English Traveller Traverses New Zealand Far From Home
An English traveler describes Auckland area life, noting abundant green pastures, self-sustaining cattle, and no hay needed. He praises co operation in butter making, central creameries, and land sale systems at Otorohanga, with Maoris, English settlers, and a hopeful outlook for the wilderness.
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New Zealand
Auckland
Canada
England
Australia
Hamilton
Waikato
Otorohanga
Otorohanta
McNair
Rotorua
Hot Lakes
Home Folks and the Long Road to Home
A speaker reflects on leaving rural kindness for urban life and the ache to return to the old home and its true hearts. He recalls meeting plain folk as a boy, longing for the gold of genuine connection, while living among powerful townsfolk who lack grace. The longing to roam persists. National Magazine.
The Cliff Builders
A banker narrator reflects on white chalk cliffs formed by tiny fossil shells. He explains deposition at the sea bottom created the cliffs and describes microfossil forms resembling Nautilus shapes, torpedo-like shells, and star-like forms observed under a microscope.
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Aegean Sea
Cough Helps Hunter Survive Near Pitchfork Pond Deer Run
A New Yorker at Saranac Lake recounts a fall trek with Antoine Storey in the Adirondacks where persistent coughing startled a deer and nearly led to a fatal rifle shot. The hunter credits a sudden cough for saving his life as he faced heavy blackberry thickets en route to Pitchfork Pond.
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Saranac Lake
N. Y
Pitchfork Pond
Antoine Storey
Antoine
Pitchfork Pond Landing
West
Global Labor Movements Stir Across Nations
International unions report growth and activism from Belgium to Canada and the United States. They discuss defense funds wage gains, eight hour day pushes, universal labels, and cross border organization efforts amid court actions and legislative battles shaping labor influence.
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Belgium
San Francisco
Cal
Internationals’ Union
Internationals of Steamfitters
Detroit
Mich
International Prin Pressmen and Assistants
Wisconsin
Boston
Mass
International Marble Workers’ Union
Canada
K. of L. Iron Furring
United States
Los Angeles
Central Labor Council
American Federation of Labor
International Glove Workers’ Association
Coat Tailors
Manhattan
Brotherhood of Tailors
National Organization of Tailors
Cochrane
Covington
Oklahoma State Federation of Labor
Rhode Island State Federation of Labor
Congress
Beeston
Steel and Copper Plate Printers’ Union
Grand Lodge
The
Massachusetts Liquor League
Boston & Maine Railroad
Missouri Federation of Labor
Southwest
Copenhagen
Denmark
National
Typographical Union
International Typographical Union
United Hatters of America
Providence
A. 1
Amalgamated Wood Workers
D. W. Roderick
Chicago
Mexico
General Managers’ Association
Bingham
Hanly
Indiana
Bureau of Immigration
T. W. Powderly
Oil Well Pays Preacher In Lima Church
Rev George Wood Anek and Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church funded by a subscription paper, pledging 1200 to cover losses. An oil well in the church back lot proved a small gusher, driving daily production by a gas engine to run heating and lighting and to pay salaries and expenses, with surplus building a bank for a new church.
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George Wood Anek
Epworth Methodist Episcopal Church
Lima
Anderson
Columbus
Object Lesson in Milk Givers from a Mother and Son
A mother questions her young son about cows on a simple day, noting the white cow provides good white milk while the son asks if the brown cow also gives coffee. The dialogue frames a gentle farmyard lesson in dairy sources.
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Tommy
Geyser Clock Moves Time by Water Burst
An American backwoods town hosts a curious clock whose face and lever are driven by a geyser. The water erupts every thirty eight seconds, striking the lever and advancing the hands by thirty eight seconds with remarkable precision.
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American Home Monthly
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Life In
Riley
the Lown
National Magazine
Cliff Builders
the Labor World
Milwaukee
Wis
Horn
Garment Makers’ Union
Garment Workers
National Postal Clerks’ Association
Almagorda
New Mexico
Strauss
United States Department of Commerce and Labor
Information Bureau
Department of Labor and Commerce
Massachusetts
Illinois
Washington, D. C
National Manufacturers’ Association
Manufacturers’ Association
Paris
France
Germany
Austria
Hungary
Croatia
Servia
Italy
Luxembourg
Sweden
Fortugal
London Society of Compositors
Scotch Printers’ Union
International Federation
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