Global Briefs From The Nations In A Century Ago
A collage of world notes cites Japan’s punitive stance on a Siberian sentence, Austrian imperial heir’s suicide, and a mysterious “John Orth.” It reports on cattle space rules for ships, Berlin building stats, and a New York Italian restaurant tale of expat nobles. It also previews a German Reichstag bill to incentivize marriage among officials to fund unmarried daughters, spurred by Berlin, Munich, and Frankfurt societies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Werlin
Garmin
Wuio
Macy
Mary
Daily Papers
Calladera Bay
Chili
Magnificent yacht tale links Pulitzer to New York World
The story tracks the ownership and repair of a large yacht formerly flying the English flag now American registered. After grounding in Long Island Sound, underwriters selling as damaged sold to Mr Salaraz who repaired it. Mr Sullivan paid £16,000 and resold to Mr Pulitzer for £545,000 as a mutually advantageous bargain. The piece notes the yacht’s length 537 feet and US railroad mileage figures 205049.79 miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Citerins
Nerly
J. Piesponnt Morgaz
Wellpack
New York World
Transac
Pulitzer
Long Island Sound
Pandelaida Berard
Fashion Notes and Oddities From Distant Lands
A blend of fashion observations and curiosities: a Detroit Free Press note on a thin girl and her style, hats with gold wire brims from Cha vale Post, praise for white hair as fashionable and advice on maintenance, a German widow custom, and Paris fashion readers describing jackets, fabrics, and bridal adornments with jeweled accessories and delicate silhouettes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
West Prussia
New Orleans Picayune
Secret of Strength Through Morning Prayer
The piece urges daily devotion with a four or five o'clock start and a first hour set apart for private prayer. It argues that steady prayer renews strength amid work and travel, and that humble duties still drain life without drawing from the eternal source.
The Tragedy of Whisky and a Soldier’s Renewal
An old sermon style narrative urges a young man to resist evil, with stories of prayer, spiritual resolve, and intervention from a faithful wife. It recounts a wartime conversion, a hospital scene, and a camp meeting where hearts yielded to faith, ending with a plea to lean on God’s will and seek repentance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George Herbert
Georgia
Lear
Darrell
Swan
Asain
Sid
Sean
Dong
Wilde
Whitey
Het
J. Jarreil
Holiness
Brooklyn
Andrew McKenna
Isky
National Advocate
Cincinnati
Temperance views and a load of social notes
A saturated mix of temperance argument and moral essays discusses physiology of alcohol, its effects on nerves and willpower, and promotes abstinence. It cites modern science, Mark Tapley and Dickens, workmen’s productivity, and notes temperance news from Atlanta, Indiana, and Ireland. It also touches on naval warfare advances, a Chilean sinking, and railway plans in German East Africa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tad
Hemphill
Atlanta
Knights of Pythias
Inelgie
Irish Temperance League
Walter Besant
Peppies Palace
London
United States
Dance Ends After Afternoon Parade of Cabs and Music
News items recount a late afternoon dance scene where cabbies waited outside a hall as couples danced inside to jangling tunes. Workers from night shifts, printers and telephonists, reflect on turning day into night and the social contrast with day workers. Also presents a Louisville fashion bill crisis, tin recovery from silk waste, a Connecticut fair tale of pay, and a joke about time’s lapse in bachelorhood ending with a note on silver prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
The Cheapskate and the Needle Repair Tale
A frugal Beaver farmer plans to mend a broken needle before shopping. He visits a blacksmith, who mends the eye but secretly buys a new needle and charges ten cents. The farmer pays, noting the repair worked but his wife would have preferred a new needle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beaver
A Curious Chemical Lesson From Isaac T Hopper
Isaac T Hopper of Boston, a kindly Quaker, loved practical chemistry. He told a boy with dirty face to wash with soap and water and rub his skin briskly, calling it a harmless chemical experiment to show how froth forms and skin improves. He urged the boy to go home and try it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac T. Hopper
Boston
Society of Friends
Friend Hopper
Theo
Deafness Cure Promises and Local Notices
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with a money back offer for deafness caused by catarrh, claiming cures via the mucous lining. The piece also notes the demolition of the oldest Freeport building and a humorous aside about a nearsighted bachelor. It includes testimonials for Floraplexion claiming relief from migraines and various ailments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall
F. J. Canney & Co
Toledo
Draguisw
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Czarowitz
Russia
Austria
John Orth
Hansburz
Rusk
Ameri
Porte
Enelani
Tve
Europe
Berlin
New York
Dine
Italy
Taranzi
Talvresting
Ladley Department
Fashion In
Paris
Satan
Inchuer
Agar
Masten
New York Observer
Ghadious Ant
Ghitty
Watoc
Germany
A. F Hoter
Reichstag
Herr Kendal
Bismarck
Temperance
Mark Tapley
Martin Chuzzlewit
Lesissply
Charles Dickens
Mark Tapler
Christ
Yaul
Lim
John Weseley
Gol Heatte
Hias
Cime
Tanga
Karagwe
Tonga
Wanzibar
Loninville
Louisville
French Society For the Encouragement of National Industry
Lyons
Gerius
Fairtied County
Connecticut
Agricultural Society
Baroum
Miss Seaside
Prina Seaside
Mr. Smith
England
Hood
N.B
Freeport
Dr. White
Woolwich, England
Romeo
Pais
Ista
California
Lorenzo F. Sleeper
Appleton
Jobnson & Ck
Mass
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury, Mass
Kennedy
Canada
Kant
Cluwate
Great Knoxville Sentinel
Dalymo
Sic
J. HM
Bullala
Ruife
Dri
Geatiows & Dix
St. Cincinatti
Tne
Ron
Sapolio
Catar
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