Bank of Hoare’s celebrates 250 years of tradition in Fleet Street
The Hoare family run bank in London marks 250 years with customs dating to the 17th century. A porter sleeps in the private rooms, nine o’clock key turn opens the front door, and historic features like Ye Olde Leather Boot sign and a wine-passing floor remain. Samuel Pepys kept an account here and overdrew after a 200-pound deposit in 1630.
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London
Samuel Pepys
Keel
Messrs. Hoare .O
Hoare
House of Hoare
Fleet Street
Dector Johnson
Chippendille
Pepys
Cromwreldt
Stone Age Skeleton Found on Sweden’s West Coast
Five thousand year old skeleton uncovered near Gothenburg during Swedish archaeologists long term survey. Excavation at Kustesbacka unearthed tools and ornaments with grave goods. earlier graves include a 2000 year old woman with amber necklace and weaving implements.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Gothenburg
North Sea
Gothernburg
Kutesbacka
Hghr
Gude
Immigrant Baby Barred From Polands February Quota
Immigrant family from Warsaw bound for Omaha faced deportation when a baby born at sea aboard the liner Ro ie ig lacked a passport and pushed the February Polish quota from four to five. Officials ruled the Epstein family must leave the baby behind or return to Poland, despite passports issued for four.
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Ars
Steins
Warsaw
Poland
Omaha
Epstein
New York
Workman Injured as Plank Falls From Scaffold
Benjamin Brown of Monticello, N.Y., sustained a fractured spine when a plank dropped from a scaffold after colleagues obeyed the noon whistle. The plank struck his back as they crossed the scaffold.
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Benjamin Brown
Monticello
Brown
Elephants Test Garage Floor Stability In Bold Demo
A garage floor was tested for strength by inviting five elephants from a traveling menagerie. The elephants walked on the floor with a combined weight of about ten tons, proving the structure solid and the architect vindicated.
Caterpillars Form Endless Circle in Parade Around Jar
Padre placed a ring of caterpillars on a narrow lip around a jar. They marched nose to tail for hours around the circumference without breaking, seemingly driven by the leader and lacking independent initiative to break away or escape the line.
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Fabre
Ama Dieresting
Padre
Selena
First Envelope History and Early Postage Innovations
The fragment notes an early letter enclosed by Sir William Furnull to Sir James Ogivie preserved in the British Museum. It traces folding, wafer sealing, and the late 18th to mid 19th century rise of envelopes and adhesive stamps, including the 1840 penny post and 1850s spread of envelopes. It cites 1844 patent by George Wilson and 1845 improvements by De La Rte and Wilk.
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William Furnbull
James Ogivie
British Museum
England
Atlantic
George Wilson
Warren de la Ite
FE. Wilk
Sensible Laws on Food Roles and Hygiene
A passage from Asia Magazine describes strict food rules tied to social order. It notes a Brahmin cook may be hired by certain castes but kitchen access is guarded, cooks bathe before meals, all food is freshly prepared, and no dish is served twice. The provisions aim to prevent contamination and disease, framed as science within religious formulae.
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Asia Magazine
As Others Saw Him
An old southern Black man travels to the city to find work and faces job references. After presenting names of former employers, he learns the letters praising his loyalty and effort. He exclaims that if others had known he was such a good worker, he would have received pay.
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PT Déclair
Everybody's Magazine
Early Britons Used Coal Says History Report
The article notes coal use by Britons before Roman times near an ancient wall in England with finds of tools and cinders. It cites coal as a fuel first used by English in 852 and in iron production by 1612. Jesuit missionaries Joliet and Marquette reportedly found coal near Utica in 1673.
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Homan
England
B.C
America
Joliet and
Marquette
Utica
Ancient Arab Physician Avicienne Inventions Cited For Tuberculosis Cure
An old physician credited Avicienne with a honey and releoses remedy named Ajelenjabine said to heat treatment in tuberculous cases. The article notes tannin from rose leaves and sugar as active elements, with claims of reduced expectoration and increased weight and appetite. It mentions grandmother cures with honey butter and horehound and questions modern reliance on traditional methods.
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Avicienne
Faimong
All Dread the Crocodile in African Rivers
An excerpt cites Major Stevenson-Tramilt on the crocodile as Africa’s most dangerous animal. The reptile attacks any creature within reach except elephants and hippos and can pull down rhinos. It can kill quickly then store victims in warm underwater ledges. A Zambesi chief once enjoyed watching slaves and criminals tossed to crocodiles.
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Major 2. Stevenson-Tramilton
Africa
Zambesi
Mail runners brave dangers to deliver letters in India
In India the mail distribution relies on runners from the lowest castes who face wild beasts criminals and spirits to protect the mail bag. They risk death from tigers floods avalanches and gangs as they continue their duty with remarkable loyalty and honesty.
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Runmiers
Temia
Epic versus dramatic poetry in character and fate
The passage contrasts epic and tragic drama. It says epic sums a people's destiny and large movements, with heroes swept by events. Tragic drama focuses on the individual's destiny, with personal escapes and dramatic episodes shaping fate.
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S. H. Butcher
Only One English Swallow Among English Birds
The article notes four common English swallow birds but asserts only one true English swallow. It ranks sizes: swift largest, then swallow, then house martin, with sand martin being the smallest nesting in sandpits and banks.
Change of Amenity Through Stairs Exercise
A humorous note from the Boston Evening Transcript describes a patient told by a doctor to ascend and descend front stairs for an hour in the morning and back stairs for an hour in the afternoon. The joke centers on doing it for a “change of aimbit.”
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Boston Evening Transcript
Growing Mash Guidelines For Four Week Old Chicks
The guide explains substituting growing mash for starting mash at four weeks, detailing a recipe using corn meal bran shorts ground barley meat meal and bone meal. It notes weigh-based separation of cockerels from pullets and fattening excess males for market. It stresses vaccination for vitality and egg production, with a note from Q C Ufford of the Colorado Agricultural College Poultry Department.
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Kent
Q. C. Ufford
Colorado Agricultural College
Keep Poultry Healthy With Regular Lye Spray
Keeping poultry houses clean and well ventilated boosts health and production. Rely on a lye solution sprayed around houses every other week to suppress pests and improve conditions, applying with a sprinkling can, hand spray, or broom.
Don’t Feed Fowls Heavily Before Shipping
Do not feed birds heavily before shipment. Heavy feeding of range accustomed birds causes digestive troubles in transit and leads to significant weight shrinkage plus poor condition. Prepare fowl for shipping with moderate feed to avoid losses.
Poultry Notes on Care and Breeding Practices
A farmer advises on turkey profitability and care to start them, moving layers to boost egg production, feeding after three months, outdoors in winter, goose and gander mating patterns, fattening broilers with sour milk and corn meal, proper egg handling for hatching, and gradual feeding to market readiness.
BK M Board Co Dranite Markers In Stock
BK M Board Co offers a range of dranite markers in all sizes and colors and is available by phone at 56.
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BK. M. Board & Co
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