Movements and Manners in Public and Church Life
A miscellany notes social maxims and civic themes. It surveys quotes on character and age, church growth with 2300 new communicants, and a Sheffield council of nonconformist churches with nearly 1000 delegates from over 600 councils. It also reports pension plans by Lake Shore Railroad and union efforts for street railway employee strikes.
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Lake Shore Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Railroad
Great Britain
Sheffield
United States Leads World Mineral Production, UK Second
A Home Office report shows the United States far ahead in world mineral production last year with about 720 million dollars. Great Britain ranks second at 400 million, and Germany third near 260 million. The piece also notes playful youth in Brussels appealing to the Shah for gifts during his visit, prompting several juvenile requests and gifts at the Persian legation.
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Home Office
London
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Brussels
Emperors Plan Berlin Pantheon Lottery to Fund Tomb
Emperor William inspired by Victor Emmanuel and Westminster Abbey resolves to build a Teutonic Pantheon near Berlin to honor Germany’s illustrious dead. Lacking legislative funds, he announces raising 6 million dollars via a massive lottery to finance the project.
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Victor Emmanuel
Pantheon
Rome
Great Britain
Westminster Abbey
William
Berlin
Germany
Empire
Remarkable Boston Move Prompts Six Story Motel Relocation
Engineers plan to shift a six story brick and stone motel in Boston by lifting it on 1000 jacks and rolling it 42 feet on steel rollers. The swampy ground requires 780 piles to support the foundation during the move. An unrelated filed report describes a Rajpur garden chase where a calf is pursued by an 18 foot boa constrictor.
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Boston
Cal‘entta
Rajpur
Sleep Postures of Animals Across Species Told
An October Pearson's Magazine piece by Dr Louis Robinson surveys how animals sleep. Chimps and a gorilla favor side poses like young children, bears vary with fat and fur, while horses lie with legs folded. Elephants hippos and rhinos prefer side or crouched positions, and kangaroos lounge in sunlight with space and warmth for comfort.
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Pearson's
Louis Robinson
A Roasting Machine For Invalids At Hospital
A hospital promotes a luxury therapy with a heating apparatus called thermo stats where nearly the entire body except the head lies inside a heated cylinder reached by high heat. Inventor Sprague of New York asserts cures for a range of ailments from rheumatism to heart and lung diseases using this 400 degree heat therapy.
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Sprague
New York
Bright
Giant Elephant’s Tusk Brought From German East Africa
A colossal elephant tusk weighing 241 pounds was captured by a native hunter in German East Africa. The tusks were shipped via Bagamoyo to Zanzibar where an American bought them. The story notes the elephant carried an almost 500 pound tusk pair and laments ivory hunters driving elephants toward solitude.
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German East Africa
Bagamoyo
Zanzibar
Look at Life Through Glasses of Joyful Contrast
Reflective prose contrasts life’s smiles and tears, noting childhood lessons and adult duties shape perception. It suggests optimism colors experience, adds that perspective alters meaning, and ends with a wry remark about a foolhardy man who brags of never erring.
Lenoir Foe of the Automobile Dies in France
A historic obituary notes M. Lenoir, early inventor of an explosive air and gas motor with electric ignition, who built a car in 1862 but failed to gain recognition. It contrasts his premature invention with Daimler and laments Lenoir’s unawarded contributions and later fame enjoyed by others.
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France
M. Lenoir
Paris
Daimier
Lenoir
Place of Rulers Mirrors Them with Ceremonial Doubles
A Pekin special correspondent notes rumors that Chinese emperors are relieved by doubles for ceremonial duties and representation. Similar tales circulate about the sultan and the German emperor, suggesting protective devices substitute for the ruler in public appearances.
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Pekin
China
Rule Prohibits Smoking at San Francisco Typographical Union Sessions
Women members of the San Francisco typographical union cheer a new rule banning smoking during union sessions. Nome winter outlook suggests 20,000 to stay in the city and 20,000 more will head to camps northward.
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San Francisco
Nome
Fragmentary Hawaiians Lament Theft and Honor Codes
A damaged OCR fragment suggests a Hawaii setting with phrases about the cativas and dignity, noting prisons or fortifications near Fortapuane and a theme of not stealing or begging. The text is incomplete, preventing a clear event or人物.
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Hawaii
Dairy and Poultry Tips for Health and Profit
A period piece on dairy and poultry care discusses bovine tuberculosis risks, milk safety, and farm economics. It covers testing with mallein, curbing disease spread, cement barn floors, and emphasizes breeding for milk. includes practical notes on buttermilk washing, incubators, and poultry yard sizing.
Mme Schumann-Heink Faces Relentless Demand For Donizetti Brindisi
New York audiences pressed Mme Schumann-Heink to perform the Donizetti brindisi in every venue during her tour. After returning to New York from festivals she found the famous drinking song followed her, with demand rising in towns she visited before the opera season.
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Mme. Schumann-Heink
Mme
Schumann-Heink
New York
New York Sun
King Charles XII Feared Only One Power in World
The Swedish king Charles XII trusted no influence but feared the rise of a single force. His wary stance reflected his insistence on personal command and battle prowess over diplomacy or seduction.
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Charles XII
Sweden
Doorbell Answer Sparks Laundry Mix Up
A Utica Observer item notes a little girl who answers the door promptly and sometimes to curious visitors. One day the laundry man asked if the laundry was ready. the child said no and added that papa has got it on.
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Utica
Rindlaub Specialist Quote Reflects on Learning and Wealth
J M Rindlaub, specialist in eye ear nose and throat at Forge North Dakota, comments that no one holds the position he deserves. He notes that those who wish to learn their faults must become poor and that the ignorance of a good man can be wiser than a bad man’s enlightenment.
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Emmons Co. Record
D. R. Srazerme
Linton, Emmons Co
N. D
Waterloo
Presbyterian Church
National Association of Street Railway Employes
Detroit
Mich
AnikAa
Chicago College of Physicians and Surgeons
Illinois Board of Live Stock Commissioners
Chicago
Budapesth
Vienna
Census Bureau
Wm. King
Vaughan
Leyden
Ilinois
Council of the
British Medical Association
United Kingdom
Delepine
Manchester
Massachusetts State Board of Health
Livestock Commissioners of
Illinois
le Cael
Caluas
Wisconsin
Farmers’ Review
Cru
Have .U.cu
Uch &S
Mail Express
Swanson
Lake Street
Chcago, Ill
Wavy Menard Siu
Hall
Pagrese F. J. Caen & Co
Toledo
Papa
J. M. Rindlaub
Forge, N. D
Vis
St. Jacobs Oil
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