Aluminum's rise from curiosity to useful product in 5 years
The piece notes U.S. aluminum output 1894 at 50,000 pounds rising to 23,620 pounds in 1899, with ten years prior at 150 pounds. It highlights the metal’s lightness strength and ductility expanding uses and cites a current price around one cent per pound. Also included are unrelated anecdotes on a religious debate and a beauty column touting laxatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giltelt
Banissinées
United States
Ripans Tabules Ad Copy From New York Address
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Ripans Tabules editing by deguitsts and a New York address No 10 Sorise Street. Mentions Dymat Wt and SU cents and bori aent. Readable content is minimal with probable advertisement lineage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ripans
Ripans Chem & Eempann
Sorise Streat
New York
Woman's Office Ethics and Poems by Rose Hartwick Thorpe
The piece reflects on female conduct in business and social settings, warning against vanity and imprudence while praising steadiness and reliability. It describes a missionary-like ideal of women who adapt to workplace norms, earn respect, and secure advancement through practical virtue. It also recounts Rose Hartwick Thorpe, born Indians, who wrote Curfew Must Not Ring Tonight after a neighbor lent Peterson's Magazine.
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Sher
Sheas
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Rose Hartwick
Thorpe
Bha
Peterson
Bessie
England
Sim Wes
Qwrork
Detroit
A. A. Hopkins
Verge
Edmund C. Thorpe
Chose a Greek Husband and other life tales
A long, varied feature discusses gender roles in work and marriage. It notes that beauty cannot buy power in business and urges women to prove competence. It recounts Mrs. Barnum’s marriage to Demetrius Callas Bay and the social details of their union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Plt. Barnum
Demetrius Callas Bay
Barnum
PT. Barnumn
Dora
Southampton
England
Jolt Fisk
Althoug
Pheeran
Demetris Hias Rev
Barnam
Caire
Egypt
Alma
Conan
Constantinople
Trobert Ingersoll
Atiicee
Wall Street
New York
Speculation on Raleigh Colony Vital to Virginia Legend
The Roanoke tale links Sir Walter Raleigh and the Lost Colony with Dare and Virginia history. Frances Melton argues descendants of colonists blend with the Croatan people, while Lowrie’s lineage is cited as preserved in Reconstruction-era stories. The piece also notes Devonshire's private railway and swindler warnings about fake tonics, ending with English education replacing German in a Russian Turkestan school.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Rawleigh
Virgina
Dare
Englad
Walter Raleigh
Roanoke Island
John White
England
Gov. White
Walter Staleigh
Francesa Jones Melton
Lamber River
Henry Bell Lowrie
Lowrie
Cattle in South America and housing woes in Paris
An article notes Argentina’s export cap despite large herds and rising alfalfa pastures with Herefords and Angus fattening for meat. It cites prices to London and lucerne’s export wealth, while Paris households face high costs for coffee beef butter tea and milk, highlighting expensive living. It also mentions Seattle bootblacks forming a union to stabilize prices and punish undercutting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America Journal
Quack Remedies and Notable Social Tidbits
Jumbled notes show several patent medicines advertised and advised cures. Mentions Rudyard Kipling lore, a New York Real Estate Exchange member, and a seismologist marrying a Japanese spouse. Various remedies claim asthma relief and infant ailments with prices in cents.
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WS. Aiilligan
New York
The
Real Estate Exchange
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Russia
Houte
Edmond Yates
Hood
Kennedy
Ronald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Boston
Tnrei By
Bert M. Moses
Third Street
Brooklyn
J. Carreau
Weat
Twenty-first Street
New York City
Moses
Dr. Carreau
Jim
Grove
Whya Maen
Udt
Gov't
Devonshire
America
Tashkend
Turkestan
Germany
Igh
South America
Arwantiog
Paria
Parla
A Rootblack’s Union
Rootblacks
Seattle
Wash
Sertile
Newsboye’ Union
Asine Memts Ace
Rudyard Kipling
London
Glenn
Pise
Bo Windiams
Aptoch
John 3 3Lile, E
FR. S
Pierce
Fasti RY
Maise Bros
Canton
Mase
Erica
Stour Clive
Posrl Street
Slows City
Iowa
Davis
Davis & Rankif Cor
Fandgiph
Jairy
MFG
oOthers Sts
Chicago
West
Missouri
Alzaourt
Ty Jay At
Furey
Alacestri Land and Live Stock Company
Neeehn
Neve
Fly
Breis Mn
Vase Ereef
Sinner Na Ira
Eee
He Eget
Ons Tut E Tion
N. K. Fairbank Company
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