Russian iron mill story from Freeport sparks romance and intrigue
A Pittsburg correspondent recounts a plan to build the first Russian iron mill outside Siberia at Freeport. The town donated land and $3,000, amid tales of the secret process learned by Pennsylvania State geologist William H. Rogers and his dramatic encounters with Russian officials and empires.
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Pittsburg
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Freeport
Siberia
Russia
America
William H. Rogers
Rogers
Pennsylvania
Curtin
St. Petersburg
Demidoff
Siberian
Ural Mountains
Turkey
Princess Demidoff
Population of China Said To Reach 450 Million
The San Francisco Chronicle reports that China likely has 450 million people, implying census figures are probably too small. It notes large birth rates, high density in central provinces, sparse populations in Kashgaria and Mongolia, and cites 1885 figures for Kiang Provinces with 72 million in 90 000 square miles and 125 walled cities.
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China
Tonquin
Kashgar
United States
Kashgaria
Mongolia
Manchuria
Kiang
Yangtz River
San Francisco Chronicle
Snobbery at the Counter Ends With Customer Upset
In a Boston dry goods shop a prospective buyer scrutinized fabrics and asked the price per yard. The clerk quoted twenty five cents, prompting the customer to declare she would pay forty cents and demand a shop with that price. The incident, noted in the Boston Budget, highlights service snobbery.
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Boston
Sideboard Once Owned by President Adams Recovered
The Rev. Theodore C. Williams of New York possesses a mahogany sideboard once belonging to President John Adams. He acquired it from an upright Washington upholsterer who had kept it in pawn for years for the descendants of Adams's body servant.
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Theodore C. Williams
New York City
John Adams
Washington
Adams
Worth as the Man and Woman Paradox in Verse
Quirky quotation with misspellings and name garbling discusses Worth as a shaping force for men and women. The fragment hints at gendered critique, referencing Doctor Cinks and dust but offers no clear event or人物.
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Worth
Jozz
Education for Work or Culture in Women and Men
The piece contrasts practical aims in male education with culture for culture’s sake in women’s education. It notes women entering wider roles, calls for practical advantages, and discusses classroom methods like color teaching, maps, globes, and departmental work. It highlights Bowdoin School’s philosophical discussions and a slave era memory shared by a colored girl.
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Popular Science Monthly
English Grammar Should Teach Speech and Writing Purely
The educational demand calls for fewer branches and removal of non essentials in grammar study. English grammar should reflect how language is used not Latin rules. Emphasize proper noun forms verb agreement and pronoun person alignments to teach speaking and writing correctly. Supt. G. T. Fletcher Marlboro Mass supports simplification and relevance.
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Reed and Kellogg
John T. Prince
G. T. Fletcher
Marlboro
Mass
Drawn maps and pupil debate highlight wartime study
A St Louis Globe-Democrat letter praises map based war studies in Chicago schools showing pupils rapidly draw battle arenas and divisions, then defend questions as a class. The piece shifts to a veterinary note about cataracts in horses linked to shying, citing observations from many horses and urging further discussion.
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Chicago
Globe-Democrat
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Hornellsville
Cincinnati
Pullman Palace
New York
Marion
Chicago & Atlantic Railway
Pullman
Buffalo
Youngstown
Peoria
Springfield
Cleveland
St. Louis
Ohio & Mississippi R’y
L. P. Farmer
P. A
N. Y
A. E. Clark
Ass’t
O. J. R. Shaler
Ohio
The Ainos Race and its Vanishing Legacy
A scholarly meditation on the Ainos of Japan, tracing their retreat eastward and northward as centuries pass. The essay notes shrinking numbers, loss of distinct industries to Japanese control, reliance on Japanese language, and fading cultural traits. It portrays the Ainos as a historic curiosity with little future or rooted past.
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Japan
Europe
Horobetsu
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Allegheny
Christian Union
West
Bowdoin
Virginia
Essentials
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Mai
Grand Shopping Mart
Anderson
Zephyr Ginghams
Chambray Ginghams
Tussor Crapes
India
W. H. Pickett & CO
Sherman S. Jewett
Syracuse
Gale
Pittsburgh
F. O. Pierce
Warren, Pa
T. S. Messner and CO
Warren County
Boggs &Buhl
Federal St
Allegheny, PA
N. Greenland
Exchange Block
Exchange Hotel
G Noyes
Wells & Noyes
Druses
Wedicines
Boston Shoe Store
Flint
Reynolds & Eddy’s
Ladies Fine Shoes
Christian Smith
First National Bank
Warren
Struthers
Iron Works
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Struthers, Wells & CO
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Parshall & Sill
E. W. Parshall
G. W. Sill
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Bradford
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IMNE
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Lancaster
Philadelphia
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Kane
Erie Mail
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Oil Express
Chas, E. Pugh
J. R. Wood
Dunkirk
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Phpisburg
Dunokirkar
Fredonia
Laona
Joss Mill
Falconer
Croig
Frewsburg
Fentonville
Ackley’s
Russellburg
N. Warren
Unday
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Erie Railways
Jamestown
D. Thayer
A. Clute
L.T. Brissop
Penn
A & Ohio R. R
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Erie Express
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Mammoth Furniture Store
Warren,Pa
P. Greenlund
Crystal
Morck Bro
Eges
August Morck
Optician
Ayer
James Eccles
Poland
W. Keeler
Amherst
D. Burke
Saco
J.C. Ayer & Co
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Parker
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Franklin Jlv
Phila
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Tionesta
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Runkey
Tidioute
Thompson
Irvineton
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Wolf Run
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Red House
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Clean
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Gatchell
J. A. Fellows
Pass
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Tana
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Kent County
England
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Neb
Union Cattle Company
Cheyenne
Alabama
Tennessee
Georgia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Spartansburg
S. C
Chili
France
Austria--Hungary
Prussia
Goessman
Massachusetts Agricultural Experiment Station
E. W. Stewart
Oatman Brothers
Dundee
Ill
Tionesta Valley
R. BR. Co
IME
Philade South
Sphia
Gilson
Barnes
Donaldso
Martin
Brookston
Seffield
Foxbury
Garfield
Farnsworth Siding
Tiona
Markham
Farnsworth
J. Crary
Henry Baxter
Mandrake Bitters
Ladiey
Henry, Johnson & Lord, Props
Burlington, VI
A. W. Morck
George Stinson & Co
Portland, Maine
Lake Erie & Western &. R
Anford
W.C. Rin
Bradx
Iamburgh
Eden Valley
Iden Center
Orth Collins
Collins
Iowanda Dayton
Ine Valley
Jerry Creek Onewanee
Kennedy
W.&p Cross’g. Jamestown
Araw Coity
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Ason, Dist. Press Agt
Warren & Farnsworth Valley R. RB
Garfield Vendergrift
Dunham’s Mill
Clarendon Cornen
Underwood McCalmont
Wood's Mill
East Branch
McCalmont
Underwood Cornen
Ove Ciatengon Ait
Grand Outfit
True & Co
Augusta
Maine
Eo Rowland
Ayo Ener . &E
Hickory St
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