Are We Being Frozen Up A Curious Future Fate Theory
A Scottish American excerpt discusses a debated theory on the world’s future climate. It notes fossil palms in Greenland and Arctic lands proving past tropical vegetation, followed by an ice age that hid such flora. It questions a renewed polar expansion toward the equator, cites more severe Nordic winters, Antarctic uncertainty, Gulf Stream disruption, and potential migration from Iceland to North America, urging cautious study.
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Polar
Heve
Greenland
Arctic
Equator
Antarctic
Norway
Sweden
Iceland
Atlantic
Scandinavia
North America
Ireland
Scotland
North Atlantic
A Prudent Man in a Duck-Driven Debt Case
In a Quaker era tale a Connecticut constable Elijah Hitchcock faces scrutiny. Deacon Solomon Wakely is asked if Hitchcock is dishonest or mean. Wakely calls him prudent, recounting an execution for four dollars where Hitchcock pursued ducks, charging mileage until the debt was covered.
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Elijah Hitchcock
Connecticut
Solomon Wakely
Deacon Wakely
Mr. Hitchcock
Widder Witter
Hitchcock
General Skobeloff in White Gloves at Plevna
A remark notes General Skobeloff reportedly wore white kid gloves into the battle of Plevna yet is said to prefer handling enemies without gloves, illustrating a contrast between appearance and daring conduct.
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Skobeloff
Battle of
Plevna
Regular Little Midget Born In New York Family Home
A four flight walk up on Thompson and BS streets harbors the Collins family as a German mother and father await a tiny daughter born last Sunday. Weighing one pound ten ounces and thirteen and a half inches long, the premature infant draws attention for its size and the doctors hope to sustain life a while longer. The parents contemplate exhibition at a baby show if the child survives, while the father, an Emerald Isle native, now works as a hack driver after recent discharge from GrantTest Car company.
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Thompson Street
Lst
BS Street
Bi House
Collins
Havana
Mr. Collins
Emerald Isle
New York Graphic
Facts Worth Remember Ice
Practical measurements for building and packing compel a reader to convert units and verify capacities. The article lists quantities for shingles lath lime sand hair mortar brickwork and various box capacities including barrels bushels pecks and gallons, presented as a handy reference.
How India Rubber Is Brought From the Amazon
An excerpt summarized from Scribner's Magazine explains the Amazon method for producing caoutchouc. A woodman taps capuchone trees during the dry season, collects milky sap in bamboo buckets, and pours it into large shells. The sap is smoked over Urucury nuts to solidify, forming plancha sheets that dry into yellow to brown rubber, with five to six pounds produced per hour by a skilled worker.
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Scribner's Magazine
Amazon
Caoutchouc
Watching a Rifle Bail's Flight in Brighton
Three gentlemen from the Amateur Rifle Club visited Brighton to shoot at 200 yards with Creedmoor rifles. A fixed telescope on a tree allowed observers to track the ball nearly its entire flight and even predict impact and rotation. Mark Twain is quoted on living in a land of plenty.
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Rochester
N. Y
Brighton
Creedmoor
Mark Twain
Penny Restaurant Serves Goods at One Cent in New York
A New York World report describes a penny restaurant opened at 413 Grand Street near Clinton. A former food expert runs cheap meals for workers and poor, with beans soup cabbage corned beef pie and coffee priced at one cent. It attracts hundreds of newsboys and bootblacks daily, and a second nearby outlet serves the boys while the main site serves workers. The owner says the venture is profitable and not a labor of love, but a business.
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New York World
Juliet Carson
Grand Street
Clinton
Smyrna’s Sanitation Reform in Asia Minor
Smyrna faces a dire sanitation crisis with streets piled with animal carcasses and refuse. Nine notables, including three Europeans, are appointed to a new municipal council to begin cleansing the Augesa stable and push for real sanitary improvements to avert pestilence.
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Smyrna
Asia Minor
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