Rubber Boots And Thunder Safety
A historical piece argues for wearing rubber boots during thunderstorms to insulate the wearer from lightning. It claims rubber is a nonconductor, blocking electric flow when not in contact with other objects, and recounts an incident where a man on a Boston harbor pilot boat survived a strike by using rubber footwear.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Borace
Folger
Cambridgeport
Mass
Boston Harbor
New York Press
Canton Epistle Versus English Knowledge Advertisement
A Canton advertisement mimics Western practice, touting a tonic for fevers headaches dizziness and other ailments. It markets peppermint-based drops to apply on the forehead nose and ears, claiming cures and urging trust in the supplier at Canton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pai-pin Gate
Brass Smith Road
Canton
Sources of Color and Their Origins in Art Pigments
An interesting enumeration from a technical journal lists the origins of many pigments. Cochineal yields carmine and crimson, cuttlefish provides sepia, Indian yellow comes from the camel, ivory chips make ivory and bone black, Prussian blue results from fusing horse hoofs with impure potassium carbonate, and lakes come from plant extracts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Turkey
Hindustan
Siena
Italy
Umbria
India
Gree Archipelago
Chinee
The Mule and the Peasant Moral Tale Fragment
A muddy highway tale shows a peasant scolding a mule for laboring under load while a complaining traveler laments fate. The mule rebukes the man, claiming the burden is lighter with mud absent, illustrating the moral that those who complain of hardship escape toil.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ingepis
Mfl
Detroit
The Smoker and Diamond Expressions Across News
A fragment from a historical excerpt describes tobacco in the Philippines as a paradise, with families in Manila and rural areas using and enjoying tobacco products. It shifts to explain the term first water in diamonds, noting flawless stones command high prices while off color gems have fallen in value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Valine
Chicago
Carlyle’s Fierce Worshipers
Westminster Gazette recalls Carlyle’s devoted followers near Chelsea. locals note Scotch visitors eager for a glimpse and a chance to speak with him. The elderly thinker drew crowds, adored by children, as a young Glasgow clerk once waited days for a moment with the famed author.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlyle
Mr. Nicholas
Chelsea
Glasgow
Westminster Gazette
He Proposes on a Last Night Before Travel
A man, in a long-awaited moment, confesses his love to Miss Mollie on the night before a holiday departure. She answers softly that she is sorry and had hoped the farewell would come sooner as the clock ticks toward night.
Boy saves pennies for fireworks amid religious bias
A Burlington ia., Journal item shows a mother guiding her son Willie who loves saving 10 cents to buy Fourth of July fireworks. The boy skeptically asks if the Chinese are heathen and if heathen make freckers, prompting a teaching moment about charity and prejudice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reasoner
Willie
Bnarlington (Ia
How Proud He Was Sir John Hopkine and the Columbian Celebration
A jumbled fragment recalls Sir John Hopkine admiral of the British fleet guesting on deck during the 1893 Columbian celebration. The text blends awkward dialogue with a description of chivalry from medieval history and a snatch of a Detroit Free Press exchange about whiskers, creating a mosaic of opinions and era references.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Hopkine
Julian Ralph
Blake
Lyon
Sir John
Ralph
Harvard regimental heroes and a critic of Norton honor
A long polemic extols the Fighting Second Massachusetts from the Civil War, praising Harvard graduates and veterans while condemning Charles Eliot Norton as an opponent of Union soldiers. It recounts battles at Cedar Mountain, Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and the 1861 65 casualties, then shifts to naval power, tech progress, and rapid changes in industry and transport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harvard Memorial Hall
Massachusetts
Harvard
Banks
Stonewall Jackson
Shenandoah Valley
Cedar Mountain
Antietam
Jane
Wefe
Robert Shaw
Fifty-fourth
Massachusetts Colored Regiment
Fort Wagner
Chancellorsville
Harvard Regiment
Slocum
Jeb Smart
Gettysburg
Culp
Charles Eliot Norton
Europe
Boston
The
Loyal Society
Union
Bammers
Army
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China
John Chinaman
Washington Star
Philppine
Manila
Farher
Manilla
Tagal Lars
New York Times
Detroit Free Press
Japan
Korea
Baltimore
Chefu
Mashias
Yorktown
Shanghai
Monocacy
Port Arthur
Petrel
Yokohama
Charleston
Nagasaki
Concord
Chemulpo
Chem
Olympia
San Francisco
Machias
Asiatic
Navy Department
Tommy Conniff
America
Atlantic Ocean
Eveat Torrent
Niagara
Niagara Falls
Alan
Wingera
Sarsaparilla
Webster’s International One
U. 8
Gov't Printing Office
U-5
Supreme Court
Ilon
D.d. Brewer
U. 5 Supreme Court
G.& C. Merria CO
Springfield
U.S.A
Anment
Warren Penna
Sable Cape
Wa Bus
Bhazeltine
Allen & Langley
Second St
Warren, Penn’a
August Morce
Pree Op Charen
Ipalen
V. Slater & Co
General Hardware
Bic
Carroll
Gurney
Water St
Warren, Pa
ISTO
Bank
Agency of American and
Anchor Lines of Ocean Steamships
A. J Hazeltine
W. Beaty
G.B. Ensworth
Geo
H. Jackson
Aes't Cashier
M. AG. Danham
L. RB. Freeman
L .B. Wood
James Clark
Ilvackine
W. M- Lindsey
AN. Jarvis
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