The Magic City of Pithole A Brief American Boom
The narrative recalls Pithole Pennsylvania rising from two farms in 1864 to a bustling oil metropolis by October 1865 with theatres hotels railroads and a large post office. By the late 1880s oil waned a fire ended the boom and most residents left leaving a desolate site with a church bell and scattered graves.
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America
Philadelphia
Jithele
Pittsburg
Buffalo
Titusville
Mystic City
U.S
Pithole
No. 4
Magic City
Murphys
Chase House
St. Cloud
Danforth
St. Nicholas
Morey
Pennsylvania
Dick Longwell
Oil City
Longwell
Dithole Daily Record
Copeland
Wpithole
Withole
National Hotel
Metropolitan Theatre
Murphy's Theatre
Morey Hotel
Battersea
Hubbs House
Deimonico’s Cafe
Johnson House
Dr. Christies House
First Street
Prather
Wadsworth
Holmden Street
Mats
Pennylvania
Bacteria in Butter Signal Food Safety Questions
Scientists in the Washington Star report on experiments with disease producing bacteria in butter to learn how foods may spread illness. They note that high quality butter preserved bacteria longer and that milk bacteria influence flavor, texture, and spoilage, with hopes farmers might inoculate cream with beneficial strains.
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Washington Star
Unique Fish Industries Highlight Morehead City Economy
The Morehead City shellfish trade is diverse with Beaufort canneries producing about a million oyster cans annually. Clams and lobsters with stone crabs and scallops are shipped. hide dressing for porpoises and dried sounds from certain fish support local industry. Fat backs menhaden oil and fertilizer manufacture also boosts the economy.
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Morehead
N. C
Beaufort
Sound
Morehead City
Baltimore
New York Post
A Galvanic Caterpillar Teaser
Electrician Carl Hering proposes a device to deter caterpillars from trees by alternating copper and zinc wires placed half an inch apart. When a moth or larva touches a copper wire it completes a circuit, delivering a jolt that repels or may kill the insect.
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Carl Hering
Mr. Hering
Mr. Catterpillar
Philadelphia
Zouave jackets rise in fashion notes from Chicago Post
The Chicago Post describes ladies wearing newly made zouave jackets open over lace or embroidered blouses with silk and velvet accents. Attire features snug backs, high Medici velvet colors, and occasional Byron style deep turns with lace ties.
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la Byron
Chicago Post
Queen Amelie of Portugal A Sterling Bourbon Orleans Figure
Queen Amelie wife of Dom Carlos King of Portugal daughter of the late Comte de Paris born 1865. She embodies Bourbon and Orleans traits, is tall and commanding with musical and watercolor skills. Trained by top tutors in France and England she supports Lisbon philanthropic schemes and her husband’s ministry. Her heir apparent Luiz Filippo prince royal and Duke of Braganza born 1887.
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Amelie
Dom Carlos
Portugal
Comte de Paris
Bourbon
Orleans
France
England
Lisbon
Luiz Filippo
Prince Royal
Duke of
Braganza
Hungarian Women and Fashion Notes from New Orleans Times-Democrat
The piece extols Hungarian women as vigorous, healthy figures with small feet and long braids. It also surveys fashion notes on textiles, trims, and gowns, detailing combinations like jet with fur, India Cashmere with silk, and evolving sleeve and glove styles shaping the season's style in London and New Orleans fashion circles.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
India
Bedford
Vienna
London
Prussian Decorations For Women Explored
The New York Press outlines Prussia’s female orders. The Swan Order originates 1410 and revived 1843 for meritorious nursing. The Order of Louis honors women for philanthropy and nursing service. The Cross of Merit celebrates women’s self sacrifice in war. Special medals were issued 1807 14 and 1870 71.
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Prussia
Louis
Frederick William Hf
William I
Germany
New York Press
Rules of Conduct From a Belle in a Small City
A Courier Journal excerpt presents a woman's handwritten rules for courtship. The list covers not smoking in her presence, refusing to have her photo kept by others, requiring a man to offer his arm, avoiding unsupervised outings, insisting on attending church, limiting gifts to small tokens, staying polite to her mother, and enforcing an curfew of ten o'clock for callers.
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Thom
Tom
Harry
Laont
Ps Church
A Wonderful Clock From New Haven On Display At Fair
Clock by Charles I. Hurlbut combines 300 wood varieties in 54000 pieces. Three feet eleven inches high, panels show natural light and shade. Parts include wood from the Liberty Bell beam and Dead Sea vicinity. Figures of Father Time and Satan move with chimes and doors revealing Death. Valued at 31000 and to be shown at the World's Fair.
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New Haven
Conn
Charles i. Hurlbut
New York
Dead Sea
Father
Satan
Father Time
Death
Time
A Big Hole in the Pole Belief Cited
The New York Journal notes a belief that circumpolar air waters flow to the pole by suction from an oceanic hollow, citing the Utama Sagi a fourteenth century semi sacred work as authority.
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New York
Oddities and Prospects from a Nation in Change
A column gathers varied notes from commerce to science and travel. It reports Belgian firearm exports, a Chicago electric horse, a Nebraska beet sugar boom, salt mining in Tompkins County New York, horse tail docking critique, Edison inspired flying theories, and a proposed national park around Lake Chelan with diverse wildlife and scenery.
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Tompkins County
V. Y
Ludlowville
Cayuga Lake
Myer’s Point
Lake Shore
Congress
Las Chelan
United States
Chelan Lake
Sete Ee
Kia River
Gue
Cascade Mountains
Te Ae Nations
Petites Es
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Warren Hastings
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University of Pennsylvania
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Lubbock
Helmholtz
Langley
Johns Hopkins University
Ray Lankester
Sir William Thompson
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