Farms and Farmers Call for Pride in Agriculture
A persuasive essay urges boys to stay on farms or pursue better, more scientific agricultural training. It argues farming is humanity’s backbone, spots the social neglect of farmers, and promotes agricultural schools and rural education to create independent, skilled, and prosperous farmers.
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City
Betcha
John F. Duggar
Auburn
Ala
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
Mary
O. B. Stevens
Department of Agriculture
State of Georgia
Mouth Shape and Lip Use Reveal Facial Expression
An expert on women’s beauty emphasizes mouth technique as the key to expression. Training the lips with vowel and syllable drills, keeping corners forward, and avoiding teeth-heavy smiles can preserve beauty and even enhance plain features.
Keeps Indian Warehouse in Chicago Despite Transfer Talks
Chicago merchants secured over 50 percent of government contracts for dry goods valued around $500,000, suppressing moves to move Uncle Sam’s Indian warehouse to New York. Officials expect the Interior Department to back Chicago by continuing purchases, with about $4.5 million spent locally on similar goods next year.
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Chicago
Uncle Sam
New York
Gotham
Chicago Commercial Association
Department of the Interior
Association
Ern
Timber Coffin Production in China Uses Millions of Feet
Chinese coffins use timber eight to ten inches thick and about 8,000,000 feet of timber are utilized yearly for coffins in China.
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China
Fashionable French street costume with corset details
The sketch shows a chiffon broadcloth dress with a circular skirt and a front seam, paired with a short back sloped triple coat and a shoulder cap sleeve. A white waistcoat with settiny buttons completes the ensemble, while the corset evolution favors moderate depth and bias-cut sections to fit curves.
Soft White Hands Recipe for Skin Care and Whitening
A kitchen guide by Hortense Prevost outlines an almond paste to soften and whiten hands. It includes crushed bitter almonds, creosote root, starch, spirits of wine, yolks, and perfumed spirits, heated slowly and packed for use. The piece adds steps for cleansing with lard before washing, lemon and salt for stains, oxalic acid cautions, and emulsions for moist hands, plus sunburn remedies with buttermilk or lemon and glycerine.
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Hortense Prevost
HealthHints On Diet And Digestive Wellbeing
Health hints recommend eating fruit before meals and wholesome well cooked foods. They praise watercress as a blood purifier and honey as a cod liver oil substitute. Onions celery parsnips beets potatoes and spinach are noted for nerve tone digestion or weight effects with cautions for gout. Apples carrots brazil nuts and tomatoes feature for constipation liver health and general wellbeing.
Sudden Deaths Seen Amid Mixed Gender Fatalities
A report notes a sudden death among women and eight among men, highlighting a troubling pattern in the latest incident. Authorities are investigating causes as families mourn the losses and local officials call for awareness.
Letter Writing Conciseness for Business Tone
The piece emphasizes direct subject focus in business letters, advising avoid lengthy preambles and begin with the main point to improve clarity and efficiency. It underscores a practical, no-nonsense approach to professional correspondence.
Scalp Massage Recipe for Hair Loss Suggested
An old remedy recommends eight ounces of alcohol with half an ounce each of glycerine spirits of lavender and tincture of cantharides plus eight grains of sulphate of quinine. The mixture should be well shaken and rubbed into the scalp to help reduce hair loss.
Value of Good Water for Health
A brief health note extols free water drinking as second to deep breathing for superb health. It claims water aids elimination, clears waste from the body, keeps the system clean, and leaves the blood pure with a clear, fresh complexion.
Paris Gardener Transforms Vegetables Into New Form
M Mollard of Paris abandons standard grafting to transform vegetables. He is said to have succeeded in turning a radish into a potato, a remarkable agricultural novelty reported from France.
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M. Mollard
Paris
Savory Soups from a Chicago Tribune Recipe List
A collection of detailed soup recipes including Scotch Mutton Broth Soup a la Dauphine Celery Soup with Whipped Cream Potato Soup and Corn Soup with step by step instructions and ingredient lists from the Chicago Tribune.
Easy Buying at Auction from the Experienced Youth
A tale of learning the auction game where a young buyer trains bidders, starts with a six dollar table, watches rivals push prices, and ends by securing a table for five and a half and a lamp for one dollar. The narrator explains how patience and persistence paid off.
Cold Halibut Salad With Celery and Dressing
A recipe suggests using cold boiled halibut flaked with a fork and mixed with half its weight in chopped celery. Pour French dressing over the mixture, arrange on lettuce, cover with sliced cucumbers or shredded sweet peppers, then top with mayonnaise.
