Alpine Avalanche and Society Notes of Oddities
A garbled compilation cites women thinning through theater, a famed pipe valued at 1 400 000, and jokes on intermission. It mentions a fruit propagator producing a feedless apple, air weight estimates, and gout rarity among Irish workers due to potato-rich diets. Also notes Atlantic liners stocking beverages for U S journeys, Danish royalty visiting Vredenborg Castle, rafting hazards off the Pacific coast, and Chicago plants worth over 10 million dollars with extensive yards and cattle, sheep, and hogs capacity.
Innovations in Russian housing and Rhodes anecdotes surge
Beds scarce in Russia while peasants sleep on ovens and the middle class cots near stoves. Cecil Rhodes is praised for fitness and Cape Colony racehorse stables. In Gomera Canary Islands natives whistle to communicate across deep glens, each syllable with a distinct sound enabling long distance messages.
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Russia
Cecil Rhoades
Cape Colony
Cape
South Africa
Rhodes
Gomera
Canary Isles
Chicago women open model lodging house for workers
Chicago women’s clubs launch a model lodging house to provide work and lodging at 15 cents a day or equivalent in labor. It rejects charity and offers an honest means of support, with fifteen organizations backing the effort as a pilot for expansion in the city.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Mhifteen
Singer Sewing Machine earns Grand Prize at Paris Exposition
The Singer Manufacturing Company displays its sewing machines at the Paris International Exposition in Group XIII Class 79. The International Jury awarded the Grand Prize to Singer sewing machines for design, construction, efficiency, and adaptability to all stitching, echoing prior recognition at Chicago's World Columbian Exposition. Readers are urged to visit Singer salesrooms across the United States.
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Singer Manufacturing Company
Broadway
New York
Singer
Singer Sewing Machines
Paris
Chicago
Singer Machines
United States
Censors Run State Press in Russia with New Publication Bureau
The Russian government now publishes news itself through a state press bureau and controls all home newspapers. Censors threaten punishment for any deviation, as illustrated by Count Uvaroff who warned an editor for praising Pushkin. One paper Gazeta Gatzuka faced suppression for disrespect to nobility. Some rejections cite insufficient need or already adequate local papers.
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State Councilor
Naratoff
Count Uvaroff
Pushkin
Uvaroff
Gazeta Gatzuka
Tamboy
New York Press
Eye Strain and Glasses in Later Life
Harper’s Bazaar warns that eye changes with age be beyond personal remedy and glasses may be needed before or after forty five. Reckless eye use worsens strain from fine reading sewing and veiled fabrics. test veils for visual interference before wearing.
Mysterious Miss de Morillac Weds in Quiet Bayou Castle
In a tale of secrets and devotion, Jack Hamilton recalls a life saving meeting with Miss de Morillac last winter. The Comtesse plans a quiet wedding near her Brittany estate while a grand homecoming awaits in the old castle.
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Baron de Morillac
Brittany
Julie
Jack
Mrs. Sefton
Jan
A New Range Finder Invention Demonstrated
A new range finder is claimed to vastly improve on existing devices. It shows distance on a dial the moment an object is focused, enabling quick and easy measurement by a simple glance through the instrument.
Songbirds Freed in Ohio Spark Arrests in Cincinnati
Ohio revives law against keeping native songbirds in confinement and in one month twenty eight people are arrested in Cincinnati for the offense with thousands of birds released.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
St Joseph Bridal Boom Sparks County Clerk's Fortunes
In St Joseph Michigan a wave of marriages driven by Chicago couples has filled the county clerk Needham's office and home with weddings. A bridal room was set up across the street, ministers and a justice of the peace on hand, and trains chartered to bring couples to town. About 1800 marriages in a year, peak 86 in one day, with clerks collecting license fees and political scramble looming as Needham declines reelection.
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Jack
Jack Hamilton
Antoine
Mr. Drouhet
Mademoiselle
Pete David
Tonie
John W. Needham
Berrien County
Mich
Michigan
Wisconsin
Chicago
J. H. Graham
St. Joseph
Needham
Gretna Green
Tor
Mishawaka
Ind
Charles F. Clark
W. A. Clark
Ina Jay Flower
Thomas McRoberts
Congregational Church
Prepared for the Worst
The Buffalo Express notes Americans will not be cowed by new threats from Scotland after resisting the so called Hoot-man lecturers and other scares.
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America
Scotland
Buffalo Express
Luxembourg roadside fruit tree planting since 1870
Luxembourg began planting fruit trees along public roads in 1870 and now maintains 12 368 trees spreading along major routes. The program reflects a long standing rural cultivation of fruit varieties and civic landscaping.
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Luxembourg
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R. C. McKixxey
Alpine
Pe -Aia
Ireland
Vredenaborg
Alexander III
Maximilian Havaria
Marie of Cumberland
Pacific Coast
Columbia River
San Francisco
Congress
Maude Sefton
Madame la Comtesse
Pere David
Rhett Roman
Brad
Trian
W.L. Douglas
W. L. Douglas
Aler
W. L. Joes
Ser
Duglas Shoe CO
Brockton
Mass
Houston
Reeseute Ooteberleth, Inc
Tae
Santa FE
Keenan
Pase
Texas
Southwest
P. J. Berckmans CO
Augusta, GA
C. B. Anderson & Co
Elm St
Dallas
Tex
Mere Srant Thompson
W. N. U. Houston
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