Return of Peary Relief Expedition Steamer Kite Arrives
The Kite steamer with Lieutenant Peary and companions returns to port after Arctic navigation success. The Peary and Relief Parties recount travel from St John s to McCormack Bay with discoveries, hardships, and a missing member likely lost crossing a glacier.
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Kite
Peary
Pike
Richard Pike
Murphy
R. E. Peary
U.S. N
Cooke
Astrop
Gibson
Veroff
Matthew Henson
Profeasor Heilprin
Mtr
HS. Bryant
W.E. Mehan
The
Philadelphia Ledger
J. H. Mills
Hite
Albert J. Warne
Samuel W. Entriken
St. John’s
Godhaven
Upernivic
Welville Bay
McCormack Bay
Mr. Peary
Mc.Astrop
Humbolt Glacier
Smith’s Sound
Rennsselaer Bay
Greenland
America
Esquimaux
Robertson’s Bay
Pear
Robertson's Bay
Actes
Lieut. Peary
Mr. Astrop
Lieut Peary
Gulf
Gothab
Meehan
Frightful Death of Adventuress Madame Apparati
Reports from Paris and St Petersburg recount the swindler Madame Apparati who defrauded creditors of about three million francs by claiming ties to royal families. After a Russian arrest order, she died in a hospital from self inflicted burns and self inflicted wounds following a failed insurance claim.
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Madame Apparati
Russia
Greece
St. Petersburg
Standard
Count Felson
Count Chamberlain
Count Felsen
Apparati
Swene
St. Nicholas
Paris
Chicago World’s Fair souvenir coins spark auctions and profits
Congress cut the subappropriation from five million to two and a half million for the World’s Fair minting five million souvenir silver half-dollars. Bidding surges nationwide with 100 percent premiums offered by firms and individuals, a Chicago auction likely for the first coin, and analysts expect the issue to double the appropriation via sales at premium.
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Congress
House of Representatives
United States
Philadelphia
New York
West
Chicago
Winston's soothing syrup advertised for teething pain
An advertisement urges mothers to buy Winston's soothing syrup to ease a teething child’s pain. It claims quick relief for crying and distress, plus cures dysentery, diarrhoea, wind colic, and gingival inflammation. The syrup is described as pleasant tasting and widely sold by druggists for 25 cents.
Conflagration Financials and Relief Efforts
The Glasgow Evening News reports nearly one million pounds in losses across nineteen English fire insurance offices after the disaster. Total claims total £934,455, with averages near £50,000 per company. Mansion House Fund and provincial mayors appeals drive relief as rebuild work begins and winter hardship looms.
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Glasgow Evening News
Mansion House Fund
Women in Men’s Attire Reported in Versailles Area
Ailing navvy near Versailles was admitted to a hospital where staff learned the patient was a woman. The Paris Telegraph notes district use of women adopting male dress to work as navvies porters farm labourers and builders.
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Versailles
Paris
The
Telegraph
Pompeii Unearths A New Petite Palace In Fifth Region
Archaeologists report a fresh discovery at Pompeii showing a graceful astralium of tufa with stucco Corinthian capitals and a near complete peristyle. Repairs include matching roof tiles and plaster recreations, suggesting possible full restoration from fragments of the eruption era.
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Pompeii
Minard's Liniment for Rheumatism Odd Memoir
A quirky anecdote notes Minard's Liniment for rheumatism guiding a man who ventured to a new fence and retired when the fence rail and plank yielded to a walk.
Minards Liniment Ad Claims Cure and Hair Restorer
An old advertisement touts Minard's Liniment as a cure for the grippe and a hair restorer. It describes the product as the idol of worshipers and compares a bad marriage to an electra machine that makes you dance, noting its supposed versatility and effects.
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New Gower Street
ST John's
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Atock
Art.ordera
Pywillingats
James McIntyre
Evening Telegram
Adam
Adventuress
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Aobatha
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