Emmons Co. Record items and notices
A collection of short notes covers Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park Art Association planning a $15000 Robert Morris tribute. Buffalo Bird protection clashes with sparrow loss. pews for sale in a London West Kensington church with no plate collection. Cunard’s plan to build speed- competing steamships. Wheeling mockery of female suffrage. Arkansas mayors to meet in Little Rock for city welfare legislation. Netherlanders lead coffee drinkers with 370 ounces per year per inhabitant, while Russia limits to three ounces per person.
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West Kensington
London
Arkansas
Little Rock
Boards of Trades
Russia
Literary Anecdotes of Politeness and Names
James Russell Lowell joked about the editor with a Sparta king name Eudamidas when checking a blunder. A famed author asked Doctor Reid to visit, insisting on address No 1 Chesterfield Street. he vowed to remember Chesterfield and Number One, a witty clash of manners and memory.
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James Russell Lowell
Sparta
Eudamidas
Reid
Chesterfield Street
Chesterfield
Local Embalmer Albert Beier Opens in Holton
Albert Beier has completed a course at the embalming school in Kansas City and returned with a diploma. He will stock coffins and funeral supplies and will be ready by the first of the week. He invites all needing services or goods of this character to call.
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Holton
Albert Beier
Kansas City
Milwaukee firm to ship first complete U S brewing plant to Japan
A Milwaukee company closes a contract to furnish a complete set of U S brewing machinery to Japan. Two Japanese natives who studied European equipment chose the American article. The plant will be built in Kyoto at a cost around 100000 dollars.
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Japan
Kioto
Hello Girls Gossip Ban Hits Southern Lines
Dispatch from Louisville reports Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone Co of Louisville has ordered operators to post a 5 bond guaranteeing they will not talk over leased lines. The bond is required after several operators used lines for gossip with others including male friends.
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Louisville
Cumberland Telegraph and Telephone Company
South
De Wet the Puzzle Card Mirage in England
An American bought a penny puzzle card showing Kruger era Transvaal borders with the caption find De Wet. The vendor wittily claimed De Wet is unseen because he’s sloped, prompting the buyer to joke that no one can find him and the card is worth a penny despite the joke.
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de Wet
England
Kruger
Transvaal
Austria's strike insurance plan adopted by manufacturers
Austrian manufacturers adopt a fund based insurance against strikes. A percentage of payrolls is paid into a common fund and a committee investigates any strike. If the strike is deemed unjust, the idle factory is indemnified from the fund. if justified, no indemnity is paid.
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Austria
Actor’s Staged Theft Scheme Probed by Police in New Haven
Springfield Republican reports an actor attempted a timeworn stolen jewelry ploy for free ad in New Haven. Police questioned chorus girls then produced a search warrant, examining his trunks. Stolen items were found, packed away, and the actor sharply rebuked before the company.
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New Haven
Springfield Republican
The Oriole in Blossom Time Poem Fragment
A lyrical fragment from Youths' Companion depicts the oriole in blossom time awaiting its mate. Vivid imagery describes sunset sky, fragrant hues, and a painterly orchard scene. The narrator envisions a joyful union as the oriole trills and anticipates the voice from the southland, linking nature to romance.
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Arras
Beyond the Realm of Science Dance Entanglement at the Sanitarium
Leland wrestles with a dream-obsessed fixation on a mysterious woman as Dr. Andrews conducts experiments in madness at a sanitarium. The narrative follows his longing, imagined encounters, and uncertain grip on reason amid music, memory, and nocturnal visions.
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Evalena Rasbury
Daily Story Pub. Co
Leland
Dr. Andrews
Sanitarium
Ignistatus
My Queen Follows A Lovers Murder in a Ball
In a grand ballroom filled with flowers and silken draperies a physician confides to Leland a tale of his love for a patient with a dream of her future husband. The violinist, a tall white-clad girl, plays Farewell to Dreams as a deathly scene unravels with a dying man heard above the music.
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Wolsen
Dr. Andrews
Reason
Leland
Earth
Heaven
Anti Renters Affected New York Politics History
The Anti Renters arose from tenant dissatisfaction with Dutch patroon rents in eastern New York. Story recounts Herkimer to Ostego counties and the Helderberg War era, with tenants resisting rent collection after Stephen Van Rensselaer died in 1839. By 1850 manors sold land to tenants ending the strife.
