Havana Cigar Rush Before Tariff Sparks Street Gaggle
The rush for Havana cigars before the tariff taxed imports triggers wholesale sales and frenzied retail buying in New York. Buyers snap up stock, sample brands, and face high prices while wholesalers profit from the surge and stock risk. A new self lighting cigar device draws scrutiny for safety and health concerns.
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Havana
Charles T. Murray
New York
Dispatch
Acker, Merrill & Condit
Park & Tillard
Novel tobacco pipe with removable deaning plug innovation
Charles Angus of Albans introduces a tobacco pipe with a small transverse plug through the bowl designed to control stem deactivation when desired. The plug’s cutaway under the bowl allows the stem to extend from the mouthpiece in a straight line for use or adjustment.
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Charles Angus
Albans
Novel Pipe Design and Nose Smoking Dangers Highlighted
A description of a new pipe mechanism explains how a plug directs smoke from bowl to mouth and how a boll ture aids cleaning. The piece then warns on blowing smoke through the nose, citing drying of the throat and nasal passages, potential loss of smell, eyesight, and even hearing if habit persists.
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Boston
Taxed tobacco and illicit whisky notes in old column
A casual observer recalls a cigar maker showing how Sumatra tobacco costs rose after new duties, while an iron factory forewarns of illicit activity. The piece also mentions an elderly Pole named Andrew Aranofski connected to an illicit snuff mill.
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Iarerr
Andrew Aranofski
Snuffers as a Sign of Grace
A moderate minister visits a Free Church elder who teases him about snuff. The elder jokes that snuffing is a sign of grace, citing the temple snuffers of pure gold as evidence, prompting surprised but amused agreement from the visitor.
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Free Church
Free Kirk
Money in the Weed: New Yorker Reports Tobacco Belt Lending
A New Yorker visiting North Carolina reports a banker stating over $750,000 in loans across three counties while farmers suffer, noting most funds are used by tobacco growers to back fledgling manufacturers rather than land loans.
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North Carolina
New York Star
New York
New Yorker
Preserves the Teeth Despite Tobacco Claims
A New York Herald dentist concedes smoking may slow decay due to heat and nicotine's germicidal effect but warns of serious mouth diseases. He notes gum degeneration, pyorrhea, bone loss, and potential nicotine poisoning from suction and saliva changes, urging cleanliness as the main safeguard.
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New York Herald
Smuggling, Electricity, and a Smoking Monkey Tale
Stacks of steamers from the West Indies have hidden cigars in the past, with crews smuggling under watchful eyes. A New York Star report notes a cigar counter experiment using electric light to ignite matches, while Dr. Holmes discusses tobacco and alcohol use. A Philadelphia Inquirer item tells of a cigar shop monkey named Jocko who imitates lighting cigarettes.
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West Indies
New York Tribune
Coney Island
Kemmler
New York Star
The
Philadelphia Inquirer
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Lord Wolseley Gave Up Smoking After Tel el Kebir Debauch
The Pall Mall Gazette notes Lord Wolseley smoked from boyhood to old age, then ceased for periods, and after victory at Tel el Kebir lit six cigars in a single moment on the canal bridge. The account portrays his long struggle and final quit.
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Lord Wolseley
Mr.Stead
Pall Mall Gazette
Tel-el- Kebir
Rise in tobacco price spurs Spanish gift style
The New York Sun notes rising tobacco costs push adoption of Spanish gift etiquette. It suggests a gentleman offering a cigar should invite the other to be served, but one should politely refuse if not inclined, avoiding hard feelings among friends.
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Philadelphia Press
London
Chestnut Street
New York Sun
Unique tobacco stem processing venture in St Louis
A writer in the St Louis Globe-Democrat describes a local entrepreneur who makes a sheep-wash from tobacco stems shipped to Australia. The man contracts with tobacco factories to take all stems and runs them through a proprietary machine that removes leaf fragments. The machine, kept secret in a locked box, yields a profitable, unmatched process.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Australia
Belts Tight in Police Work Blamed for Suffering
Brooklyn citizens report widespread complaint among police as tight belts worn on duty allegedly harm livers and cause illness. Officers claim narrow belts and club equipment contribute to sickness. a former department surgeon warned belts were detrimental to men’s health.
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Brooklyn
Lister
Electric World Highlights from the Era of Modern Currents
A look at the rise of electric light and power facing early resistance and improving safety. Notes on insulated ocean cables and the danger of insulation flaws. Electricity aids photography and aerial surveying, with church services transmitted by telephone experiments. Chicago subway ventilation reduces explosions and a London yard robbery prevention via electric lighting. A contractor uses an electrical knocker to scare a buyer into selling.
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Brophy
Electric Light and Power
Barrett
Electrical Department
Chicago
New York
Board of Electrical Control
Broadway
City Hall
London
Ard
Boston Tests Port Electric For Elevated Rail Travel
The Porteric electric system advances in Dorchester with tests showing potential to replace steam on elevated lines. An engineer notes theoretical speeds up to two miles a minute, but real conditions delayed. a 60 mile per hour result suggests future viability for long distance urban transport despite insulation and curve challenges.
