Adjournment of Congress Ends Sixty-First Session
The second session of the Sixty-first Congress adjourned at eleven o'clock with President signing final bills. Vast volumes of records and hearings followed, while future leadership and party dynamics in the Senate and House portend notable changes in the next session. A mix of reform, conservation, and tariff actions shaped the closing of a busy term.
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No Drip coupon offer and Dr Shoop Health Coffee note
Dr Shoop of Racine Wisconsin offers a free No Drip coffee strainer coupon by mail along with a free book about Dr Shoop Health Coffee. The product imitates real coffee made from grains and nuts and requires no boiling. Also promoted is Chamberlain’s Liniment for sore muscles and rheumatic relief available from dealers.
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Curious Polish mechanic crafts odd watch for czar
A Polish craftsman transformed copper bails wood scraps glass china and pegs into a timepiece for the czar. In eight hours he delivered a china case watch with wooden works that kept accurate time. Impressed by the feat the czar awarded honors and a pension.
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China
New York Press
Hidden human sacrifice in old building foundations
The Westminster Gazette recounts a shadowed custom of placing money under foundation stones as ransom for a supposed buried human. Skeletons have been found in castle walls and a German fortress reportedly walled a child in a donjon tower. Effigies and rare modern echoes of the practice persist in parts of Europe and Asia.
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Donjon
Europe
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Turkey
Westminster Gazette
The Tipping Habit Across Centuries
A Cornhill Magazine essay contrasts eighteenth century tipping with today. It cites Edinburgh 1760 clubs banning tips, tales of Lord Taaffe collecting tips at the door, a colonel asking servant names for a will, and other anecdotes of extravagant tipping customs.
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Gustavus III’s Mock Court Visit Exposes Courtly Foppery
Gustavus III of Sweden avoided the Mecklenburg duchy court during a 1783 visit to Germany. He sent two attendants to pose as him and his minister Baron Sparre, who accepted lavish homage and danced with Mecklenburg ladies. One of the impersonators even requested a portrait. Meanwhile the king enjoyed himself secretly elsewhere.
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Richmond Castle and Its Norman Origins
The Richmond Castle story traces its founding by Alan Rufus, its later possession by Edmund Tudor, and its link to Henry VII who named the Richmond palace. It notes the curfew still rung from the castle tower at 6 am and 8 pm, a centuries old custom from William the Conqueror.
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Edmund Tudor
Margaret Beaufort
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Henry
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Richmond
England
Thames
London Globe
Game in Manchuria and wildlife list
Report notes tigers roam hilly Manchuria while plains hold few. Other scarce animals include black and brown bears wapiti sika deer roedeer red deer wild pig leopard and lynx with roedeer and pig more common. Also a London Field humor fragment on age question and a gentlewoman reply.
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London Field
New Life Pills Promote Strength and Energy
Advertising touts Dr. King’s New Life Pills as 25¢ sugar-coated health globules that transform weakness into energy and cure ailments such as constipation and headaches, claiming round-the-clock usefulness as the busy modern remedy.
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