Mexico notes on banks trade and education 1910 link
News notes outline Mexico credits banks at 362 million gold, rising mail totals, and broad imports. It cites liberal citizenship attractors for Chinese, large silver and gold output, and annual machinery purchases of 17.5 million gold. It lists export goods, timber assets, cotton fabric trade, and American tool imports valued at 2.7 million.
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Mexico
United States
Germany
Great Britain
France
Spain
Belgium
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Hindustan
American National Association of
John M. Carson
Bureau of Manufactures
Dahlen Named Brooklyn Manager and Other Sporting Notes
Bill Dahlen will be the next manager of the Brooklyn Club. Yale and Princeton coaching rumors arise after Yale’s 1963 defeat. Walsh of Chicago tops the American League with 40-15-1. Findlay S. Douglas beats Frederick Herreshoff in golf at Lakewood. Yale plans a 50,000 seat stadium before Harvard game. Hamilton Fish Jr is Harvard football captain for next year. Kennard becomes first drop-kicker to rise to big eleven since John De Witt in 1903. Roller polo eyes New York after New England promotion talks. Fred Huyck’s motorcycle wins Ascot Park one mile in 53 seconds, beating the world record.
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Bill Dahlen
Brooklyn
Coy
Yale
Princeton
Tigers
Kennard
John de Witt
New England
Living Advertisement Glow of Health Speaks For Postum
A Tenn. woman shares how coffee caused indigestion and insomnia and how switching to Postum improved her health. She weighed 117 pounds before and 170 after and credits Postum with her recovery, urging friends to try it, as per Postum Co. promotional material.
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Glow of Health
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
The Household Fairy Mother In The Home
Rhyme by Alice B. Huling from St Nicholas extols a household fairy found in every home. The poem personifies Mother as the keeper of order, comfort, and care smoothing concerns and mending wear for children in daily life.
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Alice B. Huling
St. Nicholas
The Letter That Never Reached Her Heart
In a rural village, Adeline Field discovers a long hidden letter from Doctor Hunt addressed to her. As she contemplates responding, she learns he plans to marry Eustacia Bent in January, ending Adeline’s chance at love while Aurora moves to board the house. The widowhood of Grand-aunt Miriam shadows their choices as the two sisters face an uncertain future.
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Aurora
Miriam
Adeline
Allston
Aurora Field
Addie
Lemming’s Falls
Ade
Loy
Doctor Hunt
Francis Hunt
Fossett
China
Patagonia
Eustacia
Eustacia Bent
Adeline Field
Waverley Magazine
Fifty Degrees Below From To Build a Fire by Jack London
In a stark Yukon landscape an unnamed man trudges along a remote trail. He confronts the brutal cold of fifty degrees below zero with practical caution, lacking imagination about his fragility or the universe.
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Yukon
Chilcoot Pass
Dyea
Dawson
Nulate
St. Michael
Bering Sea
Jack London
Peruna Said to Restore Health in Catarrh Case
Miss Sophia Kittlesen of Evanston Illinois reports twenty five year catarrh relief after using Peruna. She suffered a sore throat and bad cough before improvement and recommends Peruna to others. The ad notes Peruna tablets offer the same medicinal ingredients and suggests asking for a free Peruna Almanac for 1909.
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Sophia Kittlesen
Evanston
Ill
Man-a-lin
To the Family's Profit and Europe Spending
Mr. Comrox notes his family travels to Europe and their remark on his weakness for valuing foreign money. He admits expenses are ordered and paid before he can inquire about the costs. The Washington Star quotes the exchange.
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Europe
Price Debate Over The Duck In A Punch Cartoon
In a Punch cartoon a girl asks the price of a duck and the mother counters with a shift from three shillings to two shillings and six, illustrating bargaining humor circa historical period.
Electric railways reach over forty thousand miles
United States electric railways have expanded to more than 40 000 miles of track, comprising about one fifth of total steam rail mileage.
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United States
Youngest Prisoner Sentenced in Valley of Virginia
Dora Smith, a seventeen year old from Luray Virginia, was found guilty of burglary and forgery and received four years total, two years for each count. She is to begin her term as the penitentiary's youngest inmate and the youngest white woman ever sentenced from the Valley.
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Dora Smith
Luray
Valley of Virginta
Loans for Railroad Construction in Pekin China
Two small loans for rail development were signed in Pekin. A $1,075,000 loan will fund the Kuanchengtzu Kirin line with a 25 year term, 9.3 issue price, 5 percent interest, split between Japan and China. A second $160,000 loan for Hsinmintan Mukden line improvements carries an 18 year term and was placed in Japan.
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Japan
Pekin
China
Kuanchengtzu-Kirin
Hsinmintan-Mukden
Mastodon Tooth Unearthed In Indiana Ditch Digging
Lewis Guthrie of Colfax Township Indiana uncovered mastodon bones while digging a ditch. A nine inch by five inch tooth weighed nearly ten pounds and was in excellent preservation. The bones were found at a depth of four feet.
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Lewis Guthrie
Colfax Township
Indiana
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