McFarland and Wolgast Set for Milwaukee Title Bout
The National Sporting Club in Milwaukee hosts a ten round light weight clash tonight. Packey McFarland weighs 187 at 8 pm and Ad Wolgast around 132, with fans expecting the year’s big pugilistic event before 10 000 spectators. The bout follows months of weight talks and contentious talk among supporters on both sides.
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Packey McFarland
National Sporting Club of Milwaukee
Milwaukee
Atlantic
Pacific
McFarland
Wolgast
Packey
Wol- Gast
Power of England's Primate in Church and State
The archbishop of Canterbury is a Primate of all England with power to grant marriage licenses and appointments of notaries. He issues dispensations for clergy to hold multiple benefices under statutes. He ranks as the first peer after princes of the royal blood and has the right to crown the sovereign and other secular prerogatives.
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England
Archbishop of
Canterbury
All
Thin Lips Signal Hidden Strain in Women
A fragment discusses how thin lips and nervousness indicate distress. It notes repeated pressing of lips may become a habit, causing lips to grow thin and pale over time. The description focuses on gendered behavior and physical signs without broader context.
Baseball Box Score Fragments From Cincinnati and Philadelphia
Fragmentary box score snippets show Cincinnati and Philadelphia games with partial innings and lineups. Names such as Adcom Hendrix Simon Girvon Boyd Humphreies Clark Ames Myers Brown Rari dan Brockiyn Erwin Alexander Walsh appear in scattered sequences.
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Cincinnati
Pittabura
Adcom
Hendrix
Simon and Girvon
Boyd, Humphreies and Clark
Peeton
New York
Boston
Ames and Myers
Brown and Rari
Dan
Philadelphia
RWB
Brockiyn
Barger
Erwin
Alexander and
Walsh
Unclear Early Baseball Scores and Pairings From Damaged Page
Fragmented OCR lists multiple city matchups and player pairs such as Beny White and Black Allison and Clarke in New York and Philadelphia. Other lines reference Cleveland Detroit St Louis Washington and Boston with partial scores and inning marks, but the damaged text omits full results.
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New York
Philadelphia
Plank
Thomas
Ford
Blair
Cleveland
Detroit
Washtauten
R. W
Boston
Washington
Page
Williams
Hughes and Streat
Baseball Standings and Scores Against League Leaders
Summary incomplete. lists team abbreviations and scores for American Association games. Mentions St Paul Minneapolis Milwaukee and Kansas City with partial win loss figures and a reference to Indianapolis Columbus Milwaukee. No clear narrative or full game results available.
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W. L. Pet. W. la Pet Slimns
St. P
Louis
Indianapolis
Cermmbus
Milwaukee
Minneapolis
Kanes City
Kansas City
St Paul
Electrified Pupils in Stockholm School Sparks Debate
Report notes that Stockholm primary education uses electricity in the classroom though details of its use are unclear. Records will determine if electrically trained children need the three Rs with more precision than those raised on sunlight, common sense, and the rod.
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Stockholm
Popular Men Borrowed Fame in Somerville Journal
A brief note in the Somerville Journal reflects on men so popular that others feel privileged to have them borrow from them regularly, using playful language about social influence and borrowing, framed as a light observation.
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Somerville Journal
Niagara River Motorboat Regatta Opens in Buffalo
The Motorboat Club of Buffalo inaugurates what may be the largest single club regatta on the Niagara River with races for world class power boats. Over 5 000 dollars in prizes including the Edwin Ross Thomas trophy and other club prizes will be awarded. An estimated 40 000 spectators are expected over three days as the United States and Canada clash for interlake championships.
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Motorboat Club of
Buffalo
Niagara River
United States
Great Lakes
Edwin Ross Thomas
Edward H. Butler
Chamber of Commerce and Manfacturers
Norman J. Mack
Dr. Cook Plans Arctic Lecture at Graham Theater
Explorer Dr. Frederick A. Cook will recount his polar journey to a Graham theater audience on September 21. The lecture, with lantern slides, promises vivid Arctic scenes and stories of hunger, endurance, and the North Pole conquest.
