Lumber Camp Slaves on Guatemalan Frontier Timber Concession
The New York Sun notes a Guatemala concession of 125000 for five years to cut mahogany and cedar on four river banks. Peons are enslaved by monteros through debt and mescal traps, living in forest camps with brutal labor and scant food. Logs drift down rivers, bearing messages from enslaved workers as the system prospers.
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Tacasco
Mexico
Four Rivers
New York Sun
The
Cortez
Honduras
School Geographies of
Guatemala
River de la Passion
Gulf Beach
Monteros
Chiapas
Montero
How Aguinaldo Was Captured by Gen Funston Report
Gen Funston and Capt Hazzard detail the capture of Aguinaldo at Palanan. A special messenger surrendered to Lieut Taylor with letters for reinforcements, enabling a ruse using native troops and Macabebe scouts to trap and seize Aguinaldo after a staged reinforcement arrival. The operation, aboard the gunboat Vicksburg, ended with Aguinaldo's capture and initial defiance turning to acceptance.
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Funston
Hazzard
Aguinaldo
War Department
Mall
Manila
Gen. Funston
Palanan
Lieut. Taylor
24Th Infantry
Vicksburg
Hilario Placido
Casiguran
Prisnore
Anecdote of Victoria and the Empress Frederick
The Empress Frederick remembered as the princess royal of England. The German court resented her informal manner. After marriage she did not wait for aides, once carrying a chair across a room, citing the English queen who also helped with chairs.
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Frederick
England
Decorative Key Boards Trend in Home Accents
Decorative key boards appear as a popular home fad. A polished wood panel holds hooks on a cross piece for keys, with a large painted key and ribbon design. Each hook features a motif for a specific door or drawer, ranging from comic to sentimental. Floral designs are favored.
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Silhouttes
A Summer Dining Room On Long Island Novelty
A dining room styled heavy and subdued gives way to a bright white and yellow space with green views. The cottage interior on Long Island features ivory white woodwork, seven inch paneling reach, a stencilled frieze in orange and chestnut, brown rugs, a yellowish brown tiled fireplace, chestnut leather seats, and daffodil yellow and white window hangings.
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Long Island
Gap Stove Do's from Household Advice
The piece advises buying a four hole gas stove with a 24 inch top and exterior oven light, costing about $12. It warns against slow long cooking dishes, warns to avoid baking multiple items at once, notes simmerers save gas, and instructs to relight only after turning gas off if the flame is red or blows, stressing blue flame for proper cooking.
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Gool Housekeeping
Conserves and Desserts From Orange Based Dishes
A home recipe roundup covers Orange Float Boil a lemon juice and pulp with sugar then thicken with cornstarch and fold in eggs and vanilla before serving over oranges. English Preserves mixes gooseberries raisins orange peel with juice and sugar, processed to seal with paraffin. Fruit Custard blends milk eggs sugar flour and vanilla, served with fresh fruit. Braised Spanish Onions baken in butter until tender, using uniformly sized maliium onions, then served warm.
Lightning and the Trolley safety in thunderstorms
The Kansas City Star explains why Metropolitan system trolley lights stay on in storms. A live circuit forms when lights are on or cars move, guiding lightning safely to rails and ground. Without connection, current could damage motors and injure riders. The article notes per capita grain production: U S 2220 pounds, England 360.
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Kansas City Star
Commuters Club Creates Special Carriages on Rail Line
English commuters form a traveling club on the Blackpool to Manchester route to secure exclusive saloon carriages. The Lancashire and Yorkshire Railway provided three 85-seat cars with lounges, a smoking room, and an attendant. members must pay extra fare and are restricted to club membership. A similar club train may appear on the London to Brighton line.
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Lytham
St. Anne's
Blackpool
Brighton
England
Manchester
Watering Place
Shaw
Lancashire and Yorkshire Stailway Co
London
Prayer Before Gettysburg Story of Lincoln and Sickles
The account recalls Lincoln comforting General Sickles at the hospital after Gettysburg and praying for victory as Grant’s siege of Vicksburg succeeds. Garfield Headache Powders are touted for purity and effectiveness and claim to not harm. A quip warns against engraving one’s name on an umbrella to avoid theft.
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Daniel Sickles
Lincoln
Sickles
Gettysburg
Washington
Grant
Vicksburg
Various Patent Medicines and Odd Tidbits: 1900 Ad Snippet
A jumble of product pitches and quips, promoting Dr. Kline's Great Nerve Restorer, Mrs Winslow's soothing syrup, Pico's Cure for Consumption, Garfield Headache Powders, Align's Foot Powder, and more. Includes a joke about a budding genius and a note on Canadian waters travel.
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Dr. Kline
K. E. Kurxe
Siberia
Best For the Bowels Cascaners Cure Without Gripe
An old advertisement touts Cascaners as a natural bowel remedy promising easy movements and health restoration. It claims a 10 cent start, warns against imitations, and notes the CC C stamps on each tablet. The piece also mentions Frey's Verminage Cures and a German demand for smoke consuming furnaces.
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Frey
Draggista
Germany
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