Cattle Ship Trip: A College Student’s Harsh Atlantic Run
A college youth signs as a cattleman to sail to Europe for five dollars and no pay, faces claustrophobic forecastle life, brutal labor moving hay and corn, squalid meals, constant thirst, and near starvation. After 210 cattle and a stowaway’s help, the voyage east is endured, return by freighter is lazy yet lonely, and the tale ends with a costly, hard lesson from the Philadelphia Record.
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Europe
South Street
Delaware
Tie
Tle
Funda
Antwerp
Steamship Company
Ameriea
Boston
Ife
Philadelphia
Venetian Glass Types and Techniques
Venetian glass owes its extreme thinness and brilliance to the lack of lead and skilled blowers. It describes lace glass filigree in two forms reticelli and ritorto, aventurine with gold specks, marbled chalcedony like patterns, green purple to red shifts, icy frosty coatings, and gilded ornamentation, noting its limits for engravings and enameling.
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Damascus
Tired Mascot Seeks A New Identity In Fashion World
A weary well dressed woman laments being a mascot and describes past favors she gave for dressmakers a tailor a tea room, noting how those referrals built others careers while leaving her with higher costs and little thanks. She longs to find a mascot of her own.
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Dinah
New York Sun
Theatrical Notes on London and New York Productions
Mrs Patrick Campbell scores abroad in Tosens Fredda Gabler and Carlotta Nilsson to appear in Kampf Russian play On the Eve after her contract. Moody and Torrence travel to Europe with new works Treloise and Abelard and Mme Naazt mora. Marion Terry stars in The Hypocrites in London with Frohman producing. Cohan to stage The Honeymooners at New Amsterdam and work on Young Napoleon. Broadhurst hired by Harris to write a new play for Fes on with scenes set in an unprecedented locale.
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Patrick Campbell
Tosen
Fredda Gabler
Carlotta Nilsson
Leopold Kampf
William Vaughn Moody
Europe
Ridgely Torrence
Henry B. Harris
Robert Fdeson
Mr. Broadhurst
Church leaders plan worldwide Bible classes and union talks
Rev Joseph E Cross of Nashua plans to circle the globe with Bible classes through a new church the Christian Disciple Canon Lyon the blind vicar of Sherborne England to resign after forty years at eighty Rev George E Eckman of New York urged dramatized gospel at a Chicago gathering Young men from the Church of Scotland and United Free form a Church Union Association in Edinburgh seeking eventual union Rev Dr Aked new pastor of Fifth Avenue Baptist refuses parsonage living preferring air and a tailor's sign hangs at the former parsonage next to Central Park
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Joseph E. Cross
Nashua
N. H
Canon Lyon
Sherborne
Dorset
England
George E. Eckman
New York
Methodist Social Union of
Chicago
Church of Scotland
United Free Church
Edinburgh
Church Union Assocination
Aked
Fifth Avenue Baptist Church
Dr. Aked
Central Park
Industrial Items From Historic Economic Survey
The passage notes over 100000 people depend on New England fisheries, with industry labor around 60000 men and capital of 20000000 dollars. It recalls shifts from farming to machinery, a new Australian rabbit industry, and a rabbit hunter yielding half a gallon of oil from 73 pounds of skins. It cites US merchant marine at 25006 sailors and 6674069 gross tons, warning shipyard output may peak since 1855 if current construction continues.
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New England
United States
Australia
Gilgandra
New South Wales
Commissioner of Navigation
Painters and Portraits Highlight 19th Century Art Scene
Rosa Bonheur defied fashion by painting in male attire. Meissonnier reportedly sold a portrait of Mrs. Mackay for $50,000. Charles Dana Gibson gained fame from his first published drawing and earned $400 a month before age twenty-one. Ruth Jewett Burgess, wife of John W. Burgess, Roosevelt professor, will paint Prince Augustus Wilhelm, fourth son of Emperor Wilhelm II.
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Rosa Bonheur
Meissonnier
Mackay
Charles Dana Gibson
Ruth Jewett Burgess
John W. Burgess
Roosevelt
University of Berlin
Prince Augustus WH Helm
Emperor Wilhelm
Germany
Wireless telegraphy aims to cut globe distance errors
The article notes the Turkish government plans wireless telegraph stations, cites 1876 Europe had 200 telephones and the U S 500, Genoa with over 3000, and claims Tesla’s wireless system could reduce world diameter measurement error to within fifty feet.
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Europe
Sso
United States
Genoa
Nikola Tesla
The Back Yard and Civic Duty in City Gardens
A brief newspaper tone piece argues that a fruit tree in the back yard stands as a symbol of civic pride and national honor. It claims city beautification rests in small enclosures, linking backyard flora to broader cultural distinctions.
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Gentry Sentinel
America
England
Germany
Chicago Tribune
NeWite’s Early Risers and Hartie Pills Ad at Stephenson
An old classified item promotes NeWite’s Little Early Risers and Hartie pills by F. Jungkunz on Stephenson street. The short notice signals a pharmacy or patent medicine ad space in a historic local paper.
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NeWite
Wain
F. Jungkunz
Stephenson Street
The New Orleans Times-Democrat Quote Exchange
A brief exchange features the claim that greater input yields greater output followed by a counter saying the value of horse race pools. The dialogue reflects playful debate on investment and gambling.
