New York Life Building shows Chicago's skyscraper method
Chicago contractors now often raise upper walls first and complete exterior work before lower floors. The New York Life Building at Monroe and La Salle shows a steel skeleton to the twelfth story with stonework from foundation to first, then terra cotta exterior walls rise from the third floor. Critics call the practice contemptible, while supporters claim efficiency.
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New York Life Insurance Company
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la Salle Streets
New York Life
Terra cotta walls rise as steel anchors hold blocks
Contractors press to finish by May 1 advance construction of terra cotta sections atop lower stone walls. The design uses blocks fitting around upright steel beams with interior steel anchors securing the walls, allowing rapid progression without waiting for lower levels.
Tormentors and the Mischief of Mocking Friends
The passage analyzes tormentors as cowards who destroy peace by rancorous talk and undermine trust. It notes how tormenting can be self served by some, even kind people, who enjoy provoking vulnerable vanity as schoolboy mischief and dare to prick friends’ egos.
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Ifood
The Coyote The Lean Keen-Scented Scavenger of the Plains
The coyote once the scavenger of vast plains persists near small settlements though waning under civilization. Its persistent dismal cry echoes at night, signaling danger yet its sharp nose drives rapid movement toward food. Normally shy, it only rarely attacks lone travelers, yet it remains a formidable survivor when hunger or numbers push it to extremity.
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Plains
Hades
White House Doctor Named Surgeon to President Cleveland
Dr Joseph D Bryant, longtime New York City Board of Health member, resigned the post last March. As a health commissioner he improved New York's sanitation. Bryant and Secretary Lamont married sisters and became intimate with the President through the Secretary of War. He now serves as the President's family physician and joined the President on several fishing trips during the summer.
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New York City
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Yka Bryant Ton Lamont
Cleveland
Weather Glass Weather Prophesies From Nitrate Mixtures
A colonial era weather charm describes mixing nitrate of potash and sal ammoniac with camphor and rectified spirits in an old eau de cologne bottle. The method notes that fine weather yields a clear liquid with settled matter, while impending rain causes turbidity and a floating leaf-like layer, with a cloudy, fermenting look 24 hours before storms or high winds.
Changeable rose blooms shift colors with light and warmth
A Singaporean botanical marvel described as the changeable rose, this flower starts white in shade or dark rooms and turns blue, pink, and finally a deep red in sunlight. The transformation follows exposure to air, warmth, and daylight, producing a dramatic color spectrum from pale to crimson.
Manufacturer of Fly Paper Fails and a Curious Question
A manufacturer of fly paper has failed. He was never stuck on his business, anyway. Has Colonel Phoshe Couzins been chloroformed?
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Phoshe Couzins
Electric Signal System and Derailment Devices for Rail Safety
Edwin A. Graff of New York introduces a comprehensive electric signal system to replace fallible visual signals, with central track conductors, in cab bells, and safety boxes. The article explains derailment stops and drawbridge mechanisms that automatically brake trains when a bridge opens or when another train nears, enhancing rail safety and preventing catastrophic accidents.
Mischievous Robert and the Vicar of Morwenstowe
The tale centers on Robert Wawkes known as the Vicar of Morwenstowe a clever mischief maker who slyly upstages his legitimate hymn authorship while a grandfatherly Hawkes boasts the original hymn. Anecdotes recount Robert’s pranks at church on bells fishing and nuts and his sly humor with a red herring during fishing. The piece closes with a memory of Tom Moore surprising guests with songs and humor.
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Robert
Morwenstowe
Doctor Hawkes
Nopeal
Stratton
Representing China Yang Yu New Mongolian Minister to Wash
A Chinese official Yang Yu named the new minister to Washington arrives with a large retinue after delivering a protest to Secretary Gresham over the Geary act. He is described as influential and broad minded, with a wife and two daughters and eighty two in his suite totaling eighty tons of baggage. Also included is a remedy for stammering detailing reading aloud in a quiet room to retrain speech, with gradual improvement after repeated sessions.
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Yang Yu
Washington
Gresham
China
Wuhu
San Francisco
Custom House
Tom Moore Remembered in Eastern Virginia Tale
A Virginia correspondent recalls an old Norfolk description of the poet Tom Moore. An elderly woman in Norfolk described his amorous youth spent in a quaint mansion there, where she says he found no company but the ladies to please him.
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Richmond
Moore
Tom Moore
Virginia
Norfolk
Oldest Dentist in America Celebrates 98th Birthday
The 98 year old Dr. Robert B. Baynes of Rockland Maine is noted as America’s oldest dentist and among Maine’s oldest residents. A vegetarian and abstainer from tobacco and liquor, he has eaten graham bread and cocoa for fifty years and rarely speaks unless spoken to. Born in London, he moved to America at 26, trained as a watchmaker in New York, studied dentistry in Boston, then settled in Rockland where he has lived 35 years. He married young. his wife died long ago and Agnes has lived with him, making much of his clothing.
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Ile
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Baynes
New York
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Agnes
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