Modern Trends and Thoughts from a Bygone Era
A sweeping miscellany notes schooling gaps in American high schools and a female labor insight, cites Major General Ludiow on Germany as a war college, and reflects on angling skills. It comments on trolley damage to pipes and trees, fashion critiques, lexicography, and moral pieties, then shifts to Swiss cooperative consumption, gold mining cautions, women in work, and the rise of education and urbanization driven by technology and telephony, portraying a transforming society.
Shadowed Burdens Compare Paths Of Pleasure And Pain
A New York Journal verse parable contrasts sunny talks with real hardship. It notes ease on a boat or shade with feet on the ground, then shifts to the weight of bearing burdens and the limits of talk versus action.
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New York Journal
Family Plans and Love in a New England Farmhouse
In a November scene from a New England tale, Farmer Irving and his daughters Beatrix and Kitty prepare for visitors as Tracy Sumner returns with news and a wary Mr Sands, Beatrix’s suitor, while Kitty flirts and Beatrix contemplates love amid family banter and a wary wealth figure.
Beatrix and Tracy Sumner’s Complications at Irving Farm
Beatrix pursues Mr. Sands while Kitty and Tracy Sumner edge toward marriage. Tracy announces his love after careful observation, Kitty admits her feelings, and Mr. Palmer Irving grants his blessing. Beatrix endures heartache as her rival’s engagement finalizes, with Mr. Sands remaining unproposed and Beatrix still writing her name into New York News lore.
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Kitty
Tracy
Beatrix
Sig
Tracy Summer
Irving Farm
Farmer Irving
Sands
Beatriz
Miss Kitty
Tracy ‘Sumner
Nitty
Tracy Sumner
Mr. Sumover
Sity
Palmer Irving
Mr. Sands
The Tombs of China and Ancestor Worship
A London Daily Telegraph piece describes China as a vast graveyard at first glance, with ancestor worship shown as the core of Chinese religion. It notes graves along Yangtze hills, high burial costs for foreign trade projects, and practices like bone relocation, Feng shui plots, joss sticks, and measures to placate ancestral spirits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yangtse
China
Ught and
Vir
Hankow
Edie
Minh Chousaidis
Deden
London Daily Telegraph
Tales of Pluce and Adventure Saved From Cannibals
An American Baptist Missionary Union report recalls a Congo River chase near Lake Tumba to rescue a native captive from cannibals. A canoe race ended with one cannibal captured and exchanged for brass wire worth about four dollars, a cost deemed enough for nine months of the old man’s sustenance. The tale sits among other frontier vignettes of colonial Africa and perilous hunts.
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American Baptist Missonary Union
Congo River
Lake Tumba
Big River
Congo
Euys
Upper
New York Sun
Fragmentary note on a Philadelphia hiring case
A fragmented OCR reads as a note about obtaining work in Philadelphia. It mentions a pay situation and references a man’s wife in a vague context, but the text is unclear and many terms are garbled. The readable items suggest a hiring or labor dispute but lack verifiable details.
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Fats
The Merry Side Of Life A Laughing Page Of Jests
A compact collage of humorous vignettes and lines from various newspapers. It collects quips about family life, schoolyard mischief, misunderstandings, and light social satire, featuring brief exchanges and cartoonish observations. The items cite Detroit Journal Judge Chicago Record and others in playful misreadings.
Pretty Window and Household Pest Prevention Notes
A collection of home care tips from Woman's Home Companion and American Agriculturist covers decorating a morning room with a trailing pink and blue morning glory, maintaining hot clean irons for shirt laundering, methods to prevent and destroy household insects like ants and cockroaches, and purging mold from damp cellars with ventilation sun and whitewash to kill mold spores.
Potatoes Baked in Milk and Other Recipes
A collection of household recipes and a humorous anecdote. Instructions cover Potatoes Baked in Milk with parsley and butter, Currant Shrub, Graham Pudding with molasses and currants, Caraway Soup with caraway seeds, and a brief tale about General Roberts at Woombfontein with a sentry incident. Also a quip about wedding attire.
