Profit sharing in Grimma firm praised and questioned
Washington letter reports on a Grimma Saxony paper firm that shares surplus with workers, offers tenements, a company store, savings bank, and hospital-like benefits. It contrasts this with US attitudes, noting American labor resists losses and profits, with one employer allowing deductions for carelessness.
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England
Chemnitz
State Department
Grimma
Saxony
Corporation
Landwebr
Boehlen
America
Carl Schofield
Paris Commune Fires Leave Vast Destruction in 1871
Fires in May 1871 destroyed landmarks including the Hotel de Ville and Tuileries palace in Paris. Estimated property loss surpassed 160 million dollars, with countless household effects also destroyed unseen in reports. Conflagrations were halted by bombing lines and execution of incendiaries caught in the act.
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Paris
Hotel de Ville
Tuileries Palace
Saints Honored by Popes and Kings Across History
A list details various popes and monarchs who earned sainthood or honorable titles. Names include Boniface I II IV Celestine I V David of Scotland Wales Eric IX Ethelred II Eugenius III Felix I Julius I Kanghi Ladislaus I Leo IX Louis IX Martin I Olaus II Stephen I and others. The passage notes the city of St Louis named in honor of Louis IX.
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Boniface I
Boniface IV
Celestine I
Celestine V
David
Scotland
Wales
Eric IX
Sweden
Ethelred I
Wessex
Eugenius Ltff
Rome
Felix I
I and III
Leon
Castile
Heinrich II
Germany
Julius I
Kang-he
Ladislaus I
Hungary
Leo IX
Louis IX
France
St. Louis
Martin I
Olaus II
Norway
Stephen I
Eggs and freshness through proper science in poultry
The London Standard argues no intrinsic freshness barrier in eggs and that freshness is a matter of treatment. It compares past doubt about steam and steel to current belief, noting eggs can be shipped fresh from distant countries at lower cost than local stock. It urges advancing domestic poultry and egg industries.
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England
London Standard
Ancient Welsh Hills Outstrip Youthful Alps in Time
Pearson's Weekly notes that the Alps are geologically young but erode faster, while Welsh hills are ancient and worn down by eons of weathering. It states the Alps may lose height without new uplift and cites Mont Blanc having shed 10 000 to 12 000 feet of strata since emergence.
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Alps
Snowdon
Helvellyn
Mont Blanc
Pearson’s Weekly
Fond Mother Aboard Train Disputes Onlookers
A New York Weekly item recalls a frightened mother in a passenger car with her children as readers react to reports of a woman going crazy. Rhetorical exchanges unfold about behavior on the journey and a quiet remark about other women nearby.
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Johnny
Richard
George
New York Weekly
Train Robber Jokes About Breakfast Tactics
A Pittsburg Chronicle interview with a train robber behind prison bars explains that the crew robs trains before breakfast to stay ahead of dining car pirates. The reporter notices the enterprising criminal’s calm humor while in custody.
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Pittsburg Chronicle
Aged Trick Ends With a Schoolmaster Fall
A schoolmaster collapses in a wild howl and a fall from his wheel. A student asks what it is and the master laments a tack in the saddle, not in the tire, in a brief Indianapolis Journal item.
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Indianapolis Journal
Moplaho Tribe of Malabar Coast Described
The Moplaho are a Mohammedan tribe forming about a quarter of Malabar coast society. Supposed descendants of Moors and Arabs who settled there and intermarried with locals. Population once estimated around 600000.
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Malabar
South India
Sea signaling limits with flags show 18 colors and four at once
At sea signaling, never more than four flags are hoisted simultaneously. With 18 colors available, the arithmetic allows at least 78 642 distinct signals while keeping within the four-flag limit.
Jonah and the whale tale gains plausibility
A London Quiver argument claims it is probable the Jonah and the whale story is true. Citing a Mediterranean shark incident, the piece notes a captain’s shot rescue after a man was swallowed, supporting the myth’s possible reality. plus playful clippings from Chicago papers illustrate curious observations.
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London
Jonah
Mediterranean
Remarkable Growth Of Asiatic Pemp erion At Berlin Society
A single seed planted at the Berlin Botanical Society produced a vine reaching a man’s height in nine weeks and stretching toward 900 feet in length. It ripened over 800000 seeds, illustrating extraordinary vegetable fecundity and growth potential.
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Berlin Botanical Society
Americans Favor Green Tea Over English Black Varieties
Americans use green tea more than English drinkers who prefer black tea. The United States sources most tea from Japan, which produces less of the darker varieties. Dr. Edward Bedloe predicts Formosa under Japanese rule will yield the world’s best teas, shipping directly from its ports. Russian officials reportedly pay high prices for near white teas with an oillike flavor, sought by the empire’s official classes.
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United States
Japan
Edward Bedloe
Philadelphia
Amoy
China
Formosa
Hongkong
Russia
The Earth as a Giant Ancient Cemetery
The St Louis Republic notes a magazine’s claim that some 66.63 quadrillion humans have ever lived and died since creation. It says burying them would require digging the entire land surface over 120 times, a striking image of demographic history.
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St. Louis Republic
Coincidence Ties Peasant Family to German Emperor Line
A peasant and his wife in Germany wed the same day as the emperor and empress and name William. Their first son was born on the crown prince’s birthday, followed by five more sons born with the emperor’s younger boys. On the last royal birth a daughter was born to the peasant’s wife, and the emperor and empress became godfather and godmother to the girl, ensuring her future.
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Germany
William
Philadelphia Ledger
A Trusting Prince of Montenegro Tricks Bank
European press recounts Prince Nicholas of Montenegro borrowing 40000 florins from Lloyd bank in Cattaro. Days before repayment he sends a peasant with a pig to deliver a bundle of bank notes to the Lloyd office, claiming the driver will perform a great service. The plan hinges on secrecy and timing.
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Nicholas of
Montenegro
Lloyd Bank
Cattaro
Lloyd Office
Highlander funeral rite salt and earth platter
In Pennant's Tour of Scotland the dying Highlander is mourned with a plank laid over the chest the body wrapped in coarse linen and a wooden platter placed on the breast holding salt and earth the salt symbolizing the immortal spirit and the earth the mortal.
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Pennant
Scotland
Hoax-Miss Scribbles Story Accepted by NY Publisher
Hoax-Miss Scribbles has secured acceptance from a New York publisher, signaling progress toward literary fame. Joax notes the development as a major step, while Hoax acknowledges the change in her family life as her mother remarries, bringing a stepfather into the household.
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Miss Scribbles
New York
Joax
Philadelphia Record
Time For Theorizing Past
Figure of speech exchange between Waterbury and McBride about living costs before marriage. McBride calls it a condition rather than a theory, reflecting practical concerns on shared expenses.
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McBride
Waterbury
Fort Dodge Medical and Surgical Institute Ad in 1896
An 1896 fort dodge notice promotes the Fort Dodge Medical and Surgical Institute offering treatment for chronic and surgical diseases. It lists eye ear nose throat lungs and skin diseases, female medical and surgical conditions, stomach liver bowels kidney bladder and sexual organs issues, nervous system disorders, rheumatism neuralgia paralysis and deformities. The surgeon in charge will visit Ames Iowa for free consultations.
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Fort Dodge
Lawa
Fort I Medical and Surgical Institute
Geo. F. Woon
M. E. Church
Iowa
Fort Dodge Medical and Surgical Institute
Honce
Marson
Murray
Fort Dodge Hospital
Winnifred Cooper
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C. Gust Ericson
Jeweler
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Flaneletts
Kennedy
Opera House
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