Giant oak cask to house a family at Paris 1900 world fair
A Western Plowman describes a colossal white oak cask planned for the 1900 Paris world fair. The 30 foot diameter, 25 foot head, and 1800 pound per foot height yield a 230000 pound total weight with 3000 barrels capacity. Alfred Hirt of Green Castle Ind. handles timber from Mississippi oak forests for this showcase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Paris
Mississippi
Mobile and Ohio
Alfred Hirt
Greencastle
Ind
Expensive Civil War Burden and Emancipation Cost
An analysis notes the Civil War cost 3 billion dollars in war expenses and 1.5 billion in pensions, with 300000 more pensioners than peak Union troop numbers and 700000 pending applications. It argues total pension outlay surpasses other nations, explores long term costs, and cites New Orleans Picayune on cash settlement for emancipation. It also mentions Madagascar’s Traveler's Tree with water-filled leaf stalks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans Picayune
Who Taught the First Little Girl How to Sing
A short verse from Worthingtons Magazine attributes early singing to spring birds and blossoms. It imagines nature teaching a girl to sing, dance, play, and rest through seasons and gentle creatures. The named author A F P Brown appears in the publication.
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Columbine
A. F P. Brown
Worthington's Magazine
Mary Ashby idealizes courage on Kansas prairie claim
Mary Ashby and her mother struggle after the death of her father to hold a Kansas homestead against evictions by Dick Erness. Mary works the land, drills and harvests a thriving wheat crop, and outmaneuvers Erness who seeks to buy the claim for nothing. The railroad town deal secures their future and Mrs. Ashby leaves for home richer in hope.
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Mary
Kansas
Dick Erness
Mrs. Ashby
Ashby
Kansas Prairie
Great Western Plains
Erness
Ashley
Dick Enness
Enness
Miss Ashby
Mary Exclaimed In Surprise. “Yes, ma’am,”*Erness
Mary Ashby
Eaness
Wisdom on love and life from a bygone era
A collection of aphorisms on courtship, money, and manners contrasts sentiment with pragmatism. It notes marriage as an uncertain journey, fashion as costly, and character as visible beyond attire, ending with anecdotes of extraordinary heights in European and British armies.
Not Recognizable in Paris and Other Jest lines
A collage of light, pithy quips from various papers. Jests touch on marriage minds and manners with banter about Paris accents, literary types, and domestic humor. A row of brief comic insets from multiple sources.
Notable Mirth From City Columns And Advertisements
A collage of light humor pieces shows a debate about rapid transit risks, a jealous husband reciting poems, a cashier-proof lock, and an exemplary city janitor. Entertaining vignettes from Washington Star and New York Weekly highlight social wit and urban life.
A Wise Lesson in Capitol Etiquette
Kate Field reports on etiquette for senators wives noting a diplomat's wife who avoids missteps by respecting proper visits. The essay cites Senator Tidmunds expertise on protocol and suggests diplomats should pace calls, matching the old senators and those they wish to know.
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Tidmunds
Senate
Callig
Diplomatic Corps
Kate Field
Washington
Local PRIDE and Comic Snippets From City Papers
A collage of humor and adlib dialogue from early 20th century papers includes quips about goats and washing lines, class banter between Mrs O Riarty and Mrs Groganey, playful digs on race and color, misfit teachers and pupils, and light social exchanges in Chicago New York and Detroit newspapers. The piece blends jokes, social jabs, and everyday scenes to capture urban wit and provincial attitudes of the era.
Coincidences of Two Bank Robberies in Dexter
A Detroit Free Press summary notes striking parallels between a sensational Dexter Michigan bank robbery and a prior Dexter Maine case. It details how both stories accused the cashier, the Maine cashier’s death leaving the question unresolved, and a Boston detective copying the cashier’s injuries to test the theory. It also mentions Denmark’s YWCA membership history.
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Dexter
Michigan
Maine
Boston
Dexter Bank
Detroit Free Press
Leaves the Egg Feathered Talegalla Hatchings Aboard
The talegalla of Australia lays eggs deep in a heated mound of plant material. Eggs hatch with the young birds already fully feathered, skipping a post hatch downy stage as the first moulting occurs inside the shell. Observers note the birds are turkey-sized with pink red heads, blackish brown upper surfaces, and yellow wattles.
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Australia
Cause of Farragut's Death Attributed to Cold Wind
The Rev James J Kane speaker cited a Brooklyn Navy Yard chaplain claim that Admiral Farragut died from a cold caused by a window being left open on a train. Farragut and his wife faced a draught when a woman refused to close the window. The admiral, already ill, took a severe cold and died days later. He allegedly warned that the woman would be held to account.
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India
Henry Wheeler
B Battery
Rawal Pindi
Bengal
Reading
Life Guards
James J. Kane
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Admiral Farragut
California
Farragut
Detroit Free Press
Porter and Anderson College Ad with Sample Exam Questions
An 1894 Macon Georgia college advertises Porter and Anderson offering $25 full courses in Commercial or Shorthand with $10 monthly board and graduate placement aid. The piece also presents a string of exam questions for a New York customhouse inspector post and miscellaneous arithmetic and history problems, ending with a nugget of silver worth $25,000 and a remark about Governor Waite.
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Georgia-Alabama Business College
Macon
South
United States
Porter & Anderson
Coxorapvo
Waite
False wit and treachery, a Sun Shine aphorism mix
The fragmentary OCR yields a collage: a jester remark on wit and perfidy, a critique of false virtue, a note that true socialism shares with the less fortunate, a claim that three hours study exhausts the body more than a day of toil, a Waynesboro flag relic from 1812, and a father advising politeness to all, framed by a Sun Shine line.
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California Fig Syrup Co
E. C. Blount
Waynesboro
Subway stations and travel times in New York City lines
The New York Mail and Express details the L road and Second, Third, Ninth Avenue routes with 29, 28, and 27 stations respectively. It notes minute inter-station runs, the longest 3.5 minute span between 194th and 116th, and total trips from South Ferry to northern ends, including 155th Street by Sixth Avenue and Ninth Avenue lines.
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Sixth Avenue L
Second Avenue
Ninth Avenue
194Th
116Th Streets
South Ferry
East Side
155Th Street
New York Mail and Express
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Shilor
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Marquess
W. Va
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Tiane Thompsel
Mr. Thos. Scrivens
Hyde Park, Mass
Hood
Hyde Park
Massachusetts
Sora
Words OF
Cupid
Giant Soldiers
Gittie
Gray
Chicago Tribune
Smartler
Chicago
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Boston Home Journal
Washington Star
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Tami
National Capitol
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Johny
Chicago Record
Far West
Hank
Easywell
Boston Gazette
Jinkins
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Mamma
Papa
Arkansas Traveler
New York
Denmark
Copenhagen
Porter’s Business College
Macon, Ga
New York Custom House
Customs Service
Ohio
London
England
Douglas
Focal
Mallary Bros. & CO
Bertha Wolfe
Dayton
Cattaraugus Co
Elle
WoLf E
Mahler Bros
Xth Ave
N.Y
Savitarium
Malt Springs
Austell
Das. Nelms
Opies Cure Co
Austelt
Ted Bilowenest
M ‘Brown
A. N
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Lovell
John P. Lovell Arms CO
Mass
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