Composition of a Penny in Early Minting
The penny contains 95 percent copper with 3 percent tin and 3 percent zinc. It costs about 42 cents per pound to mint excluding stamping, with 148 pennies to a pound. The government earns a profit on each pound minted and pennies are redeemable in gold, though few are presented.
Loyalty to His Employer Inspires Unlikely Heroism
A fragmentary tale shows a youth agreeing to a risky act to save his employer, illustrating the powerful appeal of duty. The passage contrasts courage with temptation and hints at a charitable, courageous stance amid hardship.
Donkeys Supplant Dogs as Draft Beasts in Berlin
Berlin sees 1000 donkeys imported over 18 months to replace dogs as draft animals amid agitation by the 8 P C A. The shift reflects concerns about dog use. donkeys are being used to shoulder loading tasks once done by dogs.
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Doge
Berlin
Modern Miracle Cure Restores Sight and Mobility
Samuel Carnock of Melrose Park credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with curing locomotor ataxia after a 1900 police magistrate sworn statement. He says prior illness from 1898 left him unable to walk, blind in one eye, and bedridden, but within months of treatment regained sight and walking. He purchased pills from Dr Williams Medicine Co at Schenectady.
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Samuel Curnock
Twenty-second Avenue
Melrose Park
Dr. Williams Medicine Co
Schenectady
N. Y
Mandy's New York Trip and a Briardale Encounter
A quirky tale follows Mandy as she tours New York seeking fortune and fame and ends up back home. Percy Citntha pursues Briardale Hall, courting Cisle Melville with playful vanity and a vow to rescue the manor if she agrees to marry him.
Pears and peril on Briardale Manor tree scene
A woman named Cleale Melville climbs a fruit tree at Briardale Manor to retrieve a pear. She notices a young man seated on a wooden bench below and speaks to him while contemplating the danger and options to avoid dropping stones or causing alarm.
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Cleale Melville
Cleale
Damening
Hero of Shiloh Gen Benjamin Prentiss Dies at 81
Gen Benjamin M Prentiss known as the hero of Shiloh died in Bethany Missouri at age 81. He organized a volunteer company as a youth, served in the Mexican War, joined Lincoln's call for volunteers, commanded the Seventh Illinois infantry then a brigadier general. He fought at Shiloh and was briefly held captive before later becoming a major general and retiring in 1883 to civil life.
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Missouri
Benjamin M. Prentiss
Shiloh
Bethany
Wools
Smith
Nauvoo
Lincoln
Prentiss
Ilinole Infantry
Ile
Grant
Pittsburg Landing
John Porter
Cheetaute for Food From Fringes of France
In parts of France chestnuts from schist lands are a staple daily food. They are boiled, mashed, and sold in fall and winter, with poor residents gathering around roasting pans at noon to buy ten cheat meta.
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France
Consw
Jane C. Covert
Common lilac plants traced to central European roots
The article notes the common lilac long cultivated for over 300 years with native home in mountainous central Europe from Piedmont to Hungary. It discusses twelve species across Mongolia China and Japan and mentions some varieties native to the American continent.
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Kélace
Surey
Europe
Piedmont
Hungary
Mongolia
China
Japan
New Zealand Plans 140000 War Medals for School Children
The New Zealand government intends to strike 140000 war commemoration medals and distribute them among the colony's school children. The cost will be about 12000 pounds.
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New Zealand
Plainspoken 1919 Public Notices and Advertisements
A garbled mix of governmental bids, weapon production talk, cosmetic claims, and miscellaneous quotes. The fragment references American bids for a plant to produce ammunition and notes on a blood purifier product plus an automatic gun burner and cold remedies. It ends with a witty Life magazine quote about women.
Population growth in Ohio cities over 16 years
Ohio cities and towns added 586 021 residents in 16 years an increase of 792 above the state rate. Nonsense phrases follow with unclear names and stray quotes.
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Ohio
R&t
Ex President Cleveland Receives Honorary Fox Hunting Membership
Former President Cleveland accepts an honorary membership in the Mercer County Fox Hunting Association of New Jersey. The gesture honors his standing in outdoor sports circles and ties to regional fox hunting traditions.
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Cleveland
Mercer County
N. J
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