The Worship of Diamonds in Modern Life
A McGill professor demonstrates diamonds are crystallized carbon by burning stones in an electric arc. The piece notes paste diamonds rival genuine stones in use among the wealthy, questions the effect on value if diamonds became plentiful, and observes people’s desire to possess what others cannot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McGill
Montreal Herald
Japan's Knowledge of the World
The piece argues that Japan understands the world better than many outsiders due to rigorous study since its opening. Japanese students travel widely, acquiring arts, sciences, and specific country knowledge. The knowledge is shared at home and widely sought, reflecting Japan's practical, businesslike approach to study of other nations.
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Japan
The
New York Tribune
Painted Ships and Perils of Ocean Travel
A returning voyager laments the constant wet paint aboard ocean steamers. He notes maintenance crews repaint ships inside and out three times a year, leaving passengers with paint-splattered clothing and no warning signs. The Philadelphia Record is cited on the painters’ constant work.
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Stea’mship Company
Vurist
Ocean Greyhounds
Saiior
Philadelphia Record
Exposing the Fast Set in Society
The Outlook contrasts France and New York fastest society women, noting their compromise by passion and expense. It calls them vu car and says both sexes in the fast set push sensational behavior, overeating drinking overdressing and overacting. Irony and ridicule are the suggested weapons.
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France
New York
Vucar
Nebraska senator backs Sunday post offices plan
A United States senator from Nebraska supports Sunday postal deliveries, earning praise from mail clerks despite some business leaders criticizing the proposal as overly puritanical and financially burdensome.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Nebraska
Wood exports rise by sixty percent in nine months
The report notes American wood exportations increased 60 percent over the past nine months, while the breakfast food industry is praised for a sudden boom in its prosperity.
Iowa News Roundup Highlights Saloons and Tragedies
A busy Iowa page reports indictments against Clayton county saloonkeepers for open liquor violations. Fatal and near-fatal accidents occur across towns from Albia to Atlantic including mine collapses and a family fire tragedy in Dike. Court actions touch Dubuque water works, Burlington murder confessions, and a Davenport guardianship embezzlement case.
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T. J. Farmer
Keokuk
Percival & Lock
Grand Jury
Clayton County
Dittmer
Elkader
Milton Ward
Chillicothe
Albia
Dr. Ward
Wapello County
Ottumwa
Fire
Lovell Construction
Calking Water
Ward
Thomas Kennedy
Rhodes
Kennedy
Charles W
Iowa City
Allen Day
Burlington
John Gavin
New London
Henry County
Mount Pleasant
Zimmer
Dayton
Samuel McCausland
Cedar Rapids
McCausland
Ohio
Dubuque
Mathews
Henry Gniffke
Municipal Water Works Trustees
Gniffke
Gahiffke
MacArthur
John Elwanger
Phil Ryder
Cyrus Kerr
Mike Casper
Lost Creek
Casper
Kerr
Price
Eveland
Ray Wyatt
Voorheis
Bill
Guy Gaskill
William Gaskill
Atlantic
Week's Global News Highlights
A concise roundup of international dispatches covers political shifts, economic updates, cultural events, and notable incidents from diverse regions. Highlights emphasize leadership changes, market trends, diplomacy developments, and social issues shaping the week abroad.
Vast array of political and disaster notes across nations
A roundup recounts Senate criticism of land laws and officials, investigations into the New York cotton exchange, and clashes over Roosevelt's actions. It lists tornadoes, blizzards, fires, drownings, and a series of political and legal deaths, indictments, and resignations with numerous named individuals and locations.
