Theatrical stars and vaudeville tension in early theatre
A collage of anecdotes from newspapers about actors and theater culture around 1900. Mentions Bowery labor unions in New York, famed performers like Joseph Jefferson, Captain Cecil Macready, and the Holmes style detective humor, with quips on stage careers and medical clients.
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Ocker
Hiladelphia
Bowery
New York
Bufalo Express
Penn
Scribbler
N. Y. Journal
Sherlock Holmes
Holmes
Juliet
Indianapolis Press
Cecil Macready
Becme
Gordon Highlanders
Macready
Wasorn
Southfrica
Egypt
Joseph Jefferson
Jefferson
Mr. Jefferson
Various International Facts From The Era Of Queen Victoria
A survey notes British army badges for good conduct and London Dublin enlistment patterns. It cites the number of English executions and mint yields, alongside UK-US and UK-European correspondence. It mentions tax exemptions for large families in France, postal orders remittance totals, Alsace Lorraine conscription resistance, and Metz court cases linked to local factory workers.
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London
Dublin
England
Queen Victoria
United States
Europe
Suffolk Hospital
France
Alsace
Lorraine
Metz
Ars
Moselle
Montigny-Sablon
Various New York State Facts Separated Notes
The piece notes 9 321 paid state government employees. It claims New Jersey farmers had a peak year in a decade. Boston drunkenness arrests last year averaged 65 daily, four percent of the population. Philadelphia was the country’s largest city in Washingtons era with 69 000 inhabitants. New York legislature has 62 lawyers—less than a third of its two houses. Montauk Point camp has become a wild waste. A New Brunswick murder trial cites a Hungary claim that Americans are seen as quick with revolvers, shaping Hungarians’ reluctance to quarrel with knives or guns.
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New York
New Jersey
Boston
Washington
Philadelphia
Montauk Point
New Brunswick
N. J
Hungary
United States
Telephone growth and wireless limits noted
Sparks from the wires reports about 180000 telephone stations in Germany excluding Bavaria and Württemberg. It cites Providence Journal predicting near universal household telephones and notes Herzian waves are blocked by metal and cement walls with sea water being more effective. It also describes electric ground connections via water pipes causing meter interference, leading water boards to order removal of electric wires from pipes.
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Providence Journal
Academie Des Sciences
Paris
St. Paul
Water Board
Inventive list of railway car innovations from the era
A historical inventory of railway design ideas includes a non-telescoping railroad car, a locomotive turntable operated by the locomotive, a pneumatic cushion truck device, a street car convertible between closed and open summer use, a sleeping car seat converting to lower berth, a burglar proof express car with alarm, a street car landing device with sand-ice protection, and a mail handling apparatus for cars in motion that folds away after use.
Spring millinery styles forecast for early season
Authorities on millinery fashion foresee strong turbans as the lead, with black turbans and colored novelty designs. Misses hats for 16 to 25 feature poke shapes, walking styles with wide brims, Tam O Shanter crowns, and drooping shepherdess brims. Boers shape and irregular brims dominate, with large toques, tulles, horsehair braids, and black mousseline de soie for trims and decorations.
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Chicago Dry Goods Reporter
Notable 19th Century Stage Stars and Shows Mentioned
A twentieth century retrospective notes actors and productions from twenty years ago. E H Sothern Modjeska John Drew May Irwin Flo Ada Rehan Julia Marlowe Corinne De Wolf Hopper Richard Mansfield Lillian Russell Nat Goodwin Joseph Jefferson are cited with roles and venues in New York and other cities.
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E. H. Sothern
Modjeska
John Drew
Daly Company
May Irwin
Flo
Tony Pastor
Broadway
Stuart Robson
William H. Crane
Dromies
Augustin Daly
T’assamoir
Ada Rehan
Big Clemence
Julia Marlowe
Corinne
de Wolf Hopper
Criterion Comedy Company
Richard Mansfield
Standard Theater
New York
Lillian Russell
Jacksonville
Ill
From the Seat of War and Mounted Dogs in South Africa
The article notes Boer and English intermarriage amid the war, describes Welsh and Scotch ponies as sure-footed and capable of rock hopping, and mentions dogs from Germany trained to dismount cyclists. It highlights rider W Cummings with a £300 price on his head and cites strict military censorship on war deaths and troop movements.
