Coffee Farming in Ceylon How Blocks Are Cleared and Brought to Market
The article describes selecting jungle blocks for coffee in colonial Ceylon. British government lands are surveyed and auctioned. forests are felled, logs burned for land clearing, and ashes used as fertilizer. Planting uses coordinated labor with coolies, and a 3 year wait before harvest. Harvests rely on large labor forces, elaborate processing from cherry to parchment, and transport to Colombo, highlighting high labor intensity and costs.
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Ceylon
Kandy
Colombo
Epi
Ter
Exploitation and wage wars among coolie laborers in Chicago
A fragmentary report describes exploitation of Indian laborers or coolies, paid meager wages of about thirty cents and food within twenty four hours, with extra sums for certain tasks. It notes some workers seek to save money to return home after the crop season, while many lenders profit, and mentions a wealthy old laborer who could sign a $50 check.
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India
Chicago
Heral
Balloon Ascent Ends In Landing After High Altitude Ordeal
An account of a balloon voyage describes climbing above a mile, hearing no earth sounds, and feeling extreme sensory effects. The narrator battles a slow descent, vents gas cautiously, and finally lands near Talcott Mountain Tower amid onlookers as a rope grapnel drags the craft to ground.
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Isa
Dr. Kane
Talcott Mountain Tower
Ronn
Bearback Rider in New Chinatown Stirs Town
A Chinese resident in New Chinatown rode a large trained bear through streets and into a shed, drawing curiosity from Chronicle reporters. The bear, black and Jumbo sized, learned as a cub to pull a small wagon and perform tricks, returning willingly to its owner when let loose. The Chinaman, who lives near Ten-mile House on the Humboldt road, uses the bear for hunting and fishing tasks and as a companion beyond a dog.
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New Chinatown
Bruin
Chronicle
Dot
Ten
Humboldt Road
Tomb of Bolivar Reposes in Caracas Pantheon
The remains of Bolivar lie in a Caracas pantheon atop a marble cenotaph with his bust. Born in Caracas, he freed his slaves, risked wealth, helped win independence for five Latin states, and died in exile in poverty. He is praised as a patriot equal to Washington, though perhaps lacking in statesmanship.
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Caraca
Bolivar
Caracas
America
Venezzela
Colombia
Ecuador
Bolivia
Sera
Cage
Laguayrs
Washington
South America
Chicago
Destructive pine fires and color vision studies reported
Popular Science notes a hypothesis on forest fires from resin lenses focusing sunlight. It also covers a Paris Academy color blindness study of 11,175 people with varying color distinctions. Additional brief items describe Caspian oil beds, Pennsylvania naphtha, and river pitch measurements across several rivers, including the Mississippi, Missouri, Nile, Ganges, and Rhone.
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Vesuvian Observatory
Palmieri
French Academy of Medicine
Caucasus
Pennsylvania
Great Lake
London
Delaford
Cascades
Humphreys
Abbot
Mississippi
Memphis
Cairo
Ohio
Missouri
Fort Benton
St. Joseph
Dana
Nile
Ganges
Rhone
Geneva
Lyons
The Deadly Cobra Escape and Local Superstition
An English officer recalls a cobra bite incident near Marker during winter with native troops. A servant was bitten but survived after hospital care, while a child narrowly escaped a falling cobra and a havildar notes myths about a cobra losing its tail tip after biting a man.
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Chambers
Marker
Department of Public Works
Charpeatt
Sahib
Epitaph of a Woman Killed by Thunder Brick in 1719
An epitaph from Glas tonbury churchyard in Conn recalls a woman struck dead during a severe thunderstorm in June 1719. While she stood by an old fireplace a chimney brick flew from the blaze and killed her instantly. The brick was later laid in her grave and remained there for 165 years.
