Household Matters and Household Fasteners in Daily Life
The piece discusses bedclothes fasteners for children to prevent restlessness and cold. It also covers fruit preparation for preserving by using liver-plated knives and lemon juice to prevent browning. Additionally it suggests redoing wall paper damage with children's paints by matching color and lightly touching up patches.
Cleaning Metal Handles
Metal furniture handles often tarnish beyond ordinary polishing. Apply gilt bronze or silver decor paints from any art shop to restore a decorative finish.
Restoring Worn Black Kid Gloves with Ink Oil Mixture
A practical tip explains that black kid gloves wear at the finger tips, turning rusty brown. Apply a mix of black ink and olive oil to the finger tips, let it dry, and the gloves regain a more pleasing appearance.
Safe burning method for old papers
A traditional tip explains rolling bundles of old papers into a tight log and securing with wire so they burn slowly without flames, reducing chimney fire risk. Several logs can be burned together for efficiency.
Household Recipes From The Era Include Sand Tarts And Oysters
A column of practical kitchen notes presents Sand Tarts with separated eggs and butter, Boston Scallops using biscuits and cheese, Oyster Soup with cream, and Cream Spaghetti baked with milk dressing. Also included are Tapioca Consomme, English Batter Pudding, and a bean pudding cloth method, plus a note on overworked wakestacks in manufacturing.
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Boston
Mariner
Three Samurai The Bond That Shaped Japan's Navy
Admiral Kamimura recalls the trio of Togo Kamimura and Yamamoto, once Satsuma cadets, who fled to join Saigo Takamori during a political crisis. After danger and exile they returned, earning pardons to serve Japan. The tale links Saigo's foresight, Kamimura's career, and Japan's naval rise, ending with a note on the Meiji era crisis and lasting loyalty.
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Togo
Russia
Kamimura
Baron Yamamoto
Vladivostok
Yamamoto
Naval Department
Japan
Naval College
Tokio
Saigo Takamori
Satsuma
Saigo
Karen Sango
Hin
Kagoshima
Osaka
Gedai Tomoetsu
Gedai
Godal
Kiyoshima
Hemmi
Ruesia
Kawamura
Admiral Kanimura
Viscount Takashima
Takashima
New Petroleum Finds Across Asia Europe and America
Harpers Weekly notes growing interest in new petroleum deposits in Asia Europe and America led by Mesopotamia. Rich springs detected near Bagdad along the Tigris and north of Samaria and along the Euphrates near Hit. Kerkuk district seen as promising for future prospecting with petroleum for lighting and coal for steam demands, expecting extensive deposits require Baghdad railway completion and better Tigris shipping to develop.
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Europe
America
Mesopotamia
Bagdad
Tigris
Samaria
Huphrates
Kerkuk
Motoring And Fat Women Should Exercise
The article argues that motor travel increases appetite and wisdom cautions women against daily long motor use. It urges brisk walking or riding to exercise muscles, noting fatness can develop quickly and be hard to reverse. It mocks motorists as fat with strong appetites.
New Theory of Sun and Stars by Prof See
A translated American summary reports Dr. See presenting a monatomic sun model. The sun and stars are dense single-atom spheres with center densities far surpassing iron, center temps near 50,000,000 C, and surface radiation explained without convection. It argues future sun longevity and stellar radiation, with implications for Sun’s radius shrinkage and a 4 million year timescale for changes.
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NE Astronomische Nachrichten
T. J
See
U. S
Naval Observatory
Washington
Lee
Are
Lane
Lire Lee
Oby Helmholtz
Dublin University ceremony ends in student protest during anthem
During the conferring of degrees at Dublin University several students stormed the organ gallery and stopped the playing of God Save the King. They instead sang God Save Ireland, signaling a political protest at the campus event.
