Late New Inventions Parade Inventions Across Daily Life
A parade of period innovations includes a wash boiler that cleans clothes through water action, a side-entry pipe for easier line attachment, a medicine glass with a central partition to separate liquid and medicine, a folding chain saw with a crank powered blade, a horse rescue hood to shield from fire, hollow bricks soaked with oil to kindle fires, magazine lead pencils with self-feeding segments, a pneumatic painting nozzle with dual air outlets, and a compact electricity generator styled like a watch for medicinal use.
Notable Women of Society and Letters
The Duchess of Teck spends five thousand pounds annually on philanthropic work. Mrs. Isabella Bird Bishop is asked to read a paper before the Geographical Society in London. Ul da’s new novel The Altruist explores social equality. Mrs. Mariam Mason Greely studied at the Sorbonne and Barnard College. Mrs. Thomas A Edison is described as very beautiful and fond of detective fiction with her husband.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duchess of Teck
Pariament
Isabella Bird Bishop
Geographical Society
London
Oulda
Mariam Mason Greely
Sorbonne
Paris
Barnard College
Thomas A. Edison
Lke Angelian
Empress Eugenie Cancels Black Sea Trip in War's Shadow
News notes Empress Eugenie abandons plans for a Black Sea voyage due to wartime conditions and instead plans visits to Corsica and the Italian coast. The article also records royal and aristocratic movements and philanthropic gifts of notable Europeans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eugenie
Black Sea
Corsica
Canada
Duke of Leeds
Earl of Aber- Geen
England
Holland & Co
Baroness de Hirsch
America
Clara de Hirsch
Alexander von Humboldt
Mathilde von Humboldt
Rome
Ottmachau
Silesia
Coblentz
Fragmentary 19th Century Snippet on Medicine and Land Use
A disjointed excerpt notes a patient spared by a doctor for a price, mentions a Brooklyn Lite dialogue about performing an operation for one hundred dollars, and a statistic that 1 920 acres were planted to canalize in Arizona with plans for larger acreage next year, plus a line about polishing windows with newspaper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Lite
Canalgze
Arizona
Vast Range Of Global News Items Reported
Figures show Canada timber volume estimates and fishery values while European health trends shift typhoid mortality. Notes mention Arabic reading rates in Constantinople, Russian ice plow tech, and a New York hotel carpet order. Also reports on Kaiser Wilhelm’s military retirements and a proposed global Smiths homage building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ie Ia
Miramiah
Canad
Bizerta
Tunis
England
Wales
Canada
Yale
Constantinople
Cora—College
Brooklyn Lite
Makarof
Jah Siddons
Astor
New York
Waldorf
Buffalo
Niczara Falla
Kaiser Wilhelm
Atlanta
John Smith
Smiths
Ten Nore
Dicyelist Foo Lee In Niles Michigan
Silly notes mix a laundryman named Foo Lee in Niles Michigan with a jumble of quotes and captions. The fragment references the Queen's jubilee and a 1817 royal appointment, plus trivia about Berlin students and German actors. It also includes a weathered line about Dusty Rhodes and a Turkish military moral order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marin
Frevex William
University of Berlin
Umber
Frankfurter Zeitung
Eats
Dubard
Dijon
Dusty Rhodes
Turkestan
Household Hints and Home Care Tips from Local Pages
Squeeze orange juice and grate nutmeg into lemonade before serving. A rotary upholstery brush helps clean button dents in furniture and mattresses. Boiled potato water keeps silver bright and can be bottled. for long storage add a tenth part methylated spirits. Baked bananas with brown sugar make a luneheer dish served cold with blancmange. Avoid cold wall backgrounds. select warm wall colors and appropriate dado or striped wallpaper to adjust perceived room height. use art to suit sun exposure and room size.