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United States
New York
Albany
Rensselaer
Columbia
Greene
Delaware
Schulmarie
Ostego
Livingstons
van Rensselaers
Stephen van Rensselaer
Helderberg
President Loubet Receives $30,000 Legacy
President Loubet inherits a $30,000 legacy from Mme. Perret. For over four decades Loubet and the Perret family maintained close ties at Marianne, where Loubet served as lawyer handling the elder Perret’s legal affairs and business documents.
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Loubet
Mme. Perret
M. Loubet
Marianne
M. Perret
Westminster Assembly of Divines and its lasting standards
In 1643 the Long Parliament created the Westminster Assembly to settle doctrine liturgy and church government. It sat from July 1 1643 to Feb 22 1649 meeting 1163 times. Its fruits include the Directory of Public Worship the Confession of Faith and the Shorter and Larger Catechisms. The Confession spans 33 chapters and grounds Calvinistic theology and Presbyterian church order.
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Long Parliament
Westminster Assembly
Assembly of Divines
Church of England
Church of Scotland
Balloon Duel Over Paris Ends in Grim Tragedy
A famed 1808 air duel in France saw M. de Grandpre and M. le Pique clash in balloons above the Tuileries. Grandpre fired, ruptured his opponent’s balloon, triggering a collapse and the deaths of le Pique and his second. Grandpre landed far from Paris after the fatal ascent.
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Tit- Bits
France
M. de Grandpre
M. le Pique
Tirevit
Imperial Opera
Paris
The Mad Dog Bugaboo
A critical view argues that so called cases of hydrophobia are just dog bites causing hysterical symptoms. The piece urges editors to stop sensational reports that frighten women and public ascribing hydrophobia, asserting no such disease exists and condemning harming dogs over a rumor.
Statue of Robert Morris for Fairmount Park in Philadelphia
The Fairmount Park Association of Philadelphia plans a $15,000 statue of Robert Morris. His house hosted colonial era celebrities and he backed the government with loans totaling $400,000 via the Bank of Pennsylvania and the Bank of North America. He faced debt imprisonment after a failed 1798 real estate scheme, yet his personal honor remained intact.
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Fairmount Park Association
Philadelphia
Robert Morris
Bank of Pennsylvania
Bank of North America
Prune Street
Switzerland Universities Attract Women Students In Europe
Switzerland's universities remain Europe’s top academies for female students from abroad. At the University of Zurich 218 of 850 are women, including 128 in medicine, 58 in philosophy, 21 in natural science, and 11 in jurisprudence. Only 18 are Swiss, with 97 Russians, 29 Americans, and an equal number of Germans among the rest.
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Switzerland
Europe
University of Zurich
Poking a Wood Fire Declared Solid Pleasure
A brief reflection extols poking a wood fire as superior comfort and durable delight, presenting it as a timeless, simple source of contentment amid worldly distractions.
A Whale Hunt Amid Titanic Sea Titans
Report from the Mirzapore shows two whale ships pursuing massive beasts about five hundred yards apart. The chase features two boats edging the whales toward each other, lances and oars at the ready, culminating in a violent entanglement as blood floats on the blue, shocking onlookers with the danger and drama of a Yankee whale hunt.
Double Encounter Close to a Vessel In Cornhill Magazine
A dramatic scene aboard a whaler ends with two corpses floating and rescued hunters. Passengers press to view from a ship as lifeboats maneuver amid wreckage and entangled whale-lines, then thin their ranks in alarm at perilous handling of oars and boats.
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James
Cornhill Magazine
London Telephone Rates Cut Open London Homes
London plans to lower telephone costs making the service common rather than a luxury. A lump-sum option near £10 for inclusive metropolitan use is possible, but a toll service offering a £3 initial payment plus a penny per call may prove most popular. Shops could become public call offices as customers use instruments at about 2 pence per call.
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London
Miss Caroline Hazard Named President of Wellesley College
The trustees elected Miss Caroline Hazard to the Wellesley presidency on March 8 1899. She was inaugurated October 3 and is about 43. Hazard, from a prominent family, follows Mrs Julia J Irvine who led after President Shafer’s 1894 death. She is not college bred and studied at Providence with Brown affiliation and Dinman’s guidance.
