Alpine Avalanche and Diseases under Quarantine Policy
The report notes Alpine Avalanche and tuberculosis placed under quarantine. The immigration commissioner has not decided on a Japanese arrival in San Francisco who faces denial of landing and return to the port of departure. Archduke Otto, heir to Austria, is an artistic talent with a Vienna studio. He alternates between cavalry headquarters and his studio and often shows work anonymously. A St James Gazette writer credits Empress Haruka with aiding Japan's civilization and western ideas. She married the emperor thirty years ago and sits at the table and informs councils, setting a fashion against traditional beauty practices.
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Commissioner of Immigration
San Francisco
Japan
Archduke Otto
Emperor of
Austria
Academy of Fine Arte
Vienna
St. James Gazette
Haruka
Ponce
Pence
Diamonds Found in Interior British Guiana on Mazarin River
Diamonds of very fine quality have been found in considerable numbers in the Mazarin River interior of British Guiana about 260 miles above the junction with the Barsequibo. London dealers consider the stones superior to South African diamonds and equal to Brazilian quality. The diggings lie in a tropical jungle five miles from the river and are difficult to reach. The matrix is the focus of ongoing search.
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British Guiana
Mazarin
Basequibo
Moulton
Demerara
London
Brazil
Old London Doctor Debunks “New” Appendicite Tale
An elderly London physician argues in the Lancet that appendicitis or typhistia was known long ago, with older texts describing it, though confirmation came mainly through post mortems. Modern surgery with anesthesia and antiseptics allows timely treatment to save most patients unless frail.
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London
Black Sea currents and a penny concert in Cheater
Sir John Murray notes the Black Sea shows a surface current to the Mediterranean and a dense bottom current from the Med to the Black Sea. The bottom layer is saturated with sulphuretted hydrogen, making it lifeless below 100 fathoms and smelling like rotten eyes when raised. In Cheaster Pa a church hosts a Friday penny concert for children, crowded with all ages, offering a wholesome, valuable show for a penny.
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Sir John Murray
Black Sea
Mediterranean
Cheater
Ticket blown from window rides railroad in air
A Colorado and Southern northbound train loses a passenger ticket when a window is raised and the paper sails out. A southbound train passes, the ticket is swept along, and it is recovered by the baggagemaster in the smoking car.
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Railway Journal
Colorado and Southern Road
Slow Starvation and Squalor Haunt Porto Rican Poor
A 19th century report details extreme hunger among Porto Ricans, with high death rates in Ponce and elsewhere. It describes living conditions, malnutrition, and disease among the lower classes, plus the impact of a devastating hurricane and poor sanitation on health.
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United States
Ponce
Nature
Baku Oil Fields Use Bailers in Prolific District
A Casier's Magazine account notes Balakhani and Ali Baba near Baku as Russia’s most productive oil zones. It details bailer method operations, well depths of 500 to 1,000 feet, tube sizes from 16 to 18 inches down to eight to ten inches, and the efficiency of a one man bailer system versus American pumps and air lifts amid sand and gas dangers.
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Russia
Baku
Ali Baba
Balakhani
KE. H. Foster
Cassier
Don’t Jump in the Pool Warning Teased by Australian Squatter
A Melbourne girl visiting Western New South Wales recalls a creepy yet amusing incident. She saw a notice posted opposite the creek pool warning visitors not to use the pool for self harm. A deep dam nearby supplied water and three wanderers reportedly drowned in the pool within the last year.
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Melbourne
New South Wales
Pacific cable push eyed by Congress in new system plan
The Electrical World and Engineer predicts Congress will back a Pacific cable as soon as the election settles. It notes favorable sounding data and growing Far East trade, expects an American made gutta percha cable with U.S. ships and labor to lay it, and calls for learning from British experience to lead in the new century.
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Congress
Far East
Hawaiian Islands
Philippines
America
Reading matter for soldiers in the Philippines
Citizens may send magazines and other wholesome literature to Philippine soldiers to avoid transport charges by forwarding to any army commissary department. Books must be in good condition, packed securely, not addressed to individuals, and addressed to hospitals commands or libraries.
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Philippines
Army
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KR. C. McKixney
Alpine
Eqentor
Pacific
Eli Tise
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