Sleepy Snack Squares
Two thin bread slices with butter are layered with onions marinated in oil and vinegar for ten minutes. A top slice is added, pressed, and cut into four squares. Eat all four during a sleep chase or as a lunch. sometimes one square brings sleep.
Plant Castor Beans to Deter Mosquitoes at Home
A resident testifies that planting castor beans in front and back yards reduced mosquito nuisance. The plant’s strong scent reportedly drives away pests, suggesting immunity from mosquitoes by cultivating this attractive tropical plant.
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Mosa
A .J. Louisman
Stamping Machine Adopted by German Post Office
An electrical device stamps letters, improving efficiency. The LECTRIC LETTER STAMP, invented by Norwegian Krag, will stamp 108000 letters per hour.
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Krag
Underground telephone line longest in world completed
The 70 mile plus underground telephone line from New York to New Haven is hailed as a potential standard for urban crossings. Proponents say buried cables avoid overhead clutter, weather-related outages, and cross with high voltage lines, with ducts of vitrified tile or creosoted wood used where rock or water impede trenching.
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New York
New Haven
Conn
Standard Bridge Crossing and Underground Service Construction
The article describes standard methods for street utilities with Fig. 1 detailing bridge crossings over short spans using three inch pipes encased in concrete and reinforced with steel rails for wire passage. Fig. 2 shows a street section through a man hole illustrating ideal underground service locations used citywide unless obstacles prevented this construction.
Electric lamp lighter sparks ruby lamp ignition setup
A ruby lamp mounted on a board uses a jump spark coil to vaporize oil and ignite it. Binding posts connect to the coil, with a wire routed to the lamp wick area, while the coil is kept in a lightless area to avoid spoiling the plate.
Electrically Lighted Kerosene Lamp Idea
A described device uses a three-eighths inch spark and six dry batteries to light a kerosene lamp. It can also illuminate an ordinary lamp and may prove useful in halls or other hard to reach places per Popular Mechanics.
Self-Igniting Mantle in Gas Lighting Patented
French inventors Rouxeville and Michaud patent a method using platinum sponge with a refractory, adhering mixture to make mantles ignite gas directly. The mantle impregnated with the mixture or coated with it ignites gas and becomes incandescent without external apparatus.
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Rouxeville and
Michaud
France
Violet Aniline Ink Recipe
Dissolve one ounce of violet aniline in four ounces hot alcohol. When dissolved, add one gallon boiling water. The cost will be about 60 cents.
Pulverized Glue For Small Shops
Pulverized glue is praised as the best form for small shops because it can be prepared quickly as needed and remains strong and sweet. The note emphasizes rapid readiness and enduring quality of the glue product.
Elephant Power Proposed for Electric Lighting Station
An Anglo-Indian proposes using elephants to drive dynamos for an electric lighting station six hours daily. Engineering and Cosmos note lack of data on elephant power, comparing it to horse power by weight and doubting practical energy output. The piece mocks the plan as impractical and possibly harmful to elephants.
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Engineering
London
Cosmos
Paris
India
Swiss Line Gets 5000 Volt Electric Route Toward Locarno
Swiss firm awarded contract to equip the Valle-Magazia railway from Locarno to Bignasco on the 17 mile single phase line. Maximum grade 3.3 percent gage three feet 31-13 inches. A 5000 volt trolley system will draw power from a waterfall to run the railway.
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Switzerland
Valle-Magzia
Locarno
Bignasco
One on Insurance Man
An old time merchant recalls a fire loss dispute with an insurance adjuster. The merchant claimed potatoes at 80 cents a bushel and apples worth three dollars a barrel. the adjuster declined inflated values and wrote the bill as four barrels at three dollars each.
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Kansas City Times
Egyptian Borrowers and a Sacred Pledge
The Egyptians forbade borrowing without pledging the body of one's father to the creditor. It was considered impious to fail to redeem this pledge and a death without honoring the pledge carried loss of customary funeral honors.
King Leopold Bequeaths Congo Free State to Belgians
The article explains that Leopold II may bequeath the Congo Free State not by choice but if he dies before formal annexation, the state would pass to the Belgian people who could someday annex it. Leopold currently governs as if running a business concern.
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Leopold
Belgium
Leopold II
Congo Free State
Japanese Sailors Marvel at Nelson Tomb in St Pauls
During a royal visit to London, six hundred Japanese naval personnel gathered at Nelsons tomb in St Pauls Cathedral and observed in silent awe. The scene reflected deep ancestral reverence and made a strong impression on witnesses.
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London
Nelson
St. Paul’s Cathedral
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