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A collage of brief items discusses Peter the Great statue in St. Petersburg, an Australian legacy to a Manchester mill worker, guilt burden among workers, Eve’s apple tree in Ceylon, the National Boot and Shoe Manufacturers' wish for universal styles, expanding Australian shipping with 1900 figures, coal tar industry growth, Naples material usage, and literacy among immigrants in New York and New Jersey.
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Ceylon
Garden of Eden
New South Wales
Ingenuity of waste: from ink to gas and more
A column praising clever reuse of waste products from ink to coal ash, wool soap suds, and sewage. It notes examples like ink from old copper coffee pots, waste coal in ashes yielding gas, and bricks from coagulated soap-suds. Also mentions a violin’s resilience and vegetarian sanitariums reducing alcohol cravings.
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New York
Doctor Long
Saving Steps for Housewives From Cornell Advice
A York Evening Post summary of Cornell University College of Agriculture leaflets on saving steps for home tasks. It emphasizes planning the day after rising to reduce trips between rooms, relaxing to ease effort, and forethought to improve efficiency. Suggestions include using a high stool, carrying trays, and confining kitchen work to a small space with waist high counters for easier cleaning and reduced spills.
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College of Agriculture
Cornell University
York Evening Post
Nces
Vate
Ely
Jeant Ite
Gown Description from Gray Popeline De Chine Dress
A detailed description of a gown in gray popeline de chine featuring brussels lace decorations and velvet trims. The belt consists of three folds of dark gray velvet with a stitched bow, repeating on the stock. The bodice appears faced with gray velvet ribbon around satin buttons but opens beneath the pleat.
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Brussels
May Woman on the Bowery in Electric Lamp Light
A Bowery scene shows a woman calmly knitting beneath an electric lamp as revelry roars around her. Drunken sailors and loiterers pass by while she maintains serene focus, her gray silk bonnet and intricate weave contrasting with the rough street crowd. The description emphasizes composure amid vice and a detailed gown with circular lace and woven birds' plume accents.
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Bowery
New York
Old World Kitchen Instructions For Tomato Relish And Roast Lamb
A fragmented recipe describes chilling tomato onion pepper relish with vinegar sugar and spices then boiling sealing and serving on toast. It also details roast lamb with dripping onions peppers and garlic, covered toaster roasting at twelve minutes per pound and browning near service while basting with pan gravy.
Thoughtful Growth Through Inner Voice and Friends
A contemplative maxim from George MacDonald about finding what you need as you mature. It hints that guidance lies in books, friendships, or, most deeply, in the voice within your own mind.
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George A Macdonald
Wages Across States and Nations Highlight Tariff Debate
The article examines how wages vary by state in the United States and compares with Britain, France, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. It cites Wright’s report showing daily wages for rollers, puddlers, carpenters, bricklayers, and cotton spinners across states, arguing tariffs do not fix a uniform wage scale and that labor costs depend on broader conditions. It also notes wage trends in the United Kingdom and recent shifts in 1900 to 1901, with mining and iron industries bearing notable changes and conciliation reducing disputes.
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United States
Carroll D. Wright
Commissioner of Labor
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York
Coal Minora
Alabama
Joinora
Montana
Athols
California
Massachusetts
Great Britain
England
France
Germany
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Spain
Iowa
Eana
Oocial Labor Commissioner
London
United Kingdom
Iron and Steel
Iran
Representation of the Sailors Elects William Peaje President
William Peaje a Chicago labor activist for twelve years is chosen president of the International Seamen Union of America. A German native who began sailing at 15, he has long led the Lake Seamen's Union since 1897 and has served as secretary. He was first elected in 1899 and re elected in 1900 and serves as a Chicago Federation of Labor delegate.
