image and family ties. It also recounts Thomas Edison’s career from telegraph invention to Menlo Park and his famed devices, and introduces Miss Belle Douglas as Chicago’s newest woman attorney aiming for politics and women’s rights advocacy.
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Miss Douglas
Belle Douglas
Chicago
Dorothea Baird
New
London
Trilby
Pastor likens church to a bee hive amid Sunday service
A Methodist church became lively as the pastor compared the Sunday gathering to a buzzing hive. Parishioners reacted with visible amusement and murmurs filled the pews during the sermon.
Bellows Hold Their Own in Blacksmith Shops
A historical look at blacksmiths bellows explains their construction with three boards and valves, how lever action draws air into a reservoir, and how the upper board exhausts the blast. It notes bellows sizes from 24 to 60 inches, with 26 inches most common, and compares manual units to power forges now common in shops.
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New York
Brooklyn
New York Sun
Fly Parasites and the Death of Flies
The article explains that house flies are prey to parasites that feed on their blood around the wings. The parasites rapidly drain the fly until it is exhausted and dies, after which the carcass may adhere to a surface.
Josh Billings Philosophy on Equality and Cunning
A humorous credo on sharing privileges, avoiding fools, and valuing heart over bed, with sly notes on laziness vanity and devilish limits. The speaker prefers practical wit, honest speculation, and personal testing before belief, using colorful, folksy maxims.
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Anansas
Scotch University
New World
Mitchell
Smollett
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Edineburgh
Jennie M. Goodwin
E. de Merode
Mlle. DE Merode
Carlyle's
Matt Whitaker Ransom
Presi
Minister Ransom
Baird
E. T. Cooke
Westminster Gazette
Oxford
A. L. Smith
Thomas A. Edison
Josh Billings
Philosophy
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