Bizarre relics and oddities fill late 19th century paper
The item list reports a skull flower pot in Paris Indiana and a sequence of oddities from around the world. Highlights include a gravely humorous skull artifact, imperial resignations for caregiving, journalist punishments in Japan, a three foot yellow striped reptile in Florida, a loaf sent to the White House, and a string of curious accidents and discoveries from Europe and America.
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W. G. van Brixierk
Terre Haute & Peoria
Paris
Ind
Makin
Cordele
Fla
Gum Creek
White House
Washington
Express
Diminutive millionaire Jacob Seligman built wealth from size
A Philadelphia Press profile portrays Jacob Seligman, a four foot tall trader nicknamed Little Jake. The German immigrant turned Michigan magnate owns railroads and banks, starting from eleven Saginaw clothing stores. His self-made fortune is valued around 15 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jacob Seligman
Washington
Jake
Germany
Michigan
Saginaw
Philadelphia Press
Million Stamps Hoax Tracked To German Schemer
The hoax asks for 1 000 000 stamps claiming to fund beds for invalid boys, orphanages, or homes. Originating in Stettin, Germany, the scheme uses appeals to aid orphans in Syria and China, then London New York and Cincinnati homes. Estimates run into over 100 million stamps in the U S alone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
United States
Australia
India
Stettin
Germany
China
Holy Sisters
Yellow River
Jerusalem
Munich
London
New York
Cincinnati
New
Long Living Animals Through History And Ancient Tales
An ancient account lists animal lifespans with cats at 15 years squirrels and hares seven to eight rabbits seven bears up to twenty dogs and wolves about twenty foxes fourteen to sixteen lions very long lived Pompey aged seventy elephants reportedly up to four centuries. The note adds Alexander the Great’s famous Ajax the sun dedication and other long lived species including pigs to twenty rhinoceros twenty nine horses sixty two with extremes, camels up to a hundred, swans to three hundred, a swan skeleton aged two hundred, pelicans long lived, and a tortoise aged one hundred seven.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Mich
Globe-Democrat
William Robinson
Port Huron
George Robinson
Shamokawa
Spokane Falls
Frank Warren
Cardinal Newman
P. Thompson
Pine Canyon
Cal
Guelph
Perm
Russia
Stefen Aberjen
F. W. Green
White’s Creek
Tenn
William Horrman
Sebewaing
Rickey
Milton
Oregon
Pompey
Alexander the Great
Porus
India
Ajax
Alexander
Jupiter
Cuvier
Vienna
Malerton
Do Lightning Rods Give Perfect Protection
The London Institution discussed lightning protection and concluded that a well designed earth connected lightning rod provides safeguard against steady cloud strikes but cannot guarantee immunity. In impulsive discharges the rod may bear the charge or be ignored, and a high rod could attract a discharge that would not have occurred otherwise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Institution
Liztning
Severe Seasons Through European Weather Anomalies
The record compiles historical weather extremes from M. Villard of Valence detailing mild winters and hot summers. Notable events include a 1282 Paris corn-flowers sale and Liege wine in August, 1408 icebound seas, 1473 74 heat waves, 1544 45 wine freezing in France, and 1572 73 river freezes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Villard
Valence
Europe
Paris
Liege
Norway
Denmark
France
Rhone
Self Murder: The Suicide Club and Methods of Death
The article surveys historical suicide patterns by gender and method, noting higher male self destruction rates across nations. It details extreme acts and devices, including a Connecticut youth’s guillotine, a Philadelphia man’s prussic acid and drowning, a New York despondent’s firearms, and Bridgeport’s Death by Own Action Club with pledged self execution.
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France
Spain
Germany
Ireland
America
Connecticut
Philadephia
Camden
N. J
Grand Street
New York
Bowery
Benjamin Hunter
John Armstrong
Hunter
Suicide Club
Bridgeport
Remarkable survival after tree accident
A man near Washington Star region endured a dire accident while felling a large tree. His foot was cut, his body trapped between trunk and branches, and he crawled home with a severed leg stump bound with moss and leaves before aid arrived.
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Washington Star
Accid
Cuttin
Loebnitz
Hs Fx
Renshaw
Middletown
Lochnite
Hebrew Libraries Bloom on New York's East Side
The New York Hebrew libraries feature Hebrew text mainly with a mix of central European languages. Books are well bound, long in proportion to width, often long in stock, and demand centers on light literature.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Chicago Herald
Science in Agriculture and its成果 in history
Dr Collier outlines how science transformed agriculture with examples from Pasteur discovering causes of silk worm disease and remedies, sugar beet developments in France and the U S, and early horticultural progress. He cites Napoleon’s stations for beet production and progress in berries, fruit, and orange cultivation abroad and in California.
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Collier
New York
Rochester
Pasteur
France
Australia
California
Great Warr Y
Witdin Forest
Soc
Columbus
America
Wedding Trip Ends At Oakdale Harbor In Simple Skiff Tale
A Detroit couple David G. Gale and Jennie Mathers wed and began a rustic wedding trip in a cedar skiff. They faced head winds and covered about twenty miles with rough weather and a storm. They found lodging under a farm shore, rowed along, and reached Oakdale harbor by noon on the sixth.
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David G. Gaie
Jennie Mathers
Detroit
Gale
Oakdale Harbor
Coast Line
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Chinese Turkestan
Japan
Jimmu
Christ
Nantes
M. Mahe
Siepring
Bavaria
Freytag
Stern
Feytag
Seattle
Diarbekir
Turkey In Asia
the Tarik
Melessa
Mahal
Strong Lin Uc Stainers
York
New York’s
Hebrew Libraries
Science In Agriculture
Ayaa
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