Topics of the Times Selection of Interesting Items
A collage of remarks on world events and opinions. Notes on China partition, boxers, and American influence. references to eclipses, weather, and historic figures. Mentions include Alexander Caesar in Paris and Pompey’s distant battle ground. Germany’s merchant fleet growth and Hamburg port history.
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Alexander Caesar
Germany
Hamburg
Love and Divorce Through the Lens of Modern Psychology
A French writer argues for clinical study of love illness with separation and nervous tonics as cure. Reports show rising American divorce cases reflect women's growing independence and strict domestic control. Examples include jealous husbands, spousal neglect, and a Atlanta case of wife battering observed by neighbors.
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Masons
Atlanta
Philadelphian Chases Pug That Snatched Molars
A young woman stylishly dressed on Diamond Street chased a pug that had taken her molars. In a gusty moment she sneezed and dropped a string of pearls from her mouth onto the pavement as the dog darted away.
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Diamond Street
Maiden Fetches Dog After Teathful Chase
A girl chases a dog through city streets ending when the animal drops the maiden’s missing teeth at Tenth Street. Pedestrians watch the lively pursuit as the dog finally yields and the teeth are retrieved.
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Tenth Street
Fido
Remarkable feats and odd pairings lie in this excerpt
The passage notes tiny gold gilding possible with sixteen ounces to encircle the earth, a marble leaf book in Rome, rising coal output in the South from six million tons to an immense sum, and vast undeveloped coal fields. It ends with a Kennebec, Maine fox and hound raised together as affectionate companions since youth.
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Kennebec
Ditching vs Latin Grammar An Anecdote by John Adams
The text recounts a tale attributed to John Adams about choosing ditching over Latin study. He relates how his father urged trying ditching if Latin failed to suit him, and how the harsh two days in the ditch led him to return to Latin, influencing future success.
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Fion
John Adams
United States
Aly
John
Father
The Summer Boarder as an Economic Factor in New Hampshire
A New Hampshire Labor Bureau study analyzes the summer boarder as a practical economic asset. It reports 10.44 percent of invested property in boarding uses and 987,785 invested in new or enlarged buildings in 1899. Visitors spent 4,947,938 statewide, with 204 towns hosting summer guests and grafton County counting 2,322,200 in activity. hotels and boarding houses employed 12,200 residents.
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New Hampshire Labor Bureau
New Hampshire
Grafton County
Leslie
Cat at the Philadelphia Bourse Loves Elevators
A coal black tabby residing at the Philadelphia Bourse is described as highly intelligent and fond of riding in the building elevators. The cat travels up and down the shafts with ease and demonstrates a remarkable familiarity with the vertical transit system of the exchange.
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Philadelphia
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