Bread in China and street vending customs
In Peking and other Chinese cities bread peddlers sell bread in varied forms from strapped backs to front trays. Vendors cry for customers while Mohammedan and other carts display emblems. Bakers and shops are open to dust with few partitions, offering cakes, oil breads, and moon festival hare cakes.
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Ching Pone
Pleman
Mentsiu
Ali Baba
Ratte
Peking
Celestial Empire
Shanetung
Tate
China
Thriftier Than Thou The Economy Of Nature
A London Answers essay mocks thrifty science by claiming chemists repurpose scraps into luxury uses. Horse shoe nails become swords and dyes, beer barrel hoops become ink, tinker chippings and hoof parings dye gowns, port dregs become powder, street offal and coal gas byproducts flavor foods and perfumes.
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London
Veterinary inspection protects value in horse purchases
A foreign exchange writer urges buyers to use a qualified veterinary surgeon before purchasing a horse. Amateurs may spot obvious faults but lack thorough knowledge of anatomy and structure. A daily examining veterinarian conducts a systematic, full evaluation to uncover manifest unsoundness and detect incipient issues.
Never lose your grip on yourself in adversity
The passage urges that while some cues falter under pressure, true resilience lies in maintaining inner control. It contrasts hopeless despair with hopeful virtue, saying some people fail only when they surrender their self to defeat. The message emphasizes clinging to self-command as priceless and essential.
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Nan
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Oak branches reveal powder post beetle larvae in pines
In wooded pin oak growths the branches show broken ends with a central hole plugged by beetle powder post frass. Split branches to reveal white larvae or inactive pupae awaiting emergence, a sign of infestation by powder post beetles in oaks.
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Niehokus
The Quest of Beauty and Michel Angelo's Mastery
A fragmentary review contrasts a sensational tale of extreme beauty via torture with a note on Michel Angelo's achievement in the Sistine Chapel. It highlights a French saying about suffering for beauty and cites the sculptor’s struggle and triumph at Rome, noting the vast scope of the ceiling project and its dramatic expressions.
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Wicehand Angelos
Miele Angelo
Johan II
Sistine Chapel
Rome
Michael Angelo
Jeremilas
Charles 1
St. Nicholas
Sailors Adopted Washable Collars For Clean Appearance
The London Standard notes that long ago sailors wore hair in pigtails and coats collected grease from hair causing dirty backs. An order led to detachable washable collars to keep uniforms tidier.
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Jack Tars
London
Forgetting as mental calisthenic and health aid
The passage argues that forgetting wrongs and petty irritations preserves mental energy and benefits the body. Holding grudges drains memory, disrupts digestion and sleep, and weakens health, while deliberate forgetting acts as exercise and medicine for overall well being.
Conversation on ancient vigilance and ruins
A humorous dialogue contrasts ancient vigilance with modern progress. A quip about discovering ruins of an old retail dry goods store appears in Brooklyn Life, reflecting playful banter rather than a news event.
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Brooklyn
A Candid Ceritle Takes Aim at Critics
An overheard exchange hints at a writer defending their latest work as the worst ever while thwarting a critic’s accusation. The dialogue frames a debate over literary merit and public reception with sharp wit.
Narotic Dialogue Echoes Rural Humor
A classroom exchange plays on a familiar narcotic joke as a pupil hesitates while the teacher probes about a father’s pipe. The pupil answers that his mother says it smells of hayseed, but he guesses leather, yielding a rustic comic moment.
The Telegraph Directory Page Snapshot in Sidney Nebraska
Directory style listing with county officers village trustees school board and numerous fraternal and church groups. It records names such as Norris Brown and H M Grimes along with local officials and societies including the Evangelical Lutheran Church Methodist Episcopal Church Dunkard Church and fraternal orders like Woodmen of the World and Odd Fellows in Sidney.
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American Camera Mfg. CO
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Rochester, N. Y
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Jody Mithard Omathis
Sinth District
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James Tucker
Sidney
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Frank X Rilen
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Jo W. Nelson
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V.C. CG. Cnamons
Frank Ackerman
M. W We. Shoemaker
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