Average weights rise above Boston figures in Cincinnati Exposition
A Cincinnati Exposition report records weights from 22,165 people. Men averaged 154.02 pounds and women 130.87, higher than Boston 1854 figures. Regional data from Ohio Kentucky Indiana Illinois show even heavier averages, with implications for engineers and a note on the origin of the higher weights.
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W. A. Collord
Department of Scientific Educational Appliance
Haswell
Boston
Ohio
Indiana
Ilinois
Kentuccky
Illinois
Kentucky
The Great Steam Hammer Demonstrates Watch Crystal Breakage
Mr Dubious bets a thirty ton steam hammer can break a watch crystal without damaging the timepiece. The hammer drops, shattering the crystal, and the hammerman confirms the claim as a hoax while noting the trick.
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Mr. Dubious
Tyes
Burdette
Cleveland Chinaman Sued for Seduction Breach of Promise
A Cleveland man described as a Chinaman with a $10,000 value faces suit from a white woman for breach of promise and seduction after a divorce from a previous wife.
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Cleveland
A Girl's Club of Four Homeless Workers in New York
Four homeless New York women pool earnings to furnish a third story flat. They rent, save, and gradually expand their home while following rules in the parlor. Salaries to the stewardess are fixed and visits from men occur only with others present.
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New York
Stinson & Co
Portland
Maine
Man’s Farm Investment Scheme Ends in Loss
A Baltimore man recounts a friend’s plan to invest 40 000 in a farm with 15 000 purchase, 10 000 improvements, 10 000 stock, and 5 000 grading and ponds. The projected income is a rough 25 dollars, revealing a likely fraud or hopeless miscalculation.
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Baltimore
Wall Street Daily News
A New Red Riding Hood in Cincinnati Sat Night
The sketch describes a bold little girl nicknamed Little Red Riding Hood. She travels by streetcar, faces counterfeit money, gets aid from a kind old man and a benevolent neighbor, and stays three weeks with her sick grandmother. The piece compares her to the original tale and notes many Local Red Riding Hoods in town.
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William H. Vanderbilt
Wall Street
United States Navy
St. John
General Longer
Key West Democrat
General
San Domingo
Florida
Edward C. Pickering
Harvard College
Mars
Zoological Garden
London
Australia
Chandelaria
Nev
Peter Meltzberger
Reading
Register
Texas
Jamestown
N. Y
Red Riding Hood
Red Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood
Stoors Township
Riding Hood
Cincinnati
Organ grinders harass sick in Yorkville street scene
A fifth avenue house asks for police help to move an organ grinder, but a nurse asserts the occupants are dangerously ill and the organ grinders terrorize neighbors. She says an organized group in the city uses such tactics to extort money from the ill, causing ongoing trouble for nurses and families.
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Fifth Avenue
Yorkville
New York Sun
Oddities and Floral Feats in a Brooklyn Lecture and Market
A Brooklyn lecturer praises India jugglers swallowing swords and a wood prop trick. The Pampas plume of California, a feathery floral ornament, travels to Europe but bears no fragrance. Engineering feats at Washington’s Union arch are described, along with tiny steam engine curios. A Baltimore pawnbroker tale ends with a flashy old man pocketing nine dollars.
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A Hindoo
Brooklyn
Pampas
California
New York
Europe
Washington Aqueduct
Chester
Dee
England
London Bridge
Seine
Neuilly
Waterloo
Thames
Washington Arch
D. A. A. Buck
Waterbury
Conn
Baltimore
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Warren
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Fanny Snow
Rochester
Mexico
San Francisco
Texarkana
Union
Arkansas
Southwest
Italy
Nas
L. G. Noves
H. A. Jamieson & CO
Simond’s
Disston’s
American Saw Co
Holmes Patent
Carver House
Warren, Pa
Hickory Street
Sparlor
A. Siegel & Sons
Walter A
Wood
Oliver
Victor
Remington
Disston
Middletown
Mann
Loveland
Jefford
Allison
Croce Riss
George P. Orr & CO
Warren, Penna
Warren County
A. d. Vwavis
Tormezet Goowoos
Second and
Liberty Streets
Clorce
A. Mintzer & CO
N.Y
G. E. Benedict
Edinburg St
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W. P. Dugan
Christian Smith
Con
Stantly
First National Bank
Reowins
New York, Pennsylvania
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Railroads
Fr. H. Garfield
Main St
Bradford
E. M. Pierce
Centist
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C. W Sersalis
Water Street
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