Commercial drive taints pursuit of bacterial cures
The pursuit of bacterial antidotes is driven by high commercial value, turning laboratories into drug factories. During the plague in Oporto, numerous scientists from France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia and Norway arrived with serums and publicity, turning a renowned institute into a traveling sales operation with interviews, hospital visits, gifts, dinners, and free instructions centered on one celebrated savant and his “infallible cure.”
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Oporto
France
Germany
Italy
Spain
Russia
Norway
Curious hoofed horse confined eight years in Clinton barn
A black stallion with exceptionally long hooves has been kept in a Clinton barn for eight years, only leaving its stall once. Owner, described as eccentric, allegedly plans to sell the animal to a show manager but keeps it confined, despite offers around 200 dollars.
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Clinton
Barnes
Rattler tamer averts forest fire at Grafton hut
Levi Dortos a 25 year old mountaineer known as a rattlesnake tamer faced a sudden blaze near his home a few miles west of Grafton. Upon opening the door he found a roaring fire consuming fences and outbuildings while his snakes, gathered at the door, coiled around his legs. He pacified them and by hard effort managed to extinguish the flames. Dortos, who lives in a hut his father built in 1870, is noted for animal knowledge and Indian relics and believes in rattlesnake oil for rheumatism.
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Levi Dortos
Grafton
Ulag
Dorton
Mr. Dottom
Burit
Fim
Remarkable Hollow Oak Near Hamburg Draws Attention
Naturalists in Germany study a giant oak near Hamburg noted for its hollow base. The trunk stands eight to nine feet high, exceeds twenty feet in circumference, and four people recently found ample room inside. In winter the tree looks bare but springs to life with new foliage each year, delighting locals who prize the curious natural monument.
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Germany
Hamburg
Amiple
Clock Numerals Then and Now from Henry Vick Tale
A New York Press note recounts a tale of Henry Vick, a French jeweler who gifted King Charles V a clock with Roman numerals that caused a royal dispute. The king insisted four must be four ones, prompting Vick to correct the dial and start a fashion that endures as ITs instead of IV.
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Drigin
Henry Vick
Charles V
Wise
Charles
Vick
New York Press
Physicians report strange case in Avana township IL
The physicians report a patient Mrs John Linsey is very ill for nine weeks with fever and a seven week period of a bizarre hallucination She believes she is dead and insists on body burial Despite medical effort and friends attempts to correct her she maintains that her body must be buried She cites beliefs about rightful burial and asks for her body to be prepared for interment
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Taxkety
Avana Township
John Linsey
Buriel
Hymns and their Singers Through the Ages
A tour of great devotional hymns and their creators, tracing personal faith and struggle behind works like Rock of Ages and The Sweet By and By, with notes on writers such as Toplady, Bennett Webster Adams Wesley and Heber, plus Civil War anecdotes and related lore.
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Rock of Azer
Catt
Augustus Toplady
Artificial Silt Industry Advances in Europe and India
Reported thriving silt manufacture in Germany with diverse uses. Etherfield district outputs about 125000 dollars monthly. France has not improved the process to its advantages. The method mixes dry astra cellulose India rubber solution and a salt of Un with stannous chloride in specific ratios, then adds benzine to reach the desired consistency.
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Germany
Etherfield
France
Mindanao Insights Shape US Commission Opinion
A Mindanao correspondence argues US commissioners found diverse local governance in the archipelago. They note Chinese traders in Cattabatto control trade, with Datto led communities favoring American rule. Traditional justice and local guardianship remain intact, limiting heavy external reforms.
The Romance of Rubber Across Ages in Ainslee’s Magazine
An excerpt traces rubber’s journey from cradle to grave through a writer’s piece in Ainslee’s Magazine. It chronicles rubber’s omnipresence in toys, tools, medical items, clothing, transportation, sports, and industry, noting early history and modern growth with 150 factories employing 20,000 workers and a surge in manufacturing value from 1594 to 1899.
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New World
Herren
Columbus
Fall River Cotton Industry Leads American Mills
Fall River Massachusetts dominates U S cotton manufacturing with 41 incorporated companies, 82 mills, 26 million capital, 47 million investment, 3 million spindles, 71 thousand rooms, 29 thousand workers, and 172 thousand weekly payroll. It produces 843 million yards annually and digs more than 1500 miles of cloth daily. print cloth has long been staple though competition shifts to finer goods. The area claims one fifth of U S spindles, surpassing all but Massachusetts. Also mentioned are political intrigues in Russia surrounding M Pobyenotasisell and the young emperor, with Nichola praising his tutor in a letter.
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Chicago Tribune
Mindanao
United States Commission
Zamboanga
Cattabatto
Realife
Singspore
Hongkong
America
Lee
Fall River
Masa
Eghty-Two Milis
United States
Massachusetts
Blood Rain Mystery and Calabrian Blood Falls
A century old note describes rare blood rain events such as a 1590 sighting in Calabria where rain appeared as blood but was bird blood after study. Possible causes include desert dust storms or blood from migratory birds torn by high winds. Also mentions Alabama railroad earnings for 1900 at $20,867,550, up $424,553 from prior year.
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Luigi Palazza
Messignadi
Calabria
Public Health Laboratories
Rome
Alabama
Tha
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