Modern Cairo becomes a European winter resort city
In a Cairo Letter the New York World describes Cairo as rapidly modernizing with European hotels, electric bells, and French-speaking staff at Shepheard's. It praises Alexandria’s growth and notes vast peasant poverty, with six million fellahs tilling land amid mud huts, canefields, and simple meals.
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Egypt
Japan
China
Corea
South Asia
Alexandria
Cleveland
Washington
Cairo
Cafe Chantants
Europe
Pyramid of Cheops
New York
Paris
Moses
Shepheard
Old
Abyssinia
Nile
Great Pyramid
Valley of the Nile
Israel
Denver
Frank Carter
New York World
Luxley
Huxley
French vagabonds rise amid hard times and no workhouses
The London Standard notes that France lacks workhouses, relying on private charity. In one Indre-et-Loire commune of 6 000, 1 400 vagabonds sought alms in a single day, illustrating rising homelessness. Prosecution requires domicile or recognized trade, conditions often unmet.
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France
England
Chamber of Deputies
Indre-et-Loire
M. Constans
Big Eggs vs Small Eggs in City Market
In a New York store two farmers sold eggs by weight. One offered large Plymouth Rocks with eggs averaging 3.25 ounces per dozen while the other produced smaller eggs at 1.75 ounces per dozen. Clerks counted the dozens and paid a cent per egg to each seller, a bystander remarking that bigger eggs bring no extra money.
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Plymouth
New York Mail and Express
A Remedy for Prickly Heat and Mosquito Bites
A reader suggests a prickly heat cure using a weak saleratus solution for bathing and drying, followed by a powder of fuller's earth and rice flour. For mosquito bites, apply cold cream to soothe poison and irritation, a method said to calm irritated children quickly.
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Olive Harper
Local Sport Quips About Coins in Portraits
A Washington Post vignette jokes that a man owns a Martha Washington, two Hancocks and a Gen Grant, showing his possession of ten dollars in small bills through the portraits on coins.
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Martha Washington
Hancocks
Gen. Grant
Washington Post
Englishman claims vehicle will move eighty people per car
A London inventor proposes a hybrid locomotive bicycle that can haul four cars of eighty persons each at a speed of one more miles an hour, predicting market introduction alongside Keely's motor, per Scranton Truth.
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Keely
Scranton
Bear and Cliff Stand Off in Mountain Tale
Georgia man recounts a solo trek in Towns County that turned perilous when a 75 foot cliff blocked escape and a bear approached within ten feet. He used a coat and hat on a cane as a decoy, caused the bear to leap off a precipice, and later received the bear skin as a prize from locals.
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W. H. Minerey
Towns County
Harris Institute
Atlanta Constitution
Robbing the Conductor Scheme Shown by Street Pair
Two men exploited crowded street car crowds in this town by posing as strangers. They crowded the rear platform and one concealed a coin to pass to the conductor as change. A second man later claimed the amount was wrong and demanded double the sum, then left with his partner to repeat the ruse on the next car.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Work as the sole remedy and head hunting in the Solomons
A Detroit Free Press excerpt argues work, whether manual or intellectual, as life's answer to anxiety and meaninglessness. The article then notes pervasive head hunting among New Georgia natives, where skull trophies appear in homes and voyages are undertaken to obtain heads, with tomakos used for these head hunting expeditions.
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Detroit Free Press
Solomon Islands
New Georgia
Islands
The Banshee in Irish Legend and Family Honor
The banshee, Bean-sidhe, is revered across Ireland as a harbinger of death. She appears nightly in forms from radiant maiden to old woman, wails for impending death, and warns of natural illness or tragedy. She favors respected families, brings a sacred guardianship, and in Munster a queen named Clodhua or Cleena is feared by the southern peasantry.
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Ireland
Munster
Clodhua
Cleena
South
New York Commercial Advertiser
The Thrill of Moose Hunting in Maine
A Maine moose hunting tale recounts the high costs and rare success of calling moose. A hunter spent about $5,000 without securing a kill, praising the Septembers open month idea for better odds and noting a dramatic auditory encounter that made the trip feel priceless.
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Maine
Justin
Universal language proposed by Scandinavian inventor
A Scandinavian genius claims to have created a universal language from root words of major European tongues. Professor Max Muller published an unsigned letter from the inventor in the new language, which readers can understand at sight though the script appears odd. The Sun notes the system resembles a patient’s painless extraction after a rough start, and that once the chief languages are learned the new tongue becomes easy.
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Volapuk
Europe
Max Muller
New York Sun
Origin of Smith Sun Myth Theory at Party
Bayard Taylor bored at a party by a guest who pressed sun myths in every talk. He joked that the common surname Smith derives from sun myths, prompting laughter as the gag banished the topic. The quip highlights playful etymology and social banter.
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Bayard Taylor
Smith
Taylor
Sunmyth
Sumyth
Smyth
Curious Cobweb with Bee In Turreted Handicraft
A collector of Japanese art holds a curious artifact described as a cobweb with a bee entangled in its mesh. The piece, crafted to cover a sliding door, features two hinged web pins with one half attached to the fixed seat and the other designed to draw away. The workmanship is noted as rare, fine, and very attractive.
