Long distance telephones to Europe and busy Narragansett Pier
The piece notes possible long distance telephone connections between the United States and Europe. It alights on crowded Narragansett Pier with officials and senators present. It also mentions a stock exchange anecdote about a broker slipping a bad egg and a comparison of cocoanut butter substitutes in Germany and Switzerland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
New York Stock Exchange
Germany
Switzerland
Montana Leads World in Copper Output and Other Era News
Montana has jumped to the lead in copper production with more than 80,000,000 pounds in ten years. Duels among Italian army officers will be investigated by corps commanders. London uses an automatic streetcar starter with wound springs aiding starts. Harrigan and Noble, once close friends, competed for Carrie Scott. The Daughters of the Revolution grow as guardians of revolutionary memory. Adulteration of coffee in France involves flour and iron sulfate misrepresented as beans. A Princeton man runs a White Mountain hotel employing students from top colleges. Dr Frere, Ecuador’s president, pardoned eighty seven prisoners, most of whom returned to prison within a week. A Scottish plant collects furnace smoke for oil, yielding thousands of gallons weekly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Starkey & Paten
Dra Starkey & Palen
Montana
Tur Claflin gains vast Newark estate through sister in law
The Tur Claflin family is said to have acquired a monumental Newark estate of sixty five acres valued around 200 million dollars via a sister in law. The piece notes a French bill changing a park duty, offset by exchange rates, describing a duty of 18 cents per pound for pork imports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Park
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
France
England Faces Bread Shortage Despite Strong Wheat Prospects
The article notes the worldwide wheat situation with large harvests in the country but looming famine in India and peasant starvation in Russia, Spain, and Europe. It emphasizes England’s good harvest yet inability to feed its own population, calling the country favored.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Russia
Spain
Europe
England
Mystery and misadventure in New York summer visit
Miss Melinda Parkinson travels to New York with cousin Lemuel Larkins to fetch summer patterns. On the Bowery she fears pickpockets and a rooftop specter, witnesses a sleepwalking scare, and learns the city’s oddities from eccentric locals before hurrying back to Centerville with tales of the great metropolis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melinda Parkinson
New York City
New York
Melinda
Lemuel Larkins
Melly
Mr Larkins
Expressman
Miss Melinda
Larkins
Express
Miss Parkinson
the Sentinel
Cousin Larkins
Parkins
Lemuel
Papa
Cousin Lemuel
Marm
de Griffiths
Court of Common Complaints
Larkins Damily
Central Park
Bowery
Madame Frida von Poppenhusen
Garten
Mrs. Larkins
Erie
Lucretia
Lves
Burnabee
Mr. Larkina
Mr Burnabee
Hiro
Misa Melinda
Mr. Burnabee
Amy Randolph
Only a Printer in Century Thinkers Cited
A Century magazine passage argues that many leaders and intellectuals across nations and eras were printers by trade. It lists aristocrats, rulers, authors, and officials proving printing as a common thread among influential figures worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Stanhope
Prince Edward William
Prince Napoleon
Russia
Prussia
Duke of Battenburg
China
William Caxton
G. P. Morris
N P Willis
James Gales
Charles Richardson
James Parker
Horace Greeley
Charles Dicksons
James Buchanan
Simon Cameron Schuyler Colfax
Mark Twain
Amos J. Cummings
Bret Harte
William Dean Howells
Joel Chapdler Harris
Opie I Reed
Artemus Ward
Petroleum V.nasby
Sut Lovingood
Senator Plumb
Kansas
James J. Hogg
Texas
Sarsa parilla Promoted for Restoring Vitality in Elderly
An advertising notice claims Todds Sarsaparilla can wonderfully recuperate and sustain the declining powers of old age through daily use, appealing to seniors seeking renewed vigor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tood
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Wolff
Ikron
Wolff & Randolph
Philadelphia
Richard Mellow
Firth Street
City Hall
Verdld
DRS, Starkey & Palen
Arch St
San Francesc Ol
William Niblock, Jr Contractor
Ms Builder
Henry
Jan. Ly
Invest Ible Funds
Thompson & Sons
Lacon, Ill
James Tanner
Wathington, D
Akesi
New, York City
The
Henry Republican
Narragansett Pier
London
Eng
Preament
Harrigan
Secretary Noble
Benjamin
Noble
Carrie Scott
White House
National Society of the Daughters of the Revolution
White Mountain
Princeton
Harvard
Yale Williams
Amherst
Dartmouth Bowdoin
Cornell
Dr Frere
Ecuador
Republic
Scotland
Wien
Bellvilee
Vicertea
Tonya
Furepih
Alwaga
Pastor Koenig
Fort Wayne
Ind
Koenic Med. CO
Chicago
Lil
Ponpie
A Fontaina
Tacoma Wash
Tomora
Mationyy & Nennin Nu
Fins Street
Cincinnati
SY Ie
Sapolig
Ste
Sapolio
United States
Gillett’s Yeast
Sour Qrocer’s
DR. Ross
South Adams
Peoria
Ill
Peery
N. Clark Street
Fred Compagnon
Chefhlcago
Taney &Lore
Myldly
Fink Aur Nealer
Baker” Chain
Baker Chain & ‘Wagon 'Ron Mfg. Co
Alegheny
Sewapanss
W.ayer& Soton
O. B
J. A. McDill
Panorama Place
Ell
Druccists
Aloszo G. Fismer
Washington &I
Florida
Tlsore Throat CO
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