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Heyburn
National Forest Reserve Association
Harris
D Company
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Senate
Brownsville
National House Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Livingston
New York Cotton Exchange
Department of Commerce and Labor
Rayner
Maryland
Roosevelt
Wadsworth
New York
Agricultural Committee
California
Middle West
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Fairfield Weekly Journal
the Journal Printing Co., Puba
Fairfield
Iowa
Iowa News
C. P. Cook
Marshalltown
W. A. Hale
Pleasantville
Knoxville
Goss
Citizens’ Gas and Electric Company of Waterloo
Canfield Lumber Company
Canfields
Justice Court
Charles Castle
Correctionville
Sioux City
W. H. Beck
Castle
Harry Pierce
Pierce
Yankton
Frank Hamann
Davenport
Hamann
Louise Cagasen
Minnie
Adolph Cagasen
Cagasen
Louise
Broadway
Council Bluffs
Charles Hankins
Arthur Southwell
Southwell
Hankins
Harding
Hawkins
Louis H. Shull
Boone
Northwestern Railroad
Northwestern
W. H. Whalen
Engineer Shull
Ede McVey
Barney Alfers
Neola
Rock Island
Alfers
Albers
Iowa Falls
Des Moines
Nevada
Globe
Congressional News
Harry Thaw
Stanford White
Monarch
Col
South Dakota
Leavenworth
Kan
Northwest
Missouri
Kansas City Stock Yards Company
Cincinnati
Zion
Dowie
Zion City
Norman MacDougall
Winnipeg
Man
United States District Court
Charles D. Parlange
New Orleans
la Follette
Panama
Wiliam J. Oliver
Tenn
Secretary of State of
National Bank
George A. Silsby
First National Bank of Scotland
S. D
John J. H. Kelly
Fifth United States Infantry
Matilda Bailey
Martin Myers
Mary Bailey
Kansas Senate
C. T. Dodd
Standard Oil Company
Pinehurst
N. C
Franklin
Kate Krakoski McKenna
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Teatrical Trust
Willam Shakespeare
Kalamazoo
Mich
Federal Supreme Court
Chicago
Thomas
W. Va
Cleveland Flyer
Pittsburg & Lake Erie
Pittsburg
Cleveland
S. H. Morrow
A. G. Barker
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Portland
Ore
White Plains
N.Y
Cherry Street
New York City
John E. Dryden
New Jersey
Alderic Hugron
Waterbury
Conn
Frances Martin
Forest Building
Washington
Carl Noweck
Baltimore
Southern Pacific
Dunningan
Cal
Express
C. F. Farles
Ashland
Wis
Wia Thombs
Helen Livingston
Grand Rapids
Chester Thompson
George Meade Emery
Seattle
Mark D. Flower
St. Paul
Minn
Florence Cecilia Paget
Marchioness
George W. Denham
E. A. Conway
J. H. Jones
Wanpaca
Oscar JA. Jones
Lynchburg
Murphy
Harvey
Admiral Davis
Kingston
Jamaica
Secretary of the Navy
Davis
James Lynch
Columbus Army Post
Columbus
Fort Thomas
Federal Signal Works
Green Island
Bell Telephone Company
Toronto Telephone
Sir John Lee
New South Wales
Sydney
Railroad Commission
Aud Tex
Veston
Galveston Bay
Daily Herald Daily Courier
Bristol
Temn
Herald
National Geographic Society
S Perkins
United State
Edward P. Hipple
F. A. Hipple
Real Trust Company
Philadelphia
Nebraska Senate
Moses H. Sydenham
Sudde
Kearney
Fred D. Gilman
Presid
Home Bank of Land, Ind
Institute
Harrisburg
Tr Waste Manufacturing Company
Troy
Russell Sage
Rensselaer Polytechnic’ Institute
Arthur Jackman
St. John
Robert E. Peary
Greenland
Erest G. Krause
Missouri Senate Committee
J. C. Edmonds
Bastrop
Tex
R. Brooks
Charles H. Everly
St. Louis Union Trust Compan
Trusteo
St. Internal Revenue
Henry Magruder
John Bankheadgruder
Rome
Henry Bradley
Daryett
Nashville
George B. Nutt
Allegheny County
Arizona
Henry C. Sergeant
Westfield
N. J
UN States Patent Office
John McCausland
Io Devon
Clay
Hartlepool
Englan
Jesse Phelps
Morgantown
East Street
Peebles Merchandise Company
Charles Marvin
America
Lexington
John H. Quirk
W. A. Dowell
Minneapolis
Loeb
W. K. Oliver
Columbus Barracks
Victor Gruen
Secret Police
Warsaw
Russian Poland
Solomon Turek
Grover Cleveland
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Robert E. Gill
Omaha
Charles L. Stevens
Michigan Masons
Detroit
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