First Class Waiters and the Union Genevoise in New York
A New York Sun profile explains how about 15 000 first class waiters in the United States are trained by the L Union Genevoise and the International Hotel Employee Society. It covers training, languages, benefits, classic academies near Dresden, pay schemes, and the Astor Hotel system with watches, captains, and the piccolo staff.
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United States
Auguste Wehn
L'Union Genevoise
Astor
L’union Genevoise
Academie
Friedewaldt
Dresden
Saxony
International Hotel Employe Society
Geneva
Switzerland
Bloemfontein
South Africa
Boston
Association
Hotel Astor
Vienna
Auguste
New York
New York Sun
Considerate Lad Captures Fireflies In Quiet Cruelty Tale
A young boy named Young Hopeful captures three fireflies and clutches them in a hot fist. He studyingly watches the creatures then places them near a chipmunk’s hole and declares they can now go to sleep.
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Lippincott’s
East India Co Abandons Trade with Japan by 1813
The East India Company decided late in 1813 that trade with Japan was not worth cultivating.
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The
East India Company
Japan
Barelegged costumes spark debate at New Haven club
Professor Lafayette B Mendel of SheMeld Scientific School Yale urges mothers to ban bare leg outfits for children. He argues young beings lack temperature regulation and that exposed limbs increase crying and discomfort, urging warmer clothing to protect vulnerable infants.
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New Haver Mothers’ Club
Lafayette B Mendel
SheMeld Scientific School
Yale
New Haven
Badger Diet and Habits Described by 19th Century Writer
The passage details badger feeding, noting fondness for partridge or pheasant eggs honey and wasp nests. It recounts captive diet including milk eggs fish and meat and mentions occasional predation on chickens and young rabbits while acknowledging uncertainty about large-scale impact on game.
Birth and Death Rates Across Europe in 1905
England shows the healthiest death rate in Europe at 16.5 per 1000 in 1905, with Germany and France nearby at about 19.5. The piece notes death rates fall as medical science improves while birth rates decline, raising questions about long term population needs, from Everybody's Magazine.
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England
Europe
Germany
France
Everybody’s Magazine
Notable bachelors in focus as society debates marriage
The piece notes prominent men including Lord Kitchener, Thomas Lipton, James Henry Silent Smith, Attorney General Moody, Senators Penrose Brandegee and Kean, and eleven congressmen who decline marriage. It frames bachelors as a global preoccupation and social topic of the time.
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Lord Kitchener
Thomas Lipton
James Henry
Corrections From Old Surveys Stir Notable Anomalies
The text lists various corrections to widely cited figures. It notes India’s position is off by 600 feet north and 2.5 miles east, Mt Everest height revised to 29,141 feet, and altitudes 5 to 35 feet off in places. It warns decayed eggs are dangerous and recalls a 1895 poisoning in a Limerick convent after consuming cream with a spoiled egg, causing seventy four illnesses and four deaths.
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India
Orgmore
Mt. Everest
Cameron
Limerick
Ireland
German Authority Recommends Carragheen for Artificial Rubber
An authority suggests mixing Carragheen moss in fusion with starch and drying on a lightly oiled metal plate. The transparent sheet, when broken and placed in cold water, swells and, after heating, forms a thick gummy substance usable to thicken paint or substitute rubber in many applications.
Asteroid Delight Beyond Jupiter Found Within Ring Realm
A newly discovered asteroid, first observed February 22, lies beyond Jupiter with a mean distance of 5.25 AU, just past Jupiter’s 5.20 AU, and an aphelion of 6.15 AU exceeding Jupiter’s by nearly Earth's orbital distance, challenging the notion of asteroids confined between Mars and Jupiter.
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Mars
Jupiter
Lightning flashes from cloud to earth common in Transvaal
A Nature correspondent notes evidence that flashes mostly move cloud to cloud or cloud to earth, challenging textbook claims that the direction could be either way. He cites photographs from the Transvaal and observations of flashes fading before reaching the ground, with no observed earth to cloud discharges.
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Nature
Transvaal
Calcium Steel An Earthenware and Alloy But Few Details
Calcium steel refers to a hard durable earthenware made from feldspar sand and lime baked into a solid product. Calcium is sourced from feldspar. German experiments aim to create an iron calcium alloy with properties like nickel and chrome steel, but so far have not combined calcium with molten iron. Researchers hope calcium will aid refining copper nickel and bronze casting.
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Europe
Germany
Washingtons Sleeve Links Tale Recalls Benedict Arnold
At a Union College alumni dinner in New York an impromptu speaker recounted how Washington supposedly gave Benedict Arnold his sleeve links after Saratoga. Arnold later betrayed, passed them to Tarleton, then a loyalist secretary, and finally to Halleck, ending with the link’s present holder.
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Union College
New York
James Grant Wilson
Washington
Benedict Arnold
Col
Tarleton
1777
Saratoga
Halleck
General Arnold
Arnold
England
Fitz Greene Halleck
General Wilson
New York Sun
Conscience money received by English Exchequer averages
The record notes that conscience money paid annually to the Chancellor of the Exchequer in England for unpaid taxes averages about 20 000 dollars.
