Japanese Politeness in Giving Notice Among Servants
The article describes Japanese etiquette in employment changes where both mistresses and maids avoid confrontations. Maids request brief leave, then send polite notices with vague excuses, and sometimes return later or disappear quietly. The mistress responds with gentle acceptance, maintaining harmony and avoiding direct refusals or quarrels.
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Japan
Eye of the Needle in Irish Fortress Lore
The text describes an ancient "eye of the needle" passage used as a fortress gate and relates it to Irish stone chairs and wall fortifications. It notes similar eyeholes in Eile and a Turneh de Dear chief 1,300 years before Christ, suggesting shared construction by early work sites.
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Ireland
H. Leiber
Jas. S. Fogartie
Presbyterian
Banbridge
A J. Reamy
Bainbridge, Ga
The Mack Flat on York Street
A New Yorker describes a two room living arrangement with a den and music room. Workers sleep on couches in the den and music room while mother uses the furniture room as a bedroom and the bathroom as dressing space. The packing room serves as storage and the kitchen houses the dogs at night.
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Mack Flat
York Woman
New Yorker
New York Press
An Impresario's Advice to a Royal Opera Plan
After season end at the Academy of Music New York impresario Max Maretzek meets tenor Adams and Mme Pappenheim. Adams boasts of leasing the academy for classics and rejects lighter fare. Maretzek urges a weekly Trovatore to pay salaries, but the scheme fails and the academy is rented again.
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Academy of Music
New York
Max Maretzek
Adams
Mme. Pappenheim
Max
Academy
Tribnne
No Use to Die Says Rushboro Woman With King's New Discovery
Mrs. J. P. White of Rushboro Pa credits Dr Kings New Discovery with saving her life from lung trouble. She says it loosens coughs and cures lung disease even when hopeless. The remedy for coughs colds la grippe asthma bronchitis and hoarseness is sold with a guarantee at drug stores 50c or 1.09 trial bottle free.
Telemechanism Enables Wireless Power Transmission
The article explains telemechanism as wireless control of electrical circuits where a lamp or motor remains powered by its own current. It notes devices that transmit thought and energy without sight of the operator and hints at a cautionary note about new methods affecting young women in the vicinity.
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