Traits of Filipinos in Manila and Cebu features
Laura W Schwichtenberg reports from Manila on Filipino life including street cleaning by widowed entrepreneur, child labor at hemp factory, home crafts by women, cockfighting as pastime, street peddling, and attire with hand embroidery. She notes women run many enterprises, study sewing, and families value jewelry while men care for children.
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Laura W. Schwichtemberg
Philippine Islands
Manila
Wales
Wilow
Cebu Islands
Ramona Sabinosa Caballerous
Fargoat
Clannex
America
Earldome of the Carnegies and their two earldoms
The Carnegies, long prominent in Scottish history, hold two earldoms Northesk and Southesk. Southesk was earned for the fifth earl’s 1715 rising, then restored to the current peer in 1856. Kinnaird castle near the River Helde (Heke) serves as family seat, a fortresslike estate with 300 to 400 year old trees in a deer park.
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Carnegies
Northesk
Southesk
David Carnegie
London
Kinnaird
Heke
Nice Little May Mother You Nice Little Way
A fragmented dialogue vignette features a humorous exchange about sharing an apple and a wormhole joke between Johnny and an unnamed speaker, recorded in a Boston Transcript style.
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Sinter
Johnny— ‘Yeu
Boston ‘Transcript
Recently Invented Artificial Leather Fibroleuma
A French tan has created a new artificial feather called Fibroleuma. It is made from tiny pieces of refuse airing and hides placed in a vat with a highly alkaline solution.
Parisian Bed-EFtective Tales And Violet Cheviot Fashions
An eclectic woman's page previews violet cheviot ensembles with panne velvet trim and new Eton coat styles, plus a discussion of reversible Java or Alda canvas fabrics in harmonious colors. It also offers care guidance for cut glass, urging careful handling, proper washing, and storage to prevent damage and discoloration.
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Eton
Etronics
Brooklyn Hagle
Mary Graham
Unique Familian Fad in Paris Ankle Bracelets
Parisian women have adopted a new fashion among ankles with bracelets worn just above the shoe, fastened to the leg for a distinctive look. The trend highlights a rising appetite for subtle accessories in city style.
Graham Bread Recipe Sponge for Light Grahams
A brief instruction shows making a sponge for white bread, then mixing when light with one part white flour and two parts graham to form the dough.
Fashion How Tos and Odd Habits in Early 20th Century Society
The piece discusses chic but risky French fashion trends such as jeweled anklets nose rings and numerous rings while contrasting American tastes. It also provides quirky home recipes and ends with a moral about self-help and aiding others through personal improvement.
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France
Hoodoo legends stir noble lineages across seas
The piece mulls family ghosts and mascots shaping peerage rumor. It cites the Cromartle legend of a diverted stream foretelling lineage fate, linking courtly wealth to ancestral curses. It notes the recent death of Lieut Percy Forbes Leith near South Africa and hints at Fortae Leiths of New York, tying hoodoo to classic aristocratic superstition.
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Eden Hall
Musgrave
Constance Mackenzie
South Africa
Percy Forbes-Leith
Fortea-Leiths
New York
Fyvie
Bootland
Fyvie Castle Haunting Tale From An Old Realm
A fragment recounts Fyvie Castle’s curse born from a torn abbey and a stone pulled from the river. Monks’ malediction, repeated misfortune for heirs, and a string of owners ending with Mr. Forbes-Leith. the tale ends noting uncanny property in Scotland.
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John Knox
Earl of Dunfermine
Gordon
Maurlce Duff-Gurdon
Sir Maurice
Forbes-Leith
South Africa
Fyvie
New York
Preas
Royal Intermarriage Bad Results of In and In Connubiality
The piece cites alarming royal contagion fears amid European monarchs. It notes Queen Victoria’s children, royal deaths, and Dublin Freeman sources blaming dynastic ties for widespread intermarriage within Europe. It highlights Sweden and Montenegro as near-exceptions and concludes intermarriage sustains royal lineages across Europe.
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Europe
Victoria
Frederick
Dublin Freeman's Journal
Reading
Ireland
James
England
Darnley
Mary
Sweden
Marshal Bernadotte
Napoleon
Montenegro
Meltown
Wort
Justin McCarthy
New York
Timepieces and quarrels shape a village clock saga
The piece describes differing times across Moret, Fontaine and nearby Grez where clocks strike independently. In Grez the church clock is controlled by an irascible local priest who once halted time for three months after a quarrel with the mayor. The dynamic shows village life ruled by tradition and a stubborn clockkeeper.
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Tazewell County
Mackinaw River
Lilly
Tazewell
Illnole
State Journal
Byontiere
Moret
Fontaine
Bute
Grea
Lemie
Grez
Pee
Bearded Man Tries Cheese Prank at Tenth Street Café
A bearded man confronts a hungry youth at a Tenth Street quick lunch cafe over a piece of cheese on a plate. The boy, grimy hands and all, offers the cheese back after the man mocks him and commands him to wash. The scene ends with the boy handing the cheese to the man.
Man with Four Days' Growth of Beard
A terse Philadelphia Record item notes a man with a four day beard and a silent demeanor. The fragment mentions a male subject tied to an Irish stew scene, hinting at an offhand encounter or street vignette in the paper’s casual style.
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Philadelphia
First Suggested Electric Fan Discovery
A social worker notes that early inventors copied the idea of fans from Attle tallorn and sewing machines. Workers in warm weather used cardboard pieces on flywheel spokes to fan themselves while педaling, creating air flow by hand.
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New York
Perso
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Wade
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