Mosinee Tom and the Wolves of the Wisconsin Timber
In a late 1850s Mosinee lumber camp two La Crosse County youths name Tom Welsh and Miller face harsh winter work and a bear intruder. A seasoned woodsman recounts wolves as smart predators while recalling a surviving hunter’s wary respect for the forest. Long Tom arrives with a pack pursuing a man fleeing into the cabin as wolves burst the door.
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Lake Superior
Wolf Pack Attack Ends In Lone Hunter's Departure
A hunter arrives as wolves attack his loyal dog. He drives them off with a rifle and clubbed gun, mourns the dog’s fate, and wanders off alone into the forest after saying farewell to friends. He later buys gear in Ginny and disappears.
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Bey
Holland
Ginny
Nakous Bell Rhythm Marks Red Sea Border Seldom Heard
Across the Red Sea near Nakous a half mile from shore a sandy amphitheater rises three hundred feet. Intermittent underground sounds occur hourly with a murmur then a bell like roar. Arabs link it to a subterranean bell in a convent while scientists cite suppressed volcanic gas activity.
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Red Sea
Nakous
First across the Tower Bridge opening stirs crowd din
A London Sketch writer recalls twenty thousand people gathered to be first at the Tower Bridge opening. The piece compares the scene to the Holborn viaduct debut when Thomas Grayson drove the first omnibus, the City Atlas, to receive a gold-mounted whip. Grayson reportedly profited from selling photos of himself and the vehicle.
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New Tower Bridge
London
Holborn Viaduct
Thomas Grayson
Grayson
Humorous Exchanges and Snippets From Old Papers
Amusing quips from various turn‑of‑the‑century papers include an amateur hunter asking a forester about a stag, a townsman remarking on a bicycle, a misfit musical moment, and a host promoting a singer. A hotel trout stream joke contrasts with a burglar alarm debate and a politics nudge about Meekton.
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Yonkers Statesman
Mies Screechum
Herr Amburg
Detroit Free Press
Chicago
Henry
Washington Star
Publications and figures in 19th century letters and history
Herbert Spencer and James Bryce are among critics said to have written the reply to Max Nordau’s Regeneration. Cornhill marks a 13 year run with a valedictory in June. Thacher’s The Continent of America is a limited 275 copies. Kruger’s library grows with Mark Twain. Evelyn Baldwin writes The Search for the North Pole. Kipling’s Letters of Marque advances in London after copyright issues. Gambetta's friends jeer Rochefort’s reminiscences with denials and refutations.
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Herbert Spencer
James Bryce
Max Nordau
Cornhill
John Boyd Thacher
America
Paul Kruger
Mark Twain
Huckleberry Finn
Tom Sawyer
Evelyn Briggs Baldwin
Chicago Academy of Sciences
Peary
North Polar
North Pole
Kipling
Rajputana
Pioneer
India
England
London
Gambetta
Henri Rochefort
Paris
Rochefort
Foreign Notes Highlight Science and Fire at Home
Rontgen rays reveal internal flower structures from unopened buds and seeds. Brent house in Brentford, Nell Gwynne’s former home, burned its billiard room while the staircase remained intact. A London auction will feature Wordworth library items including scarce Matthew Arnold work. Swaziland's young king arms himself in mountains then slips away amid Transvaal concerns. Russia and Japan plan a joint protectorate over Corea as Japan builds regional maps and power. Gen Yamagata in Moscow observes czar’s prowess.
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Brentford
Nell Gwynne
Charles II
Wordeworth
London
Matthew Arnold
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Russia
Japan
Corea
Siberia
Gen. Yamagata
Moscow
Foreign Gossip Highlights From London to Canterbury
A London costermonger was strangled by his shirt collar while asleep. Explosives employ over 10,000 in England with 40 killed and 167 injured last year. India telegraphs polite phrases, while Paris jellies hide agar-agar. England nears 1300th baptism anniversary of the first king by St Augustine. Canterbury retains land dating to 597 under King Ethelbert’s gift.
