Terrible Toll of the Sea 1908 Ship Losses and Toll
Sidney Sapp reports on the Bureau Veritas record of 1908 sea losses among merchant steamships over 100 tons. It notes 986 vessels lost or damaged, with 4,273 steamers injured, and 50 ships listed as missing, detailing causes such as fire, collision, stranding, and weather.
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Bureau Veritas
Harper's Magazine
Atlantic
Seven Seas
Barka
Botttom
Papen
Ceap
Tuberculosis mortality in Ireland continues decline
The registrar general reports a sustained drop in tuberculosis deaths in Ireland since 1908, with the rate falling from 3.7 per 1000 in 1907 to 2.6 in 1968 and 2.3 in the year under review. The Dundee Advertiser highlights praise for the campaign, the Women’s National Health Association led by the Countess of Aberdeen, and the role of medical officers of health and local councils in improving housing and public health.
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Irelane
Registrar General For
Ireland
Women’s National Health Association
Countess of Aberdeen
Dundee Advertiser
Tired Feet Recovery Tips From a Travel Docket
After a long walk feet feel weary try warm water bath with emu de cologne added. Dry them rub in starch violet powder. On trains bring light slippers change boots. Rub with alcohol and salt water for rest. starch powder follow. Wear finest cotton stockings or cashmere. soap heel to prevent blisters and dust stockings with boracic acid.
A Test of Wit in Society Columns
A brief mock exchange highlights how a woman can read a full column of society news without a smile, while another remark calls the subject exceptionally kind and generous in demeanor. The dialogue, attributed to Miss Cay omne, reflects wit about social reporting.
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Miss Cayomne
Society News
Duty of the Parents in a Changing World
An essay argues that parental duty to love and guide children persists beyond adulthood. It recalls early New England practices of entrusting sons with fortunes and blessing, then questions when parental responsibility truly ends. The piece stresses enduring care born of devotion and hope, regardless of the offspring’s conduct or age.
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New England
Miserable Toadstool and the Edible Field Mushroom
The piece defends edible field mushrooms, noting Amanita freely mistaken for agaricus campestris, common in pastures after rains. It warns against the deadly death cup and urges educated gathering to avoid fatalities while praising the taste and versatility of field mushrooms.
Handicapped man faces bleak job outlook and court reward
The piece argues twenty thousand dollars offered by New Jersey courts for the boy who lost both hands reflects a harsh economic reality. It notes limited trades for the handless, lifelong dependence on others, and the broader shift in legal views recognizing disability as a social factor impacting opportunity and participation.
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New Jersey
Woman Stonecutter From Utica Aids Father In Yard
Miss Agatha Troy of Utica is described as the nation’s only female professional stone cutter. She assists her father in his granite and marble yard, is Sicilian by birth, and though under five feet tall, can wield a five pound hammer with ease like the male workers.
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Agatha Troy
Utica
Gotham Fat Women Outnumber Fat Men
A New York observer laments the rise of corpulent middle aged women in the city. He cites impressions from streets and restaurants attributing weight gain to abundant meals and high quality food. A department store buyer notes typical New York customers averaging 165 pounds and predicts hobble skirts will stress on overweight figures.
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York
New York
Moving Picture Shows Grip Chicago Audience Growth
Chicago's moving picture shows outpace baseball in popularity with four times as many attendees. There are 556 shows in the city, plus vaudeville films. centers screen between acts. Since 1908, neighborhoods converted and pros prospered, and a city censorship bureau inspects seventy thousand feet of film weekly with seven officers, rejecting scenes and issuing cutouts as needed.
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Moving Picture Show
Chicago
Moving Picture
Moving Picture Bureau
Police Department
Sergt
Jeremiah O'Connor
Tom
Meek
Harry
United States
Catcago Sise
Kansas Hiking Clubs Map Sunday Walk Pleasures Across Towns
Kansas businessmen form hiking clubs inspired by Edward Payson Weston and plan multiple walks weekly. Captains choose routes and arrange early country breakfasts of fried chicken and biscuits for about 60 cents a plate, with farmers wives rising before dawn to host the hikers as they arrive.
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Kan
Kansas
Edward Payson
Weston
Peripatetic Club
Weston Wobblers
Jones
Western Cities Are to Have Pennies
Salt Lake City reports a western push to import pennies after years of coin scarcities. Households see savings in odd purchases and retailers begin advertising prices in pennies. Banks hold most coins and struggle to supply them in a market where nickels were once the small option.
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Salt Lake City
Utan
Ben
HARTACK OR PRUNES THE OZARKS DIETARY DEBATE
An essay on historical military rations contrasts hardtack and prunes for sustaining armies. It surveys how rice and fish diets influenced Japanese and other forces, weighs national temperaments, and notes the persistence of hardtack in earlier campaigns.
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Hamlet
Dane
Yorick
Spain
Lycurgus
Hannibal
Capua
Grand
Washington
East
Constable Yearsley to Wed Miss Kendell at Clifton Heights
Constable William G Yearsley age 38 of Magistrate Hagertys office will wed Miss Lillian M Kendell 18 of Clifton Heights Pa. The couple met eight months ago via Yearsleys sister Mrs William Davis who advised marriage and played matchmaker. They will marry at 155 North Fifty seventh Street, the sisters home where they first met. Kendell is a Newark High School graduate and a skilled musician.
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William G. Yearsley
Hagerty
Lillian M. Kendell
Clifton Heights
Yearsley
William Davis
North Fifty-seventh Street
Kendell
Newark, N. J
Philadelphia Times
Census Drollery Reveals Age Guesswork and Penalties
An old essay jokes about discrepancies in census ages and the burden of accuracy. It notes the Australian statistician’s blunt warnings about birth records and a 50 pound fine for errors, provoking feminine readers to seek corrections or question the clipping of the pen.
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Vale of Tears
Fall Recorder
Commonwealth
Barber’s Quip About Amr Tonic Provokes Stranger
In a barber shop a stranger asks for amr tonic. The barber jokes he would have to give three haircuts and charge for them before the customer could leave presentable. The exchange mixes bravado and humor in a tight, period dialogue.
RAID ON WOMEN GAMBLERS IN MINNEAPOLIS SHUT DOWN
Police closed a fashionable gambling house in Minneapolis after weeks of operation. Hundreds of women reportedly lost money amid luxury cars and a society crowd. A grocer, angered by his wife’s losses, sparked the crackdown with claims of widespread wives’ gambling. One man cited losses of up to seventy dollars in a single sitting and raffles offered after games for prizes such as hand painted china.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Big Dog Nearly Kills Boy in Washington Street Attack
Eleven year old Cuaries O’Brien was dragged by a Great Dane owned by a prominent physician through Washington city streets, nearly causing severe injury. Bystanders beat the dog, police intervened, and the animal was taken home after a ten minute struggle. In Denver a man with asthma sought a permit to cough, to show authorities when disturbed.
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Washington
O'Brien
The
Ind
Death by her own action follows weeping in Cleveland
In Cleveland Ohio the heart broken father had used a strap in disciplining Mollie Lechner seventeen. She drank poison and died about forty five minutes later leaving a tragic scene.
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Cleveland
Ohio
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Ellver
Redding
Ozark Mountains
Red Hills
Big Dog
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