Adulteration of Coffee Exposed by Chicago Dealer
A Chicago Herald report outlines how coffee adulteration operates from growing to milling. It details mixing inferior beans with genuine mochas, the polishing mills, and the high costs to push railway and parliamentary bills behind these corrupt practices.
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Chicago
Media
New York
Philadelphia
Java
Aden
Guatemala
Nantes
Costa Rica
Rio
Pampas
Germany
Malabar
Ceylon
Aden Itself
Chicago Herald
Degeneration of Human Teeth Linked to Diet and Race
A discussion citing Popular Science Monthly notes that adapted jaws in higher races show reduced dental arches and delayed tooth emergence. It claims wisdom teeth often fail to develop or erupt, with American natives particularly prone to suppression, suggesting a path toward a new human species.
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America
Cope
United States
Bodington
Popular Science Monthly
Cocoanut Culture in Florida and Cultivation Details
Florida cocoanut growing is likely limited to the Keys and south of the Caloosahatchee. palms bloom mainly for aesthetics in other areas. Florida nuts are smaller and less seed valuable, so plant stock mostly comes from Central America, especially the Bay Islands and Honduras. Planting distance runs 15 to 25 feet, usually 20. Cultivation on the Keys is minimal, limited to weed control, with typical yields around 200 nuts per bearing tree annually.
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Kallwos Bille
Kendal and Windermere Company
Brighton
Manchester
Birmingham
Blackwall
Lula
Southeastern Railway
Railway Press
Florida
Keys
Celoosahatchie River
Tampa
Cape Canaveral
Tropics
Central America
Bay Islands
Atilla
Bonaco
Ruatan
Honduras
Remembered Lectures From Society's Bygone Days
Alfred Trumble notes a new trend of reminiscence lectures by an aging, financially strained social woman. Subscribers pay 6 10 a course to hear her recollections of American society before the war, with occasional piano accompaniment adding to the show.
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Alfred Trumble
Pittsburg
They Give 'em What They Don’t Like’ as Education
A Hartford Courant excerpt critiques a Niantic summer school letter urging teachers to impose harsh methods by highlighting a verbatim quote about “giving ’em what they don’t like.” The piece condemns this approach as a pitiful, outdated philosophy that strips happiness from students and reflects poor pedagogy.
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Radimiere
Niantic Summer School
Hartford Courant
Ethereal Whisky Use Reported in Trelsad Districts
The Lancet notes ether used as an intoxicant in northern Trelsad with a special drinkable ether cheaply available for a penny. Chronic ether or spirits of chloroform are used to flavor nauseous draughts, though it is a chloroform solution. Excise authorities lack power to regulate ether sold for drinking.
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Trelsad
Chambers
Journsi
Manuscript Appraisal Sparks Price Debate in Boston
A Boston writer visits a publisher with a manuscript and asks how much it is worth. The publisher offers fifty dollars, noting a higher price than a prior manuscript bought for forty, provoking disbelief and a tense exchange.
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Boston
Education of Children in Kentucky Brighter Than Northern Youth
A Courier-Journal correspodent praises Kentucky children as precocious diligent and patriotic while contrasting northern youths raised with French and foreign views. He cites two Washington boys raised by Native American parents taught German from infancy and speaking German at home predicting further Germanization through Heidelberg education.
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Kentucky
North
Washington
Heidelberg
Courier-Journal
Unclear early report hints at a plan for fuel use
A fragmented Chicago dispatch mentions a plan for a fuel solution to be seen in a chute, with Mary Ann noted in the text. The readable items are limited and the rest is obscured.
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Mary Ann
Uel
Chicago
Abietine Ointment Promises Absolute Cure Claims
The advertisement extols Abietine ointment as an absolute cure for old sores burns wounds chapped hands and skin eruptions. It asserts it will cure all kinds of piles and offers the original formula in two ounce tins sold by City Drug Store N M White for 25 cents a box or 30 cents by mail.
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N. M. White
City Drug Store
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ALSQ
Imar Glassware
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Geo. W. Dare
Montana ST
Dillon, Mgrt
Hanu
Dillon Jewelry and Guy Store
Rock
Tralg
Mont
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Howard
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Louisvitar
Naw
Youk
N.Y
L. C. Fyhrie & CO
General Grocers
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Dillon, Montana
Edward Marlow
Webenn Street
Dillon, Manitana
Salo
Fhiro Ronsonep
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