Pay Car on Isthmus Triggers Awe and Fear Among Laborers
A Panama Canal pay car traslado uses silver coin and $25 packages, with Jamaican and Chinese laborers handling the money at Tabernilia Gatun and Cristobal. Guards, policemen, and skilled counters ensure rapid payouts as workers, carrying numbered pink certificates and metal tags, claim wages daily in a scene described as both impressive and perilous.
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Washington
Tabernu la
San Pablo
Cristobal
Gatun
Waldrop
Chong
Leon
Tabernilia
Borat
Okeney
Ins
Queavy
Rapid Flight of Time.
Supreme Court Justice Brewer lectured at George Washington University about a case involving two enslaved men who swapped mules. One mule trader claimed a mule was seven years old and listed traits, then swindled the other until a confession revealed the ruse. The farmer later admitted to deception. The anecdote underscores time’s swift truth.
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Justice Brewer
United States Supreme ‘Court
George Washington: University
American Spectator
Ft. .Gebruary
Howe
Fragmented English News Reveries Mix Policy And Dispute
The article blends disparate snippets from politics science and society. It mentions Justice and mastery in electrical science shaping patent cases while reporting unrest in Berlin restaurants over bread charges and rebel rhetoric from Lloyd George. It also recounts a dramatic account of General Treport’s resignation after a cinematic theater incident and conspiratorial murder.
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Eeu Mathematica
Leis
Hia
Berlin
Lloyd, George
Wales
Carnarvon
Asaph
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Lloyd” George
Treport
St. Petersburg
Myor
Phieve
Jamaica Laborers Flock to Isthmus for Work
Jamaican workers educated in trades like carpentry and masonry migrate to the isthmus seeking wages and jobs. The report notes shortages in skilled labor and mentions various trades including teachers barbers shoemakers store clerks and foremen at a hospital project.
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Panama
Saasheen Ane
Tadees
Galicia United
Ste
Mae Hej Pares Environmental Event Report
A brief local environmental notice reports a Mae Hej Pares event held in a community site. The article notes organizers and participants and outlines a schedule and safety guidelines for attendees.
Stray SQuibs From The Herald And Press Fragments
A fragmentary exchange from the New York Herald is cited as asking if a business mind can be made of a son. The Detroit Free Press adds a quip about a father giving a thousand dollar pill to test germs, reflecting gossip column tone.
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Detroit
Free, Press
India rubber and a turning tale in old Chicago Daily News
An OCR fragment from a Chicago Daily News page shows disjointed dialogue and stray punctuation. It hints at a humorous or narrative exchange about congratulation, a light overcoat, an obese lady, a wife, and a boy, but the text is incomplete and lacks coherent context.
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Ay Largas
Chicago Daily” News
Fragmentary London Paper Exchange Greeted by Manager
A garbled line suggests a manager in London responding with confusion to a query about a paper. The readable fragment hints at a puzzled exchange over a newspaper or document. No clear names or dates are recoverable.
The Starved Bakers Window Displays and Cheap Cakes
A fragment describes a baker with starved looking windows and ragged display of large pies and seven layer cakes. It notes his customers are poor or second and third class who buy despite the look and he advertises to attract common folk with inexpensive dainty wafers and plain loaves.
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Sowin‘dows
Tyean
Precocious Senility and the Quest to Prevent Decay
The article discusses precocious senility as a rare but studied condition noted in medical literature. It cites American Medicine on early arteriosclerosis in children and argues for more thought on prevention rather than cures. It references Metchnikoff and the debate over prolonging life beyond the century mark, highlighting a serious problem about varying lifespans under similar conditions.
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Acad
Metchnikoff
Woman's Change of Life Stirs Warned Anxiety and Remedies
A column explains the critical period near menopause brings anxiety and symptoms like hot flashes dizziness and fatigue. It promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a trusted remedy and cites a Chester Town Maryland letter praising relief. Readers are invited to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts.
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Ns & Senke
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
A. E
Hyland
Chestertown
Happ
Pneumonia Risk Emphasized by Augustus Wadsworth
Augustus Wadsworth declares pneumonia development linked to cold and close quarters. He urges careful digestive tract prophylaxis and notes many methods to reach similar results, stressing personal experience and the need for an effective antitoxin approach.
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Augustus
Wadsworth
Young Brooklyn Man Prayed in Manhattan Guarded by Police
A young man from Brooklyn traveled to Manhattan seeking brokers and received police protection before any exploitation could occur. The note references an 1850 patent context while asserting ongoing utility.
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Brooklyn
Manhattan
Buenos Aires City Bans Street Musicians
The Buenos Ayres city council passes a regulation banning itinerant musicians from the streets. The move aims to regulate public space and curb street performances within the city limits.
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Buenos Ayres
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