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Custer
Harper’s
Have mercy upon my son a lunatic church parable
A clergyman preaches his sermon in his son’s church about mercy toward a son deemed indulgent in ritual excesses. The father’s text Have mercy upon my son, a lunatic provokes an ironic smile among parishioners, underlining the clash of expectation and place.
Verbal Curiosities and Language Origins
A survey of words with odd origins and evolving meanings, tracing tariff from tarifa in Spain to stoker from steik, and tracing phrases like tawdry from St. Audrey, how do you do from a sensible root, anywhen usage, and notes on canteen, bully, bogus, and other terms. The piece blends anecdote with linguistic history and cites Frank S. Stauffer.
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Isle of Ely
Taudry
Chaucer
Sistren
Mackay
Lucien
Elizabeth
Gower
Alfred
Frank S. Stauffer
Detroit
Ree Press
Diversity of eggs shapes and shell materials in poultry
The article outlines egg variety in form and color from cylindrical to spherical and notes six common shapes. It links ovicular eggs to Passera and Gallia ces, ovoid to spacious birds, and spherical to nocturnal raptors. It explains hens in a 100 flock produce about 187 pounds of shell materials via their diet and environment, not in the shell itself.
The 1804 Dollar Mystery Examined
The Philadelphia Press notes the 1804 silver dollar and half dollar as rare curiosities with about 20 000 dollars minted but none circulated. It says two are in major collections and suggests surreptitious minting years and high authority involvement. The 1804 half dollar also had no circulation despite over 150 000 minted, while 700 quarters exist in collections.
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Philadelphia Press
Secret in my possession among readers
A London Society anecdote recounts Disraeli while living in Highbury near a gentleman’s daughter. At a ball she wore primroses, a bet on their authenticity was won by Disraeli after the consulting lady confirmed real blooms. He kept several primroses in his buttonhole to recall the moment for years.
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Disraeli
Highbury
London
Mr. Disraeli
The Change from Boots to Shoes in Leather Use
The Boston Daily Advertiser notes a shift from calfskin boots to shoes as demand declines. Low legged boots fall out of favor while shoes rise, reducing calfskin consumption. Heavy calfskins volume drops as styles favor dongola and kangaroo leathers for fine footwear.
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Boston Daily Advertiser
Bees Take Possession of a Street Car
A Walnut street line street car was halted at Nineteenth and Jefferson Streets when a swarm of bees attacked. The bees first settled on the mules, causing the crew and five or six passengers to flee the car. A servant from Dr Cawein’s residence drove them away by dusting a tree. The bees were eventually driven off and the car resumed service.
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Walnut Street
Nineteenth
Jefferson Streets
Cawein
Louisville Courier-Journal
Blood Poison Cure Promoted by Swift's Specific
A London reader, Joamn Conway, claims wounds from Stone River battles caused lifelong blood poison with a swollen foxlike growth. He credits Swift's Specific with removing the poison and restoring health, urging readers to obtain the remedy via Swift Supreme Co. in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Tivas
Stone River
Dee
Bist
Swift
Joamn Conway
London
Swit Spreme Co
Drawer
Atlanta
Lord Lonsdale Blunder on Esquimaux Height and War
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat critique debunks Lord Lonsdale’s claim of a towering Esquimaux nation and warrior culture. It states no Esquimaux tribe averages over five feet eight inches, rarely engages in killing, and tattoos or wars are not characteristic traits. The piece calls the journey’s conclusions imaginative and wrong.
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Lord Lonsdale
England
North Pole
Esquimaux
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Genius Suffers Injustice In Pigs in Clover Case
The Indianapolis Journal reports that the Pigs in Clover scheme was patented over a decade ago and could not be renewed for that reason. It says Lie profited over 100000 dollars before the scheme faded, with the original patentee later blocked by an injunction from continuing the business. The craze subsided, leaving the inventor no better off than if the patent had not been infringed.
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Crane
One Hundred and Twenty-fourth Indiana Regiment
Marietta
Marietta (Ga
Lie
Tidianapolis Journal
Most Miserable Passenger in New York Elevated
An observation on subway misery notes two types of distressed riders. The first is the impulsive man on the platform who hesitates at doors. the second, the truly wretched one who loses a dollar ninety five in a chopper box that never gives.
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Superficia
New York
Startling Evidence of Cure by Cuticura Remedies
Mrs Kelly of Stockwell City Iowa reports five years of severe psoriasis covering face head and body with white scabs red itchy and bleeding. After hundreds spent she was deemed incurable until Cuticura Resolvent soap and remedies were used. six bottles and a cake of soap plus one box resolved the disease with hair and eyesight restored. Sold everywhere with обращение for how to cure skin diseases and testimonials.
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Mair
Kelly
Stockwell City
Iowa
Cuticura
Potter Drug and Chemical Corporation
Boston
Vinegar Bitters Advertised as Purely Vegetable Cure
An ad proclaims Vinegar Bitters as a vegetable remedy from California herbs. It claims effectiveness for dyspepsia, rheumatism, catarrh, neuralgia, headaches, boils, scrofula, skin diseases, jaundice, goat, piles, biliousness and blood impurities. It touts two styles, warns safety for all, and invites readers to request a free medical book from R. H. McDonald Drug Co. in New York City.
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Lt. H. McDonald Drug Co
Washington Street
New York City
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