Trade gains show Puerto Rico prosperity from 1901 to 1910
A report by Secretary Wilson details Puerto Rico rising trade from 17.5 million in 1901 to 68 million in 1910. Sugar dominates exports, with 24 million in sugar and molasses, while coffee declines in U.S. demand and tobacco exports reach 5.76 million. Meat imports rise as live stock exports fall, and overall living standards improve due to hookworm eradication and better farming.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
Wilson
Union
United States
Tobcco
Her Life Story in Verse by Mrs Kidder
Mrs Harriett Kidder celebrated her ninety fifth birthday at her Asbury Park home with an afternoon of friends. She read a poem of 140 stanzas she wrote and typed after learning to use a typewriter at age ninety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kidder
Harriett, Kidder
Asbury Park
United States
Washington
Jeferson
Adams
Paris
Napoleon II
Eugland
Queen Victoria
Scottish Pearls in Freshwater Mussel Rivers
The London Standard notes Scottish pearl divers rely on freshwater mussels in northern rivers for gems rivaling oriental pearls in translucency. Historical records cite £20,000 yearly value from Scottish streams and £12,000 in 1865 to a German syndicate, though the industry is less profitable today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
London Standard
Lead strong safes guard radium with mercury vent system
The Los Angeles Times describes a London built radium safe with an inner lead wall about three inches thick and an outer safe. It uses mercury tubes in the door to capture emanations and prevent loss, a method designed to shield the valuable material from burglars and radiation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Los Angeles Times
Egg diet for dogs raises market demand in San Francisco kennel
Miss Crocker, a San Francisco socialite, and her staff of veterinarians cornered the egg market to feed her Boston terriers and French bulls in her $100,000 kennels. Each dog receives at least two eggs daily, draining supplies as experts observe an unfamiliar diet for dogs with interest.
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Miss Crocker
Jennies
Crocker
San Francisco
Fear of being buried alive haunts Victorian notables
The London Chronicle notes Harriet Martineau, Ed mund Yates, and Lady Burton detailing drastic postmortem safeguards in their wills. Martineau left £10 for her doctor to ensure the body is decapitated before burial, Yates left £20 for severing the jugular, and Burton required heart piercing and postmortem examination before burial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Martineau
Edmund Yates
Lady Burton
London Chronicle
United States Steel Trust Report Calls Overcapitalized and Water Loaded
Commissioner Smith concludes the United States Steel Corporation was heavily overcapitalized with little tangible property backing stock. The report pins $508 million in common stock as largely water, notes $291 million in excess capitalization last year, and criticizes underwriting profits of $2.5 million plus promoter payments. The trust now controls just over 60 percent of crude and finished steel.
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Washington
Department of Commerce and Labor
Taft
United States Steel Corporation
Ireau
Corporations
Tobacco Trust
Standard
Smith
Steel Corporation
United States Studl
J. P. Morgan & Co
Colise
Drexel Biddle Children Rescued From Sea Near Ventnor
Livingstone Ludlee Biddle aged fifteen Miss Cor delia Biddle seventeen and James Law Jr eighteen children of Anthony J Drexel Biddle were pulled from the Atlantic off Dorset Place. Lifeguards arrived with buoys as onlookers from Philadelphia aided in dragging them ashore. A dramatic beach landing ended safely and Mr Biddle rewarded the guards.
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Anthony J. D. Biddle
Ventnor
Atlantic City
N. J
Livingstone Ludlee Biddle
Cordelia Biddle
Anthony J. Drexel Biddle
James Law, Jr
Dorset Place
Mr. Biddle Senior
Taft Orders Withdrawal of Four Regiments from Texas Maneuver
After talks with Secretary Stimson and General Wood, President Taft authorizes withdrawing four regiments from the San Antonio maneuver division within thirty days. Some regiments will remain in Texas all summer while others depart. Salt River Bridge Opens in Phoenix Ariz Structure spans 2150 feet with 4100 feet including approaches, longest concrete of its kind.
