Navy Yard Gun Plant at Washington Attracts Visitors
The United States government runs a vast ordnance plant at the Washington navy yard. Naval officers supervise the work as gigantic lathes and Morgan cranes hum through gun jacketing and rifling. The yard features a 900 by 100 foot main structure with railways, heavy hoists, and extensive machinery highlighting national strength and industrial growth.
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United States
Washington Navy Yard
Morgan
Sam
Thes
Wit and wisdom from a Chicago News hinting at social contrast
A collage of adages on love, money, and society contrasts the rich and poor. It skewers habit, humor, and hypocrisy, noting charity begins at home yet mocks at times and ends with a razor sharp line about hollow mockery.
Witty maxims and social observations in verse style
A compact collection of aphoristic lines about love money and flirtation. Satire on wit and charm contrasts with practical motives and gendered social dynamics. The playful tone critiques vanity hypocrisy and romantic gambits with pithy maxims.
New York Woman Visits Sister in City
Mrs Landgrehe from New York is visiting her sister Mrs Otto at 48th avenue and Lake street. A Halloween party was hosted by Miss Anna Riordan on Austin avenue. Mrs Stevens and her daughter Mrs Corbett and Corbett’s son Ralph are seriously ill with typhoid fever.
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Landgrehe
New York
Otto
48Th Avenue
Lake Street
Anna Riordan
Austin Avenue
Free municipal employment bureau planned for Duluth
A collection of short notes mentions Duluth planning a free municipal employment bureau. The item sits among disparate odds and ends including weights, currencies, trivia, and historical remarks from various sources.
Ancient Egyptian Statue Claims 6000 Years Old
A statue in an Egyptian village is described as the oldest in the world, dating back over 6,000 years. It is said to represent one of the chiefs of the domain where it stands.
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Egypt
Anarchists Don’t Prosper Says Detective
A detective notes that very few anarchists become prosperous citizens though recalls one man who fifteen years ago was prominent in anarchistic circles and published a small paper in the movement.
Naval gun plant shows discipline and complex machinery
A visitor tours a large naval gun manufacturing complex. Strict discipline and naval style management guide workers while massive guns and carriages undergo quality testing. Special automated machines shape, drill, and finish hard gun metal, with separate buildings for cartridge cases and related gear. Harmony in house furnishings urges color balance in decor.
Lincoln Ancestry Tied to Massachusetts Iron Trade
A government report links Abraham Lincoln’s paternal lineage to Massachusetts iron manufacture. It details Samuel Lincoln’s 1637 migration from Norwich to Massachusetts, Mordecai Lincoln’s settlement, and the 1703 Bound Brook ironworks that produced wrought iron from ore, naming Mordecai Jr and Abraham in Berks County, PA.
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Abraham Lincoln
Massachusetts
Samuel Lincoln
Norwich
England
Mardeval
Lincoln
Samuel
Hingham
Hull
Seituate
Bound Brook
Mordecai Lincoln
Mordecai, Jr
Abraham
Berka County
A Fanny Numeral System of Murray Island
The natives of Murray Island in the Torres Strait use a base two numeral system with netat for one and neis for two. They count higher by combining these and, above two, by body-part based terms starting at the left hand, moving to the wrist and up the arm.
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Murray Island
Torres Strait
Which Is the Nobler Animal
Spectators outside a cigar store at Seventh and Spruce watched a red setter escort an intoxicated man home. The man clung to a lamppost while the dog pulled on his chain, patiently guiding him as on previous Saturdays, according to onlookers.
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Seventh
Spruce
Philadelphia Record
France Reports Population Rise in Census Figures
France shows a population growth with 38,641,833 residents in the latest census. The five-year increase is 412,364, a jump larger than the previous five-year period which rose by 133,819.
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France
Sugar cane hosts 227 insect enemies, say etymologists
Etymologists report that sugar cane plants contend with 227 distinct insect enemies, underscoring the crop’s vulnerability and the breadth of pest challenges faced by growers.
Literary Notes on 19th Century Authors and Works
Mary Mapes Dodge writes a clever Hans Brinker tale. Frederic Lawrence Knowles edits a volume of American poetry up to standard. Sarah Orne Jewett’s The Tory Lover blends history and fiction with artistic pictures. Evelyn Abbott, Greek historian, dies at 58 after lifelong paralysis. Eleanor Reed publishes five farm life stories with a tragic feud tale and rural humor.
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Mary Mapes Dodge
Hans Brinker
Frederic Lawrence Knowles
Sarah Orne Jewett
Evelyn Abbott
Balol College
Oxford
Eleanor
Reed
Chicago
Mixed Nationalities in Argentina Population Essay
The article notes a mixed population in Argentina with colonies of Germans French Italians Portuguese and a large English community nearing sixty thousand. It states the working class is largely recruited from Italy and adds a significant Portuguese presence.
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Argentina
Italy
Smiths Remain Commonest Name in Scotland Says Extract
An eclectic 1902 item notes that Smith is the most common surname in Scotland and England. It mentions a Lucerne hotel lamenting its English menu, a 200th anniversary for the first Russian newspaper, the Grant tomb costs, and various curiosities from engineering in New York to conch horn islanders. It also cites 1768 quill shipments to England and Puget Sound overtaking San Francisco as a foreign shipping hub.
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Lucerne
Switzerland
Peter the Great
Grant
New York
Russia
Poland
England
Puget
San Francisco
The Hog's the Thing in Rich Rural Counties
The Hog's the Thing describes how hog farming has shaped wealthy counties in the United States. It notes stylish farm homes and barns, families sending children to college, while the older generation comes to town to enjoy peaceful country living.
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United States
UL. Times
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Cael
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Wales
New York Sun
H. G. Goelitz
North Boulevard
Oak Park
Ilinois
Berwyn
Austin Laundry
Lake and 51St Court
South Boulevard
Harry F. Brown
North Forty-Eighth Avenue
N. 80Th Court
the Anderson Restaurant
N. 48Th Ave
Charles, Propristos
Chicago News
Cupid
George Washington
Moreland
Dem
John Hemwall
North 48Th Avenue
Duluth
Porto Rico
Camden
Ark
London
Illinois
Hckles
Dawes
Ridgely
Jaggles
Waggles
Judge
Scott
Burns
Boston Transcript
Frederick Fraley
Philadelphia
New York Tribune
Osage City
Yezdegird
Persia
Tommy
Grandma
Archy
Germany
M. Kravitsky
Prop
TEL. W
Wilken
Ashland Avenue
Chicago & Western
Indiana
The
Belt By. of
Batimatee
A. Tennyson
Park Ave
Ontario St
Carpeta
Telephone
Austin
Austin, Ill
Conrad Kampp
Jos, P. Kampp
C. Kampp
North Park Avenue
Austin Station
Austin 17
Robt
Ward
Satcheia
Yoke St
Park Avenue
Smith
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