Supply of Camphor in Japan and Forest Renewal
Japan now dominates camphor supply with annual export around five million pounds, a quarter to the United States and the rest to Europe. Crude camphor is refined abroad though Japan has begun refining domestically. The process uses chipped wood boiled to vapor, crystallizes on bamboo screens, and collected as crude camphor. Forests are being renewed as old trees decline, with government planting and care to restore supply within 25 to 30 years. A district in Tosa holds thirteen trees about a century old capable of 40,000 pounds of crude camphor worth about 4,000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sumatra
Borneo
East Indies
China
Formosa
Japan
Savares
United States
Europe
America
Tosa
Salt Water Utilization At San Francisco Street Car Plant
The Sutter Street railway power plant in San Francisco draws condenser water from five miles offshore. After cooling, water at 100 degrees Fahrenheit is sent to nearby Lur line baths. The Olympic Salt Water company pipes the water and the railway pays for its use. Daily output reaches 300000 gallons. This mutually beneficial arrangement could serve as a model for others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sutter Street Railway
San Francisco
Lurline Baths
Olympic Salt Water Company
Street Railway
Salt Water Company
Dudely and Fanny talk of ring sizing and engagement
In a playful exchange Dudely compliments Fanny on her tiny fingers while noting a ring could be made to fit easily. Fanny agrees she once joked an engagement ring would cost little enough to fit her small finger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fanny
Kex
Diverse wonders from cotton to silk and world facts
Worth remembering miscellany on climate driven production from cotton to wine and silks, historic population shifts around Baltimore and Ohio, Oxford University Press printing in 150 languages, Dr Lekner’s silk substitute, salt origins from sea deposits, Persia’s Vramia lake salt content, global birth and death rates, the sleeping Ariadne statue at the Vatican, and a colossal ancient water measure conversion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Tropics
Baltimore
Washington
Woodstock
Moorfield
W. Va
Clarksburg
Parkersburg
Chillicothe
Cincinnati
Columbus
Ind
University Press
Oxford
Lekner
Zurich
Vramia
Persia
Dead Sea
Vatican
Rata
Women at billiards spread through aristocratic circles
A century and a half ago women rarely played billiards as rooms were men's preserves. Now many country houses in Britain and abroad grant ladies their own billiard rooms. In France the game is popular in high society. Royals such as the Dowager Czarevna and Queen Marguerite of Italy promote the pastime among courts. Princess Leopold of Bavaria, with her children, is noted for elegant play. The Queen Regent of Spain also enjoyed cue work in her youth.
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France
Germany
Czarevna
Margherita
Italy
Leopold
Bavaria
Munich
Spain
Tonsorial Item
One barber complains there is a man in town whose hair cannot be cut because it is plastered down with pomatum. The other barber jokes about turning him over for a tale of experiences with Indians to raise his hair and allow a haircut.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baron von Schmidt
Southwest Breezes Morality and Mirth Sayings from The Southwest
A collection of aphorisms and maxims on life virtue and reform attributed to Southwest. Notable lines advise leadership through law not force condemn prejudices and stress personal responsibility. The piece closes with a moral about conquering vice to spare descendants.
Bank President Credits Pink Pills for Relief
The article profiles Philip G. Welting, president of the Bank of Worcester in Worcester, New York, and of Toledo City Bank in Toledo, Iowa, who recounts twenty five years with locomotor ataxia. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with improved leg strength and reduced ataxia after trying many therapies, while noting his initial distrust of medicine. The piece praises the pills as restoring blood and nerve vitality and notes they are sold by druggists or by mail from Schenectady, New York.
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Cooperstown
N. Y
Times
Philip G. Weiting
Bank of Worcester
Toledo City Bank
Toledo
Iowa
Worcester
Otsego County
New York
Mr. Welling
Limeorme
Lis
Florida
Iowa Falls
Michigan
Welting
Worcester Bank
Williams
Tact Beyond Truth and Policy, Fran ces E. Lanigan
Lanigan argues tact is not dishonesty nor suppression of truth. It withholds gratuitous disagreements in debate and seeks kindly agreement when possible. If agreement fails tact requires gracious acceptance of opposing views. Tact differs from policy though both relate to conduct.
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Frances E. Lanigan
Syrup of Figs Promises Constipation Relief and Health
The text touts Syrup of Figs as a gentle remedy to cure habitual constipation, awaken kidneys and liver, and dispel illnesses without irritation. It also notes Jerome K. Jerome as a dry goods clerk who later mocked common people's governance in his career.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerome K. Jerome
Do You Desire to Adopt a Child Address Society
An appeal from the International Children's Home Society in Chicago invites readers to adopt a child on a ninety day trial, requesting a stamp for enclosure. The item also notes Sir Henry Thompson condemning pre dinner sherry as a gastronomical blunder while reporting the total value of U S educational property at six hundred million dollars and public school property at four hundred million.
