Onions in Spain A Market Speech Exchange
A New York Tribune excerpt depicts a market scene in Spain where a maid negotiates over onions. The lively bargaining features repeated ritual blessings and comic insistence on value, with buyers and sellers clashing over price from 3 to 8 cuartos. The dialogue ends with a terse resolution and a jibe about fair dealing.
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Spain
Jesus
Mary
Joseph
Little Sister
Plaza Real
New York Tribune
Modern Slaughtering Plant Demonstrates Industrial Advances
A New Jersey slaughtering plant showcases advanced industrial methods for handling cattle. The building houses changing rooms below and the processing and scraping machinery above, powered by a 55 HP automatic cut off engine. A high capacity scraper handles 100 hogs per hour with water input and spray, while a special dryer and condenser curb odors and dust. A deodorizer accompanies rendering tanks to suppress smells, and iron rails replace wood in the changing room runs with excellent ventilation and dry, clear air throughout.
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New Jersey
St. Louis Globe Democrat
Hair Market at Limoges Draws Crowds and Cropped Heads
A Westminster Budget correspondent reports the yearly hair market in Limoges where many peasant girls travel from surrounding villages to sell their long hair. Buyers, mainly cloth and wool merchants, offer dresses as payment. Barbers throng the market as maidens part with their tresses, returning home with cropped heads.
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Limoges
Limou- Sin
St. Jean
Westminster
He Noticed the Likeness in a Paris Portrait
A Parisian swell had a crayon likeness made of himself and refused to accept it claiming no resemblance. The artist, despite protests, added a grand pair of ears and showed the altered portrait afterward.
Painter Tricks Dandy with Likeness in Studio Sale
A dandy bursts into an artist studio in anger and, after threats, offers a high price for a painting. The painter taunts him, noting the subject recognizes the likeness only after ears are added to the portrait.
Recited the Lord’s Prayer in a Fifth Avenue hotel room
James O Neill recalls a dramatic New York moment when Edwin Booth, among diplomats and statesmen in a smoking room, delivered a moving Lord’s Prayer. The portrayal moved the assembly to awe and fear, a performance he calls the most powerful argument for Christianity. Booth’s speech left many with a lasting shudder and respect for his genius.
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New York City
James O'Neill
Lewiston Journal
Washington
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Booth
Loro Sackville West
United States
Dante
Dore
Edwin Booth
Cuba's Iced Drinks Grow in Popularity
The New York Sun notes Cuban iced drinks should appeal to Americans in summer. It describes refrescos made from fruit with fruit pulp, cracked ice, and sugar, highlighting pineapple, watermelon, muskmelon, berries, peaches, tamarinds, and orgeat as common beverages in a torrid climate.
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New York Sun
Germany builds canal between Elbe and Rhine
Germany undertakes a major canal project to connect the Elbe and Rhine. The route will enable direct ship passage between the two rivers without unloading and allow Rhine boats to carry North Sea harbor cargoes far inland, expanding inland commerce.
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Germany
Elbe
Rhine
North Sea
Destinies of the Kaiser's Sons in Military Service
Emperor William assigns roles for his sons. Crown Prince to infantry, Prince Eitel Fritz to cavalry, third son to the navy, with the remaining sons likewise positioned for military careers.
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William
Eitel Fritz
WIT AND HUMOR AND MARGUERITE JESTS
A compact collection of witty exchanges and humorous vignettes from comic papers. It includes quips about cooking lessons from books, curious shopkeepers, a French nursery tale, clever old ladies, and zany exchanges on heredity and courtship. The tone is light and satirical, reflecting social foibles and playful banter.
Anglophile feud over royal pedigree joke in satire magazine
A magazine editor and a sociologist banter over claimed royal lineage in a humorous exchange. The pedigree expert, mocked as a joker, foreshadows trouble once the truth emerges. The editor defends Anglo-Saxon roots, then realizes the joke.
Alexander the Great's Vast Persian Wedding Ceremony
Historical records recount an enormous wedding during Alexander the Great's Persian campaign. Statira married the conqueror, with 100 noble brides and 10,000 Greek soldiers wed to Asiatic women, followed by a five day festival and grand pavilion setting.
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Alexander the Great
Persia
Darius
Alexander
Statira
Public Lands in Porto Rico and Land Sale System
Public lands in Porto Rico remain in provincial ownership though limited. The coffee committee lacks staff and reliable public guidance, making it hard to locate unoccupied crown lands. Buyers must denounce land, pay for a survey, then await appraisal and annual payments, often cheaper than nearby private plots.
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Porto Rico
Committee On
Committe On Public Lands
Chicago
A Novel Advertising Scheme
A Roxborough man proposes free stamped envelopes printed with noncompetitive ads from allied trades. Envelopes four by seven inches would carry seven square inches of top and bottom ad space plus side panels for a total of twenty two square inches. At $1 per square inch, profit per thousand envelopes would be about $18 or $19, with potential back-of-envelope advertising.
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Roxborough
Nower
Philadelphia Record
The Boer Girls and Bicycles
A South African paper mocks Boer women for riding bicycles to appear more English, decrying the behavior as shameless and a betrayal of national character.
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