Paris Exposition Tips Add Stewards Fees to Visitor Expenses
A New York Journal report explains that travelers to the Paris exposition must budget extra steward fees on steamers. Bedroom stewards, saloon waiters, librarians, bath attendants, and deck stewards contribute about 8.50 extra per passenger, with rates varying by voyage length. Stewards' wages and in-ship duties are cited as justification for tipping.
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Paris
Tourisl
Australia
New York Journal
The Joy of Parting Joke in Philadelphia Daily
A young wife laments to Efe ending affection saying he now only kisses her when he leaves the house, a quip reported by the Philadelphia North American in a lighthearted note about shifting romance.
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Philadelphia
North American
Dr Hartman’s Free Advice for Women Nationwide
Dr Hartman offers free medical guidance to women with chronic female ailments. A Rock Island reader reports quick relief from Peruna, praising its health benefits and calling the remedy valuable for restoring vitality. He has also authored Health and Beauty, a book sent free by Dr Hartman of Columbus, Ohio.
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F. W. Goulder
Rock Island
Ill
Hartman
Columbus
Cascarets
Wireless light telegraphy patent gains notice in Austria
A Canadian Genlns invention by Carl Zickler of Brunn Austria receives a Telegraph Age patent for a wireless telegraphy system using ultraviolet rays from an arc lamp. Signals appear as visible sparks or audible tones via telephone or telegraph, but speed remains limited to 8 12 words per minute. In Italy, Styrian vineyards shield against hail with a breech loading rapid fire gun against storms, deployed at 800 stations near Brescia, producing a distant whistle after discharge.
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Elestria
Carl Zickler
Brunn
Austria
Styria
Brescia
Italy
Morita Stiger
Stiger
Andree Mystery Aids Polar Exploration Effort
An summer effort aims to prove Andree’s fate by tracing a buoy marked with Andree’s Polar Expedition found near Prince Charles Foreland last September. Scientists infer it broke from the balloon wreckage. Also describes a combination ax and augur by Maxime G. Lambert and notes a Morris Gibbs feature on a two winged flys dancing habit.
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Andree
Prince Charles Foreland
Martin Conway
Morris Gibbs
New Cement Wealth Found in Michigan Swamps
At the Geological Society of America meeting Prof T. Russell highlighted southern Michigan swamps and lakes rich in calcareous marl ideal for Portland cement. The substance is largely a shell-based chemical precipitate whose formation remains partly a mystery. Supplies are virtually inexhaustible with large cement works already built or planned. Prof Rosellc notes Michigan could lead the cement industry.
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Michigan
Geological Society of America
T. ©. Russell
Rosesell
Continuously Heated Soldering Iron Patent Feature
Tradesmen including phinvhers tinsmiths and canneries welcome a newly patented soldering iron illustrated here that never grows cold during use. It is self heated and contains within itself a gasoline burner fed by
Inventive soldering iron with needle valve feed
A soldering iron uses a reservoir under the handle and a four needle valve operated by a rod through the handle to feed vaporizing fluid in tiny amounts to the burner. William C. Herbert of Canada is the patentee of this interesting tool noted for its non cooling iron that speeds work.
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William C. Herbert
Canada
Curious Origin of Flavors in Preserved Foods
A Swedish scientist Dr A Peterson from Upsala finds that micro organisms proliferate in meat and fish preserved with 35 percent salt. He concludes the flavors and odors of various salt conserves arise from the micro organisms present in the preparations.
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A. Petterson
Upsala
Sweden
Nettles Farm Cultivation Aims At German Africa Venture
Notes report a German led project to cultivate nettles in Kamerun Africa for high quality fiber to support large scale weaving industry. Other items mention a Duluth bridge over the ship canal, Cuban vegetable consignments praised, London water use, a birdless world claim, and Prof Bishu Thomson’s sun furnace patent for smelting and glassmaking.
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Germany
Kamerun
Africa
Duluth
Raven
Cuban Industrial Relief Commission
London
Thames
Popular Science News
Bishu Thomson
Thomson
Allen's Foot Base remedy ad and oddities
An assortment of ad copy and odd quotes. The page markets Allen's Foot-Base powder for foot ailments at 25 cents with free samples, urges readers to place orders from LeRoy New York. It also contains miscellaneous quips and testimonials about performers and life.
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Allen
Dioggiota
Bhoe
Olmsted
LeRoy
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Steamer
Senvants
Ely
Darky
Hawkins
Aplain
Brer Hawkins
Brier Zawkins
Chicago Tribune
DR. Hartman
Maxime G. Lambert
Ayers
Ayer
S. T. Jonas
Wichita
Kans
Bellon , Ight
O. H. Marshall & Co
Chicago
Sterling Remedy Company
New York
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