Industrial insights and local notices from Oak Park
The Oak Park Vindicator mentions a Friday gathering at 71 Prynceth Pines Chicago and a branch office at 03 North Fork Avenue Austin Silkell TN Loomis News Depot. It questions driver behavior and head use and notes China trade prospects highlighting the tu chung tree with rubberlike substance could boost economy per Weiss of Owens College.
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North Fork Avenue
Austin
Silkell, Tn
Loomis' News Depot
China
Weiss
Owens College
Russian troop movement delays Central Asian rail traffic
The St. Petersburg Times correspondent notes official assurances are unreliable and reports that Central Asian railway delays stem from 20,000 Russian troops massed near Kushk. Russia plans actions soon that will not be favorable to Great Britain.
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St. Petersburg
The
Times
Russia
England
Kushk
Great Britain
Civil service merit system praised amid stable efficiency
The United States civil service commissioners report the carrier and railway mail services nearly at peak stability and efficiency. In sixteen years removals averaged below 1 percent annually, with over fourteen thousand carriers losing only about two hundred last year. Religious bodies report a rising sacred enterprise, unity, truth, and generous giving to church and educational causes, fostering goodwill and neighborly aid.
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United States Civil Service Commissioners
Three stenographers paid like lawmakers in congress
The house committees authorized a third stenographer at 5000 dollars yearly while noting three stenographers already earn equal pay to members of the house or senate. The report cites high workload during sessions and frequent committee use of stenographic records for later money appropriation questions.
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House
Congress
Senate
Industrial commission set to release two volume trust report
Washington awaits the industrial commission report with interest. The body has collected testimony over eighteen months on agriculture labor transportation and trusts from railroad presidents factory inspectors and union representatives. The two volume printed document may spark debate on trusts with no immediate legislative recommendation expected.
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Washington
Industrial Commission
Standard Oil Company
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
American Federation of Labor
The
Knights of Labor
Commission
Lorimer
Congress
Neglected persimmon fruit gains attention from growers
The persimmon, sweet and astringent when green, grows wild across the South and as far north as Rhode Island. It is long lived, yields two to three bushels per tree, and resists pests. Richer in sugars than apples and oranges, it stores well and can be canned or dried for puddings.
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America
Tennessee
Indiana
Rhode Island
Great Lakes
Century's Characterization and Longevity
William B. Thayer argues the nineteenth century is defined by longevity more than any single trait. He credits sanitation, medical advances, and industrial living to longer life, with inventions and cheaper production aiding progress, and notes government improvements but doubts vast practical strides.
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United States
Europe
Uno
William BR. Thayer
Portable portable schoolhouses adopt in St Louis
Milwaukee's portable schoolhouses prove satisfactory and will be adopted in St Louis to provide classrooms for about two hundred children. Four buildings costing 3000 dollars will be placed on suitable foundations with 24 by 32 feet floors, seating fifty five each, six windows, a large blackboard wall, and stove heating. Building Commissioner Ittner endorses the system as exactly what the city needs.
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Milwaukee
St. Louis
Ittner
School Board
New German Law Requires Full Names of Directors On Offices
A recently enacted German regulation compels banks and business houses with arbitrary firm names to display outside their premises the full names of directors or proprietors in plain lettering. The aim is to reveal who runs the business to prevent hidden chicanery behind meaningless names.
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Germany
Rob Gleverdale Adventure Chapter IX Unloading and Deception
Rob helps unload aboard the Black Cat and uncovers Torrevo's nephew Ricardo as the tally writer. Captain Elvin questions the nephew’s loyalty and moves Rob to a hidden estate headquarters run by Richard Elvin. Starne schemes to win Elsie and Horton's fortune while Rob plots to thwart them.
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Bivin
Torrevo
Rob
Brazil
Starne
Elsie
de Roth
David Horton
Elvin
Torrero
New York
Captains Scheme as Rob Becomes Key Asset
Rob, posing as Ricardo Torreyo aboard a lone schooner, is brought into a plot by Captain Elvin and Torrero. Elvin scours Rob for writing skill while Torrero warns secrecy and loyalty, as Lemuel Starne booms a scheme to claim Horton wealth amid unsteady loyalties and danger at sea.
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Hivin
Rob
Torreyo
Elvin
Torrero
Ricardo
Capt
New York
Torrevo
Ricardo Torreyo
Lemuel
Strange Romance Links Egypt to New York Museums
A long ago tale ties ancient Egypt to modern America as Cleopatra’s Needle stands near a Central Park museum where the preserved body of Princess Neferet rests in a sarcophagus. The obelisk, begun by Thothmes III, watches over her remains as history and civilization converge in one city.
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New York
Egypt
Imperial Palace
Thothmes III
Heliopolis
Central Park
Nefereyt
Not a Rubber Specialist for Neck Pain
A Detroit Free Press joke quotes a doctor replying he is not a specialist in rubber while a patient complains of severe neck pain. The snippet concludes with a quip about worry being more harmful than work, remarking that more people worry than work.
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Detroit Free Press
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Horton
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Lemuel Starne
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Hilebe
South Clark Street
Cicero
Ocak Park, Ill
J. Dunfee & CO
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Corser Washington
B. Cammon
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S Peper
Metropolitona Rer Bank
Corn Exchange Nat. Bank
German Exchange Bank
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Beers, Resback & Co
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Ill
D. Geane
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Arinet
Burdio
Coni Vertismenta
Tse
Secor Anime Ainest
Teen Sreer
Mberstor
Tiabeee Garrier
Jose
Gears, Roebuck & CO
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