Gardeners in Paris Fined for Painted Tomatoes
Report says gardeners near Paris were fined one hundred francs after presenting tomatoes with artificial color. The fruit lacked its usual deep hue and was covered in red paint to deceive buyers.
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Queen of Spain Faces Tight Budget After Widowhood
Paris reports the widowed Queen of Spain now subsists on only 50000 dollars annually, forcing strict economy to cover royal duties and household costs. The note highlights a drastic reduction in royal income and living standards.
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Montréal Nurses Escaped Smallpox Through Sanitary Care
Report notes that Montréal nurses tending smallpox patients did not contract the disease in any instance. Some attribute the outcome to Providence, but doctors credit stringent sanitary practices and careful procedures.
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German Entrants and Native Counts in Chicago Observed
Statistics from Chicago saloon keepers estimate 500000 foreigners versus 174000 native Americans in the city. The note adds a curious point that there are more Germans in New York than in any German city, except Berlin, highlighting immigrant concentrations.
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California bill creates national reservations for giant redwoods
SenaTOOR Miller of California has prepared a bill setting apart as national reservations certain big-tree groves in California and placing them under the control of the Yosemite Park Commissioners. Its object is to preserve the giant California redwood trees from destruction.
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Timber Loss Highlighted By Chippewa River Drawdown
The article notes the rapid disappearance of American forests and cites 600,000,000 feet of timber to be taken from the Chippewa River region in Wisconsin this coming winter as compelling evidence of widespread timber destruction.
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Akron Father Supports Family on Five and a Half Cents a Day
A married mechanic with five children explains in the Akron Beacon how he covers family needs on an average of five and a half cents daily per person. He itemizes $96 yearly for house rent $7.24 for papers and $3.68 for a lecture course and Sunday school. He notes that neither he nor his wife can afford church.
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Inventor Designs Fan Ventilation for Rail Cars
A Salem Massachusetts man created a ventilation system for railway cars using undercarriage fans geared to the axles. Air is drawn up through pipes with bell shaped outlets above the seats and dust is removed by passing air through water.
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Queen Isabella Opposed Marriage Yet Now Seen as Rival
The passage notes Queen Isabella, who opposed her son's marriage to his cousin and pressured a second alliance, is now portrayed as the political foe of her daughter in law. The two royal women reportedly despised each other, sharing little in tastes or character.
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Censorship Rules Toys in Paris Police Ban War Caricatures
Christmas toys made in Paris face police censorship with bans on war related caricatures including models recalling the war on China. Mandarin and Black Flags were barred from mockery while the storming of Sontay was not celebrated, but a figure of the Mahdi was approved as a portly Turk who spins when touched by a spring.
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Foreign born members of Congress in the United States
Five current U S senators are foreign born Beck is Scottish Jones of Nevada is English Fair Sewell and Jones of Florida are of Irish birth. There are twelve foreign born representatives five from Ireland one from England Scotland Germany Norway Hungary two Bavarian born.
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Memorial Window to Bayard Taylor in Kennett Square Church
A memorial window will be placed in the new Episcopal Church at Kennett Square Pennsylvania as a gift from friends in New York. It honors Bayard Taylor the poet author traveler and diplomat whose Cedarcroft home lies just north of the borough and whose final resting place at Longwood is nearby to the east.
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London maid service ads promise perks for staff
A Regent's Park lady advertises for a cook and a housemaid and offers piano use and a late dinner. Workers may be allowed out two nights a week and every other Sunday, and candidates must provide the highest testimonials to be considered.
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Alarming rise of diphtheria cases in New York area
The article notes a sharp increase in diphtheria in New York and suburbs with high fatality. Dr Nagle of the Bureau of Vital Statistics cites the first city case in 1857 and a steady yearly rise since, affecting both well drained and crowded districts.
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Year in Review of the Old and New World Events
A compendium of notable global events from January to December, listing disasters, murders, political upheavals, fires, railway catastrophes, and deaths. It weighs casualties in battles, lynchings, and public catastrophes, with totals for Old and New World crises, crimes, and financial failures.
The Year’s Disasters From Cholera To War
The record of loss this year covers fire disease and battle with extensive death tolls. Cholera began May 29 in Valencia and spread along the coast to Portugal France Italy and Sicily, seeming to subside by mid September before breaking out again days prior to this report.
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Michigan Mystery Deepens In Knoch Family Case
Detroit January reports revive the Knoch arson and murder saga as Elizabeth Knoch dies amid suspicions of poisoning. Police search for links to the slain Enoch Knoch family and possible motives tied to an inheritance in Germany.
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William Rafter Charged in WV Stock Swindle
Keyser West Virginia January 4 William Rafter of this place is charged with swindling many farmers and cattle dealers out of large sums by buying stocks and giving worthless checks on the National Bank of Piedmont. The stock was shipped east as fast as bought and sold by a confederate. The total loss was quite large.
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