Chilean War Letter From a 15 Year Old Daughter of a Planter
A Chilean girl aged 15, daughter of a planter, describes the civil war under Balmaceda. She recounts Congress clashes, the President’s suppression, the descent into martial law and prison crowds, naval uprisings, and the opposition press. European powers recognize Congress. The Times covers the war.
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Congress
London Times
The
Illustrated London News
Chile
Ana Luisa J
Valparaiso
Luxurious Trains Describe Pullman Transcontinental Cars
The New York Sun outlines the Pullman transcontinental train with vestibule drawing room and sleeping cars an observation car a dining car and a composite smoking car The vestibule composite car features a baggage area a barber shop and bath room a cafe and a rear smoking room Four sleeping cars offer twelve sections two double berths and two drawing rooms each with movable lights and a ladies bath in one car The dining car seats forty at ten tables with a four cook kitchen An observation car at the rear provides an open hardwood room with furnishings and a deep end recess serving as a platform for about twenty people A stenographer will operate in a small forward office writing and mailing letters for tourists gratis
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New York Sun
Pullman Company
The Oldest Living Horse Ivanhoe of Major Maas
The oldest horse on record, Ivanhoe, is owned by Major Robert Maas of Louisville Kentucky. At over forty seven years old he bears a Buena Vista scar and has outlived many horses while living a peaceful life with his master and children. Though deaf and toothless he roams the pasture and still enjoys riding by the Maas children. He was last seen at the Lexington cattle fair, where his mane and tail were shaved for relics.
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Robert Maas
Louisville
Ivanhoe
Buena Vista
Major Maas
Lexington
New York Journal
The Dancing Mania Across Fourteenth Century Europe
The dancing mania was a nervous disorder that swept Germany from Aix la Chapelle around 1374, affecting many who danced until exhausted. It spread to France and Italy, with authorities punishing dancers, but the disease ran its course and faded. Much later, during the French Revolution, crowds danced to the Carmagnole in Paris.
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Germany
Aix la Chapelle
France
Italy
Netherlands
Boston Transcript
Somnambulist on a Trestle Narrowly Escapes Death
George Wilson a fourteen year old boy from Rockport suffered a close call early Tuesday morning after wandering onto a riverbank farm near the Nickel Plate trestle about 200 feet from the structure. He escaped injury by a narrow margin with his family reporting the incident.
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George Wilson
Rockport
Devil's Dance Among White Mountain Apaches Described
Frank Leslie's details a ritual called the devil's dance honoring a departed Apache chief. Five dancers—four warriors and a masked boy as the chief's spirit—wear ornate headgear, perform around a blazing campfire with tom-toms, chants, and symbolic battles with a rawhide monster.
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White Mountain
Arizona
Nick
The
Gila
Frank Leslie
Improved Sewing Needles Hold Thread Without Slipping
A new sewing needle secures the thread at the eye unlike ordinary needles that use a running thread. The eye is round or oval at the base and chisel shaped at the head to elasticize the top, preventing thread cutting and slipping.
Chased by an Engine in a Night Mountain Run
A veteran engineer recalls a perilous night on the Pittsburgh division. A land slide, a wild chase from Gallitzin to Altoona, and a runaway helper engine nearly colliding with his train. quick action and braking save the crew as the pursuer stalls near Altoona.
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Union Depot
Altoona
Pittsburgh
Greensburg
Johnstown
Blairsville
Jack
Conemaugh River
Cresson
Allegrippus
Gallitzin
Altoona Yard
John
Kittaning Point
Aztecs Left Remains in Michigan Mound Discovery
Chicago Herald reports a Montcalm county Michigan mound near Home township where Aztec burial goods were found. A clay casket held a reclining female figure and a tall man skeleton. the grave shows charcoal and ash layers suggesting ancient cremation.
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Montcalm
Home
Michigan
Wood-Messay
Cassett 4
Chicago
Hera
Curious Clue Ties Brooklyn Suspect to Iowa Theft
Harry Sullivan alias Gordon, 20, arrested on Court Street Brooklyn after a telegraph from Clinton Iowa. Officials traced a missing advertisement and a bank deposit plan to Sullivan who confessed after finding funds to be used for railroad fares and board.
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Harry Sullivan
Gordon
Court Street
Brooklyn
Campbell
Clinton
Iowa
Edmund Walsh
Sullivan
Orson
Clifford
Tive
Rhoades
Sunto
Railroad Feres and Board
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Chili's Revolution
President
Chili
Harper
Jose Manuel Balmaceda
Balmaceda
Isadro Osso
Santiago
Courts of Justice
Naval School
Board of Health
Santa Maria
San Gabriel
Lenares
la Revolucion
el Constitucional
Tarapaca
Coquimbo
Marshal Stanton
Stanton
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Benumb
Ison
Corol
Seventeenth Street
Philadelphia
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