Deportation Case Tests Immigration Law On A Newborn American
A newborn American citizen born aboard a ship bound for Bremen faces a legal dilemma as Ellis Island authorities deported his mother an epileptic alien while her husband fought to save them. The case highlights gaps in emergency provisions amid strict deportation rules and a hospital birth after confinement.
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New York
Europe
Ellis Island
Terra Flora
High Seas
Lotta
Herman Romanik
Romanik
Russia
Attorney Street
East Side
America
Board of Special Inquiry
Ellie
Grant Jew
State Commission
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Robert Watchorn
Lotta Romanik
Ward
People’s Law Firm
Mary H. Grace Quackenbos
Quag@senbos
Watchorn
New York Infirmary
United Hebrew Charities
Liverpool
Bremen
Fever Brought Postcards Aids New York Woman Sick
A young New York woman ill with typhoid fever has amassed a large collection of souvenir postal cards. Friends and relatives send views from New York and abroad to cheer her, with cards portraying mountains seas and cities. The hobby grows as illustratively diverse cards arrive from multiple countries.
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New York
Alps
Margate
Brighton
Trouville
Paris
London
Japan
Rome
Naples
Boy Invents Explosive. Arm Broken in Accident
Evansville Indiana news reports Louis Byrd a Hazleton Indiana boy developed a powerful new explosive powder for blasting and hunting. He secretly sold it to miners and a discharged charge damaged his brother’s arm breaking it. Byrd claims mining use and a patent is pending.
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Evansville
Ind
Louis Byrd
Hazleton
Bill
Louis
Carl
Hymera
Byrd
Underground Market Garden Hidden Under Dublin
A clever Dubliner turned a deserted wine cellar in Dublin into an underground market garden. The retreat, once storing barrels of liquor, now grows seakale rhubarb and mushrooms. Local customers visit by lantern to pick fresh vegetables without railway charges.
Moon’s Departure Could Have Revealed the Philippines
Professor Pickering suggests the Pacific Ocean might be the hollow left by the moon’s breakaway. He posits that a slightly larger chunk removed would let us survey the Philippines through a telescope rather than sending congress to inspect them.
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Philippines
Pickering
Pacific Ocean
Hoisting Coal Details Highlight Anthracite Industry
The article reviews the tiny yet critical aspects of mine hoisting in the Pennsylvania anthracite regions. It emphasizes the engineering refinements over 25 years, showing how minor details underpin efficient coal lifting and the broader progress of civilization dependent on coal supply.
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Pennsylvania
Child’s Good Looks and Nose Care Advice
A physical culturist offers guidelines to preserve and improve a child’s appearance. Steps include avoiding nose injuries and teaching regular facial massage, eyebrow shaping, hair care, and gentle daily routines to keep features balanced and the skin soft. The advice extends to adults, with notes on massage, oil use, and proper grooming.
A Suitable Coiffure For Every Face
The Philadelphia Press runs a series by Mrs Leland Harrison, miniaturist, teaching women how to style hair. It covers forehead shape for a moderate pompadour, concealing receding ears, lowering hair over the forehead, and aligning hair to balance features including a retrousse nose and overall facial harmony.
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Philadelphia Press
Leland Harrison
Hand Lotion Mixture for Dry Rough Skin Fix
A home recipe combines two ounces each of listerine and glycerin to soften rough hands. It suggests mixing with a cosmetic jelly made from rose water gum tragacanth alcohol and glycerin, soaking tragacanth, straining, then adding borax and perfume for fragrance.
Points on Conversation Principles for Better Dialogue
The passage outlines six lessons for proper discourse. It covers what to say and how to say it, what to avoid, how to act, presentation while speaking, and the polite small talk that sustains a good conversation.
Woolen Stuffs Suited for Informal Evening Dresses
Describes white woolen fabrics ideal for informal home evening dresses. Notes the materials wash well and should be made in simple, practical styles.
Shakespeare's Greatest Feat: Paying to See His Plays
The literary woman asks about Shakespeare. Mr. Stormington Barnes says his achievement was drawing crowds to fund his own theater. The Washington Star reports the exchange.
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Stormington Barnes
Washington Star
Editor’s Sharp Exchange Over Poems for Paper Trade
A rural weekly editor scolds a poet over a proposed year’s subscription in a terse exchange. The poet defends the poems as valuable, while the editor dismisses them as worthless in a brisk Chicago Daily News quote.
