Mixed global notes touch on labor, railways, and trade
The article surveys diverse topics from rising crime statistics plans to establish a Criminal Statistics Bureau, to Argentina's rapid industrial growth impacting European markets. It highlights labor data, agricultural forecasts, railway expansion in Prussia and Italy, Confederate memorabilia, poison concerns over nutmegs and corncobs, sardine production, coal oil use and lamp ornamentation, and US editorial reactions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Bureau of Labor Statistics
Bureau of Criminal Statistics
The Quarrel and a Glance in Love’s Revealing Veil
A Detroit Free Press note describes a pair quarreling then a gaze from behind a fan revealing love. The narrator vows no heartbreak while a chance look confirms affection. The veil is rent and doubt vanishes as hearts align.
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Aly
Love
Swootheart
Detroit
Snow Fight Sparks a Timeworn Bond in War Tale
In December 1871 two boys from a military school duel in a snowy Angers setting in a mock siege. Eugene de Florac and his English friend Shortspeech outwit attackers with icy walls and a brave rescue. Years later at Orthez, General de Florac meets his old comrade, now a British commander, recalling their wartime ethic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ancers
Miliary School
King Rene
Sim
France
England
Atlantic
Angers
Srns
Eugene de Florac
Eugene
de Florac
Brienno
Napoleon Bonaparte
Shortspeech
Fliora
Cwell
Pyeap
Orthez
Mounseer
de Flore
de Flornaé
Arthur Shortspeech
Lord Wellington
David Ker
Haunts of Hawaiian Lepers and Health Board Efforts
The Board of Healths leprosy campaign in the Hawaiian Islands has pursued surveillance and segregation where disease is suspected or confirmed. Difficult terrain and coastal barriers hinder locating all affected individuals, with Kalalau and Koalalau valleys providing shelter. Despite challenges, officials expect eventual civil-power success, though the program is not yet fully judged a thorough triumph.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hawaian
Board of Health
Hawaian Islands
Kouni
Kalalau
Koalalau
Inna
Kona
Little Pearl Menelley Puts Cheer In Dad’s Long Trip
A 5 year old girl comforts her sister and father preparing for a three months journey. Pearl asks what day it is and deduces that with Friday ahead, the trip begins Monday, promising not to cry until Monday. The scene reflects family sentiment in a newspaper fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pearl Menelley
Alice
Pearl
A Fine Corner Lot for Sale at $400 a Foot
Real estate agent Landrum touts a corner lot at four hundred dollars per front foot. Prospecting partner Bingham questions the price as Landrum defends it, praising the “magnificent sky over this lot” as a justification.
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Landrum
Bingham
Mutilated Money and Central American Pearl Fishers
A mutilated ten dollar note is redeemed at the New York Sub-Treasury for fresh currency after maceration. Reports describe the process, handling volumes, and the role of clerks in sorting and detecting counterfeits. The piece shifts to Central American pearl fisheries at Punta Arenas, detailing divers, knives, sharks, and the economics of pearl production. It concludes with a legal notice on a McCloskey letter used as evidence in an internal revenue case, proved genuine by chemical tests.
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Hospital of
London
New York Tribune
Mulhattan
Texas
San Francisco Chronicle
United States
New York
Mail and Express
Schoavon
Georg W. Marler
Washington
Punta Arenas
Gulf of Nicoya
Central America
Westen
Gulf
Vna
New York Ward
New York Times
McCloskey
Jake Menko
Menko
San Fernando
Cal
B. Hill
Hill
Dr B.clifton
Thes
Chamberlain
Sir W. Harcourt
Edwin,Arnold
Duke of Marlborough
America
Germany
Walderseo
Arizona
Cualifornia
China
New York Post
Military dogs carry compact dispatch cases and ammo pouches
Describes dogs worn with small metal dispatch cases and leather pouches for carrying documents and ammunition. Notes security, visibility, and practicality for war use. Mentions the idea of dogs returning to munition wagons to resupply fighters and possibly delivering water to the wounded. Source cites Blackwood.
