Pottery Tests Noted During Museum Overhaul
During the Metropolitan Museum of Art management changes, Japanese pottery entries were examined. Prof Morne conducted rapid catalogue checks, using touch to identify dates and sometimes scent to aid recognition, especially for certain ferreries famed for their deep tones.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York
Exublia
Morne
Ferreries
Bolling
Gagette
Low Rates East For Elka Convention Travel
Utah Salt Lake Route promotes extremely low round trip fares for Elka convention travelers with July 14 and 16 departures and thirty day return options. Agents are urged to quote Salt Lake Route rates.
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Elka
Denver
Colorado
Salt Lake
We Make Travel Easy Five Trains Daily
We offer five daily trains via the Atchison Tonka and Fanta Fe routes from Colorado to Kansas City St Joseph Chicago Galveston Puno City of Mexico. Inquire about reduced rates with C FL Warren GA. Av 8 PF Ry 411 Dooly Hook Sulu Dake City Utah.
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Kanaan City
St. Joe
Chicago
Galveston
Puno
City of Mexico
C. FL
Warren
Dooly Hook
Sulu Dake City
Utah
Man Panine in England and Social Bindings at Dances
A fragmentary excerpt from Lady's Pictorial notes social binds in England attend dances where few men attend and couples mingle discreetly. The piece hints at etiquette and avoidance of attention among married readers during social gatherings.
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Panine
England
What Interested me Most in My Travel
One of the Wonders quotes Henpeck about a queen seen in Bggot. His friend calls it wonderful, joking that a woman could dry up and stay that way. The source writes with quirky mock travel prose and social humor.
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Henpeck
Hollow Cheeks Cleansing Routine
A nightly facial routine instructs cleansing cream wash followed by a wipe with a towel. The routine includes a ten minute massage using massage cream and a circular motion.
Simple Life Saved Men Out of Employment
An article in Chicago discusses striking printers facing layoffs and choosing frugal living. It cites government data claiming U.S. breadwinners could earn about 2,500 dollars yearly if production and distribution were managed efficiently, while workers endure wage cuts and long hours during strikes.
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C. Herding
Peter
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Bolidiogi & Specione
Hermne Greeley
Herbert Speers
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Wien
White Plains women appointed as Westchester deputy sheriffs
Two women, Miss Jessie Long of White Plains and Miss Agnes Kennedy of Peekskill, become the first female deputy sheriffs in Westchester County. Sheriff James E. Merritt notes he had denied prior applications but cites their charity work and county employment as investigators as the basis for appointment. He jokingly says they may be sent to oversee price fights and help run down criminals.
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Westchester County
James 8. Merritt
Jessie Long
White Plaine
Agnes Kennedy
Peekskill
Merritt
Hae
Song
Kennedy
Mar
Sherif Merritt
Highest Shipping Dock at Port Florence Elevates Africa Trade
A dock claimed to be the world's highest has just been completed at Port Florence on the Victoria Nyanga in Uganda Africa. It sits 400 feet above sea level and measures 250 feet in length 48 feet wide and 22 feet deep. The structure was excavated from solid rock by native labor and took 12 months to complete at a cost of $20 000.
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Port Florence
Victoria Nyanga
Ugonda
Africa
Uganda
Giraffes Cause Telegraph Glitch on Victoria Line
The Bulawayo Chronicle reports a telegraph interruption near Intundbia caused by a herd of giraffes entangled in wires and pulling about a mile. Elephants previously caused two similar outages.
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Victoria File
Bulawayo
Intundbia
Argentina Grain Trade Slumps in Early 1906 Ports
Argentine port data shows a sharp fall in grain exports in the first quarter of 1906 compared with 1905. Wheat shipments reached about 70 000 tons while linseed stood around 70 000 tons and overall totals were well below last year.
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Argentina
The First Compass and Its Magnetic Discovery
The piece traces early magnetism and the lodestone in water with cork to form a primitive compass. It notes Chinese use and the later European development of a true magnetized needle. It credits navigation advances and Portolan surveys from Italian sailors shaping coastal charts.
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Ines
Minck Sea
Atlantic
Cyrus C. Adams
Harper's
Mrs Elizabeth Maxwall Reports Kidney Trouble Relief
Mrs Elizabeth Maxwall of Olympia Washington describes three years of dropsy related to kidney issues. After four boxes of Dean's Kidney Pills the swelling and distress eased, with the 60 cent boxes sold by all dealers via Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Elizabeth Maxwall
Weat
St. Olympia, Wash
Dean
Milburn Co
Buffalo
Austrian inventor Szigmondy introduces heat blocking window glass
An Austrian inventor Richard Szigmondy claims a new window glass that blocks about nine tenths of sun heat while letting in visible light. Ordinary glass passes heat from the sun but blocks heat from radiant sources. a hothouse would become a cold house under this glass. The glass could keep homes cool in summer, but winter comfort is uncertain.
