France considers child labor law gap in industry only
Inter Mountain Globe notes that French law protects women and children only in industrial employments and not in commercial firms. Labor minister Vivi ani proposes a bill to remove this inconsistency. Greece passes a public service reform allowing 50 women to staff the posts and telegraphs, mainly in telephone service, aged 21 to 45, earning 70 drachmas monthly for six hours of work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
M. Viviani
Chamber of Deputies of
Greece
Director of Posts and Telegraph
Piano Prize At Dubois Firm Prompted By Card Wager
A Dubois Pennsylvania dealer offered a $350 piano as a prize to the person who could write the piano maker's name the most times on a 3 by 4 inch card. KR L Cathcart of Clearfield won by writing it 2126 times. The firm’s name consists of two words linked by and. M Radoviteh, former Montenegro prime minister, summoned from Paris to face high treason charges tied to an alleged anarchist plot against Prince Nicholas and the royal family. Vegetable milk made in Japan from soybeans resembles cow’s milk in appearance and taste. Beans are soaked, boiled, and processed with sugar and potassium phosphate, then evaporated to condensed milk consistency. The narrator notes Germany’s drill-sergeant-like discipline affecting citizens and everyday life.
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Dubois
KR. L. Cathcart
Clearfield
M. Radoviteh
Montenegro
Paris
Cettinje
National Party
Nicholas
Japan
Berlin Medical Society Debates Sanatorium Question
The Berlin Medical society debated the sanatorium issue with Dr Frankel opposing their value noting no great benefit from such institutions. Speakers argued that mortality from tuberculosis declined in France and England without sanatoriums. In other notes a centenarian, Peterborough’s Mise Anneder, died days before turning 100, having received Queen Victoria’s congratulation on her 90th birthday.
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Berlin
Peterborough
Mise Anneder
Queen Victoria
Paris plagued by St Mark's Bibions and other curiosities
A miscellany of notes reports Paris suffering from a pest called St Mark's Bibions, a nonpoisonous but ugly insect over half an inch long with large heads and cockchafer-like feelers, confined to Paris. Other items include Indian poets invited by a Rampur rajah, Guanajuato silver production records, and various brief curiosities from around the world.
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Paris
St. Mark's
Story of the Snake Indians and Creek faction history
The Snake faction among the Creek Indians opposed land allotment and Creek reform. Led by Ma-manah-we and later Crazy Snake, they resisted tribal dissolution, clashed with federal policy, and caused bloodshed including the murder of General McIntosh. The feud persisted despite earlier peace efforts and tribal divisions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Severalty
Muskokee
Charles Gibeon
Alabama
Mississippi
McIntosh
Blue Law
Mapene
MclIntosh
United States
Tokapache Micco
Snake Council
Chitto Harjo
Crazy Snake
Missouri’s Veteran Citizens Highlight Age and Activity
Missouri’s long-lived figures include former Governor Norman Coleman noted for agricultural reform and a cadre of aged professionals in law medicine and science. Among them are Dr. W T Moore 76 active as writer and preacher Dr. Barland Broadhead a geologist in Columbia Col Van Horn 86 and real estate writer Joseph Chick 80 plus several judges and physicians aged from 66 to 84, all remaining actively involved in public life as aging Missourians.
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Missouri
Coleman
W. T. Moore
Columbia
Christian Church
Barland C. Broadhead
T. van Morn
Joseph
Chick
Edward H. Stiles
Kansas City
Colonel van Horn
Borus
Stiles Io
Aon
J. C. Crawley
Keytonville
Thomas H. Benton
Boonville
John N. Southern
Independence
Warwick Hough
Chester H. Kru
Louis
Mimiour
Dolor
Dent County
J.P. Hy Gray
California
Montream County
T. P Haley
Kansas
Wirjuh HM. Norton
Platte City
Joy of Watching Other Men Work
A business man recalls his keen pleasure watching workers at digging sites, docks, farms, and paving crews. He describes observing longshoremen, harvest labor, threshing, and asphalt gangs with detailed sensory notes, including breakfast by a hotel window while watching a paving crew.
