Bargain real estate catalog lists many city and rural lots
A lengthy ad offers numerous houses, cottages, farms, and vacant lots for sale or trade. Properties range from three room cottages on Franklin and Washington Streets to large modern residences near Maple Grove. Prices top from modest amounts to $3,000 with terms including small cash down and monthly payments. Some parcels trade for city property or land elsewhere.
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Brown County
Clay County
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Ft. Worth
Henrietta
Alma Station
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Denver Ry
East Columbus
Bashly
Wenrden Township
Irwin
Columbus
Reed and
Seventh Streets
Court House
Emperor’s English Lesson Provokes Taotai Mockery
A North China News report recounts an emperor testing a Taotai’s English by asking simple questions. The Taotai stumbles on phrases like How do you do and Sit down, then kowtows on the marble floor. The emperor condemns the display and orders the Taotai to study English for three years or risk leaving the audience chamber.
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Nanking
North Chine
England
Taotai
Bicycle Boom Drove Birds From City Parks Says Officer
A Chicago Tribune story quotes a South Park police officer lamenting that bicycles have emptied city parks of songbirds. He notes dense crowds, constant activity, and night activity by riders, leaving sparrows as the common nesters with few orioles thrushes or robins remaining.
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Old South Park
The
Chicago Tribune
Yen
Atvay
Rivalry of Two Towns Over a Lake Bridge
Historic dispute between Duluth Minnesota and Superior Wisconsin over a bridge across the St. Louis River at Lake Superior. Senator Quay pushes for the bill while Senator Vilas blocks, leaving the structure suspended in Congress.
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Duluth
Minn
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Washington Post
Courteay
St. Louis
Northwest
Congress
Pennsylvania Steel
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Senator Vilas
Superiorites
College for Lovers Proposed by Author Lillian Dell
Miss Lillian Dell proposes a college for training men in love making with a post graduate course for husbands. She contrasts it with a kindergarten for training husbands and argues women intuitively sense rivals, while men fall for deceptive appeals. Carmilton notes a blind tailor who uses touch to identify tweed patterns.
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Lillian Dell
Gil
Ble
William Carmilton
Zone of fire in Cuba described as ash heap of Matanzas region
The witness recounts widespread destruction in Matanzas and surrounding western Cuban provinces, noting unorganized survivors, scorched landscapes including Montserrat views, and looming famine and plague amid reconcentration policies led by General Molinas. The tone paints a desolate, stunned population.
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Matanzas
Matangas
Manana
Infallible Science and a Yale Lamp Incident
A Yale Divinity Hall student fired a toy rifle at a lamp. the bullet pierced a professor’s window and embedded in a wall. The professor traced the ball to an innocent colleague, then the student confessed, admitting the miscalculation and asking the matter be dropped. Separately, a Washington report says Mrs McKinley will dine with Mrs Cleveland before the inauguration and Mr Cleveland plans a spring move to Princeton.
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Yale
Hartford Courant
Cleveland
Asrinson
New York Times
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McKinley
Harrison
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Birl
New York
Princeton
N. J
New York City
World owner buys Jekyl Island home for cash
Joseph Pulitzer of the New York World has purchased the Jekyl Island cottage of Mr and Mrs W R Furness for 48000 dollars in cash and plans to spend winters there with telegraph links. A dredge near the property caused noise until an agreement paid for a pause in work. Also notes on carat weight standards for gems and other brief items.
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World
Jekyl Island
Josep Pulitzer
New York
Jekyl Sound
Mr. Pulitzer
Fashion Restaurant Promotes Sunday Dinners at Washington Street
A notice to entertain guests at hotels and restaurants during Sunday dinner hour describes Fashion Restaurant at 609 Washington Street. It urges fashionable patrons to visit for specially prepared Sunday dinners and notes prior patrons have been pleased with the service.
Misfortune Follows 13th Child Conductor Samuel Sharp
Conductor Samuel Sharp of a German town local train is famed in the city as a superstitious man cursed by the number 13. The 13th child in a large family, he faced wrecks, a hospital stay of 13 weeks, a lost inheritance of 1306, and his wife’s death after moving to 1313 South Thirteenth Street. Now a baggage master, he avoids punching 13 on tickets, often asking passengers to do so.
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Samuel Sharp
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Philadelphia
Samuel
South Thirteenth Street
Moravian Death Customs Reported by Bethlehem Choir
Clifford Steward examines Moravian beliefs in Bethlehem Pennsylvania showing death is signified by trombone music from the church bell tower. The trumpet tones accompany funerals and joyous times alike, seen as a peaceful passage to a brighter home.
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Clifford Steward
Ladies’ Home Journal
Bethlehem
Asten
The Rat Catcher of Paris
M. Henri Dayve serves 35 years as Paris chief rat catcher and proclaims over one million rats caught with his hands. During the siege he profited by supplying rats to restaurants at up to 60 cents each. he and assistants hunted in sewers and even sold live rats to enthusiasts paying around 15 dollars per 100.
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Paris
M. Henri Dayve
Ife
M. Dayve
Sultan's heir in Ottoman line amid palace intrigue
The London Echo discusses the Ottoman succession law and names Rechad Effendi as the heir after ex Sultan Murad V. It notes Rechad’s guarded life at the Tcheragan palace, his popularity, and the restricted access he faces while his elder brothers’ line raises succession concerns in a time of Armenian and regional unrest.
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Sis
London Echo
Rechad Effendi
Murad V
Waredin
Suliman
Prince Selim
Tcheragan
Rechad
Ornamental Molin ing Doors and Floor Mosaic Process
The Yale Scientifics Monthly reports a new floor mosaic method using wood particles treated with shellac and alcohol, then cement made from cord and lime. Heated molds compress the mixture, forming a hard, stable floor covering resistant to temperature changes.
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Industrial Union
Yale Scientifics
The Trolley Buzz And a Cure for Headache
A Brooklyn resident describes the trolley buzz a sound heard on moving trolley cars. Reportedly regular riders hear the bz z z z tone constantly, except while asleep, and some claim a trolley ride relieves headaches after about a three mile trip.
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Brooklyn
New York
Electric protection of safes through guarded cabinets
The S J Louis Globe-Democrat reports a new safe protection: an electric ring of metal strips in contact with thin sheets to trigger an alarm if poked. A time lock prevents vault or cabinet doors from opening until alarm systems are disconnected, with steel boxes and lag bolts delaying access to deter tampering.
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S J. Louis Globe-Democrat
Burning cannel coal and gas formation discussed
The passage explains a lump of cannel coal burning on a grate. Air drawn under rises through bars, oxygen combines with coal to form carbonic gas, nitrogen and smoke accompany the exhaust, and heat energy is released as the chemical union occurs.
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