Bells With A History At St Michael's Church Charleston
A Charleston feature extols St Michael's Church founded in 1752 and its famed bells. The chimes endured through the Revolution Civil War and fires, traveled to London, and returned to Charleston where they have rung weekly for over 150 years, celebrated for heritage and view from the belfry.
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Old Charleston
South Carolina
Winifred
Haynet
Atlanta Journal
Toutiats
St. Michael's
United States
Christopher Wren
London
Robert Hayne
Old City
Washington
Robert E. Lee
Princess Louise
England
Witte Fort Bumter
Boston
Charlenton
Sir Henry Clinton
Charleston
Columbia
Rannon
Sherman
Japan Turns to Beef and Heightens Race Policy
A Salt Lake Tribune summary asserts Japan adopted a beef based diet plan to enlarge the stature of its people and soldiers. It notes claims that victory in the Russia war rested on stamina from rice and fish, while authorities hope meat will raise height and White race comparisons persist. It mentions wrestlers and isolated diet practices in Japan.
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Salt Lake Tribune
Russia
Japan
Meat diet changes stature of Japanese workers in history
The article notes a shift from ritual meat avoidance under the ancient regime to widespread consumption in twenty five years. It claims beef and horseflesh booths in cities, with Europeans and Americans in Japan observing laborers growing taller and more muscular, especially coolies and soldiers, while sedentary rice eaters remain small in stature.
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Cites
Japan
Immigration Policy and White Labor Push in Hawaii
Honolulu urges maximum white immigration to Hawaii, praised as boosting planters as white labor surpasses Chinese and Japanese workers. Judge Antonio Perry cites Russian and Portuguese arrivals, notes a Siberia-based agent, and forecasts permanent settlement. He values Hawaii’s education and juvenile court, while warning about steamship capacity and a coastwise ban on intercity passenger travel, urging temporary suspension.
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Honolulu
Antonio Perry
Supreme Court of Hawaii
Board of Education of the Islands
Los Angeles Herald
Siberia
Azores
L. Atkinson
United States
Colorado
Perry
Congress
Philippines
Wiped out by smallpox in Russian village Volskaya
A New York Press dispatch reports that the Russian island village Volskaya in Sachalin was wiped out by smallpox. Of 1100 inhabitants only one survivor remains, a 72 year old man named Vasailief who has become a maniac. The village faced neglect and no vaccination prior to the outbreak.
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St. Petersburg
New York Preas
Volskaya
Sachalin
Russia
Vasailief
Chicago Record-Herald
Jones
Mra. Catterson
Cleveland
Noah
Indy
Yonkera
Aldershot
Tommy
Hosteng
Hosteng Transcript
Maggie
Ailenos
Madge
Margrret
Marguerite
Man Who Marries Many Wives Referred in Boston Transcript
A fragment from the Boston Transcript or related column spins a light jokey line about a man who marries multiple wives. The playful note ends with a remark on humor and a stray line about flowers.
Homely Farm Tricks and Rural Mail Trolley Sketches
Rural notes describe a Kansas reader asking about an endless wire trolley to carry a small mail box from house to road and back using No 10 wire and pulleys. also advice on salt for fowls, humus in soil, pruning timing, and early farm autos among farmers.
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Kansas
Odds and Ends From a Bygone Era in Brief
A compilation notes wind speeds aboard ships, life preservers from discarded tires, New York City population projections to 1020, Siam adopts gold standard value, Baltimore school board debates corporal punishment, Portuguese pineapple growers in Azores feeding New York market, Paris desserts versus French lights, Neva bridge plans for St Petersburg, U.S. debt totals and New York bonded debt, Bath Maine builds largest wooden vessel Wyoming, London dining cars feature sausage with roast chicken, English common law overview, Smith family name trivia, mock dialogue about a possible clash with Japan, Russian proverbs on marriage, lord terminology debate, bee nectar research on color and species.
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United States
New York City
Patangland
Siam
Baltimore
Punta Delgada
St. Michaels
Azores
New York
St. Jacques
Paris
Neva
St. Petersburg
Metropolis
Bath
Wyoming
William L. Douglas
London & Great Western
England
Smith
London Chronicle
Land of
Israel
Wilberforce
Quips and Cracks Across Ten Newspapers
A collage of jokes and light quips from Chicago Record Herald Life Cleveland Leader and more. Brief exchanges note spouses spending versus saving and playful barbs about fashion music and manners. Witty one liners highlight household quirks and social sauciness across dates and places.
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S. C
America
Hawaii
Catholic Standard and
Mer Alam
Houstos
Penley
Gramp—Andlet
Bos Ton Transcript
Warren
Saya
Ttma
Kangas Parmer
Moreton Bay
Wide World Magazine
Queensland
Minnesota
Pera
Mark Sox Thollet
Admiral Schroeder
Schroeder
Boston Globe
Henry
Boston _Transcript
Washington Herald
Ming
Johnny
Boston Sunday Post
Gaunt
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