Entangled early 20th century headlines from diverse topics
Sketches include political reforms in Norway with universal communal suffrage proposals for men and women, electric railway plans by King Leopold, Booker T. Washington leading a new department at an exposition, and varied local incidents from the United States involving damages, taxes, and family birthday records spanning four generations.
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Booker T. Washington
South Carolina
United States
Edith Ford
Grenaburg
Ind
Scott County
Log Rafts Towed From Columbia River to San Francisco
Reported shift from traditional log transport to gigantic rafts to be towed to San Francisco for piling and posts. Each raft up to 9 thousand feet long, sealed with tons of cham, forming a flattened cigar shape. Separate note: New York Board of Health cites pneumonia as leading death cause, influenza increasing mortality, 1890 trend mirrored in Chicago.
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Columbia River
San Francisco
New York Board of Health
Chicago
New York
Cowbirds and their cunning nest thievery described
A Children's Column essay laments the cowbird as a wanderer with no home and no parental care. It explains how female cowbirds lay eggs in other birds nests, deceiving them into feeding and raising their young, and notes the cowbird's impact on host species, including the clever extra egg trick. The piece shifts to sugar’s role in health, citing Dr Willoughby Gardner on sugar as energy and stamina booster and its link to taller, healthier populations.
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Chixbird
Ink
Willoughby Gardner
Wiloughby Gardner
Dietetic Value of Sugar Highlighted in British Journal
A paper by Dr Willoughby Gardner in the British Medical Journal discusses the dietetic value of sugar. It notes that world sugar consumption has doubled in fifteen years and per capita British sugar intake has trebled in forty years, with additional points about the Bag- context.
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British Medical Journal
Willoughby Gardner
Great Britain
Funds of Philadelphia Charities and Historical Notes
Philadelphia holds fewer than thirty seven funds left for charitable use. The Girard estate leads with about 16 million dollars, income last year 478,876 to Girard College. Delaware avenue fund follows, principal 500,000 with similar income, aimed at riverfront improvements. The remaining thirty five trusts total 1,201,666 with 57,431 income. twelve fuel funds distributed 1,944 tons of coal.
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Philadelphia
Girard
Steven Girard
Girard College
Delaware Avenue
King and Taker at Enfield Ale-house tale and medical negligence ruling
A quaint Enfield tale recalls King James I riding a tinker to a royal party, with a test of recognition. The text shifts to a New York case where a charitable hospital is not liable for a surgeon's gratuitous negligence if it exercised due care in selecting staff.
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Enfield
James
James I
Supreme Court, Appellaté Division
New York
Collingson
New York Post-Graduate Medical School and Hospital
N. D
Ths
Centovita Venus: Little Mothers in Mexican Transit
In Mexico, working class mothers have little time for children and older sisters act as little mothers. Train scenes show small girls with siblings begging for pennies from car windows, dressed in ragged, picturesque garments yet hopeful and cheerful amid duties and hardship.
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Mexico
Centovita
Venus
New Inventions Aid Plumbers and Households Secure
An article highlights a Chicago designed sink attachment that catches waste before entering traps, enabling easy removal without a plumber. It also describes Monroe Powell’s boot and shoe cleaner with two brushes and a spring wire base fixed to a doorstep, cleaning mud from shoes with a simple foot motion. Professor Wills J. Moore criticizes hail protection schemes, urging against meteorological fakery and promoting mutual insurance for orchard losses.
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Many
Abeen
Tate
Chicogan
Monroe Powell
Europe
Unique Indicator for Self-Adjusting Postage Weights
A French invention describes a balance scale that automatically adjusts weights to prepay postage. A letter sits in a wire loop at the top of a tilting beam, while a series of four sided cone weights hang along the central support, each weight representing one unit of postage.
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Jance
Rapid Comb Cleaner for Barber and Dressing Parlors
A compact device cleans barber combs by using a rotary wire brush inside a box with a removable top. Curved fingers at the bottom push out debris collected from bristles, allowing easy removal and maintenance between uses.
Improvements in Curry Combs and Shadowless Lamp Design
An article reviews new horse grooming gear and lighting tech. It describes an improved curry comb with a hinged locking plate that clears teeth for cleaning and a curved leaner bar that lifts dirt without hand removal. It also outlines a shadowless arc lamp design that staggers carbons to minimize beneath-lamp shadows via an expanding governor rod and springs.
Gelautograph: an apparatus to receive written messages by wire
The device described uses a movable arm between two magnets to move a toothed wheel and a sliding rod with a rack that guides a pen across paper to transcribe the message. An ink fountain at the right feeds ink to the pen via a flexible tube, with a gel pad to prevent clogging.
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Alexible
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Silver Messenger
Challis
I, Sweet, Publisher
Idaho
Odelsthing
Leopold
Antwerp
Brussels
Paris
Miarita
Georgia
de- Land
M. Jules Verne
Amiens
M Verne
St. George's
Brooklyn
Lima
Anna Omager
Ming
Law Notop
Oworco
Mich
Laverock
Laverockk
Linas
Pana
Germany
Philadelphia Inquirer
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