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Frederick A. Cook
Cook
Graham Theater
Dr. Cook
Mr. Cook
North
North Pole
Graham
Surname Popularity Across Regions
The most common name in Ireland is Murphy. Smith leads in Scotland England Wales New York Philadelphia and Reston with Johnson ahead in Chicago and Smith second overall.
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Ireland
Murphy
Smith
Scotland
England
Wales
New York
Philadelphia
Reston
Johnson
Chicago
Fielding H. Yost A Coach With Wide Influence And Ventures
Fielding H Yost of Michigan combines coaching success with a parallel business career in Nashville West Virginia born 1871 and later a key West Point contributor His teams dominated early 1900s with high scores and a famed hurry up style while he managed Great Falls Power and coal timber interests and married in 1906 to Miss Fite of Nashville Tennessee He is praised for leadership effort and natural aptitude shaping Michigan football across decades
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Yost
University of Michigan
Michigan
Nashville
Tenn
West
Ohio Wesleyan
Army
West Point
West Virginia
Ist
Great Falls
Miss Fite
Nashville, Tenn
Wolverines
Imagination and rural life amid nature’s riches and poverty
An essay contrasts country life viewed through imagination versus a narrow focus on subsistence farming. It argues that appreciating nature with heavenly light reveals vast beauty beyond the potato field and personal limits.
Chinese and Japanese Match Making in China
The Japanese have developed extensive match manufacture in China with factories at Tien tsin Pekin Hangkow and Shanghai. Local monopolies are enforced by viceroys restricting multiple factories in one town. Hangkow plant employs 8600 workers and makes fifty to sixty tons daily.
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Hve
China
Tientsin
Pekin
Hangkow
Shanghai
Brain's Banquet Ends with Bear Pursuit and Fatal Shot
A west side teamster escorting bark in his wagon feeds a bear from a tin lunch bucket. The bear grows bold and closes in as pork runs out. A friend arrives with a gun, kills the bear, and the teamster survives vowing never again to fool with a bear.
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Brain
Lord of Bark
Bruin
Harper'’s Weekly
Sure Sign Aged Couple Mistakenly Notices Love
Mrs Wiggins claims their daughter Mary is in love and Mr Wiggins questions how she knows. She explains Mary calls twilight the gloaming, a term he hadn’t heard. The exchange plays on miscommunication and quaint phrasing.
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Mrs. Wiggins
Mary
Mr. Wiggins
Twilight
Occupation Not Overcrowded Mind Your Own Business
A period piece notes that while many professions feel overcrowded, the occupation of minding other people's business is thriving for both men and women, suggesting strong demand and participation in this line of work.
Safe vases with sand or pebbles for stability
A simple safeguard for top heavy vases is to add silver sand or white pebbles inside the base. The added weight stabilizes the bottom, allowing more freedom to arrange stems as desired.
Last Meeting of Fortyniners Disbands Western Association
In Evanston Alabama September M4 eleven surviving forty-niners attend the final camp fire as the Western Association of California Protesters dissolves. Only twenty of 160 charter members remain alive with a veteran average age of eighty five years. The group meets at George and Mrs Hotchkiss home. The Western Association of Mexican War Veterans also disbands with Jancis Benton the sole survivor.
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Evanston
Western Association of California
George Hotchkiss
Western Association of
Appendix a Waste Basket in a Surgical Shocker
A New York surgeon operated at two hours after midnight removing a swollen appendix described as large as a deerfoot sausage. Inside the organ a crusted pin was found, suggesting the appendix accumulates odd debris in some patients.
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New York
Alcoholism Hope: Neal Institute Promises Cure
Public appeal urges sympathy for alcohol dependent individuals and promotes the Neal Institute treatment as an antidote to the drink habit. The ad asserts medical care, confidential staff, and home-like facilities across multiple U.S. locations, offering internal cures without injections.
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Neal
Neal Institute
Neal Institutes
The
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Kainha
Nets
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Sioux City
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Farnum St
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South St
Des Moines
Town
Chicago Hospital
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Chicago
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St. Louis
Beny
Allison
American Association
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