Suspicious Question Delays Vegatarian Society Membership
A candidate for membership is asked a serious question before admission by the Vegatarian Association president. National Cuez of Padrella, Portugal, known as the Twenty-Four-Hour Man, has not slept for three months. Doctors fail to cure him and strong opiates have no effect. He works by day driving mules and by night serving as a watchman.
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The
Vegatarian Association
Natonie Cuez
Padrella
Portugal
Egyptians Used Fine Tools During Pyramid Build
Researchers describe ancient Egyptian laborers using solar and tubular drills with jewel-set bits to cut rock with keenness and precision, challenging common ideas about hardships during pyramid construction.
It Found Itself When Friend Fell Into Pit
A hospitable host guides a stroll through the grounds. A friend vanishes into a water filled hole and resurfaces. He jokes that the hole was found by it and not by him, keeping the tone light and cheerful.
Ancient Egypt finds reveal a two year apprenticeship in shorthand
Excavations in Egypt uncover a bomb-dated AD 100 indenture where a slave learns shorthand from a teacher for two years. The contract specifies 120 drachmas in total payment, about $22, for instruction in reading writing and the signs known to Elonyssos.
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Egypt
Elonyssos
Berkeley Hills Sentiment on Redwoods and Sacred Life
An evocative reflection on the Berkeley campus with a bay and hills panorama. The author contemplates planting redwoods and other trees to honor the landscape and ponders the hidden depth of a humbly perceived life, invoking John Ruskin.
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University of California
Berkeley
Bay
Discharging a Sixteen Inch Gun Versus a Cook
A witty remark notes that firing a sixteen inch gun would not make as loud a noise as firing a cook. The quip contrasts massive artillery with a domestic sound to comic effect. The line evokes exaggerated military jargon used for humor.
Quotations on Perception and Moral Action
A compact note presents two aphorisms on judgment and virtue. C M Stone links clear sight with proper action, while Sterne likens a pure mind to a polished surface that can reflect impurity without absorbing it.
Phrases on character and society from Ram's Horn
A collection of aphorisms on patience gratitude and belief. Lines discuss ancestors pride frugality temperance and the value of service. They suggest lasting virtue comes from modesty integrity and communal welfare over mere wealth or status.
Habit's Chain How Coffee Breaks Through Postum Story
A reader from Indiana shares how coffee caused lifelong dyspepsia and poor health. After switching to Postum, she reports improved digestion and no morning coffee cravings. The Postum Co. of Battle Creek promotes a small book called The Road to Wellville in each package.
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Indiana
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Httle
Wellville
New Grand Central to be world’s largest railway depot
The New York Central plans a Grand Central station in New York City costing about 50 million dollars. It will span nineteen city blocks with a 680 foot Vanderbilt avenue frontage and feature a modern layout for suburban traffic. The baggage room will cover 47 000 square feet.
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NEW York Railroad
New York Central
Grand Central
New York City
Vanderbilt Avenue
Future of the Chestnut as a Nutritious Alternative
The chestnut is presented as a highly nutritious and largely underused food compared with the potato. It contains less water, more proteid and sugar, and notably more fat, making it naturally richer and potentially more digestible than most nuts. The article notes chestnut trees can yield significant food, and envisions a future where chestnuts provide a reliable fallback during shifts to cold storage.
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England
United States
Grovwith of the Churches Shows Growth in 1904
Despite worries about creeds and lay diagnostic zeal the church proves vital with growth across denominations in 1904. Denominational statistics outpace population growth, and the pews remain steady even as pulpits debate theological puzzles.
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New York
Cost of Rural Free Delivery Growth and Route Expansion
In 1897 rural free delivery began on probation with 40000 dollars deemed enough for a trial. By the year ending June 30, 1901 expenditures reached nearly 13000000 dollars for rural free delivery. The current fiscal year has 20816600 dollars appropriated for continuation and extension. Rural routes rose from 24566 at year end to 380 last seen, with 9446 new routes started this year. By October 1, 1904 to 27185 routes existed, and growth continued at about 800 routes per month.
Mark Twain Taken Literally In Calcutta Library
A Calcutta library keeper classifies Mark Twain’s Extracts From Adam's Diary under path headings with the note Translated From the Original MS. The amusing misplacement shows uncertainty whether the work fits religion or philosophy.
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Mark Twain
United Service Goub
Calcutta
Adam
Reward and Recognition for Naval Rescuers
Caspar Whitney notes Congress often seeks tangible rewards for virtue. The Navy named Lieut. B. P. Bertholf Lieut. D. H. Jarvis and Surgeon S. J. Call for a 1897 rescue of 275 sailors. They traveled 1,600 miles overland to Point Barrow in midwinter to deliver aid. Eight years later they received gold medals worth $210 each from the government.
