Sao Paulo State Drives Brazil’s Coffee and Industry Boom
The article notes Sao Paulo produces 1.716 billion pounds of coffee valued at 140 million dollars, dominates Brazil’s coffee export via Santos, and hosts 300 factories with over 40 million dollars invested, employing 50,000 workers. It highlights diverse industries, agriculture, rail expansion, wine from grapes, and Santos port handling five and a half million tons yearly.
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Washington
United States
Brazil
St. Louis
Sao Paulo
Santos
Europe
Rio de Janeiro
Buenos Ayres
Honor Rested With Author and Misadventures in Money
A friend recalls O. Henry as financially reckless yet sharp about payments. Stories recount a magazine contract for a three part tale with staged advances and a contest ending. a justice of the peace marriage request. and a beach anecdote about a girl named Marie mis announcing undertow and an auto corrected line.
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O. Henry
His Real Calling and a New York Lawyer's Domestic Tale
A New York writer of modest success, rich in means, persists with books he touts as valuable and purchases from publishers. His friend Simeon Ford teases him as a born chemist since each book seems a drug on the market. The second anecdote recounts Uncle Henry Brooks admitting a servant’s request to attend a funeral tests household tensions.
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New York
Simeon Ford
Boniface
Ford
Sim
Mr. Ford
Simeon
Henry G. Brooks
Waldorf-Astoria
Adornment and the Call to Beauty in Everyday Life
A reflective message on humanity's universal urge for beauty. It speaks of adornment in nature and art, suggesting beauty inspires love and self-improvement. The piece notes flowers, moth wings, shell colors, and musicality as expressions of this drive.
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Robert G. Ingersoll
Vanity of Life Reflections on youth and age
A reflective meditation on time and happiness. It contrasts youth’s forward gaze with old age’s retrospection and manhood’s present focus, noting how people chase a vast happiness in a future moment while life slips by.
Runaway airship thrills East Liverpool crowd at wedding tale
In East Liverpool a dirigible balloon fueled by Cromwell Dixon lifted Freddy Myers ten, clinging from its gas bag five miles high before a roadside field stop. Autos chased the balloon as the boy rode inside the car to steady the craft, landing safely five miles west of town.
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Chillicothe
Freddy Myers
Cromwell Dixon
Columbus Aeronaut
Order of Eagles
Yoetangee Park
Caldwell Street
Dixon
Romance culminates in Toledo as couple wed after delayed courtship
John F. Smithwick Jr. and Miss Alice R. Lanfare married at the bride’s home in Toledo following a romance begun through a matrimonial journal. Smithwick had a near tragedy months earlier when an open gas jet caused near fatal asphyxiation, leaving him unconscious for weeks before recovery.
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Toledo
Star Hotel
Ohio Pythians Close Meet in Lima with New Officers
The forty second annual Knights of Pythias session in Lima elected Cincinnati as next city with Hamilton chosen as substitute in a two to one vote. Clem V. Hoke of Van Wert became grand chancellor and a full slate of grand lodge officers was installed. The Pythian Sisters also elected Mary Price of Columbus as grand chief and named officers including Margaret Baddley Toledo and Emma Jolley Findlay.
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Lima
Knights of Pythias
Ohio
Cincinnati
Hamilton
Sandusky
Grand Lodge
Clem V. Hoke
van Wert
Spence Wallace
Columbus
James H. Walker
William Beatty
Toledo
Cora B. Hutchison
Delaware
Emma Jolley
Findlay
Ellen Given
Sidney
Mollie Keller
Denison
Proctor
Sue Moyer
Laugh Brings Man Woe in Sandusky
Edward Pietschman, paroled from the Sandusky workhouse after a month, must refrain from boisterous laughter. His loud ha ha made him a public figure, caused theater bans and multiple disorderly conduct arrests. He once served on President Roosevelt’s yacht Mayflower, was punished for laughter, deserted, captured, and imprisoned.
