Nomadic Terbiners of Terbinen Preserve Ancient Ways
Professor F. G. Stebler describes Terbiners as a mobile, multi‑family farming society. They move between alp pastures from July to November, live in wood houses with marks identifying property, and rely on home spun clothing, rock salt cuisine, Roman waterworks, and a strict communal lifestyle under village traditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gauther
Terbinen
Auf der Egga
P. M. Venetz
Anthoni So-and-So
Margaret So-and-So
Husfiow
St Joseph Studer
Studer
Bagnos
Europe
Germany
Switzerland
Wallis
Gamsa
Fletschhorn
F. G. Stebler
University At
Berne
Vandergrift Town Built by Steel Company for Workers
The American Sheet Steel Company created a model workers town in Vandergrift, near Pittsburg, with sewered streets, paved roads, and arc layouts. Lots sold with liquor restrictions, four churches funded, a $32,000 casino and free library, and company involvement limited to utilities. No strikes occurred last summer in Vandergrift.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Evening Post
Vandergrift
Pittsburg
American Sheet Steel Company
Vandergrit
Cream of tartar anti smallpox remedy touted by vendors
The New York Post reports on widespread nostrums for smallpox including a cream of tartar recipe claiming to let one sleep beside a patient with impunity. Physicians dismiss it, noting tartar is for kidney issues and cannot affect smallpox, despite Boston popularity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
St Louis
Marion
Martin Wade
Meridian St
The Well at Nazareth in Ben Hur’s tale
A devotional verse recalls a Nazareth well scene from Ben Hur. A Roman legionary, moved by a divine touch, offers water to a dying boy, inspiring enduring gratitude. The poem ties the moment to the hero Ben Hur, who later carries the Well at Nazareth memory through battles and voyages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ben-Hur
Ne’er
Nazareth
Literary Gossip on Books and Authors From Indianapolis Journal
The piece reviews gossip about books and writers, noting why readers are drawn to author personalities and how critics, publishers, and editors shape tastes. It highlights John Burroughs’s new volume Songs of Nature, discusses serialization's impact on circulation, and mentions figures like Mary Hartwell Catherwood and Bertha Bunko.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Indianapolis Journal
New York
United States
England
Cadmus
America
John Burroughs
Burroughs
Lowell
Wordsworth
Emerson
Bryant
Washington Clerks and the Money Question
A satirical column discusses wage levels and clerical life in Washington. It questions the value of fluent recitation for high offices and imagines clerks defending the dignity of handling money while farmers and workers shape the nation. It laments the symbolic power of currency and the misplaced reverence for bureaucratic life.
Expensive Citizenship and Inheritance Tax in Britain
The Lord Chief Justice in London ruled that a legacy duty applies to the estate of William L. Winans, an American-born resident who died in Britain. A bequest of 2 pounds to a sister-in-law triggers a tax of 8 pounds per 100 on estates over 1.1 million, leaving the Williams estate owing about 200 pounds. The piece notes the rising cost of international status for wealthy Americans. It questions what figures like William Waldorf Astor and Grover Croker might decide when death comes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier Journal
William L. Winans
Baltimore
Great Britain
Lord Chief Justice's Court
London
Williams
William Waldorf Astor
Croker
Giance
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New York Post
Es'dracion
Galilee
Tirzah
Zion's
Jad
Mary Hartwell Catherwood
Chetto
Lazarre
Conan Doyle
Joel Chandler Harris
Bertha Bunko
Plug
Nevada
Jones Dreamland
Anthony Expectancy
Polly
Brother Buckley
Washington
Carmen
Cooper & CO
Roo
Ar” Sap
Mgp
Paul H. Krauss
East
Washington Street
Merchants’ Association
Detroit
West
Treasury Department
C. Aneshaensel & Co
Ohio Street
Keeley
Bell
Indiane
Plainfield
Ind
W. B. Burfford
Avna Cabinet Co., Inc
Ofice and Asset Room
Maryland St
Sunday Journal
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