The Lady Assistant of the Academy in a London Street Scene
A narrative traces Miss Kate the lady assistant in a dance academy on Second Avenue. She speaks of scrapping with hard luck for a living and critiques masculine vanity as she dances for seven dollars a week. The piece links her tale to broader portraits of working women and literary echoes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Grandison
Kate
East Side
Second Avenue
Miss Kate
Jules Lemaitre
Academy
Coral Sea Wonders Unveiled Off Terra Australis Coast
Describes the Coral Sea near Terra Australis with vivid imagery of coral formations. Milk-white coral bowls, branching antlers, and blue eyed pinnacles emerge as the water shallows. Fern like branches blush pink and yellow while brain coral surfaces show delicate engravings and mossy shapes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terra Australis
Great Barrier Reef
Coral Sea
Great Is Steam Power in British Manufacture
The article asserts steam power in Great Britain matches the manual labor of 4,000,000,000 men, a figure exceeding Earth's male population. It highlights steam's vast industrial impact and compares it to global labor capacity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Those Girls Spats Over Padding Allegations
In a household squabble Sibyl accuses Maud of padding. Marie recalls a past incident when she wore one of Sibyl’s shoes, triggering a tangle over borrowed apparel and pride.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
Sibyl
Marie
Preventing Consumption through Breathing Exercises
Dr. Thomas J. Mays advocates lung development via simple breathing methods to prevent and treat inactive pulmonary consumption. Techniques include arm levers with deep breaths, raising and lowering the arms, loud counting or singing during expiration, frequent deep breaths, and inhaling compressed air to expand the chest, framed as improving chest capacity and health.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas J. Mays
Barbarous Use of Whalebone by Eskimos
Eskimos employ a cruel method using whale bone wrapped and cured with sinew and grease to trap wolves. The bone binds in the wolf’s stomach, then enlarges, causing deadly agony and rapid death within a couple of days after ingestion.
Flight of Various Birds
Describes different bird flight styles and behaviors. Owls glide buoyantly, ravens strike midair and may appear to fall while scratching with a foot. Crows swagger. woodpeckers flap continually. Small birds rise and fall in jerks. wagtails and larks hop or walk. skylarks and woodlarks rise and fall while singing.
London sheriffs pay rent in horseshoes for ground deed
Each year the sheriffs of London pay six horseshoes with nails as rent to the British exchequer for a plot in St Clements parish. In 1234 a blacksmith rented the land from the crown for a shop, later passing to the city corporation under the same rental. The horseshoes and nails have been paid annually since then.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kent
Sheriffs of
London
St Clements
Sugar Beet Industry Outlook and Health Remedies
A collage of notes reports 1803 sugar production from beets and cane, world deficits from Cuban and West Indian crops, and the impact of legislation. It cites Irrigation Age and the Agricultural Department figures, plus ads for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters and Beecham's Pills, steamship tickets, and miscellaneous jokes and notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Agricultural Department
West India
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Meci
Plano
Kamee
Young Man
Soanso
U.S. Gov't A
Chicago
Seattle
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Great Northern Railways
North Pacific Coast
George H. Heafford
Eet
Union Pacific
Kansas City
Omaha
Hall
J. Cheney & Co., Proprs
Toledo
Browning
Union Pacific Ticket Office
Larimer St
Denver
Colo
Colorado Printing Ink & Roller Co
Union Pacific Railway
Newport
Serenaders
Shop
Shoopp
Box W
Racine
Wis
Iowa
Hanson
Macore Jackson
Barbreck
St. Landry Parish
Denver Directory
A. Ward
Optician
Seventeenth St
Drake St
Charles H.conner
Sth
Wewatta
R. M. Davis
Arapahoe
Sivloge
Atpabow
J. M. Moore
Sts
Odell
Frank Rohm
W. Jackson St
Coox ReMepr Co
Santiien
A. J
Boston
Mass
Penna. Salt M’f'g CO. Gen. Agts
Phila
Tas
Sally P.hixcox
Densio
John W.morri
Washington, D
U.S. Pension Bureau
Sc. E. T. Hazeltine
Warren
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