Roving Hevesters Move North to Harvest Wheat Belt
Thousands of men travel from Texas to North Dakota following the wheat, with moonlight work and clever farming methods. The piece notes the new migrant labor, rail rates, and improvised shippers, plus a Kansas farmer’s efficient shift changes and the appeal of harvest work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
North Dakota
West
Kansas City Star
Plains
Skansas
Oklahoma
Wheat Belt
Angas
Nebraska
Dein
Willis
Sid
Ohio
Kansas
De Wet and Boers Use Night Tactics and Sjambok Punishments
Dispatches from London report General De Wet avoided sleeping in the same place to foil British night raids. Surrendering lieutenants reveal tactics of the Boer campaign including spies, rapid warning networks, and punitive use of the sjambok to rally burghers. De Wet describes incidents along the Beers side and warns of constant movement by commandos.
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Neer
Vlan
London
de Wet
Toronto Globe
Commando
Around the World by Automobile with Passe-Partout View
The article reports Jeff Slyde Lark plans a world circumnavigation by a Pullman style car named after Jules Verne character Passe-Partout. The route includes Paris St Petersburg Asiatic Russia China Honolulu New Orleans Canada New York and Liverpool return. Gilbert Parker contributes to London's new weekly The Car predicting the demise of omnibuses and horses in ten years.
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Jules Verne
Jeff Slyde
Lark Corner
London
Harper's
Paris
St. Petersburg
Russia
China
Honolulu
New Orleans
Canada
New York
Liverpool
The
Car
Gilbert Parker
Street Pingpong in New York Pavement Games
Children play on asphalt streets using bare hands as paddles and chalk lines as tables. Balls cost 1 or 2 cents, offering a full pennyworth of entertainment in clear weather.
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New York
Odd Silver Gift Style Engraves Full Names in Giver’s Hand
An unusual custom involves presenting a silver piece engraved with the recipient’s full name, written by the giver in their own handwriting. The practice emphasizes personal touch and formalizes the gift with a unique inscription.
Odd Gymkhana Races at White Plains Charity Event
Society women acted as fowl drivers in a Stony Wold sanitarium fundraiser near White Plains New York. Miss Haight and Mr. Reynal won the first prize in the Gretna Green race and Mrs Harriman led in the egg cup event as geese and ponies competed for prizes amid a day of racing and laughter with notable attendees and the gift of $1000 to Stony Wold.
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Stony Wold Sanitarium
Westchester County
N. Y
Kenor L. Park
White Plains
N.Y
J. Borden Harriman
Mr. Columbus
Hillcrest
New York Herald
Park
Louis Fineerald
Peacock
Deabody
B.S. Reynal
Sturriman
Margaret Cooley
William Caswell
Eugene
Reynal
Miss Cooley
Joan of Arc
Mr. Tone
Mr. Fitzgerald
Tipperary
F. T. Allen
Beverly W. Robinson
F. 8. Reynal
Samuel W. Jarvis
Stony Wold Institution
Schwab Opens Richmond Beach for Free Children's Entertainment
Steel magnate Charles M. Schwab plans a major renovation at Richmond Beach Staten Island to create a free entertainment complex for 1000 children next summer. Architect Charles A. Platt designs arrangements including rides dining and play facilities with a large sailing boat to ferry up to 1500 kids at a time under glassed machinery exhibits. The project involves repaints repairs and new structures and aims for completion by next May with input from New York charitable groups schools and the board of education.
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Richmond Beach
Staten Island
Charles M. Schwab
New York World
Charles A. Platt
Schwab
New York
Board of Education
Lighted shell chasers aid gunners in night firing
A new device called illuminating chasers helps Navy gunners track shell impact at night. Tested aboard the battleship Kearsarge and at Indian Head proving grounds, the one pounder shells with the contrivance produced promising results for rapid fire guns and improved aiming.
