Rider Haggard Endorses Salvation Army Colonization Plan
In Washington, Rider Haggard reports to the British Colonial Secretary on Salvation Army settlements in California, Colorado, and Ohio. He finds Fort Romie and Fort Ty settlements healthy and growing, with net worth per settler rising above initial costs and notes some initial deficits in land opening. He advocates combining public credit with welfare effort to lift urban misery and supports systematizing philanthropy for better outcomes.
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Rider Haggard
King Solomon's Mines
America
Washington
California
Colorado
Ohio
The
Salvation Army
Haggard
Fort Romie
Fort Ty
Mts
Forts Romie
Fort Rose
Salvation My
Fort Amity
Ltation
Haggard Hores
Sound Advice for Men and Women from St Paul Echoed
A reflective piece challenges men to share domestic burdens and engage partners as equals. It contrasts traditional roles with a call for mutual respect, shared life, and recognition of a woman’s need for connection to the wider world beyond the home.
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St. Paul
Ancient Adulterations and Early Laws Against Stuffed Goods
The piece notes medieval and early modern adulteration fears, citing a 1495 statute banning selling feather beds pillows and bolsters stuffed with unlawful materials, and warnings about scalded leather and fen-down. It recalls eighteenth century complaints of co-mingled down and feathers and fraudulent substitutes.
Longest Bridge in the World Suppported by Stone Arches
The Lion Bridge near Sangong China claims the title of the worlds longest bridge. It spans five and a quarter miles over the Yellow Sea and rests on more than 300 massive stone arches.
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Sangong
China
Yellow Sea
Destruction of Queer Money Casts Light on Secret Service Stock
Treasury orders destruction of counterfeit notes coins stamps and contraband held by the Secret Service chief Wilkie and a three clerk committee. Materials include inks dies molds and stamps used to forge money with some Johnson Hancock notes Brockway forgeries Pennies and foreign currencies swept into the destruction process in the navy yard foundry and assay office.
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Secret Service
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
The
Wilkie
Navy Yard
Johnson-Hancock
Johnson
Detroit
Brockway
Secret Service Bureau
United States
Iists
The Merganser Wild Duck In Nature Library Tone
The merganser is a striking wild duck with a dark green head and salmon breast, famed for its fish appetite and remarkable diving. It avoids humans, dives swiftly, and females care for the brood while the drake leaves as eggs hatch.
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Goo Sander
Chamberlain
Nature Library
Charity Admission Fees Spread Across Estates in Britain
Expatriated American James J. Van Alan plans to charge visitors to Rushton Hall in Northamptonshire starting January 1 with 25 cents for foreigners and 12 cents for county excursionists, except locals on Mondays and Saturdays. Revenue will support a local infirmary and a new workers’ education center, with annual incomes near 5000 dollars anticipated. The article also notes European royal holdings in France and Belgium, royal travel rules, and the wealth of Russian churches with costly gems and church treasures in the United States.
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James J. van Alan
Duke of Westminster
Eaton Hall
Cheshire
Rushton Hall
van Alan
Northamptonshire
Northampton
Leopold
Belgium
Mesnes
Villefranche Sur Mere
Nice
Col du Caire
Passabie
Cape Ferrat
Henry Somerset
Humbert
Italy
Helen
Aosta
Mary
France
Lord Curzon
India
United States
Russia
Horstmann
Cleveland
Gordon
Gordon Park
Daisy Hanna
Dan. Hanna
Hanna, van Calava
Sequoia Gigantea a Washington Capitol Landmark
The giant sequoia stands on Department of Agriculture grounds near the Administration building. Brought from Sequoia National Park after Chicago World’s Fair display, it is twenty feet in diameter and named The General Noble to honor the Interior Secretary. Transportation cost was $10,000. The interior is hollow with a spiral stair leading to a platform.
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Washington
National Capital
Department of Agriculture
Sequoia National Park
California
Chicago
Secretary of the Interior
Pacific Coast
All Year Weather Station Planned on Mount Tsukaba
Japan to open a year round weather station on Mount Tsukaba near Tokyo. Meteorological stations had existed on high mountains since 1899 but only in summer use. The new site will operate year round to monitor conditions.
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Japan
Mount
Tsukaba
Tokio
Rockefeller Scores In Japan
The British steamer Monarch sailed from Philadelphia for Japan with a record cargo of 2 470 700 gallons of refined petroleum 100 barrels of lubricating oil and 1 200 cases of wax marking the largest US export voyage of its kind.
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Monarch
Philadelphia
Japan
United States
Dress Made of Postage Stamps At Bermuda Ball
An American woman wore a ball gown at a Bermuda ball built from 39 000 stamps. The dress featured a brown Columbian eagle at the breast with a globe of old blue revenue stamps, sides of blue and red stamps forming flags, a stamp shield on the back, and a hat, mask, and fan decked in red blue and pink stamps.
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Bermuda
Improvisation Denied as Violinist Clarifies Play
Mrs Goswell compliments a piece to a renowned musician. He coldly replies he was only tuning a new string on his violin, not performing an original composition. The exchange underscores tension between admiration and professional posture during the event.
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Mrs. Goswell
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Cleveland, Ohio
Pensions
Pension Bureau
Taber & Whitman CO
Warder Bidg
Washington, D
A.\. Root Co
Medina, Ohio
Susons- Hamlin Pianos and Organs Standard OF the World
Foster
Aurora
Ill
National Photographic Chemical Company
St. and Penn Ave
Washington, D. C
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