Foochow Teas and Temples Amid Historic Min Districts
National Geographic describes Foochow in Fukien province as a aging port city revived by tea production. The Min river navigation, foreign settlements, and tea factories draw laborers and traders while walls, streets, and sedan chairs reflect ancient urban layout. Tea exports and crafts drive commerce as foreign and native shops line the streets.
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National Geographic Society
Washington, D. C
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Japan
Stariog
Takien
Foochow
Min
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Long Kong
Taiwan
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Pagoda Anchorage
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Faochown
Hoine
China
Canton
Peiping
Fukien Province
America
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Fate's Odd Mixing Of Two Messages
The article recounts a tale shared by Daniel Frohman about Leonard Grover, a theater manager linked to Ford's Theatre in 1865. Lincoln allegedly signaled Grover by tearing a newspaper margin to invite his family to Our American Cousin, while Grover considered renewing Booth's contract and once discarded Lincoln's script and Booth's letter, later finding Booth's note folded with the newspaper margin.
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Daniel Frohman
Leonard Grover
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Grover
Ford
Pennsylvania Avenue
Cotton’s versatile uses spurring aid for southern farmers
Efforts to find new cotton applications extend beyond textiles to doorknobs, buttons, auto paint, cosmetics, film stock, writing paper, shock absorbers, wire insulators and artificial leathers from the whole plant except roots. Revival of cotton textiles such as dimitles and ginghams gains momentum.
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Pew
Unclear fragment hints at market expansion schemes
A fragment cites expanding into new markets with upholstery HMoings auto-tire cards and the Hire Popular Mechanics Magazine. Details are incomplete, but indicates diversification efforts and publication branding.
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Popular Mechanics Magazine
Forests raise humidity and reduce soil loss in experiments
A forest experiment in a Douglas fir stand shows forests keep relative humidity above 35 percent longer and reduce drying hours. After cutting the trees, humidity fell below 35 percent for more hours, and the atmosphere above the cut area resembled open land with drier air.
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Pacific Northwest Forest Experiment Station
Forest Tertice
United States Department of Agriculture
Owl Family Trapped and Caged by Jareb Deaver in Kinston
Jareb Deaver trapped a baby owl near Kinston and found its parents returning at night. He captured the male, later the female, near a mangled chicken and a headless rabbit left by the cage. The owls now live in the cage, appearing peaceful and content.
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Kinston
Jareb
Deaver
Owl
There ought to be a law debate quoted
An irritated citizen declares there ought to be a law. Senator Sorghum interrupts insisting only laws that are useful and practical should be made.
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Sorghum
Earhart Lightly Teases Debutante Engagement Jokes
Amelia Earhart in Washington humorously comments on a debutante Helen Summers engaging to banker Calhoun. The aviatrix quips that "checks appeal" to explain why older men win the affection of young women, prompting laughter at the dinner.
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Amelia Earhart
Washington
Helen Summers
Calhoun
Miss Earhart
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