Tarantula Hunt Through Southern California Gopher Holes
Pasadena cor respondent of the New York Post details a tarantula expedition in the San Gabriel valley. He and companion pursue spiders from gopher holes, describing live oak settings, multiple tarantula sizes and colors, and observations on habits. The piece notes cannibalistic rumors, prey ranges, and climate context with vivid travel imagery.
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San Gabriel Valley
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California
Calfornia
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Cor
New York Post
Mrs Shepherd's Chinese Launch In San Francisco
Mrs. Shepherd daughter of the late William H. Vanderbilt travels with her husband and friends to Chinatown in San Francisco. They dine at a first class restaurant where bird's nest soup costs 3 dollars per plate and shark's fins 1 dollar. The highlight is emperor's tea served with a tiny bamboo package and silk thread, releasing a delicious aroma. Also noted are sneaky thieves in the west using fishing rods to fish through open transoms.
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Chicago Times
Teaching Londovers English Warps Cockney Speech Lessons
A New York Mail and Express report recalls a police sergeant in uptown teaching two Whitechapel cockneys to speak English, guiding breath and vowel pronunciation to conquer mispronunciations. He claims seven years of self-improvement through reading aloud and controlled exhalation, noting long term benefits in h and vowel words.
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England
London
Whitechapel
Han
Tam
Hasan Asprata
New York Mail and Express
Coffees Purloined From Merchants On Fulton Street
A Fulton street coffee merchant laments daily losses from pedestrians dipping into exposed sample bags and stealing beans. On a ferry, beans arch through the air striking a passenger, prompting mockery. night voyages see youths firing beans for sport, while a deckhand notes it occurs nightly and causes little real harm.
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Fulton Street
Ferry
New York Evening Sun
The Origin of Great Corporations and Machinery Costs
Machinery became essential for cheap production and large capital. Few individuals can afford extensive railway telegraph steamship or factory ventures. Jewelry manufacture by machinery requires vast stock and capital, with large plants and stocks to operate efficiently according to Hon. David A. Wells in Popular Science Monthly.
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David A. Wells
Popwiar Science Monthly
Notable New England Governor and a Cheering Cup Aide
The tale recalls Honest John Blank, longtime governor of a New England state, and his brother William a sportsman known for revelry. While riding with a companion, William urged shooting the horse to speed it up, and the buggy jolted as the horse panicked. The scene ends with William exclaiming the horse “goes adm’ably” amid the chaotic ride.
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Honest John Blank
New England
John
William
Wille Jam
Harper’s Magazine
Lincoln’s belief in dreams and the supernatural
Ward H Lamon’s letter portrays Abraham Lincoln as a man of destiny who trusted omens and dreams yet rejected occult practices. Lincoln viewed dreams as natural events guided by divine intelligence, aligning with Goethe’s view that nature does right. He valued the wisdom of plain people, calling them the children of nature, as interpreters of such phenomena.
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Mr. Lincoln
Napoleon
Tennyson
Goethe
Lincoln
Ward H
Lamon
The Negro's Ancestors and the Egypt Question
Fred Douglass returns from a Europe and Egypt tour to report on links between ancient Egyptians and African Negroes. He concludes Egyptians are distinct from Negroes while praising the Soudanese as a true Negro race and urges future progress for Africans beyond past glories.
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Fred Douglas
Washington
Europe
Egypt
Mr. Douglass
Washington Cor
Chicago News
A Royal Parting at Buda Pestle Station
King Mwan of Servia and Queen Nathalie part at the rail station in a public scene. He kisses her brow and leaves with their child, heading back to Servian duties. Nathalie and the boy travel to Baden then Florence, with an anticipated separation.
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Mwan
Servia
Nathalie
Baden
Vienna
Ouida’s
Florence
Milan
Nathane
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