Local Notes Roll Up Readable City Life
Minutes of social calls and visits, business notes, and small town happenings. Residents include Kate Sessions of Sioux Falls visiting Rev A C Stevens, Frack Durant moving to Hardesty residence, and Mrs William Sloan leaving for Pomona California. University teams, tennis, and local elections feature amid routine travel and illness mentions.
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Chas, Lawcon
Scotland
Thursby
Paris
Kate Sessions
Sioux Falls
A.C. Stevens
Frack Durant
Hardesty
Court House
William Sloan
Samuel Whyte
Pomona
California
Brookings
Madison
John Firey
Aberdeen
Carthage
Ill
Elton McKinley
Black Hills
Rachael McLaskey
Camanche
Iowa
A. E. Hitchcock
Religion Shaped New England Character and Its Decline
Philip Morgan argues in Atlantic that New England's stern religious standard built moral strength in early communities. He warns that replacing that old belief with new moral forces may prove difficult and fears a decline after the Civil War era.
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New England
Philip Morgan
Atlantic
Humorous Tramp Fable Moves Suburban Reader
A Philadelphia Record item tells of a wily tramp who tricks a suburban family. He agrees to saw wood for dinner then vanishes with the saw, leaving a note: tell them you saw me but you did not see me saw. The tale lampoons comic paper clichés.
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Philadelphia Record
Secrets of Chinese confectionery baffle experts
The New York Sun reports that the Chinese supposedly hold secrets in sweets, removing pulp from oranges and replacing it with jellies without any skin incision. They allegedly do the same with eggs, keeping shells intact while the broken contents appear as nuts and sweetmeats.
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New York Sun
Pay raise debated by clerk and boss in Detroit
The head clerk asks for a salary raise, noting a hard time getting it. The employer responds he believes he can have the raise ready for every payday from now on.
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Detroit Free Press
A Confession at a Restaurant Over a Counterfeit Coin
A husband confesses to his wife after admitting he passed a counterfeit 50 cent piece at a restaurant. He explains the act began from long contemplating revenge and ends with a claim that poetic justice outweighed statutes. The couple discuss the cashier and the restaurant’s role in their uneasy decision.
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Maria
United States
Washington Star
Making Tops by turning machine and rice trade in Germany
Tops are cut from box Ebony or other hard wood by a turning machine which is automatic and turns the top complete from the handle at the upper end to the tip. The metal point is afterward put in by hand. Germany consumes annually 120000 tons of polished rice and about 40000 tons of broken rice while it exports 250000 tons of polished rice chiefly to Spanish America.
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Plano Manufacturing Company
D. W. Collins
Germany
Spanish America
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