Sewing Machines Spread Across the World on Installment Plans
A New York Sun overview details American sewing machines exported to every country and civilization level. It describes worldwide agencies, district generals, and canvassers selling on installments, with examples from India Mindanao Manila and Europe, showing how the system adapts to emigration and local markets.
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New York Sun
Hardie
India
Arabia
Persia
China
Japan
Mindanao
Philippines
Hias
Manila
New York
Austria
Russia
Europe
America
Horseless carriage steams past Queen's Gate crowd
A fragment from the Westminster Gazette recalls a steam powered carriage passing Queen's Gate. The writer notes the crowd, the rough ride, and the fascination with this new invention, describing the scene with period newspaper tone.
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Queen’s Gate
Coe
Westminster Gazette
Chicagoese blamed for teachers speech errors
Chicago school leaders say local dialect, not poor language, causes teachers to misuse English. They cite Chicago born teachers and insist spelling lessons exist in elementary grades, while lapses into Chi cagoese are not offenses.
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Chiengo’ Tribune
Wen
Ihe
Lindley Murray
Sabin
Chicago
Sowing with artillery on a Scottish crag
Alexander Nasmyth devised a method to seed a bare Craigiebarns crag near Blaircastle by firing seed-filled tin canisters from old cannons. Seeds lodged in cracks and soon grew into trees and climbing plants, transforming the rocky face into verdant beauty.
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Duke of Athol
Blaircastle
England
Craigiebarns
New York
Alexander Nasmyth
The Toucan At Roost A Curious Sleeping Shadow
The amiable toucan, kept in a large fruit diet cage, roosts oddly by tucking its tiny tail then the massive bill along its back. It forms an oval feather mass on one leg, tumbling when awakened by a poke due to balance challenges with its heavy bill.
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Cornhill
Modest Cohatlment Letter From Washington Stirs Interest
A Western congressman received a quirky letter praising cabbage seed and asking for two bags of fertiliser and a worker for a couple of days. The missive begs help with a broken harrow and hints at political sentiments toward the president.
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Washington
Congress
Blank
Arabs and their hardy horses noted for endurance
A Youth's Companion article argues Arab horses endure minimal care yet perform exceptionally. It cites limited grain, hay or pasture diets, heat tolerance, and remarkable endurance such as an 800 mile ride with no overstrain and a ten mile race carrying 146 pounds in 25 minutes.
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Boudan
Jarozpur
Patrick and the Pound Weight Mystery at Benson Grocer
A Chicago Post lampoons a suburban clerk Patrick in a Benson store tale. The busy grocer loses a pound weight and suspects regular customer Mr Jones has it. Patrick explains politeness affected the weight being placed in a tea package by Mr Jones who asked for any weight to be given.
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Erin
Patrick
Chicago Post
Benson and the
Tomahawk pipe and early trade forms of the French English era
The article describes the tomahawk as a multi purpose weapon and pipe used by Native allies in colonial warfare. It notes its design with a hollow cup like cavity and a tobacco passage, and its role in treaties and councils as a trade item. It also briefly mentions English upper ten families and a matrons list with counts of children.
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Smithsonian Institution
Reading in a Cable Car Sparks Confusion Over Time
A stout dignified man with gold spectacles reads Black Jack Duncan on a Chicago cable car. He misses the conference time after alighting near Dearborn and Monroe, losing his book in a green and yellow cover.
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Chicago Chronicle
N’ Clark
Monroe Street
Dearborn Street
Jack Duncan
Rockies
Fifth Cavalry News: Porto Rican Families At Jefferson Barracks
The Fifth Cavalry at Jefferson Barracks hosts four Porto Rico natives: Vicenti Correa a youth from Arecibo, Adela Perez the cook and her two sons Antonio and Guillamo, plus other troopers bring home pets. Correa is not enlisted due to Puerto Rican natives' enlistment rules. The senera will become family cook, and aboard troopers’ homes a menagerie includes dogs ponies parrots game cocks and monkeys.
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Jefferson Barracks
Porto Rico
New York Journal
America
Vicenti Correa
Arecibo
Adela Perez
Antonio
Guillamo Perez
Vicente
Senora
Cook
Adjuntas
Capt. Katt
Senera
Political meddling and crime in a city family case
A physician treats a child in a two room home amid political turmoil. The mother confesses that fraudulent voters living in her house sparked the magistrate's pressure and her despair. the child recovers and the magistrate pays the bill. The piece also mentions the queen regent of Spain and a rapid firing pompom used by Boers in South Africa.
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Philadelphia
New York
Spain
Maurin Christina
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Earl of
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Fourth
Asbury Park
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Monmouth Realty Co
Monmouth Building
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Mattison Ave
Bond St
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Milan Ross
H.H. Caswell
Mattison Avenue
Asbury Park, N. J
Atlantic
Thee J Light Company
Picnewate
L. C. Grevelle
N. J
Bits Drug CO
Phith
Jacob Muller
Muller Merchant
Premo
Rochester Optical CO
South Streat, Rochester, N.Y
A.W. Cornelius
Cookman Ave
Central Hall
M. L. Ferris
Cleveland
Spalding
Paten
Sterling
Crawford
Spalding Sporting Goods
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