A Boer Girl in the National Costume and Workshop Details
A descriptive passage outlines shell soaking for three to six days to render them brittle, then cutting, forming, and assembling buttons in a workshop. It explains flattened strips bent into cylinders, teeth added, mounted in lathes, joined, polished, dyed, graded, and packaged. The second fragment recalls a vice president's visit to the Senate and a child's quip about listening to old men.
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Ivan
Fooma
Hobart
Washington
Senate
Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Pearl buttons from Mississippi mussels spark new industry
In less than three years a clam digging effort along the Mississippi River has grown into a science. Workers extract mussels for their mother-of-pearl shells used to make buttons and many fancy articles. About a thousand men are employed, with pearls typically mustard seed sized and valued from 64 cents to $10 each, while the shells yield high quality linings.
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Pyeee
Mississippi River
Mussel Shell Industry Produces Buttons and Pearls
The piece describes mussel shell processing along the Mississippi, where shells yield buttons and other goods. Shells are dried sold by the ton to factories that polish interiors and grind coverings. Pearls are sought with rakes, tongs, steam dredges, and a six to eight foot iron bar with 30 to 54 hooks. daily yields reach 600 pounds per man, with some reports of 2,200 pounds in ten hours.
How the Boers Hobbie Horons and Hobble Horses
A compact account describes Boer soldiers in South Africa hobbling their ponies to prevent escape at night. It notes a picturesque camp scene with tethered grazing ponies and claims the practice is old. The piece mentions possible scrutiny by the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals in the future. It then shifts to a patent for an apparatus to open difficult doors from fifty yards, useful in asylums or jails, operable by a single knob push.
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Dom Paul
South Africa
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
National
American Congress
Benefitae of New Foods Introduction for Health and Trade
A discussion on how introducing new foods benefits national health and commerce. The text notes most fruits and vegetables are imported, with pumpkins grapes plums and berries among the few native crops already grown domestically.
Appalling Pant Quips on Abyssinia Boers Clash
The Horse Editor laments that Abyssinian monarchy could trouble England in South Africa while the Snake Editor doubts any direct strike against Monelikes for the Boers, reflecting satirical chatter in Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph.
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Abyssinia
England
South Africa
Pittsburg
Castello near Reggio restored by Italian government
The famed Gastello Carpinets fortress near Reggio Emilia, known as the Canossa of old, faced an auction but the Italian Government intervened to buy it. Emperor Henry IV once humbled himself there before Pope Gregory VII, and the ruin has long suffered time’s wear. Archaeological societies urge preservation to stop further decay.
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Reggio d'Emilia
Valdrizk
Castello
Walla
Henry IV
Gregory VII
Bismarck
Canosea
Reggio
Central Park Zoo Trades Big Animals in Three Months
The article mocks the animal department’s exchange spree in New York City noting a buck nylghan swapped for two passowaries, two zobus for five bald eagles, one buck nylghan for five llamas, and a hippopotamus traded for a lioness a tiger two leopards two pumas and two antelopes.
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Borate
Central Park
New York City
Faraday’s Sympathy For Newsboys Anecdote Told
A Century writer recalls Faraday and Hoffmann strolling in London when Faraday buys a newspaper from a street newsboy. Hoffmann asks why, given Faraday’s ample papers, he stops to purchase one. Faraday answers that he once sold papers as a newsboy himself.
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Faraday
Hoffmann
London
Conspiracy Claims Roil House over Utah Pact and Polygamy
Washington debate on the Roberts case resumes as Mr Landis of Indiana attacks Utahs compact with the United States The speech denounces polygamy and accuses Mormon leaders and church members of multiple wives and broken pledges It contends Utahs statehood grew from a conspiracy to allow religious practice free of federal authority
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Washington
Landis
Indiana
Roberts
Utah
United States
Landin
Rawlins
House
Agricultural College
Logan
First Presidency
Church of Christ and Latter
Wilford Woodruff
Franklin D. Rodgers
Anthony H. Lunn
Speaker
Congress
American Congress
Removal of Disabilities for Confederate Aiders in Spanish War
The Pension Committee reports favorably on a bill to remove disabilities against those who sided with or aided the Confederacy, enabling pension draws for those connected to Confederate service, especially parents serving in Spain. The current rule restricts widows, children, heirs, and relatives of Confederate supporters from pensions.
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House Committees On
Pensione
Spain
Howard Enters Race for United States Senate
Fort Payne Alabama businessman Hon William M Howard announces candidacy for the United States Senate on the Populist ticket after a Birmingham conference. Populist leaders plan to field a state ticket and nominate a senator candidate.
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Alabama
United States Senate
William M. Howard
Fort Payne
Ala
Birmingham
Senate
Artificia Sight and Curious Claims in Brooklyn Life
A Russian inventor markets an elsa trical device said to help the blind see and bring happiness to those with defective eyesight. The item is linked with Hostotter's Stom nch Bitters, famed for indigestion and other ailments. A playful note mentions a goat eating tomato cans and a string of comic snippets from Brooklyn Life.
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Monté
Do Not Burn the Candle At Both Ends
In a San Francisco streetcar, two men mock a army officer with disdain. They criticize officers and call for real leadership over showy uniforms. A passenger asks the officer his name, revealing tension as the scene ends with the two leaving at the next corner.
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Valencia
Philippines
Sime
Honston
San Francisco
Nerves and Woman's Health Cure by Lydia E Pinkham
Testimonial from Adele Williamson of Atlanta and Lena Gangs of Visalia praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for nervous prostration, sleeplessness, heart distress, and menstrual restoration after failing other doctors. They report improved strength, health, and weight following the regimen.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
Pinkham
Adele Williamson
Boulevard
Atlanta
Dean
Lena Gangs
Visalia
Tulare Co
Cal
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Chicago
New York
Teeacher
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Jonday
Adam
Drooklyn Life
I. Hood
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Baird
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