Various World Notes and Industrial Jottings
A long collage of early 20th century items notes Galventon rising in foreign trade, California bird and arbor day observances, art gift to Iceland, Australian concerns over Chinese smuggling, and local labor costs at Farnham workhouse. It also mentions a 120 year old grapevine, a transcontinental rail promise in South America, youth club housing in Boston, Dreadnought naval build up, seaweed leather substitutes, Lady Aberdeen health advocacy, and diverse trade and tech tidbits from Japan, UC grape fruit trials, and telephony in New York.
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SSS
H. H. Gunderson
Walett
Crook County
Wyoming
Galventon
Beaton
United States
New York
California Club
San Francisco
Luther Burbank
Bird Gereceland
Clnay Jonsen
New Sultan Mehmed Reshad Sketched Amid Court Intrigue
A gavotte of details portrays Mehmed Reshad as a gray haired 65 year old sultan with blue eyes and light red hair who keeps a low profile due to Abdul Hamid’s influence. He has two wives, three sons, educated wives, and a fondness for piano and drawing. He shows integrity despite limited education and bears the burden of palace plotting and family exile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mehmed Reshad
Abdul Hamid
Turkey
Reschad
Madilak
Brother
Perpone
Tallor
Abdul Asis
Rescar
Effendi
Yildiz
New Flowers of the Amazon Forest and Its Wonders
Travel prose extols the Amazon’s vast and romantic realm. It describes a sunlit upper canopy where orchids and Morpho butterflies glow in scarlet gold and blue, glimpsed only from above as birds and insects ride rays through the forest shadows.
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The
Amazon
Colon
Regent Street
Adventure Talk of Air Voyage Over the Amazon
The text praises a future air voyage over the Amazon forest as the greatest remaining adventure. It promises a tale upon the traveler’s return and extols the unmatched beauty and splendor of the Amazon as a continent of flowers and white polar solitude in a grand, reverent tone.
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Amazon Forest
Amazon
Andrew Jackson Uses Latin to Rally Backwoods Crowd
A Tennessee campaign scene describes Andrew Jackson turning political inertia into a triumph. The crowd cheers as he delivers Latin phrases and asserts Habeas corpus, aiding the Jackson ticket in that county. Also noted is a brief humorous item about a clever music master.
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Leneueas
Hester Herald
Andrew Jackson
Tennessee
Smith
Old Hickory
Jackson
Frisco Reborn as a Modern City After 1906 Disaster
The article chronicles San Francisco’s recovery three years after the 1906 earthquake and fire. It notes 18,000 buildings erected, $149 million value, and $6.26 million in waterworks bonds. A saltwater auxiliary system, pumping plants, and fire boats bolster resilience, while banks expand deposits and public investments fund sewers, schools, and cremation facilities. The population tops 500,000 with more hotels and new streets planned.
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The
Kansas City Star
Slan Francisco
San Francisco
San Franct
North Beach
San Fran
Francisco Savines
Foustel
San Molaco
Public Service
Francisco
Ita
San Pranciaco
The Drive of Aggressiveness in Youth and Economic Savings
This piece argues that ambition and self assertion propel success more than merit alone. It contrasts inert youths with aggressive peers, notes that Americans favor movers who claim and show a program, and warns timid individuals fall behind. It cites Canadian bank deposits at 496 million and a brief remark on France’s wheat supply.
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Success Magazine
Doings in the World of Fashion
Ash gray dominates spring styles with crepe and silk textures. Designers fuse satin coats, bayadere stripes, and lightweight wools while corded weaves and pongees shape coats and frocks for a refined neutral palette.
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Phoebe A. Reed
Taupe
Tallors
House Cleaning May Be a Real Pleasure
Advice on systematic cleaning to make housekeeping easier and less exhausting. Start with one room, prefer daytime with settled weather, and clean rugs, floors, walls, ceilings, doors, window frames, and woodwork in sequence. Use dry bread on very dirty walls and sprinkle insect powder along corners.
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Walla
Useful household tips and improvised remedies in a 19th century note
A collection of practical hints and recipes such as cleaning tinware with soda and damp cloth, preserving knives by soda solution, mixing soda with powders for marble paste, and a recipe for a warm coverlet from old fabrics. It also mentions a simple syrup for waffles and advises on health and child care with sulfur.
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Wulphur
Janmdent Mygyptiane
Also Mentioned on This Page
Australia
Batchelor
Commonwealth
China
Farnham Board of Guardians
Ban Gabriel
San Gabriel Hotel
South America
Atlantic
Pacific
Buenos Res
Valparaiso
Ocean
Boston
Per
John Campbell
Lady Aberdeen
Women's National Health Association
Wwalue
Rs Dearbresd
Coriolanus
Louis XVI
Marie Antoinette
University of California
Amoy
Cald
Yokohana
Japan
OSS
Mara Alt Langen
Muale
Richard Strauss
Great Goliad
Europe
Marburg
Germany
Great Britain
Mn Oracy
England
Guyry
Cuba
Snake
Giraffe
Bellman
Brown
Evelyn
Feeisa
Christing Ronetth
France
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