Adventurer Jack Matthews recounts rubber hunts in jungle
New London resident Jack A. Matthews narrates his 1895 escape from home and a later jungle life in South America. He describes paddling seven miles through a roaring canyon, dodging Indians and jaguars, and wrestling a 38 foot snake as he hunted rubber with a machete and shotgun.
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Jack A. Matthews
New London
Conn
Sierra Perijo
Venezuela
Colombia
South American
Jack
Jivaro
Abyssinians Used Coffee as Food for Soldiers
The article notes Abyssinians used coffee as a portable food during marches by mixing pulverized roasted beans with grease into balls. It claims coffee spread from Abyssinia to Arabia, Egypt, Constantinople, Venice, England, and Europe as a beverage, with coffee houses becoming political gathering spots and taxation rising on brewed coffee.
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Kansas City
Arabia
Egypt
Constantinople
Venice
England
Oxford
Europe
Rail Executive Change at Union Pacific
Rail president William M. Jeffers will assume the Union Pacific helm on October 1 after Carl R. Gray retires three days after his seventieth birthday and retirement age. Gray will stay on as vice chairman of the board and continue in an advisory role.
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William M. Jeffers
Union Pacific Railroad
Carl R. Gray
Mr. Gray
Railroad
Get a Job Girls Prophesy By Bank President
Mrs. Mary Roebling, a Trenton bank president, argues women should all have a profession whether they marry or not. She predicts women will rise in business and may begin deciding matters within ten to twenty years.
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Mary Roebling
Trenton
N. J
Mascagni Plans New Tour Doors Open for La Scala Orchestra
Pietro Mascagni, now 74, announces a summer tour with the famed La Scala orchestra despite past clashes in America. His 1902 U S tour sparked lawsuits, disputes with managers, and even deportation of players, leaving a lasting, if colorful, impression on his relationship with the United States.
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York
Pietro Mascagni
America
la Scala
Signor Mascagni
Signer
New York
Metropolitan Opera House
Pietro
Italy
Cavalleria Rusticana
Verdi
Cellini
Mussolini
Puccini
Mascagni
Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription Tonic Ad
An advertisement praises Dr Pierce's Favorite Prescription as a tonic helping women of various ages for nearly seven decades highlighting its enduring use and claimed health benefits.
First a Student He who proposes to be an au thor
Quote from Dryden on the path to authorship stressing that a person must study first. The line reflects a view on preparation and learning before claiming the role of writer.
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Dryden
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Tokyo
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