Mammoth seal on Santa Fe train shocks Kansas City readers
A Wells Fargo express team faces a deadly mammoth seal aboard a Santa Fe train en route to New York. The male seal breaks its cage and attacks the messenger before dying. A second incident describes four brave girls on a bridge during a rushing train rescue.
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Frennk Tenry
Wells-Fargo Express
Santa Fe
Kansas City
Seal Islands
Pacific
New York Zoological
Express
Terry
Armour
New York
Long-sighted Detectives and Handwriting Reader Talent
A San Francisco Chronicle item notes Whitely, former US Secret Service chief, read a letter at thirty feet. It adds a man who watches a writer from a distance can infer the text by hand motion, while hotel clerks can read writing upside down.
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Whitely
United States Secret Service
Ife
San Francisco Chronicle
Noteworthy Global Observations and Local Statistics
A compendium of topics covers life insurance scope and mortality, liquor packaging rulings, Massachusetts industrial gender data, bank deposit guarantee schemes, naval life improvements, famine in Japan, planetary rotation, New Jersey rail accidents, Jamaican banana trade, foreigner hostility in Japan, and New York City's densely populated square mile with Italian speakers.
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United States Supreme Court
Iowa
United States
Foster
Topeka
Kan
Supreme Court
New York Herald
Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics
Nambers
Bay State
New York City
New Jersey
Jack
Japan
China
Scisparelli
New York
Little
Jamaica
West Indies
Tokio
Yokohama
Oue
Jilted Princess and a Wave Machine Tale
An 1890s-style chronicle recalls Princess Helen of Thurn and Taxis spurned by Emperor Francis Joseph for Elizabeth, then details a boasted wave machine project at Ocean Park and Lake Wamp. The piece blends royal intrigue with seaside tech fantasy and a Storm of 1889-90 context.
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Princess
Thurn-and-Taxis
Maximilian
Bavaria
Europe
Austria
Francis Joseph
Elizabeth
Helen
Naples
Count de Trani
Alencon
Prince of
Upper Austria
Silesia
Wurtemburg
Ratisbon
Ocean Park
Mr. Bood
The Canada United States Border Markers
The boundary between Canada and the United States is a real, marked line. Cairns pillars and posts mark the line from Lake Michigan to the Pacific with cast iron posts bearing the Convention of London date. Posts alternating between British and American sides and trees cleared along the line define it.
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Canada
United States
Lake Michigan
Pacific
Lake of the Woods
Rocky Mountains
London
Sawdust and glue fill nail holes to restore wood
The Scientific American recommends mixing fine sawdust with glue into a thick paste, pounding it into nail holes and letting it dry to restore wood. A correspondent credits thirty years of success for repairing perforated bellows frames where nails cannot be driven. Lead and putty fail where glue and sawdust succeed.
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Scientific American
Courage of Spawning Fish In A Rocky Nest
Fragmentary notes describe bass behavior during spawning with terms like bed or nest and goggle eyes. The text mentions a quarter pound weight and repeated action away from the nest as water moves and fish interact under rocks.
Fragmented OCR Golf Note With Odd Markings
A garbled OCR fragment mentions tees, irons, and uncertain markers with stray letters. It reads like a misscanned golf note or scoring hint and includes unclear directions about left and right sides and a paired symbol.
State engagement in sre marriage amid 2.70 figures
A terse note reports that 2.70 states are involved in sre marriage, signaling a small regional alignment. The snippet lacks full context, but indicates limited participation and a niche statistic.
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Pete Walters
Delaware, Lackawanna & Western Railroad
Binghamton Bridge
Gimen County
W. Va
Gilmer County
Cincinnati
Gilmer
Lord Stamford
South Africa
Winberg
Cape Town
Cheshire
Staford
Jane Grey
Oxford
J. B. Allen
Block Island
Xii. Y
Allen
Bristol
England
Johnson
Jonx Canary
Greencastle
Ind
Chicago
Wisconsin
W. J. Nelson
Johnny
Victoria
British Columbia
Justus John Burns
Ashland
Wis
Eechair
Burns
Alex
Sturm
Huntington
Newcastle
West Virginia
Logan
Guyan River
Jons Broos
Campbell, N. C
Globe
Plainville
Cal
Dijon
France
New Caledonia
Emperor of
Ces
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Oper Ocean Grove
The
Tae
York Acon
Norid
Ria
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Wweste
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Gonies
Nature
Bets la Lea
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