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Chicago Daily News
Young Jackets Gain Favor In Casual Outerwear
The piece notes a trend toward small hip jackets with zippers over the shoulder and predicts the empire coat to rise in popularity among fashion wearers.
The Woman of Forty Should Be Her Very Best at 40
A beauty expert states that a woman at 40 should be in prime condition, with tact, insight, and a superb figure. Beauty requires long preparation, not a sudden rush, plus a fine complexion and the right everyday thinking.
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Mme
Julie D’arcy
New Hair Styles Mix Waves Up Top With Crown Braid
The latest hair trend features waved hair drawn up on the head with soft side locks and a crown like braid, described as a German style suited for matrons. An English queen style uses a thick front of curls, noted as harsh and fit only for regal looking women.
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England
Welsh Rabbits and the Crumbled Cheese Mystery
A recent Irish recruit in a grocery shop encounters a customer asking for crumble cheese for a Welsh rabbit. The new clerk pats the request with humor asking if that is what they feed them on, reflecting a light anecdote from Lippincott's Magazine.
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Ireland
Lippincott’s Magazine
Silent Listeners Stir Office Debate
A sharp comic quip contrasts two types of listeners. One who eyes you without a word and the other who remains silent while you talk. The remark mocks social etiquette and popular habits in conversation.
Etiquette of Calls Across Cities Cited
The article notes a custom where newcomers wait for old residents to call first in most places, with Washington DC as the sole city where the reverse is observed.
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Washington, D. C
Dinner Calls Dinner Invite Requires Personal Call
A dinner invitation requires a personal call to the hostess a week after the event.
Young Men Only in Jungfrau Tunnel Work
The article notes that only young men aged 20 to 30 were employed for the Jungfrau railway tunnel in Switzerland. It reports no injurious effects observed among workers even at elevations near 10,000 feet above sea level.
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Jungfrau
Switzerland
Winter Shirtwaists Rise With Stiff Collars Trend
Heavy linen shirtwaists are being made up now for winter wear. Some are severely plain and worn with new stiff collars, a cross between stiff mannish collars and lingerie stocks that is charming.
Crochet Jacket Pattern With White Wool And Ribbon
A detailed crochet jacket guide using white bee hive ivorine wool about 2 ounces, No. £ bone hook, and 5 yards of narrow white ribbon. It gives row by row instructions to form a double square jacket with top opening, neck shaping, and ribbon tie details.
Try It Next Year Wardrobe Hacks for Travel
Women at summer resort hotels find closets scarce and racks limited. The piece suggests practical hacks using extra hooks empty spools sheets and pillow cases to protect gowns from dust and keep garments organized in trunks.
Work of the Mints in United States Coinage
The article considers if all U S mints coin at current rates since 1792 and continue producing double eagles eagles half eagles quarter eagles silver dollars halves quarters dimes nickels and pennies. They would reach one billion dollars on August 20 2016 AD.
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United States
Quaint Cure for Gout Attributed to Osler
The New York Tribune quotes Dr William Osler describing in a quirky six step gout remedy. It involves a handkerchief taken from a bachelor, washed in a mill pond, dried on a non covetous person’s hedge, sent to a virtuous physician, marked with honest ink, and applied hot to the affected area, claiming a speedy cure.
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William Osler
N. Y. Fribune
Veil Returns in Summer Millinery With Lace and Chiffon
Fashion notes from Paris influence fall hats as lace veils reemerge in draped and real lace forms. Turbans suit veiling while dyeing matches hat colors. white veils pair strikingly with navy outfits. Real laces cost around six dollars, imitation laces offer washable options, and veil shapes favor straight or curved bottom edges for best fit.
Pretty Cushion Cover Embroidery Details from Philadelphia Press
The design outlined by Sarah Hale Hunter shows a cushion cover suitable for heavy white green or blue linen. White linen uses pink or yellow filo floss flowers with yellow French knots centers and three green leaf shades from top to point.
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Sarah Hale Hunter
Philadelphia
The Stout Lady and Meal Variety
The passage advises a restrained approach to meals for a stout lady. It suggests four varieties at a meal, omitting soup, and limiting to about six items total. A course dinner with many offerings is deemed detrimental, while moderation and counting foods are urged. It notes many choices tempt excess.
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Stout
Not Unlike Humans Bowing Doves and Courtship
Edmund Selous notes that stock doves bow during fights as a purposeless but habitual display. The bow, a courtship formula, links courting and combat in the bird’s mind, causing a wobbling, puzzled display that seems to have no clear object.
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Edmund Selous
Whider
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