Flying balloons and cars spark thoughts on modern progress
The piece surveys rising balloon and balloon-like flights, ballooning pace of trains, and the rapid travel feats of Lieut.-Col. Burnley Campbell who circled the globe in forty days and nineteen hours. It notes automobile regulation as a key issue amid rising accidents and critiques of road risk. It mentions figures like Sir James Crichton-Browne and Prof. E. C. Moore and cites opinions on foreign protection for Christians in China and graft as crime.
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Jules Verne
London Times
Burnley Campell
Dover
Liverpool
Quebec
Vancouver
Pacific
Yokohama
Tsuruga
Vladivostock
Harbin
Irkutsk
Moscow
Berlin
Ostend
England
Campbell
The Worlds Desire Poem Excerpt by Richard Burton
A fragmentary verse meditation contrasts daytime shame with nocturnal longing. It likens desire to a dream that quickly fades, suggesting beauty as a twilight flower whose scent lingers briefly in a dusk garden. The lines reflect poetic aside from a Century publication.
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Richard Burton
Rose Sales Spark Forbidden Meeting at the Market
Angela and Geoffrey Lawler meet again after a rose purchase and mistaken identity at a village market. Tom Thurlow hosts a welcome for Captain Lawler, linking Angela to the soldierly visitor as Rita suspects a familiar face in the stranger.
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Angela
Tom
Captain Lawler
Lawler
Rita
Geoffrey Lawler
Tom Thurlow
Variety of Apple Recipes and Household Tips
A recipe feature covers baked apples with peeling, fillings, and cooking methods, plus fried apples and apple croquettes. It lists nut fillings and fruit additions, then provides tart and English apple tart variations. The piece ends with kitchen housekeeping tips on cleaning, linen reuse, and odor control.
Market Morning Lassies Attract Strangers In June
Angela Thurlow runs a market stall with her sister Rita selling poultry vegetables eggs and roses. A carriage stops as two strangers arrive, a man and a lady admire Angela while she watches Mrs Radley’s stall. The scene blends rural commerce with budding romance.
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Angela
Maude
Geoff
Rita
Ladysmith
Tom
Thurlow
Captain Lawler
Jan
Angsla
Thurlows
Mrs. Radley
Youth's Happy View
A nobleman known in society chats with a coachman's boy at the stables. The boy correctly identifies him as the man who rides in his father's carriage, prompting a simple, amused exchange.
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Argonaut
Household Hints: Cooling Lamp Chimneys in Water on Stove
Readers advised to put new lamp chimneys in a vessel of cold water and place the vessel on the stove to prevent cracking as part of household tips.
The Fasting Problem in Indian Monkeys
In Western India desert regions, several monkey species subsist on thorn-berries and small insects. Traders prize them for abstemious habits. A few durrha corn and grasshoppers sustain them for a day, their digestion adapted to half rations. They are placid but not vigorous, thriving on baby rations that give them an edge over foreign competitors in peace, yet remain children in war and industry.
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India
Extra For Labor. A salesman’s inflated meal charges
A Western jobber sent a young man to open a new rail route territory with no hotels. Meals cost twenty five cents, yet the expense account shows fifty cents per meal. The manager questions the overcharge, and the salesman replies that the extra twenty five cents is worth the meals.
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Charlie
Philadelphia Ledger
Stumper Fulton Uses Flattery to Win Over Audience
Senator Charles W. Fulton of Oregon employed a humorously scathing opening to charm listeners. He quipped about ugly men and beautiful partners, then pivoted to politics, a tactic noted for its effectiveness despite the anecdote implying his wife might be in the crowd.
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Charles W. Fulton
Oregon
Appleton
Belgium Trials 120-Pound Rails On State Railways
Belgium trials 120 pound per yard rails on state lines as heavier locomotives and cars require stronger track. Existing eighty pound rails deemed insufficient for main lines, with 100 pound rails used mainly at turnouts. New heavier rails use larger fishplates and sleepers spaced 20 to 24 inches apart, all T section.
Economical Woman Controls Tiny Wages For Tobacco
London Chronicle notes a laboring man hands weekly wages to his wife and she buys tobacco in two half ounce portions to gain two turns on the scale. The piece highlights frugal household economy and gendered control of small finances.
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London Chronicle
British Museum holds books on shells bricks tiles and bones
The British Museum houses books written on diverse materials including oyster shells bricks tiles bones ivory lead iron sheepskin palm leaves and more, reflecting a catalog of manuscript and textual works.
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British Museum
Blood and Gold Chicken Set for $2000 Bout in Corvallis
A blood and gold allis-bred game fowl is to meet a rival of its kind in a bat tle slated for Corvallis Oregon with a purse of two thousand dollars.
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Corvallis
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James Crichton-Browne
E. C. Moore
Harvard University
China
George L. Lilley
Connecticut
Chicago Tribune
New York
Uncle Sam
Manhattan Island
Wall Street
The
Brooklyn Eagle
St. Paul’s
London
Heaven
Earth
Monby
Ike
Ethel Porter Farwell
New York News
Washington Star
Belgium
Queer Books
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