Where Fifty Thousand Belgian Peasants Co-operate
Europe’s cooperative movement shows Belgium Denmark Ireland Germany and Norway building vast farmer alliances that shape rural life. The piece notes large memberships quality control rules one vote per member and a push toward central federations to ensure producer gains and fair distribution.
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Ireland
Belgium
Germany
Denmark
America
Irish Agricultural Organization Society
Irish Wholesale Society
Dublin
Europe
Co-Operative Society
Practical Garden Advice and Shrub Emphasis from William A. Radford
William A. Radford offers free home building and gardening guidance, urging practical planting over theory. The piece highlights the value of shrubs for city lots, discusses bungalow design with surrounding shrubbery, and notes Dr. Stephen Sed and Dr. Wise advocating humanizing hospitals and socializing medical services.
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Stephen S
Australians Concentrate Living in Four Major Cities
More than a third of Australia’s population resides in four cities Sydney Adelaide Melbourne and Brisbane. The statistic highlights urban concentration and regional distribution across the country.
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Australia
Sydney
Adelaide
Melbourne
Brisbane
Right Place Pardoning Uncle Hiram Tale
A Congressman recalls Uncle Hiram from the clover zone who visits a county store to buy dried beef and crackers. The saleswoman corrects him that it is a dry goods shop, prompting Hiram to joke that he is in the right pew for his dry fare.
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Joseph T. Johnson
South Carolina
Hiram
Philadelphia Telegraph
Mass meeting backs Hebrew instruction in Palestine schools
A mass meeting at Cooper Union New York under the Palestine Hebrew schools fund committee began an organized drive to raise 100000 annually for Hebrew language schools in Palestine. Jacob H Schiff attended and Prof Richard Gotthelf of Columbia chaired the meeting.
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Palestine Hebrew Schools Fund Committee
Palestine
Cooper Union
New York City
Jacob H. Schiff
Richard Gotthelf
Columbia University
Absent Minded Professor Finds Scissors
A Drew Theological Seminary professor, needing a bookmark, used his wife's scissors from the sewing table. The next day he opened his book in class to find the missing scissors resting inside, and he held them up shouting Here they are dear. The students understood the joke.
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Drew Theological Seminary
Wash Sales. A trade in books and insurance
A life insurance agent asks how business is going. The book agent replies no sales this week. They joke about trading services with the book agent buying a set of books if the insurance agent will take out some insurance.
Canton the Floating City of Pearls and Crowded Streets
A traveler describes Canton near Hong Kong 30 miles up the Pearl River. He details European buildings at the landing, the Shameen, temples, guilds, and markets in Sap-Pat-Po, the Great West Gateway, a five-story pagoda, the Pearl River view, and the City of the Dead with coffin rooms. He notes the Yamen, temple courts, and a Chinese feast with a dish of eggs reputedly eighty years old.
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Canton
Pearl River
Hong Kong
A. H. Fisher
Illustrated London News
Victoria Hotel
Samshin
China
Sap-Pat-Po
Ward 18
Normal College
Queen of Heaven Mountain
Old Deer Park
Yamen
Peking
Su Mong Mu
Queer Bequest A London church charity rewrites old terms
A London church earns about 5000 dollars annually from a charity fund though the original bequest would have given bread and cheese from the steeple. The endowment now comes as rent from land, reflecting modern methods of distributing aid to the poor.
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London
Demolition of Ten Story Structure at 60 Broad Way
A ten story tower at 60 Broad Way, New York City, demolished to clear space for a larger building. Erected in 1889, the structure had served about 25 years, with architects and engineers keenly watching the cast frame due to its age and condition.
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Broadway
New York City
Buddha Tooth Relic of Kandy: A World Revered Molar
In Kandy Sri Lanka the Buddha’s tooth relic draws pilgrims from Asia and distributes wealth to the temple. Origin stories trace it from Buddha to India to Goa and to a spurious substitute used for dynastic marriages. The tooth measures two inches by an inch and is shown only from a distance, sometimes carried on an elephant in processions.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Buddha
Burma
Siam
Christ T
India
Goa
Girl and mother share close bond easing need for chaperon
A girl who is very chummy with her mother can get along quite well without a chaperon. The note highlights the strong mother daughter relationship reducing formal supervision in social settings.
Iron structural frame praised for durability in rebuild notes
Scientific American notes iron columns and wrought iron floor beams in good condition with flat-arch terra cotta floors. The wrought iron beams show little rust and cast iron columns with a three inch shell for fire protection — only localized rusting at a few points.
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Scientific American
Woes of Women Dialogue on Lost Ideals
A comic exchange contrasts two women reflecting on love and marriage. A younger says she lost her ideal when he married another. the older replies she lost hers when he married her.
Misplaced Prosperity Sparks Debate on National Wealth
In a dialogue between a national wealth advocate and Mr Growcher the effect of vast country wealth is debated. Growcher notes personal poverty despite overall riches and suggests prosperity may be misallocated.
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Mr. Growcher
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Copenhagen
Laraine
Co-Operative Farmers’ League
Frederickssund
Cooperative Life Insurance Society
Sir Horace Plunkett
Thomas A. Finlay
George W. Russell
R. A. Anderson
United States
Trifolium Dairy
William A. Radford
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
The
Free Synagogue
New York
Dr. Wise
Ixexico
Fund For Teaching Hebrew
Wash Sales
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