Michael Strogoff Safely Escorts Nadia to Irkutsk
Michael Strogoff finds the Livonian girl Nadia in Nijni Novgorod and wins police permission to travel to Irkutsk as brother and sister. They board the Caucasus, with Nadia hoping to learn why she left the Baltic shores, while Strogoff guards their secret identity and watches for gypsy spies aboard.
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Michael
Volga
Michael Strogoff
Irkutsk
Siberia
Police
Caucasus
Nicholas Korpanoff
Imperial
Baltic
Ural Mountains
Nadia
Nijal Novgorod
Moscow
Sangarre
Birds Dress Wounds With Feather Bandages, Says French Naturalist
A French naturalist reports woodcocks partridges and other birds heal wounds using down from their own feathers. They create feather plasters and netted dressings to cover injuries, sometimes forming hemostatic shields or ligatures. A woodcock once wrapped its broken leg with a self-made feather bandage. The Toledo Blade notes three telephone circuits between New York and Atlanta.
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M. Dumontell
Toledo
Political uproar over Koester rejection petition in South Carolina
Republicans in Charleston discuss a Columbia report claiming a petition urged President Roosevelt to block George R. Koester from a federal internal revenue post due to alleged lynching involvement. The matter ignites party tensions as McLaurin supporters defend Koester’s nomination amid opposing foes.
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Charleston
Columbia
Roosevelt
George R. Koester
Internal Revenue
Koester
Senate
Washington
Booker Washington
White House
Ita
McLaurin
South Carolina
Senator McLaurin
News and Courier
Sane verdict on Czolgosz and his motives reported
Doctors Fowler Crego and Putman conclude Leon F. Czolgosz was sane at the time he planned and carried out the assassination of President McKinley and during his trial. They trace his evolution from sober worker to anarchist influenced by extremist leaders, noting his lack of belief in government law or courts as part of a rationalized, deliberate action.
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Czolgosz
Buffalo
McKinley
United States
Bill
Yellow Jacket
Wasp
New Orleans Times-Democrat
How Diaz Is Guarded and the Diaz Administration
Dr. Frank J. Toussaint returns from six months exploring northwestern Mexico and visits President Diaz in Mexico City to discuss mineral rights. He notes Diaz is always protected by secret service, with would be assailants blocked by detectives as he travels unseen, amid a wary security regime.
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Frank J. Toussaint
Mexico
Toussaint
Chihuahua
Sonora
City of
Diaz
Yaqui
McKinley
Secret Service
Cautionary police notes cited by Milwaukee Sentinel
The Milwaukee Sentinel quotes officials describing security practices after alleged threats to Diaz. Officers test weapons suspected by civilians and remind the public that detectives advise keeping hands at the side rather than clasped behind.
Word Pictures and Bible Expressions From the King James Era
The article surveys common expressions rooted in Bible verses, noting Psalms and Job as major sources and quoting lines like as fat as grease and I have escaped with the skin of my teeth. It mentions Laurence Sterne and a Century Magazine prize story about a bucking mule, then recounts Hanner's dramatic rodeo feat with a mule at a fairgrounds event.
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David
Job
Pneumatic Tools2020s: Air Hammer and Drill Revolutionize Industry
The article traces the development of compressed air tools from Westinghouse’s air brake to the modern air hammer and pneumatic drill. It highlights Joseph Boyer’s air hammer, its rapid strokes and variable force, the high productivity of pneumatic riveting, and the rock drill’s enhanced capacity to strike thousands of blows per minute, transforming railroad shops, shipyards, and iron works.
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George Westinghouse
Munsey
Joseph Boyer
St. Louis
The Smile Cure for Blues From a Minneapolis Doctor
A Minneapolis physician specialized in nervous disorders reports a drugless remedy for melancholy. By simply turning the corners of the mouth upward and maintaining the smile, patients allegedly lift mood and ease blue feelings, with women more readily accepting the treatment. The method grew from the doctor’s own home experience and is offered free to all.
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Minneapolis
Minneapolis Tribune
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Ty J
Ules Vern
Njurious
Riga
Perm
Nikol Novgorod
Nijni Novgorod
Milchael Strogoff
She
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Atlanta
Mr. Gonsales
Mr. Koester
Leon F. Czolgons
Milwaukee Sentinel
WORD
Tyre
Firekiel
Patrick Henry
Laurence Sterne
Century Magazine
John M. Oskison
Leland Stanford University
Indian Territory
Hanner
Fair Grounds
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