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England
Lords Hold One Third of Britain’s Land, Report Says
A report states that about one third of Great Britain’s land is owned by members of the House of Lords. It notes concentrated ownership and debates over land reform and property rights. A separate item mentions a Duesseldorf hotel landlord charging a guest extra for speaking French.
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Great Britain
House of Lords
Duesseldorf
Chinese men carry heavy loads on poles
In Shanghai and surrounding regions men transport two heavy loads suspended from poles as a common method. Road speeds vary with area. outside urban centers autos have no speed limit while within city limits a thirty mile per hour limit applies.
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China
Shanghai
Population notes and antiquity facts across regions
The text cites England and the United States laborer family size as three, Germany as five, and notes rising tigers in Burma due to arms restrictions. It suggests Babylon as possibly the first city with a million people, covering 225 square miles. It mentions labor unions’ antiquity, Pompeii’s records, Balkan as a Turkish term for wooded hills, and 950 German schoolchildren dying by self harm from 1883 to 1900.
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England
United States
Germany
Babylon
German Women Grow World's Smallest Cacti in Thimble Pots
German women cultivate miniature cacti claimed as the smallest potted plants in the world. The tiny specimens live in pots about the size of a thimble, highlighting a curious horticultural feat and human fascination with extreme miniatures.
Peculiar claim on sneezing among Africans and descendants
An odd assertion states Africans and their pure blood descendants never sneeze, even when living abroad. The remark appears in a historical context reflecting biased beliefs about race and physiology.
New minnow sinarpan found in Philippine waters
Scientists discover the smallest backboned fish in the Philippine Islands. The sinarpan measures about half an inch long, highlighting remarkable miniature vertebrate life in local seas.
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Philippine Islands
Fig tree at Raby Castle spreads in glasshouse
In the gardens of Raby Castle Durham England a fig tree with branches spanning twenty to twenty four feet is kept under glass. It was brought from Italy in 1786 and is cultivated in protection from the outdoors.
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Raby Castle
Durham
England
Italy
Fate of the Old St. Louis a Gilded Navy Relic
The aging frigate St. Louis lies in the Delaware River at Philadelphia awaiting orders to be scrapped or preserved as the oldest vessel beside the Constitution in the U.S. Navy. Once famed for swift pursuit of pirates in the West Indies and Pacific, the ship’s history recalls Lt. Horton and a fatal clash with buccaneers. The vessel’s city of origin's name controversy and later renaming to Keystone State reflect changing Navy traditions.
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St. Louis
Delaware River
Catherine Street
Philadelphia
Uncle Sam
Philadelphia Record
Washington
Far East
West Indies
Pacific
Horton
Keystone State
Trade Active As J F Mickler Receives Percheron Stallion
J F Mickler received a handsome black Percheron stallion from Kane sas yesterday in exchange for tombstone work he did for the stallion owner. Carthage AMo Press identifies the exchange as a trade active local deal.
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J. F. Mickler
Kanesas
Carthage
Amo
Cream of Spinach Soup Recipe
A half peck of spinach is washed drained and boiled in water. Salt added near the end. Cooked spinach is sieved. To two cups of pulp add one quart of milk then butter and flour. Cook until thickened. Season with salt and pepper and top each bouillon cup with a spoonful of whipped cream.
Fish and Vegetable Salad
Prepare fish and vegetable salad by flaking cooked fish and dicing vegetables mainly potatoes. Slice cucumber in a border around the dish. Poach egg yolks until hard, mash with mustard and salt, beat in vinegar and cream, then fold in parsley and pour over the fish.
The Good Housekeeper Defines True Household Management
A practical guide from Woman's Life explains that a successful housekeeper creates comfort and cheer by organization. She assigns definite places for items and schedules daily tasks to keep meals timely and children neat, stressing calm control over small mishaps.
Peach Ice Cream Making From Carrie R Hayes
Instructions describe peach ice cream turning cream and sugar into a freezing mix then folding in mashed peaches. Process uses scalded cream eight ounces sugar one pint? then uncooked cream one pint, freeze with shaved ice and salt, then add peaches and re-freeze to a snow-like texture. Maintain chill and ripen two hours before serving.
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Carrie R, Hayes
Odor Remedies From Olde Washington Press
A column lists practical home tips to neutralize smells. Methods include soda in pots for fishy odors, vinegar boiling to counter strong smells, ground cloves on hot coals, sandalwood oil on a hot shovel as a deodorizer, lavender oil in hot water for violet scent and fly deterrence, bread with cabbage to absorb odors, charcoal in a refrigerator to prevent mustiness, copper dissolving in boiling water to clear drain grease, gargling with vinegar or baking soda for bad breath, lime water or myrrh tincture to sweeten breath, and a crushed orris root for a violet breath aroma.
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New York Press
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Lalleck
Burma
Pompeii
Eulenburg
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