Towns With Troubles Across the World
A collage of city woes lists Bondon facing fog and earthquakes in Takin with mass evacuation of up to twenty thousand residents. Mar Bellies endures a punishing east wind, Calcutta battles cholera, Bombay the bubonic plague, Baghdad the so called Baghdad button, Madrid suffers the solane heat with dust and extreme temperatures.
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Alstral Tube
Mar Bellies
Calcutta
Bombay
Bagdad
Madrid
Royal commission study on Australian old age pensions
A royal commission formed in 1905 examined Australia’s old age pension systems. It heard from New South Wales, Victoria and New Zealand, noting thrift effects and concerns over benevolent societies. It recommended a federal universal pension with a $2.50 weekly maximum for those 60 plus, subject to income limits and residency, plus penalties for alcohol sales to pensioners. New Zealand reports about 12,000 pensioners, while New South Wales and Victoria report tens of thousands receiving multi million dollar expenditures.
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Commonwealth of Australia
New South Wales
Victoria
New Zealant Hach
Peps
Acty
Imnelowerk
Cire
Australia
New Zealand
Moving to Canyon, Texas a Texas Panhandle letter home
An Aug 5 1907 letter from Canyon City Texas details farming life in the Panhandle. The writer notes Illinois and Iowa neighbors, land values rising since earlier sales, cattle herds and pasture economics, and the presence of cowboys and Confederate veterans at a July reunion. They describe crops, prices for oats and wheat, frequent rain, and a generally content community with strong church support.
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Canyon City
Texas
Brimfield News
Knapp
Panhandle
Illinois
Iowa
Thase
Pecos Valley
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Tuwao
Castro County
Panhandle City
White Deer
Canyon
Emery
Harry
Roy
Hawkins
Mra. J. M. Emery
The Annihilation of Distance and Global News
The piece notes how rapid telegraph and cable networks shrink distant nations into near neighbors. It cites THE Caricao Record as a modern daily with extensive correspondents and access to major services like the New York Herald World Journal and the Associated Press, enabling streamlined worldwide coverage.
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Old World
Europe
Asia
Africa
South America
Australia
Cariaco Record HeEpap
Tuk Recordhenan
New York Herald
Ita Worldwide
Ita Foreign News
New York World
New York Journal of Commerce
Associated Press
Brimfield Village adopts annual levy and assessment
The Village of Brimfield Illinois passes an annual levy ordinance for the current fiscal year totaling 1100 dollars. It appropriates funds for Streets and Sidewalks Police and Street Commissioner Electric Lights and Miscellaneous Purposes. The act was approved by President John A. Back on August 6 1907 with Clerk W B Weeks attesting.
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Brimfield
Illinois
Wdbbionet
John A. Back
W. B. Weeks
Mystery Death: Suet or Suicide Hint in Dining Tale
A fragment from a Moégern Disease piece depicts a cryptic dialogue about a dead man found at a table. The exchange jokes that he died of surfeit after dining with Becence, suggesting a paradoxical demise rather than simple suicide.
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Alain
Demographics and Institutions Count in Grest Metropolis
The report lists 8656 blind Londoners and 2057 deaf and dumb residents. It says 20068 soldiers in barracks, 46646 paupers in workhouses, 10600 hospital patients, 3300 lunatics in asylums, and about 5000 criminals in prisons, highlighting urban social metrics.
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Grest
London Barracks
Alas Poor Rube Bowmansville Debate Over Benefactors
In Bowmansville the literary society rejected the farmer as a greater benefactor to humanity than the manufacturer after a heated discussion reported by the Philadelphia Press.
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Rube
Bowmansville
Philadelphia Press
Notable Wall Street Giants From The Latter Day Pioneers
A snapshot of historic market figures shows key names once shaping finance. Keene, Morgan, Rockefeller, Carnegie, Hill and others aged in their late sixties to seventies are described as veteran powers who dominated promotions, finance, and industry across decades.
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Wall Street
Bage
Shylock
St James
King
Henry Clews
the Dickens of
Jacob Bchif
Henry H. Rogers
John D. Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
Henry Oh-My Havemeyer
James J. Hill
Andrew Carnegie Ia
He Was Brave
An exchange features a child speaking with bravado about asking a parent a question in a Cleveland Leader piece from 1917. The dialogue centers on fear and courage within a family moment.
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Papa
George
Cleveland
Witty exchange reveals streetside characters and misread vows
A fragmented dialogue sketches a comic scene with a mag on the spot and a curious pair of deacons. The hobo jokes about freight trains while the lady questions travel. A misdirected claim about a prisoner and a boarder adds sarcasm.
Notice to keep off grounds with dogs and guns
All hunters are notified to stay off the premises of the undersigned. Trespassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of the law. Signed by John Ruse, Fousaier Bros, Gero A Pursell, Geo Mulvaney, Joam Kinepon, Lewin Magtin.
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John Ruse
Fousaier Bros
Gero
A. Pursell
Geo. Mulvaney
Joam Kinepon
Lewin Magtin
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Solowinr
BAC Ina Tar
Ion Town
D. Bland
Brewton
C. L. Gates Bancock
Minn
Swanson Rheumatic Core Company
Lake Street
Chicago
Mi Geeres
the McCall CO
Bondon
Takin
OLD Age Pensioners
Australasian Coloniea
Memler Brothers
Bobbe
Dobbs
United States
Roosevelt
Edward A. Ross
University of Washington
Ross
Hunter
Shoop
Ble
Ag Gee Sars
Aes Mae O
Ioe
Kg & A
Abdood
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