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Boston
New York
Dorchester
Dolbear
Portelectric Company
Port Electric
A French Balloon Expedition to the North Pole
A French scientist plans a polar aerial voyage using a 30 meter diameter hydrogen balloon with 14 121 cubic meters of capacity and a special varnish. The expedition aims to start from Spitzbergen and reach North America or northern Asia in four to five days.
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North Pole
Spitzbergen
North American
Asia
Lawrence Hargrave
Sydney
New South Wales
Hargrave
Brotherhood
Progress in photography and the standard of beauty
A Breslau professor uses photography to diagnose eye diseases. Fischer photographs luminous bacteria by their own light showing constant movement. A Paris anthropologist catalogs mankind with photos, contending women preserve origin types better. he plans to select beautiful women. A photographer seeks submissions of portraits to form a nineteenth century standard of beauty for posterity.
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Breslau
Fischer
Paris
Ale
Smoking rooms spread across passenger trains change travel
Opinion shifts on rail car layouts show smoking rooms expanding from chair cars to day coaches. Several major roads equip nearly every car with a smoking compartment, with some second class day coaches also adapted.
Chicago Architect Invents Temporary Overstreet Hose Bridge
An architect from Chicago proposes a temporary bridge to carry fire hose over streets at a height that clears streetcars and traffic. Reportedly tested successfully in San Francisco and Denver, the device aims to end travel stoppages caused by hose crossings during fires.
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Chicago
San Francisco
Denver
New Domestic Meat Chopper Uses Scissor Like Cut
A novel meat chopping device for home use trims meat with a scissors style shearing action rather than tearing or grinding. A forcing screw feeds the meat to an eight blade rotor between a stationary two blade knife and a specially designed plate with grooves converging to the center.
Sausage Stuffing Machine Delivers Four Pounds Per Minute
A medium sized machine can produce four pounds of filled sausages per minute. The device works quickly with sharp cutting edges along the ribs between the grooves ensuring efficient processing.
Smokeball and stinkpots change war methods with new fumes
The Portsmouth sham fight described a smokeball obscuring advancing troops as they held noses to avoid suffocation. Proposals suggest expanding chemical warfare with an unconsciousness bomb and similar devices. A Vienna scientist claims a radius affecting those nearby. A far older plan involved poisonous roses used to devastate land, once kept secret in war office records.
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Portsmouth
William
Vienna
War Office
England
Test for life after fainting cited by Dr B W Richardson
Dr B W Richardson notes a scarlet glow test behind a hand to show life is not extinct but warns it is not foolproof. He recounts a syncope case with no red contact yet full recovery. He lists stronger proofs such as pulsation respiration pressure on veins electric muscular irritability ammonia test vein clotting rigor mortis and decomposition signs.
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Niagara Valle
B. W. Richardson
Richardson
A Simple Ear Tube for Detecting Irregular Machinery Noises
A straightforward method uses a yard long India rubber gas tube held to the ear, the opposite end moved over machine surfaces to trace and localize slight noises. The device highlights vibrations from small, hard to reach parts, aiding observers in busy workshops.
New Process Converts Cotton Waste Grease into Ink
Researchers report that grease from cleaned cotton waste, long thrown away, can be transformed into first class printing ink. One ton of waste yields about 1,400 pounds of oil. after mild treatment it becomes high quality ink at reduced cost. The method uses steam chambers and bisulphate of carbon to release oil and grease, which are distilled into varnish and then ink.
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Willis Avenue
Detroit
Mich
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Aluminum or Aluminium Debate Quietly Resolves
The article argues that the metal should be named aluminum, backed by major global producers and American journals. It says aluminum offers brevity and urges foreign scientific journals and scientists to adopt the term once and for all.
Glass making advances in dipping bath cleaning process
A new window glass production improvement uses dipping sheets into a large bath of liquids. The method instantly cleans dirt and detects imperfections, yielding glass as clear and pure as before the flattening oven.
Guardians of the body the phagocytes in blood
In a report from Newcastle an early summary explains how phagocytes or white blood cells patrol the body. They move freely and engulf bacilli, preventing infection unless guard cells relax, allowing parasites to invade and threaten life.
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Sir Henry Roscoe
M. Pasteur
Paris
M. Metschinikoff
Asell
England Teachers Pension Plan Revived by National Union
The Executive of the National Union resumes the push for an England elementary teachers pension fund. They propose a bill to implement a state backed scheme giving pension rights to teachers and securing long term retirement benefits.
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England
Nation Union
Westinghouse Travels By Private Car and Yacht for Business
George Westinghouse of the Westinghouse Air Brake Company travels widely across the United States for business. He uses a special car named the Gien Eyre and a steam yacht that serves as an experiment platform for testing inventions. The yacht is regularly reengineered, with engines changed within weeks, as improvements are tested on trips.
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George Westinghouse
Westinghouse Air Brake Company
New York
J. Westinghouse
Gien Eyre
Westinghouse
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