Book-a-day readers spark a library market debate
An engaged proprietor discusses readers who consume two to three books daily and the impact of cheap libraries on story papers. He notes a divide between male and female readers, with women preferring detective stories while some avoid romances. He also observes a shift in newspaper sales and the social effects of serial fiction.
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Tver
Interior Department
Ant
du Boisgobey
Garbarian
Zola
G. W. M. Reynolds
HhFen
Eset
Bighls
Mary Treat
The Delights of Sunmer and Sensible Clothing
The article notes summer brings growth and comfort for people and goods in various climates. It cites workers like farmers, Hindoo rice laborers, and residents of Australia, Cuba, and Mexico adapting clothes to heat. It cites ancient Greeks and Roman writers praising summer comfort through suitable attire.
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Athens
Pericles
Alcibiades
Socrates
Plato
Zeno
Pythagoras
Virgil
Cicero
Cesar
New York Press
Awakening Senses Aboard Ship In Sleep Study
In On Blue Water, the author notes how waking on ships offers unique observations of awakening. He argues the most assaulted senses wake first, citing bursts of light and missed cues while crews sleep and respond to eight bells.
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Youtl
Artistic Dress Designing Sisters Open in Poughkeepsie
Three sisters in Poughkeepsie establish an artistic dress design shop. They study each customer to enhance appearance with colors and fabrics suited to her.
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Poughkeepsie
New York Press
Inventor of the Honey Extractor from a Centrifugal Idea
The article recounts how Maj. Von Mruschka in Italy observed a boy with a honey filled pail and by repeated tests developed the first honey extractor. The device used centrifugal force to draw honey from combs, leaving the combs clean and enabling easier honey production for wine mead and cakes.
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Venice
Haivat Shap von Urusebka
Toe
Italy
Maj. von Mruschka
Chicago Times
Editors Rally for Clerks and Bartenders Against Harsh Employers
A stirring editorial defends the clerks in dry goods and grocery stores forming an early closing movement and denounces heartless employers. It notes bartenders also start a similar campaign and calls for solidarity and fair hours.
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Omaha World
Minge Plan for Water Supply for Liverpool
The New York Sun reports a vast Minge engineered water plan for Liverpool by removing a Welsh village and its buildings to create a reservoir four and a half miles long and up to a mile wide. It would feature three 68 mile long pipe lines, filtering beds, and secondary reservoirs with the aqueduct alone costing about 15 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minge
Liverpool
New York Sun
Sleepwalking Writes Prize Winning Essay in The Century Tale
A timid young woman awakes in somnambulism and drafts an essay on an unplanned subject, winning a prize from the Chicago Herald. The Century reports the unusual good fortune linked to her nocturnal writing.
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Vemenatnteatiat
Chicago Herald
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