The Gold Coast Krooboy and Surfside Life Observed
A descriptive look at Lagos and Accra life on the Gold Coast, detailing beach landings by white men, canoe craft, and West African paddlers. It notes cleanliness, municipal order, a laundress scene near Marina, and the skilled Krooboy workforce serving as reliable aides, including duties from body servant to stoker, with cultural tattooing and grooming practices described.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cora
Gold Coast
Accra
Lagos
Liverpool
Marina
Laundresees
West Coast
Krooboy
Winchman
Craneman
Stoker
Jackwash
Kroo Coast
Sierra Leone
Cuvier's Early Opportunity by the Sea
Baron Cuvier at 18 took a tutoring post near Fe camps in Normandy. He strolled by the sea, found a stranded cattle fish, dissected it, and began studying molluscae. The ocean became his textbook and his three years by the coast made him a leading figure in natural history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuvier
Baron Cuvier
Fecamps
Normandy
Destruction of Old Paper Money at Federal Treasury
At Washington the daily destruction of nearly a dollar amount of worn notes is carefully overseen by three vigilant observers who each hold a key to a triply locked iron receiver. The money enters, the pulp forms, and new paper is produced with color-imprinted, uniquely numbered bills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Treasury
Washington
Vulcan's Utility Ashore in Cuban Waters Warship Repair Ship Vital to Fleet
The steamer Vulcan, outfitted as a repair ship by Engineer-in-Chief Melville, proved invaluable to the fleet in Cuban waters. Sent to Santiago, she saved multiple ships from crippling delays by providing steam, ordnance, hull, and construction repairs, including new steam pipes and gun mount shafts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vulcan
Melville
Cuban
Santiago
United States
Chasmar
The
Commodore Watson
Newark
Dolphin
Over Snow and Ice Newfoundland Log Sleds Captivate
A caption notes Newfoundlanders born sailors bring sea gear ashore and use wind powered log sleds. Dogs appear to pull chuted bunches, but gusts seem to propel the sledges with logs slung on them, creating a curious, striking scene on shore.
Union Bridge Company Ships Novel Two Span Deck Bridge to South Africa
The Union Bridge Company recently shipped a two deck span bridge for the Orange Free State Railways in South Africa. The 100 foot spans feature latticed girders eight feet ten inches deep and ten feet wide. Erection is planned without falsework by building on shore, rolling spans out for testing, with rollers supplied by the company. Railroad Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Africa
Union Bridge Company
South Africa
Orange Free State Railways
Railroad Gaxetic
Needle swallowed by tailor ends in death
A tailor accidentally swallowed a needle and died from inflammation. The item notes how small causes can have large effects and mentions Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy that purportedly strengthens nervous, weak, and sickly people.
Fragmented Lines Reflecting Odd Prose Threads
Readable bits hint at a zigzag of aphorisms about human error love school delicacy and misused phrases. The text features stray names and garbled sentences lacking coherent narrative or clear event. It reads as a damaged OCR segment with scattered reflections and incomplete thoughts.
Beauty Aids Promote Clean Blood and Complexion
An ad-like fragment touts Cascarets Cathartic cleans your blood by purifying the liver and removing impurities to improve the complexion. It claims to reduce boils blotches and blackheads with a century old tone and mentions a satisfaction guarantee though it includes garbled phrases and a prohibition note about a church man.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Toe Gum Cures Corns and Wheat Prices in Ad Bundle
Ad fragment mentions Toe-Gum cures for corns with money back offer at 35¢ from Gdruggiers. References to wheat at 40 cents a bushel, how to grow wheat profitably, Salter's Cram samples, and farm seeds from John A Barn Seed Co, Crosse Wis. A joked line about Mrs Chipper and the war.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salter
John A. Barn Seed Co
Crosse
Wis
Wie
Central Savings Bank Notice in Denver Distracted by Fragments
Fragmented OCR text shows a Central Savings Bank in Denver with garbled phrases about checks and signatures. The snippet includes stray lines about barbed wire and ads for a cure, indicating a jumbled historical clipping with few clear facts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central Savings Bank
Epee Fe
Denver
Colorado
Sam
Tmorer
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Gold Coast Capital
Acora
Kreobey
CANOE
Naval Floating Repair
A. Santon Otter
Arief
Smith
Eleanor
Catmronsia Fic Synvup Co
California Fig Syrup Co
California Fie Syrup Co
San Francison
Cal
Louisville
New York
N.Y
Cuba
U. S
Battle
Plug
Ene
LIFE
Creacees
Vrwagh
Duramiity
Meadeeme
Comtery Center
Schilling
Sapolio
Benett
Chemical Co
ScuuSirnis Pension Bickford
Washington, D. C
Recere Quick Pites KB
Vostad
Clai
Sim 10
Dave
Adenia, Ae
Keel
O'Parrell
New York Avenue
Washin
Davis
Price
P.M. Davis Troy Works
Denver, Cole
Cascaret
Cascarets
Anne Ave
Cure Constipa Remedy Company
Cicer
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