One Minute Romance at Sea Amid Northern Storm
The article paints a shipboard scene in which a young daughter of a Dakin sailor brightens and steadies tired crewmates during a fierce nor’easter. The captain’s harsh mood yields to concern for Lena as the crew faces possible wreck. A Nantucket farewell and a wartime mood echo nearby. A grandmother and daughter discuss war enlistment as tears and resolve mix in a crowded window scene.
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PT. Dakin
Certa
Lena
Cook
Nantucket
Carrie
Fred
Green-goods swindlers and Lincoln door keeper tale
A New York correspondent recalls a once thriving green-goods colony on the uptown west side and its exposure through a saloon intrusion. The piece also relays a Syracuse Standard anecdote of President Lincoln serving as a doorkeeper and sharing a chair he called Abe Lincoln.
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Hoboken
West Side
Manhattan Island
Bunco
New York
Lincoln
James Blier
War Department
Washington
Syracuse Standard
Mr. Lincoln
Abe Lincoln
Life in Japan and a Strange Tombaetone Tale
A compact overview of quirky cultural notes touching on Japan, a mysterious Tombaetone item, and reflections on daily life. Includes musings on a typewriter, health, and a curious tobacco box. The piece reads as a collage of oddities and personal observations.
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Japan
A Wilder Night by the Hearth in Atlanta
A poem urging gratitude for home and warmth while urging charity to the homeless. The speaker notes the shelter and safety of a fire and asks to open the door to help a brother in need, tying generosity to the meaning of Christ’s gifts. The piece ends honoring Frank T. Stanton in the Atlanta Constitution.
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Christ
Frank TI. Stanton
Atlanta Constitution
Life in Japan shows strong labor force and small stature
The article describes a large Tokyo government paper mill with an in-house eating house offering meals from a penny to three pence and five pence wages. It notes many workers are robust from diet, cites Yokohama draught coolies with calves up to seventeen inches, suggests long isolation and intermarriage limit height, and attributes short stature to war and interbreeding.
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Japan
Tokio
Yokohama
California
Typewriters and Health Effects Highlight Cramp Debate
A discussion on typewriters' health impact notes an alleged case of typewriters cramps and mentions two other possible instances. It compares the condition to pianists and tailors’ cramps and cites a belief that typewriting may gain recognition as a common ailment over time.
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Phonetic Journal
The
Cramp
Poore
The Typewriter and Bicycle as Liberties for Women
The piece argues that the typewriter and bicycle empower women by reducing the corset’s constraints. It defends the typewriter’s health impact and contends that freed movement benefits the female population despite concerns about typewriter cramps.
Shaking Hands in Business Culture
The article notes men greet each other with handshakes more readily than women and discusses greetings as a gauge of character. It argues against promiscuous handshaking due to germ transfer and urges caution in home and business encounters, questioning whether ungloved handshakes are doomed.
Time Lock Tobacco Boxes Inspire Delayed Smoking Device
A patent proposes a time lock for tobacco boxes to curb nicotine craving. Users set a chosen abstinence interval and wait for the gauge to expire before smoking again. The inventor advises starting with short intervals and lengthening them to train the willpower toward vanishing cravings.
Japanese Fuel From Charcoal Dust and Grain Chaff
The dust of charcoal is mixed with chaff from wheat, barley and other grains and chopped straw in Japan. The mixture is moistened into a paste, rolled into balls about the size of a Dilliaré ball, and used as excellent fuel.
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Japan
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Joys
Utyie
Wesy
Adyl
Jo zWsnoy
Kas
James Jacobs
Henry Jacobs
James
J. S. Jacobs
Jim
Hood
Fiood
America
Hood’s Pills
Gandy Cathartig
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
Montreal
Kower
Bray
Ecoat St Storm
A. J. Tower
Boston
Mass
Canada
Land of Plenty
Department Interior
Ottawa
W. Ritchie
Grafton
N. D
Jones
Binghamton
Binghamton, N. Y
K. B. Mead
Crestor Carex
D. H. Greun
FOXS
Atlante
Kay Manilla Roo Manilla Roofing Co. Co
Camden
Pace Pension Ford
Washington, D
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