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Innel
Dublin University
Ireland
State Department Uses Unique Official Cord for Papers
A New Orleans Times-Democrat excerpt explains the long standing official cord or "oficial cord" used by the State Department since at least 1845 to tie official documents. Presidents and foreign correspondents received papers bound with this red white and blue cord, while the department rejected widespread use of the typewriter for foreign communications.
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State Department
United States Legation
Consular Office
Washington
Legations
Congress
Buchanan
Lincoln
Grant
Hayes
Arthur
Cleveland
Garfield
Harrison
Roosevelt
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Boy Shot After Revolver Accident Near Pericardium
John L. Proden, eighteen, survived a .32 caliber bullet wound near the heart after a pistol accidentally discharged while George Williams was reloading. The shot occurred while they were out shooting a cat. Doctors feared probing the wound as the ball might be in the pericardium or heart wall. Proden, now a store clerk, suffers no current trouble from the bullet.
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John L. Proden
Proden
George Williams
Williams
Baltimore Sun
Northern Rutland deer terror sparks call to shoot big beast
Farmers in Rutland County seek permission to kill a large deer said to weigh about 500 pounds dressed and with immense horns. The creature reportedly terrorizes roads, refuses to yield, and chased a farmer’s collie after a visit to a Castleton farm. Seven accompanying deer fled when the farmer and dog confronted it.
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Rutland County
Castleton
St Albans
Soulful high melodrama at Te roy Ikan staged
The Reporter reviews a recent Te roy Ikan melodrama describing a scene where a blind heroine hands a letter to the villain believing him to be her husband. A spectator sighed deeply, the moment described as soul stirring and intensely dramatic, likened to molten lava upon Pike's Peak.
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Teroy
Ikan
Pike's Peak
Early Iron Forge In New England and Virginia History
Reginoing of iron lodually cites the first iron forge in Raynham Massachusetts, erected in 1052, preceded by a Virginia bloomery in WO. The earliest dist furnace with forced bias was built around 1714, also in Virginia.
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United States
Raynham
Mass
Virgina
Virgjola
Speaking of Others in the Detroit Free Press
A reflective note on how we speak of others prompts three checks: is it true, is it kind, is it necessary, as stated in a Detroit Free Press piece on mindful communication.
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Detroit Free Press
Quaint curiosities and world wonders recounted abroad
A collection of curiosities from the Natural History Museum at South Kensington, including the nine inch high sheep, a German advertisement offering rewards for health claims on tapioca, and global notes on begging income, Abyssinian exploration, gold mining tributaries of the Blue Nile, a French lawyer’s sport of lending, a durable balloon worth four hundred to one thousand dollars, a long straight railway in Egypt, a Nyngan to Bourke line with minimal embankments, and exciting Chinese sports such as cricket fights in Hong Kong with high valued crickets fetched by owners.
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Withern
Natural History Museum
Hong Kong
Canton
Elimination of the Horse in City Traffic
Harper's Weekly notes a plan to curb horse drawn vehicles on busy streets like Broadway New York to free street space for more motor traffic. It cites faster freight movement simpler control and potential reduced street wear and noise as engineering reasons for considering a shift to motor trucks over horses.
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Broadway
New York
Harper's Weekly
Prison Shown Present on New Year from Inmate
A Massachusetts reformatory superintendent recalls a humorous New Year gift from a prisoner who spent about a year there. The inmate, fond of grooming, sent a red beard tucked in excelsior with a note reading Grown to the Reformatory. Ke. Green.
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Massachusetts
Hin
KE. Green
New York Press
Freak Woile and the Kansas oil wells
The Kansas oil belt has seen four peculiar wells in recent years. Dexter hosts a hot air well that vents large volumes of hot air up to 100 feet. Sedan has a smaller hot air well. Beau mont’s white gas well vented a 200 foot column of gas while tearing casing and wrecking the derrick. Chautauqua County struck a mud well, roaring then spouting a 25 foot mud column for weeks.
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Kansas Oil and Gas Belt
Dexter
Sedan
Beaumont
Chautauqua County
Kansas City Journal
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