Filipino Customs and Markets Captivate at Cavite and Manila
A Washington Star based observer in Cavite and Manila describes nightly religious rites, native markets, and the city’s Chinese shop guards. He notes Filipino manners, eating habits, cleanliness, hair care, and the graceful, weight balancing gait of women, alongside impressions of Dewey era Manila life.
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Washington Star
Cavite
Fulpino
Ainder
Ito
Manila
Hudson Bay Company
Washington
Binondo
Yanem
Pasig
Admiral Dewey
Fort
Malate
America
Luneta
The Marquis de Mores in the Bad Lands Mystery
The Marquis de Mores, a volatile West founder figure, was killed in the Bad Lands while leading a French expedition. His widow claims government officials plotted his death in a lingering conspiracy. His green mansion and abattoir remain as relics above the Little Missouri while cattlemen note his wire fences and enduring name.
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Marquis de Mores
Tunis
Ile
Little
Missouri
Foreigner’s Blunder Describes Sandy Hook Landmark
An Atlantic liner passenger, a German with broad knowledge, misidentified the Sandy Hook lighthouse as General Grant’s tomb. He claimed the site symbolized Grant’s life, noting the sea on one side and the bay on the other, sparking amusement among the group.
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Sandy Hook
General Grant
New York Mail and Express
Giant chimney rises above Bayonne smelters
A 865 foot tall chimney built near the Orford Copper Works in Bayonne New Jersey aims to relieve Staten Island of smoke. Construction used driven piles for foundation stability on oyster-shell soil. Perforated 4 inch clay bricks plus an internal elevator sped a six month build. The structure, costing about 52000 dollars, flies an American flag atop and will vent gases via flues to nearby smelters.
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Bayonne
N. J
Jersey Shore
Staten Island
Killyon Kull
Orford Copper Works
Custodis Alphons Chimney Company
New Jersey
Tts
New York Post
Court Street Car Passenger Frames Conductor
A light exchange aboard a Brooklyn street car ends with the lame rider telling the conductor he would look better with ears lopped and a nose turned up, revealing a complainant quick to find fault but not blame.
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Court Street
Harrison Street
Brooklyn
Pigeon Cycling Scorching At Northwich Sessions
Three men were summoned at Northwich Petty Sessions for riding bicycles at Comberbach to speed mail birds to the post office. They claimed homing societies allow only three minutes per mile, about twenty miles per hour, and were fined five shillings each after agreeing to stop the practice and run on foot.
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Northwich
Comberbach
London Globe
Death Follows Quickly After Reckless Tease
Texall, a reckless young man, stopped a friend on the street and incited an argument over the pronunciation of restaurant. He asks Wiseman who is right. Wiseman answers that those who say rest-a-rong are correct, while others are wrong. Wiseman’s inquest is fixed for today in London Answers.
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Texall
Wiseman
London
Great value of trees in daily work and life
The article extols trees as vital, self preserving beings that perform continuous work. It explains leaf function, chlorophyll, respiration and transpiration, the role of roots and trunks in supporting life, and highlights forests as a national resource needing supervised reserves to preserve growth and prosperity.
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You
United States
Sajs
Forests and settlement expansion urged in rationing plan
A Chicago Post excerpt notes that tree planting will raise land available for settlement while forests regulate rainfall and humidity. It urges education in forestry for both sheepherders and settlers to spread tree wisdom across the land before trees gain reverence.
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L. M. McC
Chicago Post
California Fruit Export Sparks European Market Debate
The New York World notes California oranges, peaches, apples and pears reach Paris after 6000 miles in better condition than Spanish fruit. It argues Spain must adopt American methods of cultivation, harvesting, packing and cold storage to compete, mirroring Britain’s steelmakers.
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California
Castile
London
Paris
Valencia
Alphonso
America
Europe
Britain
Spain
New York World
Strange Reunion of Brothers in Indiana and Texas
Two brothers Barton and Jabez Guyer reunite in Meary County Indiana after fifty years, each believing the other dead. Barton left in 1852 to Texas then Mexico and fought for the Confederacy. Jabez moved to Henry County Indiana, learned of Barton from a traveling salesman, and they finally met in Morrisburg Texas.
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Meary County
Indiana
Barton
Jabez Guyer
North Carolina
Texas
Mexico
Jabez
Henry County
Ind
Barton Guyer
Morrisburg
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
Death to the Fly in Summer Rooms
A New York Commercial Advertiser note discusses ineffective remedies for flies in hot weather. It critiques curtain flowers and wire screens, suggests eucalyptus plants and window washing, onion water for frames, and a home mixture of cerca and brown sugar with black pepper as an old fashioned fly destroyer.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Red Sea Off Los Angeles Coast After Earthquake
Following recent Pacific quakes, waters along sixty five miles of the Los Angeles County shore have turned terra cotta red with greenish tones fading. Fish leave the area seeking clear water while phosphorescent red-tinged waves reach beaches at night and read as a readable haze. Experts suggest the quake opened crustal tissue pushing fresh water and colored material to the surface.
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Pacific Coast
Pacific
Los Angeles County
New York Sun
The Newspaper as a Bird’s Eye View of Life
A poetic catalog from the Newman Adver tiser extols newspapers as a library encyclopedia poem history obituary timetable romance guide political resume ground plan of the civilized world and a broad survey of human glory and shame.
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Piurre
Newman
Spies in Prison and the Mystery of Scotland Yard
The piece explains how police use jailbirds to gain crucial information from fellow criminals. It notes Scotland Yard detectives operate secretly, often disguising themselves as prisoners to earn trust and obtain leads while remaining unseen by regular staff.
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France
Scotland Yard
London
Criminal Investigation Department
Newly Rich In New York Hire Two Box Men For Show
A wealthy New Yorker rides in a luxury carriage with a chatty coachman and a statuesque footman who never moves. The owner, newly rich and eager to display status, ordered two men on the box though only one appears to serve a real function. The scene mocks wealth trappings and social signaling.
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Pitth Avenue
New York
New York Post
Extension of Chautauqua Work Across the World
Gunton's Magazine notes the Chautauqua movement expanding into Stillwater prison and reaching Argentina Chile Jamaica Yokohama India and many other regions. Over 120 assemblies were held last summer in 34 states and territories with attendance totaling about a million people.
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Stillwater
Minn
Argentine Republic
Chile
Jamaica
West Indies
Yokotama
Japan
India
Chautauqua
Mexico
Venezuela
Portugal
England
France
Germany
Finland
Alaska
Porto Rico
Cuba
Philippines
Gunton's
Fox Hunters Track Black Snake on Skaggs Creek
Willis Adams and his fox hounds chased a black snake along Skaggs Creek and captured it after crossing a wire. The party reacted with disgust upon discovering the dead snake rather than a fox. Mt Vernon Signal reports the incident.
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Willis Adams
Skaggs Creek
Mt Vernon
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