Africa's Dwarf Tribes Across Equatorial Africa
Describes small-statured groups across West, Central, and East Africa. Notes hunters using poisonous arrows, scattered living, and lack of fixed towns. Distinguishes Batua Wambutu and Abongo types, links to Bushmen, and cites Stanley and Herodotus for height ranges.
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Eastern
Africa
Oskar Lenz
New York Herald
Professor Schweinfurth
Munga
Munsa
Ogowee
Stanley
Upper
Congo
Congo i
Albert Nyanza
Aruwimi
Semliki
Paria
Somauli
Galla
Equatorial Africa
Somauliland
Lake Tchad
Herodotus
Arctic Circle
South Africa
Great Lakes
Uledi
Abonzo
Kattiri
Equator
Senegal
Europe
Congo River
Nile
Esquimaux
Strabo
Death of Bucyrus Jeweler Ties to Town Clock Superstition
The Bucyrus Ohio jeweler Frank Kehrer, longtime town clock keeper, had fallen ill and the clock began running late. One Monday morning the clock struck five and shortly after stopped, prompting early risers to reflect on coincidences and fate.
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Kehrer
P. J. Smith
Hancock County
West Virginia
G. Smith
Wheeling
Bucyrus
Ohio
Frank Kehrer
Burial of a Queen in Corea’s Royal State Funeral
A letter from the capital describes the Queen Dowager of Corea as buried in grand ceremony with a two-part procession. The event featured banners and a large military escort, diplomatic observers, and a solemn ground burial at dawn. A table of meals for the departed ghost and temple tablet memorials accompanied the rites. The king and Chinese embassy prepared condolences as civil service exams paused and national grief dominated the day.
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Corea
Frank G. Carpenter
Crocodile Shooting on Shark River Becomes Harrowing Tale
A Florida crocodile encounter near Shark River ends in a dramatic hunt as four hunters pursue a 11 foot specimen. After harpooning and close-quarters combat, the animal is driven ashore and captured, then towed to Charlotte Harbor and sold for exhibition.
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Florida
Shark River
Everglades
Cuba
Tom
Beromins
Ned
Charlotte Harbor
Detroi
Free Press
Tks Ae
Cincinnati Feathers Market Tops the West
A Times Star report notes Cincinnati as the nation’s largest feather market in the West with over 5 million pounds handled annually. One firm ships over 1 million pounds, while city use exceeds 1 million pounds a year and ward pockets consume 150 000 pounds plus. Feathers come mainly from Ohio Kentucky Tennessee Indiana and Illinois with Illinois supplying the most.
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Cincinnati
Union
Times-Star
United States
Ohio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Indiana
Illinois
Mission Outpost in Thibet Under Moravian Care
The Moravian gospel mission in Thibet sits at 9400 feet with the Sutlej torrent below. The village of Poo is remote and accessible by difficult passes, isolation lasting much of the year. A missionary pair labor here, with the nearest post office 14 days' trek away and Europeans visiting perhaps once in years. For thirty two years the post has served as a center for evangelistic work.
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Thibet
Poo
New York Witness
Ericsson’s Exactness and the Drawing Rule
An anecdote about John Ericsson’s insistence on strict adherence to drawings in engine work. He halted a workman from measuring piston rods by sticks, insisting to take dimensions only from the drawing. His insistence ensured components fit as designed without improvisation.
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John Ericsson
Ericsson
A Cincinnati Idyl Romance Ends in Wedding
A Cincinnati Enquirer item recounts a romance sparked on Seventh street cars in the West End. A dainty office worker and a considerate mechanic formed a bond after a public moment of embarrassment, culminating in a forthcoming wedding.
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West End
Cincinnati Enquirer
Georgia's Giantess of Houston County
From Perry Georgia the report notes a 47 year old colored woman living on the Dick John plantation near Giovania in Houston County. She weighs 500 pounds and stands five feet eight inches tall with a waist circumference of seven feet. A single observer measured her. the article claims she fills the body of a one horse wagon and has gained about one hundred pounds in the last year.
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Georgia
Houston County
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