Chinese Shopkeepers Describe Canton Life and Shops
The Century writer Florence Driscoll details Canton shops with skylights and displays, noting small and large rooms, wooden signs in bright colors, clerks in some shops, and artisans making wares on site. He observes Cantonese attire, lighting methods, and a vivid array of lacquerware, ceramics, fabrics, and carvings, plus street trades clustered by craft.
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Florence O'Driscoll
M. P
Canton
Europe
Radio timetable excerpt shows Indiana station stops
An OCR fragment lists rail or bus timetable items for a route going north from Terre Haute with stops including Saline, Clay City, Coal City, Elliston, Elnora and Washington. The text notes times around early morning numbers and distances, but many words are truncated.
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Terre Haute
Saline
Clay City
Coal City
Worthington
Elliston
Elnora
Washington
A. m
Sao
Eliston
H. Bledsoe
Worthington, Lind
Mail Box Pillars Invite Theft and Police Intervene
An English street corner mail box attracts a thief who snatches a paper. a policeman questions the young man as he denies stealing and claims the paper is his. The officer weighs the claim and the case proceeds to the station house amid humorous exchanges.
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Aris of & Pooturung
Muddled tale of gloves and a letter box mix up
Excerpts describe a comic misplacement involving gloves left atop a letter box, a mistaken pair intended for a lady in Mexico, and a policeman’s curt remark. The piece blends odd anecdotes with wry reflections on manners and coincidence, framed by brief notes from various newspapers.
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Mexico
New York
Beef costs in Boston lift annual spend near three hundred million
A Boston Herald writer estimates Boston area residents spend about 320 million annually on beef. The article explains beef comes mainly from Chicago packing houses, with about 234,000 beeves entering Boston yearly and a steer yielding roughly 900 pounds of edible meat priced around 125 dollars and 30 cents per hundredweight.
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Cipally
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Kan
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