Living on a Warship A Sailor Diet and Paymaster’s Burden
The Home Magazine surveys shipboard life for 850 crewmen, detailing meals from breakfast to dinner, the paymaster’s hotellike duties, mess table hierarchies, rations, and the system of discipline, hygiene, and efficiency aboard a stiffly regulated man‑of‑war. It notes varied menus, wardroom differences, and the vital role of the paymaster in keeping hundreds fed and healthy.
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Sam
Home Magazine
Lim
Virginia
Idaho
Wisconsin
rele
Uncle Sam
Jack tars
Annapolis
Cuele Saui
ness
Tucle Sam
navy department
Washington
payimaster
Jack tar
Friendly Monkeys Show Affection and Curious Kinship
A writer recalls anthropoid apes preferring human company over lower monkeys. In Calcutta a young monkey chose a man for familiarity, climbing into his lap. A Calcutta zoo female monkey was affectionate, wrapping an arm around the interviewer’s neck. An orangutan at London zoo shocked staff by placing a hat on his head and pinching a keeper’s eyelid, illustrating keen, almost human curiosity.
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Calcutta
W. Rutledge
mine of natural history information
Calcutta zoo
Abraham Bartlett
London zoo
Looking Fuller In the Face Chief Justice Fuller jokes
Law Notes reports a playful national capital scene about Chief Justice Fuller meeting an old friend. The friend comments on Fuller’s appearance and Fuller quips that the man is “looking Fuller in the face,” turning a compliment into a pun about his name.
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Fuller
Law
Vin
Thirteen Dangerous Age For Boys Debate
Professor Sherman Pavis warned Wilkesbarre teachers that thirteen is the most dangerous age for boys as vices form easily. A World dispatch notes he questioned 2,000 men about first tobacco use and 185 percent said it began at thirteen.
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Wilkesbarre
Sherman Pavis
New York World
Fire defying liquid promises fireproof protections
Denver professor Dan Krueger announces a colorless odorless fireproof liquid costing 10 cents per gallon. Tests show canvas and wood treated with the fluid resist ignition and burn, sparking claims it could render theaters, boxcars, and lumber yards fireproof while leaving fabric undetectably protected.
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Chicago
Dan 5. Krueger
Denver
Columbus
Krueger
Kfrneger
Professor Strueger
Arapahoe street
Ele
Trenver
Revival of Pig Sticking at North Carolina Fair
The Greensboro Industrial News reports J. F. Jordan trains indigenous “pine toppers” boars near Manchester for a pig sticking revival at the North Carolina Fair. Animals outrun chasers on the fairgrounds with a goal of a 35 foot broad jump, promising a sensational spectacle for attendees.
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North Carolina Fair
Greensboro
D. C
mey
J. F. Jordan
Manchester
N. C
Jordan
Guilford county
Garland Daniel
Central
Arolina Fair association
Jordan h
Jordian
Long Distance Smoking Feasibility At University Of Washington
Ted Cooper, a University of Washington student, discovers a new smoke sensation while testing glass tubes. He attaches a long ten foot tube to a pipe and conducts an outdoor experiment, noting the smoke cools and delivers two new sensations and one refreshing effect, suggesting a possible fad.
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Ted Cooper
University of Washington
Seattle
Tle
Child asks if she will die during illness
A five year old girl, gravely ill, asks her mother if she will die. The mother reassures her and the child suggests visiting heaven if she could return if she did not like it, reflecting a hopeful exchange reported by Chicago News.
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Chicago News
E. PINKHAM
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkham
Banker uses carp as beet fertilizer in Wayne county
Orlando F. Thomas, a New York banker owning a stock farm near Lyons, N Y, proved carp can fertilize sugar beets by spreading tons of carp in Clyde river swamps and plowing under a field to seed beets. The drought dried streams but Thomas gathered carp from his ponds and surrounding pools, leaving enough to enrich a ten acre beet plot for next spring.
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Orlando F. Thomas
New York
Lyons
N. Y
New York Sun
Roswell P. Flower
Wayne county
William
Gavitt
Clyde river
Thomas
Bunker Thomas
Mail From Hell and Jim Crow City Preview
Tale of a postmarked letter from Hell sent by a U S Navy assistant surgeon from Norway to Rockland Maine and a West Virginia Jim Crow city experiment near Charleston promising a self governed black enclave with school, utilities, and park within a few years. It notes mixed reactions and hopes for race relations and progress.
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Hell
James Wight
Rockland
Kennebec Journal
postal union
United States navy
Norway
West Virginia
Baltimore Sun
Charleston
Africa
Uigh school
Chickens in Chicago Get The Texas Sheet Ordinance
A Chicago chicken ordinance proposal, backed by Lucius O Wilson, would require domestic fowl to have proper food water sand and gravel, ban running at large, and obtain a health commissioner permit. The measure aims to protect hens and roosters while keeping gardens safe and chickens contained behind wire netting.
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Texas
West Pullman
Chicago
Chicago Record- Herald
Bihi
Lucius O. Wilson
Lasalle street
Wilson
judiciary committee
commissioner of health
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Constituent
Benjamin F. "iss
Republican politi ‘cian
South Baltimore
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East North avenue
Baltimore
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