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Richard Singmondy
Szigmondy
Post Office Week Off Sparks Humorous Exchange
A Billville postmaster declines to open his office on his week off prompting a visiting ox cart driver and a second man to protest. A lumber man threatens to sue for back pay while a wife asks for money to return home, fueling the lighthearted scene noted in the Atlanta Constitution.
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Billville
Atlanta Constitution
Secrecy and Sense of Humor Highlight Womens Plight
A humorous remark notes that keeping a secret is nearly as hard as understanding a joke for a woman, illustrating social perceptions and gendered expectations.
Beautiful Woman Fraud Ends With Deserted Debts
An Vienna social intrigue details a young beauty who posed as various aristocrats, fled mounting debts, and later wed an African potentate in the south of France. She left unpaid bills in Vienna and Paris before the latest suitor settled accounts.
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Vienna
Wherwell
Coglishman
France
Nimeelf
Adventuress
Talam
Thas
Indians Drop Old Custom At Kaw City Visit
The Otoe and Kaw tribes clashed over ceremonial gift giving after a visit to Kaw City. Hospitality frayed as Kaws hesitated to match ponies and valuables, leading to a brief pow-wow and a cooler invite back to the Otoe reservation. Chief Woh-Shun-Gah intervened to prevent violence.
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Arkoancis
Kaw
Kaw City
Woh-Shun-Gah
Oloe Reservation
Peanut fondness spans animals at Central Park zoo
A New York animal lover praises peanuts as a harmless delicacy found by all creatures at the Central Park zoo. She notes camels peacocks and hippopotamus show appetite with elephants deer ostrich and even the lion clearly savoring the legume.
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New York
Central Park Zoo
Bnt
Eight-Year-Old Declares He Is Worse Than Before
In a Malden Sunday school a teacher asked a class of young boys if they had improved over the year. All said yes except one eight year old who earnestly replied I am just as worse as I ever was.
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Malden
Mass
German Patent Office Faults and High Fees Cited
The German patent office faces sharp criticism for charging steep fees that drain inventors and yield state profits. The article compares conditions for poor inventors to Gutenberg’s era of poverty and pawning his apparatus.
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Ita
Gutenberg
Quotations and quips from a bygone era brief
A compact collection of wry lines and wisecracks from various sources. Observations on aging politics and society mix with playful jabs about manners, manners and money. The excerpt nods to humor in public life and everyday life.
Girl Horsebreaker Prodigy Wins Noted Reputation
Miss Winnonah Von Ohl, a 20 year old New Jersey girl, gains recognition as a horsebreaker after developing riding skills in South Dakota with her mother. She learned to ride branches out there and upon return to the East she trained and broke horses with notable success. She states she has never suffered injury in this work.
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Miss Winnonah von Ohl
New Jersey
South Dakota
Miss Winnonah
Signatures in Irish Win Noted by National Bank Leader
The National Bank directorate agrees to accept checks signed in Irish, a notable victory for the revival movement. The bank says the system offers double protection against fraud and reinforces cultural preservation.
Operation Avoided Experience of Miss Merkley
A Milwaukee woman writes of avoiding surgery after a physician recommended it for ovarian ulceration. She credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with healing the ulceration and restoring strength. The notice urges other women with painful or frequent periods or pelvic pain to seek the remedy after medical advice.
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Lydia EB. Pinkham
Mr. Pinkham
Thad
Lyilia E. Pinharm
Iil E. Pinkham
Flying fish attack steamer Claudine in Hawaii channel
In the Hawaii channel between Hawaii and Maui a steamer Claudine was struck by flying fish drawn to the ship’s searchlight. Glass was broken and the light extinguished as a dozen fish landed on the upper bridge and two struck the watchman, with captains noting fish react oddly to bright light.
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Honolulu
Claudine
Hawaii
Maui
Youngest Civil War Veteran Found in Springfield
Springfield confirms Gilbert Van Zandt as a Civil War drummer boy who enlisted August 6 1862 in the Seventy-ninth Ohio at age ten years seven months and sixteen days He later served as dispatch carrier through Sherman s march while his father served as a sergeant This record notes his discharge as thirteen years old and four feet high.
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Springfield
Springfeld
Gettysburg
Gilbert van Zandt
Grand Army
Kansas City
Seventy-ninth
Ohio
Sherman
Pers
Turkey Moves To End Foreign Lottery Ticket Sales
New regulations in Turkey ban sale of foreign lottery tickets within the empire. Any receiver seller buyer or holder of such tickets faces fines from 4.40 to 14.20 for a first offense and 18.20 to 44 for a second conviction.
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Turkey
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