Corean Twins Draw Scientific Interest for Bond and Bravery
The Corean twins Liao-Toun-Chen and Liao-Sien-Ne-Chen, born in Corea and about 12, exhibit classic oriental features and share a membranous connecting band. Doctors note potential separation with low fatality risk, while their rapid English learning and modern schooling in Bridgeport showcase notable intellect and mobility.
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United States
Paris
France
Liao- Toun-Chen
Liao-Sien-Ne-Chen
Corea
Liao-Toun
Chen
Scientific American
Bridgeport
Conn
Intrepid navigator completes inland voyage by rowboat
Captain Howard Blackburn, famed for long sea journeys in a small boat, returns from a several thousand mile inland trip. He navigated Cape Cod to Atlantic City, Erie Canal to Chicago, Mississippi to Columbus, then sailed to Florida and Key West before selling the Laura K. Strong. Blackburn, the fingerless navigator, notes the inland voyage was doubly perilous.
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Howard Blackburn
United States
Cape Cod
Long Island Sound
Jersey
Atlantic City
Cape May
New York
Hudson
Erie Canal
Buffalo
Detroit
Chicago
Iinois and
Michigan Canal
Ilinois River
Mississippi
Columbus
Mobile
Ala
Gulf of Mexico
St. Joseph Bay
Pensacola
Tampa
Key West
Miami
Biscayne Bay
John R. Strong
Cambridge
Gloucester
Laura K. Strong
Mass
Atlantic Ocean
Blackburn
Reptilian Diet Prohibited in Kanees Statute
The statute in Kanees now bans eating snakes lizards scorpions centipedes tarantulas and other reptiles. It restricts habits and enforces compliance with a defined legal code across the region.
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Kanees
Phonographic Drum Aims to Boost Salvation Army Work
A Springfield Massachusetts Salvation Army detachment introduces a large phonographic drum mounted on a rubber tired carriage. An integrated phonograph will play sacred and popular music as troops march or gather for services. General Booth Tucker approved, hoping to improve results nationwide if successful.
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Booth-Tucker
Springfield
Tramps Await Summer Joy in Nostalgic Verse
A Chicago Tribune piece imagines the tramp character Dusty Rhodes and companions finding solace in summer. It contrasts harsh northern winters with harsher southern brickyards, depicting tramps sleeping in police stations and surviving on handouts, while eagerly awaiting warm weather and outdoor freedom.
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Dusty
Willie
Mike
Pete
Chicago Tribune
Dixie
New Orleana
Seath
Mason and Dixon
Chicago
Ilinois
Wisconsin
The Coffee Chewing Habit Alarm Grows
The coffee chewing habit is increasing due to pleasant taste and caffeine like effects. It is easily contracted and hard to break, with stronger effects than tobacco. It wrecks the nerves, yellows the skin, and destroys the appetite.
Spain's Young King Faces Impending Revolution
Observation of Spain’s turmoil notes mounting unrest since the war with the United States. Tax hardship, famine risks from frost and drought, peasant distress in Andalusia La Mancha Castile, troops called, archists active, and a royal court wary of growing republican sentiment amid republican gains in the cortes.
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Madrid
United States
Andalusia
la Mancha
Castile
Cordova
Burton Named Inspector General of the Army
Gen George H Burton has been commissioned inspector general and serves at Governor's Island New York. Born in Delaware and class of 1865 at West Point he fought in Reconstruction Indian wars Modoc Nez Perce and Bannock. He aided Cuban postal fraud investigations and is noted for long western service and extensive combat experience.
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George H. Burton
Army
Governor’s Island
Department of the East
Burton
Delaware
West Point Military Academy
Cer
Stoneman
Modoc
Nez Perce
Bannock
North Fork of the
Clear Water
Idaho
Jack
Mississippi River
Cuba
Cranberries Dominate Eastern Massachusetts Near Cape Cod
The Cranberry Country is concentrated in eastern Massachusetts near Cape Cod where the bulk of the nation’s cranberries are produced.
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Massachusetts
Cape Cod
America’s Cup vessel to be broken up after storied tenure
The old America, holder of the 1851 Cup, is deemed unseaworthy and its owner Congressmen Butler Ames of Boston plans to have the yacht cut up and distributed to yachtsmen worldwide. The piece recalls the vessel’s famed start at Isle of Wight and its long, eventful career from 1861 onward.
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Butler Ames
Boston
Atlantic
Governor Steers
John C. Stevens
Stevens
Steers
Sters
Maria
America
Marin
England
Salent
Isle of Wight
Sandown Bay
Queen Victoria
Aurora
Southampton
Engli
United States
Florida
George Steers
Kansas City Star
Royal Eagle
Ryde
That Boy Spooner: John C Spooner’s Career Preview
A reminiscence recalls Wisconsin’s John C Spooner, then a Civil War veteran and private secretary to Gov Lucius Fairchild, whom Senator Stark told to “step this way” and later predicted would become a U S senator. Spooner rose through law and politics to national prominence.
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John C. Spooner
United States Senate
Republicans
Wisconsin
Lucius Fairchild
Stark
Pri
Vate
Col. Spooner
Starks
Gov. Fairchild
John
Col
John C. Spoone
Theo
Wisconsin University
Immigration Law Mood Shifts Amid Italian Influx
Officials warn of sustained Italian migrant surge into the United States with 30,000 arriving monthly. Most settle in major cities and enter cheap trades, prompting possible strict new measures. Authorities cite a suspected pudrone contract system linking Italy and the United States and vow to investigate to curb importations.
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United States
Italy
Europe
New York
Treasury Department
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