Airship races to captivate Faris crowd next summer
Santos-Dumont leads a cadre of aeronauts including the Lebaudys Tour and others in a planned series of airship races at Faris France. Preparations surge with landing yards, hydrogen depots, and miniature rail launch systems. Santos-Dumont expects a fleet of twelve passengers per flight and invites international entrants as the airship era nears.
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Faris
France
Santos-Dumont
Lebaudys
Tour
Paris
Union
Santos- Dumont
Monte Carlo
Prince of Monaco
Bay of
Monaco
Santos Dumont
Paul
Jacques
Julliot
Surcouf
Aero Club
Dumont
Parig
M. Santos- Dumont
Tatin
Firmin Boysson
General Tour
M. Tour
Iale
National
Meudon
Calais
Ian
Renard Brothers
Lachambre
Santosi
Train and Webster Anecdote Reveals Old Statesmen Traits
An anecdote from George Francis Train’s autobiography recounts early encounters with Daniel Webster and Gen. Zachary Taylor. Train recalls meeting Webster in Washington and being ushered to Taylor’s desk where the president’s shirt and tobacco-stained attire drew remark, with a cuspidor directly behind.
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George Francis Train
Washington
Daniel Webster
Boston
Webster
Gen. Taylor
Train
Mexico
Buena Vists
Razor talk and signatures in a mixed column
A barber compares razors to people and notes tempering and truth in steel and character. The piece recounts a scene with Train and Henry Clay, discussing signatures on Webster’s paper. It ends with reflections on toadyism and a note about one cent fares on South London street railways.
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Train
Webster
Henry Clay
England
Plutus
London
Intelligent Chimp Esau Captivates Visitors on Stage
A four year old West Congo captured chimpanzee named Esau appears at the Pavilion after Consul’s disappearance. The animal, trained to shake hands eat with a knife and fork and operate a piano and typewriter, is to perform briefly in England before a planned operation in Germany to enable articulation.
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Esau
England
Germany
Fighting Plants and Their Defensive Weapons
The article describes how plants defend themselves with thorns salts and odors and form protective alliances like the gorse plant arming itself to aid nearby species. It also notes plants can attack, citing the English sundew whose leaves secrete sticky fluids to trap and digest insects for nitrogen.
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John J. Ward
Harper's Magazine
Ancient Pipes And Insanity In Tombs Trial Truths
Ancient clay pipes from Western mounds and a soapstone meerschaum companion illuminate early tobacco use. The Tombs prison era reveals a “School of Insanity” for murderers with doctors staging crimes to test inmates' feigned madness. William Hooper Young’s murder trial and later cases show doctors’ manipulations and the question of genuine insanity. A separate note reports Frank Rockefeller visiting Emporia, Kansas, dining simply and chatting with locals, despite immense wealth.
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Ireland
Western
America
New Yorke
Tombs
Illiam Hooper Young
Anna Pulitzer
New York
Ife
College of Insanity
Ben Ali
Frenchy
Carrie Brown
Dumb Man's Campaign Recalls Unusual Ohio Election
The piece recalls Joseph M. Hunter of Jefferson County Ohio and his unusual campaign as a Democrat for county investigator. He used a slate and pencil on the trail and was elected after a bold start his voice later returned drawing charges of trickery from opponents.
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Joseph M. Hunter
Idaho
Jefferson County
Ohio
Cincinnati Enquirer
Revival Meetings Led by Paralyzed Baptist Doctor
Dr. Daniel Shephardson, a paraplegic Baptist preacher, conducts revival meetings in Spokane Washington drawing large crowds each afternoon and evening. He speaks from a wheelchair due to paralysis sustained earlier.
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Daniel Shephardson
Skane
Wash
Shephardson
Blighted Earthly Hopes and Stork Lore
A fragment claims belief in celestial stork influence over a baby’s gender and suggests similar unseen forces affect desires. The note names Atchison Glabe as a source or representative.
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New York Press
Santos
Cayuga County
Walter Raleigh
King James
Melbourne
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Nino
Charles, Dana
C. H
Chetwood
Robert Safford Newton
Newton
Vicenzo
Commercial Road
Whitechapel Road
Thomas Tobin
Harry Rose
Charles L. Dana
Carlos MacDonald
Tobin
Rose
New York World
Frank
Frank Rockefeller
Standard Oil
Kansas
Texas
Emporia
Rockefeller
Kansas City
Sunny Slope
Simon Harker
Kiowa County
Thomas Toaly
JO Atteep
Ben Ali Cerenchyy
Jor Aretcied AV Ofupt
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