Annam Customs Mark Enduring Life Ceremonies Across Ages
Curious beliefs of the Chinese stock influence life rituals in Annam as described by French observers. Six major rites mark key life events from puberty to ancestral worship, with ceremonies conducted by family heads and elders, featuring symbolic impositions and festive gatherings.
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Annam
Oeserve
ML Ueory
ML Westrey
Hevns Scientifique
Terites
Theo
Popular Science Monthly
Terrible aphids threaten human race in a year warned
A sensational account explains aphids or plant lice breeding at incredible speed and weighing nearly two million grains in ten broods. If unchecked they could consume all vegetable matter in a year and cause a global famine, with the eye catching demonstration highlighted by a reporter and entomologist.
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Loors
N.Y
Handkerchiefs Offered at Remarkably Low Prices
Charming linen handkerchiefs dominate this Brooklyn Eagle item with many embroidered designs and borders. Prices range from nineteen cents to one dollar fifty, highlighting fine linen, drawn work, hem stitching, and colored borders for adults and children.
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Brootlyn Eagle
Salmon Canning Methods for Worldwide Markets
Describes salmon canning processes detailing dressing, washing, cutting, filling, and layering into cans. Explains pressing, crimping, soldering, testing, boiling, drying, and final sound checks by two workers. Notes high daily outputs and quality controls amid housekeeping remarks.
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Tay Pei
Housekeeping
Miscellany of oddities and jokes from era papers
A collage of light items and anecdotes on animals, inventions, humane work, a Kentucky sheep breeder, a New York mending bureau, a Swiss invented watch for the blind, a Brooklyn cellar rat episode, a black walnut fake, and railroad safety quips. Includes humor from Toronto Globe Boston Budget Omaha World and New Man Independent.
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West Fallowfield
Can
Toronto Globe
Mary
George
Boston
Omaha
Illinois Humane Society
Chicago
Charlie
New York City
Ourpost
Naw York Sun
Futton Street
Brooklyn
Kings County
Newman
Power of Roborite Explosive Compared to Dynamite in Tests
Westphalian tests compare the German explosive roborite with dynamite. Reports claim roborite resists friction and blows, and can shatter steel plates more effectively in some setups while producing little flame. Engineers note it may aid coal blasting, though health effects of combustion products are disputed.
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Westphalia
Siemens-Martin
Zugiseer
Bank cashier fear and frail finance tale
Fragmentary 19th century collage describes bank heads doubting a new cashier who allegedly fled a Canadian bank with 200000, warnings of a later Canada escape, and a tone of wary skepticism about trust and criminal folly amid advertisements for patent medicines and periodical notices.
Eye Water Druggists Sell It By Dr Isaac Thompson
A fragment notes a remedy called Eye Water prescribed by or associated with Dr Isaac Thompson. It mentions druggists selling the product. The text presents a historic advertisement style claim about an eye remedy and its availability.
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Isaac Thompson
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