Rise of Chicago Paper Box Making Highlights Growth
The Chronicle notes dramatic expansion of paper box production in Chicago from 1850 to today. About 20 establishments with $500000 capital produce $1500000 yearly, employing 2500 with wages up to 18 dollars weekly. Most stiff boxes serve local consumers while flexible boxes reach regional markets. The Western Paper Box Makers Association includes 48 firms in 26 cities and meets annually to discuss the industry.
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United Sates
Chicago
the Chronicle
Europe
Gentua
Western Paper, Box Makers’ Association
Cow Swims Five Miles Across Great South Bay
The Oak Island life saving crew reports a cow swam five miles from Oak Island to West Islip in light winds. The bovine long distance feat is described as an amateur record by the New York World. The animal rested in West Salip area and gazed toward its starting point.
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Oak Island
Babylon
Benjamin Stevens
West Salip
Cuban Census Reveals Population and Literacy Gaps
The Cuban census shows a population of 1,572,707 with about two thirds white and one third black or mixed. Only 28 percent of adults can read and write. Citizens number 20,478 Spanish, 1,200,307 Cuban, 79,526 other citizenships, and 175,811 are sus pense persons who had not chosen Cuban or Spanish allegiance.
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Spain
United States
Cuba
Stray Car Taken Toward Farm by Keytesville Man
A man from Keytesville Missouri was stopped near Dearborn Street by a policeman while transporting a scrawny brown dog and a carpet bag. He explained the dog would meet farm requirements and Chicago wouldn’t miss one homeless hound as he headed home with his load lighter.
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Keytesville
Dear- Yorn Street
Lfe
Chicago
Bill Saunders
Queen's Irish Guards Regiments Ties to Irish Royal Service
The New York Sun notes Queen Victoria orders a new regiment of foot guards drawn from Irish nationality. It recalls Charles II and an Irish Royal Guards lineage that shifted loyalties, fought for James II, and later served France and various European wars. The Royal Irish lineage traces to the former regiment once known as the Eighteenth and now Royal Irish.
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Foot Guards
Victoria
New York Sun
Charles II
Kingdom of Ireland
England
James II
Tyrconnell
William II
Boyne
Aughrim
Limerick
Flandere
Marlborough
Malplaquet
William
Royal Irish
Brass rings labeled jewelry by U.S. customs ruling
Uncle Sam classifies brass rings imitating gold and colored glass as jewelry for import duty. New York boards held they belong to jewelry, not toys, applying 60 percent ad valorem duty. The ruling extends to glass bead necklaces, brass watch-chain guards, and gilded hairpins set with glass.
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Sam
New York Press
Board of General Apprainers
New York
Photographing on Marble For Colorful Permanent Impressions
A new method described in Scientific American coats a smooth marble surface with Denzine turpentine bitumen and beeswax, dries it, exposed a gelatin plate for 20 minutes, then washed with gasoline to reveal a color image. The process uses Prussian blue and cosine red by capillary action to yield a durable vivid imprint.
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Scientific American
The Tallest Actress Mary Tull on Stage and Statue Fame
The tallest actress on the American stage is Miss Mary Tull, renowned for her height well above six feet and for modeling for leading American sculptors of goddesses of liberty. A western tour featured misprint calling her Miss Mary Tall as a programme printer faced billing disputes.
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Saturday Evening Post
Mary Tull
Miss Tull
Mises Mary Tall
Tally
New York
Bartholdi
Cat on board Thalia brings luck to voyage
The Savannah News reports a Maltese cat joined the British steamship Thalia before sailing and is believed to bring good luck. The cat, already a seasoned traveler, rests contentedly on the officers’ crimson sofa as sailors praise feline luck and comfort aboard.
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Thalia
Savannah News
Police memoir on a debt arrest in early Chicago
Lockup Keeper McGuire recalls arresting a man in Chicago for a $20 debt from the West Indies. He chased Roberto through his new uniform mistake, grabbing the debtor and detaining him briefly before realizing no legal authorization existed to arrest for such a debt. The man paid and was released.
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Chicago
McGuire
Central Station
Chronicle
West Indies
Hayti
West Side
Time value and cruelty reports from 1910s congress and Congo events
Report notes W C Barker saying Americans treat time as money while Europeans use fewer power tools, contrasting with a European farm machine hammer. Antwerp newspaper details Belgian cruelties in Congo, including 22 women shot and 600 chained and starved for ruby behavior. Also mentions Canadian Indians shifting between canvas tents and wooden huts and adopting farming practices.
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Americana
International Commercial Congress
Philadelphia
W. C. Barker
America
Nieuwe Gazet
Antwerp
Congo
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