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Texas
Washington
Stimson
Wood
Taft
Maneuver
San Antonio
Tex
Salt River
Phenix
Ariz
Catskill Gnomes Legend Behind Grand Hotel Folly
Alice Phebe Eldridge recounts a Catskill legend of the ugly dwarf gnomes in the mountains behind the Grand Hotel who brew magic wine. Hudson and his men allegedly drank theirs and transformed, wandering the Catskills and prophesying a return in 1929 for those who seek the truth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hendrick Hudson
Catskill Mountain
Grand Hotel Station
Catskill
Hudson
Catskill Mountains
Alice Phebe Eldridge
New York World
Exquisite Pain and Pocket Joys in Odd Bits of News
A fragment discusses tooth nerve pain and the Fifth nerve as among the most intense pains, with notes on irritation versus pain. It then recounts The Joy of Pockets from London Chronicle about pocketless costumes and awkward solutions. It ends with a report on a dangerous canned green pea bomb and a brief definition of understanding from Coleridge.
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Pearson's Weekly
London Chronicle
St. Petersburg
Chicago Tribune
Breach of Promise Suit Ends with Contemptible Defendant
In a Baltimore American note a jury found no damages for Miss Grimmage in her breach of promise case. The defense portrayed the man as a low down contemptible specimen, and the jury agreed she had not won damages.
Opportunity Lost in Alley Derby
Reddy questions Billy about locating Wall Street in slang while Puck proposes rough action by asking why Billy did not confront him in the alley and settle the score at craps.
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Billy
Old Jay
Wall Street
Puck
Patriotic Service Planned at Asbury Church
Rev A Eberhardt will preach at North Long Branch Methodist Church with morning and evening sermons on The Lords Message to the Lords People and The Lords Message to the Lords Land. A Fourth of July patriotic service will honor veterans and Sons of Veterans with special invitations. Grace Joline and Myrtle Zimmerman to sing. Prof Gienger to perform violin medley of sacred songs.
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Asbury Church
A. Eberhardt
North Long Branch Methodist Church
Sons of Veterans
Grace Joline
Myrtle Zimmerman
Prof
Gienger
Monmouth Beach
Emmons Buys Buick Touring Car in Philadelphia Test Drive
H Emmons of the Merchants Hotel bought a Buick touring car after a day with the demonstrator in Philadelphia. He narrowly avoided a child on Broad Street during the test drive and, despite planning to keep the old horse, expects to spend much time with the new vehicle and contemplates sleighing time for the children.
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Emmons
H. Emmons
Merchants' Hotel
Philadelphia
Broad Street
Quaker City
Yonkers event marks Mozart Regiment departure anniversary
Ex councilman John Tetley and companions travel from Wallace Street and nearby addresses to Yonkers New York for the fiftieth anniversary observance of the Mozart Regiment departure for the Civil War. Tetley joined in winter 1864 65 at age sixteen. Yonkers plans a large veterans celebration and the party returns tonight. The Fourth at Oceanic Boys Club plans flag raising and athletic events with a donated flag. Eatontown Y M C A Junior department forms a bicycle club to keep boys active through summer with members Kenneth Morris Willard McKaig John Dickinson Earl Reeder Joseph Shick Albert Breese Robert Flint Charles Gaston.
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John
Tetley
Wallace Street
Foster
Red Bank
John Offmenhiger
Woodbridge
George Sanborn
Keyport
Yonkers N. Y
Mozart
Yonkers
Oceanic
Oceanic Presbyterian Church
Church House
Presbyterian Church
Eatontown Bicycle Club
Eatontown Young Men's Christian Association
Kenneth Morris
Willard McKaig
John Dickinson
Earl Reeder
Joseph Shick
Albert Breese
Robert Flint
Charles Gaston
Bargains Highlighted on Cent-a-Words Third Page
Read Cent-a-Words on the third page for bargains and special offers. The listing promises value with low unit prices and assorted goods. Savings appear across household items and daily necessities.
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Broadway
Long Branch
Radium Safes
Coleridge
THE
Daily Record
Goldstein's
Unimeutu
W. H. Woolley & CO
Automobile Supplies
A. M. Townley
Hanson
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