Redeeming Confederate Money Finds at Treasury
A Chicago Journal report outlines the U S Bureau of Engraving and Printing handling shredded damaged currency found after the Galveston storm and other fires. It notes the recovery of stray Confederate bills, fractional currency, and old continental notes, with authorities explaining redemption rules and safety practices.
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Emperor Joseph Walks with Peasants in Hidden Hours
The Austrian emperor Francis Joseph, famed for his distant court, strolls Sundays among laborers on country roads. He chats anonymously, answers questions about work life, and occasionally rewards a peasant with a gold piece, leaving the man grateful yet unaware of the sovereign.
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Dairyman Markets “Noiseless Milk” in Indianapolis
An Indianapolis dairyman offers noiseless milk using rubber-tired wagons rubber-soled milkmen and rubber mats under vessels to reduce noise as he serves patrons in the city.
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Chinese Fashion Change Hinted For Mongolians
A city editor notes that Chinese lawmakers may revise a law on head attire as wearers switch from long braids to shaved heads. The piece also mentions a zoo plan to trim bears’ long whiskers to prevent injuries. Wealthy financier J Pierpont Morgan is cited donating large sums to New York institutions, including a technical school and botanical park.
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London
Wireless at sea and citrus hopes eyed in Austria
A St Petersburg cable cites Russia expanding Popoff wireless at Black Sea lighthouses and ships with 200 sets shipped to Vladivostok and Port Arthur to link Pacific vessels and Korean coast stations. Also notes Austrian census figures, Vienna population, and plans for a Bermuda winter resort investment.
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Pacific
Fragmented Notes Mix Antiquities and Remedies Across Lands
The article lists a Roman temple site near the Rhine with a large walled enclosure and a central temple filled with terra cotta offerings, plus numerous small bronze figures. It also notes varied items from China and Europe, including medical tonics, nerve restoratives, and warnings about diseases. The disparate items touch on archaeology, fashion in Russia, famine in Ireland, canal data in Holland, and assorted ads for cures and tonics.
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Fate of a Once Powerful Ava-Supi Tribe
A New York Post correspondent warns the Ava-Supi will likely vanish in twelve years. Once numbering over four thousand, the tribe now has about 120, living in a narrow sandstone canyon about sixty miles northwest of William Station on the Santa Fe railroad.
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