DeWitts Carbolized Hazel Salve Sold by Local Druggist
DeWitts Carbolized With Hazel Salve is marketed as soothing and healing. Sold by Wm. Jungkunz, druggist, 85 Stephenson St.
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DeWitts
Wm. Jungkunz
Stephenson St
Golden Medical Discovery Endorsed by Eminent Medical Writers
Leading medical writers and teachers endorse Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for chronic stomach and catarrhal diseases, liver complaints, and bronchial throat and lung affections. It uses glycerine and a glyceme extract of native roots, with no alcohol or habit forming drugs. Free extracts and formula details available by mail from Dr. B. V. Pierce.
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Pierce
Rof. Bartholow
Jefferson
Colege
Hare
Univ. of
Finlingwood
Bennett Med. Kollege
Chicago
John King
Cincinnati
John M. Scudder
M. D
Hahnemannegé
Golden Medical Discovery
B. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Ails a Crag Quarry Plan Spurs Public Outcry
The London News reports Marquis of Ailsa leasing Ailsa Craig for quarrying its granite, provoking strong opposition. The sea‑streaked rock near Ayr is famed as nature’s craggy pyramid and Clyde gatekeeper, with volcanic geology, caves, and ruins, amid bids to mine enough stone for curling stones.
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Ailsa
Ailsa Crag
The
London News
Clyde
Kintyre
Ayr
Paddy
Allsa Crag
Keats
Wordsworth
Daniel Defoe
Greenock
Glasgow
Berwick, Low
Edinburgh Castle
Giant’s Causeway
Stafia
Any Wife to Any Husband In New Orleans Dialog
A fragment from the New Orleans Times-Democrat quotes a man lamenting a burnt out cigar and a woman noting a common male trait. The exchange blends humor and gender commentary in a brief overheard dialogue.
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New Orleans ‘Times-Democrat
Missouri Railroads Move to Block 2-Cent Fare Law
The Times reports Missouri railroads led by Frank Hagerman will ask a federal court to enjoin the 2-cent passenger fare law. A full injunction seeks to block the rate, the demurrage rules, and associated earnings questions in one suit. Separately, police in Rome uncover an international brigand association with branches in the United States and Lilly.
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Teansas City
The
Times
Missouri
Frank Hagerman
Kansas City
Herbert S. Hadley
Pssenger
Rome
Moonshine maker confronts judge in North Carolina court
A mountaineer from a North Carolina back county pleads in court after being charged with illicit distilling. The judge asks his name, he answers Joshua, and the defendant asserts he is the man who made the moonshine, not the sun standing still.
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North Carolina
Joshua
Harner
Convention on Trade Schools Opens in Todianapolis
The first convention focused on trade schools opens in Todianapolis with national trade association representatives. Dr S C Dicken of Winona Technical Institute presides and Vice President C W Fairbanks is among the speakers.
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Todianapoli
Tabor
S.C. Dicken
Winona Technical Institute
Todianapolis
C. Wy. Fairbanks
Team Owners Association Convention Aims Uniform Prices
Minneapolis June 1 delegates at the fifth annual convention of the Team Owners association seek to unite team owners nationwide to set uniform prices and raise average prices by 25 percent.
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Minneapolis
Team Owners’ Association
Guatemala Leader Assassin Report Lacks Confirmation
Washington reports no confirmation of the assassination claim regarding President Cabrera of Guatemala. The Guatemalan minister Senor Toledo Flerrarte also has no advices on the subject.
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Washington
State Department
President Cabrera
Guatemala
Senor Toledo Flerrarte
Markets Report from Chicago Board of Trade
Quotations for Wheat Corn Oats and live stock on June 10 show July and Sept contracts with varied highs lows and closes. Cash sales note winter and spring wheat prices while live cattle sheep and veal prices are listed from Mulgr and East Buffalo consignors.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Sum
Corm—Rysanto
Live Stock Commission
Buffalo N. Y
Cest
Kodol Promises Fast Relief for Indigestion
An ad notes indigestion cases resist relief but claims Kodol should work quickly. It says the product contains the same enzymes as a healthy stomach and is sold by Wm. F. Jungkung, druggist on Stephenson Street.
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Wm. F. Jungkung
Vo Stephenson Street
Piano Tuner J Burdett Listed for Brown and Dollmeyer
A piano tuner named J Burdett is listed in connection with Brown and Dollmeyer and a phone contact 360 1.4dtf appears in the notice.
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J. Burdett
Brown d& Dollmeyer
Harriet M. Burbank Piano Teacher at Studio 36
Harriet M. Burbank offers piano lessons at Studio 36 located at Grove Street, unit 4d. Contact details unspecified.
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Harriet M. Burbank
Grove St
Nothing Defined by a Child Insight
In the dining room a five year old nephew muses on the word nothing. He declares nothing is something that isn't made yet, offering a simple, apt definition observed at breakfast as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
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Checago Tribune
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Sone
State Bank Freeport
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Government Agricultural Experiment Station
North Dakota
Shipman
Cves Salvaies
Rayudst
National Lead Company
State Street
Union of Sicilian Thugs
Chicago Grain
Mulgr
S.S.S
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta, GA
Freeport Loan Company
California
Royal Buckingham Cluster
Yarmouth
Royal Ann
Burrell Brothers
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