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International Children’s Home Society
la Salle St
Chicago
Illinois
Frank M. Gregg
Henry Thompson
United States
World's Pe Medical Association
Buffalo, N. Y
Money marks and the odd order of currency signs
The essay questions why currency abbreviations precede amounts in many countries and traces the convention from Roman weight names to modern symbols. It notes examples from England Germany France Mexico Newfoundland and discusses the backward habit in using signs before figures for sums.
Monkey Spree Upsets Ringling Brothers Circus Show
A drunken Vermont spectator tossed liquor into the arena during a Ringling Brothers performance. Monkey Paddy Rooski drank it, became intoxicated, and began pranks and fights with fellow performers until netted and removed to a dressing room. The incident stunned trainers and amused the audience.
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Ringling Brothers
Boston Herald
Paddy Rooski
Rudyard Kipling
Prof. Andress
Kansas
Pointer for the Careless Redeemed at Slight Cost
Unsold railway tickets can be redeemed by sending the ticket and a note to the general passenger agent of the issuing line. Include a stamped return envelope. the company will identify the ticket, adjust accounts, and issue a refund check. Every man is the architect of his own fortune.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
Appius Claudius
A Fact Disco.ed by Mezete Clothes
Jack questions a difference as a prodigal son theme arises. Higs have never been given the fatted calf, a remark noted in Mezete Clothes discourse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mezete
Jack
Pugilist Reveals Stranger Fortune After Scrappy Fight
Reporter questions large winnings from last bout. Pugilist says he did not realize money until waking a week after the scrap.
Land prospectus for Kansas City to Gulf railroad lands
A solicitation advises sending for a seven column hand colored paper describing new lands from Kansas City to the Gulf. It touts Missouri and Arkansas as best agricultural regions with healthful climate, pure water, timber, rain, and mild winters. It promises a pamphlet with land prices and a wide selection from Ozarks to the Gulf for quick purchase.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. A. Hornbeck
Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf Railroad
7Th and Wyandotte Sts
Kansas City
Gulf of Mexico
United States
Missouri
Arkansas
Ozarks
Tropical Gulf
Living corpse at funeral shocks Mount Moriah crowd
At Mount Moriah Baptist Church on Bull Skin Creek Miss Madie Walsh was pronounced dead and laid in a coffin. On opening the casket for a final view the undertaker saw a hand move and the presumed corpse sat up and exclaimed I thank God! The woman later said she remained conscious throughout and could not reveal signs of life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Moriah Baptist Church
Bull Skin Creek
Madie Walsh
Thehucek
No-To-Naue? Stimulant claims threaten nerve power
Millions of men seek stimulants as nicotine irritates the nervous system. The ad asserts chewing or smoking nicotine harms manhood and nerve power and promotes No-To-Base as a guaranteed cure. It instructs readers to contact the Sterling Remedy Co. in New York or Chicago for a free book.
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Sterling Remedy Co
New York City
Chicago
Fragmented Odds and Ends From a Gossipy Page
A collage of quotes and ad blurbs spans topics from spicy underdone steak to a cinnamon bear, with medical quackery claims for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Piso's Cure for Consumption. It mentions Tolstoi’s gospel rewrite, a giant Braganza diamond, and oddities like a four legged chicken and five legged cow.
A Woman With a Large Brain in Hancock County
Six years after a separation, Mrs. Combs ran the farm in Hancock County while her husband in another town drew a pension of 6009. He offered to return for his money, but she rejected him, seeing a faithless husband and turning him away. The tale ends with Mrs. Combs portrayed as no common woman in the Louisville Commercial.
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Mrs. Combs
Seaunsdrel
Louisville
The Coolest Man and the Arctic Question
A brief exchange notes that Arctic explorers are deemed safest to trust in danger. He says they stay cool in the time of greatest peril, while she questions why this is so.
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E. C. Townsend
Ft. Howard, Wis
Kline
Firstiday
Obila
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Hanson
Great Britain
United States Treasury
Coe
Thomas L. Henry
Kentucky
Parks
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Alabama
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John D. Miller
Connecticut
Cruggists
Lilian Hamilton
Tle Ameer
Afghanistan
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Pierce
Academy of the Sacred Heart
Academy Sacred Heart
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Moe
Ziv
West
Land Pacemaker Bicycle Company
Des Moines
Ewis
Penna. Salt M’f’g CO. Gen. Agents
Philo
Davis
Davis & Rankin Bldg
MFG. CO
Randolph & Dea
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Eimpire Wig. Co
Quincy Lik
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Scott
Scott HO
Paste CO
Rochester
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