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William Peaje
Chicago
2 Gen
International Beamena Union of America
Atlantic
Pacifi
Great Lakes
Seaman
Penje
Inker
Germany
Lake Seamen's Union
Hel
The
International
Bridge and Structural Iron Workers’ Union
Pease
International Seamen’s Union of America
Chicago Federation of Labor
Labour News Across The Nation Reports Gains And Strikes
Industrial notes show 677 miners killed in Pennsylvania last year. Labor’s foes include sweatshops watering down stock and injunction abuse. A Birmingham Typographical Union vote rejected abolishing expulsion for false statements. A new national labor body forms in Washington. Chicago Typographical Union plans a June anniversary. Owosso Federal Labor Union raises city wages and ends child labor. New Orleans machinists win nine hour day and higher pay. Streetcar workers shift hours to 10s with wage gains.
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Pennsylvania
Atock
Utica Globe
Birmingham
International Typographical Union
Clus
Washington, D. C
Chicago
Printers’ Union
Owosso
Mich
New Orleans
Uncle George Pollman Helps Tenants In Maeda County
The generous Missouri philanthropist Uncle George Pollman of Maeda County cancels tenant notes and forgives debts before settlement day, urging tenants to care for their families. Governors Shaw of Iowa and Savage of Nebraska spoke in Dakota City, Neb, recalling a thirty year old Denison connection and Shaw's first case before Savage as justice of the peace.
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George" Pollman
Maeda County
Missouri
Ry Daye
Shaw
Iowa
Savage
Nebraska
Sttte
Dakota City
Neb
Denison
Justice of the Peace
Paris newspaper recounts Italian prime minister jailed by France
A Paris report describes late Italian prime minister Mw meeting a French journalist who served as deputy. Crisps remarks on prior imprisonment for political offense, suggesting the cycle of political punishment and the idea of using power to jail others.
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Crisps
Paris
M. Crisps
Chaps
Comets of the nineteenth century and notable returns
The nineteenth century yielded 285 new comets versus 62 in the eighteenth, with more large bright comets than its predecessor. Early notable comets include those of 1811 1843 1858 1881 and 1882. By 1800 only Halley's was known among periodic comets with about seventeen having more than one return to perihelion.
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New York
New Jersey
United Stas
Halley
Fea
Irving's Son H B Irving Gains Notice as Actor Author
H B Irving, elder son of Sir Henry Irving, is 31 on August 5 and earns recognition as an author. He is among university men who turn to acting after Oxford training. He first appeared on stage ten years ago and briefly left to study for the bar before returning to acting.
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Irving
H. B. Irving
Sir Henry Irving
Oxford
Dodd's Kidney Pills Say Healed Bright's Disease
For over ten years Elizabeth P Madison of Polk City suffered kidney trouble with bowel and liver derangements. Rheumatism added to her pain until Dodd's Kidney Pills were tried, and the first box showed improvement leading to a complete cure. The remedy is promoted as the only treatment that cured Bright's Disease Diabetes or Dropsy, previously deemed incurable.
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Hadison
Polk City
Mrv
Elizabeth P. Madison
Dodd
Bright
Woman's Method of Lasvimt Car
A Philadelphia Times observation notes that women alight from streetcars facing the direction they intend to go, while men exit with the moving car. The remark highlights women’s tendency to choose their exit direction after leaving the vehicle.
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Philadel- Philadelphia Times
Egotiam Daughter Graduates but Dad Keeps Writing Speeches
The young daughter of a famed statesman graduates but laments her father wants to keep delivering long speeches. A sympathetic Washington Star reporter notes her frustration as she contemplates her next steps and future in public life.
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Washington Star
Procedure for preparing cornmeal batter in bread making
The text explains a method to soften cornmeal before mixing with flour and leavening. It suggests scalding half the milk or water, pouring the hot liquid over cornmeal, then adding eggs, the remaining cold liquid, and finally sifted flour with baking powder.
Secret Ribbon Discovery At College Dormitory
A college girl's room yielded a curious find a ribbon stock or belt described as for an always perfect ribbon. The drawer contained eight or ten small rolling pins like those used by children and a smooth wound object removed from a belt of ribbon. A tiny pin fastened the neckwear and the crat vanished instantly from view.
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SRION
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Bence
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