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...Harper's barely kept up with the whizzing journalistic world. In the depression of the 1890s, it almost went under. Only in the nick of time did J. P. Morgan bail it out with fresh funds. In the mid-'20s, the emphasis on illustration and fiction that had won Harper's its fame was jettisoned as Harper's changed with the changing times. The magazine began to concentrate on current affairs...
Died. Julia Arthur, 80, Canada-born Shakespearean actress of the 1890s, widow of multimillionaire Yachtsman-Financier Benjamin P. Cheney (Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad); in Boston...
Nova Scotia-born Joshua Slocum taught himself navigation, by hard work advanced himself to master of clipper ships. But at a time when "our proud fleet of clipper ships was an anachronism," Skipper Slocum doggedly refused to switch to steam. By the 1890s he was without a ship and facing forced retirement. He began to think of his old boyhood dream of sailing alone around the world...
...stores. Britons were used to buying their tea in bulk; Lipton packaged it, hired sandwichmen dressed as Indians to parade through the streets advertising it, soon had everyone persuaded that tea and "Lipton's" were synonymous. By the time he moved his offices to London in the early 1890s, Lipton's name was a British household word...
...antidote to grumpy Jesse's grim career. Author Horan fills out his last hundred pages with the story of another Pinkerton-pestered train robber, jovial Butch Cassidy, whose fun-loving Wild Bunch operated out of Hole in the Wall, Wyo. in the 1890s. Author Horan thinks Butch's story is "more colorful and daring," but most readers will disagree. Even debunked, Jesse James is still the feature attraction in any Wild West show...