Europe Grudge See Far Eclipsed Views on Service
An American abroad, Don O. Seitz, offers impressions that London critics find amusing. The Chronicle quotes his biting line on continental service where waiters in Italy France and England supposedly treat ice with reverence and serve in tiny fragments using sugar tongs.
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America
The Open Road by David Grayson begins a new series
The Open Road opens a new American Magazine series by David Grayson. He extols a plastic mind that questions today and rejects yesterday for clearer insight. He likens the mindset to Newton and the inventor’s pursuit, urging walking the Open Road.
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David Grayson
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Newton
Coffee as Remedy For Asthma
A historical note suggests coffee as a remedy for asthma. It advocates very strong coffee without sugar or milk, taken on an empty stomach, and warns that weak coffee or coffee with milk or sugar can be harmful or less effective. The advice emphasizes cautious dosing and quick absorption.
Yield of Good Beet Steer Percentages for Cuts
A good steer cut for profit yields fractions of dressed weight by cut in round numbers. Loins 16 percent ribs 10 percent rounds 21 percent chucks 19 percent plates 16 percent flanks 4 percent shanks 7 percent tallow 8 percent kidneys 0.25 percent sausage meat 1 percent shank meat 1 percent tankage 2 percent loss in cutting 0.25 percent, per National Provisioner.
Grape-Nuts Cited By Railroad Man For Relief From Indigestion
A railroad worker recalls persistent indigestion for five years and starving diet. After trying various remedies, he reports appetite improvement, increased energy, and seven pound weight gain within a week of using Grape-Nuts. His wife also began consuming it. The ad-like testimony promotes Grape-Nuts as a “Perfect Food” from Postum Co.
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Postum Co
Battle Creak
Mich
Well- Wille
Man Lassoed at Sea by Strange Rescue Faithfully Reported
A New York Times account describes the steamer Hudson arriving from Manila with cargo and crew praising Captain Fenton after a dramatic rescue of Malay quartermaster Anan who fell overboard in a northwest gale near Bermuda. The ship battled heavy seas, crew threw lines, and a rope ladder failed before a belay rope saved Anan. Another rescue occurred in the Gulf of Aden when stokers leaped overboard for heat, later replenishing Bermuda coal bunkers.
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Far East
Manila
Fenton
Anan
Bermuda
James McGonegal
George Murray
Gulf of Aden
Algiers
New York Times
Endangered Life to Snap Ox in Seton Tale
Ernest Thompson Seton addressed Ornithologists in Philadelphia describing a miraculous escape from a musker. He debunked the pelican legend of biting its breast for its hungry young and offered further observations on natural history during the gathering.
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Roosevelt
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Slave Lake
Ernest Thompson Seton
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A Poet's Vision and a Near Tragedy in London
Francis Thompson, a long time “submerged” poet, faced destitution. He bought laudanum to end his life in Covent Garden Market after months of hardship. A chance interruption by Chatterton and a magazine editor who had printed his work saved him moments before death.
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Loading Freight by Cards in Mississippi Rail Yard
The Baltimore American recalls a Mississippi practice where freight cars are loaded under a white supervisor who assigns each car a playing card. Black workers, illiterate in letters and figures, follow orders using pasted deck symbols such as king of diamonds and ace of hearts.
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Mississippi
C. C. Donaldson
St. Lo
Baltimore American
The Garden in the House Decor Ideas
There is nothing equal to palms for hall and stair decoration. Large Kentias endure hardship and keep well under electric light for over a year. Green-leaved draceanas also perform well. Bamboos lose tone and require frequent replacement. Indianapolis News.
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Indianapolis News
Airing Closets Advice from the New Haven Register
The New Haven Register suggests airing closets as a key clothing care practice. Leave doors open for hours to circulate fresh air and deter moths. Hang a spirits of camphor bottle with cork removed to keep moths away and maintain a clean odor, or use cedar oil similarly.
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New Haven Register
Watch Your Piano Care Tips From Richmond Times Dispatch
The article warns piano owners that heat cold and damp affect instruments. Keep it away from fires open windows and walls. Avoid mould by avoiding damp atmospheres and keep the lid closed when not in use. Dust keys with a silk cloth and lemon juice to whiten.
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Richmond Times Dispatch
Tissue tips and kitchen recipes from New Haven Register
Packing advice covers tissue use for hats, ribbons, and polishing metals. Recipes include cucumber soup beet and cabbage rice mush apple custard chestnut souffle peach cake and a note that in jobs requiring quick hands women are more valuable than men.
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New Haven Register
German Women Matriculate Low Share at Universities
A minor note reports that only 254 women were among 45,136 matriculated students at Germany’s 21 universities last winter. The sparse female enrollment is contrasted with broader academic participation across the country.
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Germany
Hall of Fame era patent medicine ad fragment
An OCR fragment markets Hall's Catarth Cure and Hall's Family Pills. It offers a one hundred dollar reward for a case of catarrh that cannot be cured, lists Toledo as a base, names J Curazy & Co and Kiarm Walpino Kinmax Manvix as wholesalers, and touts internal use to affect blood and mucus with per bottle rice pricing. The text includes testimonials about F J Cheney and mentions a general drugstore distribution.
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Hal
J. Curazy & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Kiarm
Walpino
Kinmax & Manvix
Wholesale Drugaista
Hall
Mad dog scare spurs frantic child report in Harper's Weekly
A little girl rushed to tell of a mad dog sighting, screaming that the animal was furious and mad. The scene captures a tense moment described by Harper's Weekly as authorities assess public fear and potential outbreak concerns.
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Harper’s Weekly
Woman Credits Dean's Kidney Pills for Relief
Mrs. Frank Roseboom of Moscow Idaho says inherited kidney trouble worsened her nerves caused sleepless nights dizziness and back and hip pain. After using Dean's Kidney Pills the alarming symptoms disappeared. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Frank Roseboom
Washington St
Moscow
Idaho
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Divorce court counts across nations noted
A Lexington Kentucky Gazette excerpt cites comparative divorce court figures: 79 in France, 28 in Germany, 1 in England, and 2921 in the United States, highlighting the wide variance in judicial infrastructure.
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