Timely Topics a mix of social satiric notes and royal heraldry
The column surveys views on court life, manners, and public morals with quips about a judge, aging statesmen, and a post office clerk. It notes sugar's link to height weight changes and reflects on the Edward VII coronation as a historic, symbolic event with legal fictions in the crown.
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Edward VII
England
Canterbury
Henry VIII
Rome
Martin Luther
France
Trade growth between U S and Scandinavian nations 1900s view
Frank H. Hitchcock of the Agricultural Department outlines a comprehensive article on U S trade with Denmark Sweden and Norway. He analyzes the decade after 1900 showing growth and shifts in imports and exports across the early twentieth century.
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Frank H. Hitchcock
Agricultural Department
United States
Denmark
Sweden
Norway
Scant US exports to three nations rise to near twenty million
The article notes US exports to three countries grow from nine million to about twenty million, while Scandinavian imports stay below four million in 1890 and just over five million in 1900, a record year for imports. It also discusses a Maryland court ruling on libel via stenographers and a broad warning against slander through amanuenses. It contrasts native birth rates with immigration, urging public schools to preserve American nationality amid assimilation.
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United States
Scandinavia
New England
France
Ings
Republic
Coleridge Verbosity and a Fainting Fit in a Letter
Coleridge displays verbose phrasing in a Blackwood letter about a fainting spell with friend Gilman present. He remarks on the paradox of enduring thoughts versus fleeting consciousness and is relieved it was not apoplexy. A wry closing note recalls a wedding scene where a girl quarrels with her mother over social cuts.
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Coleridge
Blackwood
Gilman
Arctic Submarine Trip and Ages of Man Debates
Reports on Prof Anschutz Kaempfe plans a polar voyage in a submarine boat while noting ice rarely exceeds twelve feet. Heidelberg study finds candescent light harmless to eyes. Newcomb tabulates solar cycle periods with maximum near 1904.91 and 1916.04. Budapest phone journal links prices and news to Siegedin and Arad, with 7,000 subscribers and bihourly updates. Geological estimates place man’s appearance at 238,000 years ago across epochs. Vesuvius activity keeps volcanic threat in view with lava ejections massive and crater height rising.
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Anschutz-Kaempfe
Austria
University of Heidelberg
Newcomb
The
Astrophysical Journal
Budapest
Telephone Journal
Siegedin
Arad
Stock Exchange
Parliament
de Mortillet
Egypt
Nature and Science
Nature
Signor Matteucci
Vesuvius
Names and nicknames of Australian colonies revealed
An old discussion catalogs nicknames for Australian colonies. It lists New South Wales as cornstalks, Victorians as gum-suckers, South Australians as crow-eaters or wheat fielders, Queenslanders as banana-landers, Western Australians as sandgropers or gropers, and Tasmanians as Tassies or jam-eaters, noting regional humor and origins.
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New South Wales
South Australia
Tasmania
Balloons in Guatemala Highlight Hidden Saloon Scene
In Guatemala the Republic boasts over 16 000 saloons and taverns as a lively drinking culture persists. The piece notes that no pin or springing hope is needed to keep the scene alive and evolving.
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Guatemala
Republic of Guatemala
Indiana Boy King of Frap Shooters
Ray Graham a 14 year old from Washington Indiana is hailed as the best wing shot of his age in the United States. He received a double barreled gun as a Christmas present and within a week showed rapid improvement. He joined the local gun club and has become a regular shooter, ranking near the top behind only state champion John L. Winston.
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Ray Graham
Z A. Graham Washington
Ind
United States
John L. Winston
Young Graham Breaks Pigeons in Indiana League Event
A youth shot in the club was taken to Bedford for the fifth annual Indiana League tournament where he knocked down fourteen of fifteen clay pigeons. He was elected chairman of the league's executive committee. A future challenge to any peer in the United States for a 100 third contest is planned.
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Bedford
Graham
United States
Saw oiling device patent by Frans O Helsten
Frans O Helsten of Larium Michigan has patented a saw oiling device for heavy timber cuts. A nozzle tip extends through the handle on both sides of the blade. a spring driven piston releases oil when pressed. The stroke length is set by the screw cap adjustment at the top.
