Frugal life of Talcot couple in Indiana starves on a year
Ex judge William Cole Talcot of Valparaiso and his wife live on about $52 yearly for food, claiming health and happiness come from plain living. They dine on oats, milk, sugar and cereal, rarely meat, and work daily in garden. Talcot, aged near 85, led local reform, edited the Valparaiso Vidette, and now leads in the People’s Church.
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Ingenious Chinese Calculator Patent Emerges
A Chinese inventor Chow Ling Shang of Macao patents a novel calculator greatly simplifying multiplication and division. The device uses a base with guided endless tapes in two-column grids, with tapes labeled L LI LIL IV and others, designed to display numbers across groups for arithmetic operations. It claims efficient computation beyond standard tape machines and is accompanied by illustrations of the apparatus.
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Chow Ling Shang
Macao
China
How Long Is the Ride to the City Varied Whist in the Smoke
A fragment from a Philadelphia Press feature shows a suburbanite noting ride times to the city vary. Some mornings they play as many as ten hands of whist in the smoking car while other mornings not more than seven.
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Philadelphia Press
Politeness Profits in Courageous Lives Across Ages
A vivid collection of anecdotes about courteous conduct saving lives and shaping fate. It recalls a Philadelphia physician spared by a wary attacker, a frontier leader befriending hostile Indians, and a Civil War officer rising to brigadier general, then rebuilding life at Natchez with a poetic late marriage.
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Philadelphia
Lippincott’s Magazine
Genera Zebulon York Dies in Natchez Mississippi
The Confederate general Zebulon York, also a skilled lawyer and plantation owner, has died at his Natchez home. Born in Maine in 1810, educated in the South, he studied law at Louisiana University before establishing a Vidal ia practice and amassing plantation wealth. The Civil War era marked his ascent as a leading legal and military figure.
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Cunning of the Chinese Exaggerated, Sea Captain Says
A former sea captain recalls a Hong Kong tea deal where a Chinese merchant allegedly delayed delivery by claiming official taxation holds up the cargo. The captain claims the tea was secretly resold to a random buyer while the tax excuse served only to gain time for substitution of a lower grade. He describes the merchant as calm and imposing during the confrontation.
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Instinct of animals shown in self preservation tale
The Times-Democrat cites a New Orleans report noting dozens of cats sheltering in a wooden louse during Ottawa’s blaze while surrounding buildings burned. It discusses animal self-preservation, nine lives, and a belief that cats eat what is beneficial. It also mentions ships deserting unseaworthy vessels and geese in the capitol linked to fear of slaughter.
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New Orleans
Capitol
Margaret’s plea for her own relations in prayer
A mother tucks in her child as Margaret asks not to be left alone to sleep. The girl agrees God is with her but expresses a wish for her own relations, revealing a longing for personal family ties within a quiet moment.
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Mamma
Northern Shetland Lighthouse on a Two-Foot Rock
The northwest tower of a Great Britain lighthouse stands on a rock two feet high off the Shetland coast. The summit, though small, supports the essential buildings for the light and its keepers.
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Great Britain
Shetland
Misguided Energy Dims Girl’s Popularity at Home
Fragmentary report notes tensions when a girl visits a household leading to misdirected energy and social friction among peers. No identifiable names or locations are clear in the readable text.
Remarkable Rural Arithmetic and a Greek Calculator
The article describes a tape-based multiplication method using adjacent tapes to add contigu ous numbers for products. It explains division using a calculator, gives a sample division, and notes an onion metaphor. It then tells of Diamand a Greek islander hailed as a remarkable calculator who can reproduce thirty groups of figures and perform roots with speed, while a German expert claims such calculators are myths.
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Pylaros
Dillons
Imamandi
No Toys Allowed and Steady Watchfulness
The narrator recalls his mother's treatment emphasizing protection from pain and danger while permitting calm amusement. He notes strict limits on toys and frequent whipping if troublesome, reflecting a rigid household discipline and early attempts at self-control.
Chinese Typewriter Aids Chinese Language Printing
The Rev. Sheffield a Presbyterian minister at Tung Chow has invented a typewriter for Chinese writing. The machine can print four thousand characters carried on many type wheel circumferences. Printing a character requires depressing two keys. A lovers quarrel seasons courtship.
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Sheffield
Tung Chow
China ministers relief promised by Home Field joke
A Denver News snippet reports relief reaching ministers in China while locals face hardship. Mr. Haywood comments that China should tend its own ministers as relief comes locally. Brother Stafford notes only twelve dollars and eighty cents earned in two months, and party attendees allegedly consumed most funds, saving only a drum for a boy and two bars of soap.
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Haywood
China
Heart Hanger and Snippets From Dailies
A collage of biting quips and witty lines from Detroit Journal Life and New York World. The notes touch on Maude’s affinity for Jack and sour critic Sour gall, plus a playful exchange about a maid and a calf.
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Detroit Journal
New York World
In Heston First Boy and the Penitence Claim
A garbled Philadelphia Press item mentions two boys debating penitence and grammar with odd dialogue. A girl expresses fondness for men's clothes when a man is involved, reflecting a playful, incongruous exchange from the era.
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Heston
A Warm Weather Tragedy
A fragment from a family scene shows a mother and son sharing melted ice cream on a hot day. The tone hints at a broader tragedy implied by the title, with local dialect and a somber mood.
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Tommy
Later Hours At A Porch Party
An evening of idle chatter ends with a tired girl wondering if it is week or week past. The young man signals it is time to go home though she thinks it’s later. A light, dazed exchange follows about plans and shaving in a quirky domestic scene.
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Ile
Those Dear Girl Friends shoes sold cheap
A Philadelphia Record retail snippet notes a pair of new shoes offered at 3.98 dollars. The ad invites women readers to admire the style and leather value, highlighting the bargain as surprising to shoppers.
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Nell
Philadelphia Record
Do Fishes Peel the Cold and Move to Deep Water
Fishes, especially freshwater species, feel cold and migrate to deeper waters in winter when possible. Some die from frost break, while others show vitality after being frozen. Swainson notes eels and perch surviving as ice blocks in northern latitudes, aiding relocation.
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Swainson
Fiercest of All Spiders in London Goo
A fragment notes a spider from London described as the fiercest of its kind to spread legs in a monogarie, contrasting with the ordinary spider which has four legs on a side. The text appears as a garbled historical snippet with unclear provenance.
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