Army pay dispute denied by Treasury and war planning shifts
The Treasury refused Major Russell B Harison's 677 claim for extra volunteer army pay. The Board of Ordnance and Fortifications urged no immediate action on new field artillery. Rear Admiral Watson aboard the Baltimore will reach New York City September 10 as War Department seeks bids from Chicago packers for 1,000,000 pounds of fresh dried meats for American soldiers in the Philippines. The Manila bank exchange rate policy is under review.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Itama
Russell B. Harison
Treasury Department
Secretary of War
Board of Ordnance and Fortifications
Watson
Baltimore
New York City
War Department
Chicago Packers
Philippines
King
Siomearse
Hanover
Penn
Denver
Col
Society of the Army of the Philippines
Elise L. Camacho
Jersey City
Alina Oxtorne
Melville M. Wood
Ind
Wood
Miss Osborne
White River
R. I. Harrington
Milton Means
Sylvania
Alexander
Harrington
Means
Cyrus Wamia
Turkey
Portland
Kings County
Pensacola
Via
Seattle
Wash
Father Stemmensa
Archbishop Chapelle
San Francisco
Frank Ronick
Virginia
State House
Columbus
Ohile
Brooklyn
Catherine M. West
Ossawattomle
Kan
McKinley
Wealherman Brothers
Tombstone
Ariz
Sath Raub
Deaths and legal fights ripple through state news
John McGuire seeks grand jury indictment of Dr Vroom over his wife Mrs McGuire’s death after a collision with a locomobile. He sues for 25000 and may pursue criminal charges, claiming the doctor’s incompetence and lack of license. Also reported: Annie Pedro’s heartache death after theft accusation. Peter Winters repels a burglar with a knife wound. oleomargarine fines against Lehman & Co. blindness forecast for Join W Weaver. Maria Park at ninety nine. dog threats and lightning fatalities. statewide notes on churches, factories, and trolley workers.
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John McGuire
Erie Railroad
Dr. Vroom
Ridgewood
McGuire
Vroom
Wrogin
Bermbies Leave Midden Behind After Coatless Hermit Life
John Glenn, who died recently in Urban Ohio, longtime wealth member of a quirky family, lived twenty five years as a hermit in his home and refused to wear a coat. A dispute with his father over a finer coat led him to vow no coat while his father lived. While workers repaired the abandoned residence a hidden closet yielded six hundred dollars in small currency, canceled by Folin, revealing the odd fortune kept hidden for years.
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Africa
Amyshikari
James
Grover Parker
Indian Territory
Roberta
Roberts
Woomfontein
Orange River
Lady Roberts
General Roberts
Salem
Colestown
Williamstown
Elmer Smith
New Brunswick
Bordentown
Trenton
I. C. Moore
James Adolph Hntchingon
Big Thober Creek
Blackwood
Ahnshouse
Constable McQuaid
Burdington
Patrick Mialoney
Sirrest
John Glenn
Urban
Ohio
Fin
Hus
Oeser
Jad
Folin
Harper to Try Fifteen Cents a Day Living Plan
President Harper of the University of Chicago plans an experiment to live on fifteen cents a day for four years to test a frugal living proposal. Critics including Obie Thorpe doubt the feasibility of such a lifestyle even for a week.
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Harper
Chicago University
University of Chicago
Concord
Obie Thorpe
Also Mentioned on This Page
School Review
Ludiow
Europe
Germany
War College
Murray
New English Dictionary
Connecticut
The
St. Louis Star
Lot
Regfster
Swiss Society For Co-operative Consumption
Ita
Switzerland
Warper
New York School Journal
City Ife
New York
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Kitty Irving
Irving
New England
Summer 7
Nangister
Papa
Lid
Kittie
Summer
Wright Nude
Tracey Summer
Tracy Stunner
Mr. Sumner
Migs Irving
Viele Sands
Bentrix
Tracey
Odedant Uett
Rand
Pluce
Joe Massy
Natal
Cape
Jim Neil
Mual River
Massy
Nef
Weiter
Cate Pew
Nell
Fand
Aames Currie
Isle Au Morte
Newfoundland
William Warwick
Warwick
Currie
Eagle
Loch Lomond Iile
Seothind
Paris
Jowney
Hk Glasgow
Ben Lomond
Soucdard
Mare
Nurwar
United States
Philadelphia
Merry Side OF Life
Detroit Journal
Ethel
Ohio State Journal
Arthur
Mamma
Judge
Chicago
Johnny
Johnny Watton
Carr
Merritt
Manly Cannon
Harry
Chicago Record
Cleveland Plain-Dealer
Bualneas
Baby
Detroit
Otter
Mr. Watt-Manners
Cashburn
Je Wabrellar
Mra
Watt-Manners
Diacusasing Literature
Confucius
Woaslington Star
Indianapolis
Maima
Leumel
Chicago New
Victoria
Windsor
Meaxleo
Hou
New York Press
Manila
Yolanda
Havana
Oahu
Hawaii
Board of Health
Supreme Court
F. W. Neely
Cuba
Surigao
Mindanao
Brooke
Ameer
Afghanistan
Lahore
India
Pesaro
Italy
Philippe Lech
Congo Free State
Great Britain
Lake Nyanza
London
Chonte
Kow Shing
Timune
Indi
Rechtsti
Sochism
Vyclea
Stoughton
Shanghial
Poetotla
Lepr
MacDonald
News OF the
Annie Pedro
Annie
Mia
Sophia Imapbell
Peter Winters
Tower Harmony
Tia
Winters
Cutter, Lehman & Co. Grocers
Stakeway
Paterson
Mle Amilition
W. Weaver
Negco
Maria Park
Somerville
James Park
Laurel Springs
George Householder
John Houck
Belvidere
Houck
Ilys Uttle
Bermbies
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