Fragments Of Daily Life and Global Oddities
A collage notes mills in North Carolina, plague in Jiddah, oysters thriving in Oregon and San Francisco bays, and ancient thimbles of gold. It highlights a Maine cemetery fence painting bee, Meantime Africa’s population figures, Zanzibar smuggling, and a Calais slugging tale. Also covered are jewel crafts, revolutionary arms loans to Maine, and Japan’s weather charts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Searsmont
Bombay
Jiddah
Mecca
Oreron
San Francisco Bey
Hell Chatelaine
Africa
Zanaibar
Arabia
Calais
Meriden
Conn
Roszdin
Silesia
Daughters of the American Revolution
Maine
Massachusetts
Chin
Lin-Kin Islands
Straig
Detroit Free Press
Georgia
Henry W. Lucy
Westfield
Boston Herald
Sonoma County
California
Sonoma
Santa Rosa
Board of Education
Petaluma
Missing Links and Oddities from Global Snippets
A jumble of notes mentions obsolete coins in Johannesburg, 3800 scarlet fever beds in London, Peter Cooper in 1812 New York, Jumbo the Wichita steer, rare scarlet fever in Asia and Africa, Wortmann noting aged wine bacteria, crank jokes, and dialect quips from Yonkers and Washington Star reflecting scattered historical curiosities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johannesburg
Metropolitan Asylums Board
London
New York
Peter Cooper
Elm Street
Wichita
Kas
London Lancet
East
Europe
Asia
Africa
Wortmann
Yonkers
Eben
Washington Star
Meteor Flight Frights Elk in Kansas City
A meteor blaze crosses Kansas City skies frightening an elk kept there. The remark notes Americans use 350 cubic feet of wood per person annually while the English use only 18.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Incomprehensible Odds and Outlandish Claims Across Centuries
A collage of aging anecdotes and statistics touches on railway ads, European taxes, famine relief in Kansas Sumner County, and a German statistician’s earthquake death estimates. It notes Austria leniency to murderers, New York savings withdrawals, and peas dumped near Baltimore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
I. Came
H. E. Went
Austria
Queen Victoria
Great Britain
Sumner County
Kansas
India
Philadelphia
New York State
Petapsco Neck
Beltimore
Dr. Slasher
Buster
London
Berne
Switzerland
England
Barrows
Chicago
Hudson
Southwes
Lake Michigan
Edward Everett Hale
Boston Common
Mixed Uplift and Local Anecdotes From News Items
Varieties produces indigo and pepper while Germany spends about 100 million dollars on Rhine Elbe and Vistula dredging. A Maine woman paints her fence to deter loafers. New Hampshire prison provides Bibles dictionaries and requested texts. A Boston Transcript note mentions Mrs Mulcahy and Mrs Burke about a sick cow. A Charleston commission planted over a thousand shade trees in four years. Governor Elisha Dyer is called the father of Elisha Dyer Jr the New York dance leader. A Bank of France teller signal leads to private photography of a suspicious person. Connecticut law requires inks approved by the Secretary of State with a 100 dollar pen alty. Giles county Virginia residents move away after an earthquake and a lake drains. Prosperous salt works disappear after water leaks out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Rhine
Elbe
Vistula
Maine
New Hampshire
Mulcahy
Elisha Dyer, Jr
New York
Boston Herald
Bank of France
Connecticut
Giles County
Virginia
Bits of Wisdom Reflections on Morals and Society
A compact reflection on moral contrasts noting that many churches hold deeper sleepers than pillars and unfriendly kin can be the strongest strangers. The saloon is seen as a sign of vice, while true reconciliation with God requires more than academic virtue and may demand risking man’s favor.
Ice Cream Social Held on Baker Lawn Friday Evening
A ice cream social will take place on J F Bakers lawn two and a half blocks east of the southeast corner of the square. Music provided by the Conservatory Mandolin Club. Event scheduled for Friday evening in August.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. F. Baker
Conservatoire Mandolin Club
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Niles, Mich
Foo Lee
Iowa Central Hy
Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
North
South Dakota
Minnesota
Missouri
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Tennessee
Mississippi
Wyoming
Iowa Central Ry
Tuos
P. Bauny
Marshalltown
Lemes E86
A AL Arnold
Guardian
Joans
E. J. Salmon
Chancery
Newton
Keen
South Side Square
W. C. Melroy
Jasper County Bank
Sewton Tawa
H. Weber
Dex Moines
Machine Otis
Wagley & Smead
Coef
Meredith & Ogg
Omice
Bauare
Lowa
Rock-Island
Drst
Grand Army
Niagara Falls
C. A. Rutherford
Neb. TV
Bastian
John
Chicago Record
Harrisburg
Prof
J. T. Hatfield
Evanston (Ill
Chi~cago Record
Madison St
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