Peculiar reading habit and curious cases in brief
A York correspondent reports a ten year old girl who reads only with upside down pages and may need relearning. Other items describe a Scotland court fining a dog owner and paying the license, a dog death by train, a bone library in New York, a clown goat in Ricamono Maine, and rare skin shedding in a Portland Connecticut child with other oddities from around.
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E. W. Brickley
York
Penn
Philadelphia Press
Justice of Peace Court
Dundee
Scotland
Christina Smith
Haliburton
Inland Revenue
Ricamono
Kennebec
Billy
Boston
Sunstroke symptoms and urgent home and medical care
The article describes sunstroke varyingly, noting exhaustion, cold moist skin, weak pulse, possible delirium and convulsions, and death. It advises prompt cooling, loosened clothing, wet applications, weak whiskey, head elevation, and medical call, warning not to misinterpret drunken behavior. It then mentions ballast salt usage and preserved fossilized insects in salt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn
Ship canals transform world trade through engineered passages
The article recalls early boat canals and railroads, then extols ship canals as modern fixes to natural barriers. It highlights Suez, the Isthmus of Corinth, the Malacca route, and the Sault Ste. Marie project, noting Lake system integration and Miami-style aims. It credits De Lesseps, Menocal, and Miller, and predicts widespread sea access transforming global commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erie
Suez
Europe
Africa
de Lesseps
South America
Greece
Corinth
Germany
North Sea
Baltic
Delaware
Chesapeake
Florida
Malacca
India
China
Great American Lakes
Sault Ste. Marie
Upper Lakes
Lake Erie
Chicago
Liverpool
Lake Michigan
Bay of New York
San Francisco Examiner
Salt Ballast Tracks Across Desert Railway
A Southern Pacific line traverses the Colorado desert using an unusually long stretch of track ballast reported to be composed of a saltlike ballast material. The note highlights the arid project setting and material choice in early railway construction.
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Southern Pacific Railroad
Colorado Desert
Remedy for Hydrophobia Skull Cap Heals Believers Old Text
The skull cap herb from its calyx offering a skull like shape is cited as a preventive for hydrophobia. Found in damp low places and sold by city druggists it is a nervine that reportedly prevented hydrophobia in people while animals bitten by the same dog died. Doctors discount it and doubt the disease’s existence, urging conventional cures though some still advocate this simple remedy citing biblical parallels. Boston Cultivator
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Patrick Woop
Bellevue Hospital
New York City
Woods
Jordan
Boston
The Canadian Contingent
Rev. E C Amazon president of the French Protestant College at Springfield Mass says there are 500000 French Canadians in New England and New York and 1000000 in the United States. He notes rapid growth by immigration and large families with ten or twelve children per family. About 35000 are Protestant. the rest are Roman Catholic.
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E. C. Amazon
Springfield
Mass
New England
New York
United States
Canada
New Orleans
Hunting the Shark. An era of fierce sea sport and danger
A personal narrative describes shark fishing as a strenuous athletic challenge rather than a mere pastime. The author recounts a fourteen-foot shark battle in the Gulf, the shark’s bulk, strong line breaks, and a dramatic tale of a man drowned when a shark capsized a rowboat. A final observation notes ferocity in sharks and cites a sensational incident from a New York Commercial Advertiser report.
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Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Pacific
Gulf
New York Commercial Advertiser
New Congress Creates 1700 Offices With Salary Total
The last Congress established 1700 offices and set yearly salaries totaling 4,940,462.22 dollars.
HOW THEY VOTE IN JAPAN DESCRIBES LOCAL POLLING RITUALS
Voters arrive at a rural hall with careful customs. An agent writes ballots and seals official envelopes. Some require clerks to inscribe ballots in kana or Chinese characters. Voters bow to inspectors, present name and address, and deposit ballots with quiet decorum.
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O'S
Suungayt
A. Cornae
Tam the Emperor and an American Girl at Potsdam
A New York Recorder tale recounts an American girl who secured permission to perform before Kaiser Wilhelm II and the Empress at Potsdam. The Empress listened as the girl played, the Emperor briefly complimented her, then introduced himself amid tense yet cordial moments.
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William
Potsdam
Berlin
Aly
New York Recorder
Derivation of America Traced Through Linguistic Notes
In a Paris Society reading dated October 1, 530, Colonel Glenn recalls a discussion by Carrillo of Yucatan arguing that Ameri ka derives from Ameli ka in Aztec meaning The Country. The snippet notes how Spaniards, Alberic Vespuci and others adapted the name into Americus andAmerigo Vespucci, paralleling trends in translating Chinese names.
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Colonel Glenn
South America
Society of ‘Am Canistas
Paris
America
Carrillo
Yucatan
Cortez
Mosquito Coast
Alberic Vespuci
Americus
Amerigo
Vespucius
Gordon Ha
New Orleans
Picayune
Lost silver thimble found in cow’s liver mystery
A silver thimble belonging to Mrs. John Starr of English was found in a cow's liver after the family killed the beast. A calf had run into the yard earlier and accessed buckets, possibly discovering the thimble. Scientific men were thought to solve the odd incident.
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John Starr
Worth of 1802 half dime tops at twelve dollars
A historical coin note states the most valuable half dime dates to 1802 and its value is twelve dollars and seventy five cents.
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St. Paul
Ind
Flatrock River
Pernars
Bone Circulating Library
College of Physicians and Surgeons
James Smedick
Portland
Conn
Cincinnati
Bright Star
The
Hull
Central America
Tene
Levy County
Fla
Maine
Birdseye
Japan
Tam the Emperor
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