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Frans O. Helsten
Larium
Mich
Unusual Oil Chamber Valve Uses Piston Tip to Regulate Orifice
A vision describes an automatic feed system from the oil chamber where regular piston use is unnecessary. The orifice size is controlled by partially closing the hole with the piston tip, offering a novel method to regulate flow.
Her Frugality and a Famous English Woman
A renowned English woman known for her dress was asked by a young aspirant about pin money for a woman who travels light on spending. She replied you can manage on 2000 dollars a year, noting with modest pride that she and Bobbie managed when they first married and had no sister.
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London
Bobbie
New Zealand Landscapes Revealing Alpine Seas and Glaciers
New Zealand scenery unfolds as mountains and oceans frame wide valleys and waterfalls. The land blends alpine glow, golden farms, lakes, geysers, forests, and pink, white, and red blossoms. Its topos resembles Norway, Switzerland, Italy, and England in a seamless panorama.
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New Zealand
New
August Ladies' Home Journal promises light reading and travel glimpses
The August issue from Curtis Publishing Co offers entertaining light articles, poems, music and illustrations for summer leisure. It highlights Engadine scenery, Swiss and Italian lakes, articles on German villages and Italian girl life, plus practical pieces on picnics and cooling a home. It also features the first white baby born in the Northwest and a boarding school for girls. One dollar yearly, ten cents a copy.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Engadine
Germany
Italy
Northwest
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Prices Paid in Spokane Market Report
Prices paid in Spokane for poultry eggs and livestock list a range of live and dressed values. Poultry includes chickens ducks geese and turkeys with live and dressed prices. eggs at 4.25 per case. Vegetables list potatoes and onions. livestock covers beef veal calves hogs and sheep with various live and dressed prices. Grain delivered by local mills shows Club wheat bluestem red grain prices in bulk and sacked forms.
Bar silver and metal quotes across markets
San Francisco reports bar silver at 49% 60c with Mexican dollars 58% and New York lists silver 5939 cents, silver certificates 60c, Mexican dollars 46 cents. Lake copper 17 dollars, lead 4.37 dollars, casting copper 16.62 dollars. London shows bar silver 26 15 164, copper 6728 6d, lead 12 5s, spelter 16 128 64.
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San Francisco
New York
C. Lake
London
Heat Wave Rears Its Ugly Head Across Cities
Chicago saw a 95 degree official max with street readings 98 to 102 in shade and 108 to 112 in sun. Four deaths and four prostrations occurred. St Louis reported 107 degrees with seven heat deaths. Cincinnati hit 99 degrees with four deaths and 26 prostrations, 16 in the morning.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Tacoma Wheat Exporters Predict Heavy Season
Tacoma Grain company Cardin & Bibb plans to export nearly all wheat it buys this year. They expect to ship 3,000,000 to 5,000,000 bushels from their Tacoma warehouse during the season.
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Tacoma
Wash
Tacoma Grain Company
Cardin & Bibb
Fire and heroism at Boston gunpowder store blaze
A Boston fire sent smoke into a neighboring gun shop as a man sat by a powder chest until it was moved to safety. The tale recalls a New York 1788 blaze during British evacuation when Col. Morgan Lewis and Alexander Hamilton helped roll barrels of gunpowder from a burning arsenal, saving the city. Express trains in Russia travel slowly, not exceeding 22 miles per hour.
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Boston
Washington
New York
Col
Morgan Lewis
Alexander Hamilton
Arsenal
Lewis
Mr. Hamilton
le Col. Lewis
Hamilton
Barber Pole Capers by Wicked Students
Five wicked students in a barbershop cut their hair and bought a barber’s pole as a joke. They paraded through streets with the pole, faced repeated police confrontations, and were briefly detained. A sergeant ultimately dismissed them, noting the pole belonged to the barber while the lads claimed harmless mischief.
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Tipperary
Gremin
Most Curious Charity of Wotton in Surrey
In Wotton Surrey a 1718 will by William Glanville directs burial six yards deep and annual 40 shillings to five parish boys who recite prayers read First Corinthians 16 and write verses on the gravestone anniversary. This year sixteen boys vied. eleven attended. First seven succeeded. others received half a crown each. five remaining competitors got 3 shillings each.
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Surrey
Wotton
William Glanville
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