Strange tales mix with wonders from coast to coast
A sensational collage of oddities and scandals features a San Francisco widow hidden away by a hairy affliction, a legless farmer on a raft in Sullivan County, a $5000 postal-card damages case in Chicago, a suicide bid in Nizhneey Novgorod, and curious animal tales from Georgia to Oregon with a bear killed near Starucca and a salmon swallowing a watch in Astoria.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Chicago Times
Nellie Keane
Maurice
Alexander Sullivan
Chief Hubbard
Typographical Union
Thirty-seventh Street
Keane
Sullivan
Clifford
Astoria
Oregon
R. R. Vandemark
Starucca
Wayne County
Penn
Barnes
Bruin
Fishing in the Arctic Season of 1883
A Forest and Stream correspondent describes Arctic ice fishing by Esquimaux communities. Women and children fish from four foot ice using jigs of walrus ivory, whalebone line, and reindeer antler scoops. Fish gather in schools. a single woman can haul a bushel of small fish in a day. The season lasts to mid May with November shore fishing near shallow waters.
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Esquimaux
Train wreck tragedy tests Nell and Neil in sorrow
A high speed train halts after a severe accident injures the engineer. Nell rushes to the scene singing Annie Laurie, collapses upon seeing the wounded Jim. The crowd voices grief as Nell and Neil figure in the somber moment at a rural station.
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Jim
Tom
Nell
Annie Laurie
Neil
New York Sun
Reflections on Killing in Battle By an Ex Officer
An ex army officer recalls moral recoil from killing in war. He discusses sharpshooters, Bull Run memory, Chan cler s ville, and the haunting sense of responsibility for deaths. The narrative contrasts instinctive slaughter with personal remorse and the stark reality of battlefield death.
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Washington Star
Bull Run
Chancelorsville
Prehistoric ruins found near Russellville Kentucky
A cliffside site five miles from Russellville reveals a buried ancient city with a cedar overgrown approach. A large square fortlike building, 30 by 40 feet, uses massive stone blocks up to ten feet long in the foundation, standing about 35 feet high with three foot capstones.
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Russellville
Globe-Democrat
A Soldier's Quick Death at Petersburg Fort Haskell
A veteran observer recalls a Fort Stedman fight at Petersburg noting a soldier in a defensive action who fired from a gun staging. The engagement was small yet prolonged, revealing details typically unseen in open-field battles.
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New York Sun
Fort Haskell
Fort Stedman
Petersburg
Spiders and their deadly venoms and hunting habits
The piece describes a poisonous secreted fluid in spider jaws and disputed existence of venom. It recounts bites by Mygale Jusca causing long term pain, Tarantula myths, and notes certain tropical spiders killing small birds by nocturnal ambush and nest predation.
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Aroand
Longman’s Magazine
Gems in North America Prompt Modern Jewelers Hope
A Boston Transcript quote highlights belief in rich mineral resources in the United States. The jeweler notes rock crystal widespread in North Carolina Virginia Georgia Arkansas Colorado and Maine Mount Mica tourmaline moonstone sapphire garnets and other gemstones found domestically. He forecasts a future where US cities rival ancient wonders and wealth grows broadly.
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United States
North Carolina
Virgin
Georgia
Arkansas
Colorado
Maine
Mount Mica
Virginia
Mexico
Jerusa
Boston
Ants as Surgeons In Indian Brazil They Bite to Bind Wounds
A New York Examiner note describes ants as having powerful jaws that bite and grip even after many parts are lost. Brazilian Indians reportedly use large ants to pull together facial wounds by clamping jaws and wrenching flesh until the seam heals.
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New York Examiner
Brazil
Nes
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Billy Barber
Barber
Wolf's Pond
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Sherman
Nizhneey-Novgorod
Ossipoff
Tikvin
Clarke County
Firumore
Overisel
Allegan County
Mich
John H. Albers
H. A. Kroonmeyer
Fillmore
Jacop Frank
Chicago Medical Society
Frank
St. Elizabeth’s Hospital
Zeisler
Blue Lick
Trevanion Weir
Jeffersonville
Ind
Harvey Taylor
Kate Newby
Corbin Deer Park
Newport
N. H
Reed
Pilot
Monster Elephant
Wallace & Co
Peru
Exira Foster
Philadelphia
Russia
Tere
Vienna
Queen Victoria
London
Quadrant
Regent Street
Piccadilly Circus
Oxford Street
Arctic
Peicad
Bundy
Kentucky
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