The Black Death Ramirez Strikes With Electricity
Ramirez known as the Black Death demands 20000 gold, later 80000, from miners at Humboldt silver mine. He arrives with a band, intimidates workers, and uses dynamite and electricity to destroy the mine building, leaving the band and Ramirez dead by the blast and collapse.
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E. C. Parcells
Ramirez
Chile
Office of the Law
Peru
American Mining and Smelting Company
Humboldt
Black Death
M. Quad
Three Queer Cities Ghent Venice and Amsterdam in One Survey
The excerpt describes Ghent as built on twenty six islands with eighty bridges and notable historic events including the pacification of Ghent in 1576 and the 1814 U S British treaty. It then outlines Amsterdam’s canal city layout with three hundred bridges and ninety islands. Venice is noted for eighty islets and four hundred bridges, canals serving as streets and gondolas as carriages plus the annual Venice Marriage of the Adriatic ceremony where the doge dropped a ring.
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Ghent
Belgium
Charles V
John of Gaunt
Lancaster
England
United States
Amsterdam
Holland
Venice
Alexander III
Otto
Frederick Barbarossa
Adriatic Sea
Adriatic
Remarkable Name Tales From a Sea Captain
A New England sea captain signs a contract with a long list of names as a joke. An official asks him to sign for himself not the crew. The captain writes a full religious string ending with Tribulation We Enter Into the Kingdom of Heaven Clapp. He explains he was nicknamed Tribby as a child.
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New England
Kingdom of
Heaven
Clapp
Captain Clapp
Watch Crystal Making and Oven Costs Highlight Industry
The watch glass production remains largely secret with balloons blown from glass then baked and annealed. Skilled workers cut the glasses with a diamond point and finish them to size. Ovens cost at least $20,000 each and their operation is so complex that one firm outsourced balloon making to older manufacturers for efficiency.
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St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Humor in the Dublin Gallery Nonchalant Theatre Exchange
The Dublin gallery long known for humor is recalled by Macready in Reminiscences. In Venice Preserved Jaffier’s dying speech was interrupted as a gallery patron shouted for Ot way’s line to end. A second spectator retorted to the interjector and then advised Jaffier to take his time.
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Dublin
Macready
Otway
Venice
Jaffier
Blackguard
Daisy as a playful compliment in Dickens David Copperfield
The passage shows Steerforth calling David Copperfield a daisy to praise his innocence while mocking his credulity. He uses the term to imply freshness and simplicity amid corrupt days, framing Copperfield as an endearing, naive figure.
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Dickens
David Copperfield
Steerforth
Young Copperfield
David
Daisy
Copperfield
Life Bought Back With a Paltry Franc in Algeria
In Ouar Algeria a missionary recounts a tense meeting with a Riffi fanatic who brandished a knife and demanded a Shahad. The exchange ends when the fanatic trades his knife for money and a book, leaving the narrator grateful his life was saved for a single franc.
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Algeria
Ouar
W. G. Pope
Morocco
God
Allah
Mohammed
Amel
Louis
Liverpool Post
Pointed Paragraphs From Atchison Globe Opinion
A collection of aphoristic lines on honesty, confidence, unemployment, discretion, aging, business failure, vigilance, hints, travel, and millionaire unpopularity. The piece presents concise reflections about human behavior and social perception.
How Rossetti Met His Wife Through Ophelia Model
Millais 1852 Ophelia at the academy inspired Dante Gabriel Rossetti to marry the model Elizabeth Siddal. The bonnet shop helper, daughter of a Sheffield tradesman, captivated Rossetti who taught her to paint and wed her.
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Rossetti
Millais
Ophelia
Academy
Preraphaelite
Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Sheffield
Elizabeth Siddal
Straightway
Man's Precious Rib Myth Preached by Doctor
A surgeon answers why woman was made from a man’s rib with a gallant claim. She was taken from his side to be near him and protected from under his arm to be guarded, and from near his heart to be cherished and loved. Houston Chronicle.
