Towns Aim To Silence Old Time Ballads In Civic Lore
The Vienna Progress reports era quirks as Mankato Kansas ponders fining singing and whistling of songs like After the Ball while Colombo street cars blocked by telegraph wires illustrate civilization’s reach. The New York Observer notes petitions in Ceylon urging continued idol celebrations with twenty five people seeking to join the rite.
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Vienna Progress
Vienna
Mankato
Kan
Colombo
New York Observer
Cuban Insurgents Executed Colonel Ruiz for Autonomy Demand
The New York Commercial Advertiser reports no breach of war rules in Colonel Ruiz's execution by Cuban insurgents. Ruiz refused offers to avoid death after exchanging letters with Colonel Aranguren who denied his request for autonomy and warned of consequences if the interview occurred.
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New York
Ruiz
Aranguren
Rodriguez
Cuba
Ruig
Elas
Kentucky Honor and Whisky Anecdotes Stirring State Tales
A diaristic note from Harper's Weekly reports Kentucky vigor in disputes among eminent Kentuckians and a levity filled quarrel over which Kentucky lady christens a battleship. The piece recalls a patent claim, a lament over a missing quart of Dan Swiggert whisky, and ends with a call for Kentuckians to have a poet like Hans Breitmann to sing their epics.
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John Fox, Jr
Kentucky
Daniel Boone
Martin
Harper's Weekly
Union
Misa Richardson
Herbert
Baruk Thomas
Dan Swiggert
Cleveland
Hans Breitmann
Rise of United States Canning Industry Across Four Branches
The article notes 2000 canneries nation wide with $75 million capital. Four branches dominate: foods and preparations employing about 5000 with $7 million capital. fruits and vegetables with 60,000 workers and $30 million capital, mainly in Maryland and New York. preserves and pickles employing several thousand with about $25 million. and seafood canning about 15,000 workers and $15 million. Postwar growth continues uninterrupted.
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United States
Maryland
New York
Seed Sowing and Sowing Good Will in Brooklyn Eagle Verse
Virgil A. Pinkley writes in Brooklyn Eagle about sowing kindness to dispel gloom and pain. The poem urges planting warm words, faith, and mercy to yield a harvest of blessings, with imagery of soil, seed, harvest, and heavenly reward.
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Virgil A. Pinkley
Brooklyn Eagle
The Sixth Commandment Haunts a London Coquette
Hilda Phare, famed as the season’s belle, faces a moral reckoning after a harsh confrontation with Jack Armstrong. A crisis unfolds when news of a murder suicide shocks her, leading to a midnight vision where past flirtations become symbols of guilt. The dream ends as she awakens to a new, grave decision.
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Jack Armstrong
Hilda Phare
Captain Armstrong
Miss Phare
Hilla
Mary
Hilda
Hillfall
Heaven
Mia
Chester
London
Coquatte
Mississippi River Navigation Through the Ages
The article recaps early Mississippi River navigation from the 1700 sea entry of French frigates Repommee and Giroude to the 1842 boom with 450 steamboats. It notes dangers from Indians and pirates, then mob action at Stock Island, and gives figures on losses from snags, boat counts, tonnage, employment, and the value of cargo and transportation prior to and during early steam era.
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Mississippi River
Mississippi
Repommee
Giroude
Tniial
de Soto
Crows’ Nest
Stock Island
Ohio
New Orleans
Upper
Pittsburg
Louisville
New York's First Water Supply Tea Water Well
New York's Tea Water well, named for its use in tea making, was the city’s best drinking water in 1798. The twenty foot deep, four foot diameter well yielded about 14 800 gallons daily, with peaks to 28 080 gallons in hot weather.
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New York
Smallest Republic in Europe Faces Bigger Neighbors
San Marino, the smallest dependent republic in Europe, spans about thirty three square miles in the eastern Apennines between Forli and Pesaro Urbino. Its terrain includes parts of Marecchia and Ansa watersheds near Rimini, underscoring its fragile yet defiant stature among surrounding powers.
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San Marino
Europe
Forli
Pesaro-Urbino
Apennines
Marecchia
Ansa
Rimini
Dogs to Relieve Miners Venture Toward Dawson City
A band of dogs trained near Livermore California will haul supplies to Dawson City via Dyea and Chilcoot Pass. Starting from Dyea they aim to reach Dawson before Yukon River drainage shifts, with 30 dogs carrying 200 pounds each. The plan features specialized sled runners and goat skin sleep aids as they cross Ghiboot Pass toward Dawson.
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Livermore
Cal
Dawson City
Dyea
Chilcoot Pass
San Francisco Examiner
Dawson
Yukon River
Dyen
Vas
Weather Bone Signals Foretell Storms In History
The article reviews old lore that human bones and joints foretell weather changes. It cites Shakespeare and sailors, noting rheumatic pains, corns, and teeth ache before rain. It mentions winds, barometric shifts, and a mythic link between emotion and meteorology.
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New England
Old World
Shakespeare
Napier
Maona
Boston
Illinois
Chicago Tines-Herald
Light travels fast yet needs years to reach Alpha Centauri
The article notes light moves 186 330 miles per second while a beam from the nearest star Alpha Centauri would take four years and four months to arrive. It adds a first class train at 37 mph would need 75 000 000 years, and a cannon ball 250 000 000 years, to cover the same distance.
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Alpha Centauri
Mermaiden and Cyclist at the Sea Shore
A mermaiden named Pind eyes a cyclist riding past the shore and watches his shining wheels. The wheelman offers to wait as the mermaid lingers, but she herself vanishes beneath the sea, ending the encounter in Nickell Magazine.
New York as Gateway for Immigrants in Late 19th Century
Ernest Tigersoll cites St Nicholas on Greater New York arguing merchants shipped more to Europe than rivals, making New York a premier port for French German and Dutch emigrants. Agents praised the city as safest quickest landing, with routes south of Cape Cod storms. Immigration rose, peaking with about half a million yearly between 1881 and 1894, including 90,456 in 1890.
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New York
Ernest Tigersoll
St. Nicholas
Metropolis
Mr. Ingersoll
Europe
Great Britain
France
Germany
Holland
Nea
Cape Cod
Philadelhia
Spitlmore
Canada
Mexico
A Considerate Rector in a Midlands Parish
A kindly Midlands rector lived quietly among his parishioners. In cold weather he invited worshippers to warm themselves by the stove after services, and at times lengthened sermons to fit the harsh weather, hoping it would bring clarity later.
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Midlands
Cornhill
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