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Congress
Caspar Whitney
America
Secretary of the Navy
B. P. Bertholf
D. H. Jarvis
S. J. Call
Point Barrow
Hotel Solely for Children Opens in London
Countess Paulett lends patronage to a London Children’s hotel run by the Nordland Institute of Nurses. The facility offers individual suites with a student nurse per child, pricing from 12 dollars weekly and up to 100 dollars for babies in the feeding bottle stage, accepting only guests under eight years old.
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Countess Paulett
London
England
New London
Nordland Institute of Nurses
Miss Alice Robertson Named Muskogee Postmistress
Faithful in arduous task, Miss Alice M. Robertson was appointed postmistress at Muskogee, the Indian territory's principal town. Granddaughter of Rev. Dr. Worcester, a pioneer Cherokee missionary, she previously supervised Creek schools, often traveling remote routes, fording streams, and facing primitive facilities on challenging drives.
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Alice M. Robertson
Muskogee
Indian Territory
Worcester
Georgia
Woman Keeper Holds Santa Barbara Light Twenty Seven Years
The Santa Barbara lighthouse on the Pacific coast has been tended by Mrs. Julia F. Williams for thirty eight years. Appointed in 1865 to succeed her husband, she rarely leaves the tower, only two nights in twenty seven years, driving to Santa Barbara on Sundays for church. The 178 foot tower sends a white light visible seventeen miles at sea.
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Santa Barbara
Pacific
Franklin Pierce
Albert J. Williams
Julia F. Williams
Mrs Peary Declines Arctic Voyage For Safety
Mrs Peary will not accompany Lieut Peary on his next arctic trip. She is a hardy traveler but respects his wish to take unprecedented risks. She served as a valuable member of the expedition, showing strong courage and resolve under privation and danger.
Long Career of Bunko Master Tom O'Brien Recalls Crimes
Death of Tom O'Brien, famed confidence man and originator of the gold brick scam, recalls his career across two continents. A New York sweetheart funded an abortive rescue via a swift yacht off Cayenne, while O'Brien's long reign included political ties, lavish disguises, and a notorious murder for which he was sentenced to Cayenne for life.
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Tom O'Brien
Tom” Brien
Cayenne
Chicago
New York
Lim Annie Gray
O'Brien
New
O’brien
Wid” Waddell
Paris
Bunko
Getting Rich Slowly and the Value of Small Savings
The piece argues that wealth is built gradually like a stone wall, emphasizing the need to start saving even small amounts. It notes many people live up to their incomes with no rainy day fund and highlights that major financiers and institutions care for every penny.
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Troy Press
London Aristocrat Plans Winter Ascent of Rainier
F Augustus Moorhouse a London aristocrat arrives in Tacoma to climb Mount Rainier. He will travel to Paradise valley on the mountain’s south slope this week and remains until the ascent is finished despite Rainier’s fourteen glaciers.
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Mount Rainier
F. Augustus Moorehouse
London
England
Tacoma
Paradise Valley
Moorhouse
Alps
Rainier
Labouchere’s Christmas Gifts Doll Show Recalls Generosity
Henry Labouchere of London Truth oversaw his twenty fifth annual doll show. About 28 000 dolls and toys from readers were distributed to children in metropolitan hospitals workhouses infirmaries and poor law schools. An anonymous donor supplied 11 000 new sixpences for the recipients.
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Labouchere
Henry Labouchere
London Truth
Don’t Marry Till I Come
A humorous Liverpool Mercury item tells of a farmer who misses his wedding train after meeting friends. He stays hopeful and sends a telegram to his bride elect reading Don't marry till I come attributed to William, reflecting a lighthearted note on wedding day delays.
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William
Liverpool
Eng
Mercury
Young and short senators edge aside aging upper house
The Washington Post notes the senate tilts younger as Hemenway of Indiana at 44 and Beveridge at 42 join the body. Dick of Ohio at 46, Knox at 51, Crane at 51, and Nevada candidate George S Nixon near the shortest, yet noted for ability.
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Senate
Hemenway
Indiana
Beveridge
Ohio
Hanna
Knox
Crane
Massachusetts
Nevada
Georges. Nixon
Congress
Washington Post
Samar Disaster Report Details Pulajane Uprising
Gen Corbin reports on Samar uprising with deaths of Lieut Hayt and 37 scouts at Dolores. Attacks near Oras leave 1 hospital corpsman dead and 12 scouts wounded, five missing. Towns face threats from about 1000 Pulajanes. Abbott seeks help while government offers aid.