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Sandusky
Edward Pietschman
Navy
President Roosevelt
Pietschman
Farmer meets awful death near Akron on railroad
Charles M. Webb a 35 year old farmer of Clin ton ten miles south of Akron was struck by a Cleveland Akron and Columbus train and impaled on the engine coupling. His body was found in the pilot seat and a sack of flour clutched in his arms. He died instantly. Burlesque circuit formed for East Ohio with New York promoter James W. Sullivan. Cities include Wellsville Youngstown Akron Canton East Liverpool Steubenville Wheeling New Castle. more cities may join.
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Akron, O
Charles M. Webb
Clinton
Akron
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus
Webb
Ohio
Wellsville
James W. Sullivan
New York
Youngstown
Canton
East Liverpool
Steubenville
Wheeling
New Castle
Wooster Prospered as University Holds 40th Commencement
Wooster Ohio crowds gathered at Memorial chapel for the University of Wooster forty third commencement exercises. The class 63 marking a large cohort. Louis E Holden reported a prosperous year with debt under 200 dollars and 397000 of 600000 endowment secured. The institution now holds about 1800000 in investments including buildings and personal property.
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Wooster, O
University of Wooster
Memorial Chapel
Louis E. Holden
Tries to Murder With Knife in Canton Restaurant
Angelo Onesto night manager dodged a huge eighteen inch French carving knife hurled from an open window in a Canton restaurant. The assailant aimed at Onesto as he spoke with the cook. the blade struck a fan corner but missed him, continuing in a straight line. The motive and identity of the thrower remain unclear.
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Canton, O
Angelo Onesto
Onesto
Cedar Point Orders Tight Summer Rules Enforcement
Cedar Point at Sandusky Ohio will strictly enforce laws this summer after a conference with Safety Director Guerin. President G A Boeckling of the Cedar Point Co ordered rigid enforcement of state and city regulations including the 11 30 closing ordinance, prohibition of sale to intoxicated persons, and a curfew barring children under 16 from public places after 9 p m.
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Sandusky
Guerin
G. A. Boeckling
The
Cedar Point Co
No Increase in Ore Demand in Cleveland Shipping Notes
Vesselmen report no improvement in ore and coal trade demand in Cleveland. Offerings of tonnage are liberal in both lines and indications show boats will be more plentiful than cargoes for the balance of the month.
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Cleveland, O
Ohio Honey Scarce Warns Beekeepers
Dr. FP Phillips of the U S Department of Agriculture says Washington statistics show about 60 000 beekeepers in Ohio but honey production is falling off in the state.
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Ohio
Columbus
FP. Phillips
United States Department of Agriculture
State House
Washington
Buchtel Grants Diplomas
Akron Buchtel College closes the year by granting diplomas to a large class and conferring two masters degrees.
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Buchtel
Akron
Buchtel College
A Protection Against the Heat Coca Cola Ad 1910
An advertising notice praising Coca Cola as cooling and thirst quenching. It promotes buying Coca Cola in bottles or at soda fountains, priced five cents, and offers a 1910 booklet The Truth About Coca Cola and a Coca-Cola Baseball Record Book for 1910 via a 2 cent stamp.
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Coca-Cola
Casey
Coca-Cola Co
Atlanta
The Ruling Spirit
A comic exchange shows a husband rushing his wife from a burning house while she insists on tidying rooms first so they look decent for arriving firemen in Modern Society.
Thomas Hood and the washtub song in satire
The piece recalls Thomas Hood as author of the Song of the Shirt and imagines a sadder song about the washtub. It notes Easy Task laundry soap as a modern relief for women’s backaches, promising it does most of the work and can be bought from grocers. The dialogue then shifts to a casual exchange about pressed flowers and a kiss through a telephone.
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Thomas Hood
Eva
Jack
Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Endorsed by Bloomdale Woman
Mrs. E M Frederick of Bloomdale Ohio credits Lome E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after backache and weak female symptoms. The ad urges readers to seek root causes and promises safe relief, inviting letters for free confidentiality and advice.
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Bloomdale
Ohio
E. M. Frederick
Lome E. Pinkham
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