Lottery Winner Max Levin Receives 30000 Prize
Max Levin of 204 East Mdst wins the capital prize of 30000 in the Louisiana State Lottery drawing on the 12th. Levin, a former tailor with a Houston Street shop, plans real estate speculation and a generous suite for his workers after receiving the check via Adams Express. He says he will remember the lottery but remains wary of the operation’s integrity.
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Max Levin
East Mdst
Levin
Adams’ Express Company
Starmulowsky, Jonker
Canal St
Ini RL Express
Wells
East Houston
Mie Levin
Louisianh
Javin
Polini
Washington
Boston
Josh Billings Sayings From New York Weekly
A compact collection of humorous aphorisms on envy jealousy ignorance and vanity. Coquettes and pride, fools and education, phools and fashion are weighed with sharp wit and homey humor.
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Enny
Edukashun
New York Weekly
Siberian Mastodon Meat and the Cold Storage Juggernaut
In the Altai Mountains peasants cut and boiled mastodon meat found in ice, tasting good though ancient. The rest was shipped to St Petersburg for a museum, while Chicago stores boast vast cold storage with 36 million eggs and 140000 pounds of meat in one warehouse.
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Altai Mountains
St Petersburg
Chicago
Uniengo Herald
A Simple Tent for Fresh Eggs Method
A historical note describes a method for sorting eggs by freshness using a salt solution. Fresh eggs sink to the bottom, eggs laid the day before float slightly, and older eggs float higher, indicating age.
The Tactless World and Its Court of Grief
A speaker muses on tact and its absence, tracing it through anecdotes about aristocrats, servants, doctors, and everyday folk. The narration links tactlessness to excessive conscientiousness and social misfires, citing Irish, English, and American tales, ending with a note that these jokes came from Chambers' Journal.
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Heaven
Adolphus Primrose
Lily
Small Brother
William
England
George Rose
Deacon Dudley's Remarkable Long Squash
At the Lewiston fair Deacon Dudley shows a seed grown squash claimed as the longest fever squash. The narrator finds the fruit impressive in length, while later discovering a longer squash nearby. Dudley admits the treasure was moved and not a great matter, yet the scene highlights a quirky rural exhibit and local pride.
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Deacon Dudley
Lewiston
Walte
California
Denwon Dudley
Sheepspen
Tramp on Jersey City Freight Run Describes Gatepost Etiquette
An old tramp explains how tramps gauge reception when arriving by freight car in Jersey City. He describes a grim, humorous ritual of knocking, peeking, and judging a door’s response by a mistress, husband, and mood, with cold meat, eggs, and boots offered if welcome and a curt dismissal otherwise.
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Jersey City
Howe
Substitute for Ivory Appears In Modern Industry
An extensive substitute industry grows to supply artificial ivory due to demand in art and industry. Early methods used injecting white wood with lime. at Amsterdam exhibition most products used sheep bones and waste kid skin. Bones are treated by lime bleaching for two weeks, heated with skin to form a fluid mass, then processed into a dried sheet product.
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Amsterdam
The Postal Office Dead Letter Experts Read Illegible Addresses
A Washington Post report details how post office divisions decipher unreadable addresses. Indian postal workers, led by W. L. Collings, master read handwriting from various languages and misdirected mail to deliver about 85 to 95 percent of half a million misaddressed letters annually.
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Post Office
Washington Post
Post Office Department
Postores
W. L. Collings
Wood
John
Mass
John Under- Wood
Andover
Birds of the crow tribe prey in Norway and England
The text notes crows and ravens raid nests in England and northern Norway, stealing eggs and young birds. North Norwegian drakes frequently defeat them by grabbing the crow by the neck and diving, sinking the crow in the sea. Water-dwelling crows die, while ravens may share the same fate. Young waterfowl swim among fish-rich waters with few predators, and veteran lobster fishermen report rarely finding birds in the stomachs of their prey.
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England
Norway
Mr Bleakins Retort Farmer Blenkins Recounts A Quip
Mr Bleakins retorts to his wife Mary Jane known for never being pleased with anything she sews or hears. After a Boston trip a neighbor visits and starts a chat prompting Blenkins to rebuke his wife’s habit in a concise exchange.
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Blenkins
Mary Jane
Boston
Capital social roundups and notable Washington society events
Capital Fortaline reports social life around Justice Brewer and the Hawley family. Mrs Hawley entertains Miss Mercer of London, while a baby anniversary and various social gatherings shape winter society.
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Justice Brewer
Hawley
Senator Hawley
Miss Mercer
London
Blaine
Washington
Baltimore
Pongs
William Waller Phelps
Kusewe Thule
Hitt Adbey
Torin
Winilies
Maineido
Dali
Ami
Winther
Avsiste
Asia
Bayer
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