The Glorious House of George W. Childs in Philadelphia
A marble residence at Twenty second and Walnut once hosted presidents generals and royalty. Built 1869 for George W Childs publisher of the Ledger, it welcomed Grant and his cabinet and later entertained Brazil’s emperor and empress and many English aristocrats. Notable guests included Hayes Arthur Cleveland Edison Vanderbilt and Carnegie. Since 1894 the mansion has stood vacant passing through several owners and ending with the Weightman estate.
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Philadelphia
Twenty-second
Walnut Streets
George W. Childs
The
Ledger
Quaker City
United States
Childs
John McArthur, Jr
Grant
Gen. Grant
Sherman
Sheridan
Meade
Hancock
McDowell
McClellan
Brazil
Mr. Childs
Duke
Duchess of Buckingham
Duke of Sutherland
Duke of Newcastle
James Russell Lowell
Cardinal Gibbons
Sir Edwin Arnold
Bishop Potter
Archdeacon Farrar
Weightman Estate
Shaw Heads New Concern In New York
Leslie M. Shaw, who retired as secretary of the treasury on March 4, becomes president of Carnegie Trust company, succeeding Charles C. Dickinson who resigns to become vice president. Shaw's salary is reported at $23,000 a year. He had been sought by several Wall Street firms and previously linked to United States Trust and Standard Oil circles, with a noted friendship with James R. Keene.
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New York
Leslie M. Shaw
the Treasury
The
Carnegie Trust Company
Wall Street
Shaw
Standard Oil
Lyman J. Gage
United States Trust Company
Treasury
Stock Exchange
James R. Keene
Kennel in a hollow tree: fox terrier and puppies home
A fox terrier and her two puppies have taken up residence inside the hollow trunk of a large elm in the front yard of W. J. Boland’s Englewood home on the Blue Ridge road in Kansas City Missouri. The tree’s interior provides a natural kennel for the dogs.
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Kansas City
Hye
W. J. Boland
Englewood
Blue Ridge Road
Hollow ground houses a family of dogs under old rug
A hollow ground serves as a shelter with an arched opening covered by a rug to keep out the cold. Inside, a family of dogs lives comfortably in the improvised home.
Stranger from the East Visits South Dakota Town
A traveler from the east questions local Indians while stepping off a train in a South Dakota settlement. Amber Pete explains they once saw themselves as bad but have since been influenced by paleface colonists in the divorce colony, leading to a more deferential stance.
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South Dakota
Pard
Amber Pete
Flynn discusses German burglar alarm with reporter
William J. Flynn, noted secret service agent, talks with a New York reporter about a German burglar alarm. He recalls a thick-set man who visited a hardware dealer saying he wanted to sell 400 burglar alarms. The dealer asked if he was a manufacturer. The man replied, No, I am a burglar.
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William J. Flynn
Secret Service
New York
Mr. Flynn
Self Amputation Story Of Civil War Captain January
Capt. J. W. January of Dell Rapids South Dakota died after a long illness. He recalled his Civil War death defying ordeal as a prisoner in Andersonville where he amputated his own feet with a pocket knife to survive. He later recovered weight and lived many years with no further amputations.
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J. W. January
Dell Rapids
South Dakota
South
Peoria
Stoneman
Macon
Andersonville
Atlanta
Charleston
Florence
8. C
Lincoln Bullet Skims Near President At Fort Stevens
Lieut Col William P Roome of the 15th New York relates that a long range bullet struck President Lincoln’s thigh during the Fort Stevens fight. Lincoln stood close by Roome, viewing the battle as heavy firing rang out. The bullet did not injure him and fell to the ground as the president briefly smiled.
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Lincoln
William P. Roome
Stxty-fifth
New York
West
Sixth Street
New York City
N. Y
President Lincoln
Fort Stevens
Johnny and the Blankets in the Snow
A Civil War veteran recalls sharing a blanket with a lonely Confederate soldier named Johnny. On a freezing night in Tennessee the southerner begged for warmth, and the narrator secretly provided blankets from the commissary. The encounter ends with Johnny kneeling in prayer as he vanished into the night.
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Cnet
Tennessee
Yank
Johnny
Teald
Glory
Notice At Our Clients from Portuguese Fruit Merchants
A Lisbon based firm of preserved fruit merchants issues a humorous notice warning customers to demand the authentic medals and registered marks in all boxes to avoid imitation. It threatens penalties for adulterating marks and copying designs, plus actions for damages to merchants and manufacturers.
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Portugal
Esperanto Compiler Zamenhof From Bialystok Scene of Massacre
Professor Zamenhof, compiler of Esperanto the international language, hails from Bialystok the massacre scene. His father and grandfather were language teachers, his profession an oculist. Four languages spoken in his hometown inspired the idea of an international tongue.
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Zamenhof
Russia
Bialystok
Portable printing device aids blind communication
A portable printing set for the blind devised by Director Vaughan of the Quinze-Vingts asylum in France is described. The device uses Braille based characters cast as dual symbols with a Braille letter on one end and a Roman letter on the other, plus a tongue at the base to indicate position.
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Vaughan
Quinze-Vingts
France
la Nature
Literary Digest
Type setting device for the blind using Braille grille
The article describes a case based device where Roman letters sit on an ink pad and a movable grille accepts Braille characters for the blind to read by touch. It explains both writing to a blind person and composing text for printing, noting practicality and likely service to the visually impaired.
Safe pocket matches patent promises safer ignition
A Massachusetts man advocates pocket use of safety matches with a patented design. The match features a concaved channel along the splint carrying ignition material, allowing two matches to ignite by head contact, enabling a hundred to be carried without risk and no wall marking needed.
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Massachusetts
Origin of life theory challenged by prolonged heating
Dr H Charlton Bastian reopens experiments on spontaneous generation claiming proof after heating sterilized saline solutions in hermetically sealed tubes to 100 130 degrees C. He reports life forms arising in deposits at the tube bottom despite clear liquid above, suggesting silicon may enter protoplasm replacing carbon in some organisms.
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Bastian
London Graphic
Age of fishes determined by otolith rings
The age of fish can be read from ear bones or scales. Otoliths grow with white rings from spring additions and black rings from autumn growth. White rings yield accurate ages, with otoliths more reliable for flat fish, while scales better suit pollock and cod.
Cork Forests Open for Profit With Improved Transport
Cork forests lie in several Moroccan regions. When orders are established and transport costs drop through road and bridge construction, these forests could become profitable.
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Morocco
New South Wales to Build Vast Dam at Barren Jack
The government of New South Wales plans a dam at Barren Jack on the Murrumbidgee to create a reservoir about 40 miles long and over 22 billion cubic feet of water. The lake will hold 60 percent more than Sydney harbor and will supply irrigation. It stands 200 feet high in a gorge cut through a granite ridge, rivaling the Nile dam in scale.
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Government of
New South Wales
Barren Jack
Murrumbidgee
Sydney Harbor
Nile
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Dufferin
Rosebery
Haughton
Uchester
Ross
Iddesleigh
Reyleigh
Herschel
Calthneas and Dunraven
Stafford Northcote
Lady Franklin
Childses
Legion
Hayes
Arthur and Cleveland
Edmund Quincey
Justice Waite
Ass Packer
Hamilton Fish
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Thomas A. Edison
Simon Cameron
Henry Wilson
William M. Evarts
James G
NEW Concern
Charles C. Dickinson
Mr. Shaw
Hi Big New York Trust Company
Doge
Hollow Tree
January
Rebs
Wilmington
N. C
David's Island
Sciencit
H. Charlton Bastian
Huxley
Tyndall and
Pasteur
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