Worldwide political upheaval and independence shifts timeline
A compact chronology from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat outlines upheavals across Europe and the Americas from 1707 to 1815. It notes the Batavian republic aligning with France, Venice partition, Helvetic Confederation, Swiss independence, Spanish peninsular war, Napoleonic annexations, and independence movements in Chile Paraguay and Argentina, ending with Switzerland’s independence and Vienna Congress outcomes.
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Hakland
France
Venice
Austria
Italy
Switzerland
Rete
Rome
Servia
Spain
Ferdinand VII
Sweden
Holland Republic
Chile
Paraguay
Holland
House of Orange
Belgium
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Personal Gossip From The Era Of Notable Figures
A collection of society notes highlights Yung Yu the new Chinese minister smoking cheap tobacco. Gladstone gifting Scott novels to Hawarden institute. Brown University librarian Dr. R A Guild retiring after 40 years. King Lobengula using a European weighing machine. Mr and Mrs C Fennett of Sterling Conn cited as the youngest US married couple. Miss Krumpke gaining recognition in France as a renowned astronomer. Attorney General Olney active in tennis with a private court in Washington. Prince Louis of Battenberg patenting a ruler device for sailors to measure distance and speed of ships.
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Yung Yu
Gladstone
Scott
Hawarden Institute
Brown University
R. A. Guild
Lobengula
Africa
Europe
C. Fennett
Sterling, Conn
United States
Krumpke
France
Olney
Washington
Prince Louis of Batenberg
Adamic staff legends reach from Eden to Egypt
A St. Louis Republic excerpt recounts that God granted a staff forged between the stars to Adam. The lineage passes to Enoch, Noah, Shem, Abraham, Isaac, Jacob, and Joseph, with Pharaoh later seizing the sacred artefact and hiding it among his royal riches.
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Adam
Paradise
Enoch
Noah
Shem
Shy
Abraham
Isaac
Jacob
Egypt
Joseph
Pharaoh
Josiph
St. Louis Republic
The Poison of the Cobra
A report on cobra venom from India describes its rapid drying and powder form, with boiling and chemical treatments like ammonia chlorine water and carbolic acid reducing or delaying toxicity. Experiments by A A Kanthack show no cure via strychnia, leaving no current remedy for cobra bites.
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India
A. A. Kanthack
A Sewer Gas Destroyer Innovation in Urban Sewers
The New York Sun reports towns install a safety furnace to vent sewer gases. A Bunsen burner heats a series of cast iron cones, destroying gases as they rise, with segmented rings preventing explosions via vertical air passages and outer ring heat transfer.
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New York Sun
French women in trousers taxed for the right to wear them
The New York Evening Sun notes a tax of 10 to 12 dollars yearly to permit women to wear trousers in France. It compares the privilege to a decoration and lists a few women said to have the right, including Rosa Bonheur and Mme. Foucault.
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Nhe
Legion of Honor
George Sani
Rosa Bonheur
M Dieulafoy
Mme. Foucault
Mme. Fourreau
la Jeannette
New York Evening Sun
Model Servant Girl Mystery Revealed
A fragmentary New York Press quote describes a happy woman aided by a servant girl who does as she pleases. An excited hostess urges immediate action while a gentleman offers calm, setting a tense social scene.
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Mo Jones
Ishail Muasheanal
New York Press
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