Mount Hercules and Everest mention in scattered notes
The fragment references a mountain world peak, Mount Hercules, in New York or a similar region, alongside Everest. Mentions a list of workers who must travel, a $1000 tax, and Mrs Hettie Green noted for paying more than others. An Australian rabbit is sought by a contractor amid agricultural economist commentary on supply and army resort plans.
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Ork Worll
Newey
W. Astor
Hettie Green
Australia
Ageroan Aumculturist
Pullman stock trading at 174 to 172 a share in 1900s note
The Pullman Company stock stands around 174 to 172 per share with par value 100. The company pays a 2 percent quarterly dividend totaling 36 million in stock. Three hundred Japanese residents in New York City are described as divided by interests into distinct classes, with wealth enabling them to live anywhere rather than together.
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Pullman Company
Efe
New York City
Alaska Hails Reindeer Aid for Mail Service in Far North
Alaska plans to shift mail logistics from Eskimo dogs to reinters or Taplaulers trained to handle the new method. A California promoter proposes an electric railway sixty two miles into Yosemite Valley to power lights and motors for the region. About four thousand tourists visit Yosemite yearly paying thirty five dollars for the stage ride. French statesmen led by M Le Yule push to import the American housesteal concept though no French term exists for it. a bill in the Chamber of Deputies notes this gap.
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California
Yosemite Valley
Yosemite
M. le Yule
France
Casaber of Deputies
Hacuboldtva
Humboldt
Johnson
Virgil
Arnauld
Josephus
Henry Spelman
Dante
Michael Angelo
Christopher Wren
Decker
le Veger
Gol
New York Sun
New Orleans Paper Attacks Handal and Shakespeare Works
The New Orleans critic group condemns Mr oll Handel as unworthy of honors while Dr Chrysender plans to publish a learned series on The Sources of Honors Works. The piece questions Shakespeare's original genius and notes the musician’s alleged 2001 company.
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Oll Handel
New Orleans
Dr. Chrysender
Uaze
Shakspeare
Indiana scientist warns gas supply will soon be exhausted
A State of Indiana scientist warns that Hoosierdam's natural gas stock is near depletion and that gas fields elsewhere face the same fate. He supports the claim with detailed reasons and urges natural gas stockholders to sell if possible, per the Detroit Free Press.
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State of
Indiana
Hoosierdam
Detroit Free Press
London Tea Dealers Target Wrapper Weight Scam
Investigation by the Public Control Department reveals tea and sugar packets often carry deficient weights due to wrapper and packet shortfalls. In 583 tea bags, 427 were underweight. in 499 sugar packages, 377 underweight. in 233 tea packets, 99 underweight by over two percent, boosting firm profits.
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London
Public Control Department of the County Council
Waves and Summer Fun at the Seashore
A lyrical scene from Harper's Bazar by Mery Ruth Rogers depicts children and families enjoying a sunlit beach. It mentions silver foam, playful breakers, shining sands, and a tranquil evening as thoughts turn to home and prayer.
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Mery Ruth Rogers
Harper's Bazar
Astrea’s Westward Comeback and Family Fortune
In Nutley and Bar Harbor a penniless grandpa, Jethro Black, arranges for his seventeen year old granddaughter Astrea to join relatives in a fashionable Maine coast world. A New York lawyer, Wallace Eldon, contemplates marrying Astrea to his son Jack as students of a bright, resourceful youth and a rising fortune unfold amid social upheaval and potential charity.
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Broadway
Nutley
Jethro Black
Keturah Jones
Astrea
Tate
New York
Halo
Star
Ofice
Madi
Jethro
Tye
Kidd's Valley
Barbara
Hull
Betsey
Kidd's
Hezekiah Hall
Mr. Eldon
Elaine
Bar Harbor
Astrea Black
Maine
Kidd’s Valley
John Eldon
Portland
Jack
Mrs. Eldon
Mr. de Ravelle
Bittervans
Mra. Eldon
Joan
Hezekiah
Wallace Eldon
Deacon Peck
Squire Olney
Mr. Black
Green Mountain
Eldon
Clau le de Ravelle
Chameleon Spider Captured in Color Changing Web Tale
Raleigh man T. L. Grimshaw describes his rare chameleon spider found on Africa’s coast. He says the spider’s white rosette web camouflaged the blue center, and shaking the net caused rapid color shifts through blue white greenish brown, matching various rainbow hues.
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T. L. Grimshaw
Raleigh
N. C
Africa
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
The Snake Catcher Story From The Mississippi Houseboat
A Mississippi houseboat couple sells snakes to scientists manufacturers and museums. A New Orleans reporter found the man handles bites with a wind aware method, catching snakes bare handed and using crude salves and bleeding to treat bites.
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Mississippi
New Orleans
United States
Extraordinary raft spider haunts Terre del Faeto waters
A Chicago Herald note describes the raft spider as an extraordinary insect found in Terre del Faeto that builds a raft from leaves and wool to chase prey on water. These spiders travel in fours and fashion ear-like structures from twigs, rowing at about thirty-two strokes, sometimes thirty-six.
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Terre del Faeto
Chicago Herald
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Alaska
Old Trinity
Son Avenue
Consid
Wallace
Cleo
Jacks
Gwendoline Balleraby
Maistein
Atar
Helen Forrest Graves
Birds
Snake Catcher
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