Various 1900s World Notes on Inventions and Affairs
A roundup of miscellaneous reports covers a large dolls factory planned with Edison involvement, a study noting 60 000 boy tramps in the United States, bee and pigeon races in Westphalia, and Hebrew medical immunity observations. Antwerp fortress warnings, Belgian military reports, and amateur photography near marvilles are noted along with rail mileage, railroad employment, and button makers. Russian naval issues, a tiny independence of Franceville, and new flags and orders for Japanese officials are mentioned. Finally, army inquiry into recruits near Jefferson Barracks reveals cruel treatment claims, petty gambling by some NCOs, and desertions linked to posting locations.
The Barque of Shadow and Dream by Oliver W. Holmes
A reflective poem of sailors and dreamers, contrasting sight from shore with peril at sea. It portrays a ship driven by a pilot facing breakers, while distant onlookers dream and hope, resolved to steer true and endure.
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Oliver WW. Holmes
Echo Cave Rescue and a Lighthouse Romance
In a coastal tale set near Gray Point light house, Nannie Edgecumbe, a brave lighthouse keeper's daughter, defies danger to rescue Julian Gore trapped in Echo Cave. After a perilous crossing, Gore is saved and Nannie admits love, revealing a deepening bond as they face their futures together.
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Amy Randolph
Nanah
Julian Gore
Gray Point
Nannie Edgecombs
Mr. Giro
Galt
Nannie
Nanzie
Echo Cave
Caleb Elge Gumbo
Abram Hyde
Mr. Gore
Tomatime
Light-Hopee
Tts
Nannia Edgecumbe
Ezho
Guarl
Gray Polar Rocka
Casablanca
Caleb Edgecumbe
Nuanio
Makouga Julian Gore
Nanonie
Echo Caves
Anid
Caleb
Echo Cuyo
Nannie “Edgecumbe
Nannie Edgecumbe
Echo Rock
Nunuio Bugecumbo
Queer Trades in Paris Odd Jobs and Trades
A Paris correspondent describes unusual occupations including turkey leg painters who age birds to fetch higher prices, an ant farmer named Mile Blanche with armorlike attire, and several other odd trades. The piece covers bread reuse by ragpickers, artichoke cooks earning large sums, and cat killers supplying fur and meat, noting the strange economy and local customs in late 19th century Paris.
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Paris
Mile
Blanche
Milo
Germany
Hoa
Making Nickels and Pennies In Mint Production
Copper from Calumet and Hecla is rolled and milled into pennies and nickels at Marchant Co. in Connecticut. The pieces are stamped with denomination and lettering before minting, with pennies weighing one pound per hundred. Nickel pieces require twelve to fifteen tons of pressure for final shaping.
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Marchant & Co
Connecticut
Peebles
Philade’phia Enquirer
London Life Numbers From The Telegraph
The London Telegraph muses on births and deaths in a day and tallies vast quantities of food and drink. It notes four minutes per birth, two hours for thirty births and twenty deaths, and estimates yearly totals of livestock, fish, oysters, canned goods, wheat, beer, rum and wine across London.
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London
London Telegraph
Bear story and Zulu baby customs from early Ohio days
A Pike County style anecdote recalls a hunter named Stevens who spared a bear to avoid cruelty, while a German companion urged him to shoot. The tale frames frontier mercy and warnings about turning points in wildlife numbers. It then shifts to a description of traditional Zulu baby treatment where a medicine man performs incisions and rubs medicine on newborns until the child is weakened before weaning and routine work.
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Arly
Ohio
Mr. Barker
Athens
Chris Stevens
Heck
Steven
Stevens
Bruin
Pinto
New England
Heaven
Hell
Fortune Telling and Fashion Notes from Ladies' Department
A Chicago style items column recounts Madame de Lesseps story of palmistry with Adolphe Desbarolles, plus Mrs. Cleveland’s improved health and an ornate leather dining-room screen. Other bits cover well-bred manners, velvet trade trends, Paris fashions, and superstitions, ending with a Macdonald anecdote about counting children.
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Madame DE Lesseps
Adolphe Desbarotles
Desbarolles
Desbarottes
Mila. de Bragard
M. Ferdinand Do
Leaseps
Cleveland
White House
New York
Washington
Household Laundry Rules And Early Recipes From A Century Ago
A household guide details Saturday garment collection and sorting rules for kerchiefs, linens, and everyday wear. It explains two warm soap suds, borax use, and indigo for blueing, with step by step washing, rinsing, and line drying guidance, plus caution against boiling and dirty-water mixing. The piece also includes simple old fashioned recipes for Comfits, Lemon Pudding, Scotch Cake, Cracked Wheat, and Doughnuts.
Two of a Kind and a Gait Oddity
A Boston gentleman with a limp due to tendon trouble lifts one foot higher than the other while walking. He jokes about his defective gait. A friend’s horse then suffers a stringhalt-like accident, prompting a quip about the horse’s gait being acquired.
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Boston
Scientific topics mix color from coal tar and moonstones
A jumble of 19th century science notes covers coal tar dyes replacing natural dyes, the health worry about London trees, beet sugar substitutes in Germany, habitable microbe fixed soil, and French milk transport in frozen form. Moonstones from India, photography feats of Antwerp smoke clouds, and pest threats to crops with projected damage are discussed with period tone.
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London
Westminster
Town Hall
Agricultural Society of France
M. Guerin
Briish Journal of Photography
Antwerp
Also Mentioned on This Page
Post Office
Alexander Hogeland
Boys’ and Girls’ National Home Associaation
United States
Thomas A. Edison
Westphalia
Behrend
Dot
Whch
Ivrés
Belgium
Vin der Smissen
Taluokk
Poor
Tuis
Ina
Uni
Ivres
Varius
Franceville
Tm New Lubri Lus
M. Chevilliari
Twe
Dig- Tishman
Saone
Ch’engo
America
Musu
Mexico
Mutsu
England
Jffrson Barmeks
Army
Secretary of War
Aea
Naonia
Nicnie Edgecumbe
QUEER
Ahastard
Ladies' Department
Oo Seo
Neel
Philadelphia Times
Europe
New York Bulletin
Eiffel
Philadelphia
George Macdonald
Madame T Hive
Mr. Macdonh
New York Herald
Lindsey
New Haven
Conn
Academy of Defences of
Albert of
Monaco
India
New York Sun
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