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Corbin
Samar
Stephen K. Hayt
War Department
Oras
Philippine Scouts
Dolores
George F. Abbott
Archbishop Ireland And The Bantering Joke
A humorous anecdote about Archbishop Ireland who dresses simply. While traveling a rural road a cheerful woman asks if he is a priest. He quips that he is no longer a priest, and she responds with a compassionate, wry line about the Lord helping us and drink.
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Archbishop Ireland
Ireland
Belated Receipt for a Slave Found in Arkansas Letter
A Shenandoah seedsman received a 1832 receipt from Wabbaseka Arkansas for a slave girl named Charlotte. The document, dated Sept 3 1832, lists $576 in cash and states the girl is about 14 or 15 and a slave for life with warranty and defense of all claims. The enclosure was reported by the New York World.
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J. R. Ratckin
Shenandoah
Seedsman
Wabbenska
Ark
John Roberts
Charlotte
Joseph W. Hill
New York World
Buffalo Bill Plans Move to France and Exit from Wild West Show
The article suggests William F. Cody known as Buffalo Bill may expatriate to France to become a citizen and hand over the Wild West show to younger hands. It reports he plans to take the show to Europe in February and may stay in France if his wife’s divorce suit and other matters are resolved.
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Buffalo Bill
France
William F. Cody
Cody
Europe
America
Tribute to Oklahoma’s soil and climate yields
A Grant county farmer faced drought so he replaced wheat with corn to save moisture. Planting corn produced about thirty five bushels per acre, wheat averaged 18.25 and corn 10.50 dollars per acre, totaling 28.75 dollars per acre or 915 dollars for thirty acres. The Kansas City Times cites this as proof of Oklahoma’s soil potential.
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Oklahoma
S. M. McHarg
Grant County
Kansas City Times
To Preserve Cider Cask Preservation Method
A tip from Southern Farm Magazine explains if cider remains in a partly empty cask a quart of tasteless oil such as olive or peanut oil should be poured on top. The oil coats the surface forming a film that blocks acetic and putrefactive ferments in the air.
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Southern Farm Magazine
Humorous Coding of Family Dinner Table Exchange
A witty exchange between a daughter and mother about inviting a rural uncle to a reception. The daughter recalls the uncle’s blunt questions about a Louis XIV chair and whether Louis was a good chairmaker, revealing a light, dry humor in family dynamics.
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Louis
New Longest English Word Found by Drugist
An enterprising druggist claims to have discovered what is believed to be the longest English word. The term ortho-ethoxy-ana mono-benzoyl-amido-quinolin is presented as the correct scientific name for a well known proprietary medicine.
Steel fishing rods gain popularity over bamboo
Steel fishing rods reach high perfection and are sold widely as replacements for bamboo rods. They are praised for portability and better balance.
Shouting Their Praises of Dad's Kidney Pills
Kirkland Indiana January 2 Special tale of Richard R Greenan long crippled by rheumatism who praises Dad's Kidney Pills after relief. He says pain kept him from walking more than ten to fifteen rods, he slept poorly, and doctors offered little help until he used the remedy. After fourteen boxes his rheumatism vanished and he feels better than in twenty five years.
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Kirkland
Richard R. Greenan
Jeenbon
Ilyas
Dicine
Dodd
Chemistry on Railways and the Role of Chemistry Labs
A railway system maintains expert chemists and laboratories to study chemicals relevant to railroad economics. The article notes that chemistry on railways, while unlikely in public view, governs important operations and mi chemical research drives efficiency and cost decisions.
Cuticura Soap and Ointment Promoted for Skin Care
Millions use Cuticura products for preserving and soothing skin, cleansing crusts and scales, stopping falling hair, whitening hands, and soothing rashes. The advertisement highlights their use on babies and for general toilet and nursery care.
Origin of Jeum Sparks Debate on Fossil or Chemical Cause
The article notes a shift from the belief that Jeum originates from fossil vegetation or ancient animals to a theory that it may result from organic chemical action. It highlights a debate among scholars about whether the substance is fossil in origin or formed by chemical processes.
Uncoma H Ic hair treatment ad from Omaha paper
An ad from The Uncompany in Omaha promotes a hair treatment promising a refined look. It invites readers to send for a free sample and emphasizes good taste and personal grooming.
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Omaha
Fragmented OCR Text on Language, Advertisements, and Miscellany
A garbled collection notes about languages and dialects, Brazilian vocabularies, Nabua language, plus unrelated product ads and stray phrases. Includes references to cures, medicines, and miscellaneous comment lines from an 19th century or early 20th century page.
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