The Fish Torpedo Made at Fiume Factory
The article describes Mr Whitehead's fish torpedo factory at Fiume on the Adriatic, where many workers craft and refine the weapon daily under his supervision. It compares the torpedo to a porpoise, recounts incidents of misidentification as a monster, notes a $2500 government price, and details speed progress from nine to twenty four knots with larger models for Russia, tested only for propulsion and steering, not explosive power.
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London
Fiume
Aariatic
Whitehead
How the Streets of Paris Are Cared For 1878 Costs
Paris municipal finance shows the 1878 street maintenance bill at twenty seven million francs with 24 million francs in receipts from taxes on buildings balconies signs and street cleaning. The street car omnibus cafe patio and skating pond taxes fund upkeep while former abutter responsibility gave way to a city levy system.
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Paris
Public Way Department
Municipal Fathers of
Lost Letters and the Dead Letter Office’s Quiet Labors
Washington Republic recounts the early post office effort to recover misdirected letters. It details postage costs, the handling by 59 ladies and 29 gentlemen, and the process of inspecting, opening, registering, and if necessary returning or forwarding letters. It notes large sums of money found, the humor of circular replies, and examples of lost addresses and damaged handwriting leading to long-sought reunions.
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Colonial Times
Department
Post Office Department
Mag
Uncle Sam
America
Ole Anderson
Rockawy Citi Pn
North America
New York
Germany
Sweden
Don ‘Cabral
William H. McElroy
Albany Evening Journal
Lettto
McElroy
Don
Philadelphia
Edward P. Ewing
Pat
Washington Republican
Wonderful Escape From Ice Fall Near East Middlebury
The Burlington Free Press reports man Whimmer fled from the precipice and slid down with his team loaded with staves for nearly two hundred feet onto the ice near East Middlebury. He survived despite a perilous drop, hopping tree to tree as falling staves struck nearby. He tumbled about twenty-five feet before stopping and receiving care.
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Burlington Free Press
Vast 1877 statistics on populations, debts, and industries
A compilation of numerous figures from 1877 covers San Francisco population, fires, and buildings. Rhode Island sized areas. Tennessee tobacco costs. European telegraph expenditures. Utah polygamous marriages. Nebraska corn and hog output. Pennsylvania military costs from railroad riots. Cherokee public debt. Congress natives versus states. Boston homicide tallies. beef supply. Hale county marriage licenses. Italian immigration numbers. Australia census and Melbourne size. Maine shipyards tonnage. and New York street labor counts.
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En Francisco
W. C
Rhode Island
San
Francisco
Tennessee
Europe
Utah
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Congress
States
Boston
West
Hale County
Als
America
Australia
Melbourne
Maine
New York
Turkish Customs and Salutations in Social Contact
The piece describes Turkish greeting etiquette, including a bilateral salute with hand to lips and forehead, repeated upon entering and after seating. It notes cigarette and coffee rituals, the ceremonial serving tray with silver egg-cups, and the coffee drinking practice that leaves a coffee mud at the bottom.
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Merchant Shipping of the World
Stean
Nage
Torr British
Leowe
Webdere Iatarines
Rey BT
San Francizco
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