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South Africa
Germany
W. Cummings
New Ten Dollar Note Features Maine Engraving
A steel engraving of the battleship Maine will appear on upcoming ten dollar silver notes. In New York society skating grows popular this winter. A traveler reports many young Americans joined the war effort, making London streets noticeably thinner. Chicago sees four Protestant Episcopal priests elevated to bishoprics in 14 months, a record for any American diocese.
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Maine
New York
London
Protestant Episcopal Church
Chicago
Stamps and Postal Reforms Draw Collector Interest
The piece notes Russian stamp issues in Crete for collectors and the growing one cent stamp collections. It mentions Cuba Puerto Rico and the Philippines gaining distinct postal systems and new stamps. It covers private mailing cards valid for Postal Union mails and postal reform ideas such as consolidating third and fourth class mail and new rate proposals.
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Crete
Cuba
Puerto Rico
Philippines
Postal Union
Post Office Department
Teaching a Boy to Play and the Perils of Practice
A humorously frazzled piano teacher recalls teaching a hyperactive boy whose misadventures hindered practice. The boy’s string of accidents and cameos as a critical spectator include balls, nails, hooks, molasses, firecrackers, dog bites, and a lasso incident, all ending with a chuckle about chaining him to the piano.
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Mme. Zeisler
Buffalo Bill
Mexico
Indianapolis Journal
Lumber Camp Life and Nighttime Pranks in the Woods
Wood camp routine unfolds from reveille to curfew with crosscut saws and ax blows. Evenings feature games, rough humor, singing the Lumberman's Alphabet and a Saintly night dancing with pike poles and pevic hooks as Hartt reports from Atlantic.
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R. L. Hartt
Atlantic
Two Heroes of the Sea: Bravery in Alaska and the Perry Rescue
The Providence Journal recounts two acts of lifesaving heroism. In Alaska near Unalaska, Lieutenant West and a whaleboat crew perished defending fellow sailors after a gale. In 1896 near the Columbia river bar, Moulthrope leaped into raging seas to save four men from a capsized lifeboat, earning lifelong recognition before his death months later.
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Alaska
Dutch Harbor
Lieut. West
Royal Navy
Blake
Cape Cheerful
Unalaska
Moulthrope
Providence Journal
Bashful youth debates stove hugs in parlor tale
A bashful young man admits hugging the stove to stay warm last night. The girl quips that hugging a stove is useless, ending with the narrator noting the young man resolves not to bother stores again, in a light Baltimore News tone.
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Baltimore News
Sure Cure Quiets Gallon After Freight Train Incident
Harlem Life reports that Gallon stopped drinking after an incident last fall when he lay in front of a freight train. Portman notes he had not touched alcohol since.
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Farrago
Portman
Harlem
Prophet of Akadia Threatens Worldwide Miracle Trial
A zealous Mohammedan in India proposes to Lord Curzon that Britain convene a public conference of all religions to test claims by performing a miracle within a year. If unsuccessful he offers himself for crucifixion, aiming to prove Mohammed’s supremacy, per the N Y Tribune.
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Mohammedan
India
Lord Curzon
Mohammed
Mirza Ahmad
Kadian
N. Y
Job Advice Fires Up The Office
A Chicago Record cartoon quotes a blunt boss urging a worker to switch careers. The dialogue bluntly proposes unloading dynamite as a risky alternative, underscoring tension over job choices and workplace pressure.
