Thie Wicked Year 1906 Calamities Across the World
A concise survey notes 1906 as a year of extreme events from Vesuvius to San Francisco and Valparaiso. It cites Hong Kong typhoons, West India hurricanes, severe English heat, and Buffalo snow, ending with a promise of a costly but better behaved future.
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San Francisco
Valparaiso
Hong Kong
West India
Mobile
Pensacola
England
Buffalo
Martin
Appleton
Scotland sets half year shipbuilding record in 1906
In the first half of 1906 Scotland produced at least 207 vessels of all sizes. The total tonnage launched reached 360,489, a record surpassing previous highs and well ahead of the six month total of 259,804 tons set in 1902.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scotland
Esperanto courses for cadets at St Cyr College
The French military college of St Cyr will teach Esperanto to its cadets. A medical ad claims Paro Qintment cures itching and piles in 6 to 14 days or a refund. A crow reportedly destroys 700000 insects yearly.
French Oleomargarine Fraud Case Sparks Harsh Punishment
A Cherbourg dealer was found guilty of mixing oleomargarine with butter and sentenced to three months in jail a $400 fine and publication of the verdict in thirty newspapers at his own expense plus posters. The piece notes French law’s severity could affect similar trades here.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherbourg
France
Hall’s Catarrh Cure and 1886 notary oath in Toledo
Oath sworn by J. Geensy as senior partner of F. J. Owenzy & Co in Toledo Ohio promising payment for catarrh cures. Hall’s Catarrh Cure is claimed to act on blood and mucous surfaces with testimonials available. Also notes colonial secretary report 1905-06 no telegraph complaints for 14 years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Erare
Onro
Touroo
J. Geensy
F. J. Owenzy & Co
Toledo
Hall
Cavaren Cuong
Nang J. Ogheney
A.W. Greason
Notary Public Hall
J. Cuever & Co
All Drugeists
The
Baamas
Islands
Telegraph Department
Cure of Eczema by Cuticura Remedies Reported
A 15 year eczema case in Bedford Station, New Jersey, relays a full recovery after five bars of Cuticura Soap and two jars of Cuticura Ointment. The claimant, David Blum, says prior remedies failed but the Cuticura regimen cured irritation and peeling. The testimonial appears in a 1906 clipping.
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David Blum
Bedford Station
Guests Have Only One Chance at Swiss Hotel Dining
The piece notes Swiss hotels serve table d hote with miliany precision and warns that once a course passes it is gone forever, underscoring strict dining cadence and care.
Life and Savings Bann and Bishop Eastburn in historical anecdotes
Collage of notes includes a tale of Bishop Eastburn and Bishop Potter over cigars and inherited tobacco prejudice, plus reflections on Froude's History of England and a Montana gem mine report. Historical snippets cover religious figures, literary criticism, and the Yogo Gulch sapphire workings with details on vein length and gem quality.
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Bishop Eastburn
Bishop Potter
Philips Brooks
Massachusetts
Dr. Potter
Potter
Ghinesa Valley of Death Railroad Work in China
Consul T Haynes of Nanking reports the Namui Valley railroad project in China has a death rate of about seventy percent among workers. Construction is suspended and men are rendered idle during the summer rains.
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Ghinesa
Namui
China
Isthmian Canal
T. Haynes
Nanking
Avea
Sherry Pudding From Cherry Layer Dessert
Fashioned as a simple cherry pudding, this recipe layers canned cherries with sugar butter and lemon rind in a crust of flour baking powder and salt. A light batter tops the fruit and bakes, finished with a cherry juice sauce thickened with arrowroot or cornstarch.
Spinach prepared for six from American Cultivator
Wash a peck of spinach then boil in salted water until tender. Drain well and press dry. Chop fine, melt butter, add spinach and sauté briefly. Season with pepper and a splash of cream or milk. Shape into a mound and garnish with fried bread triangles or egg quarters.
Beans Baked in Crock With Molasses and Bacon
A 19th century recipe instructs soaking navy beans, simmering until tender, then baking in a crock with three tablespoons New Orleans molasses and an equal amount of white sugar. A four-finger square piece of pork or bacon is placed on top, and the dish bakes slowly until brown and thoroughly done. Serves hot or cold as a nutritious lunch, with a social nudge about farmer’s daughters wooing beaux.
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Wight
New Orleans
Household Hints and Practical Doings From Norton Birthday Note
Household hints cover corning beef brining saltpetre and salt, to be careful with blackening vegetables, mincing cleanup with bread, soup meat soaking, cake egg beating, lamp safety using dry substances, and cathartic hot water before bed. Also care tips for nickel plating, camphor in turpentine, burn treatment, removing finger marks, and Prof Norton turning eighty with good health.
Magnanimity Defined as Strength and Compassion
The passage argues magnanimity never pairs with weakness and embraces all humanity with love. It emphasizes sympathy as tender yet strong, remaining firm on principle, justice and truth. It asserts true magnanimity combines energy and courage, contrasting cruelty with resolute virtue.
M Dizvolsky Seeks Recall Over Japan War Policy
London Globe notes M Dizvolsky, Russian minister in Paris, influential in Russo French affairs, once Vatican envoy, served in Munich Copenhagen and Tokio. He urged recall after clashing with Petersburg over policy that might have averted war with Japan, signaling a rise in influence amid crisis.
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M. Dizvolsky
Paris
Vatican
Curia
Munich
Copenhagen
Tokio
Japan
St. Petersburg
London Globe
Letting by Pin and Candle Observed at Badworth
The old custom of letting premises by candle and pin was seen at Badworth between Reading and Newberry. The candle was lit and a pin placed in it as bids were called until the pin dropped from heat. J. T. Strange won the tenancy with a $35 offer.
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Badworth
Reading
Newberry
J. T. Strange
Lenion Evening Standard
Postum Cereal Co guarantees purity under Pure Food Law
The Postum Cereal Co Ltd pledges all Postum Cereal Grape Nuts and Elijah’s Manna meet the National Pure Food Law. The firm states products are not adulterated or misbranded and has always printed a truthful ingredient statement on packages. Declarations sworn in Battle Creek December 1906 by notary Benjamin B. F. Reh.
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California Fig Syrup Co
California
Fig. Syrup Co
Congress
Posrua
Cerear Co
Lump
W. Post
Battle Creek
Mich
Benjamin BF
Ennui and estimates in textile veils for travel
A fragment describes Armenian women enveloping themselves in cotton sheets to veil while traveling abroad. It notes an estimated amount of £130 and hints at required actions to pay running expenses for New York next year.
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Great Erain Shipbuilding
Lumbago
Sciatica
Brice 23E
Hale
DAG Compant
Vermont Street
Droakirs
Parie
City
Ff. W.grove
All Hallowa
Exeter
Mre
Winslow
Battle Chine
R. G. Graham
Washington Post
Life and Savings Bann
Seexo
Nichols
Atlanta
Froude
Hag
Asmontana Gem Mine
Yogo Gulch
Montana
Yogo
Charlies Eliot “Norton
Dante
Cambridge
Russia
Postum Cereal Co
LID
Lin
Columbia
Parla
St. Louis
Sitton
Columbia Phonograph CO
Broadway
New York
Iquires
Ubrary
Dinin
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