Queen Alexandra and Dutch Queen in domestic and fashion notes
A roundup of royal and commuter topics notes Queen Alexandra’s electric carriage on Sandringham roads and Wilhelmina’s thrifty kitchen routines. It also surveys bicycle fashion trends from Paris to London, women’s athletic training benefits, and a mothers lesson from a dust-prone train ride observed by Harper’s Bazaar.
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Queen Alexandra
Sandringham Estate
London
Holland
Wilhelmina
Paris
Hope Narey
Boston Globe
New York
Harper's Bazar
Fashion Notes From The Season For Women
Women’s wear highlights include large buttons on driving gloves and brilliant ostrich plumes on hats. Parasol shades, velvet ribbons, filigree belts, and turquoise silks decorate gowns, with gowns in cloth of gold, gray taffeta, and white fabrics featuring lace, flounces, and barege trims. Ready-made lingerie offers varied necklines and cool summer options for fashionable day gowns.
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Batiste
How Bank Notes Fight Counterfeiting in the 19th Century
A bank official details the multi step process behind authentic notes. Vignettes are carved on separate plates then transferred to hardened rollers. The center image is engraved by hand while corner networks are turned by lathe. Four notes print at once on softened steel plates. Even with safeguards, skilled counterfeits have deceived experts.
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Maude
Washington
England and Sea Power and the African Red Kafr
An essay argues that naval supremacy stems from commercial prosperity and a strong merchant marine, noting Britain’s 200-year command of the sea and the risk of decline. It cites Germany’s rise as a naval power and warns naval power cannot be improvised. A racist, misplaced remark about the African "Red Kafr" follows, claiming white teeth color from ash and implying derogatory stereotypes.
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England
Spain
Holland
Phoenicia
Carthage
Germany
Ayer’s Pills Advertised for Liver Health and Constipation
An old advertising note touts Ayer’s Pills as liver pills to cure constipation biliousness dyspepsia and sick headache. The brief promotes 25 cents price and availability at all druggists.
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Ayer
Steam age forecast from a century ago
The London Times reported on July 5 an experiment on the Rivao hanes last Wednesday aiming to move a barge by steam. It shows steam power six years before Fulton and prompts speculation that Santos-Dumont’s Paris airship might seem antiquated a century hence.
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London Times
Riv Aohanes
Fulton
New York
Albany
Pais
Brigand Chief Buffalino Claims New Band Formed in Rome
Rome correspondence reports Signor Rosario Buffalino, recently escaped prisoner, declares in the Giornale di Sicilia that he leads a brigand band planning start in the New Year. He promises justice by Holy Writ and invites those seeking redress to apply to him, offering a death penalty as he sees fit.
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Signor
Rosario Buffalino
Buffalinoo
Giornale di Sicilia
Science Reveals the Past Through Tooth Tartar
An English journal details experiments by a former president of the Royal Odontological Society using tartar from ancient skull teeth. By dissolving tartar, he found corn husk bits, plant matter, starch, fish tooth fragments, fruit cells and wool fibers, revealing diet and life of people about 4,000 years ago.
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Royal Odontological Society of Great Britain
The Boer Ethic and Bold Recklessness in Minnesota Remarks
A harsh critique contrasts Boer ethics with reckless strength, arguing the Boer acts without concern for reputation or club boundaries. It claims he harms natives, hides disgrace, and casually notes explosive acts to superiors. The piece ends claiming Minnesota’s output this year will surpass all prior years.
Books As Friends And Teachers For Youth
Books are man s best friends and education in one. The article celebrates how perusing favorite volumes sparks memories from Tom Brown at Rugby to Dr Arnold and Fast the hare in hounds tales. It asserts books widen the soul s view like windows and urges parents to surround children with books.
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Tom Brown
Rugby
Tom
Fast
Tadpole
Arnold
Martin
Ike
Lost golf ball found by bird in Penarth nest
A Penarth golfer lost a ball on the Links last afternoon. Next morning he followed a flustered bird to a small bush where the bird pried at a nest. The bird entered and scratched about, and the golfer looked inside to see his lost ball nestled there.
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Penarth Links
Lakes Shipyards Use Giant Sideway Water Slide
Great Lakes shipyards build vessels on artificial slips and launch them broadside rather than endwise using long water slides. The toboggan-like method slides massive steel cargo carriers into water across narrow waterways, a unique approach in shipbuilding history.
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Great Lakes
Three Londons Unearthed Beneath Historic City
Workmen at the London Exchange uncover a gravel pit packed with oyster shells cattle bones old sandals and shattered pottery. Pavements are dug up under Saint Botolph and through Threadneedle Street while other streets reveal cuts. Authorities note soil rising over Roman London at about a foot per century as researchers seek a third London beneath Briton era layers.
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Londons
London Exchange
Threadneedle Street
London
Poixant Faprusis Dvuze and French Pyrenee railroads note
A peculiar line about Poixant Faprusis Dvuze says all goods resemble it as they color fibers at one boiling. Two electric mountain railroads have been built to run on the French Pyrenees slope. The fortune hunter’s favorite flower is marigold.
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Pyrenees
Various Patent Medicines and Advertisements Across Columns
A montage of old advertisements promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Allen's Foot Ease, with testimonials and prices. Other items tout Cascara tablets, Dr. Kline's nervine, Prey's Vermifuge, Gartlied Headache Powders, and medications for digestion, colic, and teething. Mentions include Toledo druggists Crener, Marvin, and Olmsted, plus numerous product claims and contact details. The snippet closes noting emigration figures for Germany in 1902 and 1909.
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Hall
J. J. Crener & Co
Toledo
FP. J. Cheney
Transacions
Ann
Ne. i Tuvax Wholesale Drugegista
Io. Wanmya, Kixyan & Marvin
Ohio
Icebergs Warn Captains by Engine Room Cues
The article explains that icebergs are detected by faster propeller action when entering colder water, as surrounding water chills near icebergs for miles. Engineers notice increased propeller speed without extra steam, and the thermometer serves as a key indicator of iceberg proximity.
John Bull Can Still Exact Toll From Sea Trade
The passage argues that Britain maintains vast maritime power and commercial influence. It notes that among 28,200 ships over 2,000 tons, Britain owns about 11,000, and asserts the need to keep paying tolls to sustain distant trade and economic advantage.
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John Bull
Great Britain
Hidden Titian Recovered From Dalmatian Peasant Sale
Venetian painter Brass bought four Titian works for $20 from Braldotti a Dalmatian peasant who found them during villa demolitions. One canvas hid a Saint Sebastian by Titian, stolen from Italy by a Napoleonic general. Brass sold the Titian to Count de Castellane for $15,000.
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Titian
Brass
Braldotti
Saint Sebastian
Italy
Napoleon
Count de Castellane
Alpine danger signals agreed across Europe for climbers
European alpine clubs have standardized danger signals drafted by the Pyrench Alpine Club for climbers in peril. Distress signals are shouted, whistled, waved with handkerchiefs, or fired during the day and shown by lanterns at night. A signal six times means extreme peril and six repeats by the receiver indicate understanding.
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Alpine Clubs
Europe
Pyrench Alpine Club
Paris
Motive Power in Dig Demand and Industrial Boom
A digest of late 19th century industry notes reports record locomotive production in American shops, up 27.5 percent from 1899 with 8158 engines built. It lists historic output levels, mentions Philadelphia hosting the largest locomotive works, and notes related facts on lands, immigration, and other miscellany.
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Industr
Amrican
GSO
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