WREAD RIOTS Item Incomplete Auction Offer
Fragmentary notice from a jewelry and watch business offering repairs and sales. Promises prompt service and high prices for gold silver and watches, with a sale appeal from John Lane of Little Bay.
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26 May 1894
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Twillingate Sun in Twillingate, Newfoundland
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Newspaper
Twillingate Sun
Location
Twillingate, Newfoundland, Canada
Date
May 26, 1894
Page
1
Parcels Post From Newfoundland And United States
The article notes the new United States parcel post after April 1. It lists weight and size limits, required customs declarations, and prohibited items including personal correspondence inside parcels. It cites J. O. Fraser as Postmaster General and dates from March 10th, 1894.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ES Post
Newfoundland
The
United x
United States
Webster's International Dictionary Grand Educator
Comprehensive dictionary project details include ten years work with 109 editors and over $300000 spent. Praised as a library in itself for history, pronunciation, meanings, quotes, and world geography. Globe Toronto calls it invaluable. Times Hamilton lauds it as best working dictionary and affordable for schools and families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Globe
Toronto
the Times
Hamilton
Canada
G. & C. 'RRIAM Advertisement Notice
An advertisement offering a free prospectus for a collection of photographs and illustrations. It requests readers not to buy cheap re prints of ancient editions and invites sending for specimen pages. The notice lists Springdale, Alabama, U.S.A. as the location.
Fashionable Tailor and Clothier on Mater Street
Mark Chaplin offers self measurement clothing with perfect fit guaranteed. Orders promptly executed and sent by post. Located at 81 Johns Ontporsand, city.
Mr Gladstone as a Financier in London Investors Review
The London Investors' Review reflects on William E. Gladstone stepping back from office and public life as a financial and social economist. It lauds his integrity, refusal of political self-interest, and purity of mind, noting his abstinence from pensions, stock market ties, or lucrative directorships. It contrasts his virtue with contemporary politicians and hints at his enduring influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leona
Times
Three Kingdoms
Scotsman
Carreer
Gladstone
Stock Exchange
Mr. Gladstone
Lord Rosebery
London Investors’ Review
The Rise of Artificial Coffee Adulteration
A report notes that large quantities of artificial coffee are produced to adulterate genuine coffee. Fake grains are stamped colored and roasted to resemble real beans, deceiving without skilled inspection. Detection relies on color mismatch and taste or texture clues.
Punishments in Canton Court Awe Spectators
In December 1291 I witnessed two prisoners in Canton tortured after refusing to confess. An old man was flogged with canes above the knees while a youth was bound to a post, with chains and neck pigtail secured, as officials and spectators watched. The public threat remained until confession or death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canton
China
Armies of Europe Strengths in Dual and Triple Alliances
The New York Sun reports Archibald Forbes estimates from official sources on the armed forces of France and Russia in the dual alliance and Germany Austria Italy in the triple alliance. It notes total officers and men, horses, and guns for each side and compares their infantry strength and horse and gun counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North American Review
Europe
Archibald Forbes
France
Russia
Germany
Austria
Italy
Triple Alliance
New York Sun
Skin Canoe and Arctic Sealing Skills in Traditional Kaiak
The article describes the skin canoe or kaiak as a portable seal hunting craft. Hunters shelter legs under a robe like a carriage apron and brave ice and storms with cool precision. Companions aid when possible, and fatalities are rare, though trade era changes have worsened outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blackwood
Origins of popular vegetables and fruits by ancient origins
The article lists origins for many produce items. Spinach from Persia, filberts from Greece, quinces from Corinth, peaches from Persia, turnips from Rome, nasturtium from Pern, horse radish native to England, melons in Asia, sage native to Portugal, beans native to Egypt, damsons from Yamaseua, peas from the south of Surape, coriander from the East, ginger from the East Indies, gooseberry in Britain, apricots from Armenia, cucumbers from vegetable origins, pears from Romans, walnuts native to Casus and Northern Africa, garlic from the Mediterranean rim, onions linked to Egyptians, asparagus from Great Britain, parsley with mythic ties to Hercules, apples from Romans, chives indigenous to Great Britain, cloves from the Indies, lemons from Asia, and mothkeeping use of lamans from Asia.
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Greece
Corinth
Persia
Rome
Pern
England
Asia
Portugal
Egypt
Surape
Wiss
Indias
Britain
Armenia
Africa
Great Britain
Hindoo Foot Dexterity Compared to Annamese Practices
The piece explains how Hindoo and Annamese workers use their feet to handle tasks such as cutting meat and shaping shoes. It notes remarkable mobility of the great toe and the separation of the first two toes, enabling squatting work and tool use with feet, and argues this is anatomical not simian, citing M Regnault.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
M. Regnault
Minard's Liniment Featured In Busy Notice
The Suez Canal is 88 miles long and cuts the England to India route by nearly 400 miles. Minard's Liniment is advertised as Lumberman's Friend. The Queen's birthday is to be celebrated in London three years on Saturday May 26. Minard's Liniment is sold by Pigadain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suez Canal
England
India
Queen's
London
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J.C. Ayer
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