The Big Fisted Man Poem Verse from Los Angeles Herald
A tribute to a steadfast man with a large hand and loyal heart. The verse extols strength and integrity across laborers, bankers, and laborers, praising unwavering faithfulness and readiness to defend a friend's honor. The piece closes with a toast to such a man.
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Los Angeles Herald
Carolyn Vernet Marries Albert Reade for Five Thousand
The tale follows Miss Vernet known for lofty appeal as she accepts Frank Reade’s engagement but shifts to Albert Reade after society approval. Frank travels to Europe hopeful, while Carolyn navigates ambition, wealth, and romance until a shocking will reveals she married for a mere $5,000.
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Sie
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Ile
Jenkins
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Ion
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Switzerland
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England
Alrs. Leade
Albert Reade
Chicago Tribune
United States Marine Hospital at Chicago
The Marine Hospital in Chicago is the nation’s principal merchant marine hospital, serving seamen with proof of service for admission. It handles foreign and domestic mariners, revenue cutter and life saving service personnel, treated over 50,000 cases annually, and includes a sandstone building completed in 1873 with later additions. The facility costs about $825,000 yearly to maintain and cared for about 3,000 patients at the downtown dispensary each year.
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Uncle Sam
United States
Chicago
United States Marine Hospital
Lake Michigan
Revenue Cutter and Life-Saving Service
Navy
Marine Hospital Service
Hundred Mile Coast Thrills From Peru Oroya Railway
Lord Ernest Hamilton recounts a perilous descent on a hand car along Peru’s Oroya Railway from 15,666 feet to the Pacific. He notes the line’s record altitude, the rush of momentum, and the stark contrast from snow to hummingbirds as the thrill ends in exultant relief.
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Peru
Oroya
Pacific
Soroche
Olympus
Paso de Galera
Callao
Brakemin Quote Appears in Pearson's Magazine
A line from Pearson's magazine poetry section hints at lifting a lever as a metaphor for heavenly joys. The phrasing likens a railcar action to a spiritual foretaste while noting a friendly, careful touch.
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Pearson
Magnazine
Woman Miner Changes Fate With Persistence In Arizona
A Arizona woman near Wingman earns a fortune through hard work in mining. Mrs. John Shay, with no capital, drilled, blasted, and cleared ore for years while caring for her children. Recently she found rich ore with assays up to 3000 dollars per ton, opening a vein that now supports a crew and family.
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Arizona
John Shay
Wingman
Ariz
Nerve definitions and quaint quips from readers
A Brooklyn kindergarten tale shows a child naming a nerve as what makes a tooth ache and a student remarks on nerves as a mother’s rebuke. The page also notes Watts the English painter as frail yet long living and reflecting on life and work amid light humor from London Answers.
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Brooklyn
Folfis
Tor
Brooklyn Eagle
Proper Ice Storage and Farm News From Rural New Yorker
A Rural New Yorker correspondent explains icehouse construction with horizontal boards and layered cake packing using adze shaved ice and sawdust to seal joints. Additional items cover wheat in corn stubble, safe wood splitting, profitable poultry farming, shredded fodder storage, and notes from Green's Fruit Grower on farm practice and livestock care.
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New Yorker
Sumer
Valuable Early Tomato Named Barliana Described
The Barliana tomato variety is praised for early ripening by a week to ten days, strong growth, high yield, and solid fruit that resists cracking. It suits home gardens and city trade, with bright red color and good ship quality.
New Ironing Board and Household Tips
A new ironing board with an attached brace and pivoting links is described as easier to use and less likely to soil clothes. The piece also covers keeping coal fires overnight safely, warning about carbon monoxide, and offers several kitchen and home tips including peach desserts, capon salad, glazed sweet potatoes, Queen of Puddings, and simple hygiene and housework advice.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
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