Salvation Army Colonization Work Report Explores Rural Settlements
The Official Report on Salvation Army colonization discusses directing benevolence through a singular effort. Haggard is noted for varied projects from fiction to economic studies of American social conditions. The report covers three land settlements in California and Colorado aiding the poor with small farm tracts and housing.
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Salvation Army
H. Rider Haggard
Solomon's Mines
Finglish
Mext
America
Washington
California
Colorado
Salvation My
Amiske Bomes
H Rider Haggard on California Fort Romie and Colorado settlements
The text discusses Haggard’s views on reform settlements at Fort Romie in California and a Colorado site. He praises the missions’ aims to redeem inebriates and provide labor, noting mixed results but overall faith in low interest credit and philanthropic models to relieve urban poverty and create lasting gains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. Haggard
Fort Romie
California
Bert Ty
Colorado
Forts Romie
Ancient Adulteration Laws in English Markets
The text notes 18th century laws against adulteration in bedding goods and pilfered or fraudulent stuffing materials. It cites a statute dated October 2495 prohibiting sale of feather beds bolsters and stuffed articles using unlawful adulterants, with mentions of scalded ers and fen iows as substitutes.
Sound Advice for Men Delays in Domestic Life
A column argues men should share domestic life with wives beyond chores. It questions habits from leaving belongings to hiding feelings and urges men to treat wives as equals and colleagues, inviting daily intellectual engagement and mutual support.
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St. Paul
Longest Bridge In The World Named Lion Bridge
The Lion Bridge near Sanzong China claims the longest span with over 300 arches and extends five and a quarter miles over the Yellow Sea arm.
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Sanzong
China
Yellow Sea
Destruction of Counterfeit Money and Tools at Treasury
Secret Service officers destroy large quantities of counterfeit notes coins stamps and tools as the Treasury orders cleansing of contraband material. The process includes melting ingots burning dies and stamps and destroying foreign counterfeit oblations. It notes antiquated methods like sweating and warns many fakes remain in circulation.
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Secret Service
Secretary of the Treasury
Treasury
The
Wilkie
Navy Yard
Johnson-Hauncock
Brockway
Secret Service Bureau
United States
The Merganser Wild Duck in Nature Library Tales
A vivid natural history sketch of the merganser describing its striking green head, salmon breast, and saw bill. It notes its fish driven diet, remarkable diving ability, varied local names, and the hen’s devoted care while the drake abandons the nest as eggs hatch.
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Chamberlain
Nature Library
Charitable Admission Fees Raised by European Gossip
Expatriate millionaire James J. Van Alan plans to charge visitors to Rushton Hall 25 cents from abroad and 12 cents for non Northampton county excursionists, with all income split between a local infirmary and a planned social education center. The scheme aims to raise near $5,000 next year. The piece also notes European royals and nobles, including King Leopold of Belgium and royal customs on departures, plus a digested glimpse of religious riches in the US and Cleveland’s Bishop Horstmann.
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James J. van Alan
Duke of Westminster
Eaton Hall
Cheshire
Rushton Hall
van Alan
Newhamptonshire
Northampton
Leopold
Belgium
Tthomas S. Walsh
Washington
Colorado
French Riviera
Mesnes
Villefranche Sur Mere
Nice
Col du Caire
Henry Somerset
Humbert
Italy
Helen
Aosta
France
Lord Curzon
Inga
United States
Russia
Tate
Horstmann
Cleveland
Gordon
Giant Sequoia on display at Agriculture grounds
A Sequoia gigantea, the biggest tree in Washington and a major national landmark, stands on the Department of Agriculture grounds east of the Administration Building. Originating from Sequoia National Park, it was shown at the Chicago World’s Fair before arriving in Washington. The 20 foot diameter tree, named The General Noble, cost $10,000 to transport and features a spiral stairway to a viewing platform.
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Washington
National Capital
Department of Agriculture
Sequoia National Park
California
Chicago
All Year Weather Station Planned on Mount Tsukaba
Japan to open a year round meteorological station on Mount Tsukaba near Tokyo. Previously stations operated only in summer on high mountains since 1899. The new summit facility will provide continuous data.
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Japan
Mount
Tsukaba
Tokio
Rockefeller Seores in Japan Oil Cargo Sets Record
The British steamer Monarch, sailing from Philadelphia to Japan, carried 2 470 700 gallons of refined petroleum 100 barrels of lubricating oil and 1 200 cases of wax. It marks the largest oil cargo ever shipped from the United States.
Dress Made of Postage Stamps Wows Bermuda Ball
An American woman wore a ball dress at a Bermuda ball using 30 000 stamps. The gown features an eagle formed from brown Columbian stamps at the center of the breast, a globe from blue revenue stamps, blue and red flag stripes, a shield of foreign stamps on the bodice, a hat covered with red and blue stamps, a mask, and a pink stamped fan.
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Bermuda
Maestro’s Answer Spurs Quiet Adoration at Recital
Mrs Gaswell praises the last piece for wild freedom asking if it was the professor’s own work. The eminent musician, asked about originality, coolly replies he was simply putting a new string on his violin.
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D Pee Haggard
Fort Aniry
Myre
Hasecard
G. My
Uncle Sam
Chiey Wilkie
King Leopold OF
Winety
Boston
Pries
the Budgs? Company
Washington Street
Boston, Bass
Tigi
H. T
White Swine Hochine Co
Cleveland, Ohio
Pensions
Pension Bureau
Taber & Whitman CO
Warder Bid
Washington, D.C
A. 1. Root Co
Medina, Ohio
Simason
Hamlin Pianos and Organs
Foster
Western
Serapera
Aurora
Eisen Bend
National Photographic Chemical Company
St. and Penn Ave
Washington, D. C
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