Promotions by merit in pensions office detailed
Commissioner Eugene F Ware outlines a merit based promotion system for his bureau. He details selection by division chiefs, non political advancement, and letters to promoted clerks stressing merit over influence. He recalls resisting outsider appointments and emphasizes steady advancement for internal staff.
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Ping pong craze boosts jeweler's watch repairs
A New York Sun interview quotes a jeweler who repairs watches about ping pong. He notes many players forget their coats and watches fly from pockets or dangle from waists. The erratic arm motion damages timepieces and women’s watches are repaired as often as men's. His earnings from repairs have nearly tripled.
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New York Sun
Eccentric Saxon King and Oddities in Transit
A fragment from a historical column reviews King Albert of Saxony’s private life and oddities, noting his reluctance to change clothes and a remark about knights in armor. It also mentions a judge’s allowance on wearing old uniform, a note on cleaner transit with horse counts, cinema horrors in Vienna, and Gosnold as Massachusetts’ smallest town with Cape Cod references.
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Lake Superior
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Uncle Sam
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Dresden
Massachusette
Gosnold
Massachusetts
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Cape Cod
The Trust Question and Political Maneuvering
A garbled excerpt discusses trust prosecutions and a Georgia Democratic leader James Mathews Frigas, describing his long legal career, congressional service, and a political rift. It includes unrelated quotes about marriage and a Chicago source, plus advertisement blurbs about Witch Hazel salves and patent medicines.
Dined Beneath Naples Submerged Dining Bell Event
A diving bell near Naples served as a dining room with a table hung from its roof by cords. Twelve courses were served to six guests while the bell stayed submerged. The dinner was prepared aboard four large barges moored nearby and moved to the firing-room when raised between courses.
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