Counterfeit Fractional Currency and Its Aftermath
In a sub-treasury report, a young man tests ragged fractional notes, with a clerk stamping counterfeit ones and redeeming the rest for two dollars and a quarter. It explains how little old currency remains redeemable, how much is lost to wear, fire, and hoarding, and notes a wealthy holder who keeps old coins as luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brady
Sub-Treasury
R. C. Haff
Mr. Haff
South Ferry Company
Ferry House
Haff
Treasury
Washington
New York Evening Sun
Lewiston Journal
Sacred Thumb Nail Drawings Attract Attention In Orient Art
A Cincinnati Enquirer item notes strange sacred thumb nail drawings from the Orient, where artists use exceptionally long thumb nails to create vermilion and sky blue outlines, sometimes life size, mounted like scrolls. It also recounts Mr. J. D. Young dreaming of a murder with Italians arguing over a knife, naming a coachman named Mark Taylor, prompting a puzzled reaction from John Henry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Orient
St. Louis Republc
J. D. Young
Mark Taylor
John Henry
Young
Mr. Henry
Henry
Taylor
Mr. Young
Global river depths shrink as harbors fail to deepen
The St. Louis Republic notes widespread declines in water levels as New York harbor cannot be permanently deepened and the Hudson River grows shallow. It laments the Des Moines river no longer supports navigation and observes rivers worldwide losing water, with steamboats inactive for decades.
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New York Harbor
Hudson River
Lake Champlain
Hudson
Des Moines
Iowa
Raccoon Fork
St. Louis Republic
Technical School for Textiles Planned in Verviers Belgium
Belgium to establish a technical school covering spinning weaving and dyeing in Verviers. Local manufacturers contribute 200000 francs for the building. Annual running costs estimated at 75000 to 85000 francs with government funding of 85000 francs and Liege province 15600 francs yearly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Belgium
Verviers
Liege
Dry Goods Chronicle
Eastern Asia and India See Cremation Trend
Fragmentary text notes cremation remains common in Eastern Asia with a remark on Indian customs involving widows and the deceased. The passage is incomplete and lacks clear dates or names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Asia
India
Fancy's Ferry Opens a City of Illusion
A poem in Buffalo Express by Julie M. Lippman compares Fancy's ferry to dreamlike travel from a humdrum town to grand but crumbling castles. The voyage ends swiftly as true fancy lands his wherry and leaves the traveler wiser.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Julie M. Lippman
Buffalo Express
Honesty and Conventionality in Social Conduct
A Christian Union piece argues conventionality joins head and heart to meet common laws, while honesty alone can disrupt social harmony. It warns against blunt honesty, praising tact as balance, and emphasizes keeping disruptive individuals from social intercourse to preserve kindness as social glue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christian Union
Clarence Duval Starred in Booth Modjeska Showing
A small town debut of Clarence Duval in Richelieu drew packed houses and bouquets as he outshone touring stars Edwin Booth and Helena Modjeska. The Chicago Herald notes the local native beat the famed actors for that night with overwhelming applause.
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Booth
Booth and Modjeska
Clarence Duval
Richelieu
Duval
Clarence
Modjeska
Edwin Booth
Helena Modjeska
Chicago Herald
Lightning Strokes in Germany Rise Over 26 Years
The London Globe reports Herr Kastner finds annual lightning strokes more than double over 26 years in Germany. In 188 there were 1,145 strokes, peaking in June and July and between 8 a.m. and 4 p.m. Thunderstorms start on hills. most vulnerable areas are woodless plains, river valleys, low meadows near lakes, while forests and hills are less struck.
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Germany
Herr Kastner
London Globe
Moon Influences Weather Debate Echoed by Farmer
A farmer discusses the weather and the moon’s influence, noting talk of a change with the new moon. He recalls conflicting beliefs, saying some claim a connection while others doubt it, observing many new moon opinions.
A Tree With Many Usages in Brazilian Plains
Consul Burke reports on a Brazilian tree known as camanba that grows near the Amazon in northern Brazil. Every part serves a use from food and medicine to building, roofing, fences, and fuel. The bulb yields farinaceous meal and medicine from rootlets. young trunks feed livestock and older trunks become hard for construction. The tree features thorny lower branches and grows in dry sandy soils.
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State Department
Consul Burke
Bahia
Brazil
Amazon River
Palm Tree Uses and Products Highlighted in Chicago Herald
The article describes a palm tree whose wood forms a strong fence, and whose sun dried leaf blades yield a tenacious exudation used like wax for candles. The leaf fibers supply materials for hats mats baskets rope and brushes. Exudate scraped from blade tops are used for roofing huts and protecting walls. The fruit is sweet and edible with kernels ground for infusion as a coffee substitute.
