Italy Baths Draw Nerves and Nobles in Ocean Leisure
A vivid reminiscence of Roman and modern Italian sea baths contrasts ancient Diocletian and Nero with Venice Posillipo and Naples Lido. The piece paints casual social life, music, camerini, and chaperoned romance, notes poor and rich share this open access, and highlights Capri’s blue grotto and Sorrento’s calm waters.
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Italy
Mediterranean
Venice
Naples
Capri
Amalfi
Diocletian
Carneallar
Rome
Pompeiian
Nero
Constantin
Pozenoli
Buimono
Vesuvius
Posilipo
Tsa
Santa Lucia
Bella Napoli
Peter Fearing
Sorrento
Chicago Tribune
Forgetting One's Children in a Temple Store
A mother in Temple place forgets her two little girls in a store while she investigates barges at another counter. The children wait where she left them as a crowd gathers. She recalls later that she had left them and exclaims she cannot believe how she did it.
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Bargin
Electric light fishing device for California coast
The article describes an improved fishing apparatus using an iron frame interlaced with netting and a lantern lamp powered by a boat motor. As the boat moves, the net opens and the bright lamp attracts fish into the trap, seen from afar in clear water, replacing the old torch-lit fence method.
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California
Tobacco smoke as a microbicide in epidemics
Chambers' Journal discusses how tobacco smoke from Cavour Virginia and Tuscan cigarettes and other tobaccos shows strong bactericidal effects, especially against the cholera bacillus. Dr. Tassinari suggests nicotine products may help reduce microbes in oral hygiene during cholera and typhus outbreaks.
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Tassinari
Italia Termule
Cavour
Virginia
Always Clean Family Diblo Dust Planes Stool Break
A fragmentary exchange notes that a family named Diblo avoids dust since a plano stool broke, with a Good News tone and a little girl remarking on cleanliness and clan. The snippet reads as casual domestic chatter.
New Green Goods Methods and a Curious Metamorphosis
A German-born tea broker, Praat Holbein of Dashwood Ontario, recounts a strange Toronto night. After visiting a Yonge Street museum, he was invited to a home where his hostess transformed into a man in disguise. A confrontation followed, ending with the stranger admitting “green goods” and offering to buy his bills for pennies on the dollar. Holbein escaped, later describing the event to Constable Irving and detectives, with many questioning the tale’s truth.
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Irving
Praat Hotlbein
Tea Berk
Red Lion
Dashwood
Republic
Musee
Yonge Street
Wen
Hellbeth
Tecma
Hellbein
Babef
Hohl
Avsault
Holbein
Hohlbein
Hohletbein
Fhoeter
Tira
Hollbein
Bose
Toronto Mail
Strange Gods and Deities Across Distant Lands
A Boston Globe note recounts diverse worship practices from Queen Victoria venerated in Orlasa Bengal to Nikkal Sen identified with General Nicholson in Punjab. It cites colonial observers mentioning demigodlike figures in Africa and Northwest India, and references a tale from Blackwood's Magazine about a king playing a ball game on horseback with a wolfstick.
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Thave
Orlasa
Bengal Presidency
Victoria
Grabens
Tumiong
Thibet
Punjab
Nikkal Sen
Nicholson
MM. du Chailln
Captain Cook
Pete
Blachwood
Ragged Robvert and the Travelin' Gentlemen’s Union Expulsion Threat
A dialogue from the New York Weekly shows Ragged Robvert arguing with Mouldy Mike over work and dinner, noting an expulsion threat from the Travelin g Gentlemen's union. The exchange includes a request for a file and a plan to flee to avoid denial of wages and a saloon drink.
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All the Saints
Traveling Gentlemen's Union
New York Weekly
Swiggits Mystery Wigghers Prompt Unconscionable Tale
Fragmentary notes mention Swiggits and Swiggets with phrases about conscience and fades. Names and context are unclear, but suggest a quirky character study or gossip item centered on Swiggits and a reflection on anonymity and hair.
Travelers by Rail In Russia Divided Into Three Clusces
Travelers on Russian railways are categorized into three groups civil military and convict with further subdivision into paying and nonpaying travelers.
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Russia
The Weight of Crowds on Dense Gatherings
A summary of experiments by Prof W C Kernot and studies by Stoney show crowd loads exceeding standard 60 to 100 pounds per square foot. In a Melbourne lobby 159.5 pound average mass yielded 194.7 pounds per person total and 143.1 pounds per square foot with room for more. Stoney’s tests with Irish laborers produced 147.4 to 148 pounds per square foot in ship deckhouse and crowded room scenarios. The article recommends using 140 to 130 pounds per square foot for crowded spaces like stations, entrances, and bridges.
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W.C. Kernot
Melbourne University
Australia
Victorian Institute of Engineers
Kernot
Stonay
Sahut
Stoney
Nore
Yanka
Modest Love Sparks Bold Speech in Unusual Tale
A noble young man, shy and high ranked, loves a woman who values modesty. After a playful cards for money dispute, humor breaks the ice and his tongue loosens, leading to a happy if unusual ending. Narrated in a Victorian voice by Walter Beaseat in London.
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Fide
Beast
Walter
London
Ostrich incubation and crow heist in nature lore
The piece recounts an ostrich brooding method where the mother leaves eggs exposed while a white necked crow observes from the nest. The crow drops stones to crack an egg, feasting as the ostrich guards dinnerless. Also notes a Bombay bedstead drama with four ornate dancing companions and a cradle-like music box. Additionally a brief on Delaware’s circular northern boundary due to Penn charter and the 12 mile measure.
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Sam
Job
Mrs. Ostrich
Eljah
Detroit Free Press
Bowbay
Bombay
Delaware
Penn
Pennsylvania
Delaware River
New Castle Town
New Castle
St. Louis Republic
Partial coaling plan to bridge pasture shortage for dairy farms
The article discusses pasture inadequacy for cows, noting early grasses provide feed until July end but decline afterward. It proposes a partial coiling system to utilize near full dairy benefits and sustain production through the poor forage period, citing the Lewiston Journal.
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Ewiston Journal
Fragmentary exchange hints at unnamed confrontation
Readable lines show a heated exchange with taunts about character and loyalty. Names and clear context are missing, yielding a fragmentary portrait of a tense verbal confrontation without identifiable participants or setting.
Turkey poults and feeding for rapid growth in poultry yards
Article notes the development stages of turkey poults from hatching to turn of growth, stressing the need for nutritious feed, dry shelter, and ventilated housing. It warns breeders to manage a long, careful feeding plan to achieve large, sturdy birds and outlines dangers and transitional care as poults mature into turkeys. It also touches on hay harvesting costs and briefly discusses animal cages and showmanship risks.
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Goure
Poultry Yard
Trane aml Hass Story Notes Unclear Dialogue
Fragmentary OCR text shows unclear names and phrases including Trane aml Hass and Belle-Charley Vrango. The passage mentions Moss home references and a door request, but lacks coherent events, dates, or verifiable facts to form a complete news item.
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Trane
Belle
Charley Vrango
Blanche
Belke
Moss
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