Filament renewal in lamps and other notes from abroad
A Munich firm renews incandescent lamp filaments by a cheaper method involving glass globe access, new cemented filaments, and resealing. Travel tips suggest Syrup of Figs for kidneys, liver and bowels. Milk of Beechams and other ads note Belgian hammer and German Krupp contrast, plus catarrh cure and Beechan’s tails agents. A pelican’s pouch capacity noted for water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Reading
California Tig Syrup Co
The Picturesque Cowboy Fades From Wyoming History
A long survey of Wyoming range cattle shows the rise and fall of the cowboy era. It traces how prices, range overstocking, fences, and winter losses ended the romantic frontier business. It notes diverse origins of cowboys and the rustling era, then argues modern agriculture and smaller cattle herds replace the old range system.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wyoming
Texas
Julian Ralphb
Harper's Magazine
East
Tey
California
Prince of Wales
British Navy adopts wire-wound six inch breech gun
The Admiralty has adopted a new wire-wound quick firing six inch breech loading gun for the navy. The 40 caliber, seven ton weapon fires an elongated projectile.
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Admiralty
Navy
Evolution of Mrs and Miss in Old World Titles
The article traces how unmarried women were styled Miss until marriage and then Mrs, while married women were often addressed as Madam. It cites Steele and Scurlock letters, Addison, and Queen Elizabeth anecdote with Parker, noting the stigma of Miss and the remaining use of Mrs among elderly spinsters today.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steele
Mary Scurlock
Addison
Elizabeth
Parker
Canterbury
Lambeth
Lady Brooke Probes What Is Society In Pall Mall Magazine
Lady Brooke of baccarat scandal fame contributes an optimistic essay to Mr. Astor's Pall Mall Magazine titled What is Society? She asserts things are more agreeable today and that the peasant cottage shows greater artistic promise than a prince's palace. She shares various agreeable general observations and is noted as being a favorite of the Prince of Wales, with the editor printing her manuscript promptly in splendid type.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lady Brooke
Astor
Pall Mall
Photographs in Colors Exhibition in Paris
An exhibition of color photographs was shown in Paris on Thursday night. The set included a bouquet in multiple colors, a park corner with blue sky and avenues, a cottage with shrubbery, vivid placards, and a Japanese screen. Each print is unique and paper proofs remain undiscovered.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Chen
What Becomes of Old Shoes
A shoe dealer explains that discarded shoes are left to the ash man or sent out for pickup by a castoff collector who may pay for them. The dealer muses that such shoes could later be sold cheaply in Hester Street, possibly repurposed into cheap stock.
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Volkskuchen
Vienna
Hester Street
New York Sun
Radway
Radway & CO
Warren Street
New York
A Unique Ring From Col Thaxter Funeral Includes Burial View
Samuel T Crosby of Hingham Massachusetts possesses a mourning ring inscribed S Thaxter Esq Oct 23 Nov 1740 The ring holds a brilliant stone shaped like a cotton and reveals a body prepared for burial It recalls Col Samuel Thaxter who led the Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company over 150 years ago He was grandfather of Maj Gen Benjamin Lincoln of revolutionary fame The piece ends with a humorous quip about peaches and cream complexions and jaundice avoidance.
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Samuel T. Crosby
Hingham Mass
S. Thaxter
Samuel Thaxter
Ancient and Honorable Artillery Company
Maj
Benjamin Lincoln
The
Ancients
A Fie for Your Bit of Fare Swift Quip
A terse Swift quip on charging for meals mocks a debtor asking for payment with a blunt line about the bill of company. The verse frames a social sting on pricing and obligation within a witty, era appropriate tone.
Curious Dutch Taxes On Boots And Early Taverns
The history notes unusual Dutch levies from 1674 requiring maker and tax stamps on boots and shoes to deter evasion, with penalties tied to foot size. Other taxes included 1666 land and water travel duties, a 1674 pre noon tavern tax, and duties on marriages and deaths varying by social status, with doubled payments for burials outside the district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Welland
Holland
How Chinese Are Educated. A strict daily school routine described
The piece details Chinese children's rigorous early schooling starting at age five, with long hours of study and loud recitation under strict supervision. It emphasizes writing and literary study, notably a work called A Thousand Letters, shaping duties to parents and moral education. It notes relentless memorization across subjects. An advertisement for Hostetter's Stomach Bitters follows, touting relief for digestive and related ailments.
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Inter Ocean
The Art of Resting Through Change and Play
This piece argues rest comes from changing scenes and activities not from idleness. Lively workers find rest in playing hard and those stressed seek active recreation without new burdens. It emphasizes staying good natured and treating the stomach as a friend.
Cheap cement-sawdust blocks claim practical use
The mixture combines one part cement, two parts sawdust, with lime and sand. Sawdust is dried, screened, then mixed dry with cement and sand before pressing into blocks. The blocks are described as cheap and useful, with lime present and sand amounts more than twice the sawdust.
Materials of the Sculptor
The materials of the sculptor comprise almost every substance capable of being carved cast or molded. For carving marble alabaster bone ivory granite basalt and porphyry have all been used from time immemorial.
Domestic Weapon Broom Sale Ends With Revelation
In a grocery shop a quarrel over a broom leads to a sharp remark from the grocer. A stout, heavy unpainted broom is chosen for forty cents as the woman vents a past marriage, and the grocer calls it a club, ending the exchange with quiet humor.
Giant Cedar Trunk Draws Crowds Near Tacoma Washington
A 300 foot cedar stump near Tsaw attracts 72 onlookers during a photograph. Logs cut from the tree include six 30 foot sections from a base five feet in diameter. Nearby a farmer lived in a 22 foot diameter hollow cedar with a floor and fireplace built above ground, using a stick and clay chimney and keeping animals beneath. Cor. Chicago Herald.
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Tsaw
Tacoma
Wash
Washington
Chicago Herald
Cracked Ice in Medicine and a Soap Advertisement
An 19th century ledger excerpt discusses cracked ice as a cholera aid and a nurse using ice to tempt a starving patient. It mentions hot water treatments and warmed compresses as possible care, and notes a Dobbins Electric Soap advert promising a five cent bar as the best soap. It also references Dom Pedro owning a vast aquamarine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University Hospital
Philadelphia Ledger
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Cockerill
Belgium
Krupp
Essen
Germany
M. L. Thompson & CO
Coudersport
Hall
Tic
Cobbett
B. KF. Alten Co
Canal St
United States
Beechan
Hood
Dr. Kilmer & Co
Chicago
German Miller
Springport
Mich
Dean
Kilmer
Hollhouse, Blackburn & Co
Decatur
Dr. Kilmer &Co
Binepamtor
N.Y
John J. Thompson
Kidder's
Thomas, Simpson
Washington, D.C
Neatty
Cowboy
Miss and Mrs
U. S
Hostetter
Dom Pedro
N. K. Brown
Jamaica
Dr. Pierce
Boschee
J. H. Hesss
Moffat
Chicaco
YORK
Boston
Alj.smith
G. K. Wilber
G.P. & Tit
Velasd
Radway's
Df. Smith & CO
Bey Express
Adfield Regulator CO
Atlavta. Gal
Poston
Ely
ELY Bros
Warren Bt
Princeton Hotel
Sar
Princeton Avenue
Englewood
D&y
Flw. Jones
Sarva Lona
Aya
Snyder
Mall Dept
McVickorm
Washington, D
An. U
Aiail
We ET
Hazeltine
Warren
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