Riverdale Water Ordinance Details Fees and Penalties
The document outlines monthly billing for meter water, shutoffs after 30 days, and penalties for unpermitted usage. It sets rules on leakage, waste, and reconstruction costs, plus liens on property for unpaid rents and the authority to cut off supply for violations. It lists extensive rate schedules for residences, businesses, and various facilities, and establishes enforcement, repeal, and publication provisions.
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Board of Trustees
Riverdale
Water Committee
Superintendent of Water
Bald Deta Saber
Cochineal Nearing End, Diguet Warns of Dye’s Decline
M Leon Diguet, long study of Mexico’s cochineal industry, predicts scarlet dye will become history like Tyrian purple. Insects fed on nopal cactus yield dried females for dye, with 70 000 insects per pound and chloride of tin fixing color. Spaniards first exploited the insect in 1518, Europe 1523, India 1795. now few plantations remain, risking extinction unless a substitute feed found.
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M. Leon Diguet
Mexico
Europe
India
Cazaca
Humboldt
And the Pilgrim Left
Dialogue depicts a wary encounter with a dangerous boat dory as Mrs Hawkins and a man discuss trust and a trial claim. The exchange hints at a perilous frontier mood and a test of the vessel or its keeper before venturing aboard.
End of an Old Superstition in New York
An elderly New Yorker recounts a country boy myth about tossing a coin to claim property in Manhattan. He tested with a three-cent piece after arriving broke, tossing it over a front-of-house line and later securing the two-story brick lot. He notes that fortunes no longer hinge on coin tosses, and those betting on the Singer Building would be in a dire position.
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New York
Singer
Burdens of Liberty
Quote from The Christian Register praising liberty and the burdens it bears on the strong and free, contrasted with the tasks of the slave. The text frames liberty as a heavy duty carried by those who are strong, wise, and free.
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Christian Register
Irish kinship in foreign service spans empires and seas
The article highlights Irish influence abroad from Peter Lacy serving Peter the Great to Sir Robert Hart in China. It notes Irish ancestry among Russian nobles and other roles in Russia and eastern lands, arguing centuries of Irish mobility and national identity through distant careers.
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Russia
de Hardt
William
Boyne
Argument Defined by Two People Preventing Truth
A concise reflection states that an argument is two people trying to keep one another from discovering the truth, attributed to Life.
Meerschaum Pipe Save On Atlantic City Rescue
Joseph McKee twenty years old saved John Fredericks in rough Atlantic City surf while holding his first meerschaum. He swam through breakers to pull Fredericks unconscious to shore and aided resuscitation as a cheering crowd watched. After the rescue he worried about his pipe’s color, drying it at home.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Joseph McKee
John Fredericks
McKee
Fredericks
New Neighbor Causes School Morning Delay
A boy Harold tells his mother he met the new neighbor who moved in next door. She notes he was thirty minutes late for school, and the boy recalls the neighbor never goes to school at all. The exchange captures a humorous domestic moment.
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Harold
Real “Daughter” Is Found in Georgia Cabin
Mrs. Mary Trawick Proctor aged 111, a daughter of the Revolution, lives in a Bartow county one room cabin with her daughter Miss Mary Proctor and two great great grandchildren. Born in 1800 in Wake County NC, she married Hiram Proctor, veteran of the Revolution and War of 1812, and has lived under twenty five presidents. Her pension and meager cotton patch labor support a sparse life as Atlantans begin a fund drive for the two aged women.
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Atlanta
Mary Trawick Proctor
Bartow County
Mary Proctor
Proctor
Wake County
N. C
Hiram Proctor
Modernized Axiom on Teaching and Tuition Risks
A ready made philosopher notes fixperience as the best teacher while a Wall Street writer with pen troubles warns that 1.6 4 so liable to go broke paying the first installment in tuition.
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Wall Street
Pfst
Also Mentioned on This Page
Eile See
Ccc Eee
Ceee
Chemical Laboratory
A. G. Wilkens
A. D
F. W. Schmidt
William F. Propper
EF. W. Schmidt
Village of
Pilgrim
Mrs Hawkins
Lesa
China
Sir Robert Hart
Celestial Empire
Meerschaum
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