New York Women Burn Half a Million on Cigarettes in 1909
A New York Tribune piece notes women spent about 500000 dollars last year on cigarettes and smoking accessories, with many starting as a fashion and rising to a costly habit. It describes lavish cigarette cases, jewelry linked to smoking, and a rise in daily consumption reaching fifteen to twenty cigarettes for thousands of women.
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New York
United States Treasury
Central Park
Fifth Avenue
Harry New Yorkera
Berlina
Farmers in exciting chase kill gray wolf in Kentucky
Hopkinsville Kentucky reports a 15 farmer chase ending in the killing of a large gray wolf that had preyed on local sheep. The animal weighed about 50 pounds and was four feet long from nose to tail. The wolf had surged into the area over years, including a recent lamb kill on L. Dade’s farm. Fred Tyler shot the wolf after it was cornered on the Dade property. hounds initiated the pursuit on L. Dade’s farm, and the wolf disappeared earlier near the Fork river rump.
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Hopkinsville
L. Dade
Fred Tyler
Mr. Dade
Two-Headed Silver Dollar Stuns Atlanta
A New Orleans mint error yields a silver dollar with heads on both sides and two dates 1906 and 1909. Hansel W. Compton found the coin in change and, after realizing the anomaly, refused offers up to $10. The mint tale involves a worker swapping coins during production to replace a half-coined dollar, enabling the double-headed result.
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Hansel W. Compton
New Orleans
Atlanta
Atlantic Constitution
Strange Aphonia Vow Leads to Silent Household Tales
A Somerset farmer vowed never to speak to his wife again after she bore a fourth daughter. A son later spoke to his family but could not speak to men or his father. A Bath clergyman reports a 28 year old who only talks to his mother and sisters. Explanations point to fixed ideas in unsettled minds.
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London Lancet
Somersetshire
Bath
Russia’s Free Tea Stalls Aid Public Health
In St Petersburg the government funds tea stalls run by sanitary committees to prevent cholera spread. They provide hot water tea and sugar free of charge to all visitors. attendants are government paid and may not take money. This reflects autocratic yet paternal governance in a health effort.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Tanitary Committee
Wide World Magazine
Photography by Phosphorescence in Copying Plates
A method uses a cardboard coated with phosphorescent substance exposed to light. Placed behind engravings and a dry plate on the front, the book is closed and left for 18 to 60 minutes to produce a satisfactory negative. The process is done with the book wrapped in black cloth.
Tranafont-Who’s that p looking fellow ovarthe 1st Native
In 2000 the tale of Squire Shugvall, a millionaire ditch-digger, surfaces as a moral about choosing unskilled labor over prestige. People once mocked his rejection of medicine, law, or formal schooling, yet time proved his practical wisdom.
Climate shift to Egyptlike warmth foretold for London
A Victorian-style analysis argues London's climate has changed from subtropical to Arctic and back, tracing 26 000 years of earth records. It cites precession of the equinoxes, Gulf Stream effects, and the North Atlantic drift, predicting London moving toward Egyptlike warmth within thousands of years.
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Adam
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Thames Valley
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Thames
Regent's Park
Newfoundland
England
North Atlantic
Fit Tall Women Only In Norristown Mischance
A man, reportedly mistaken for someone else, was picked up near Misa Bartha Place of Worcester while waiting for a trolley at Mala and De Kalb streets. He likely has no use for the contents of a suit cage. A young woman mourns a loss described as a curse and an outfit contains dress accessories.
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Misa Bartha
Worcester
Mala
de Kalb
Wedding Reform in China Celebrates Nuptials at Bride’s Home
A Rehoboth Sunday Herald account describes modern Chinese weddings where bands are limited, ceremonies occur at the bride’s home, and celebrations include decorated halls, a mother reading the ceremony, printed congratulatory papers, and children singing. The bride wears a red robe and the couple signs the document with witnesses and the mother.
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China
New China
Rehoboth Sunday Herald
The Floral Treatment Cartoons a Weight Tussle on Transit
A stout woman occupies much space on a street car while a friend discusses weight loss. The friend claims a treatment reduced 20 pounds quickly and offers to reveal it. The stout woman rejects new facts, recalling a prior failed method and a lily analogy, blaming male misunderstanding.
Duchess Pays Gambling Debt in a Grim Teatime Debt
One of society's cleverest bridge players and top gamblers, a dowager duchess, reportedly earns about 25000 a year from cards and betting. Her private income is vast, making her seem self reliant, though she is a notoriously bad loser. She once owed 350 to a foreign attaché and promised payment next day, but the check never arrived. The diplomat later visited, and she calmly paid the debt over tea.
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London
Disputation and the tempers of debate
Great care must be taken lest debates break into passions and awaken them to take part. When opponents press hard and wound our opinions, personal brawls threaten to arise and seats of reason and truth are driven from sight by noise and clamor.
He Merely Wanted to Know
A terse exchange unfolds as a girl prepares to depart while her father, noting the time, asks if she is about to start. The young man replies that preparations are underway and that pace to finish will be all that matters, with casual, dialect rich dialogue in a domestic scene.
North Dakota Republicans Back Genuine Primary Law Ticket
The editorial defends a Valley City framed Republican ticket as true to Roosevelt Taft principles and primary law. It argues candidates are selected lawfully, contrasts reformers with machine politics, and asserts the ticket ensures no Democratic senators from North Dakota if elected.
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Washington
North Dakota
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