Africa's Uganda Races Among Dark Continent Types
A colonial era sketch surveys Uganda's protectorate peoples including the Semliki valley ape-like tribes, the Congo pygmies, the Baganda who are largely Christian, and the Kavirondo or naked Bakedi. It notes their appearances, customs, and alleged social traits in vivid, ethnographic style.
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London
Uganda
Africa
Semliki
Congo
Baganda
Fort Mbeni
Foresta
The
Lake Victoria
Nyanza
Busoga
Uganda Protectorate
First Colored Bank North Sets Example in Philadelphia
Philadelphia opens the first bank north of the Mason Dixon line pitched as a negro led, owned, and depositor bank. Located at 1032 South Twentieth Street, it reports $1000 in deposits on opening day and offers a dedicated finance education program run by its president. The capital is $50,000 with $10,000 deposited to secure incorporation.
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Philadelphia
First Colored Bank
North
South Twentieth Street
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
New York
Tennessee
Dlacks
America
Hons Eggs Circulate as Money in Peru Regions
In Jauja province hens eggs function as small coins with 40 to 50 eggs equaling a dollar. Markets and shops in Peru accept eggs for goods like brandy, indigo, or other items. Shopkeepers box and ship the eggs to Lima, with several thousand egg shipments leaving Jauja each year.
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Peru
Jauja
Lima
France shows wheat acreage rise in past year
France is the only country in Europe that has increased wheat acreage over the last 12 months, signaling a shift in cereal production patterns amid broader European farm trends.
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France
Europe
Funny Engish Blunders and English Missteps in Newspapers
A compendium of humorous misprints and odd phrasing from English papers. Highlights include an inquest report misquoting Richard Wilkinson, a London paper overclaiming Empress Frederick’s English preferences, and a naval maneuver description that confuses instructions with actions. It notes a school board planning seven weeks’ holiday to aid potato field workers and mentions William Carr’s long service at Waltham Abbey before his death at 79.
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Newcastle
Richard Wilkinson
London
Frederick
Davenport
Long Sutton
William Carr
Waltham Abbey
New York
Preas
Toothbrush In Education at Tuskegee
Booker T. Washington recalls the Tuskegee creed requiring every student to own and use a toothbrush. He describes a tour with the lady principal where new arrivals had only a single shared brush, learning quickly the school’s standard.
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Booker T. Washington
Monster Tree to be moved from Arkansas to St Louis
An unusual project aims to extract a 160 foot tall red oak with a 12 foot base diameter from wild Arkansas country. A dual tramway will run to the river to float and tow the giant tree to St Louis. Digging will remove the tree by the roots, branches left intact, and the operation预计 six months.
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Arkansas
St. Louis
Wall from the City on Cape Colony Law Reach London
A London Globe commentary argues that the male fowls law of Cape Colony should be applied in London and extended to barking dogs and miaowing cats, critiquing colonial restrictions and proposing broader animal control.
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Cape Colony
London
London Globe
Alfred the Great and His Legacy in Wantage Monu ment
A condensed account of Alfred the Great’s reign from his birth in Wantage Berkshire to his struggle against Danish invasions, rebuilding London, codifying laws, promoting education, and fostering trade. It notes his enduring fame and the inscription praising his restoration of learning and law.
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Wantage
Berkshire
England
Alfred the Great
Alfred
Foreign born population exceeds ten million in US
On Hallow Eve night Usele Had Arkwright faced rough treatment as the Dag men accosted him in a barn. They tied a pair of socks on his feet, his first since age ten seven decades ago.
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Usele
Arkwright
Will and Testament of a Colorful Alabama Brother
A humorous Atlanta Constitution piece presents a will titled in strong dialect where a deceased elder bequeaths odd items to kin and animals. He mentions an old wife in Alabama, snuff funds, possum dogs, a graveyard rabbit, a blind mole, and a rebuke to the new preacher. The tone is comic and regional, reflecting race and era.
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Atlanta Constitution
Chris
Alabama
A Child's Odd Notion a Bangs Humorous Tale
John Kendrick Bangs notes childhood humor as the source of wit and cites a New York Times tale about Hennessey the Herald foreman and his daughter asking about stars. The child imagines the Angel Gabriel lighting lamps as a storm lights the sky, urging the angel to strike matches on the heavens.
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John Kendrick Bangs
Hennessey
The
Herald
Mamma
Gabriel
Gate of Paradise
Daugh
New York Times
A Pastoral Legislator
Secretary of State John T. McDonough, after moving to Albany, recalled constituents of Mr. Nizam in the assembly. He contrasted them with Chautauqua county residents of sixty years ago, noting a tale of a member who walked to the capital, worked to pay his board, and returned home with his $200 salary, plus a quip about Mrs. Seward’s 八 at home hour.
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New York Times
John T. McDonough
Albany
Chautauqua County
Point of View Sparrow Exchange on Corn Fight
In a brief exchange between two sparrows, the first asks what contentious scene they witness while the second suggests a few kernels of corn sparked the commotion. The vignette conveys curiosity and a simple cause for strife among birds.
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First Sparrow
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Green goods man boasts in a Cleveland Plain Dealer exchange about sensational crimes and the public’s appetite for crime details. A second party presents themselves as a dealer in gold bricks. the remark ends with a playful shuffle.
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The
Cleveland Plain Dealer
A Weak Proposition From Albany Journal
An Italian street performer coerces children to collect coins to view a monkey trained to climb a tree and later descend. The performer mocks the crowd, pockets the money, and offers a final show fee for the monkey to come down, while the audience watches. The scene is described with harsh, unrefined language and fragmented narration.
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Albany Journal
Jacko
Jacks
Monka
Formalities Dispensed With by Gorman in New York
Ex United States Senator Arthur Pue Gorman of Maryland was in the Fifth Avenue Hotel when a street urchin asked for change. Gorman gave the boy the money and remarked to a friend that the city was shocking for a man of extreme egotism.
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New York Times
United States
Arthur Pue Gorman
Maryland
Fifth Avenue
Gamin
New York
Marys New Cabbages Stir Dinner Table Mystery
A fragment from a New Orleans era column shows Mrs. Brownley-Boges asking about a dinner. Mary replies she used a new kind of cabbages Mr. John sent home, prompting family exclamations about chrysanthemums and the meal.
Ragged $1 bill causes string of transactions
George Ferguson found a torn one dollar bill and tried to spend it at a restaurant, streetcar line, laundry, cigar shop, theater box office, and more. He eventually recalled it came from a department store where he had paid ten dollars the day before. The cashier refused, then the salesman returned the bill to him. He later used a ten dollar note to buy gloves but only realized the ragged bill remained in his pocket as he boarded a suburban train.
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Europe
Alfred
George Ferguson
Chicago Tribune
Distortion in Public Discourse and Domestic Advice
A fragmentary Washington Star conversation riffs on suppressing caricaturists and amateur photographers, followed by a physician’s dietary counsel to a wife about beef and potatoes. The humor highlights satire of authorities and rising food costs impacting households.
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Washington Star
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