Electric gondolas and gondoliers at World’s Fair grounds
Robert Graves describes popular transport within the exposition grounds including elevated electric trains, electric launches, and Venetian gondolas. He notes sixty gondoliers with thirty boats, uniformed crew, nightly lights, and prices from 25 cents to 3 dollars per hour with attendants varying by ride. The piece highlights chairs for ground mobility and the appeal of romantic, scenic tours.
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United States
Lake Michigan
Uncle Sam
Pworth
Sons of
Venice
Cleopatra
Nile
Marc Antony
Italy
Yale
Harvard
Princeton
Amherst
Chicago University
Michigan University
Robert Graves
Halwill manor estate management in England by Mr Harris
The piece recounts W J Harris’s English management of Halwill manor, showing a shift from large unfriendly consolidation to supporting cottagers and smallholders. It notes land value rises, wage increases, and how labor focus and cooperative farming boosted productivity and rural population. It also critiques bailiff-led vacant-farm practices.
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England
W. J. Harris
Halwill Manor
Extile
Mr.Harris
Harris
London Saturday Review
Midway Plaisance Scene Draws Crowds With Multicultural Exchange
Visitors at the Midway plaisance mingle as nations converge in a bustling avenue nicknamed Black person row. Turkish vendors seek coins after prayers, dancing girls entertain, Irish girls smile, aborigines grunt, and South Sea islanders greet neighbors from Ceylon amid a mix of merriment and commerce.
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Plaisance
Lady Aberdeen
Ceylon
Early Modern Magazines and Political Feuding
Beers notes the vibrant but combative age of early modern reviews and magazines. Libel suits and duels marked editor disputes as Jeffrey and Moore duel reenactments occur. The Chaldee manuscript caused a costly suppression and Rowland Blackwood faced street confrontations in Edinburgh with Douglas.
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Matthew Arnold
Jeffrey
Moore
Blackwood
Douglas
Glasgow
Edinburgh
H. A. Beers
Century
Subterfuges and evasions cited by ex judge Howland
Ex judge Henry E Howland cites gross deceit in dealing with outsiders. He mentions a Maine prohibition town scene a countryman requesting a gallon of rum for a sick baby and a rector asked by an organist what to play while revising a sermon illustrating cunning and evasive behavior.
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Henry E. Howland
Maine
New York World
Australian snake bite remedy with hair string
The piece describes a treatment from Australia where natives tie a hair string above the bite, cut around punctures, slit a vein to bleed, then run water over the area and rub the limb for about twenty minutes. The report notes the practice as part of a long list of remedies from many countries.
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Australia
Pittsburg
The Rule of Three in Daily Life
The New York News notes the ubiquity of the rule of three in everyday life from nursery rhymes to meal schedules. It cites examples like three wise men and three blind mice and reflects on how households follow three daily medicine doses.
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Gotham
New York News
Debate on Light or Darkness Affects Electric Plant Growth
In a western college debating society a question asking if light or darkness fosters growth of an electric plant was argued. Sonte claimed light drives profits as lamps must be lit, while others argued darkness is needed to justify lights. The debate ended in a draw. New York Fressa.
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Western College
Sonte
New York
Fressa
Letter From Naples Warns of Unsanitary Rag Shipments
A Naples letter reports U S doctors in despair over lax regulations on rag shipments for emigrants. Bales labeled disinfected hide bandages from cholera hospitals in Hamburg and leprous Jerusalem and ophthalmia ridden rags from Egypt. Shipments to the United States include 1,100 sick Italians bound for Mulberry Street with 800 more Friday and another lot Saturday.
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Naples
United States
Hamburg Hospital
Jerusalem
Egypt
Mulberry Street
New York
America
England
Million-dollar bid for rare 1850 British Guiana stamp
A stamp auction at the Real Estate Exchange drew philatelists for the De Copper collection second day. Lot 858, a 1850 British Guiana 2 cents stamp on rose paper, used and cut round, realized $1,010, a record price, bought by R. F. Albrecht as J. W. Scott watched. Others included British Honduras stamps fetching solid prices.
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Real Estate Exchange
British Guiana
British Honduras
Tapling
British Museum
England
France
J. W. Scott
United States
R. F. Albrecht
New York Tribune
Confucian Views on Government and Social Exchange
Pekin Gazette cites Confucius on using ancient dynastic calendars chariots crowns and musical order while stressing character as the key to good governance. Menius Pang Keng notes every vocation must differ to exchange labor goods enabling farmers to store grain and housewives to have sufficient cloth.
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Confucius
Yin
Chou
Shun
Pekin Gazette
Legrand’s Opera “The Female Slave” staged in Vienna
English composer Legrand, with Miss Macintyre, works on the opera The Female Slave to be produced in Vienna. The Imperial Opera House director offers Miss Macintyre a liberal engagement. Dr Mary V Mitchell of Media Pa named professor of physical culture at the Woman’s College of Baltimore and will study European methods before starting.
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Legrand
Mary V. Mitchell
Media
Woman's College of Baltimore
Mitchell
Europe
Unlined autumn dresses advance reform in style
The article notes unlined dress skirts for autumn becoming a step toward reform. They are light and manageable and include hooks and straps to keep them off the ground in rainy weather.
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