Prediction of electrical heating replacing coal in homes
At an Electrical Dinner in Brooklyn Charles W Price editor of the Electrical Review predicts a near future when electrical reservoirs will heat entire buildings and cook in kitchens. He says stored electricity will be cheaper than coal and stored for use on demand, foretelling the coal wagon disappearing and ashmen becoming a reminiscence within a year.
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Monotauk Club
Brooklyn
Charles W. Price
The
Electrical Review
We Won't Need Roads Political Satire In Palmyra Record
The Palmyra Record mocks road funding by noting flying machines may surpass cars. Lt says Pennsylvania delays road spending while investing in aviation, declaring support for highway improvement and a humorous take on progress.
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Palmyra
Pennsylvania
Lt Saye
Great Criminal Mystery Solved
A North American magazine section preview says the Sunday issue will publish the full Lone Bandit of Lewistown Narrows story. It recounts a two year old PennsylvanIa Express train robbery near Lewistown and reveals the solution uncovered during manuscript preparation.
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Lewistown Narrows
Pennsylvania
Narrows
Lewistown
Sunday North American
Giant silk cotton trees of Jamaica awe visitors
Jamaica's silk cotton trees reach 200 to 300 feet, with few leaves and vast root systems. Each year they bloom once and shed cream colored silk cotton from cucumber sized pods. Native Jamaicans felled trees to carve lasting canoes, while the fiber is too short for textiles but considered for guncotton or pillows.
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Jamaica
Christian Science Monitor
Word Spelling Test Ends with Long Dictionary Search
A Cleveland Plain Dealer report recounts a quirky office scene where a new boy, George, is sent to lock up then returns missing. The manager later finds him deeply studying a dictionary, trying to recall a word, claiming he is on the second page.
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George
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Furnished Rooms Sign Sparks Local Rivalry
In a Chicago suburb two Italian homeowners boast furnished room signs to boost social standing. A newcomer asks to rent, but one replies they do not rent rooms, claiming family occupancy. The tale centers on rival signboasting between neighbors.
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Chicago
Reading East Through Books and Smells of Ambergris
A compact essay contrasts study methods for travel in the East with the Bible and classic works, arguing guidebooks miss substance. It notes civet and musk sources from the civet cat and musk deer, musk trade, and ambergris from sick whales, detailing origins and peculiarities with price hints from the London Standard.
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Suez Canal
New York
London
East
Price Collier
Scribner's Magazine
China
Assam
Siberia
Altai Mountains
Asia
London Standard
Mucilage and Gum Jokes Tie Language Gaps Across Nations
A string of humorous vignettes contrasts English and American usage with mucilage and gum in London shops. Light exchanges show linguistic slips about terms for adhesives and casual railway chats. The cartoons reveal cross language misunderstandings and wry comments from readers across newspapers.
Modern Barbers Offer Painless Shaves and Progress
The alfalfa editor of the Emporia Gazette replies to a reader craving a shave without Spartan effort. He notes reforms in barbering since hammers and cold chisels, with painless treatments now common, and says fears of barber pain are unfounded.
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Alfalfa
Emporia Gazette
Microscopic Messages Carried by Carrier Pigeons
Long before modern data carriers a single pigeon carried vast text by miniature photography. During the siege of Paris 363 birds mailed about 40 000 messages averaging twenty words each totaling 800 000 words. Messages were photographed and re photographed onto collodion films, each two inches square holding 50 000 words.
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Paris
Harper
Whistler's White Lock and Gypsy Queens Across Times
Notes recount Whistler’s famous white lock as a personal signature tied to a child’s feather omen and recalls Gypsy queens in America and England with royal-like ceremonies. It contrasts laws against gypsies in 1592 London and social premiums in marriage in Belgium and Madagascar.
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Whistler
James McNeil
Jock
Dorothy Menpes
Mortimer Menpes
America
Matilda Stanley
Dayton
England
Esther Fan Blythe
Society of Gypsies
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Electricty
Banish
Coalbin
Ashman
Washington Star
Bildud
Slithers
Europe
Bildad
Harper's Weekly
Frederick Robertson
Brighton
Tennyson
Ethel
Boston Transcript
Belgium
Madagascar
London Telegraph
Snavely Bros
Lititz
North American
State of
Lititz Record
Northern
Lancaster Co
BF the North American
Cies
Record Office
John Lansing, Jr
Regennas & Sons
Regennas
C. Fred Regennas & Sons
Lititz, PA
RED Cross
Lewis N. Moyer
P. D
Main Street
H. H. Gingrich
W. M. Grube
East Main ST. Lyitez, PA
A. H. Kreider
Granite and Marble Works
W. Vine ST
Lancaster
Ofice
C.N. Derr
Habecker’s
Habecker the Baker
Graul’s Bread
Graham
Tye
D. D. Graul
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