The Paris Opera House Construction and Interiors
The article traces 1861 site choice and deep foundations to avoid water, with eight steam pumps and a waterlogged cellar kept dry. It details exterior cofferdams, brick walls, and concrete layers, plus later siege uses and decorations, stairways, foyers, and a vast staff and dressing rooms network.
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Opera House
Comiune
Ethies
Sweden
Scuviland
Italy
Algela
Finland
Spain
Belgium
France
Notre-Dame
M. Lequesne
M. Millet
Apollo
Lully
Rameau
Gluck
Handel
Napoleon
Foyer de la Danse
Jonesboro Growing Promises for Water Works and Roads
Jonesboro North Carolina investors push water works into service while a ten thousand dollar school building starts soon. The township votes fifteen thousand dollars for sand clay roads, with ample sand and clay locally. Dewberry crops look strong and a carload daily expected. Cotton stands poor due to dry weather, with replanting or corn planting underway.
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Jonesboro
N. C
Cascarets Promoted For Folk Over Fifty To Aid Bowels
A vintage health ad urges readers over fifty to use Cascarets daily to stimulate weak bowels. It frames aging digestion as sluggishness like dimming eyes, warns against harsh laxatives, and recommends a 10 cent box for gentle, regular relief.
Wickersham Testifies On Fria r Lands Sale and Sugar Trust Ties
At the hearing, Attorney General Wickersham faced questions on the sale of friar lands in the Philippines to the American Sugar Refining Company. He linked Henry W. Taft to the Coke of earlier cases and said Strong & Cadwalder represented the sugar trust. He defended the $2,000,000 restitution, saying evidence for penalties was lacking and the agreement reserved criminal prosecution rights.
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Washington
Wickersham
Beall
Texas
Philippines
American Sugar Refining Company
Henry W. Taft
Licorice Trust
American Tobacco Company
John Hays Hammond
Strong and
Cadwalder
New York Cotton Exchange
Exchange
Mr. Wickersham
Department of Justice
Treasury Department
New York
Georgia contract labor law ruled unconstitutional
In Macon Judge Speer declares Georgia contract labor law unconstitutional and violated by both Georgia and US constitutions. The peonage case defense claims enforcement by planters allowed arrests for broken contracts, nullifying the law. Thousands of Georgia farmers face constraint in labor disputes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Macon
Speer
United States
Georgia
Reform School Plans Discussed at Asheville Meeting
At Asheville city hall a meeting outlined a reformitory and farm school for young offenders. A committee was appointed to develop plans to present to the county commissioners and city aldermen for approval.
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Asheville
N. C
Spartanburg Boosters Plan Business Excursion
John H. Wood of the Spartanburg Board of Trade wrote that about 100 Spartanburg business men will leave June 20 and arrive June 21 in Asheville via Marion. The trip aims to boost trade and business in Spartanburg.
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Asheville
N. C
John H. Wood
Spartanburg
Textile curtailment hits production across mills in 1890s period
Industry observers report widespread curtailment in textile output as raw material costs rise and demand weakens. Across major cotton mills, production declines, with at least 30 percent cut in some sectors while others run reduced shifts. Economic pressures push prices down and inventories pile up as optimism fades.
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Dundee
Sona
Axa Center
The How the He Worn by th at Lakew
The readable fragments describe a local scene at a lakeside area with a focus on clothing or attire worn by individuals. Names or places are unclear, but a small community moment around a lakefront is evident.
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France
M. Boulanger
Foyer de la Danse
L’africaine
le Profeta
Margarita’s Garden
Opera
Opera House
Andre Castaigne
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Tut
Gaston -Leroux
Yellow Room
Bobbe-Merrill Compan
Paris Opera House
Myer
Pruch
Boos
Hubert
Associated Press
Mobile
Ala
James Reynolds
Augusta
John Duggan
Lillian Reynolds
Bond
Duggan
S. S
S.S
S.S.S
Drusestor
Madras
Yorke Bros. & Rogers
Simmons Liver Regulator Ia
H. Zeilin & CO
St. Louis
Missouri
Chalottr
Raleigh, N
Presbyterian College For Women and Conservatory of Music
Charlotte
J. R. Bridges
D. D
Standard Ice & Fuel Co
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Reform School
Vudor
Parker-Gardner Co
Weddington Hardware
East Trade Street
Spartanburg Boosters
Andre
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