Baby's Parliament Opens Liege Congress on Infancy
A letter to the Daily Mail reports the first international congress on infant education and management starting in Liege University halls. Four sections cover scientific infant care, early education, abnormal development, and broad infancy topics including parental alcoholism and tobacco use.
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Charles Hand
Daily Mail
ST Um Bencenihor
Mtatons
Liege
Theeime
Sittin
Noxious fumes cause extraordinary scenes in city
Chloride of sulfur spill near Massie s Typhe and King led to choking fumes sweeping a building. Eight firemen were overcome while rescuing workers unable to descend stairs. Fire alarm sounded as flames began. firefighters worked to guide occupants to safety as people on upper floors escaped.
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Mincing Tang
London
Massies
Fire Escape Drama At Town Building Rescue
An early report describes a building fire where fire brigade members used the fire escape to reach victims. Several firefighters were overcome by smoke, eight men rescued, with three needing hospital treatment. Small liquid spatter and rising fumes delayed the response but crews eventually regained control.
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Hos Hilal
Tangerencup MT
Cost Of London City Police Expenses Revealed
The City of London police costs show total expenditures including salaries for superintendents clerks and constables amounting to 1 175 008 with wages and clothing running 110 367 and 449 respectively. Rent repairs and chief station costs tally 20 000 while revenue from rates and City contributions plus reimbursements total 1 108 784 and 887 respectively leaving a balance of 950 in hand for the year 194.
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City of London
Atfien
The Match-Box Makers of Hus Street
A close study reveals a family of match-box workers laboring in a dirty tile room on Hus Street. They assemble tubes, apply paste, and wrap labels for two pence per gross, relying on long hours and quick, skilled work to survive. The piece notes that most out-work revolves around cheaper clothing and that alien labor largely excludes the poorest kinds of work, with native and Gentile workers remaining.
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Dargather
Allen Imralt Fration Commission
Bam
Sweatshop Prices in London Light on Workers Rights
A London report outlines meager earnings for shirt finishers and bodice hands with weekly limits and Sunday work exemptions. It cites a hard case of a woman who stitched 48 houses for just two shillings and threepence, highlighting daily sweating and undervalued labor.
Beaulley Beaux These Women Hold Off 24 Hours
Parle correspondent reports at Beaulley nese Leches in the Department of Tribe-et-Loire a case where two women resisted arrest for a day. The mother and daughter protected four grandchildren with a pitchfork and blunderbuss, later besieged by gendarmes and police who secured them amid a cheering crowd.
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Parle
Daily Mall
Beaulley
Nese Leches
Tribe-et-Loire
Jousset Lye
Rain in the Face Sioux Chief Dies at 62
Rain in the Face, last great Sioux chief famed for Custer massacre and ritual heart cutting, died in a South Dakota Indian Reservation at age sixty two. He shunned Buffalo Bill show world tour and later wore U.S. government police uniform, but remained wary of civilised life. He had seven wives and was linked to a suspected murder of his final wife, though no proof emerged.
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United States
South Dakota
Fenimore Cooper
Sitting Bull
Buffalo Bill
General Custer
Lima
Daily = Telegraph
Wedding Funeral Echoes Through Elketons Valley Romance
A funeral held last month in the sharebyard of Elketons near Cheltenham sparked wide countryside chatter. The event is viewed as closing a chapter in a long stirring romance that has engaged locals and observers alike.
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Elketons
Cheltenham
Tragic Regency Era Marriage Scandal at Northumberland Farm
A 43 year old widow, respected for nursing her father, wed a Northumberland nephew who had just come of age after a secretive license granted by a Gloucester registrar. The pair married quietly, but separation soon followed as the husband departed north, and within a month the young wife died in the churchyard, her marriage declared lawful yet tragically depleted by scandal.
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Northumberland
Gloucester
Rothschild Will Provides Large Charitable Bequests
Probate in London on September 20 grants Beron Nathaniel von Rothschild of Vienna a vast will with ten million Austrian florins to charitable institutions bearing his name. One million florins for Vienna charities, twenty thousand florins for Vienna’s poor, and other sizable endowments across Austrian towns and funds. Executors include Baron Albert Solomon Anselm von Rothschild. The late estate in the UK valued at 125,634 pounds 11 pence.
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London
Beron Nathaniel von Rothschild
Vienna
Austria
of & M
Schilterndort
Charlottenatift Et Hultechim
Schil Invsdort
Engenten
Anl
Baron Rothschild
United Kingdom
Fragmentary Dialogue Inside a Parlor Warped by Slips
A garbled transcription centers on a waiter and patron exchanging a cold coffee remark. Mixed phonetic errors and stray lines suggest an improvised scene with a traveler, a country bumpkin, and a brief wartime or battle allusion. The text shows little coherent narrative.
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