Stolen Sailor Tells Globe Spanning Life Of Wealthy Meacham Heir
An old sailor, claiming to be 79 and born in 1810, recounts a lifetime of travel from New York to London via ships and diligence. He describes a fortune from Meacham’s slave trade, owning an ironclad boat, and surviving shipwrecks before settling in Benton Harbor Michigan. The tale ends with a warning to three young listeners aboard a Chicago streetcar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wabash Avenue
Randolph Street
State Street
Havii
Longbeard
Hong Kong
Japan
China
Tokio
Calcutta
Paris
London
Liverpool
Leghorn
Alexandria
Africa
Melbourne
Australia
Honolulu
Sandwich Islands
San Francisco
Wilton
New York State
New York
Seilors
Meacham
France
England
New Orleans
Boston
Newfoundland
Tre
Red Sea
Pye
Atlantic
Pacific
Mississippi River
Benton Harbor
Mich
Poe
Calumet Avenue
Chicago Herald
Lotus Roots Purify Water in Bangalore Tanks
Indian Engineering reports a large basket of lotus roots received by the Bangalore municipality from Tanjore and planted in station tank beds. The aquatic plant purifies water by removing dead organic matter and improves healthiness, while also reducing evaporation in reservoirs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bangalore
Tanjore
The Earths Surface A Glimpse of Ocean Depths and Depths
A historical survey explains earth’s surface as mostly smooth with immense ocean depths. It describes how ranges like Everest are dwarfed by ocean abysses, cites depths around 12 000 to 27 920 feet, and details methods for deep sea sounding using weighted leads, iron cylinders, and tallow to sample seabed. It emphasizes the imagination’s limits regarding five mile depressions and notes measurement practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
White Mountains
Mount
Everest
Himalayas
Atlantic Ocean
Blue Ridge
Rocky Mountain Range
New York
Atlantic
St. Thomas
West Indies
United States
Pacific
American
Lleutian Islands
Pacific Ocean
Kurile Islands
Japan
Sea of Okhotsk
Mt. Everest
The Terrible Locomotive Foretold by Bavarian Doctors
The Bavarian physicians warned in 183 about steam locomotion causing delirium and demanded six foot barriers along tracks. Yet Bavarians in Nuremberg adapted quickly to trains, smoking pipes calmly as locomotion sped past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stephenson
England
Royal College of Physicians of
Bavaria
Nuremberg and
Furth
Nuremberg
Persias Babism introduces a new faith in Persia
A lengthy briefing on Babism traces its origins in 1543 central Asia, outlines Mirza Al Mohammed as founder, his public preaching after Mecca, persecution by Islamists, and the movement’s spread through Iran. It notes a new Bab in Bagdad and predicts upheaval, praising Babism as a humane, monogamous pantheistic reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jean Cahagnet
Persia
M. Cabaguet
Central Asia
Mohammed
Mirza Al-Mohammed
Mecca
Bab
Ispahan
Bagdad
East
Table Philosophy on appetite and dinner wisdom
A quotation from Joseph Whitton in Table Talk on how a sick palate, appetite and dinner influence life and virtue. It argues arbitration between hunger and pleasure, warns poverty as a remedy for the rich, and urges gratitude, charity, and measured deliberation at the table as a moral guide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Whitton
Two Gravediggers Digging Grave In Biddeford Maine
In Biddeford Maine a small man and a very large man were hired by a woman to dig a family grave. They worked quickly but found the hole so deep the fat man could not escape. A machine helped pull him out. Later the woman paid each man five quarts of gray beans as payment.
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Hyde Park
London
Christopher Columbus
Biddeford
Canran
Carten
Musik
Carter Medicine CO
New York
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Sam Sinbad
Michigan
Carters
Walt
Maen
Wolff & Randolph
Philadelphia
Warren
L. F. Watson
T. B. Nesmith
T A.J. Hazeltine
O. H. Hunter
M. Dunham
Jas. Clark, Jr
B. Nesmith
A. J. Hazeltine
L. R. Freeman
Myron Waters
Francis Henry
D. L. Gerould
H. A. Jamieson
Davis
P. Johnson
A. Herizel
W.D. Brown
G.N. Parmice
A. T. Scofield
L. D. Wetmore
M. Beecher
Warren County
Ireland
Scotand
Europe
Central
Expanded Metal CO
Water St
Pittsburgh
Pitcher’s Castoria
Warren Foundry and Machine Shop
J. Hill
Chenango Foundry
High Street
McKain
Liberty Street
McKain & Son
C. E. Hapgood
Diamond Furniture CO
Mason Emery
Around the
Diamond Block
Water Street
Warren, Penn'a
A. Axener
Oxford
Brooklyn
Tur Centaur Company
Murray Street
N.Y
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