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New York
Singer
Hemlock
Pye
Jose
Carl Schurz on Newspaper and the press in Washington
The late Carl Schurz pays tribute to journalism and contrasts noble reporters with corrupt congressmen. He recalls meeting high-minded statesmen, notes widespread moral cowardice among some lawmakers, and cites Newspaper Row as a fair public judge of national figures.
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the McClure's
Carl Schurz
General Schurz
Congress
United States
Washington
Angel of the War Florence Nightingale of the West?
Veterans recount their meeting with Mother Bickerdyke in 1863 on a Mobile Ohio train platform. An angel in a bundle of nurses supplies tended wounded soldiers, washing and bandaging their wounds and providing food and clothing. The encounter inspired lifelong affection, and Ruff earned his nickname from the frilled nightgowns she lent them. The tale ends noting her death years later and a farewell blessing to soldiers.
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Margaret Spencer
W. R. Hearst
Joe
Boya
Mother Bickerdyke
Hbbett House
Gettysburg
Boynton
Thar
Washington
Sam
Ruff
Ceer
Rufus
May Raphael
Bob
Orvees
Mobile and
Ohio
New Jerusalem
Milner Bickerdyke
Meld Hospital
Mother Bickererdyke
Honest Canadian farmer sells cow with odd tale
An honest farmer advertises a cow for sale saying health is poor, the animal is loyal to home, and will fetch a tall red calf after a four to six week trip. He offers a double barrel shotgun with the cow and asserts the creature is a good milker, not afraid of danger, and attached to its homestead by a log chain. Police justify the claim.
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Titlia
Aulean
General Morgan's Practical Joke Remembered by Troops
Three Union prisoners near Murfreesboro feared execution until General Morgan, famed as a terror, rode forward and joked about his methods. A Dutch prisoner, on the brink of tears, heard Morgan declare he would not harm a single hair, revealing the heart behind the legend.
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Loulaville
Murfrgesboro
Morgan
Busy Gaye at Mint Headlines Huge Philadelphia Coinage
The Philadelphia Mint swells with gold coinage as over 50 million dollars in gold bullion arrive from the New York assay office since the panic. The mint adds more than forty women adjusters as the joint produces over 800 thousand dollars daily and coins more than 70 thousand dollars in four months, surpassing last year by twenty million.
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Gaye
Philadelphia Telegraph
Mint
Seventeenth
Spring Garden Streets
New York
Foreign born soldiers in the Union Army
A postwar statistical report shows 14,221 Irishmen and 16,767 Germans among Union troops. Foreign born soldiers totaled about 500,000, while colored troops reached 144,017 with up to 126,000 serving simultaneously in the army.
Optimist Club Reaches 20000 Members Across States
The Optimist Club of America chaired by William J. Robinson reports a 20,000 member base despite being under a year old. Governors from several states join the effort, including Curtis Guild, Joseph W. Folk, W. Hoch, and Charles S. Deneen. Robinson, a mining expert, originated the club after observing national gloom and founded it to highlight the optimistic side of life. The group started in fall at a Bali Lake City club, spreading to major cities like Chicago and Boston and stressing positive influence on the nation’s mood.
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New York
Optimist Club of America
William J. Robinson
Charles &. Hughes
Curtis Guild
Marsachusetta
Joseph W. Folk
Mingouri
W. Hoch
Kunene
Charlea
Deneen
Tilinoin
John C. Cutler
Robinson
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Hulett
Greek County
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India
Rampur
Guanajuato
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Hilzabethtown
James Buchanan
Schueffer
Baltimore
Buchanan
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Morocco
Casablanca
Eterna
Church
Greenwich Street
Mitchell
United Kingdom
London
Spain
Prt
Stewart Woodford
Miellamy Storer Wee
Dington Church
Cheater
Magtland
Noumunia
Europe
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Grover Cleveland
Carl Schruz
Mount Cena
Dacknon
van Buren
Connon
Harrison
Ornee
Nti
Asi
Eeet Canal
General Morgan
Optimist Club
Itlian
Pwhat
Optimiat
Pemeilenlas
Dyall
Doughnnul
Posalmiwt
Chicago
Bowton
San Francie
Duluth
Heute
Minneapol
William J. Rodinson
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