Death of Colmar Pate de Foie Gras Maker Mangold
The London Daily News recounts the Alsace pastry chef M Mangold of Colmar who created famed pies rivaling Strasburg, noting his poetry and local idyls. It debunks apocryphal Dumas tales of geese fattening through cruel methods, describes fattening and pie making, and credits Norman Close in Strasbourg with inventing the modern Pie de foie gras.
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Colmar
Alsace
Jian Gold
Strasburg
M. Mangold
Alexandre Dumas the Elder
Dictionnaire de Cuisine
Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Toulouse
France
Ruffec
Charente
Nerac
Bordelais
Marshal de Contades
Close
London Daily News
Nlow College Men Turn Out And Degrees By Field
The ten year book of Cornell University tallies 1 407 degrees and 1 862 graduates in twenty years. Fields include agriculture 45, architecture 51, art 5, banking 23, chemistry 11, civil engineering 150, electrical 246, newspaper work 61, law 235, manufacturing 39, mechanical 48, medicine 65, mercantile 115, ministry 30, publishing 5, scientific investigation 12, study 05, and 121 unoccupied or unreported. Also a Bobby and old man exchange over teaching as a humorous aside.
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Nlow College
Cornell University
New York Tribune
Trampproof Folded Sheet Iron Newspaper Idea
A folded sheet iron newspaper mimics a rattrap with a hidden buzz saw mechanism. When a thief handles the paper, concealed machinery winds and activates the saw, injuring or deterring the trespasser while the device resets for morning use.
Gas outage during play causes unexpected quip in gallery
A theatre manager reassures patrons as gas failure halts the show. A gallery boy quips that perhaps the gas did not like the play, prompting the crowd to laugh at the interruption. The notes reference a thief and a dramatic scene, with a sharp, comic reaction in the audience.
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New York Sun
Honest Theft and a Signal Box Graft at a City Shop
A teenaged nephew imitates his uncle in a crooked scheme at a Center Street shop. The uncle rigs a fake police signal box to trap customers, using it to test customers and cheat them, until spotting the boy’s dishonesty leads to his dismissal. The tale ends with the uncle steering the boy to confess and repent.
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Jonas
Sam
Center Street
Bruder
New York Sun
From Rags to Goods Old Boots Made Into Leather and Nails
An American traveler reports on how European and American industries repurpose discarded boots and shoes. Leather is softened and formed into artistic material akin to Cordova leather, used for trunks, boxes, and patterns in the United States and France. In Central France prisoners dismantle boots from Spain, reclaim leather for children's uppers and shoe heels, and sell iron nails and tacks. scraps find agricultural use. A second item narrates a dog’s self-inflicted death aboard a New York ferry as the owner and crowd react.
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Europe
Cordova
United States
France
Spain
Montpelier
New York Mail and Express
Talking Machines Prove Superior to Stenography in Law Offices
A New York Star report describes the phonograph and graphophone as practical office tools. In Brayton Ives and Sweet & Co. offices they save time by dictation, with six minute cylinders and rapid transcription by a clerk. The device records every syllable, avoids stenographer delays, and promises future erasure methods.
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Bell and Edison
Wall Street
Brayton Ives, Sweet & Co
Haines Bros
Edison Phonograph
Asia
New York Star
New Home Treatment for Catarrh and Hay Fever
A Toronto firm promotes a home remedy claimed to permanently cure catarrh, catarrhal deafness, and hay fever in one to three applications every two weeks. The offer includes a pamphlet by mail for ten cents, from A. T. H. Dixon & Son, 304 West King Street, Toronto, Canada. Sufferers are urged to read and consider the treatment.
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N. B
A. T H. Dixon & Son
West King St
Toronto
Son
Canada
Pie Town to Platform: Upper Alton Nickname Origin
A reminiscence recalls how Upper Alton Illinois gained the nickname Pie Town after a 1864 social event in which party guests brought pies instead of bread. The anecdote appears in the St. Louis Abbe-Democrat, linking local lore to a quirky community identity.
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Upper Alton
Ills
St. Louis
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Palestine
Ohio
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Gibory
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la Crosse
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East Wilton
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