Hermit of Traverse Bay Holds Island Claim in Disputed Waters
Dick Bassett, the Hermit of Traverse Bay, Michigan, has inhabited a one acre shoal island in the bay's west arm for twelve years, paying no taxes or voting due to U S jurisdiction disputes. He receives visitors, keeps an open cabin, and plans to stay even if the island does not exist.
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Dick Basser
No Man's Land
Traverse Bay
Michigan
Marionsland
Jassett
United States
Washington
Bassett
Green Howett
Midville
Green
Auburn
N. Y
Wellesley
Mary
Mail Cars on Railroads Move Mail Across the Nation
The article explains Railway Post Office cars on U S lines as mail sorting rooms behind engines. Crews vary by run length with day and night teams, two or more cars on busier routes, and rest weeks after a working week. It notes long Western runs and specific lines like New York and Chicago with multi-section crews.
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United States
New York
Chicago
R. P.O
Railway Post Office
Boston
Albany
Springfield
Portland
Island Pond
Cedar Rapids
Syracuse
Cleveland
St. Nicholas
Remarkable Petition from India and Royal Lineage Shifts
A petition from over two thousand Indian women to Queen Victoria seeks to raise the marriage age from ten to fourteen. Other items note Krupp’s fatal impact on soldiers, vast U S landholdings, harsh dog laws for sheep, Texas size comparisons, European royal arrivals, Siberian convicts, railroad dividends, and Japan’s new strict mass meeting law with police control.
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Victoria
India
Tey
Krupp
United States
Alaska
A Chinese View of Us and Chinese esteem in letters
A learned Chinese observer notes Americans excel in mathematics and mechanics yet must concede philosophy and letters. He cites a letter from Yung Wing, a scholar diplomat, discussing a convention for promoting general adoption of certain ideas among Americans.
How Animals Die and Self-Selected Death in Nature
A St Louis Republic excerpt reflects on animals dying alone, noting whales beach themselves when ill and other animals desert weak companions. It argues creatures often exit their environment to die, a form of death by own action observed in the animal kingdom.
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Omaha
Neb
William
Holland
House of Orange
New York
Wilhelmina
Europe
Alfonso
Spain
Servia
Nassau
St. Louis Republic
The Symphony of Gray Hair on State Street
A septuagenarian woman stepped from a car on State street and drew admiring glances, her gray velvet bonnet matching a gray suit and wrap. The article praises silver hair as a beauty setting, calling her a “symphony in gray.”
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Eldom
State Street
Chicago Tribune
A Cold Weather Coincidence Across Severe Winters
An aging correspondent recalls a pattern of remarkably severe winters with heavy snowfall in 1860-61 1870-71 1880-81 and 1890-91. The Pall Mall Gazette notes a rate in aid from a longer memory, as the piece blends memory and observation on climate history.
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Pall Mall
England
Gazette
Lungs and Adipose Link to Actors Weight Gain
A Pittsburg Dispatch note discusses experiments in lung expansion in pure air as a method to increase flesh. It claims deep breathing aids food assimilation and raises the tendency toward stoutness among performers on stage and screen.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
Monster Whale Trap Report Confirms Large Haul
European papers claimed a vast catch by Loffedes Island fishermen off Norway. It now appears 1 122 whales were captured, cetaceans known as caning whales, about fifteen to twenty five feet long, trapped inside a locked bay following a shoal through a narrow entrance.
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Loffedes
Norway
New York Voice
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Weather Bureau
Bermuda Islands
Havana
Key West
Bermudas
Atlantic
West India
Western Gulf
Duel Island
Savannah River
Benjamin S. Perry
Byrum
Perry
Hugh
Australia
Kerang
Lodon
Mass
John
Denine
Beattie
New York City
Cynthia Westover
Miss Westover
Department
Treasury
Westover
Tol
Glatz
Breslau
Gilchester
Kent
Portsmouth
Highgate
Liverpool
America
Lima
Peru
Massachusetts
Texas
United States and Territories
Ohio
Eastern
Middle States
Delaware
Maryland
Austrian Empire
German Empire
France
Arssian
Siberia
Sachalin
Cv “Ning
Paris
Vienna
Los Angeles
Cal
New York Times
New Hampshire
Newport
Austin Corbin
New England
Far West
Japan
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