Training Ship Life Rules Naval Apprenticeship System
A St Louis sailor aboard the U S ship Philadelphia describes life on a training ship for boys aged 14 to 18. He outlines strict daily routines, harsh discipline, growing work load, and the low pay from 9 to 24 dollars monthly. He notes the aim to educate seamen for men of war and the limited liberty after long postings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Annapolis Naval Academy
The
Republic
H. D. Rogers
St. Llouis
United States
Philadelphia
Lion Escapes Barnsley Menagerie Becomes Stylistic Feat
A lion escaped at Day's Menagerie in Barnsley when keeper Bartlett left a cage door unfastened. Jumbo II the elephant subdued the beast, ropes secured the lion, and no one was seriously hurt aside from an under keeper. The incident caused a brief exodus as people fled the area. The report comes from Westminster Gazette.
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Barnsley
Bartlett
Jumbo II
Westminster Gazette
Laplanders at the fair show age defying leader and Arctic village
A Lapland village exhibit in the Plaisance features twenty four inhabitants from three countries led by 112 year old King Bull. The display recreates Arctic life with reindeer skins huts, artificial snow, and a nine month winter diet of fish and reindeer. The notable clan includes a long lineage, while language, religion, and social structure are starkly simple, with shifting homes as taxation rises.
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Plaisance
North Pole
Lapland
Norway
Sweden
Russia
Patagonia
Labrador
Coney
North Sea
King Bull
Bals Bull, Jr
Bals Hygh
Old King Bull
Lake Michigan
Florida
American
United States
Lapland Sled Rides and Reindeer Hair Work Exhibit
Describes a Lapland village routine with sledges, religious services, and a hairwork display by Dalecarlian girls weaving reindeer hair bracelets. Notes the striking village scene in Plaisance and contrasts with other settlements. Mentions whalebone substitutes and 1891 whaling prices. Also covers a long note on Florida peaches and various guava species.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
California
West Indies
Brazil
Sailors and the Apprentices Life on the Sea
A St Louis Republic reflection describes the harsh routine of apprentice sailors. It notes money loss, unemployment ashore forcing return to sea, and a life spent largely at sea. It argues better for boys to stay home or study than endure salt, sun, and storms at sea.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Louis Republic
New Violoncello Piano Aims to Replace Strings
Chicago Herald reports Professor M. de Blaminck of Paris has devised a piano with a cello or violin mounted beneath. The left hand plays keys while the right guides the bow, syncing string tone with piano pitch to yield mellow, tremolo, and sustained tones. If five octaves, it could supplant traditional string instruments.
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M. de Blaminck
Paris
Born Lucky Or Rich In A Framed Word Clownish Wisdom
A fragmentary column riffs on luck born with silver spoons and lucky traits in various cultures, citing Hindus in honey and ghee, then references Vlas Midas and Shakespeare. It blends proverbs, satire, and a travelogue of fortune with a quip about a clown and a mastery of wealth. It ends with chalk polishing amber.
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China
Corea
Japan
Vlas Midas
Portaus
Saturday Review
Georgia News Notes highlights and changes in 1880s Atlanta
Georgia News Notes surveys local matters from quarantine shifts at Brunswick to a Confederate Veterans reunion in Atlanta. It notes a Georgia road bargaining in Augusta, a plan to relocate offices, Peabody Institute progress in Thomasville, and bank liquidations in Atlanta. It covers a postponed Georgia Southern and Florida foreclosure case, fertilizer inspections, Col. Jones will, and Griffin encampment outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Port Royal and
Macon
Georgia Southern and Florida Railroad
Tax digests fall as counties report lower valuations
Counties across the state show a broad drop in tax digests compared with last year, about 31 million or more, a result officials attribute to the shift back from equalized boards to self-reported valuations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comptroller General
Tax Department
Atlanta Markets Groceries and Provisions Listed
A dense list of Atlanta market prices for groceries, meats, dairy, produce, and hardware items. Includes sugar, coffee, tea, molasses, spices, canned goods, flour, cereals, salt, cheese, fish, soap, soapstone, candy, soda, crackers, and oils with varied price points and units. Local market description notes quiet trading and provides broad item categories rather than narrative details.
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New Orleans
Cuba
Japan
Hawleya
Virginia
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Junder Hotchkiss
New York ‘Tribune
St. Louis
Toledo
Shetland
Far North
Lapland Village
CME
Pacific
Subsli Bates
New York Telegram
Ialifornia
Chicazo Herald
Violoscello Piano
Georgia News Notes
Marine Hospital Service
Brunswick
Holtzclaw
Alabama
Confederate Veterans’ Association of Atlanta
Cobb
Phillip
Grant’s Park
Atlanta
Peabody Institute For
Thomasville
8. D. Bradwell
Thomas
Brooks
Colquitt
Decatur
Gate City Bank
Hill
Howlett Joiner
Department of Agriculture
Georgia
Col. C. C. Jones
Augusta
Charles
Eva Berrien Carpenter
Charles E. Jones
Ruth Carpenter
Griffin
West
Liberty Baptist Church
Grooverville
Brooks County
Marietta
Darien
Morgan
Americus
Bainbridge
Cordele
Diamond
Lincolnton
West Point
Blakely
Lumpkin
Hephzibah
A. H. McPherson
Yale
Scotland
Peloponnese
Skylight
Sire
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Texas
Tennessee
Cotto
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