Passing of the Hod Carrier essay in St Louis tale
Walter B. Stevens, longtime Globe-Democrat figure and Louisiana Purchase Exposition secretary, was challenged to write quickly about what he saw. He produced a short piece titled The Passing of the Hod Carrier after observing a near finished building and a steam powered tile dummy, offering a sharp portrait of a working man.
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Walter B. Stevens
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
Joe McCullagh
Stevens
Washington
Corpu
McCullagh
Mr. McCullagh
Athletes and Beauty Seek Fitness Over Fashion
The Chicago News notes American women increasingly embrace physical exercise to preserve natural beauty, while cautioning against excess. It highlights the Nessa sisters, especially Hermine, who maintain health through steady training, balanced meals, and occasional wine. They reject fear and explain their routine, breakfast to late meal, amid plans for a Valparaiso to Rio de la Plata railway completion in five to six years.
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Nessa
Hermine
Chicago News
Valparaiso
Rio de la Plata
Trader marshal foils a kidnapping with copying press bluff
Johnny Healey a. s marshal among the Chilkoots uses a copying press to forge a list of the man’s enemies and threatens to expose them. The prisoner is delivered at sunset as the bluff holds, and the crowd yields to Healey’s plan though danger looms.
Rosebery's genealogical claim tied to Millenary oration
The London Chronicle notes Lord Rosebery's claim to the Millenary oration rests on a genealogical line tracing back to Mary Queen of Scots and the Earls of Moray. It outlines a chain linking James V to Mary II and the Argyll line, culminating in the present Earl of Rosebery.
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Earl of Rosebery
Lord Rosebery
Margaret
Henry VI
James
Flodden
James V
Mary Queen of Scots
Mary
Earl of Moray
Earl of Argyll
Edinburgh
James II of England
Mary II
Louis of Bavaria
Countess of
Argyll
Countess of Rosebery
London Chronicle
Fallacies About Flour Patent Roller Article Digestible Bread
Report on Department of Agriculture tests comparing white patent roller, graham, and whole wheat flours. Findings show patent roller flour yields the most assimilable protein while graham and whole wheat show lower digestion due to bran and germ reducing digestibility. Blending hard and soft wheat flours balances gluten properties for bread-making.
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Graham
Department of Agriculture
Words of Wisdom from Raim's Horn
A collection of maxims on virtue, rebellion, wealth, and society. The piece asserts spiritual ethics, warns against hypocrisy, and critiques freedom and materialism with compact aphorisms attributed to Raim's Horn. It muses on life, death, and gender opportunities in a reflective, if pointed, style.
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Raim
An Acetylene Life Saver Trial At Vienna
A new life saving device tested at Vienna's Diana Baths by Lieut George Irsay de Irsay of Husbars. A man dressed in the apparatus entered the water and surfaced after a few seconds, then remained afloat for hours thanks to an inflated bladder. The device combines a metal box and wrapped bag with a perforated chamber and a water activated acetylene release that seals the lock, preventing diving attempts.
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Vienna
Austria
Diana Baths
George Irsay de Irsay
Husbars
Curious Marriage Notice From Bottesfield Lincolnshire
The notice records John Kirk, an occasional preacher in the Methodist Connection, marrying Susanna Sea ton of Burringham mantua maker on Tuesday the 15th inst at Bottesfield Lincolnshire. The bride, previously courting a local blacksmith, eloped with the preacher the day after a public church announcement.
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London
Bottesfield
Lincolnshire
John Kirk
Susanna Seaton
Burringham
Mantau
A Wonderful Increase in Paper Publications
Recent census figures show that in the last ten years newspapers and periodicals have increased to 7916. There are published today 23,916 papers in all. It is not to be wondered at that advertising pays so well in this country. These figures show how small a percentage of our population is illiterate.
Tornado at Close Rance Leaves Trees Upended in Lowlands
A fierce storm yesterday at 1 o clock in the lowlands caused trees up to two feet in diameter to be torn from the ground and hurled about. The tornado's 100 yard by two mile path left cabins damaged and a hillside denuded, but there was no loss of life. Levi Wild and Bryan Irvine observed the black cloud and the hail that followed before sheltering in Hoadley’s cabin.
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Levi
Wild
Western Union Telegraph
Mr. Wild
A London Doctor’s Odd One-Meal Routine At Dolly’s Chop House
A famed eccentric London physician of 180 years ago preached a one meal a day regime. Daily at 4 pm he sat at Dolly’s near Paternoster Row, where a pound and a half of rump steak, ale, port, and brandy arrived. He ate slowly for ninety minutes, then lectured in Essex Street at six, resuming eating the next day at Dolly’s.
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London
Fordyce
Dolly's Chop House
Paternoster Row
Essex Street
Dolly’s
Boston Advertiser
Novel use for carrier pigeons by a Rockland physician
A Rockland Maine physician used homing pigeons creatively to monitor a seriously ill island patient twenty miles away. After treatment, the doctor provided six messenger pigeons to relay updates on the patient’s condition, dispatching a bird as needed to confirm steady recovery. The article also notes Nordenskjold’s Arctic expedition unearthed few natural death remains, leaving questions about what happens to animal bodies in polar regions.
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Rockland
Arctic
Professor Nordenskjold
Arctic Circle
Spitzbergen
King Edward Statue Planned for City Thoroughfare
Liverpool Courier notes a missing public statue of King Edward and reports a plan to honor the coronation next year by erecting an equestrian statue along a leading thoroughfare in the metropolis.
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King Edward
Liverpool Courier
Household Hints on Bread Varieties and Techniques
A vintage recipe roundup describes corn loaf and multiple bread types. It covers mush base, milk additions, yeast use, and baking times. It details whole wheat, white, and rye breads with instructions on kneading, rising, and oven temperatures, plus pointers on flour quality and dough versus batter.
Pepper Vinegar and Other Household Recipes
A collection of kitchen preparations including Pepper Vinegar with peppercorns to flavor fish or raw tidbits, Browned Potatoes fried with onion and fat then finished with butter, and Portugal Cakes rich with sugar butter eggs mace and currants. Also notes that Constable Hook in New Jersey completed its second highest smokestack at 365 feet high and seven feet thick at the base, sixteen feet in diameter.
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Portugal
Constable Hook
N. J
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