Ainu Of Yezo Describe Hairy People And Ritual Tattoos
A traveler recounts the Ainu of Yezo as a hair-covered people with tattooed lips hands and foreheads. Women show less facial hair. marriage honors are shown by scar patterns. The Ainu lack written history and claim possible migration from a southern Bering Sea origin. They supposedly once faced a lost race called pit dwellers.
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Vyeuo
Yeso
Yezo
Yeto
Kurile Islands
Beringa
Aleu ‘Yan Islands
Kamchatka
Kuriles
Mr. Landor
Chicago
Ene
Old Masters Prices Versus Original Costs Revealed
A collector cites startling records showing original wages of Renaissance masters. Michaelangelo reportedly earned about $40 a month while painting the Pisa cartoons, Leonardo shared the same wage, and Correggio earned under $10 for Christ In the Garden. Carracci’s Resurrection paid even less. Rembrandt’s Night Watch under $500. Velasquez, serving the Spanish court, averaged $35 per painting.
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Michael
Pisa
Leonardo
Correggio
Garden
Carracci
Albert
Street Cars In Mexico
Street car conductors in the City of Mexico give a brisk tour of urban transit as a tourist notes. The remark hints at daily life and public transport practices observed during travel.
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Mexico
City of
The Field and Garden Compared in a Morning Word
The essay contrasts fields and gardens, noting a field grows slowly into a deep friendship, while a garden offers quick beauty. It describes soil as the first knowledge of a field, the plowed furrow as bounty, and the need for sturdy boots to traverse a field’s changing surface.
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London Spectator
Poisoned Spring in Auvergne Emits Deadly Gas
In the Auvergne region large amounts of carbonic acid gas escape from soil fissures near Montpensier. The poisonous springs kill or nearly kill animals drinking there and even affect vegetation. Birds, rabbits, dogs, sheep and others have perished. gas rises in pure form from the ground in lines across fields.
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Auvergne
France
Montpensier
How the Japs Pull Teeth
A sensational sneer at Japanese dental practice claims a Japanese dentist performs tooth drawing with the forefinger and thumb of one hand. The piece notes the peculiar skill required and its acquisition after long training, framing it as a dramatic contrast to common methods.
Dentist’s Remarkable Quick Extraction Practice
An 30 second procedure claim notes a dentist able to extract half a dozen teeth without removing fingers from the patient’s mouth. The piece compares dental training to removing pegs from soft wood and drawing hard negs from an oak plank with a mallet.
Night Crying Children Reflect on Grim Fate
Excerpt contemplates children waking in fear and the sorrow of future life. The piece muses on despair, memory, and the pity owed to humans, citing the Atchison Globe as the source of reflection.
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Atchison Giobe
Handsome revolver tested by father prompts warning
A man named H. was given a decorative revolver and fired blanks into the air to test it. His six year old daughter Natalie rushed in in alarm, crying Dont shoot at the sky You might kill an angel. The scene prompted a timely warning about firearm safety.
Quandary of a Guemma'e Lady in Love and Fear
A young woman reveals that Harold vows self harm if she refuses marriage while Randolph threatens politics and fame to compel union. She sobs, torn between saving him and sparing herself, unsure how to act in the face of such threats.
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Harold
Randolph
Nolitieran
Origins and spread of census taking
The census concept began with Roman civil duties under the censor and evolved through history. It was conducted every five years to map classes and domestic roles. The United States began modern censuses in 1790 and the British census followed in 1801 excluding Ireland.
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United States of America
Ireland
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New York Sun
Houston Post
Weod
T.W. Wood & Sons
Richmond
First National Bank
Dothan
Steee
Alabama
D. C. Carmichael
G. H. Malone
E. R. Malone
Rept. Boyd
Cashic
The
Bennett Hardware Co
RED Cross
Montgomery
Alabama Chemical Co
J. R. Relfe
Mr. Meigs
Ala
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