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Blackwood
History and origins of crape fabric in Europe and Asia
The article traces crepe textile from Bologna to England and France where it spread in the 17th century. It notes French crepes from Lyons in two kinds crepe and lisse, and Chinese crepe whose secret of manufacture was long elusive until M Dugas or similar discovered it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastport
Lubec
Jonesport
Millbridge
Lamoine
Robinston
Bologna
Italy
England
France
Jacques Dupius
Lyons
M. Bezon
China
Mount Vernon estate history and Washington links
Mount Vernon originally housed farm buildings and a mansion built by Lawrence Washington, elder brother of George, who settled there in 1743 and named the place after Admiral Vernon. The estate passed to George Washington, who enlarged the mansion and grounds. he died in 1799 and was buried there. Located in Fairfax County, Virginia, on the Potomac River about eight miles below Alexandria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Lawrence Washington
George
Admiral Vernon
George Washington
Fairfax County
Potomac River
Alexandria
Indifferent inventor Sampson Dane at Reading Works
An Englishman named Sampson Dane, discharged from the Reading Iron Works in Pennsylvania, invented a pipe-making secret he introduced after 88 years with the firm and received $100. Had he exploited it, he might have earned hundreds of thousands, notes the New York Independent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Sampson Dane
Reading
Penn
Ifo
New York Independent
Ladies' Wood Carving Fad Increases Female Jobs
The Chicago News notes a new feminine pastime wood carving gaining popularity as a light arm work accessible to many women. It suggests carving may become a real occupation for artistic women offering income and personal achievement. The piece also comments on the Greek queen famed for blue and white attire and lace gifts, her lifestyle, royal duties, and influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
Greece
Out
Penelope
Bhe
Virth
Russia
Costumes in Paraguay and fashion notes across continents
A mosaic of cultural sketches and lifestyle notes. Paraguayan women are described in vivid detail with white dress and festive dances, while cooking lessons in Chicago and a traveling nurselike thread of society columns reveal fashion, marriage markets, and social habits across New York, London, and Arizona.
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Paraguay
Boston Transcript
Scientific Scraps From The Era Of Early Inventions And Natural Wonders
Miscellaneous notes cover Alvan Clark's Denver trip for a telescope frame, yellow fever mortality in Texas decades ago, deep sea soundings by Egeria, boiler explosions from neglect, lignum vitae produced in Leipsic, New York’s new industry of collecting fallen carbon from street lamps, and a cooling belt method. Also reports birds’ ventriloquial calls, Humboldt era fish ejecta from Cotopaxi and Andes volcanoes, and a note that a single fish species appears in Andean lakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ornithologists’ Union
Ernest E. Thompson
Canada
Humboldt
Cotopaxi
Mexico
Timoe
Andes
Tax coercion in Turkey and a comic portrait tale
The article recounts Ottoman tax abuses where revenue officers seize property to collect taxes, forcing destitution and punishment for peasants unable to pay. It also shares a humorous anecdote about a caricaturist and a man wanting a portrait of his deceased father, highlighting perceptions of likeness and age.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Furiss
Runch
Moses
Wild Hogs and Parked Hopes in Neversink Valley
A New York Times item describes Otto Plock's Neversink Valley estate near Guymard Station New York. A park includes a 22 foot high brick wine tower for deer and game birds. Five wild hogs were imported from Württemberg to curb vermin, but the hogs now roam the region, attacking crops and stores. The herd grows bold, and dogs cannot confront them, raising the prospect of boar hunting in the nearby mountains and swamps along the Neversink.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermin
Exta
Otto Plock
New York
Barker
Neversink Valley
Guymard Station
X Y
Erie Rillmoad
Shawangunk Mountain Range
Neversink
New-York-Times
The Mexican Wasp Nationwide Warning From Old Tribune
A compilation of curious notes and anecdotes on the Mexican wasp described as two inches long with a needlelike sting causing intense pain for up to two hours. It recalls Doniphan’s war era fears, cites Dr. Gunning’s study classifying the insect as an unclassified wasp, and mentions related items about snowdrift machines and humorous vignettes from Harper’s Bazaar.
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Sys
Los Angeles
Cal
Tribune
Doniphan
Gunning
Beshonr
Col
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Argentine Republic
South America
e_generet
Detroit Journal
Michigan News
Michigan
Preanoj
New Yorker
Landtag
The
New York Herald
Cincinnati Enquirer
W.E. Earle
South
Carol Tina “Tha ‘Great
Confederate States of America
Dee Vindice
Shortspeed
Bills
Mandolin
Lowe
Chicago
Daniel Sherwood
Jane
Presa
Chaska
Papoose
Bell Fellows
Swift Bird's Camp
Chasis
Chaskac
Pall Mall Gazette
Vogue
Arizona Chinaman
Lange
Mississippi Valley
Millright
Alvan Clark
Denver
Leipsic
M. Stockhardt
New York City
Aisea
Turkey
Tipon
Constantinople
Mashnik
Belgrade
Grand Champs
Saya
Negaunee
Mich
Harper’s Bazar
Beaver— Harkins
Drake’ R Magazine
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