Cotton trade schools spark a Southern textile education movement
Harper's Weekly notes that rapid cotton mill growth in the South now prompts trade and industrial schools to train skilled labor and engineers. Georgia and Clemson houses lead a budding network aimed at broad textile mastery, from spinning to weaving, dyeing, and design.
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Cayolinis
South
New England
Germany
Cotton Belt
Georgia School of Technolus
Atlanta
A. French
Aaron French
Pittsburg
Clemson College
Clemson
South Carolina
Georgia
Clear Case Against the Boy
A young man recalls a dream where his father, earning $10,000 an hour, plans to withdraw from building libraries and universities and hoard $620 million while others struggle. The vision shows generosity to a needy person but ends with fear of family mental illness and a cry for help as the father seems doomed to relapse. The Chicago Record-Herald quote frames a troubled reaction to wealth and social responsibility.
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Das
Chicagoa Record-Herald
The Ameer's Attitude Toward British Interests
A Royal overview notes suspicious acts by the Ameer of Afghanistan since a biography appeared. Prohibitions on exporting barges to India and importing Indian salt, plus occupation of strategic road points, raise doubts about loyalty. He also has not drawn his yearly subsidy of eighteen lacs of rupees. The Indian Finance Minister has funds ready in case he seeks the subsidy.
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Afghanistan
Amweer
Lis
India
In Glin
Ameer
New York Sun
The Electric Eel Attacks A Cockroach At The Zoo
A large electric eel in a tank at the Zoological Ideas exhibit discharged its electric charge when a cockroach fell into the water. The eel struck eight inches away, killing the insect instantly, then swallowed the victim. The account notes the oddity of a twelve pound eel targeting a creature only an inch and a half long.
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Chambers
Minerals In the Land of Oranges in Florida
Florida abounds in minerals including phosphate and vast clay deposits kaolin ochres tire and aluminum clays gypsum and placer earths. Building stone good and a strong limestone cement. High grade iron known in several areas with indications of petroleum natural gas and asphalt. most ore folds remain undeveloped per the Baltimore Sun.
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Florida
The Drawbacks of Polished Floors in Workhouses
An inquest at Holbeen Union Workhouse found a fall of an elderly inmate was caused by slipping on a polished floor. The polished surface, though clean, is risky for old and frail people as rugs or mats can create a dangerous scramble when stepping.
Sensible Germans Buy American Locomotives for Compare
The Royal Bavarian Railway administration has ordered four locomotives from the United States to study how they differ from German engines. German manufacturers are stirred by the move as they watch the foreign purchase.
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Nake
Royal Bavarian Railway
United States
Loudon
Rubber history and the Brooklyn Bridge mask
The article traces rubber’s rise from native uses in the New World to global demand, noting early examples from Columbus’s voyage, Priestly’s pencil eraser, and Mackintosh’s 19th century waterproof cloth. It cites trade figures, prices, and sources, concluding most rubber still comes from equatorial South America.
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Columbus
New World
Old Herren
Para
New York
Jose
Portugal
Priestly
India
Amazon
Charles Mackintosh
Glasgow
England
United States
Equatorial
South America
Cortez
Armstrong
Ainslee
Bread Waste Turns Up As Dog Food Scheme
A Long Island man showed a friend hunting dogs when a bread wagon rolled in. He bought a barrel of stale bread, saying it fed his dogs. The seller, Hoe, buys cheap bread in the city, then markets it to locals, Italians, and farmers for animals and pig feed.
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Long Island
Hoe
New York Tribune
Fearless Elder Lord Roberts Known Hunter and Horse Expert
Fearless Elder Lord Roberts is described as a bold aid in hunts and famed for his keen country sense and vast knowledge of horseflesh. His sturdy frame and steady eye keep him from serious harm in the hunting fold, despite past crop perils.
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Lord Roberts
Jefferson as an inventor opposed to patents
The Chicago Record-Herald recounts Thomas Jefferson as an inventive figure who refused patents, detailing his folding chair, three-stick walking seat, revolving chair, light sulky, copying machine and copying press, hemp brake, pedometer, and a mouldboard plow. It notes his European awards and a bronze of his plow’s innovation earned in France.
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Thomas Jefferson
Charlottesville
Bacon
England
Marquis of Lafayette
James Madison
France
Royal Agricultural Society of
Seine
New York
Society
Chicago Record-Herald
New Baby Carrier Ti Draws Brooklyn Birthplace Debate
A New York City humor column reports a man on a Fifth Avenue subway train carrying a baby in a wicker basket-like carrier with two steel hoops and a leather strap around the father’s neck. Passengers laugh and comment on the contraption’s novelty and practicality.
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Brooklyn
Fifth Avenue
Bridge Street
Hianan
Woner
New York Mail
Anil Express
Reaching the Pole Plan by Submarine Vessel
Philadelphia Times reports Herr Anschutz-Kampfe’s plan to reach the North Pole by a submarine boat. The craft would dive to 160 feet, endure up to fifteen hours beneath ice, blast through weak points if needed, and proceed toward open water for scientific work, with a 800 ton ellipsoid hull and 3500 cubic feet interior.
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Vienna .Geographical Society
Herr Anschutz- Kampfe
North Pole
Wilhelmshaven
Pole
Arctic Ocean
Geographical Journal
Herr Anschutz-Kampfe
Polar Basin
Spitzbergen
Philadelphia Times
Cotton mill boom reshapes the southern economy
Twenty years after 1880, the south adds hundreds of mills and millions of spindles. Georgia leads with 48 new mills and 263,676 spindles, much run by electricity, while North Carolina and other states follow, expanding cotton production, weaving, and furniture factories across the region. The shift boosts employment, lowers transport costs, and signals a broader industrial surge in the period.
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Potomac
Ohio
South
Georgia
North Carolina
Southern Railway
Tornaco
Piedmont
Deceptive Coin Rumor At U S Mint Sparks Laughs
A flustered young woman visits the Philadelphia mint asking about a rumor that 1901 cents are worth $19 in the coin market. A fat messenger jokes and exposes the claim as a prank while the woman exits, puzzled by the hoax. Also profiles a Chicago street musician studying in Michigan, who supports himself by playing classical pieces on a violin on street corners and hopes to study in Europe.
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United States Mint
Philadelphia
Lrean
Stutent
Chienzo
Moersical College
Michigan
Hes
Ewape
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