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Navy
Chase
Kearsarge
Washington
Philadelphia
Wittsburg
Indian Head Proving Grounds
Acre of mosquito netting shields Ramsey peach crop
A Pennsylvania farm near Alpine in York county covers over an acre of peach trees with white mosquito netting. Mrs. Ramsey organized a sewing party and drafted netting from a local store to protect the crop from the seventeen year locusts, ensuring a fruitful harvest where others face losses.
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Pennsylvania
W. W. Ramsey
Alpine
York County
York
Philadelphia
Ramsey
New Statue to a Martyred Empress in Switzerland
A Carrara marble statue of Elizabeth of Austria was unveiled at Territet Switzerland. The piece by Chiattone of Lugano shows the empress seated with a partially opened book in her right hand and her head resting on her left hand. It is the only statue of a princely personage in Switzerland.
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Elizabeth of
Austria
Terrifet
Switzerland
Geneva
Chiattone
Lugano
Harper's
Elizabeth
Republic of Switzerland
Latent In Candle Shades Described By Journal
The New York Journal notes new copper shaded candles with silver trim. Copper tones range from rich deep hues to tall large forms and squat Dutch styles once favored in old parlors.
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The
New York Journal
The Jewish Problem An Appeal For It
At an open meeting of B nai B rith in New York Leo N Levi urged unity and organization among Jews to aid the exiled and immigrant communities. He contrasted past exoduses with the present migration from Russia and Romania and called for action within the American context to support education and charitable work through the society. Other speakers included Isidor Singer John Gruenberg and Rev Mazlinski.
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Leo N. Levi
Order of B'nai Brith
New York
B'nai B'rith
the Educational Alliance
East Broadway
Jefferson Street
Simon Roeder
Justice Lodge
New York Times
Hebrew Sheltering Guardian Society
J. B. Klein
Yonkers
New York City
East Side
Order
Egypt
Spain
Russia
Romania
Europe
America
Sons of the Covenant
Isidor Singer
John Gruenberg
Mazlinski
Pat Sheedy Now a Promoter
Patrick F. Sheedy sailed for London on the American liner St Lou is to promote a company to mine emeralds in Argentina. He says he is out of the gambling business for good though he adds he has not reformed and that no reform is for mine.
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Pat Sheedy
Patrick F. Sheedy
London
St. Louis
Argentina
New York Times
Sheedy
Kew Instrument Introduced For Saermeona
A new surgical tool named stem saw aids liver disease surgery by removing diseased portions. The device promises precision and efficiency in hepatic procedures, reflecting ongoing advances in surgical instrumentation.
Insects Cost Us A Nation Of Crops And Livestock
Dr H C McCook cites startling figures on insect damage in the United States. Chinch bug losses reach 30 million in 1871 and 60 million in 1887. Rocky Mountain locust caused 100 million in 1874. cotton caterpillar 15 to 30 million annually. fly weevil about 40 million. codling moth 30 to 40 million. ox bot 36 million. Estimated total yearly losses range from 309 million to 330 million dollars depending on the authority cited.
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H. C. McCook
Harper’s Fortune
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Iowa
South
B. D. Walsh
United States
C. V. Riley
Division of Entomology
James Fletcher
E. Dwight Sanderson
Romance of invention from a shipwright to a world railway
The article recounts Robert Livingston Stevens cutting wood on a voyage to England and conceiving the T rail, now in use worldwide, to stiffen railroad tracks. It also notes the elder Cunard apprentice whittling hulls and shaping model ships that inspired the Cunard standard and later ocean liners.
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Robert Livingston Stevens
New York
Liverpool
Stevens
England
Cunard
Ocean Greyhounds
Novel spring powered train stop device tested in St Paul
Railroad officials tested a spring motor based braking system that auto engages air brakes when a block signal is not open. A Chicago invention uses a locomotive mounted dynamo and large fan to generate power and improve lighting onboard.
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St. Paul
Chicago
A Machine For Hanging Paper
A paper hanger machine promises faster, easier wallcovering work than the old method. The inventor says the operator only turns the crank and moves the machine to a new position after each strip is attached.
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Esters
Rus Baker
John Goodland
Ben
Ife
White Plaina
Schwab’s Ocean Resort
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