Mexican Mines and the Silver City Zacatecas
An observer details Zacatecas as a vast silver mining hub with tunnels, vast ore beds, and a bustling population. He notes the Mongol era to present profits, the extensive Bar Topanas mines, and Senator Tabor’s redevelopments. He praises Mexican mining laws, labor by indigenous workers, and the allure and risks of investing in Mexico’s mining boom.
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Rosamond
Bower
Frank G. Carpenter
New York
Zacatecas
Cortez
Mexico
Pacific Ocean
Gulf of Mexico
Chihuahua
Bartopnas
Gov. Shepherd
Washington City
Isumboldt
Republic
Humboldt
Tabor
Colorado
New England
Golden gopher of Wyoming and resinous tales of tail and pulp
A whimsical account describes the golden gopher of Devil s Bite Wyoming with a tail fifteen inches long that gleams like burnished metal and performs display behavior. It notes the animal s vainglorious tail and a related description of a pulp bearing fruit that ripens to a yellow, rotten-tasting pulp in a separate clipping from the Brooklyn Citizen.
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Devil's Bite
Wyoming
St. Louis Republic
Brooklyn
Edible Nests From Eastern Rocks A Luxury Food
Edible birds nests form a major trade between the Eastern Archipelago and China. They come from swallows that nest in rock caves and are made of a gelatinous nearly transparent substance now thought to be a seaweed. Collected after fledging, the nests fetch high prices in China and are valued for thickening soups and nutrition. each nest weighs about half an ounce.
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China
Abnormal Darkness Across Russian Caucasus Rail Line
A January 7 1891 report describes workers near Vendikafkass abandoning a rail job as murky gloom turned to near total darkness. The event sparked fears of quake or cloudburst and was linked to similar past episodes including May 1780 in New England and a 1812 West Indies cin der shower blamed on St Vincent volcano Belford's Magazine notes.
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Vendikafkass
Russian Caucasus
Newngland
Massachusetts
West Indies
St. Vincent
Belford
Tenement House Building Co Advances Utopian Plan
The second annual report from New York based Tenement House Building Company proves practical gains despite utopian aims. The firm liberalized site use for light air and courts, skipped first floor stores, and provided top sanitary plumbing. It chose Third Avenue over Fifth for tenant fit, yet earned four percent net on capital. The death rate in its buildings ran at fourteen per thousand versus citywide twenty five.
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Tenement House Building Company
New York
Felix Adler
Fifth Avenue
Third Avenue
New Orleans Picayune
Take Care of Your Gold Dust
A brief moral tale about Tom who earns praise for managing time wisely. His uncle notes the value of every moment as gold dust, a lesson Tom learned from his father and applies as he goes through college. The story contrasts wealth with time well spent.
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Tom
California
Reaper
The Bread Fruit Tree Described In Pacific Islands
The bread fruit tree is native to the Pacific islands and the Indian Archipelago, reaching forty to fifty feet tall. Its melon shaped fruit provides most of the inhabitants' food, hanging from small branches by a short thick stalk in solitary or clustered form.
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Pacific Ocean
Indian Archipelago
Possibilities of Electricity and Rapid Fire Guns
The article notes rising expectations for electricity influencing transit speeds and wireless telegraphy. It highlights Tesla's demonstrations that incandescence can be maintained with one wire and that certain lighting may remove wires. It also mentions a New York gun that fires 600 cartridges per charge with rapid sequential discharge.
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Mr. Edison
Nikola Tesla
New York
Chicago News
Water-Proof Nest Found By Prospectors in Washington
A prospector in Skamania county Washington describes spotting a water oasel nesting high above a mountain stream. He and a companion reached the site where the bird had leapt from a waterfall and found a water-proof nest built in a rock crevice with water pouring over it. He kept the nest and one egg as a relic of the trip in Vancouver Washington.
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Skamania County
Washington
Vancouver
Portland
Oregonian
Golden rule to prevent wrinkles and eye care advice
An authority suggests wide opening of the upper lid as a secret to prevent wrinkles. The technique tightens the skin beneath the eye and is paired with placid demeanor. Almond meal and olive oil rubbed across wrinkles, plus a silk scarf around the brow, are offered as remedies.
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Charity
Brooklyn
European Headsmen and Capital Punishment Across Europe
A survey of executioners across Europe detailing Reindel of Germany who beheads with his own sword, Heerwart’s case at Buckeburg, Austria by strangling or shooting with Sterneck’s cruelty accusations, Belgrade wheel executions, Norway’s Claeson and pillory memories, Sweden and Spain’s and Moorish practices with the carron and garrote.
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Reindel
Germany
Charles
Lord Hastings
Buckeburg
Schaumberg-Lippe
Heeerwart
Heerwart
Austria
Sterneck
Belgrade
Paulo Jovanovitch
Servia
Norway
August Claeson
Claeson
Trondhjem
Jansen
Continental Divide Range in Colorado Vast and Untouched
The Front Range and Continental Divide north of Longs Peak form a rugged, snow covered Rocky Mountain range. Dense spruce forests above timber line give way to granite cliffs and alpine flora. few explorers have ventured here. No rail access or metal riches, near Estes Park ranchers are the only inhabitants.
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Long's
Colorado
Rocky Mountain
Alps
Caucasus
Rockies
Estes Park
Mount Washington
St. Nicholas
The Goths and Vandals in the Fall of Rome
The Goths and Vandals were prominent Germanic tribes who overran Southern Europe from the 2nd to the 5th centuries. They pressed into Italy Spain and Africa waging attacks on Rome, supplying troops and weapons in Rome’s army, with Alaric and Genseric as notable leaders. The fall of Rome in 416 A.D. followed the combined assault of Huns Goths Vandals Alani and Franks.
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Europe
Danube
Alps
Baltic Sea
Italy
Spain
Africa
Rome
Alaric
Honorius
Genseric
Eudoxia
New York Dispatch
Deep Wells in Pennsylvania Among the Deepest in United States
The article lists several Pennsylvania wells among the deepest in the U S with depths from 3 008 to 4 618 feet. Notable sites include Homewood near Pittsburgh at 4618 feet and Buchanan farm well in Hopewell Township Washington County at 4403 feet. Other entries mention Wells at Titusville Titusville area and Westmoreland County shops.
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Ted States
Pennsylvania
Sargent’s
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Golden Gopher
Sweden
Calleja
Robledo
Morocc
Fez
Sura
New York Press
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