Snails as Food in England and Washington Architecture
The article argues snails offer nearly 100 percent more nutritious content than oysters and could form a cheap English food, noting supply challenges and farming potential. It also discusses Washington as a capital offering diverse architectural opportunities, a cosmopolitan yet provincial city with varied building styles and a mounting federal role.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Spain
France
London Lancet
England
Burgundy
Champagne
Lorraine
Washington
District of Columbia
Railroads and Wooden Legs in 19th Century Industry
A Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt notes railroads as major users of wooden legs with surgeons speculating rail lines should run their own leg factories to cut costs. It cites 8000 annual deaths and 40 000 injuries, totaling 200 000 injured over five years and 400 000 in ten, as justification for in-house production and profit saving.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Enquirer
Bushido and Business Watchdogs of Japan
In a London Outlook excerpt the Japanese government is praised for a rigorous, detail oriented approach in its workshops. Two watchdogs of the mikado are described as indefatigable and incorruptible, supervising, testing, and rejecting defects to ensure Japan’s business success.
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Japan
Bia
London Outlook
Williamy Eliot Griffis
Imperial University of Japan
American Tract Society
Korea
Tokyo
Tract Society
England
Tibet
Leslie
The Road Will Turn Some Day Poem Story
A narrated verse about youth suitors, parental disapproval, and a warning on patience. It recalls a summer night scene where a father confronts a young couple and ends with the daughter reflecting on that choice. The poem continues with a second piece about resilience as the road will turn someday.
Wonderful Signs Seen In Tokyo Reflect Language Lapses
A Chicago News correspondent notes humorous English sign mistranslations in Tokyo. Observations include miswritten labels as hairdresser, Large Bowins, Ed, and misread items like polishing collars. Signs advertise odd phrases such as Great Japanese Sporting Dogs and Co and Cheerful Barber amid colonial humor and language mixups.
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Tokyo
Haird
Resser
Takenda
Karate
Tn Arabuku
Great
Japanese Sporting Dogs and Co
Juokuchi
Uokuchi
Bordeaus & Co
France
Florida
Daijiro Ota Taitor
T. Taufkawa
Chicago News
Russia's Guarded Secret and Queen Maud's Ivory Hobby
A Peargon's Weekly note describes Russia's iron trade secret as a tightly guarded state asset with fatal penalties for betrayals and lost workers. It also profiles Queen Maud of Denmark, an avid ivory collector who owns statues tusks and elephant trophies with gold plates detailing the tusk origins and hunting circumstances.
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Russia
Peargon's Weekly
Queen Maud
Denmark
Prince of Wales
India
Did You Ever Hear Millionaire Laugh
Carnegie says great wealth rarely brings happiness and often brings worry and weariness. He notes many millionaires pursue outer wealth, lose health, and miss inner worth, with some hiding from law or family joys. The piece emphasizes wealth’s emptiness and suggests moderation.
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Carnegie
London
Suatiety
When to Stop Advertising Opinion Replies
An English journal asked its largest advertisers for opinions on when to stop advertising. Replies warn that stopping comes when population stops growing, when rivals offer better goods and prices, when fortunes are no longer made by direct advertising, when you ignore top thinkers on prosperity, when new competitors begin using trade journals, or when you refuse to heed advice and miss gains.
For Sale Desirable Indiana County Farm with 100 acres
Advertises a 100 acre Indiana county farm featuring a 7 room house, large bank barn and outbuildings, orchard, 10 acres white oak timber, fertile well watered soil, rumored coal underground, near churches and schools, within one mile of B. & P. railroad. Inquiries to 202 South Tenth Street Indiana VA. Also notes new line of bedroom papers at Barris Air Store.
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Indiana County
Bonth Tenth Street
Indiana
Magdalen Islands Seafarers In Gulf Of St Lawrence
P T McGrath reports from St John s Newfoundland that the Magdalens, a group of fourteen islets in the gulf of St Lawrence, are sparsely inhabited by about 1800 Acadian descendants living under seal and fishery life. The islands are remote, with limited supplies, and settlers cultivate basic agriculture and fishing while maintaining old world Breton and Norman customs.
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Gulf of St. Lawrence
Magdalen Islands
Longfellow
Evangeline
P.T. McGrath
Chicago News
St. John's
N. J
Newfoundland
Magdalena
Montreal
Grorld
Provisiona
France
Canada
Acadia
Admiral Coffin
Quebec
Coleopteron Contempt and Remarkable Blind Seamstress
Paris Figaro cites mean expressions as evolving with use and notes a Italian deputy’s insult coleopteron as a striking modern device. The piece also highlights Mrs. S. Kirk of Porcat Valley Oklahoma, a blind homemaker who sews, prepares meals, and textiles with exceptional skill without formal schooling.
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Austellan Tasert
Paris
Figaro
Hhaself
Santini
Johnson
Ms. Kirk
Porcat Valley
Okla
Kirk
School For the Wind
Louis Tepubite
Woman Shipped in a Dry Goods Box
A County Commission controversy over transporting a violent woman from Reynoldsville to Warren Asylum ended with her placed in a padded dry goods box for the trip. Dr Balmer and his wife accompanied Commissioner McCraw to Warren, and hospital officials noted it was the first time a patient was brought to the Warren hospital in a box.
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Warren Asylua
Warren
McGaw
de. Balmer
McCraw
Warren Hospital
Reynoldsville
Sun Nats and Plants and Farm Notices in Indiana
Comite Piam marion notes a strong link between leaf and flower dates on chestnut trees near Parla observatory and sun spot maxima. Prairie State Poultry Foods lists a full line of nourishing feeds and eggs from prize stock offered for hatching, breeding, or both. Also included are offers for a complete circular saw mill dairy capacity 50,000 feet and various machinery, plus farm notices and an agency investment call in Indiana county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Comite Piammarion
Parla Observatory
Prairie State Poultry
Prairie State Incubator Co. Ad Signifies Local Address
An advertisement directs readers to contact the PRAIRIE STATE INCUBATOR COMPANY located at 14th Homer City Penin for wallpaper desires and attentive service. The fragmentary copy emphasizes in person or telephone inquiries for wall paper needs.
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Prairie State Inctibator Company
Homer City
Penin
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the Poets
Barris Air Store
Monnis-Berts Co
Thasinger
William Risingiit
Bannan
Mar
Greensburg
Indiana Provision Company
Indiana Provision Co
Ong
Indiana House
Latwonat Modons
Seirn
Art Srons
Hampden
Canton,ohio
J. 1. Stad¢miller
Indiana, Pa
John A. Him
Ertecuron
Pane Ponron
Mike
Ohling
W. W. Brilhart & Co
Philadelphia St
Kraus
Hoosier
Deering
Brookville
Frank Douglas
Deposit Bank Building
Yellowstone Park
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harrisburg
Pittsburg
Leket Apant
W. Boyd
Phildelphia
Dq Wood
Mle Miinager
Evan
R. W. Wehrle & CO
Penna
Plumville Roller Mills
A. J. Pollock
Plumville, Pa
J. ©. Forsythe
Teter Hones
Farmers
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