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Houston Chronicle
Water Quality Complaint Sparks Boarder Grievances
A grumbling boarder tells the Chicago Journal he will write to city authorities over drinking water quality, joking that he detected a distinct flavor of coffee in it this morning. The remark underscores public concerns about municipal supply standards.
Left Them as Usual Roberts-Poor Williams Death Note
A terse obituary note states Williams died leaving a wife and three children. A rival quip recalls he was too mean to take them anywhere when alive, reflecting a harsh, living memory from Life.
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Roberts
Williams
Jones
Wanted assistant manager for county and territory
Classified notice seeking an assistant manager for Chicago wholesale and mail order house. Salary twenty dollars plus weekly expenses, expenses advanced. No investment or experience required, permanence offered. Send self addressed envelope for full particulars to General Manager 134 EK Lake St Chicago.
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Lake St
Chicago
Rev Pengilly Church Service Times
The notice lists worship and program times for Rev Pengilly on West Fifth Street. Services Sundays at 10 45 a m and 7 30 p m. Sabbath School at noon Epworth League at 6 30 p m. All are invited.
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West Fifth Street
Epworth League
J.r.wrise
Vastuor
Christian Endeavor
United
Norwegian Language Services at Rev Charlson Parish
Pastor Rev Chr Christianson conducts weekly services in Norwegian at 10 30 a m and 7 46 p m with Sunday School at noon Prayer meeting Thursday 8 00 p m Ladies Aid and Helping HandSociety meet on alternating Wednesdays Both Sunday evening services alternate into English on the third Sunday each month or period
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OC. Gutekunst
Hanson
N. Epworth League
Chr. Christianson
Ladies Aid Society
Helping Hand Society
A Woman's Complexion and Liver Health Cure
The article denounces cosmetic fixes for complexion and promotes liver health as the remedy. Green's August Flower is claimed to purify blood, clear skin, cure constipation and biliousness, and aid sleep, with sale at Frost & Spies in trial and regular sizes.
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Frost & Spies
Fox Bros Guarantee Refund on Syrup of Tarif
A signed notice states Fox Bros offer refunds on Green's warrantet Syrup of Tarif if it fails to cure cough or cold. They also promise a 25 cent bottle for satisfac or money refunded.
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Fox Bros
Times Printing House Offers Quality Job Printing
When you need anything in job printing the Times cé and supply your wants in first class shape for prompt service and neat results.
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The
Times Cé&P
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Atchison Globe
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Foleyshoney
Q. W. Frost
Seventh Street
Washington, D. C
M. M. Sweet
Washburn, Wis
H. A. Robinson and
G. Broman
Pratt, Wisconsin
New York
F St
Official Directory
W.H. Irish
A.M. Warden
A. B. Severson
N.M. Oscar
John Froseth
Nels Myhre
A. Bell
E. . Alvord
Mies ‘. Smith
H. G. Mertens
Hugo Nelson
A. Lamoreaux
H. P. Axelberg
J. N. Kinney
O. Wescott
L. M. Uausen
E. E. Renfield
Washburn Public Library Board
N.N. Oscar
W. H. Irish
Bryan
Charles Peterson
Wm. O'Neil
Pine Street
Seventh Ave
St.john's Episcopal Church
Pulsher
Father Dunstan
Benedict
Methodist Episcopal
Rev
Pengilly
Congregational Church
Lippincott’s
Literatura
Washington
Ninth Street
United States Patent Office
Northwestern
C.d.babcock
Menominee
Washburn
Washburn and Iron
River Express
Canada
Alaska
China
Japan
A. M. Cleland G. P. A
St. Paul
Minn
B. Duffy
Paris
London Globe
Central Post Office
America
Far East
Havre
Marseilles
Cherbourg
Southampton
Asia
O. Ry
NOR
Ashland Junction
WIS. Central Trains
Ashland
E. 0. Dewitt & CO
Josephine Tueck Baker
Evanston, Ill
Hollister
Rocky Mountain
Genuine
Yourister Deve Company
Madison
Wis
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