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Caroline Hazard
Wellesley College
Miss Hazard
Julia J. Irvine
Wellesley’s
Shafer
Providence
Brown Corporation
Dinman
England at Sea Big Figures Show Britain's Maritime Might
Lloyds 1900 1 figures show Britain and colonies own 7 930 steamers 12 149 090 tons and 2 908 sailing vessels 2 112 164 tons. Global oversea traffic totals 28 422 vessels 29 043 728 tons. Britain nearly one third of world vessels and about half of gross tonnage. War mobilizations and troop transits tested port and mail services while other nations faced transport strains.
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Great Britain
Lloyd's Register of Shipping
Lloyd's
China
Electrical Cooking Aids In Utica Apartments
A group of Utica New York apartment houses are equipped with electric cooking utensils including three round stoves an oven and a broiler that store away neatly leaving no outward trace of use. The air stays clean and the apartments remain cooler. Electric curling tongs heaters are also provided and well received.
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Utica
N. Y
Chrysanthemums and Japanese Florist Wisdom
From Japan comes advice on keeping chrysanthemums. light a wood piece and burn the stalks so the cut flowers last for several weeks as the flowers remain in profusion for the next three months.
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Japan
Overcrowding in London Lights a Grim Crisis
The report notes extreme London overcrowding with 3,000 living eight or more in a room, and 26,000 six or more in a single dwelling. Population rose by 800,000 since the last census. Box and Cox style rotations, day and night occupancy, and even sleeping under beds are mentioned as rent practices. Evicted families end up in sheds and drift toward the workhouse.
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London
Letto
Sheda
Grave of Cardinal Manning's Wife Lacks Stone or Cross
In a Sunday Strand piece, Cardinal Manning's early life is recalled including his four years of married happiness in Sussex at East Lavington. The grave of his wife Caroline Sargent lies neglected with no stone, despite his wish that time erase all things. The Lavington house now hosts Mr. and Mrs. R. G. Wilberforce.
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Cardinal Manning
Sunday Strand
Manning
Sussex
East Lavington
Cardinal
Edmund Purcell
Lavington
R. G. Wilberforce
Plague Visit to Glasgow Linked to 1645 Quest
A historical note recalls the 1645 Glasgow plague when Montrose defeated Covenanters at Kilsyth. Envoys offered hospitality, Montrose taxed the city, and a tale of Bessie Bell and Mary Gray near the Almond memorial links disease, romance, and burial beside the bower.
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Glasgow
Marquis of Montrose
Charles I
Baillie
Kilsyth
Montrose
Scotland
Almond
Methven
Perthshire
Bessie Bell
Mary Gray
Kincaid
Lynedoch
Bessie
Mary
Bower
London Chronicle
Italians Displace Negro Farm Hands in Sugar District
Railroads report over 2,000 Italians transported to New Orleans to work on Louisiana sugar plantations, mostly from St. Louis and Chicago, with large premiums paid. A week’s arrivals add 2,200 more from Palermo, totaling 4,200 new Italian laborers in the sugar fields in one week. Many Italians settle permanently as planters prefer their labor, crowding out local Black workers.
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Illinois Central
Louisville
Nashville
Queen and Crescent
New Orleans
St. Louis
Chicago
Palermo
Louisiana Attachment Law Causes Debtor’s Death
A Chicago Journal report recalls a Louisiana creditor’s use of an attachment to seize a debtor’s property when intent to flee the state was suspected. The debtor died from the distress, his heirs challenging the seizure as invalid. The lawyer Col. Proudfoot insisted the law permits seizure if removal from the state is imminent.
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Louisiana
Chicago Journal
Col. Proudfoot
Never the Right One in Club Mourning Jest
The New York Times notes a club custom of lowering the flag and posting a mortuary notice when a member dies. A clubman mocks the ritual as audio delusion, confessing relief when the half mast sight proves another member’s absence yet laments never the right casualty.
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The
New York Times
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D. R. Srezermz
Linton, Emmons Co
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Fairmount Park Art Association of Philadelphia
Buffalo Bird Protective Society
Cunard Company
Wheeling
W. Va
Denver
Southland
Westminster Confession
Germany
Madagascar
East Lavingoton
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