Big Fortune in Refuse From New York Waste
A Philadelphia Record correspondent reports New York wastes yield a potential yearly fortune. An experiment sorted 5326 tons of district 12 14 16 refuse for sale or destruction. About 32 percent was marketable paper and rags. 39 percent fit for combustion. Modernized disposal could save city funds and produce power.
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New York City
Philadelphia Record
Paris
Manila
Manhattan
Bronx
New York
Broad Wall
Exchange Street
Custom House
York City
Sven Hedin’s Central Africa expedition notes
Berlin correspondent details Hedin’s letters from Copenhagen describing last summer’s fruitful expedition north of Tibet. The caravan of six servants, seven camels, 12 horses, 16 sheep and a mule traveled 1359 kilometres in 95 days, surveying unknown districts and producing 173 maps. They faced west storms with snow and hail, 20 degrees centigrade cold, and lost one Afghan explorer, three camels, nine horses and the mule. The party found antelopes, bears, wild sheep and goats, and noted Mongol inscriptions from former inhabitants. The scientific results cover topography, cartography, astronomy, meteorology, hypsometry, geology, and hydrography.
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Tjimen
Thibet
Stockholm
Paris
Arkatag
Yang-tse-Kiang
Hedin
Berlin
London Standard
Origins of the Nail Penny System Explain Varied Theories
The article reviews competing explanations for the historic penny nail system. One view ties pennies to weight, another to price per hundred, and a third to standard counts of nails per weight. It notes examples: tenpenny at tenpence per two hundred, sixpenny at sixpence per hundred, plus counts per pound for common sizes.
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Book World
Barbers Journal quotes on benefits for widows burials
The Barbers Journal cites the Journeyman Barbers' International Union benefits as a blessing for wives and mothers to provide a respectable burial for departed loved ones without depriving them of life’s comforts. The remark highlights a satirical or odd phrasing in Barberous English.
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Barbers’ Journal
Barbers’ International Union
Stranger in Russia: New York tourist in Moscow police arrest
A New York traveler recounts his Moscow experience after surrendering a flawless passport to police. He is detained at the station for about 90 minutes, questioned, and finally released after a peremptory exchange with an officer who extorts a gratuity.
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New York
New York Herald
Moscow
Samovar
Why is a woman like an umbrella in a newsroom
A humorous exchange in the Chicago Tribune mocks a riddle about women and umbrellas. The information editor and exchange editor trade lines, with the labor editor stepping in to prevent mischief as the debate ends unresolved. The piece leans on dated gender humor and colloquial banter typical of a newspaper joke column.
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Chicago Tribune
Bears in France Haunts of a Vanishing Species
In France bears linger in primeval forests near Lake Annecy and Doussard. Summers hide them high in the Alps while late year forages bring them down. Between 1880 and 1893 only nine were killed as efforts begin to protect and exploit pelts of these mountain bears.
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France
Combedire
Lake Annecy
Alps
Doussard
Cassels Magezne
Texas Oil King Rise From Humble Start to Riches
Captain A. F. Lucas, once laughed at for seeking oil in Texas, has struck a massive gusher at Beaumont. The well produces about 39 006 barrels daily, vastly surpassing prior US records, with a temporary reservoir and 64 acres of oil bearing ground. A half million dollars will fund tank infrastructure, and the field, long thought rich, has yielded a dramatic transformation from poverty to potential gubernatorial candidate.
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A. F. Lucas
Texas
Lone Star
Lucas
Beaumont
United States
Es- Hon
Washington
City Record costs and Brooklyn adver tising appropriation noted
The City Record publication this year costs 19000 dollars, while Brooklyn advertising is funded by an appropriation of 3100000 dollars though Brooklyn is not included in Record operations. Revenue from sales amounts to 5000 dollars. Pensacola is said to have a harbor worthy to rank with Naples for all purposes valuable to the nation.
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City Record
New Yor
Brooklyn
Pensacola
Naples
Small Washington town supports weekly four page paper
Starbuck Wash with forty two residents publishes the Signal a four page weekly paper in sizes eleven by sixteen inches. Loomis Washington with fifty residents also runs a weekly four page newspaper, illustrating how even tiny towns sustain local press.
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United States
Starbuck. Wash
The
Signal
Loomis
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