Worth Fortunes at the 1904 World’s Fair China Tea Exhibit
The article praises the 1904 World's Fair exhibits, highlighting China's prominent display of about 1,200 teas in the Liberal Arts Palace. It notes varieties from Young and Old Hyson to rare leaves priced from a few cents to $20 an ounce, with limited quantities grown in guarded plantations under China’s rear wall. The piece explains the term chop as related to tea leaves and mentions cultivation restricted to imperial family and select officials.
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Mike
China
Chine
United States
Liberal Arts Palace
Young Hyson
Old Hyson
Plymouth Rock
Imperial Family of
Empire
Tea Chop System Shows Complex Village Ownership
Large tea tracts are divided among hundreds of owners, each farming ten-plant plots termed a chop. Owners sell to foreign merchants via professional tasters who judge quality and flavor to set prices. Prices for a single tract vary from 14 to 484 cents per pound, reflecting many chops and divergent selling arrangements.
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Ted
Take
Toy Matune
Amoy
Itue ‘Ghon
United States
L Tex
Oldest Living Thing Yew and Cypress Claim Epochs
An article discusses trees claimed to be the world’s oldest organic monuments, noting estimates of 6250 years for a Chapultepec cypress and 6150 years for a central African baobab, while a Mexican study places a nearby cyprus older by over a thousand years. It reflects on longevity versus accidents of survival and contrasts youthful trees eventual fate. Also highlights Rochester Bible classes known as the Big Four.
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Marynress
Mexico
Englind
Dueant
Pertingal
Perthshire
Puent Dale
Hedsor
Buclas
Leeandeley
Tle
Nedsor
Ike
Fortingal
Scientife
Humboldt
Central Africa
Adanson
Ssumboldt
Chapultepec
Rochester
Hubbard
Central Presbyterian Church
W. A. Hubbard, Jr
Baptist Church
Eastman Kodak Company
Erwin E. Shutt
Montgomery
Lake Avenue Baptist Church
Waterfalls Power for San Francisco Cheaper Than Coal
San Francisco can power itself more cheaply with transmitted electricity from local cascades than by coal, once delivered at the factory. Prices fell from 16 cents per horsepower hour to about one seventh that, with further declines expected. Lord Kelvin predicts widespread adoption of water power, reaching Japan and the East, promising a fireworks era in energy and industry.
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San Francisco
Lord Kelgin
Pacific
Jdapin
American Girl Opinions and a Clergyman’s Homesickness
A traveler recounts a year in America praising the average American girl as engaging and well traveled while noting some undesirable behavior. Reverend Leighon Parks, rector in New York, once in Boston for Emmanuel Church, writes of homesickness to a Boston boy, who replies simply to come home. Harper’s Week
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America
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Chicago
United States
London
Leighon Parks
Bartholomeew
Harper
Czar Nation Flags Ritual and Old Mammy Memory
The czar presents new regimental standards in the Winter palace with a ceremonial nail drive by the czar empress dowager czarina and czarowitz followed by officers and soldiers. A separate piece recalls the phrase old mammy at Macon 1865 and its fading memory. A Muscular Minister recalls Rev Dr Schick Roosevelt’s pastorhood in Washington and a snow shoveling encounter with the president.
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Csar
Winter Palace
Czarina
Czarowicz
Schick
Roosevelt
Washington
Gatrernous
Kemp's Balsam Cures Coughs Fast on Trial
People let a cough run beyond medicine reach yet Kemp's Balsam offers quick relief. A guaranteed cure is promised after the first dose with prices 25 and 50 cents. Trial size available at all druggists.
Desirable Coal Area Lots Offered in Green Twp
A. L. Buterbaugh of Utah offers 107 acres of desirable lots for sale on easy payments. Located along the north branch of Pwolick creek in Green township within coal operation districts. The sale targets buyers seeking a solid investment in a thriving mining region. Includes access via the new Pennsylvania railroad branch and rock for sale at R. L. Ferrier's yard near Taylorsville. contact for stock and fertilizer reductions also listed.
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A. L. Buterbaugh
Utah
Pwolick Creek
Green Township
Pennsylvania Railroad
Partnership Dissolution Notice in Creekaide Penna
The partnership between H Kienstil & Bon and Samuel Kilenstub of Creekaide Pennsylvania is dissolved by mutual consent on August 29. Debts to the firm should be received by He Elienstu and all partnership demands presented to him for payment. Midian Pa September 4 1904. OMC No 548 Philadelphia Street.
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Hkllenstub
Samuel Kilenstub
Creekaide
Penna
H. Kienstil
Public Sewer On Church Street Between Eleventh And Ninth Streets
An ordinance authorizes a public sewer on Church street from Eleventh to Ninth Street in Indiana Borough. It details cost to be assessed as a wastewater tax on adjoining properties and cites plans adopted August 26 1904. The ordinance is enacted by Town Council with signatures of the president and clerk, approved September 5 1904.
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Church Street
Eleventh Street
Indiana
Indium
Floveith Street
Ninth Strect
Town Connell
Counell
Ninth Street
Cowell
Nenry Hall
Taylor
Walter H. Jackson
New Building Opens With Airy Rooms And Dining Hall
The establishment offers a new building with airy rooms and a pleasant dining room plus a large 26 by 100 foot stable for 50 horses and pure cold water. Meals priced at 25 cents. Boarding by the week urged. aim is to make every guest feel at home during stay.
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Indiana County
John B. Amond
Esther S. Gilmore
Cherryhill Township
Indian
Tydiana
Ab Lo'slook
P.m
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Cunningham & Fisher, Attorneys
Julin Lines
Baffington Township
Dee
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Robert Bells
James Devinney
Armstrong Townsitp
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Omco
Hotrick
Court Monsanne
Todlana
Fyavip Vlann
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Omico
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Banat Atrwart, Indiana, Pa
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Attorney-Ap-Law
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Omoo
Farmers’ Bank
Janay
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Pierce
J. M. Cunningham Building
Palinddelphis Street
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Ofice
Danndry
Elder Paulor
Eronce A. Prin
Pell & Vec
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Bamuel Gunninghiam
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Ottee
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OUR College
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Butler Business College
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Buffalo, Rochester & Pittsburg Railway
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Dow
Pitnzeutiywney
Vinaann Motion
Nngutawney
Gale
Peel Ale
Bava
Sey
Mortlaon
Marion Center
Hamborwvilia
DGB Junction
Reakside
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Reigh Junotion
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Clarkabur
Janlin
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George W. Wheeler & Son
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National Hotel
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T. A. Gilbert
Marshall Bldg
Steck
E. C, George
Davis, Pa
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J, C. Moore
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Tae P. Duff
Carat
Liberty
Pitsburg
T. L. Edwards
Relianve “Life Insurance Company
Pittsburg
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A. T. Taylor & Son
Henry Ward Beecher
Sam
Lotsa
Brooklyn
Wood Harmon & Co
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Rossmoyne Flouring Mills
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