Remarkable escape and grand Panama Canal feats noted
A child survived a dramatic air explosion near Nene ior after being hurled into the water. Engineers have lifted the Feather Tower and moved a river flood channel fifty feet and half a mile in an artificial bed. Columns discuss King Alexander, transfer of bees, and vivid anecdotes from colonial and war times with cautious, neutral tone.
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Nene
Ior
Carriory Gineers
Gravite
Arbitration settles Costa Rica Nicaragua Canal hostility
The article notes that arbitration has settled hostility toward the Nicaragua Canal in Costa Rica and that canal work is progressing rapidly. It also mentions various global topics, including prison population projections, trade volumes, and other diverse items from the era.
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Costa Rica
Nicaragua Canal
Pearls of Thought Adages on Adversity and Wealth
A series of aphoristic lines discuss adversity and prosperity, wealth and virtue, arrogance and wisdom, youth and age, and human nature. The text contrasts prudent use of money with vanity, notes the lure of success and the limits of social influence, and argues that complaints reveal character while kindness reflects inner nature.
Overhauling a Gig City's Garbage
The Ialai entractors who furnish laborers in the New York Street Cleaning Department are very thirsty. If near one of the wharves where dump carts unload ashes, observe two-decked docks and scows for sinking refuse. Lower floors host Italian families. children play in kitchens and on precarious wharves as workers sift scraps from ash heaps. Thieves and vendors plunder rags, shoes, hats, and metals, selling recovered goods from curbs and barrels. Second-hand markets flourish near Five Points with stolen items passed off as reclaimed. Even cigar tips are is gathered, processed, and sold as cheap tobacco, per rumor in Harper’s Weekly.
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Ialai
New York Street
Five Points
Halts
Svell Peace
Dee Laivers
Fifth Avenue I
Coundry
Missionary Requests Mules for Inland Trade Crisis in Africa
Arnot, a missionary in Bailundu, notes rubber-root discoveries drawing off native porters across Portuguese West Africa. Portuguese traders abandon interior trade as porters vanish, prompting a request to send twelve mules aboard the August steamer to carry goods to Bihl over 200 miles inland where porters remain available.
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West Africa
Arno
Central Africa
Benguella
Bailundu
Arnot
Bihl
The Rice Dish and Household Tips For The Farm Wife
A domestic guide extols rice dessert for taste health and economy. It details steaming rice with milk butter and sugar for a soft texture and offers variations including a light pudding with egg whites and yolks. Also covered are quince baking wax mixtures soap whitening tips Javelle water and domestic remedies for chilblains and eye inflammation.
By Hook or by Crook idiom origins explained
An English paper traces the phrase by hook or crook to two king's counsel named Hook and Creke. Their opposition in key cases led people to say if you cannot win your cause by Hook you will by Crook, explaining the modern idiom’s stay in the language.
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Hook
Crook
King's Counsel
Creke
Croke
Fashion notes on silk sheets and yellow wedding gowns
A New York style piece describes silk embroidered sheets with lavender tones and violet sachets, plus a linen bedspread in bold white silk designs. It notes yellow as a fashionable bridesmaid color and details wedding party costumes with mandarin faille, sarih silk, and white mousseline, plus Paris fire brigade ladies and a young fresco artist Carrie Mayers in St Louis, with fashion updates on hats, gowns, and accessories.
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New York
Sarah
New York Star
Paris
Lions of the Hour
Mortimer
Nchols
Bessel
Pritchard
Jill
Heath
Louis
Charity and dolls and a runaway table tale
A Lexington girl recovers a dress donated for Johnstown flood victims and learns gratitude after a tragedy. The column then tours bustling doll making, from London to New York, describing mechanical dolls, husk figures, and crafts for charity fairs with practical instructions.
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Lexington
Johnstown
Color of the Ocean Reveals Vast Microorganism Density
The article explains how ocean color depends on minute medusae and similar creatures, with estimates as high as 128 per cubic inch in places. It projects astronomical counts in volume units and imagines thousands counting to census-scale totals since Adam, to illustrate magnitude.
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Adam
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