The Meeting on the Strand in a London Drama
In May in London Jack Overton, an aspiring artist from Bohemia, spies Fedora in a lavish carriage and vows to win her. Mazette, a humble friend, warns that gold tests love as Overton plans to pursue Fedora despite a rival English captain, Maurice Stanton Livermore. They meet for tea at a restaurant after a tense exchange and an invitation to dinner.
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Jack
Bohemia
Bix
Ben
Jack Overton
Paris
Strand
London
Overton
Rotten Row
Fedora
Jay
Tro Tove
Booth
Fool's Paradise
Moloch
Mazette
Mr. Jack
Vardon
Marette
John Overton
Maurice Stanton Livermore
Horseguards
India
Captain Livermore
Antwerp
miniature painter encounter shocks Overton in Chancery Lane
Overton, seeking a supper patronage, encounters a striking figure in a hansom near Chancery Lane. Mazette’s cheery influence and Fedora’s perceived weakness collide as the momentous question of his patronage weighs on him.
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Overton
Fedora
Mammon
Mazette
Chancery Lane
The Spanish Peasantry in Chambers Journal View
A Chambers Journal sketch depicts Andalusian peasants as hopeful yet hard pressed under im posts. It notes modest meals and a family harmony as they toil for small wages, with the harvest laborer near Xeres earning sixpence a day plus bread to feed a family.
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Xeres
Noise and Arbitration News From Historic Clippings
A discussion on urban noise from trolley and steam engines argues for quieter transit while praising reforms. Pember Reeves calls compulsory arbitration a success with few labor strikes in six years. Berlin adopts a Chicago style telephone system after testing in Germany.
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Pember Reeves
New Zealand
Daily Mail
Chicago
Germany
Berlin
Sugar production and population trends in the 19th century
A field note reviews global sugar output rising from 1.9 million to 8.8 million tons between 1840 and 1900 while world population grows from about 950 million to 1.5 billion. It contrasts per‑capita sugar use in the United States from 22 pounds in 1850 to 68 pounds in 1901 and warns about beet and cane sugar shares. It also gives a cautioned, wartime‑era method for seed potato treatment using corrosive sublimate in water, with safety notes.
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United States
Wool Production by State Census Abstract
The Census Bureau summarizes wool and mohair production by state with fleeces shorn and weights in pounds. Colorado Idaho New Mexico Utah Wyoming show varying counts of fleece shorn and unwashed wool and hair values across farms.
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Census Bureau
Mexico
Utah
Colorado
Idaho
New Mexico
Hale
Wyoming
New Vegetable Veandzou Attracts French Academy Interest
A newly discovered plant named Veandzou captivates scientists led by M. Balland. The species, Glycine or vour L subterranea, grows in Intertropical Africa and parts of Asia. Its edible peas contain water, fat, amylaceous and fibrous content, suggesting strong nutritional value for man. Immediate cultivation steps are urged, with Algeria and European trials planned for colonial soldiers.
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M. Balland
French Academy of Sciences
Africa
Asia
America
Brazil
Lou
Europe
Algeria
Wool growers trust forming across the West
The Salt Lake Herald reports a wool growers trust is organized throughout the West with seventy Utah leaders already joining and many prominent wool growers in Montana and Idaho aligning with the effort. The group aims to abolish the middleman's profit and save costs for growers. The article also notes the President has nominated Charles W. Adams for postmaster at Gillett.
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Salt Lake
Charles W. Adams
Gillett
Deaf Blind Woman Financially Independent In Gary
Linnie Haguewood a deaf blind student from Gary Indiana is described as financially independent and training for work in a blind friendly print shop. She excels in stereotype making proofreading and book binding using Braille and a typewriter. Born October 12 1879 at Ida Grove Iowa she survived scarlet fever measles and meningitis in infancy.
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Linnie Haguewood
Helen Keller
West
Ida Grove
Horsewhipped Mayor of Topeka in Prohibition Protest
Miss Mary Boise, a radical Prohibitionist and lieutenant of Mrs. Carrie Nation, whipped Mayor Albert Parker of Topeka with a rawhide during a joint crusade. She had planned to horsewhip several officials but relented after friends intervened. Parker declined further comment, noting pressure from activists challenging liquor enforcement policy.
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Oman
Carrie Nation
Mary Boise
Albert Parker
Topeka
Kas
Miss Boise
Parker
Stanley
Hazen
Nichols
His Sacrifice Mrs Sinsit How Are You Breaking Husband
A quip in the Philadelphia North American features Mrs Newliwed boasting of her method to curb her husband George’s liquor habit. She claims the first victory came when she advised replacing whisky with water after every drink, prompting a promised reform.
Restoring the Constitution Costs More Than Original Build
The government spent 303,719 to acquire the frigate Constitution in Boston in 1797. Now estimates indicate 410,000 will be required to rebuild her, significantly exceeding the original construction cost.
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Constitution
Boston
Coal Allowance for Married London Constables
Married constables in the London police force receive forty pounds of coal each week throughout the year as part of their remuneration.
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London
Washington Letter Peculiar Parliamentary Parables
The piece zips through a Capitol scene with Prince Henry visiting the senate and a parade of odd anecdotes about lawmakers. It notes J Pierpont Morgan occupying a gallery seat, mentions various congressmen and their curls, barbershop collars, Louise Jones joining the cabinet circle, and vaccination tensions surrounding Fordney and his secretary’s son. It ends with humor on government carriages and honorary staff perks.
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Henry
Senate
J. Pierpont Morgan
Fowler
New Jersey
Congressman Joy
Congressman Burleson
Congressman Zenor
Oblo
Zenor
Wheeler
Kentucky
Dinsmore
Arkansas
Louise Jones
Payne
Joseph W. Fordney
Saginaw
Mich
Mies Louise Jones
Fordney
District Health Department
Senator Cullom
Roosevelt
Mr. Cullom
Twentieth Century Wonders and Civil War Reminiscence
A Civil War tale recounts a Virginian's Northern allegiance amid a Norfolk hospital scene where a Southern woman insults him for his shattered knee. Separately a Philadelphia Times interview praises the telephone as a modern wonder with a humorous anecdote about buying a policy on a “phe.”
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Admiral Evans
Fort Fisher
Norfolk
New York Timese
Philadelphia Times
Marconi
Santos-Dumont
Paris
England
Vegetarian novelties in hats replace animal decorations
In London the fashion notes the substitution of the rosy red tomato and French bean flowers for traditional wing and animal trims on ladies hats. The piece argues that wearing such substitutes to appear affectionate when indifferent harms character.
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Ronne's
London
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Hawley
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Treasury Department
Committee On Appropriations
Department
Treasury
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