Ponce New Healthful Port With Weak Defenses
The New York Tribune describes Ponce Puerto Rico as the island’s second commercial city with 22 000 inhabitants and strong port trade at Playa. It notes weak military defenses though earthworks rise on northern hills and batteries guard the railway junction. Bahia Honda nearby lies open to the southwest with reefs and shallow passages.
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Ponce
Porto Rico
Playa
Chamber of Commerce
Spanish Antilles
Poncé
Yanco
San Juan
Bahia Honda
Puerca Island
New York Tribune
The Porcelain Set that Outwitted Baron Rothschild
A decrepit old man tricks Baron Rothschild with a single exquisite plate and a monthly annuity plan. The impostor, posing as a younger man, collects 100 francs monthly for years while the baron keeps the prized porcelain set and the story of the swindle.
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Baron Rothschild
Sam
New York Press
The Clock Lie and the Mount Morgan Gold Myth
A curious essay compares a man who lies to a clock with deliberate deceit and recalls a quip about a clock dictating lies. It then describes Mount Morgan as a vast natural gold deposit already dissolved and precipitated by nature, suggesting the gold exists as a golden front within ironstone.
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Mount Morgan
London
Samson and Delilah clash over hair cutting in crowd scene
Delilah declares she will cut Sammy's hair herself, accusing the Dutch barber of taking too much. Samson then appears before the Philistines, drawing their ridicule and the crowd's laughter.
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Sammy
Delilah
Samson
Whales Aged by Bone Laminae Indicate Centuries
Researchers determine whale ages from bone laminae counts and growth over years. Ages of 300 and 400 years have been suggested based on laminae measurements.
Materials For a Skyscraper
Figures from the 16 story Philadelphia skyscraper project show materials used include 8,000 cubic yards of excavation 4,000 yards of concrete and stone masonry 3711555 pounds of steel 300000 pounds of ornamental iron 36000 pounds of ornamental bronze 10000 cubic feet of granite and 900 tons in weight 260000 square feet of fireproofing 38600 tons 1360 tons of patent mortar on 42000 square yards plastering 40000 square feet of varied marble 15000 pounds of nails 10000 cubic feet of terra cotta 290 tons 825000 face brick 1500000 common brick 24000 square feet of glass 73660 pounds 80 miles of electric piping and ten miles of piping for plumbing and steam fitting An average of 200 men worked on the project from start to finish.
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McCaul
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Inquirer
Seals in Winter Reach Fat, Playful and Proud
The excerpt notes how young seals thrive in cold seasons, fattening rapidly and basking in icy cradles. It contrasts their lively summer floundering with the robust, buoyant behavior of adults as they dive, surface, and splash, followed by a shift to human-era observations from periodicals.
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Pittsburg Dispatch
Trademarks for Chinese Trade and Yukon Mining Life
The article discusses how Chinese trademarks must reflect Chinese artistic taste, warning against Western stylizations. It cites Gracey on preferred Chinese imagery and contrasts with Japanese motifs, then shifts to Yukon mining costs, river freight, and claim costs, noting Dawson City prices, sluice lumber value, and local log-cabin settlements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dawson City
Indiana
Dawson
Forks
Yukon
Soldiers Life at Camp Alger Poetic Epitome
A soldier from the Sixty-fifth regiment at Camp Alger sends home a humorous verse describing the soldiers daily routine. The poem lists activities from singing ballads and card games to guarding, drilling, cooking, cleaning, writing letters, and waiting for the war to end.
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Sixty-fifth Regiment
Camp Alger
Buffalo
Labor unions and capital mirror each other in flaws
Seth Low argues in Atlantic for August that labor organizations and capital operate for their own advantage, not only in defense against each other. He notes both have cruel traits toward workers and argues faults of organized labor and organized capital are equally present, differing in form but similar in essence.
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Samuel L. Gracey
United States
Fuchau
Far Cathay
Gracey
Celestial Empire
Seth Low
Atlantic
Vulcan repair ship aids Cuban squadron in need
The Vulcan steamer, fitted as a repair shop ship by Engineer in Chief Melville, proved invaluable in Cuban waters near Santiago. Twelve ships used her facilities for machinery repairs and even replacement steam pipes, with ordnance work and hull remedies noted.
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Vulcan
Melville
Cuban
Santiago
United States
Chasmar
Guantanamo
Commodore Watson
Newark
Dolphin
Wilmington Morning News
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City OF
Milew
Rothschild
Elizaber
Paul
Robert J. Burdette
Ladies’ Home Journal
Young Seals
Plymouth Colony
Worcester Gazette
Yarmouth
Italy
John
Klondike
Goddard
Canada
A. Haynes Co
Maynard, Mass
the Law
Bruno
Lord Coleridge
Bernard Shaw
G. B.S
Glenwood Ranges
Slate Root
Gho.g. OH
Concord Junction, Mass
Adelaide
Tuttles
Jones & Wetherbee
Wilfrid Wheeler
Fairhaven Road
Concord, Mass
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord
Jd. C
Chaplin
Thos
H. King
Joncord Junction
Mass
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