Food of European Peasants Across the World Remains Plain
The London Globe notes widespread bread scarcity among peasants. In southern Australia and parts of Romania bread is rare, with sterz and polenta serving as staple substitutes. In Austria near Vienna bread is uncommon and porridge from beech nuts, called sterz, fills meals, while Romania’s mamiliiga uses hulled grains kept distinct like oatmeal.
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London Globe
Souther
Australia
Maly
Rommania
Oberstelrmark
Vienna
Carinthia
Tyrol
Italy
Roumania
Monor Memory of Franklin Statue Planned at Penn
The memory of Benjamin Franklin, founder of the University of Pennsylvania in 1740, will be honored by a bronze statue costing $10,000. Erected on the tenth anniversary of the class of 1904 in June 1914, it will stand in front of the gymnasium on Thirty third Street near Spruce.
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Benjamin Franklin
University of Pennsylvania
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Franklin
Hs Philadelphia
R. Tait McKenzie
Henry Cret
Th Architectural School
Adee Claims Plain Front Diet From Bicycle Ride
Alvey A Adee second assistant secretary of state says his good health comes from plain front a farm diet taken in large quantities via bicycle riding He enjoys outdoor exercise and has spent much time in the country and on extended bicycle tours in Europe noted by the Washington Post
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Alvey A. Adee
Mr. Adee
Lattor
Europe
Washington Post
Tsetse Fly Deadly Enemy in African Progress
Report by Sir William Manning shows tsetse fly harms Nyasaland regions halting animal transport. Key road from Hantyve to Zomba closed. 23 miles macadamized to allow motor vehicles while rest under construction. Rainy season from November to May makes ox wagons impassable, threatening new agricultural settlements.
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Africa
William IL. Manning
Nyasaland
Hantyve
Zomba
Mintor
Protectorate
Hall Beefstean Tomato: a clever, substantial addition
The piece extols the beefsteak tomato as a valuable addition to human happiness amid high prices. It praises its color, skins, and flesh, noting a pound equals given meat value and urging readers to enjoy beefsteak tomatoes without excessive concern for cost.
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Berfst
The Common People of Ancient Rome in Focus
A critic reviews Professor Frank Frost Abbott's book The Common People of Ancient Rome noting it as a corrective to modern conceit. The review compares Rome’s paternalism and public welfare to Los Angeles today, citing concerns over high prices and arranged trusts as echoes of Plautus era issues.
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Frank Frost Abbott
Rome
Los Angeles
Jaude
Slowle Lan
Plautus
Shark Liver Market and Harvest Methods in Lagoon
The text describes a small export trade in shark liver oil refined into a marketable product. It notes sharks enter lagoons to mate in October, are speared in large numbers, and that liver yields about five gallons of oil per large shark. Oil price is listed as $73 per ton.
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Barrier Reef
Paira
Alimony Club Banquet Held in Jail on Christmas Day
New York Alimony club, a group of men jailed for defaulting on alimony to separated wives, held a Christmas banquet in their jail. Twelve sat to a common meal, two had just regained liberty two days earlier. The song Il Wonder Who's Kissing Her Now was sung at each toast and Our Unfortunate Successors drew laughs.
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New York
Proverbs by The Wayside no. 2a de way to de work
A fragment from the Atlanta Constitution quote about Proverbs and human folly. It notes many poor men go whistling through life not because they are happy, but as a way to the worse fool. The piece contrasts dreamlike light with spotted days and warns against idealizing the perfect man.
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Lili
Atlanta Constitution
To Swat They and The Judge on Proper Conduct
A whimsical listing of maxims on conduct ranging from guarding friendships to restraint in appetites. The speaker cites behavior such as avoiding alcohol, drinking water, speaking up for needs, recognizing muster, avoiding cats, staging enemies at a distance, and remembering bones have marrow in hot weather.
Quotable Wit and Wisdom From a Summer Cottage Remark
A reader finds a tapestry of proverbs and observations on life through a playful catalog of contrasts. The text parades sayings about truth, effort, faith, doubt, and courage, framed as casual reflections from a traveler, a farmer, and a boarder.
Revolutionary food by chemical growth claims to start with cells
Philadelphia chemists led by Prof. W H Lewis of Johns Hopkins report growing cellular matter outside organisms to indefinitely increase tissue. They claim chicken flesh can be grown in a gel solution and cut off without stopping growth, suggesting the method could apply to any flesh for food production. A reader note and other assorted items follow.
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W. H. Lewis
Johns Hopkins
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