Forests and Industry in an Expanding World
A compendium of global observations notes railroads using massive numbers of ties, cremation trends in Italy, and Iceland's tiny legal and police framework. It urges smarter forestry in New Hampshire, warns of forest loss affecting water and industry, and highlights expert calls for practical forestry policy and preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Harrison
New Hampshire Forestry Commission
New Hampshire
Harrison
New York Post
William Everett
Massachusetts
Hingham Fair
Europe
Sing Your Joyful Song to Brighten Others
Poem reflects on singing as a simple daily joy that lifts weary neighbors and spreads cheer. It urges everyone to sing, regardless of talent level, to share hope and faith in a benevolent God and bring sunshine to the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eben E, Rexford
Miss Graysons Advice Sparks Bunborough Romance
Captain Jumpison, admired by Bunborough spinsters for two years, receives a government posting and a marriage proposal mix up. Maud Oakley hopes for Geraldine, while Geraldine and the captain’s fateful meeting changes plans as Boo hoo echoes and a garden gate clicks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jampison
Bunborough-by-the-Sea
Bunborough
Miss Grayson
Valley Cottage
Maud Oakley
Miss Oakley
Geraldine
Dr.Coverdale
Maud
Misa Grayson
Dr. Coverdale
Captain Jumpison
Government House
Geraldine Oakley
Geraldine Oakleym
Capt. Jumpison
Capt. Jampison
St. James
The Fastest of Sailing Ships and Friday Folklore
The New York Post notes the Flying Cloud set the noon to noon distance record before the Guion steamer Arizona. It recounts famed American sailing ships from Mystic to Twilight and Gamecock, and tells of a Middletown vessel built and sailed entirely on Fridays ending in a disappearance tied to a man named Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona
America
Mystic
Connecticut
New York
Middletown
New York Post
Peter the Greats Dinner Preferences Revealed
The passage notes Peter the Great disliked many attendants while dining and preferred a simple meal plan. It describes a soup with four cabbages, gruel, pig with sour cream, cold roast meat with pickled cucumbers or salad, onions and lamprey, galt meat, and Lam and Limburg cheese, as listed in Chicago Tim…
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter the Great
Lam
Limburg
Chicago
Mecca described by Burckhardt and pilgrims vitality
The article cites Charles Dudley Warner in Harper’s Magazine describing Mecca as Om el Kor a mother of towns in a sandy valley near Jedda. It notes population, architecture, accessibility for Hadji pilgrims, water shortages, and the old aqueduct from Arafat. It contrasts Mecca with Medina and mentions storms, floods, and the Shah of Persia’s telegraph penalties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mecca
Moham- Medan
Charles Dudley Warner
Harper’s Magazine
Om-el-Kora
Mother of Towns
Red Sea
Jedda
Burckhardt
Arafat
Medina
Mouhammed
Telegraph Lines in the Tropics and Their Dangers
The article describes telegraphy challenges in tropical regions with dead and live wires, tangled cables, and frequent outages. It notes Brazil spider webs causing cross connections, ants destroying poles, monkeys breaking lines, and creeping vines overgrowing poles, making maintenance an ongoing struggle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tropics
Brazil
Anta
Interior of Greenland Described by New York Tribune
The article outlines Greenland as a vast ice covered land between Europe and America. It details a 1400 mile by 700 mile continental area with a thick ice cap hundreds to thousands of feet deep. Glaciers push ice rivers toward the sea forming icebergs that menace North Atlantic mariners.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenland
Europe
America
North Atlantic
New York Tribune
London’s Splendid Police System Admired by Visitor
Mr. H. W. Crawford to the Cincinnati Times-Star praises London police authority. He notes orderly crowds before the Bank of England and cab drivers obeying officers. He contrasts with American street disorder and says enforcement would be hard to replicate in the U.S.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
H. W. Crawford
Cincinnati Times-Star
London
Bank of England
America
Cincinnati
Bark Rig Dominates The Sea In Global Trade
The barkentine is praised as the favorite offshore rig for four to seven hundred ton vessels along the Californian coast and globally. In the U S eastern seaboard fore-and-aft schooners with multiple masts are common, while Jerseymen can be spotted by beadings on schooners and bark rigs prevail among Italians Austrians and Scandinavians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York Post
Humorous Fragments Offer Whimsy and Wit Through Snatches
A parade of quirky lines explores jokes about debt, a balloon ascent, affection and duty. It notes Algiers history with soldiers, discusses poverty and virtue, and tugs at barber brains and a paring of natural history with the leech.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Algiers
Dey
St. Louis
Co-operation in Road Making in New Zealand
The article explains cooperative contracts for roads and railways in New Zealand. A six member crew selects a ganger to negotiate with the Government. engineers set prices, payments are fortnightly, and cash is paid when work passes. The plan aims to provide small farms to settle workers in rural districts and counter urban centralization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Zealand
Pecan Culture as a Profitable Long Term Crop
A farmer notes pecan culture offers high prices for large paper shelled nuts. Trees begin fruiting in eight to nine years but a paying crop appears in ten to fifteen years. Best root stock investments are advised while ground can carry other crops or be pastured until shade limits crops.
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England
Vienna
Austria
Italy
Boston Transcript
Iceland
Con Stata
Reykjavic
Oderberg
Prussia
New York Recorder
van Eeden
Robbin
Mar
Buuborough
Louvre
Paris
Mesa
Dead Sea
Reuben
M. Clermont-Ganneau
Jerusalem
St. Louis Republic
Holy City
Central
South America
Cuba
West Indian Islands
Pampas
Argentina
Persia
New York Sun
Liberty
Strand
Freedom
Isle
Fale
Isles
Ocean
Columbia
Frank L. Stanton
Atlanta
Constitu+tion
Johnny
North Pole
Paregoric
Bertie
Nealy
Algie
Helen
Polly
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