Matchmaking in Germany and bold ads in Sunday notices
A historical essay notes how advertising columns in Berlin papers openly display personal ads for marriage and convey motives and defects. It mentions a laundry factory tie in and a mechanically inclined suitor seeking a wife, plus an observation on widows and divorces sought. The piece highlights sensational pension of trial ads and a physician’s pill promotion in the same column.
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Brower
Pounds
Phillings
Pence
Berlin
Lkean
Cadet Ships to Civil Service of Straits Settlement
Cadets for Civil Service in the Straits Settlement and Federated Malay States are selected by open competition. They must be natural-born British subjects, aged 22 to 24, commence duties after August examinations, and receive 1250 dollars per year with furnished quarters. Cadets learn a native language and may be refunded for passage if leaving within three years. If language exams are passed, pay rises to 1500 dollars with free furnished quarters.
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Straits Settlement
Federated Malay States
Civil Service Commissioners
Civil Service of India
England
Japanese method turns oaks into mushroom crops
An old account describes growing mushrooms by injuring oak trees, then placing them in sunlit forest areas for years. After three years, mushrooms sprout from the incisions, yielding autumn crops that are especially valuable and easier than cellar farming.
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Paris
Not Accepted Story In A Cozy Corner Club
Not Accepted unfolds in a club where storytellers spin yarns. Brown shares an unbelievable tale as two men doubtfully tease him, while a death near in time sparks talk of a funeral two days apart and a wife’s role.
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Brown
Postage Stamps Under Escort Tale of a Sergeant
A French occupation sergeant in Crete married a Creole wife and kept two Mauritian stamps as his treasure. They valued the stamps at about $8000 and kept them in a Crete bank. Before departure, the couple retrieved the deposit as a procession escorted the treasure home in two postage stamps.
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Crete
Preach Cole
Omne
Youthful Wit and German Law Contrasts in Strand Tale
The piece recalls Walter Joyce and Henry Byron sharing a Strand outing. A sandwich man’s sorrowful face is noted as nine pence a day, reflecting pub talk on hardship and humor. A statistic claimed one in twelve in a nation have been convicted, with varied rates by gender and age, amid remarks on German law.
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Walter Joyce
Strand
George R. Sims
Henry J. Byron
Byron
B.poard Ron
Fortsree
The Dockyard Sentry and the Whisky Pup Lesson
A dockyard officer recalls a Irish sentry joke about duty and firing in a humorous exchange on a steam collier. A farmer and rector share a whisky tale proving the pup’s death as a grim, cautionary lesson about wasting good whisky on dogs.
Knickerbocker Mortgage Discussion Note
Fragmentary OCR text mentions mortgages, Tucker, and a practice session. Readable parts reference a discussion on mort gages and a person named Tucker, with unclear context and no identifiable events or dates.
English girl tops French school tests in Mo race
Miss Frances Barratt daughter of W Barat of Northampton earns rare distinction at a French school. She was the only English girl at the National School in Missouri, beating French girls in French composition geography arithmetic and writing.
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Frances Barratt
W. Barat
Northampton
Timmy and the dirty hands tale in London and Hamburg
A humorous sketch contrasts Timmy’s dirty hands with a mother’s scolding and Timmy’s defense about water. It notes London’s milkshops and pubs numbering about 9,000 and Hamburg’s tram conductors receiving hatpin point protectors to avoid injuries, reflecting early 20th century urban life.
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Timmy
Hove
Ford
Hamburg
Shaw Correspondence School pitches in spare time study
An advertisement from Shaw Correspondence School in Toronto promotes a home study course to prepare for better jobs. It claims to trace commercial branches and offers training in accounting drawing and related fields for youth, encouraging readers to request details and state questions.
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Wo Hhaw
Shaw Correspondence School
Toronto
Canada
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