The Arid Land Area and Future Irrigation Wealth
Wil C. Ferril argues in City Journal that Colorado and the broader western states hold 50,000,000 acres of arid land ready for irrigation. He cites engineers like T. C. Henry and various academics noting vast potential populations, the need for reservoirs, and a trend toward a western rain belt, with farmers already growing crops in former desert regions.
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T. C. Henry
Kansas
Colorado
India
Egypt
Belgium
France
Great
San Luis Valley
San Juan Country
Guianison
Spain
Nebraska
Wyoming
New Mexico
Idaho
Utah
West
Commonwealth
Henry Garnett
Missouri
Minnesota
Illinois
Indiana
United States
Sargent
Harvard College
Wilber, Angbey
Snow
Furnass
Fort Leavenworth
Fort Riley
State Ccultural College
State University
Lawrence
Kan
Great American Desert
Wil C. Ferrilin
City Journal
The Cause of It Comedy Exchange
Two citizens joke about a wife aging while waiting for change in a large trimming store. The quip appears in a Pittsburg Bulletin snippet.
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Pittsburg
British postal savings banks described by U S consul report
United States Consul Walling reports on Britain's postal savings banks begun in 1861 under Gladstone. Deposits grew to 8,731,421 with £50,874,838 by 1886. Banks accept small deposits, guarantee repayment with government security, and allow minors and married women to save. Similar systems exist in colonies and other nations.
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Great Britain
United States
Walling
Liverpool
Wen
Gladstone
France
Germany
Austria
Italy
Belgium
Holland
Japan
Detroit Free Press
The Causes of Poor Hair in Women
Shirley Dare explains that neglecting weekly shampooing and nightly brushing leads to scalp dirt and dust buildup. She cautions house dust from curtains and carpets damages hair roots, causes irritation, and accelerates hair loss for women around age 40.
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Shirley Dare
Rats on Board Ship Across Global Ports
A West India captain describes a rat plague aboard ships with water rats traveling between ports. He cites Jamaica rats with white bellies spotted in moonlight and Indian rats killed on his vessel. He recalls warm weather drying water, rats climbing rigging for water, and some surviving voyages by leaping overboard.
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West India
Jamaica
Epee
Philadelphia Record
Fashions in Handwriting Promote Illegibility
John Preston Beecher in New York News notes the latest handwriting fashion sold by a stylish stationer promises fashionable caligraphy for the aristocracy but contends modern masters suppress individuality yet fail to achieve elegance. The writer observes handwriting aims to be as illegible as possible, praising the mastery shown by practitioners.
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John Preston Beecher
New York News
Suggestion for Railway Fares in Major Stations
The Boston Transcript cites the New York Tribune urging railways to display plainly printed fare lists in stations and to add money changing offices. This would let passengers prepare exact funds, speeding purchases at busy hubs.
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Boston Transcript
New York Tribune
Crystallization Of Fruits Explained For Home Canners
A detailed description of crystallizing and glazing fruits, outlining selection, scalding, sugar syrup immersion, and careful fermentation control. Steps include fruit prep, boiling water extraction, syrup concentration around 70 degrees Balling, week-long soaking, repeated heating for six weeks, then glazing or crystallizing before boxing and shipping.
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California
France
United States
Maine
Balling
J. i. Tt
Patti and the Burglar
Mme Patti faced a masked burglar in her Welsh hotel chamber as he claimed to steal her diamonds. She rang for a servant, but Signor Nicolini arrived. the thief fought, Patti seized the club, and the duo tossed him from a second story window, breaking a leg. He was a peasant Patti had befriended.
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Mme
Patti
Wales
Signor Nicolini
Nicolini
London Cor
New York Press
Brazil’s capital described by William E. Curtis
Curtis portrays Rio de Janeiro as a city of disappointments with a botanical garden as its only bright spot. He notes crowded streetcars, prevalent paperwork rituals, and vivid sensory imagery of birds and fireflies, while criticizing Brazilian women’s voices and shopping habits.
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Rio
Botanical Garden
Wiliam E. Curtis
Why New York’s Money Chase Ages Its People
A Buffalo News reader laments rapid aging in New York due to relentless pursuit of wealth. The quote contrasts frugal life in France with American urgency to earn money, criticizing wasteful spending and lack of financial restraint.
Chinese History Compiled by Imperial Commission
A North China Herald summary notes that Chinese history is kept by a permanent commission of scholars and officials. It details two publication types: factual records and emperor’s edicts, with scribes translating spoken words into official history. The latest set, sixty volumes covering 1736 to 1795, records all major events by date.
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Bureau of History
Kienlung
North China Herald
The Cat and the Dog Mastery of Courage on a Street Scene
A Boston Transcript Listener piece describes a cat facing a dog ten times her size with poised bravado. The cat remains alert, claws unsheathed, eyes fixed, and when a chance appears she escapes over a high fence as the dog circles, beaten by courage and generalship.
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Boston ‘Transcript
Poison in expired air prompts ventilation call
Two French physicians Brown Sequard and D Arson val found that expired air may contain a poison beyond carbonic acid and ammonia. By passing air through water and injecting the solution into animals, they observed slower breathing, temperature drop, paralysis, and heart activity changes, suggesting pulmonary consumption may be linked to this poison and urging thorough ventilation in homes churches and public places.
