Blood and Resolve on the Bayou Warship Night
Orton and Rochon clash in a deadly duel aboard a smoking schooner as fire consumes a garden and men fall. Orton, driven by a vision of Lilly and the will to survive, fights to the last, while Rochon recalls a past tied to General Horace Orton. The battered squad retreats, steering toward Magnolia Point as the dawn nears.
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Rochon
Orten
Lilly
Rochan
Felicie Rochon
Ie Rechon
Orion
Rodhon
Soun
Horace Eee
Horace Orton
Aera
Eral
New York
Stark
Babee
Pursui Garcia
Old Rochon
Magnolia Point
Bay St. Louis Recollections and a Captive at Rochon Mansion
In a late 19th century scene set near Bay St. Louis, Orton awakens in the Rochon mansion after a brutal clash at Garcin's. Felicie Rochon tends him with tenderness, promising rest as he recalls his sketches and the garden fire, while the narrative hints at a fragile alliance and upcoming continuation.
China’s Cheap Labor and Life in Canton
Anton Cura reports from Canton on Chinese labor and living conditions, noting massive crowds, widespread work across industries, and the low wages that sustain a vast labor force. He describes barbers, head shaving customs, pricing, and the social order amid China's bustling manufacturing hubs.
Wonderful Workers Across the Empire
A vivid portrait of labor in Asia from Peking to Canton, detailing sweeping streets, heavy loads carried by workers, and women hauling stone baskets in Hong Kong. The observer notes 45 degree hills, donkey replacement by human effort, and 30,000 boat workers in Hong Kong Bay, with women as chief laborers rowing boats with children on their backs.
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Empire
Peking
Canton
Druys
China
Japan
Hong Kong
Hong Kong Bay
Wages and Labor Life in Canton and Abroad Trade Hubs
A visitor reports extreme low wages in Canton and other Chinese cities, detailing day long work from dawn to dusk, low pay for coolies, masons, and shop workers, and high costs of living. The account notes chair transportation, silk weaving, and rough earnings for skilled labor, with occasional higher pay in cities and very low country rates. The piece contrasts local theater pay and overall meager earnings with the lack of strong unions or higher wages.
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Foo Choo
Canton
Pri
Ordins
China
Aiida
Labor Organization Governs Chinese Trades and Guilds
The report notes China’s high labor organization, with every occupation under a guild or union. Shanghai alone has 1,700 passengers wheelbarrow workers, regulated by their guilds for fares and hours. Barbers, weavers, and even beggars have associations with leaders assigning duties and enforcing order.
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China
Shanghai
Apprenticeship Laws and a Brutal Chinese Execution
The piece describes union rules regulating apprentices in silk weaving, including limits on masters and bans on teaching women. It recalls a brutal incident near Shanghai where 123 workers killed a gold broker for taking excess apprentices, with a leader coordinating bites and beheading the first offender. Colonel Denby sent a report to the State Department.
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Soo Chow
Shanghai
China
Denby
State Department
Washington
Unions oppose machinery and labor strife in Canton
Chinese trades unions oppose machinery in shoe making and brass item production. A sewing machine for Chinese shoes was destroyed at Canton after a strike over brass imports for cooking utensils. Generally strikes are rare as arbitration is favored and city officials tend to side with workers, pressuring employers to settle disputes.
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Canton
Chinese Guilds Control Commerce In Historic Trade Hubs
The Canton merchants of Foo Chow run a vast club with temple and theater for about 500 members. Shanghai guild halls for tea and rice merchants showcase Chinese architecture and regulate trade, interest, sale terms, weights, and credit. Guilds discipline members through fines and social penalties, ensuring orderly business and guarding foreign dealings.
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China
Canton
Foo Chow
Shanghai
Bankers Guild
Inaman
How the City Laborer Lives and Hours in China
The article contrasts Chinese labor conditions with city work, noting carpenters' 11 summer hours and nine in winter, longer hours for masons, no Sundays, and few holidays. It details farm life with family labor from ages six and seven, daily wages of 10 to 15 cents plus meals, monthly pay ranges, and the goal of saving to buy small farms typically two acres or less, with livestock and a diet of vegetables, tea, and occasional pork or fowl.
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China
Living Conditions in a Chinese City Residence
The writer contrasts rural farmers with urban laborers who have simple diets and crowded city housing. City workers eat salt fish vegetables and rice and rare meat, paying two dollars or more in yearly rent. Many families own multiroom houses housing 15 to 20 rooms and up to 100 people. Chinese houses feature a kitchen dining room and bedroom per three rooms with simple furniture. In southern provinces beds are boards, matting, and Kang sleeping areas with fires. sleeping quarters are wrapped in blankets. Despite crowded conditions, many are described as fairly happy with such arrangements and a vast number of Chinese people live thus.
