Automobiles Replace Old Baden Bus Between Kehl and Rhein Bischofsheim
The aging Baden bus service giving way to large automobiles will link Kehl and Rhein Bischofsheim over ten miles. The car will carry twenty passengers plus baggage and mail, with a round trip cost of 17 cents and 10 cents for a one way trip. The two towns own the vehicle and share running costs. The article also notes electricity adoption by several rail companies and discusses fashionable garment details and sewing patterns of the period.
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Baden
Kehl
Rhein- Bischofsheim
New Knossos Finds Push Back Cretan Civilisation
A British School at Athens report surveys Knossos and Proesos excavations in Crete, revealing multiple Bronze Age building stages and an earlier Neolithic base. It details Mycenaean, Egyptian and Indo European links, early floor plans, drainage, and possible queen’s boudoir, with the palace’s origin preceding Homeric Greece.
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Athens
Crete
Knossos
Proesos
Palaikastro
Arabnamedalto
Mediterranean
Daedalus
Minos
Knoasax
Knosnos
Mins
Evans
Knossex
Basanquet
Eastern Mediterranean
Schuemann
Atreus
Greece
Conway
H. R. Hall
Beyond
Cyprus
Nile Valley
Unique Button Box for Holding Buttons and Small Parts
An arrangement of six pasteboard boxes forms a portable case with sliding drawers. A button to the outside signals the contents while specific drawer tops hold white pearl bone or fancy buttons. Hooks, eyes and safety pins label each drawer, with ribbon tied at the top for a neat finish.
Creamed Hand on Toast Seared Chicken Dixies Dish
A recipe fragment describes seared chicken pieces brushed with a creamy sauce poured over toasted bread squares. It calls for butter, milk, a pinch of salt and pepper, optional chopped mushrooms, and an optional garnish of dashed Daas, served hot.
Mutton Salad Recipe From Historic Menu
A fragment describes preparing mutton salad using cold roast or poll mutton cut into dice, mixed with aged lettuce, tender greens, and seasonings. It suggests a mayonnaise dressing with capers, and notes substitutions when fresh vegetables are unavailable such as canned asparagus or minced nuts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milton Nalad
Opals in High Favor and Their Rising Cost
Opals gain popularity despite lingering superstition among girls today. Jewelers note rising demand and higher prices as opals, especially when set with smaller brilliants, showcase rainbow hues. The trend contrasts with past fears that kept opals cheap, suggesting opals may become pricier while preserving mystique.
May Manton Pattern Mail Order Notice
Rendore of thin paper can secure any May Manton pattern illustrated above by filing oust 1 Alp bills by coupon. Patterns mailed promptly from Harrison & Co Plymouth Place Chicago Pakurn and Hadeiaon & O Paganowtls Vince Chicago.
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Ui, Harrison & Co
Plymouth Place
Chieya
Pakurn
Five Foot Granite Wall Proves Bitter Cure for Drunkenness
John G. Capers recounted an ex-convict client who, after murder defense and a five year sentence, credited sobriety to a solid granite wall preventing access to liquor. The anecdote, cited from the Washington Post, underscores skepticism about so called cures for drinking.
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John G. Capera
South Carolina
Capitol
Mr. Capers
Washington Post
NO NEED FOR LANTERNS Conductors Now Rarely Carry Their Lights
Modern railroading has reduced the conductor lantern to near obscurity in ticket taking. Two decades ago the lantern was a symbol of a conductor, needed to read pasteboards in dim cars. Ten to twelve years back traders displayed lavish, costly lanterns at association meetings, with prices from 25 dollars to many times that. Today conductors still carry lanterns on trains but the device is seldom essential.
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Conductors’ Association
Phyal
Refused To Be Influenced By An Attorney's Argument
Judge Robinson of Tarhoo State, a former North Carolina committeeman, refused to hear attorney Elias. Elias persisted, so the judge silenced the room by stuffing cotton in his ears, then allowed Elias to proceed with his formal legal papers and arguments.
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Robinson
North Carolina
Tarhoo
Cope Elian
Elias
Eline
Washington Post
Living Jewels and Curious Bridal Traditions
A nostalgic look at wedding customs from London and Mexico. The piece notes rice throwing as a wedding aside, mentions silver paper horseshoes at London nuptials, and contrasts jewelry trends with living jewels like fireflies worn in gauze bags in Mexican culture. It ends with whimsical advice on caring for jewelry by feeding it sugar cane and storing in a wire cage.
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London
Mexico
Range of Temperature And Life Survival Limits
The passage notes the narrow temperature range for terrestrial life with vital actions suspended near freezing. It states most organisms tolerate up to 96 to 113 degrees Fahrenheit, while only some bacteria spores survive boiling, suggesting major shifts in Earth's life if surface temperature varied by around 40 degrees.
Inventions and farm notes from a bustling issue
A compact review of diverse old time innovations includes a fountain pen filling bulb improving bottle ink transfer, a Cochran style ear trumpet hat device aiding hearing, and cabbage storage tips for winter. Milan tests electric postal wagons to speed city mail distribution with on‑route stamping and sorting.
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Milan
Waston
Belde
Pase Jae
He Centromen
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New York Central Railway Company
Rome, Watertown & Ogdensburg Railway
Central System
Lake Ontario
Rochester
New York, New Haven
Tory
Troy
Ulyssem
Evane
Egypt
Iin
Hadrian
Namo
Mises
Ali Banka Fméione Oo
Sulto I Je
Hadeiaon & O
iPaganowtls Vince
Chtoaga
Ness
Pena
Neatert
Huston Taylor
St. Paul, Minn
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