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Brown-Sequard
D’arsonval
The American tough and its city life role
The Boston Home Journal argues the tough is an American city phenomenon a citizen who defies law and feels superior to others. It contends only severe corporal punishment could reform such a figure and notes his fear of arrest or imprisonment is minimal.
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Subae
America
Boston Home Journal
Bearskin Hats Face Possible Abolition by London Guards
The London Foot Guards fear losing their bearskin hats worn by three brigades as the supply dwindles. Each bearskin now costs about $38 and is valued mainly for display and cold climates. Soldiers prize the hat for its imposing look. Philadelphia Times.
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London Foot Guards
Philadelphia Times
A Chicago Man Saves Dozens From Drowning in Lincoln Park
A Chicago man describes his decades of rescue work along Lincoln Park lake shore. He explains drownings occur in fair or foul weather, mostly among distressed youths led by gloomy days, with many would be suicides turning back before final plunge. He notes common patterns and timing, and recalls rescuing a dozen people including several accused of serious crimes.
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Lincoln Park
Chicago
Chicago Journal
Mosquito Seen as Blessing in Madras Lecture
In Madras a lecturer, H Sullivan Thomas, argues the female mosquito bites only and calls the pest useful. He says seven-eighths of its life serves humans and one-eighth causes annoyance. The larvae develop twenty-one days and work to clean dirty water and drains, voraciously devouring contaminants observed in the scene.
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Madras
India
H. Sullivan Thomas
New Orleans
Marblehead Neck Poems of Longing and Sea
A reader recalls Marblehead Neck waves and red rocks in a lyrical octave. The speaker laments that the beloved is not present to witness the sunset, moonlit tides, and crimson sails as the poem blends nature with personal memory.
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Sarah K. Bolton
Home Journal
When Sunstroke Prevalence Alters Air and Heat Response
The Globe Democrat notes sunstroke risk rises with high humidity and heat. Dry air allows higher tolerable heat. moist air hinders evaporation and cooling, increasing internal production. Compensate with reduced exertion and lighter diet and clothing as a protective measure.
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Globe-Democrat
Not an Agreeable Topic
A Boston Budget excerpt explains how Chinese phrases about death use metaphorical and respectful terms. It lists expressions like added to the muster roll of ghosts and become one of the ancients, plus less reverent phrases such as swallowed his breath and slipped his skin.
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Boston
Advance of Civilization by Don Alphonso in Turkestan
Don Alphonso also known as Don Juan and Huelva Count de Bourbon travels through Turke stan and sees rapid progress along the Transcaspian railway. At Mery he finds brick houses and paved streets, while Bokhara’s railway station offers a deluxe buffet and a young Russian barmaid fluent in French and German. Twenty years ago Christians faced danger in Bokhara.
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Don Alphonso
Don Carlo
Spain
Don Juan & Huelva
Count de Bourbon
Turkestan
Mery
Bokhara
New York Sun
Description of Skeena Indians by Chicago Herald
The Chicago Herald portrays the Skeena Indians as short, morally degraded, heathen, and resistant to Christianity. It claims they are wild and lawless, meek when alone yet loud and threatening in groups, with facial features described as mouth and cheek bones and flat noses.
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Chicago Herald
Telepathy Endorsed as Fact by Psychology Society
The English Society for Psychical Research accepts telepathy as an demonstrated fact and the simplest explanation for many psychological phenomena. They acknowledge some fraud but uphold mind to mind communication as plausible beyond bodily signals.
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English Society For Psychical Research
Globe Democrat
Novel Case Reported By Paris Academy Of Medicine
A report from the Arkansa Traveler notes a surgeon removed parts of the breast bone and several ribs to halt a disease, a risky experiment that endangered the patient’s life and has drawn interest from physiologists seeking inquiry into the living anatomy and major artery exposed during the procedure.
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Paris Academy of Medi
Arkansa
How Mrs Shaw Whistles and Vocal Chords
The Saturday Review's and Home Journal note the vocal cords function as vibrating reeds and resonators shaping the mouth into a refined instrument for speech and singing. They argue the instrument can be perfected when the lips are self adjusted for projection.
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Saturday Review
Home Journal
Egypts Movable Types Uncovered in Ancient Practice
A Vienna conference reveals Professor Karabacet demonstrated that movable types were used in Egypt 500 years before Gutenberg. The finding suggests early wood and metal type use for letter press and elements, challenging printer history as reported by the Bos Transcript.
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Egypt
Colasbus
Gutenberg
Karabacet
Seum of
Vienna
Mayence
Bos Transcript
Not Truly Converted. Forty-eight converts at the call meeting
In a humorous exchange a citizen questions the success of a call meeting with a deacon who estimates forty eight converts. He notes thirty seven owe him for root beer and a sandwich. The Boston Herald reports the dialogue with light irony.
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Boston Herald
Boilers Without Rivets and Compact Boiler Work
A German manufacturer is in slight excess of rivet work and nuts welded. When a man is deemed reliable in Montana they say he will stand with hitchin. The Texas Siftings note cites 50,000,000 cattle in the country with only 200,000 of pure breed. Flies don't bother the busy TM at Philadelphia Call.
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Fce
Montana
Hitchin
Omaha Herald
Philadelphia
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New York
Buffalo News
O'Brien
Marblehead Neck
Mrs. Shaw
Texas
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