Bicycle on the Farm Shows Practical Rural Revival
A Field and Fireside piece argues the bicycle spreads through rural districts. It saves horse labor, lowers costs, boosts social life, and offers safe recreation for all ages while expanding errands from post office trips to church travel. Also an anecdote about a Javanese exile who dies peacefully, comforted by a familiar word.
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Puding
Annenne
Neign- Lorian
New York
Fez
Madagascar
Chicago
Weather shifts and canal trees amid scientific notes from 19th century press
The article surveys weather patterns including contrary cloud motion and two air currents, notes snakes' changing venom with age, and reports on trees planted along the Suez Canal to trap drifting sand. It also covers cork flooring, mean sea surface temperatures near Britain, and a study of the earth’s atmospheric height with latitude.
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Suez Canal
Royal Meteorological Society
British
Dickson
Britain
British Meteorological Council
Great Britain
Scott
British Islands
R. S. Woodward
Columbia University
Roberts
Cape Colony
Russell
Princeton
Uncle Sam Turns Silver into Small Coin in Big Minting Push
The new gold standard law drives the Treasury to coin about 1,333,383 pounds of silver into subsidiary coins totaling 20 million dollars. Director George E. Roberts presides over three main plants in Philadelphia, San Francisco, and New Orleans, with Philadelphia and San Francisco handling most work. The article traces the rapid coin path from weighing to melting, casting, assaying, and shaping, detailing the large scales and crucibles in the minting process.
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Uncle Sarm
Secretary of the ‘Treasury
George E. Roberts
Mint
Philadelphia
San Franciisco
New Orleans
San Francisco
Era
Roberts
How U S Mint Turns Metal Into Money
A detailed tour of mint operations shows cutting, rolling and planchet making for coins. Workers in rooms sort by weight, while crushers, presses and mills shape metal into ready planchets before cleaning and drying to become circulating money.
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United States
Graphite Prospects Rise In Wisconsin Mines
Wisconsin graphite story notes three U S mines with Portage County output achieving up to 72 percent carbon. Discovered 1893 by F E Taggart and aided by A McIntyre the Portage County Graphite and Mineral Paint Manufacturing Company grew to supply mineral paint. Other major mine is in Ticonderoga New York at 14 percent carbon. Chicago reports investment in machinery for a South Carolina plant as trade expands with sources from Mexico Nova Scotia Ceylon and Siberia.
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United States
Wisconsin
Portage County
F. E. Taggart
Stevens Point
Taggart
A. A. McIntyre
Portage County Graphite and Mineral Paint Manufacturing Company
Ticonderoga
N. Y
A Woman's Wit and a Weather Bureau Battle
Mrs Hazen confronts a Congress chairman during a reception over meager weather bureau funds. She responds with a poised quip, revealing the best possible outcome for the appropriation. The anecdote appears in New England Magazine.
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Gen. Hazen
Weather Bureau
Washington
Congress
Ben
Mrs. Hazen
New England Magazine
Buzz Saw and Book Agent at Sawmill Incident
A Philadelphia Book Agent promoting the Life of Admiral Dewey Four Volumes meets a buzz saw. The saw uses a sharp joke about finishing the agent. The pawned incident ends with the agent never sawn again. The quote notes the average man’s path to fame as brilliance or stupidity.
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Philadelphia
Admiral Dewey
Buzz
Philadelphia Inquirer
JGS and Union Often Discuss Projects and Labor Moves
The Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers consider Denyer, Ohio as a site for a home for disabled members while Cambria Steel in Johnstown, Virginia expands to a $2.5 million project. Milwaukee carmakers and employers settle on 25 cents per hour with time and a half for overtime, foremen excluded from union membership. output from Connellsville coke fields rises, new Nondike field planned. Baltimore and Ohio engineers gain $4 daily, 12 hours, with some preferring 10 hours. Philadelphia weavers accept roughly 12 percent wage increase after a 54 hour week demand, and New York statistics show soaring industrial capitalization since 1860, with steel/iron leading. Immigration rises, Croatians surge. questions arise about tourist-driven entry. Chicago builds a costly tunnel, $1.5 million spent, but cost per foot drops when public work is done by city with better wages and hours. AFL Executive Council opposes boycott of Chicago Record and Daily News, citing the stereotypers strike and union-employer alignment, while protesting placement on the unfair list.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Denyer
Col
Cambria Steel Company
Johnstown
Milwaukee
Connellsville
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Philadelphia
New York
United States
Croatia
Syria
Greece
Turkey
Portugal
Emisr
Chicago
Executive Council
American Federation of Labor
Chicago Record
Daily News
Chicago News and Record
The
International Typographical Union
Chicago News
RAM'S HORN BLASTS warning notes to repent
A compilation of religious aphorisms and moral exhortations. It urges readiness for God, condemns sin, and contrasts spiritual duties with worldly vanity, using vivid statements about prayer, devotion, and restraint. Distinct lines reference the devil, saloons, generosity, and righteousness.
Crossing sweeper offers security for gratuity in London Tit-Bits line
A crossing sweeper tries to take a tip from a dandified man who claims no change. The youth offers to change the note and asks the man to hold his broom if he doubts his honor. The exchange highlights a street scene and a test of trust in urban life.
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London
High Pay for Army Surgeons in South Africa
London surgeons including Sir William McCormac volunteer for service in South Africa at 25000 pounds a year each. The pay exceeds any previous army medical officer salaries, though it doesn’t compensate for London earnings. The text notes snobbery toward poverty and inflated prices toward exaggeration. It ends with a quip about advice on worry at night.
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Willian McCormac
London
South Africa
Yankee hens in South Africa acclimate to new conditions
A New York Tribune report recounts L T Warden of Chicago discussing meat quality in tropical regions and the experiment of importing American bred poultry to South Africa. C A Williams, a former US consul, raised concerns as imported eggs and chickens altered in flavor and appearance, with necks elongating and birds resembling ostriches. Williams later disposed of the flock after disappointing results.
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Boerdam
L. T. Warden
Chicago
Gilsey House
Philippines
Australia
C. A. Willams
United States
Johannesburg
Transvaal
South Africa
Williams
New York Tribune
Vast import costs and gossip on cosmetics in 1890 America
A compilation reports American dealers bought over 500000 dollars of foreign perfumes and cosmetics in 1890. Kate Field is quoted claiming women spend 882 million annually on toilet luxuries with some said to be poisonous. Also notes a Baerjin society opposing blood circulation theories. A woman reflects on not opposing her husband enough to attend church.
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Kate Field
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Uncle Sam
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