Amazons and oddities in distant dispatches from 1900s era
A collection of curious reports from Vienna to Texas and Nova Scotia includes three Polish women seeking to form an Amazon corps for the Austrian army, a Texas ice endurance bet settled after one hour, a Nova Scotia man revived from death's door after a relapse, pink snow speculation near Aspen, a Paris Texas horse eating chickens, remarkable fat removal operations, and a string of peculiar incidents from shipwreck treasure to car riding dogs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franz Joseph
Austria
Lemberg
Ministry of War
Vienna
Kurer Lwowsky
Inemberg
Amazon Free Lancers
San Antonio
Texas
Albert Wander
Antone Stuckenberg
Wander
Stuckenberg
Kennetook
Hants County
Nova Scotia
Alfred Miller
Miller
C. S. Cooper, Snr
Monte Cristo Mining Company
Aspen
Col
Maroon Gulch
Paris
A Curious City of Oyster Town in Accomack County
A New York Sun account paints Franklin City as an old, stilted harbor town in Accomack County with oyster industry at its heart. Residents mix Jersey and Maryland roots, live by the water, rely on oyster work, and enjoy high mailroom wealth with postmaster Bill Gibbs noting hefty incomes among 12 dockside workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin City
Accomack County
New York
Assateague Beach
Jersey
Maryland
New England
Bill Gibbs
Philadelphia
New York Sun
Alcohol drinker of straight alcohol in Kansas City
A Kansas City Times piece discusses men who drink straight alcohol daily, depicting the alcoholic slave as more depraved than the average drinker. It highlights an unnamed old fiddler who roams hotels and saloons, always with a flask of white alcohol and no water, drinking to the point of immediate physical distress.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Kansas City Times
Achievements in Surgery Reported at Berlin Congress
The Berlin surgical congress showcased Professor Gluck using catgut ivory and bone to repair defects in bones muscles and nerves with no shortening. He cited cases with six to ten centimeters of catgut replacing gaps in hand tendons restoring mobility. Other cases included ivory bone grafts after tumor removal and catgut nerve repair with satisfactory function.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Gluck
Two kinds of happy men and a Massachusetts clergyman
A Persian proverb on two kinds of happy men contrasts the ignorant man who thinks he knows all with the learned man who knows there is more to learn. It recalls maxims of a Massachusetts clergyman: fools, sleepers, and the wise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kim
Massachusetts
Daring Band of Thieves Felt Up London Jewels
A clever gang led by a stylish young woman plied jewelers with a shilling charm and a pie paper request for copper coins. As the organ grinder and bogus policeman staged exits, the crew snatched stones and vanished, leaving merchants with ruined schemes and few arrests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ial
Warre
New York Press
Peanut bill prompts confession at Detroit news depot
A Woodward avenue news shop sued a morning customer for two peanuts daily over four years, totaling $2.15 after calculating 2,496 peanuts at five cents each. The man paid the bill. Nearby, residents reported a rain shower dropping wormlike grubs about 1.5 inches long near San Andreas station.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodward Avenue
Detroit Tribune
Mr. L
Who First Discovered America According To A New York Voice
The passage surveys various claims to the discovery of America. Egyptian priests, Norwegians, Welsh, Italians, and Spaniards are cited as naming individuals or peoples who reached or described parts of the continent before or around Columbus. It notes Columbus and Cabot as contenders with Italian origins but under different flags.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
Europe
Africa
Atlantis
Greenland
New England
Madac
Prince of Wales
North America
Zeno
Americus Vespucius
Spain
Columbus
Sebastian Cabot
New York Voice
Rob Roy’s Sword On Long Island Historical Society Display
A five foot long claymore attributed to Rob Roy MacGregor is displayed in Brooklyn at the Long Island Historical Society. The two century old blade weighs about fifteen pounds with a brass basket hilt and leather remains. The relic, once shown at the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial, belongs to John MacGregor of Brooklyn and is exhibited by courtesy of Mr. MacGregor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Long Island Historical Society
Brooklyn
Rob Roy MacGregor
Scott
Rob Roy
John Mac- Gregor
Philadelphia
Also Mentioned on This Page
London Daily News
M. Hiroguelle
Wild West
United States
Rockingham County
N. CC
David Stokes
Stokes
Chester
Penn
Philadelphia Record
Central Asian Railway
Joliet
Ill
Switzerland
Rock Island
John Deutsch
Baltimore
Maryland University Hospital
L. B. Carriox
Atticus Luna
Clifton
Earl of Roseberry
Ilanvano
Tuer
District of Columbia
Virginia
Daring Band of Thieves
Commercial
London
San Andreas Station
Watsonville
Cal
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