Beebe Plain Post Office Breaks Borders and Miles apart
A joint Beebe Plain post office straddles the Canada United States line with a ten foot corridor between two doors. Mail mailed Vermont to Canada zigzags 228 290 miles across trains and towns before delivery. The quirky facility serves about 700 residents across the border while most businesses sit on the Canadian side. Postmaster George H House oversees both offices and patrons cross into the other country for service.
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Ofice
North America
Beebe Plain
Wnys
Canada Line
Que
George H House
Vermont
United States Post Olice
Canada
Boston & Maine Railroad
Beebles Junction
White River Junction
Sherbrooke
P. Q
Boston & Maine
Wells River
Beebe Juncion
Weavers of New York loom of ancient tapestry art
Report on a visit to a Gotham tapestry studio where centuries old craft thrives. Foreign master weavers operate vast horizontal looms set in two large rooms, tracing patterns from paper templates as they seat themselves on pillows and work with colored wools.
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Gotham
Fabrica
Studia
Soya Philip
France
Nolay
Joan
Gobelin
Paris
Oddities and advances in science across seas and centuries
An idle elevator stalls in St. Peter’s stairway, while Peter the Great’s England caper ends in compensation to John Evelyn. Germans test kapok substitutes for cotton as typhoon wireless stations are planned for the Philippines and Santo Domingo. Becker links petroleum to magnetic declination and new copper aluminum manganese alloys yield high strength. Admiralty tests alloys for corrosion resistance as science expands its practical reach.
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St. Peter's Cathedral
Rome
Peter the Great
Russia
England
Halley
Deptford
Peter
John Evelyn
Africa
Asia
Meteorological Observatory
Mount Mirador
Philippines
China Sea
China
Santo Domingo de Basco
Batan
Philippine Weather Bureau
Manila
G. F. Becker
Bauer
United States
Nature
W. Rosenhain
Sa Ward
British Admiralty
Norbert Spencer and Cars
Herbert Spencer valued billiards as a pleasant pastime to pass time, avoid thought, and resist reading. He rejected asceticism and argued pleasure from activity can motivate without guilt, contrasting it with self-punishing religious ideals.
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Herbert Spencer
Her Fate Mra de Work
A fragmentary item quotes a conversation about training a daughter as a thorough house keeper and a household role for an aunt. It includes aphorisms on honesty and wit, with references to New York weekly publication and a jest about fooling people and exaggeration. The text preserves period voice and oblique social commentary.
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New York
Weekly
Practical Application of Leisure and Primeval Food Hunt
Mr Holden muses that civilization’s leisure improves life by freeing time from constant food gathering. He argues ancient and primitive humans kept fit by hunting and farming with their hands, and predicts a return to that lifestyle for health. Mrs Holden notes garden chores and weeds, while Holden jokes about women’s interest in pure philosophy.
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Mr Holden
Mavan
Mrs. Holden
Holden
Simpson
What Every Woman Knows in a Police Court Description
Testifying in a police court, a woman details a mysterious defendant's striking outfit seen briefly on a streetcar. She describes a wide gray fur hat with rhinestone buckle, white feather, gray bird wing, gold galleon band, red velvet roses, multiple hatpins, and a mauve tailored suit with braided trim, satin collar, and numerous buttons. The colorful attire is noted amid courtroom dialogue and dismissal.
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Puck
Stret
California
Ground Leve ler. A cheap contrivance for levelling land
Ground Leveller description and construction details for a simple land leveling tool. It outlines a 12 foot maximum length frame, a light steel smoothing plate, and a bevel edged cutter plate. The setup includes a pine driver stand and bolts for assembly.
Giant Mexican Farm Drives Global Interest and Modern Farm Equipment
A sprawling Mexican farming estate reportedly rivaling European realms in size and scope draws attention as Mexico contemplates curbing Don Luis Terrazas. The piece details the farm's vast lands, cattle, horses, and a luxurious, $1.6 million mansion, highlighting its public fascination and perceived power.
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Republic ‘of
Mexico
Don Luis Terrazas
Chihuahua
Vislt
Don Lats
Union
Enigma of Farm Practices and Bee Life Notes
A mosaic of rural tips covers tool aids for milking and handling, bee queen lifespan, worker bee longevity, and ensilage value. It cites sanitation for milking, rustic equipment tweaks, and observes corn forage from China, with alfalfa meal mills expanding in Kansas and the West.
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Kansas
The Lighten Woman's Work and Farm Gadgets
The article notes women on farms gaining independence through affordable devices like the telephone and rural mail delivery, praising their role in easing farm tasks and fostering neighborly spirit. It also reports a new pear disease in Belgium with brown spots and fruit collapse, suggesting Bordeaux spraying as a preventive measure.
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Belgium
Women in queer professions open new fields for women
A 19th century article notes women entering traditional and new occupations beyond domestic work. It highlights Nancy M. Johnson patenting an ice cream freezer in 1843 for 41500 dollars, Mrs. Bissell’s carpet sweeper business, Miss Kate M. Gordon’s leadership in drainage and sewer leagues, and women serving as guides, wireless operators, pilots, and engineers, signaling a shift in economic roles and public recognition for women.
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Bridge
Bridget
Todlay
Nancy M. Johnson
Washington
Bissell
Business Men's League of
New Orleans
Kate M. Gordon
Women's
Miss Gordon
Drainage and
Sewerage League
United States
Misa Gordon
Maine
R. H. Tucker
Puget Sound
Mary B. Green
Ohio
Mississippi
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Harriet Stanton Blatch
The
American Society of Civil Engineers
Uncle Hiram on City Life and Country Quiet
A rustic voice contrasts city life with rural ease, praising wood and taters in the shed, and condemning urban ills from blackouts to epidemics. The piece pairs a humorous rural manifesto with snippets from other papers, including a witty joke exchange about brains, dining, and race results.
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Chicago Record-Herald
A Literary Catastrophe and Quirky Exchanges
A fragmented clipping presents literary quips and stray dialogue as if overheard in a newsroom. The text references Perkins and a pun filled exchange about language, with snippets about weather, a kangaroo and a tone of urban wit from the Chicago Tribune.
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