Picture Post Card Pioneer Adolph Tuck Emerges
The Boston Herald notes Adolph Tuck built fortune from picture post cards. Son of Raphael Tuck, he expanded from cheap London pictures to oleographs, enlisted artists, and secured royal academy designs. He rejected a thousand guineas for poetry and battled postal rules over card sizes, becoming a baronet and noted financier.
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Adolph Tuck
Boston
Raphael Tuck
London
Seta
Tennyson
Thrce
Bolyanka Russian dish a rich multi layered bake
A home style Bolyanka recipe uses beef or veal or chicken with salted cabbage olives mushrooms and pickles. Layered in a buttered dish with cabbage and meat then topped with mushrooms olives and pickles, baked an hour and served hot with parsley.
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Russia
Cathedral Fire Brigade Runs Private Water Service
The cathedral maintains a private fire brigade and water service installed before World War I. Despite stone exterior, its interior contains hundreds of wooden passages and rooms. The wooden outer dome, visible from the street, is wood encased in lead, and the aged dry timber increases fire risk for a possible blaze.
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Cathedral
Walla
London
Man Fights Reluctance to Mow Lawn
In Springfield Union style diction a man who despised manual work finally agrees to mow the lawn. He endures a long, dreary process, works hard with his hands, and shows mixed feelings of sorrow and triumph as he surveys his calloused hands and explains to his wife that he was not strong enough to avoid the task.
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Springfield Union
The Changing Thinking Roadside Wit
The piece ponders friendship tests on the road, noting you learn a lot about companions after a car blowout. It observes an extra rider may mock up the trip yet provide blunt advice, while the host fiddles with tools and faces delays, revealing character at a roadside picnic.
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Eny Polsom
Eapfms City Star
Ferns as Medicine Amid Tropical Indigenous Beliefs
The Aborigines of tropical America valued a fern species for curing properties. A powder or strip from the male fern is long esteemed by physicians as a warming additive. Roots are prized for soaking beverages and improving taste. French observers also note medicinal use of a related fern.
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Tropical America
German Father With 14 Living Children Story Sparks Interest
A Vienna medical journal reports Bernard Scheinberg near the German border fathered 87 children from two marriages, 84 living, with four quadruplets seven triplets and 16 twins in the first marriage. Second wife bore 18 children including two triplet sets. she is alive. Fifty-nine years separate births. many grandchildren, counted loosely. He notes losing track of descendants.
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Vienna Medical Association
Bernard Scheinberg
Schein
Bar Ney Brace’s Sunday Night Prayer Meeting Satire
A fragment from a modern story features intense romantic passion and public defiance, with a narrator recalling Iker’s bold declaration of love. It contrasts with a satirical aside about a prayer meeting held after travels, warning against foolishness and urging gratitude.
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Iker
Jove
Sach
Rolfe Arrow
Barney” Brace
Ice water cuts down the milk flow
A reported effect in fall pig care notes that cold water reduces milk production in sows. A separate item highlights a heated waterer as a recommended solution for warm seasons, aiding pig comfort and lactation.
Poultry House Seeds Lead to Bat Avulsion of Avold
A fragmented report notes poultry house seeds at Avold tied to a bat incident. Officials investigate potential hazards near poultry facilities and local health authorities monitor unusual bat activity in the area.
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Poultry House
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MR. Merchant
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