Fashions in Photographs The Jeweler Examines a Watch
A dialogue shows two figures, a jeweler and a shabby gentleman, discussing a watch that has run down. The exchange notes care and attention given to timepieces and attire in a refined retail setting.
The Rat Catcher of Paris and the Nation’s Small Goods
A Paris rat catcher earns 400 a year for live captures in sewers. He relies on hands and wit, rarely using tools, delivering rats to Pasteur Institute and other clients. The piece contrasts factory data on small articles with Menard’s perilous, solitary work underground.
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Panel to Honor Morais at St Andrews Clubhouse
A committee meeting in St Andrews agreed to dedicate a browser statue to the late Tom Morris. The memorial will be placed at the gable of the royal and ancient clubhouse with funds from the imperial fund supporting St Andrew's Cottage Hospital and Mor rine bed. The father of the girl with 40 pole matches her attire, including 26-vent suspenders and buttons under double A.
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How it Worked and Wine Advice by Sir Andrew Clark
A clipped anecdote recalls Sir Andrew Clark the physician summoning a patient to drink wine. The patient jokes about the effect of champagne on work and conversation. The tale touches on political apostasy as a man ends long loyalty to his father's party.
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Will of Charles Lavonaberry Ends in Strange Bequests
A fragmented late 19th or early 20th century will by Charles Lavonaberry, a ward at Cook County Insane Asylum, bequeaths life estates and poetic comforts. It distributes imagined possessions to nieces, nephews, lovers, and children, promising flowers, streams, meadows, and memories to sustain them through childhood and aging.
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Cook County
Charles Lavonaberry
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Shortest play debate and a Milan production noted
The article cites Professor Begaglc siding with Gloan Venture's Rosmunde as the true five act tragedy of the shortest play, detailing characters and scenes. It also notes a Washington Star item about A Miles presenting an automobile speed problem using sample distances and conditions.
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Her Limitations as a She Can Do It All
The New York Sun notes a woman who can vote and navigate social scenes, ride ships, duel, play baseball, bowl, box, fence, coach, drive a tandem, box, act and sing, juggle a golf ball, and land a trout, yet cannot endure polishing a shoe.
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The Dry Shampoos Danger From Vapor Emissions
An American Medicine warning about dry shampoos and volatile additives warns that tetrachloride and carbon tetrachloride vapors can cause semi conscious episodes and fatal cardiac reactions. The piece urges cautions about fashionable scalp preparations and calls for restraint by society and government to protect users. A closing tease hints at a future domestic worry about marriage and divorce.
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United States
Oldest Storage Egg Found in Gila River Bed
A prospector in Arizona found a water-worn pebble four to five inches in diameter containing a fossil egg. The egg, as large as a duck or goose, was trapped in bitumen and limestone, dating back hundreds of thousands of years. It likely formed when a goose or cormorant laid the egg, which settled into ancient ooze and later became part of a limestone mountain system.
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Gila River
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Runaway Airship Threatens Pedestrian at Busy Intersection
A pedestrian narrowly escapes a deadly scene as a rushing car, motorcycle, autotruck, and taxicab converge at a crowded cross street. A runaway airship dives toward the area, but the man jumps onto a manhole cover just as a subway train passes, averting disaster.
Weather and marriage musings from Cummins remarks
Cummins of Town notes Washington has the most disagreeable climate in the United States. He adds many people lie awake at night trying to get there. He claims some men are so selfish they prefer happiness to marriage and says the honeymoon ends when a man no longer loves to tie his wife's shoe.
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United States
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Indians Have Queer Methods of Burial
An 1899 survey details Native American burial rites across tribes. It describes inhumation, cremation, platform graves, water burial, and cave entombment among Pima, Navajo, Hopi, Apache, Pala, Coahuilla, Yuma, Gosh-Ute, Ackomawi, Yo-kai-a, Karok, and others, noting mourning customs, grave markers, and beliefs in the afterlife and spirit journeys.
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Colorado Desert
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Pennywise Peter and the Bridgetown Market Trick
A Washington Post vignette recalls a sly tale of Pennywise Peter in Bridgetown. Farmers tease a simple lad with a penny or nickel, Peter choosing the cent and provoking laughter as he ponders future chances. The piece peppers witty language about language and punning words.
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Washington Post
Britton D. Evans
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Southern tariff sentiment in Democratic ranks eyed
The Norfolk Virginian Pilot argues southern Democrats who backed tariff schedules align with propertied interests and oppose broad protection. It warns that southern support for high tariffs harms regional prosperity by privileging a few and burdens the many, urging opposition ahead of the next election.
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