The Cocoanut Trade From Tahiti to the City
The article explains Tahiti bound cocoanuts, shipped monthly by a Pacific line to this port. It details husking, steaming, opening, peeling, and milling processes, leading to desiccated coconut and other products. It notes 70,000 nuts imported last month and 1,143,000 in the past year, with three firms dominating shipments and prices from $25 to $30 per thousand.
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Tahiti
Papeeia
San Francisco Bulletin
Society Islands
South Pacific
King
Treight
Tyhiti
Lee
Mississippi
Alwr
Import Surplus Shipped to Europe After Processing
A report notes roughly 1,200 tons of surplus material exported to Europe. After the oil is pressed and refined, the remaining nub is sold as feed for cattle and chickens.
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Nual
Europe
They Hear With Their Eyes Lifelong Insight at Deaf Institute
A bright deaf girl demonstrates remarkable skill by reading lips and using finger spelling at the Institution for the Instruction of the Deaf and Dumb. She explains how she and other students converse with both deaf and hearing people, proving that communication can be achieved through lip reading and signless exchanges.
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New York Times
Tam
Theo
The Navajo Blanket Industry Emerges From Sheep to Looms
The Navajo Indians raise over a million pounds of wool annually and use it to manufacture blankets. The process includes unique cleaning, dyeing, and a warp from yucca fibers. Looms are built by squaws inside hogans, with a sacred secret behind the warp treatment. Historically they made blankets for tribal use, now it is their leading, highly profitable industry.
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California
German Husbands and The Tone Of Proverbial Wit
A column notes that Dutch and German husbands appear kind yet show affection while popular proverbs from Spanish Italian French and Italian sources reveal a long tradition of sneers against women. The piece observes how nations famed for courtliness export phrases belittling womankind.
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Eugenes Field
Gallantey
Toad in the Potato Bin Triggers Tragic Ohio Tale
An Ohio girl resisted going to the cellar due to a toad in the potato bin. She later refused marriage because he toed in. Despondent, she drowned herself in a lake, and fishermen towed in the body. The note highlights linguistic simplicity.
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Ohio
A Woman Kawa Every Time Atshisou Globa
A man reflects on love and money in a brief, proverb filled line. The fragment suggests tensions between affection and wealth, with shuffled words hinting at a cultural or linguistic origin. No clear event or persons beyond the two quoted ideas emerge.
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Atshisou
Horrors of Siberia Told by Count Langowski
Count Langowski recounts a 3000 mile trek in chains from Poland to Siberia, surviving quarries, mercury mines, and brutal flogging. He describes 95,000 prisoners sent, few returning alive, and the fates of women, while showing injury on his ankles. He traveled to America after thirteen years and vows not to leave American soil.
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Couat Langowski
Detroit
Hudson's Clothings Company
Siberia
Count Langowski
Poland
Russia
Moscow
Cracow
Thance
Antwerp
America
Barely Possible Banter About Bear Skins
In a humorous exchange, Mrs Maginty and Moike discuss bears and bear skins. The dialogue mentions a bear skin as a buffalo robe, with playful regional speech and unspecific actions. No clear event, date, or persons beyond the two speakers are identified.
Bee allowances and medical advice collide in odd tale
Under allowances a conversation reveals a patient debating daily bee glass allowances with a doctor. The patient says I consulted two physicians before I called you in and each doctor allowed one glass. The exchange reflects a humorous miscommunication about daily remedies.
The Patent Calumniator Scheme in Local Politics
Derriel Dodd reports a satirical tale in which a conman pitches a mock political smear factory to Major Snodgrass. The plan stalls opponents by preemptively spreading fabricated scandals to keep the public focused on alleged misdeeds. The narrator suggests this "patent calumniator" could boost the major’s electoral chances.
Uneven wealth talk and promised payouts spark debate
Hemlays of 3 Divide and Firat Finosopnica quote a ramp addressing wealth distribution. A Second Philosophical Tramp contemplates the impact, suggesting Mr Aster could share $2.50 with each man, leaving $2.50 for himself. The pair muses on a possible daily bounty and the ensuing bustle.
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Firat Finosopnica
Aster
Toad
Telephone telegrams in New York weekly excerpt
An odd exchange shows a husband and wife debating a telegram, with the wife urging to call a letter and the husband remarking about urgency as a telegram to Sister Lucy is mentioned and a telegraph operator is being informed to hurry delivery.
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Tn Masts
New York Weekly
Hus
Lucy
Tello
Max O Re ll Observes on English French and American
Max O Re ll notes in a humorous essay on John Bull as British landowner and the US as a land of liberty. He contrasts English patience American vigor French liveliness and women’s freedoms, mocks stale biases, and argues for rewards and protections for authors and inventors amid changing rights.
A Bold Bargain Over a Carved Pipe at a Pawnshop
A Brooklyn Eagle reader recounts a pawnshop tale of bargains and sly haggling. He notes a rule to pay half the asking price, as pawnbrokers often demand double. After repeatedly visiting, the price of a carved pipe falls from 22 to 5, with the pawnshop keeper finally conceding.
The Literary Standard in America A Serious Claim
The article asserts that the United States maintains a high literary standard and performance across fiction essays poetry and criticism, arguing contemporary American work rivals the celebrated past. It compares current pieces in Atlantic Monthly Century Scribner's Harper's with historical English and periodical quality. The piece cites Harper's Magazine as a source.
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America
Atlantic Monthly
Century
Scribner's
Harper's
Black Wood's
Frazier
Tinsley
Harper's Magazine
The Triflen of Life Buckle Dispute Bites French Maker
A French buckle manufacturer faced a collapse after women demanded two tongue buckles. Refusing the demand, merchants flooded the market with two tongue buckles, forcing the maker to shut his shop and fail. The episode highlights gendered fashion pressures and market overreach.
Spanish government, mines, and a new explosive
The report describes Spain paying Almaden mine workers twenty cents a day, with harsh work causing early disability and a license to beg after years of labor. It also mentions a German officer developing a new explosive from carbolic acid, effective when used in mortars. A Cuban woman is depicted as worldly and leisurely, with a focus on appearances and fashion.
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Almaden
Murderers Freed By Blun Gar Of Colorado Legislature
James Medley and James Savage two murderers were freed in Denver Colorado last week after it was found no Colorado law against murder existed at the time of their crimes. The state attorney argued they could be retried but Judge Rising released them. They left for the state line following lawyers advice.
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Colorado
James Medley
James Savage
Denver
Torough
Rising
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Suodrage
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Alhea
Air
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Louisiana
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Nic
Major Snodgrass
Derriel Dodd
Max O'Rell
John Bull
United Kingdom
Great Britain
Bull
Octopus
Kingdom of Heaven
Jonathan
Ameren
Chicago
England
France
Ole
Inhoma
Bacteriological Laboratories
Vienna
Uni
Eburones
Oda
Brooklyn Eagle
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