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Walla
Poverty of the Boat People in Canton Waters
A letter describes Canton’s riverine poor, estimating a third of a million live on boats. Boatmen earn ten to twelve dollars yearly plus food, with crews using river scraps. Two rats thrown overboard are seized by boatmen, who rely on such scavenged fare along with dog and cat meat to survive.
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China
Hong Kong
Canton
Iti
Chinese Flour Mills Use Buffalo Power and Coolie Labor
Frank G. Carpenter visits Canton with Consul Seymour and examines local flouring mills. He notes mill stones stacked high driven by water buffalo and a half naked coolie, with two dozen stones powering the operation. He contrasts this with Western machinery and cites Doctor Macgowan on a free press aiding China’s adoption of modern practices.
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Inborin Canton
Seymour
Minneapolis
Canton
China
Chiasa
Doctor Macgowan
Frank G. Carpenter
Honest Thieves Four Unemployed Ask for a Dollar Loan
In Tarragona area of Spain four starving workmen, rejected by a wealthy landlord, returned with concealed weapons to demand a dollar loan. When denied, they took fifty dollars from the cash box and later repaid forty six to the priest to return to the landlord, keeping four as a loan. Public opinion sides with the men, who cite the landlord’s provocation and urge labor bureaus to prevent regional job shortages and aid fair distribution of work.
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Philadelphia
Tarragona
Lira
Valencia
Asgsin
Which Historical Character Would You Marry
In the Blank Society debate in the New York Sun, members, both men and women, chose historic figures as ideal life partners. Options included Xantippe Cleopatra and the Queen of Sheba among women, with Samson Hercules and Job among men. The group will continue the discussion and require all members to select a life partner from history.
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New York Sun
Xantippe
Cleopatra
Shebs
Indies
Samson
Hercules
Remark on a Squaw at Reserva Little Pimbroke
Fragmentary note describes a white woman at Reserva Little Pimbroke and a casual remark about her appearance and language. The text preserves a colonial tone and suggests an inquiry into whether she speaks English, reflecting historical attitudes toward Indigenous people.
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Miss Sayre
Pater Pepree
American Prudery and the Unconsciousness of Wrong
A Blakely Hall column denounces strict social codes for American women, praising independence seen in a matinee visit by Vassar students and contrasting old freedoms with modern prudery. The piece recounts bathing attire debates, hansom controversies, and a late opera house contact illustrating confident self reliance among American girls.
Narrow Escape From an Elephant Rampage on Tiger Hunt
An English party on a tiger-shooting expedition is startled by an elephant gone mad. One man, Mack, is trapped beneath a canvas canopy as the beast rages, then staggers away after the camp is crushed. The survivor recalls the desperate moments and his miraculous escape.
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Sahibs
Mack
Oxford
Valuable Paving A Solid Silver Wagon Road In Colorado
L T Stanley recalls the Horseshoes mine in Colorado building a three mile macadam road from locally mined rock. Over time dust revealed silver streaks within the road bed. Assays valued the road material at about 200 dollars per ton, making the costly route a lasting feature if the mines run dry.
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L. T. Stanley
Horseshoes
Colorado
Her Hat Waa Not New. Chicago Herald
Mr and Mrs Simpkins appear at the theater in a light exchange about a bonnet and politeness. Mrs S explains her joke about keeping the bonnet, while Mr S dismisses the notion as care for others pleasures not the motive.
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Chicago Herald
At a Chicago Wedding. Mr A Selenite bed in the world
Pris Bide Cone earns sixth in a witty remark about the occasion. Cauda notes the moment as a lighthearted wedding detail in Chicago.
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Pris
Cone
Cauda
How to Be a Beauty Delights in Dimple Purchases
A midcentury style guide extols facial harmony with measurements for eyes nose lips and jaw, compares classical beauty to Venus, and emphasizes skin teeth and hair care. It notes a cosmetic industry claim that a genuine dimple might be bought for a hundred dollars, recounting anecdotes of dimples altered by a physician and a woman who paid for a perfect effect.
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Eve.iys
Very Cold Draft in Chicago Office Joke
On a suburban train to Hyde Park last night two young men joked about a cold draft in the office. One says a draft there today gave every man in the offices a shiver. The punch line cites a bank and a $50,000 loss as the source, ending at the reader’s station.
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New York City
Chicago
Hyde Park
John
Hard on the Nene
A quirky note from New York Morning Journal describes a girl on Madison Avenue who wears a clothes-pin on her tie as a playful fashion quirk. The item signals street life eccentricity and local urban color.
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York Morning Journal
Madison Avenue
Maiton
Howe
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