Keres Says No More Foreign Advisers in Korea
The consular report notes Korea will not seek or accept foreign military advisers. Two prior advisers have died or left, salaries cited range from 250 to 250 gold monthly, and current demand for such positions is zero. Americans on the Korean railroads are employed, with no openings for additional advisers or foreign staff.
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Keres
Ieesac
Horace W. Alles
Korea
Ge Cocsnlar
America
H. A. Nobile
Oriental Comeoll Mining Company
San Francisco
Ingenious Message Box From a Canadian Sea Office
A description of a novel desk style and its paper handling mechanism shows a compact office tool. The device resembles a small writing desk attached to an office door with a slot for paper. A paper strip in the top opening and a ratchet system regulate paper movement for efficient closing and access.
Useful Kitchen Table Innovation Cited in Newspaper
A clever use by an usewife adds a hinged second top to a kitchen table. The top folds over the ordinary surface for daily service and folds away to a pastry ready work area. The Washington Star notes the device as a practical adaptation for small rooms.
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Washington Star
Legislator Shoots Back After Insult Over Price
A Chicago Post report shows a legislator claiming personal insult over a demand for payment. The plain citizen questions the remark, and the exchange hints at a financial confrontation without specific figures or outcomes.
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Chicago Post
Great Salt Lake Route offers fast Portland to Chicago service
The Rio Grande Western Railway debuts fast trains from Portland to Chicago in three days and a half with no layovers and only one car change. Express departures from Ogden at 7:15 am 3:15 pm and 7:00 pm provide standard sleepers to Chicago via Burlington and night routes via Rock Island.
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Rio Grande
Great Ealt Lake
Portland
Chicago
Burlington
Chicago, Rock Ieland & Pacific Railway
Denver
Boston
Great Salt Lake Houte
Rio Grande Western Railway
Salt Lake City
Demeter & Rio Grande
Colorado
Idland
Rocky Mountain
Gates
J. D. Mansfield
Washington St
Portlard
Oregon
Fragmented OCR Brief Skims Local Tease Item
A garbled OCR fragment from a local page gives incomplete text about a tease item. Readable portions mention a possible event and names, but specifics are absent in the readable lines. No clear date, place, or outcome is discernible from the fragment.
Andrew Carnegie Prefers Trusts as a Check on Monopoly
Andrew Carnegie of the Carnegie Company will publish in the Century an essay arguing that trusts can be good for workers. He contends trusts self correct and only survive with de facto monopoly, while the only people who fear trusts are those who trust them. The Real Danger of Trusts will be addressed in a surrounding Century editorial.
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Andrew Carnegie
Standard Oil Company
Independent
Carnegie Company
Standard Oil
Inappropriate Gift Sparks Vegetarian Boycott Joke
A Philadelphia Press quip jokes about gifting a Noah’s ark to the Jones child. The joke endangers no one and mocks vegetarian parents. The line implies the baby might swallow animals, a comic image from a dated humor column.
Frepeced Alliance and Gentle Compliments
A distorted Washington Post fragment discusses an imagined US England alliance and benefits of Hostetter's Compound for health. It then shifts to a humorous scene where two women talk about a compliment from Lieut Bulbul and a dancer.
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England
United States
Miss Damdum
Lieut
Hulbul
Lieut. Bulbul
Washington Post
Suppressed Emotion in a Personal Moment
A fragment describes Saiff-Skoopley’s wife as brave and cool while her baby cuts its first tooth. The narrator admits melting at the moment and notes one’s conduct should not lead to suspicions about a larger, unnamed sequence.
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Saiff—Skoopley
Bshane
Saif
Anyyome
How Much You Eat and What It Means for Health
An ad-like passage claims digestion governs strength and vigor. It touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as restoring stomach tone and providing renewed energy, citing a testimonial about weight gain after use. The writer lists a Lebanon Indiana woman as a source and urges readers to remember the product.
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Houod
Mina Ozre McVoy
Lafayette Ave
Lebanon
Ind
Restoring Venice Doges Palace Windows Draws Attention
A discussion from the New York World notes ancient tracery in Venice's Doges Palace. The exterior began in the early 1700s and took a century to finish after a 1577 fire left only walls. It mentions once ornate window tracery and artistic Italy.
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Venice
Italy
N. Y World
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