Various World News Snippets From The Era
A collage of brief notes covers topics from Caicaco’s buried wires and Ohio gas discoveries to pensions, city councils, Eiffel Tower height changes, and Edison phonographs. Additional items note Minneapolis deeds claims, Columbia monument fund, love terms, North Dakota’s training plan, North Carolina’s centennial event, ancient ruins near Gallup, and honors for Edison and others.
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Caicaco
Ohio
United States
Curcaco
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Fanny Vertum
Minneapolis
Quien Victoria
Edison
Crispi
Italy
Columbus Monument Fund
New York
Daxora
Faverreville
N. C
North Carolina
Gallup
Cal
Tue
White Cross University of Science
George W. Childs
James Gordon Bennett
Thomas A. Edison
John W. Mackay
Cyrus W. Field
William W. Hubbell
Andrew Jackson
Nashville
Tenn
Association of
Ladies
Tuer
Baltimore
Lupwie Pierson
Herr Pietsch
Chicago
General McClellan
Philadelphia City Hall
Paul J. Pelz
Henry J. Ellicott
Battle of
Antietam
Writers using odd places and rituals for work
A curio-filled passage catalogs writers from Pieatt to Mezeray and Johnson, noting peculiar work habits and settings such as beds, cold water feet, post-chaise, alleys, candles, and a Temple Gardens display, ending with a comical English hotel scene and an amused local narrator.
Best Salve for Cuts and Skin Ailments
Advertising copy promises a salve that cures cuts bruises sores ulcers salt rheum fever sores tetter chapped hands chilblains corns and all skin eruptions. Guarantees satisfaction or money refunded with price 25 cents per box at Merch Drug Store.
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Merch Drug Store
System That Threatens Revolution Carrying Mail at 200 Miles an Hour
Baltimore inventor David G. Weems debuts a rapid transit electric railway in Laurel Maryland that would carry mail and express at up to four miles a minute on a two mile circumference track. The system features enclosed barbed wire fences and automatic control from power stations in New York Chicago and seven intermediate points.
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David G. Weems
Baltimore
Laurel
Maryland
Mr. Weems
Chicago
New York
Weems
Benzine Copy Method For Architects Drawings Described
A new copying method uses ordinary opaque drawing paper soaked with benzine to render it translucent. When treated, pencil and ink tracing becomes easy to copy, with lines showing through clearly. After copying, benzine evaporates and paper returns to its original white state.
Merck Drug Store Free Trial Bottles Spark Boom
Trade at the Merck Drug Store surges as they give away free trial bottles of Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. The remedy claims to cure coughs colds asthma bronchitis croup and throat and lung diseases with a free trial and a $1 large bottle, all bottles warrantied.
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Merck Drug Store
Dr. King
Ayer
Ernest A. Hepler
Parish Terre Bonne
BE. G. Edgerly
Council Bluffs
Iowa
Samuel Griggs
Waukegan
Rodney Johnson
Springfield
J. C. Ayer
Curfews, bridges, and a world in brief
A compilation of short items notes a two cent shine by Loxpon bootblacks, curfews in English parishes, Sweden’s liquor laws, and the insolvent Korean government. It reports on Egyptian princes studying in Vienna, Ireland's language heart, a new 502 foot Thames bridge swing draw at New London Connecticut, and a Paris bronze founder showing a $70,000 clock. It also mentions the Empress of Austria's Greek studies, smokeless powder’s failings, England’s first Mohammedan mosque in Woking, Nova Scotia’s centenarians, Adelaide’s bookseller criticism, Paris Exposition prizes, Congo steamers to Matadi, and Shahs misconduct in Austria with archduke anecdote.
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Sweden
Vienna
Ireland
River Thames
New London
Conn
M. Barbedienne
Paris
Austria
English Ordnance Department
England
Woking
Oriental Institute
Nova Scotia
Tur
Adelaide
Australia
Zola
Sankey
Matadi
Lower Congo
Stanley Pool
Livingstone Falls
Archduke Joseph
Little Aziz
Odd and Amusing Snatches From A Packed Page
A collage of quirky vignettes spans topics from dialect origins and mosquito diet to Punxsutawney beer wrapped in prohibition papers. It notes lemon parties in country areas and a Tarpon Springs lawyer offering fast marriages and divorces.
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Tig
Iris
Punxsutawney
Tarpon Springs
Frs
Cleveland
Clarence
Arlington Hotel
Petoskey
Mich
W. Va
Brandywine
Pennsylvania
Charley
Cambridge
Mass
Boston
Harvard College
Ranging Notes On Names Fields And Royal Antics
The piece surveys etymology Borren Row name from rottien and notes Tun Belle Vernon gas field in Pennsylvania with three wells producing 45 million feet daily. It recalls an eminent Chinaman client of Francis D. Kernan and a tea gift, fashion shifts for British marines, Lady Macartney’s fine for mistreating servants, and a Wild West show Paris visit with Red Indian scalp souvenirs.
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Borren Row
Tun Belle Vernon
Pennsylvania
Francis D. Kernan
Lady Macartney
Sir Halliday Macartney
London
White
Shah Wae
Paris
King of Kings
Cody
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Alexander Pope
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Thomas Hostel
Johnson
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Mezeray
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Jim
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Bucklen
Mr. Gladstone
Cincinnati Enquirer
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Brooklyn
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Tue Centaur Company
Murray Street, N. Y
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Barstow Stove Co
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Geo. W. Horton
Hall, Ind
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Joliet, Ill
J. D. Brown
Ozark
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Charles A. Vogeler CO
CWO Choice Schools
Brooke Hall
Shortlidge Media Academy
Swithin C. Shortlidge, A.M
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Philadelphia
Wm. Ayxtes & Sons, Philada
Baker
Christian Smith
First National Bank
Warren
Warren, Pa
Henry Baxter
Mandrare Bitter
Henry, Johnson & Lord, Props
Burlington, Vt
Jacob Keller
B. F. Morris
N. C. Allen
Glade
W. H. Pickett & CO
H. A. Jameson & CO
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Syracuse
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Pittsburgh
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Episcopal Church
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Sergeant Bendall
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Detroit Free Press
University Place
Long Branch
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Holland
Morris & Mullen
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Paeden
L. D. Wetmore
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Europe
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