German Bugaboo and German Immigration to Brazil
Caspar Whitney in Outing Magazine notes the small German community in Brazil about 250000 amid a 27.6 million population, with much larger British and Portuguese ties. Immigration slowed in the last decade, intermarriage with locals common, and main centers include Rio de Janeiro Sao Paulo Santos and the southern states Parana Santa Catharina and Rio Grande do Sul.
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Germany
Brazil
United States
Rio de Janeiro
Sao Paulo
Santos
Parana
Santa Cat
Two Adventures and Slang Notes From Past Columns
The piece recounts Jack Barrymore’s quake experience in San Francisco and a soldier forcing him to work after being awakened by tremors. It also notes slang terms skiddoo and twenty-three and explains their meanings, plus a botany memory tale of a squash family plant moved to Sonora that survives with rain-fed cycles across years.
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Jack Barrymore
Maurice Barrymore
San Francisco
Barryeore
Barrymore
Lambs’ Club
New York
Gustus Thomas
Jack
United States Army
Saturday Evening Post
1St. Louis Republic
Sonora
Mexico
Ocean Cables Link Continents at Vast Cost
The piece notes transcontinental submarine cables joining Ieeland and Frarnpe, with the Danish king using northern routes. It cites about 250,000 miles of metallic wiring at roughly $1,060 per mile, a quarter of a billion dollars for global communication handling an estimated 6,000,000 messages annually. It also covers Lord Rosebery’s remarks on lunacy growth and asylum reform, arguing slow minds struggle with rapid times.
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Ieeland
Frarnpe
King of Denmark
Sir Henrys American tour tale and Harvard Lampoon mystery
A quirky composite recounts the late Sir Henrys trial and a basnegrmer tale at the Players Club with melodrama and a quiet Coast-less memory. It also cites a Harvard Lampoon line about a mystery surrounding Rockefellers wealth and a Washington Star quote.
Tragic Joke Sparks Crime Fear in St Petersburg
A chaotic report from St. Petersburg describes letters demanding money as a supposed revolutionary act. A man named Taerin Paivin allegedly handed 560 rubles to a messenger, while a staged scene led to a deadly misunderstanding.
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St. Petersburg
Oteer
Taeret Conrain Paivin
Resolutionary Committee
Baer Frien
Fear of Bombs Shakes Czarist Transport Lines
Reports from St Petersburg recount two revolutionary associates plotting bomb scares to halt ministerial travel. Upon arrival at the named location the minister attempted to ride but faced refusal and walked as security moved. Drivers faced fines in court in subsequent days.
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St. Petersburg
Peren
Dronks
Quotable Snippets From Readers and Writers
A collage of humorous exchanges and quips from newspapers and magazines. Jokes about reading speed, dramatic language, black hand experiences, and cautious judgments appear in brief captions and dialogue scenes, reflecting light social observations and witty banter.
Marble floor and Sich marble walls mark new London hospital
A London hospital opened November 19 features a marble operating room designed to stay dust free with Terazzo floor and Sich marble walls. Electric heating allows any temperature and noiseless fans supply ventilation. An ante room separates patients from anesthetic procedures to keep the scene private for medical staff and students.
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London
Fsta
Sn Ietans
Frugal Jacs professor debt and economics
A fragment discusses a Yale trained professor living in a rented house with a total annual cost of 120 dollars for house, 15 for servant wages, 52 for clothes, and 400 salary, yielding a debt burden of 109 dollars yearly toward education. It then shifts to Marshal von Wrangel as an autocratic German commander and a contractor in Chicago arguing asphalt pavement tearing up is impractical.
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Yale
Boston Globe
Chicago Record-Herald
Fragments of Market Scene and Court Tale Mixed
A garbled account blends a Keene store encounter with a sales clerk amid colorful shop dialogue about cash or charge and color samples. It shifts to a prohibition era court note on intoxication, then a wandering description of life across coal regions, a stern judge, and a cryptic shopper exchange about clothing and prices.
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Arservar
Tim
Nery
Epilepsy and Nervine Cure Promoted by Dr Miles
Epilepsy and nervous disorders are described as nerve diseases needing restoration. Dr Miles Restorative Nervine is claimed to strengthen nerves, reduce strain, and improve sleep. A patient testimonial from Georgia praises relief after using Nervine and Nerve and Liver Pills with guarantees and refund if not effective.
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Miles
The Homestead Des Moines Town Agricultural Weekly
The Homestead is an agricultural weekly edited for farmers with departments on horticulture poultry dairying sheep and veterinary laws affecting farmers household Sunday school and farm interests Its contributors include leading farmers breeders and experiment station workers offering up to date farm questions and features like Hints Devices Sage and more Subscriptions offered at the office in slowa year and in combinations with this paper
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Homestead
Des Moines
Homestead I
Middle West
The Capital Bargain Offer From Des Moines Capital
The Des Moines Capital announces a year long subscription deal for 1907 at 2.06 with 2.00 for old arrears and urges old and new subscribers to mail during December 21 to 25 or give the amount to a newsdealer. Readers may gift The Capital to friends as a Christmas present. The paper emphasizes AP leased wire reports, Iowa news, and two color printing.
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Des Moines
Chaviery
Young
Iowa
Associate Press
Towa
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Lord Rosebery
Henry Trying
Henry Irsing
Fcf Une
Players’ Club
Turner
Carl
Hyter
Thase
Harvard Lampoon
Rockefeller
Stalls
Experimen
Washington Star
Feva
Katharine
Vatharine
Detroit Tribune
Puck
Philadelphia Ledger
Delphia Press
Black
New
Washington
Lippincott
Chitcken
Marshal von Wrange
Pubic Benefacter
Kwear Field & Co
Sarard
Ze Union of
Keene
N. HH
Roston
Upton
St. Vitus
Vie
Jainer
Lottie
Peaith
Besten, Ga
Mites
Miles Medical Co
Ellhart, Ind
L. S Shepherd
Opera Hous Block
Arency
Monica
Scientific American
Ail Newsdesiers
Chamberlain
Harmon
Geo. McCulloch
H.T. Smith
D. McCulloch & Smith
Dr. McCulloch
Dr Smith
T. A. Sinclair
Poston & Goodrich
Home State Bank
WM. H. Parkin
Humeston, Iowa
John Vanderley
Leon Home Nursery
Middlebrook
Humelton
Ffecers
J. Herbert Park
Bert McCuloch
Geo. Cox
James Porter
Wm. Hobden
James Alexander
John Ulrich
Morgsnece Steel
Kent
Rinnesola
Seal of Minnesota
White Lilly
A. Mameston
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