Old German Customs Keep Death Drawers On Pennsylvania Farms
The Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph reports from eastern Pennsylvania German farmers who prepare fully for death. Women and older folk stock graveclothes and a death drawer with details on burial, hymns, minister, coffin, and even funeral meals. Death drawers hold written instructions and keepsakes, while some men also prepare wills and funeral notes.
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Kleinfeltersville
Deiate
Hfe
Pennsylvania Gerthin Farms
Col
Pittsburg
Bells of St. Pauls Stir Ears in London Letter
Jerome K Jerome and Phil May ride past St Pauls when chimes ring. Jerome asks if May hears angels voices. May shouts he cannot hear, calling bells infernal and noisy as they clang on the tower.
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Jerome K. Jerome
Phil May
St. Paul's
Jerome
May
London
Public speech echoes from Mount Shasta to San Diego
The Hon. Robert Farrell of San Francisco known as Bob crafted a famous act of eloquence years ago. His speech began From where Mount Shasta lifts her snowy peaks in all to where San Diego sits by the waters of the ever smiling sea. Letters arriving addressed to Mount Shasta Snowy Peak Farrell and Ever Sinking Sea Farrell tainted him. He vowed never to utter such eloquence again after months of the fallout.
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Robert Farrell
San Francisco
Bob
Mount Shasta
San Diego
Farrell
Spanking Note Sparks Hospital Rumpus Tale
A Cleveland Plain Dealer excerpt recounts an odd hospital incident where a ward doctor ordered 27 spankings after a shoe-throwing mischief in a children’s ward. Nurses and patients describe chaotic antics as staff tried to enforce the order amid raucous laughter and startled protests.
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Italan
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Notable French Admiral Jean Bart Helped Shield Commerce
The article recalls Jean Bart, famed French naval hero and former pirate turned loyal buccaneer, whose bold exploits against raiders protected French ships and helped avert famine. It then describes a weighing machine prank at Union Station where a man received 18 weight tickets with different fortunes, followed by a note on horses being hard to give away during hard times.
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Jean Bart
France
Colbert
Bart
Union Station
Wall Street
Albany Journal
Cyrus Townsend Brady
Ladies’ Home Journal
Foot disease blamed for worn out horses by surgeon
A celebrated veterinary surgeon declares that nine of ten worn out horses are worn in feet or legs due to foot disease. He says most premature aging and incapacity stem from our shoemaking, not just bad riding, and cites the front of steel shoe as a key factor.
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Columbia
Queen
Easton
Wheeler & Wilson
Perilous Small-Caps: Watch Pocket Fire and Pig Return
An English doctor recalls a clerk burned by potash lozenges and a matchbox in a waistcoat, aided by a celluloid watch case. a New Jersey farmer recounts a pig sold away then returned when it wandered home through swamps and mud.
Prussian General Von Moltke Stern Yet Humble Tale
A collection of anecdotes recounts Von Moltke's stern reserve and a mortifying rebuke about a cloak. Also included is a humorous Andrew Lang note about a golf loving guest at a dinner and a socially awkward scene with a supposedly deaf Socialist.
Wharf Cats and a Lost Play Tale Across the River
A Philadelphia Records quote paints riverfront cats as wild yet loyal to their ships, preferring to wait for return voyages. In London, Robert Ganthony's comedy, sent by Weedon Grossmith, vanished on the way home and haunted its author until a cabled return from Scotland Yard revealed the play marked Ganthony’s name had been found and sent back.
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Philadelphia Record
Mr. Ganthony
Robert Ganthony
Weedon Grossmith
Ganthony
Mr. Grossmith
Ganthonys
Scotland Yard
Future news mockup of a bizarre transport crash
A satirical future item describes Farmer Smith delivering hay at a treasury building when horses bolt from a limited express on a airship route. They crash through a Pneumatic Tube station window, severing Smith’s head and two limbs. He is moved to hospital, undergoes bone welding, and drives home to meet his mortgageholder.
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Farmer Smith
Treasury Building
Limited Express
Washington
San Francisco
Chicago
Pneumatic Tube Rapid Transit Company
Potomac Artificial Egg Company
Speed of telegraph links in stock markets praised
Ainsliee's Magazine notes the rapidity of transacting ordinary business between the New York and Chicago Stock and Produce Exchanges. Messages have traveled from the New York Produce Exchange to the Chicago Produce Exchange and back in 45 seconds, with no special preparation, simply writing and delivery at each end.
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New York
Chicago
Alnsiee
Good Temper of Americans in a Train Station
Max O'Rell recalls a Cincinnati baggage incident where a baggage man shattered his valise, sparking a crowd betting on whether he could assemble his belongings. He reflects that Americans seldom lose their temper and notes the awkward spectacle as a costly display of self control.
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Cincinonati
Max O'Rell
New York Journal
Prank Replaces Baboon in Professor’s Chair
A biology class at a university staged a joke by removing a stuffed baboon from the Natural History museum next door. They dressed it in a student gown and placed it in the professor’s chair, prompting a surprised greeting and the quip that they finally found a professor suited to their capacities.
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Natural History Museum
New York Commercial Advertiser
German sickness insurance and its toll on workers
Sickness runs high in Germany where sickness insurance is compulsory for workers. About 8 million insured, a third report illness yearly averaging 17 days, implying a wage loss of over 22.5 million dollars annually. Additional costs include doctors fees medicine special food and care.
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W.F. Pennington
Eugene Lynch
R. T. Carter, W.H. Anderson
H. G. Hobbs, W.R. Peters
M. L. Blanchard
Lord
I. T. Baker
J. Culver, E. W. Ingram
Wye
Tuckahoe
Denton
Hickman, Blanchard
Greenwood, Ellendale
Milton
Lewes
Queenstown
William Hi. Conn
WH. Hopps & CO
Baltimore, MD
THE
Hughes Lumber and Coal Company
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Maryland
Lehigh
Hughes Lumber and Coal
Railroad Ave
Denton, MD
J. W. Wheatley
Dover ST
Easton, MD
Mathushek
Ludwig Bush
Gerts
Weaver Carpenter
James TT. Coopehre
Undertaker
Cooper
Main Street
T. W. Smith
Ridgely, Md
Americus Fertilizers
Aeric
Anerteus
Caroline County
Charles F. Smith
Ridcell, MD
J.N. Rickards
Ridgely.md
Colston’s Pharmacy
Colston
David Harum
Richard Carvel
Robert Hardy
Phillip Strong
Peck
Uncle Ike
Squire John
Dora Tenny
Virginia
Andrey
Charles
Nerine
Dorothy
R. J, Colston
L. Joban
With
Stevens Brothers
Produce Commission Merchants
S. Charles St
N. W. Cor. Camden St
Inchange
Amtenn
At Hal
Pennnsylvania
T.L. Day, Swing & Company
Fallowfield & Temple
Marydel
W. W. Goosporatian
Reensborough
Newspaperarchive
T. L. Day
Swing & CO
Riddely, Maryland
Jean Bart the Pirate
New Jersey
von Moltke
Marcus
Dahelm
Tella
Essily
von Marwitz
Andrew Lang
Mr. Lung
Piore
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