Jamestown Site Eroded By Jamestown River History And Brain Science
The Jamestown promontory, site of the first English settlement, is rapidly eroding as the James River eats away its base. Pocahontas’s vigilance is praised for averting massacre, while Bacon’s 1676 rebellion looms in antiquity. A brain study notes Gambetta’s Broca region shows unusual V shaped convolution, supporting language function theories.
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Jamestown
United States
James River
John Smith
Pocahontas
Nathaniel Bacon
William Berkeley
New York Commercial Advertiser
Continent
M. Duval
Laboratory of Anthropology
Society of Anthropology
Paris
Gambetta
Broca
Medical Advances Highlight Year of Discoveries
A Year of progress in medical science includes Koch’s debated comma bacillus relation to tubercular disease, probable hydrophobia vaccine, fat digestion issues in healthy stomachs, nitroglycerine for angina, osm ic acid for neuralgia, menthol for hard neuralgia cases, and major surgical gains. Advances include predigestion of foods, opening lung cavities for abscesses, kidney exploration and extirpation, and intestinal resections with good recoveries, plus opening the abdomen for peritonitis cases.
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Koch
Asteur
French Academy of Medicine
A Persian Artist and His Work at the Market Booth
A Persian artist sits in an open booth amid market bustle with chagirds assisting. He crafts pigments from family recipes and varnishes for delicate designs. Clients view his work, he offers tea and a bismillah, then delivers pieces to buyers’ homes as he seeks divine will.
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Evertide
Hafiz
Alla
Ex tensive Woolens Supply by Keller Co at Cloth House
M von Keller & Co successors to Keller Ruhi announce extensive business furnishing Merchant Tailor trade across the United States. Complete sample collections of woolens in season are available and orders executed. Customers urged to note samples are sold out. merchants desiring a selection may have them sent at their expense. Address given as Botere M You Kealler & Co.
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Tallors
M. von Keller & Co
Keller & Ruhi
Corner Ann Sod William Sts
New York City
United States
Ad Rose Botere
M. You Kealler & Co
Musical Singing Mouse Found In Santa Rosa Dentistry
A rare singing mouse, unique on the West Coast, resides in Dr. Caldwell's dentistry in Santa Rosa. The creature, attracted by toy-like canary sounds, delighted the doctor for months by nightly returns to a trap, then released each morning, its melodies distinct from typical birds.
The Peculiar Man as Public Nuisance
A Philadelphia Call critique targets the “peculiar man” who boasts of individuality to justify bad temper and selfish behavior. The column argues such supposed traits are cultivated excuses, masking rudeness, selfishness, and social irresponsibility.
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Philadelphia
Will it be safe to ride the excursion steamer
A timid portly old lady asks if the boat is safe to board and a ticket seller reassures her that a couple of hundred pounds will not sink the steamer, noting it is insured and inviting her to step aboard with confidence.
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Merchant Traveler
A Tried Remedy for Billousness and Its Benefits
The text touts Hosetter's Stomach Bitters as a superior cure for liver disorders and biliousness, claiming rapid, complete relief from indigestion, headache, nausea, and skin and tongue symptoms. It also notes Hall's Hair Renewer restoring gray hair and Ayer's Ague Cure as a long standing remedy.
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Hosetter
Halls
Ayer
Young pupil outputs wart in anatomy lesson tale
A young primary teacher ends a class on appearance and habits by asking who can recite it next day. A eager five year old Carrie raises her hand and blurts out a humorous answer about a wart, eliciting smiles in Harper's Bazar.
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Carrie
Harper’s Bazar
It Might Have Been Worse Spinster Gossip and News
A jumble of 19th century clippings mentions social banter about politeness and aging, a New Orleans Exposition accident injuring Eri. R. Hoyt, and various patent medicines and tonics. It notes Red Star Cough Cure, Dr. Robt. Newton, and Caswell Hazard & Co. beef tonic with goods sold by druggists in New York.
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Derrick
Robt. Newton
The
Ectectic College
New York
Cincinnati
Oho
Wa. Haul
Menaman
Caswell, Hazard & Co
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