White River landowners content in isolated Upper country
An observer extols the Upper White River region from Newport Arkansas to Carthage Missouri, praising small landowners as self governing and thriving amid ideal conditions. He warns migration may erode independence as railroads and finance encroach, while noting vast natural resources and future immigration by those seeking simpler homes. The piece also describes extraordinary palm leaves and other tropical flora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
White River
Newport
Ark
Carthage
Angie Baxon
Temperate
Immense Stor Plates Reported for Cunorder Ship
The article describes shell and boilers for Cunorder built at Waltsond Enelast. Consul Metcalf notes construction uses the largest steel plates in the world, silicon steel weighing ten tons, with bailers weighing over 1100 tons. Massive ingotsa plates of 12 and 14 tons pass through rolling mills continuously.
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Waltsond
Enelast
Consul Metcalf
Selected Recipes Cream of Pumpkin and Other Soups
A vintage cookbook style list of soups and preparations including cream of pumpkin, consommé with rice, macaroni, oxtail bouillon, barley soup, cream of fowl, carrot soup, white kidney bean soup, and velvet soup with steps, ingredients, and cooking times. Contains measurements, stock, and finishing touches.
Defilement Warning On Ash Tray Reaches England
A fragment from a German import ash tray warns that defiling a room with ash is forbidden and violators face irrevocable house arrest. The text also mentions weekly express trains from Vindi vostok to Europe and a Berlin Paris London journey timeframe.
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England
Germany
Expres
Vindivostok
Europe
Berlin
Paris
London
Woman recounts cannibal feast amid Pacific peril
Miss Beulah Tuthill, 80, a Methodist missionary, told at a camp meeting how she witnessed eleven sailors killed and eaten by cannibals on cannibal islands near New Ireland. A German gunboat rescued her as cannibals pursued in a fleeing canoe, with shellfire scattering the attackers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Beulah Logan Tuthill
Desplaines
Caroline Islands
Carolines
Sidney
Australia
Aragui
New Ireland
Miss Tuthili
Plecea
Daughter of Showman Imitates Wild Person at Fair
At the Hagerstown fair Congressman Watson and friends witnessed a side show claiming a Filipino girl chained to a post and fed scraps. The keeper later confessed the girl was his daughter and the incident prompted Watson to seek action from the prosecuting attorney to stop the exhibition.
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Hagerstown
Ind
Watson
Hagerstown Fair
Porilla
Congressman Watson
Society For Prevention of
A Birthday Custom Keeps Growing With Trees and Joy
A family observes a birthday custom of planting a tree for each child on the first birthday and continuing yearly. By the tenth birthday a festival centers on the trees, with a lawn procession and a tree planting the climax. The birthday child may choose the number of trees and even hosts a tree themed refreshment. The tradition inspires careful attention to the trees and is described as inexpensive and emulable.
Tea varieties listed with fragrant flavors and brands
A fragment mentions Jean and various teas including Oolong and Ceylon. It notes fragrant qualities and brands like Hix Binds and N de Uyson in a promotional style. The exact items are unclear due to garbled OCR but center on tea types and selling phrases.
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Boussy Jean
N de Uyson
Ceylon
Sanitary Nose Bags for Horses in England Prices Listed
Consul Grifiths of Liverpool reports that sanitary, ventilated nose bags for horses vary by quality and cost. Cocoa fiber bags sell for three shillings each, leather-bottomed for 4s 6d, leather-cornered for 3s 6d, and extra fine mantle bags at 1.09 dollars each.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Grifiths
Liverpool
Travel ads and colonial ramblings from an old paper
A fragmented note praises Governor William Macgregor of Newfoundland, then a travel ad for the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe lines and a Salt Lake City contact. It cites London water trends with an artesian well at Clements Inn near the Strand, bored three months to 450 feet, signaling independent water sourcing.
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William Macgregor
Newfoundland
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Colorado
Kansas City
St. Joe
Chicago
Galveston
el Paso
Mexico
C. F. Warren
F. Ry
Dooly Block
Salt Lake City
Utah
London
Clements’ Inn
Strand
Newspaper Museum in Aix-la-Chapelle Founds Archive
At Aix-la-Chapelle a newspaper museum founded by Oscar von Forckenbeck holds files from more than 17,000 different newspapers, preserving historical editions and specimens for research.
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Aix-la-Chapelle
Oscar von Forckenbeck
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White River Country
Amasan
DODDS
Kidney
US Atald
Miss Tuthill
Canot
Sallory
Haute
Armiy Ellering
McCurrick
International Harvesters
Myers
Matorke
Atsale Lake City
Osten
Logas
Idaho Falls
Montpelier
Minho
Ural
Idaho
Wyoming
Cield
Honews
Ture
Consolidated Wagon & Machine Company
George T. Odell
ITH
W. S. McCorwick
Pamaioanr
Vier Omer Melvin
Wells
SacawTanr
Ain ST
Haiva. Assay, Iin
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