Trade Briefs of Interest Across Nations and Sectors
American wallpaper sells in Scotland while Spanish dealers seek American agricultural machinery. A sulphite pulp mill to 30 000 tons yearly rises in Finland. Indian acreage for 1916 17 grows 142 percent to 625 900 acres. Sierra Leone palm oil exports 481 570 gallons valued at 225 101, mostly to the U K. Plows needed in Italy with opportunity for American agri implements. China plans an American backed electric lighting plant in Kaying with 3880 capacity. Northern railway fuel depots in Costa Rica to be supplied by a Mexican based American firm. The seraphine, a keyed instrument, preceded the harmonium. Lightning struck a Lansford Pa pole thrice in a storm. Seventy five percent of German women in metal trades work ten hours or more daily. Harrison Walton of Philadelphia marks fifty years as a public school teacher. Japanese Bow receivers for silk neckwear offer from U S exporters. President Poincare collects photos of English Victoria Cross winners. In Ceylon the largest pearls fetch 200 to 250 dollars, higher elsewhere. Brazilian rubber tree seeds yield a substitute for linseed oil used by British paintmakers. An Arkansas man dies after a mule bite. An internal combustion locomotive of German invention reaches high speeds. A watch gains a dry battery night readout. German cattle fodder scarcity lowers milk output but not fat content.
Three Things to Work For and Live By
A Canadian bulletin lists sets of threes on work and virtue. It urges profit, honor, temper, life, courage, love, and beauty in a motto tone, praising frankness freedom and a cheerful spirit while condemning doneness torquacity flippant feeling.
Ireland's Coal, Factories and Rail Plans Reported
A scrambled world brief notes Ireland expanding coal efforts and irrigation in Siam. It mentions a paper factory for Riberia and Irish coal sales. Pianos produced in New Zealand. Glendale Oregon gains electric street lighting. Mexico eases food imports as Frazil begins lumber exports to the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Siam
Riberia
Flashlight reflections on widows and reformers
A pithy column notes that many men are knocked flat by a stunning widow and that a real gentleman is used to wealth without bragging. It argues reforming others is easier than self reform and muses on appearances guiding trust toward the honest seeming man.
New Inventions Highlighted in Brief Notes
A snippet reports on German bicycle innovation and new coat hanger tips. It mentions road work savings, a butter spoon with a strainer, and a glance at historical tonnage figures rising from 88 to 220 thousand tons over ten years.
Says the Owl and idle men in the crowd
The text jokes about idle men with nothing to do and the idea of objections leading to a bumper crop. It questions fortunes and bottom dollars as a foundation for wealth, reflecting a satirical tone about money and work.
Homemade Philosophy and Liberty Blended Reflections
A compact meditation on liberty of body mind and soul. The piece contrasts invasion with tax evasion and notes the sweetness of stolen fruits of labor. It observes babies’ futures as enigmas, urges doing more than duty, and likens difficulties to steps up a mountain with risks at the peak.
Fragmented riddle verse from Pittsburgh Gazette-Timen
A garbled poem passage mentions a sweet lady among pine apples and a blender tree with one leaf. It describes two boats and two princes separated by a mountain, with crying linked to the eyes and a clock cue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Difseult
Pittsburgh Gazette-Timen
Sage counsel on patience and perseverance in work
The text urges patience as key to happiness and warns that pleasure seeking is hard labor. It suggests learning valuable truths from enemies, staying engaged despite setbacks, and notes there is no failure in good work. Many battles once lost are won in the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cantul
Cardus
Words of Wise Men on Virtue and Habit
A collection of maxims on character and behavior stresses good breeding as a shield, love as a guiding force, and habit as a self woven anchor. It argues that complacent people do nothing while the dissatisfied drive progress.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Johnnie M. Jones
Beaver, Oda
J. W. Steffen Auctioneer
Sale Paper Negotiated
Lakemp
W. L. Mason
the Wheat Helt Investment. Co
Kansas
Liberal
Thos. P. Braidwood
Thos. C. Braiiweod
Braidwood & Son
Beaver
Otiahome
Patie
Crossley Brothers
Scotland
Americas
Karthaara
Finland
Sierra Leone
United Kingdom
Italy
Amactric
Kaying
China
Northern Railway
Costa Rica
Teide
Mexico
New York Sun
Lansford
Harrison Walton
Philadelphia
United States
Poincare
France
Victoria Crows
Ceylon
Europe
America
Arkansas
Around the
Ireland
New Zealand
Glendale
Ore
Frazil
Daker
The
Fortune Foundation
Gur Métro
Harry D. Truax
Globe Theatre
Spangler Brothers
Col. A. M. Burnam
Meade & Erolewogd
Dent Deve
Lounee
Lvbraverat
Mckee
ArPorgan Lv
Aily
Bunday
Forgan
Wichita Falls & North Western
Aer
Woodwend Sarta
D- Nicholson
D. S
Sory
Newton Newton
Woodward
Tor
Tor Ee Herby & Co
Toledo
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