Preserving Cut Flowers and Gymnastic Insights
The article advises changing water tepidly and sprinkling stems hourly to keep flowers fresh, noting roses fade first and lilies and hyacinths hold scent. It discusses mothering and home life, then shifts to gymnastic training, stressing nervous coordination over brute strength and citing Professor du Bois Reymond. It also mentions French leech trade history and a broker named Levy with stock values and monthly earnings.
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Eaesais
du Bois Reymond
Dis Umschau
Beaton Transcript on Home Life Shifts With School and Church
A Beaton Transcript writer notes that new factors antagonize home relations and absorb time. Schools now demand more time for regular work athletics and social activities. Churches with numerous organizations require many evening activities and substantial Sunday involvement.
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Beaton Transcript
Hanit
Ipa Jose
Leeches Pelting Decline Reveals Market Change
The report recalls Paria’s past, noting ten wholesale leech dealers once served the area, each selling 300000 to 400000 leeches monthly and earning about 50 dollars per thousand, while today there is only one dealer remaining.
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Paria
Trav
Queer hotel call amid room confusion at 1 a m
The telephone operator at a Broadway hotel answered a strange call around 1 am. A man asked for the So-and-So hotel, learned he was in the Such and-Such hotel, and requested ice water and a chrome gelizer. The exchange ended with a puzzled confirmation.
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Broadway
Thia
Esid
New York Telegraph
Letter CAME BACK Burnett Story Of A Missing Letter
Mrs Frances Hodgson Burnett recounts a true tale titled The Mystery of My Life. While in England she wrote and stood a letter beside a silver cigarette box, then it vanished. After a search she found it exactly where she had left it, leaning against the box, as if reappearing from nowhere.
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Frances Hodgson Burnett
Bngland
Abe
Burnett
Orchids at Home for Window Gardeners
Orchids can be grown at home with little effort. Blooming flowers cost a dollar or more, but the plants are cheaper. Use a soup box covered with glass, place in a sunny window, and water only infrequently to prevent evaporation.
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Mitch
Dery Taping and Winter Heating Anecdote
The fragment recalls winter heating by wiring a box for electric heat and a Governor Wilson luncheon remark about crops and education. A farmer jokes a son has book learning but needs more athletics to help harvest.
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Wilson
Spring Lake
Ijnister
Arightdner
Eaid the
Saved Comrade but Lost Life in Staffs Blast Furnace
In Darlaston England a worker Heald fell into a furnace during a readjustment task. Jackson descended to save him, but he died near the surface. Three more men Ince Darby and Speake attempted a rescue. Sheake finally secured a rope and pulled Jackson to safety, but he was dead.
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Darlaston
Staffordshire
England
Heald
Jackson
Ince
Darby
Speake
Sheake
Romance in Tin Mining in Bolivia and Global Riches
The piece notes Bolivia's tin wealth alongside copper and gold, comparing tin mining to diamond and gold mining worldwide. It highlights fortunes, a prospector-turned-railway offer, and Bolivia's 20 share of last year’s 110000 tons of tin, with mines at elevations from 15000 to 17000 feet and even beneath the sea bed, citing the Christian Herald.
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Bolivia
South Africa
Ings
California
Devonshire
England
Dying Merchant Alters Estate Plan to Eldest Daughter
An aged merchant, near death, directs his family lawyer to leave all property to his eldest daughter and to ensure she is aware of the arrangement. In a final twist he asks whether the lawyer should arrange that she marry to secure the inheritance.
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United States
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Gee
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