Amateur photography in Ireland and a costly tip mishap
A rambled reminiscence on early photography travel in Ireland from Dublin with tips on tipping, camera care, and mishaps. The narrator recalls learning to use a camera, encounters in Giant's Causeway, Lismore, and Monaghan, and a costly carriage-driver incident sparked by an ill judged two shilling tip.
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Charles Battell Loomis
Dublin
Ireland
Kodak
Derry
Giant's Causeway
Cappo
Lismore
America
Mr. Bangs
Mary
Hostess
Bangs
County Monaghan
Ballybally
Hardwood famine warns of Appalachian timber decline
A government pamphlet by William L. Hall reports a 15 percent drop in hardwood output, with Ohio Valley exhausted and Appalachians as the remaining major source. The study urges permanent forestry to protect the nation’s hardwood supply, noting potential industrial impact and a 15 year shortage outlook.
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United States Congress
Appalachian Mountain
William L. Hall
Hall
Ohio Valley
Appalachian States
Appalachians
Lake States
Mississippi Valley
Appalachian Mountains
Pennsylvania
Germany
West
New Diamond Making Process Reported by Chemist
Aristide Charette, a previously unknown chemist, claims to have produced pure crystals with diamond brilliance by passing a weak electric current through a tube containing sulfurs of carbon and metals such as iron. The Academy of Sciences has set two expert members to verify the crystals within a week.
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Moissan
Aristide Charette
Academy of Sciences
Academy
Naphtha Springs and Lake Found Near Nabilskaya Bay
A new naphtha spring field and a sizable naphtha lake have been located about eight miles from Nabilskaya bay in Saghalien, the Russian sector. The discovery highlights potential industrial prospects in the region.
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Nabilskaya Bay
Saghalien
Missives of Woe and the White House Mail Routine
The piece describes how President Cleveland via McKinley established a rule to acknowledge every letter to the White House while avoiding personal influence on private matters. It notes many letters come from earnest women, sometimes with requests for aid, and comments on the Roosevelt era and the ease of financial gifts to Sagamore Hill.
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Cleveland
Mr. McKinley
White House
Loeb
Abraham Lincoln
United States
McKinley
Roosevelt
Sagamore Hill
Signs and Signs in Washington. The Saloon Reframed
A New York visitor laments how 'buffet' and 'cafe' signs mask liquor outlets and questions licensing laws. He ridicules misnamed establishments, suggests censorship of signs, and jokes that future gin mills may be labeled 'Dining Room' or 'Sample Room' to dodge sobriety rules.
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Washington
New York
Diplomats Credential Oddity: Chekib Bey Leaves Washington
Chekib Bey the Turkish minister in Washington will visit the White House before returning home. He served without proper credentials and was listed as envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, a fact that became a noted wart of diplomatic protocol.
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Chekib Bey
Washington
White House
State Department
Constantinople
Chekib Beyin
United States
Root
Jewelry All Over Hats of Capital Women
A fashion note describes diplomatic women in the capital sewing rings, brooches, and gems into hats and even shoes. Miss Kean, sister of a New Jersey senator, stands out with a jeweled hat studded with diamonds emeralds and sapphires. Katharine Elkins, daughter of a West Virginia senator, wears ruby-set slippers.
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Miss Kean
New Jersey
Mrs. Roosevelt
Record-holding Washington figure lived 100 years without a doctor
William M. Starr, born in Virginia in 1807, is noted by the Association of Oldest Inhabitants of Washington for a century without physician care or medicine. His birth place is linked to the Bull Run fighting ground.
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William M. Starr
Washington
Virginia
Bull Run
The Lively Flea and a Diplomatic Dinner
A Washington dinner with American guests and several diplomats ends in a comic misread moment. Mon X- repeatedly reaches under the table, then explains with grave words that he believes it is a flea, provoking shocked silence among the distinguished company.
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Washington
Mon. X
New Front for Treasury Building
The east front of the Treasury Building, slated for demolition and replacement with granite, features thirty Ionic columns. In the 1907 sundry civil appropriation bill, $360,000 was allotted to remove the pillars facia and cornice. Granite pillars from Dix Island, Maine, were hauled to Washington by 18 oxen and eight horses.
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Treasury Building
America
Dix Island
Rockland
Washington
Literary Digest
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John Kendrick Bangs
Brosue
Cromwell
Ameca
Goryright
W. G. Chapman
Maryland
Charette
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