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Chicago Record
Reed birds and rich men in New York dining tale
A Denver lawyer and a seasoned miner arrive in New York to seal a deal that makes the elder man nearly a million dollars richer. The miner splurges at a top restaurant, orders extravagant fare, and ends with the bill for a two dollar dinner, asking in awe about the reed birds he enjoyed.
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New York
Denver
Slippery Tim’s
Twenty-eighth Street
N. Y. Sun
Vigilance committee orders town exile in mock confrontation
A Philadelphia Record gossip-tone excerpt shows a vigilance committee spokesman declaring all “cuss in town” must leave, while a joking villain promises to make the exodus unanimous. The exchange uses frontier slang and a comic backdrop.
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Pardner
Vigilance Committee
Philadelphia
Printing Job Offered at the Mail Office
The Mail Office advertises best job printing services. Local business notes emphasize quality and efficiency in printing tasks for the community.
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Malil
Practical economy in the kitchen for the home keeper
A detailed guide on thrift in housekeeping from the American Queen, focusing on using scraps, rendering fat from scraps, choosing frying mediums, drying bread crusts for crumbs, preserving dried herbs, grating Parmesan cheese at home, and making caramel for color and flavor. It emphasizes bulk buying, home prep, and avoiding waste to save money.
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Gooda
Russian Women in a Countess View Pointed Progress
Countess Anna Kapriste discusses The Position of Russian Women saying Russian women work more and weep less than many Europeans. They value motherhood, choose husbands for fathering potential, and seek political and social influence. She deems the Russian lot generally happy and notes women’s position surpasses English peers in breadth of influence.
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Anna Kapriste
Cigar Bean of Batavia Dazzles Observers
The New York World describes the cigar bean a wild fruit found in Batavia. The pod is about an inch long with a cigar shape and color. Placed in water it floats for minutes then explodes, flinging seeds. When ripe it splits along its length.
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Batavia
N. Y. World
What a Watt Hour Will Do
A discussion explains watt and watt hour in simple terms. The watt measures electrical power, and the watt hour denotes energy from one watt for an hour, with examples converting to foot pounds and miles. The piece notes the surprising scales of electrical energy in everyday devices.
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Warren Mail
Warren, PA
Bavaria
Wurtemberg
Fenner
Fredonia
Beara
Troorrtt
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Lumber Camp Life
Two Heroes OF the Sea
Caele Sam
GOAS
New York City
Eaca
Dr. Pierce
Water St
Pennsylvania
Warren
Sheffield
Harrisburg
Pullman
Philadel
Baltimore
Elphia
Sunbury
Lancaster
Philadephia
Allman
Erle
Williamsport
Pronee
Erie
Kane
Philphia
Assenger
Phiadelphia
Dubois
J. R. Hutchinson
J. R. Wood
Scribner's
J. M. Barrie’s
Tommy and Grizel
Theodore Roosevelt
Oliver Cromwell
Richard Harding Davis
Henry Norman
Toay
Walter A. Wyckoff
Thomas Nelson Page Henry James Henry van Dyke
Ernest Seton
Thompson
Edith Wharton
Octave Thanet
William Allen White
Faris Exsiti
Frederic Irand
Harvard
Senator Hoar
Puvis DE
Walter Appleton Clark
E. C. Peixotto
Henry McCarter
Dwight L. Elmendorf
Ralston
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Princi
Ples
Allen’s Shoe Store
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Mscalls Magazine
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Bazar MS
Abe Idtely
McCall Company
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Cincinnati St. Louis
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West
F. H. Garfield
Div Pas
Jamestown, N. V
Dunkirk, Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad
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Tionesta Valley Railroad
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Olean Express
Pittsburg
Irvin Tidfoute
Tionesta
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Buffalo Express
Oil City Express
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A. A. Fellows
Mooney-Brisbane
Clinton Streets
Buffalo N. Y
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William A. Jones
Paleface Jones
Mr. Jones
New England
Sprague
Rhode Island
Red Man
Wichita Jim
Boston Transcript
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Puck
Chicago Dispatch
Castoria
Sarrozas
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