World’s Fair Oddities at Chicago Display of Savage Tribes and Robber Era relics
A panorama of exhibitions for the Chicago World’s Fair includes a stagecoach and road agent outfit from California, Black Bart’s tools, a wild mud wagon linked to Virginia City, and life-size figures of South American natives. The display also showcases cannibals of Terra del Fuego, Patagonian weapons, and famed artifacts tied to danger and adventure.
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South America
Rome
Chicago
California
Black Bart
Sacramento
Virginia City
Pieta Station
Overland Stage
Bart
Folsom
San Quentin
Stage Express
Tuolumne County
Harry Morse
George M. Hackett
Marysville
Terra del Fuego
Magellan
Arctic
Freight train joke stumps English observer in Depew tale
A New York World item recounts Mr. Depew telling an anecdote to an Englishman who had lived long in America. The punchline about traveling on a freight train puzzles the Englishman, who asks what Depew meant by the freight train as the office door closes.
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England
Debew
Mr. Depew
America
Central Road
Duval
Depew
New York World
Cleveland’s long-ago killer found by ad in Cleveland
A narrative from A. G. Smoto recalls a 1876 Cleveland murder where the suspect escaped, vanished fifteen years, and was unknowingly tracked down through a misaddressed mail reply. The operative tale recounts the killer being located in a New Mexico railway roundhouse and transported to Cleveland for life imprisonment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. G. Smoto
Laclede
Cleveland
New Mexico
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Partridge Superstition and Death Valley Scorching Heat
A Augusta man recounts a partridge tale tied to a superstition about healing broth for a sick girl who recovered after relatives chose to kill the bird. The piece then shifts to Death Valley, California, describing its geologic rarity, extreme heat above 100 degrees daily, and near total dryness with mummified carcasses.
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Augusta
Philadelphia Times
Antique Millennial Plate Sighting Sparks Amusement
A Connecticut valley scavenger finds a 100 plus year old porcelain plate described as a millennium piece. The owner details its mul berry hue eye of God motif and a lamb with a small child, noting the lionlike figure and a humorous expression. The New York Times notes the remark about progress in ceramic art.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut Valley
King of Beasts
New York Times
Perpetual Sacred Fire on Abeharon Peninsula
A 2000 year old sacred fire on the Abeharon peninsula now part of Russia allegedly burns from a 12 foot by 120 foot opening. Flames rise six to eight feet high with no smoke, wavering with the wind like grain in a field. Also noted is a Western paper ad offering a violent reunion for a deserting husband George William Brown who abandoned wife and child twenty five years ago.
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Ayer
Frank Teson, Jr
West Fourth Street
New York City
Death Valley
Sahara
St Louis Republic
Abeharon
Persia
Russia
Philadelphia Press
Papa
George William Brown
Charleston Newa
Conrier
Ancient Egyptian astronomy kept track of heavens without instruments
The Nineteenth Century article notes Thebes tablet references to the bull Hos and scorpion, the heliacal rise of Sirius at Nile dawn, and the sun's position about ten degrees below the horizon. It explains heliacal rising and how ancient Egyptians tracked star events before sunrise using the horizon as the sole tool. It asserts 5,000 years ago Egyptians understood cosmic versus heliacal risings and zodiacal relations.
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Ramesseum
Egypt
Thebes
Bearded Women in History Stir Public Curiosity
A collage of odd tales traces beards from ancient priestesses to noblewomen. Beards appeared in Herodotus era Pedasnes tales and a Copenhagen woman long regarded as a symbol of calamity. Charles XII’s army boasted a bearded grenadier, and Margaret of Austria reportedly celebrated her own stout beard.
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Herodotus
Pedasnes
Halicarnassus
Minerva
Bartel Garetti
Copenhagen
Charles XII
Sweden
Margaret
Austria
Netherlands
Albert
Bavaria
Philadelphia Press
Wanted a Good Cow Exchange
A young couple leaves city life for a farm and debates stock purchases. The husband discusses cows while the wife pleads for one that yields good buttermilk, deeming it the loveliest thing for the complexion.
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George
Exchange
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Lord How
Lord Howe
London
Susan B. Anthony
New York Sun
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Conway
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Murray Street
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WM. EH. Holmes Co
Water St
First Ave
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Tran. Batte Cit
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D, R, C. B. Judd
Detroit
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Brown & Friend
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Henry Friend
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Nerve Seed Co
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