Time Locks and a Worthy Bequest at Mount Joy
A long note reviews forest shortages in Europe and North America, a New England leather scraps to sole leather invention, and a Mont Joy Pennsylvania time lock case. The Rev David Conway died after 1899 will references 5000 to his church and time locks delayed bank access. The court ruled securities validly added to his estate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
New England
Eharch
Mont Joy
Penn
David Conway
Mount Joy National Bank
H. W. Hartman
Hartman
Conway
Presbyterian Church
Beginning of a Love Story in Elmville
In Elmville a morning birding craze exposes a flirtation scandal involving Clarissa Steele and Deacon Upton. Clarissa denies kissing him, her sisters confront her, and Deacon confesses deep feelings, hoping for a future together.
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Elinor
Caroline
Clarissa Maria
Sally Porter
Clarissa
Mae
Sall’ Porter
Deacon Upton
Deavon Upton
Misa Steels
Miss Jar
Susan Brown Robbins
Chicago Record
Friday superstition blocks removal of pauper tenants
Aharacle parish council financed 10 new cottages for 10 pauper women. Inspector H McPherson tried to move them on a Friday, but the elderly residents resisted citing superstition. After officials relented, the removals occurred the next day without opposition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aharacle
Rudd
Ardnamurchan
H. McPherson
Tuning a Pipe Organ Needs Care and Months of Work
Veteran organ tuner explains that church organs cost 1000 to 10000 dollars and require yearly tuning with two to three day sessions. Temperature swings and damp conditions affect pitch, and tuning often involves two men plus a keyboard assistant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vateran
The Psychology of Pity in Hunger Studies
Professor G Stanley Hall and F H Saunders examine pity via questions to children and adults. Hunger triggers deepest pity, especially among poorer children. Hunger’s pain spurs survival drives, theft, and aggression, highlighting feeding the hungry as a primal charitable act.
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G. Stanley Hall
F. H. Saunders
Denison
Remark on Kaleacre Savings and Portugal’s Portly King
The Philadelphia Record quotes Kaleacre storing savings under his pillow to show he could retire. A European monarch, Portugal’s king, is described as five feet six inches tall and weighing 308 pounds.
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Kaleacre
Philadelphia Record
Portugal
Wonderful Career of Charles M Hays to Southern Pacific President
A profile of Charles M. Hays detailing his rise from a $40 a month clerk in St. Louis to president of the Southern Pacific railroad. It follows his early years with the Atlantic & Pacific and Wabash systems, key moves to Grand Trunk, salary advances up to 35 000 a year, and his eventual selection to lead Southern Pacific after Collis P Huntington's death.
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Charles M. Hays
Collis P. Huntington
Southern Pacific Railroad
McKinley
San Francisco
St. Louis
Hayes
Southern Pacific Rail
Haye
St. Louis Freight
Atlantic & Pacific Railroad
Frisco
Rock Island
Wabash
Grand Trunk
Mr. Hays
Hays
Misnamed everyday terms and their true origins
A compact list notes common misconceptions about names like Cayenne pepper not from a pepper plant but capsicum, Jerusalem artichokes not from Jerusalem, turkeys native to America, and German silver being an alloy rather than silver. It reveals origins of Cork legs, porpoise hide, Irish stew, Turkish baths, Cleopatra's needle and more.
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Jerusalem
China
Germany
Turkey
Russia
Cleopatra
Youth Boer Hero Snyman Among Refugees Arriving in Country
Among five refugees from South Africa who reached the country early this week is C. G. Snyman a 16 year old youth. He served under General De Wet and fought in 16 battles with no wounds. He is credited with killing the first British soldier in the Orange Free State and drew attention from President Steyn who promised him a farm after peace.
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South Africa
C. G. Snyman
de Wet
Orange Free State
Gu. de Wet
Snyman
Steyn
Arctic Ball Game Between Two Slips Crews
A crew from the schooner Thallium under Captain Kent played baseball on a frozen snow field near Ivigtut Greenland in near twenty below zero with the British bark Silicon also loading. Thallium won 48 to 1 amid a wandering Eskimo crowd during the midnight sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctic
Kent
Igigtut
Greenland
Philadelphia
Jansen
Silicon
Ivigtut
Boatswain Brown
The
Thallium
Buckaport
Maine
Socialists Gain Ground in German Reichstag
The Socialistic party strengthens its position in Germany as Brandenburg elects a Socialist to the Reichstag for the first time. Peus wins by 648 votes, with Socialists rising from 23 to 58 members in 16 years and votes climbing from 500000 in 1885 to 2260000 in the latest general election. Estimates foresee 100 of 397 Reichstag seats for Socialists next election. New Zealand plans a 2 cent worldwide letter rate to boost postal business, aiming for self support.
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Socialistic Party of
Germany
Brandenburg
Reichstag
New Zealand
Postal Union
Also Mentioned on This Page
Freeland
Micke
Tribune Printing Company, Limited
Europe
Tate
France
Revue Scientitique
United States
Philadelphia Medical Journal
Dominion of Canada
United Kingdom
Collier's Weekly
Clarissa Steel
Stirs
Elmville
Boston
Beeton
Mrs. Goodnow
Steele
Our
Mr. Ames
Vanced
Young Snyman
Co. G. Snyman
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