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England
India
Telegraph Company
Paris
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Canterbury
Essex
Ethelbert
Kent
Royal and Society News Briefs From Across Europe
Siam’s king departs Bangkok for a two month vacation in Java with a stop in Singapore en route. Dover’s powders namesake Dr Dover found Alexander Selkirk on a lonely isle. Ill health forces English artist H S Marks to retire from Royal Academy ranks. Lord Hugh Cecil, marquis of Salisbury’s fifth son, delivers a maiden Commons speech showing promise. Paris gains a Chinese and Japanese bronze collection and Parc Monceau home as a museum after M Cernuchi’s death. Princess Adelaide of Braganza, widow of Don Miguel, becomes a Benedictine nun at Solesmes after marrying off her last daughter. she belongs to the Lowenstein-Wertheim-Rosenberg line.
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Solesmes
France
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Weird World Notes From Far and Wide
Krupp guns fire 15 miles with a 2600 pound shot and an Armstrong gun of 100 tons propels 1890 pounds 14 miles. A Jefferson City snake chokes on a porcelain egg found in a hen nest. Divorce in Cochin China is sealed by breaking chopsticks in front of a crowd. Bavaria bans female cycling without a police tested certificate. Fresno’s giant wine cask holds 79000 gallons surpassing Heidelberg’s Great Tun. Chile milks on demand with quivering wires warming bedclothes and parasol milk punch.
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Jefferson City
L. D. Gordon
Cochin
China
Bavaria
St. George Vineyard
Fresno
Cal
Heidelberg
Chili
Monkey with Tusks Surprises Circus Shipment
A four foot high Indian monkey destined for exhibition in Central Park escaped a screening, fatally attacked four ring tailed monkeys, bit trainer Burns, tore a leopard’s claws, and was knocked unconscious with an iron fork. The primate, strong as a gorilla, weighs half as much as Johanna and Chico.
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Ares
India
Johanna
Young Burns
Burns
Central Park
Chico
Programme of Field Operations for 1896 7 Is Approved
The geological survey's field plan for 1896 97 is approved. Five parties will operate in New England and eastern New York, five in Appalachia, two along the Hudson mouth to the Gulf, five in the Mississippi interior, four in the Rockies, and eight on the Pacific coast. Hydrographic work gets half of 50 000 for stream gauging and water supply.
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Terror
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Gulf of Mexico
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Mississippi
Rocky Mountain
Pacific
Rocky Mountains
United States
Newell
Indian Territory
Arkansas River
Miss Phoebe Couzins Acknowledges Five Dollar Gift
Miss Phoebe A Couzins writes from Los Angeles on June 22 thanking Mrs O E F for a five dollar contribution to the woman suffrage cause. She reflects on reform work, advising comfort in home life and noting others share her view that the world does not welcome reform.
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Phoebe Couzins
St. Louis
Los Angeles
Cal
Phoebe A. Couzins
Phoebe
Plague of Mustard Grips Minnesota and Iowa Fields
The southwest Minnesota prairie and adjacent sections of Nobles and Rock counties in Minnesota and northwest Iowa are overtaken by widespread yellow mustard blooms. Wet conditions boosted growth, burying grain fields and covering rails, roads, and barnyards, threatening crop yields.
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Minnesota
Iowa
Nobles and Rock
Early pins and patents trace to 15th and 19th centuries
The text notes the first statutory mention of pins in England in 1483 and cites Wright’s American patent pin machine of 1824 as an early development in pin manufacturing history.
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Wright’s
Farmers urged to plant millet and Hungarian grass before corn
Weather threats loom over hay harvest as farmers consider millet or Hungarian grass crops to bolster cattle feed for next winter. Oil of tar applied before planting protects corn, helps deter grubs and crows, with a price of 40 cents.
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