Babushka Little Grandmother in Russian Liberty Story
Kellogg Durland profiles Catherine Breshkovsky known as Babushka the Little Grandmother. A fearless 30 year liberty movement leader exiled to Kara mines for 23 years, beloved across Russia for purity and compassion. She remains a symbol of enduring resistance and maternal reverence.
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Russia
Kellogg Durland
Movement For Liberty
Kara
Siberia
Catherine Breshkovsky
Babushka
Corporal
Windsor
St. Petersburg
Moscow
Caucasus
Volga
Don
A Plea to Permit Sale of Dried Venison
In a New York Press letter to the editor the writer denounces laws banning dried venison sales. He notes deer meat wasted in season, urges smoking or jerked venison be sold in markets, arguing many hunters kill far more than reported and waste valuable meat.
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New York Press
Gifts to Hospitals and Royal Wit At Dinner
The Washington Star quotes a Portuguese consul recalling late King humor at a dinner. The king praised an English visitor for his shooting and joked that Lord Gadabout sends everything he shoots to hospitals. He then quipped that Gadabout never shoots anything but gamekeepers, provoking laughter.
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Gadabout
Washington Star
Optimists' Club House Becomes To Let Sign in Chicago
A New Yorker returning from Chicago recalls seeing a large old-fashioned house facing the lake on Clark Street with the inscription Optimists' Club above the front door and prominent To Let placards, a sad sign of the times reported by Harper's Weekly.
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Chicago
Lake Front
Clark Street
Optimists’ Club
The
Times
Harper's Weekly
Origin of heraldry in the eleventh century
The origin of heraldry is traced to the eleventh century as a necessity to distinguish numerous knights and nobles who joined the First Crusade to Palestine.
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Palestine
One Woman's Endurance in Columbus Mississippi
Mrs. A. B. Payne of 801 Third Ave South Columbus Mississippi suffered years of kidney pains back side and loins. She says Dean's Kidney Pills helped from the first and soon left her strong and healthy. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo N Y.
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A. 8
Payne
Third Ave
Columbus
Miss
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
The Soldier's Field Equipment Through History
The article surveys how infantry packs have evolved, noting lightening goals and added gear. It cites France and Germany, Civil War lessons, and Manchuria campaigns, details spades picks axes and new tools, and describes proposed changes to reduce ammunition and weight and introduce field kitchens and sabre pistols.
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United States
Austria
France
Turkey
Russia
England
Manchuria
Germany
Hoyges
Herr August Kirchen, Jr
Rheydt
Rheinland
Europe
Electricity powered mining through water power in Guanajuato
Electric power driven by water power revives mining and milling in Guanajuato Mexico where rising fuel costs halted operations. Long distance transmission allows using local water power to run electric machinery from nearby sources to the mines.
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Mexico
Guanajuato
A Labor Saving Device On Western Railroads
Western railroads using dirt ballasted tracks require many workers to cut weeds along lines. A gasoline weed burner mounted on trucks can replace up to 320 men, burning twenty miles of track per day, powered by gasoline and operated like asphalt pavement blowers.
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Union Pacific
Leslie’s Weekly
World Newspaper Circulation Measured in Time and Space
Harper's Weekly estimates the global newspaper output at 12 billion copies yearly. If laid end to end the papers would span 10,450 square miles of surface, weigh 781,250 tons, or form a 500 mile high tower. Reading time for everyone equates to about 100,000 years annually.
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Harper's Weekly
Antiquity of the Oath Across History
The oath traces to the oldest times with appeals to forces beyond humans. Early swearing invoked nature, fire, flood, beasts, and pestilence, while the raised hand and the phrase So help me God reflect Jewish Christian origins despite many nations swearing by their gods.
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God
Domestic science urged to lift women and servants
Miss Bella Bruce told the Woman's Exchange that the servant problem stems from untrained domestic workers and limited views. She urged training, fair wages, proper meals, and decent sleeping rooms, plus avoidant practices to preserve competent help and industrial balance.
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Bella Bruce
Miss Bruce
Bruce
New York Times
How He Beat the Road Diamond Joe story
A railroad owner in Arkansas nicknamed Diamond Joe offered a reward for anyone who rode his narrow gauge line from Malvern Junction to Hot Springs. A man arrives claiming to have conquered the voyage by riding in a boiler tank and asks for the prize and clothes.
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Arkansas
Reynolds
Malvern Junction
Hot Springs
Diamond Joe
Mr. Reynolds
Kaiser's Revolver Keeps William II Ready for Death
The Kaiser, Emperor William II, is described as never parting with a revolver kept inspected and primed each morning. He is convinced an anarchist will kill him and plans to fight to the end or strike the attacker if he fails.
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William II
London
Record of Quaker ministers shows 153 women among 387
A historical note lists 387 recorded ministers of the Society of Friends in Great Britain, of whom 153 are women reflecting gender participation in the religious leadership.
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Society of Friends
Great Britan
Syrup of Figs and Senna Offered as Gentle Laxative
The General Demand for a simple pleasant liquid laxative is met by the California Fig Syrup Co. with Syrup of Figs and Elixir of Senna praised as wholesome gentle yet prompt. Buyers are urged to seek genuine California Fig Syrup Co. product at leading druggists, price fifty cents per bottle.
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California Fig Syrup Co
Alton Must Teach Negroes to Attend Public Schools
After twelve years of test litigation the Illinois Supreme Court issued a mandamus against Mayor and City Council of Alton to permit Ambrose and Minnie Bibb, two Black students, to attend Washington and other public schools. The Bibbs, now entering high school after private tutoring, represent a broader enforcement of school rights for Negro students already issued by the writ.
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State Supreme Court
Alton
Ill
Ambrose
Minnie Bibb
Washington
Bibbs
Father of Twenty Seven Children
James Allen Monroe a livestock commissioner and broker announces to a Chicago census enumerator that twenty seven children were born to him eighteen are living He began fathering children in 1866 and his third wife recently bore a daughter The Dunston couple at 733 Wells Street has fifteen children with three sets of twins in twenty years of marriage
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James Allen Monroe
Chicago
Charles Dunston
Wells Street
Swedenborg Body to Be Removed for Reinterment in Sweden
The remains of Emanuel Swedenborg, after 136 years in the vault at the Swedish Church St George's in the East London, are to be transported to Sweden for reburial there.
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Swedenborg
Emanuel Swedenborg
St. George’s-in-the-East
London
Sweden
Two Topers A Teacher's Experience
A Minn postmaster style Letter from a school teacher nicknamed The Postum Preacher endorses Postum as a coffee alternative. She recalls nervous tremors from coffee, describes relief after switching, and credits improved nerves, appetite and sleep to Postum. The piece promotes a Beattle Creek Michigan company slogan and urges readers to try the product.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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Japan
Hungary
Switzerland
Kaiser’s
Paxton Toilet CO
Boston
Mass
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