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Chicago Herald
Dion Boucicault the Extraordinary Irish Playwright
The New York Commercial Advertiser reviews Dion Boucicault at 68, noting his long career since arriving in America thirty seven years earlier. It highlights his citizenship feats, prolific output around 180 works, and a mix of originality with alleged borrowing to boost earnings.
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Dion Boucicault
United States
Great Britain
London Assurance
Octoroon
Louis XI
Faust
Marguerite
Boucicault
New York Commercial Advertiser
Dinner Time By Necessity Across Cultures
A dialogue on meal timing contrasts Greek and Turkish habits with English norms. The Turkish custom yields “in ten minutes” for any inquiry, while Turkish meals often appear at sunset if no order is given. A Greek cook at Chianthe notes flexible dining tied to hunger, and a humorous buffalo anecdote closes the piece.
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Chianthe
Sare
Hardships of a Minister Life From a Virginia Baptist Preacher
A Virginia Baptist preacher writes from poverty while noting his churches cannot pay him. The letter requests no aid and instead offers a way for readers to brighten his life by supporting his home, as cited by the Richmond Herald.
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Richmond Herald
American dining myth and meteorite market notes
An essay notes Americans lack of dining finesse contrasted with foreign restaurants, mentioning Monica’s tasting. A Mrs. W. N. Furey of Paris survives a centipede scare with strawberries. The Aerolite market in Mason City sees meteoric showers fetch 25 cents to $1 per ounce, amid rising counterfeit specimens.
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W. N. Furey
Paris
Dallas News
Mason City
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Notable Obsequies Highlight Yet Unusual Attire
At Senator Beck's obsequies in Kansas Ingalls drew notice by entering the mourners’ procession in a high white hat and a Mackintosh while others wore black. In Pierre South Dakota an official boiler inspector found a bleached skeleton in a mammoth boiler at the gas works in use since January. identity and cause remain a mystery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beck
Ingalls
Kansas
Philadelphia Bulletin
Pierre
8. D
St. Paul Globe
Tea cuttings sent from Yakima to Japan for trial
Mr Kerr of Yakima county Washington ships tea cuttings to Japan to test if the plant can be grown locally in his state. In Florida a man hears a strange noise from a fireless stove and an owl hops out after the lid is lifted.
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U.S
Washington
C.a.snow & Co
Orr
Wasninarom
Ames
Deering & Keupire
Tiger
Bradley & Hamilton
Ketchum & O’brien
Kerr
Yakima County
Wash
Japan
St. Avestine
Fla
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Ayer
C. E. Clark
Tewksbury
Massachusetts
W. R. Woodson
Fort Worth
Texas
Capt. Mueller
Felicia
New York City
Jules Havel
Philadelphia
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
Vibrator
Lvery Thresherman
Ibrator
Niel Fe
Jia
Ayres & Sons
H. B. Butts
Seventh St
St.louis
Bissell Carpet Sweeper CO
Grand Rapids, Mich
Lower
Hungary
Provence
Dr. Behrends
Fancy’s Ferry
Fancy
N. K. Fairbank & CO
Guicago
Rome Manufacturing CO
Indianapolis, Ind
Atlas Engine Works
Obtein
Chicago
Randolph St
GOMAS
LORD
Humphreys
St. Vitus
Humphreys’ Medicine Co
Iton
Dometic Ra Eam
HA. Arcuen
M.D
Oxford St
Brooklyn
N. Y
Tus Cayrtavrn Company
Fulton Street
Ge. W. O'Brien
Monica’s
Cornhill Magazine
J. F. McLain
Elgin
Waltham
Empire Watch Club
Park Row
George D. Loud
North Side Main Street
Geo. D. Loud
Chicago Times
City Drug Stor
Westerman & Arnold
ST. Paul
Minneapo
Kansas City
ST. LO
Montana
Manitoba
Dakotas
Wieming
Idaho
Oregon
Lake
Etonea
Duluth
Ashland
Spirit Lake
Clear Lake
White Beap Lake
Missouri
Colorado
Arizona
Old
New Mexico
California
Arkansas
Tennessee
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Excelsior Springs
Hot Springs
Peoria
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
West Virginia
New York
MM City
ST. Louis
Iowa Central
Rokert
Gem
A. F. Banks
Traf.agatts
T. P. Barry
Marshalltown
Owa
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