Diverse Press Snippets on Inventions and Notices
A collage of brief items covers German razor and scissors manufacturing, Belgium rail fares and a fortnight travel ticket, the Blue Beard legend and its French author, Indian cavalry units and recruitment history, moon formation theories, critiques of oratory as elocution, a humorous burglar-proof safe gag, Brazil’s multilingual Indians, tiny kidneys and medical adverts for Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Tyner’s Dyspepsia Remedy with Atlanta manufacturing notes.
Peace and Loss Remembered in Cleveland Plain Dealer Verse
A literary line from the Cleveland Plain Dealer reflects on peace for humankind and the perilous journey of life. It ponders sailors facing sea-storm tests, noting some are saved while others are lost.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Stroke of Ruin Inspires a Duel in Old New Orleans
In 1850s New Orleans Boyle Harding, a poised American with fencing skill, falls for Milo de Montmartin at Garcia’s bookshop and together with rapin chase marriage. But Rapin proclaims the stroke of ruin, sparks a duel that wounds him and reshapes their futures as Harding and Milo later live in Nice.
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Jeunesse Doree
New Orleans
Harding
Thaye
New York
Paris
M. Duval
Rapin
Monsieur
M. Dayal
Alexandria
Ralph
Mile
Marie de Montmartin
Milo
Maria de Montmartin
M. Harding
Stanhope Harding
Montmartin
Marie
Charles
Caccin
Royal Street
Garcian
Francois Rapin
Monsieur Harding
Honor
Farragut
Butler
Francis Rapin
Boyle Harding
Nice
Vanity
Why a Tarman Kept his Check
A New Yorker trusts the Clearing House but Green Morris, a Brooklyn turfman, kept a $67,009 check for 18 months amid bank-robbery fears. He feared bank failure and chose to keep the funds in his pocket, later noted as illiteracy in signing his name.
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New Yorker
Clearing House Association
Old Green Morris
Brooklyn
Monmouth Park
Association
Green
New York Press
Light and reflection brighten European mill lighting
A European manufacturer failed with gas jets arc lamps and incandescent lights for his cloth mills. Each method lacked proper illumination or caused shadows. He finally painted walls white and hung reflectors beneath a set number of open flames. Light reflected upward to the white ceiling then back down to the room below, proving successful.
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Europe
From China Too Early World Farming Mills Featured
From China, Too. Earliest farming mill or win nowing machine erected in China and in use for centuries, while Europeans cleaned grain by tossing it in the air on windy days. Baltimore News notes the ancient method and its longevity.
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China
Baltimore News
Words of Wisdom and Wit From The South West
A collection of aphorisms on money love art tact and behavior gathered under The South West imprint. The lines warn about pride secrecy fidelity and social manners with ironic takes on men and women and everyday hypocrisy.
Town Prodigy Dale Stough Impresses Creston Readers
In Creston Iowa six year old Dale Stough son of Mr and Mrs C B Stough attracts wide attention for extraordinary memory and quick learning. He began at two with alphabet blocks and quickly mastered letters spelling and reading. He reads fifth reader studies history at home and often corrects adults about calendar dates. His father a railroad man notes Dale can decipher timetables and even challenged a pay car date predicting a Sunday arrival. Iowa State Register reports the remarkable child.
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Creston
Iowa
Little Dale Stough
C. B. Stough
Little Dale
Dale
Mr. Stough
Iowa State Register
The Price of Health in Reason and Health
A passage from American Agriculturist argues that nature provides ample health for humans and contrasts instinct with reason in diet, exercise, sleep, dress, and worries. It critiques overindulgence, stimulants, and fashionable dress that harms health, claiming health yields deeper enjoyment than wealth.
New Durable French Gun Tested to 1009 Rounds
The French Minister of War completed experiments on a new gun guaranteed for 1009 rounds. After 3000 rounds with smokeless powder its rifling remained in fair condition. It features hard tempered steel construction and a choke bore that widens lands as the projectile advances, keeping driving-band copper from eroding walls by gas escape.
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San Francisco Examiner
No Orphan Asylums in Australia Quote
No Orphan Asylums in Australia. Every child not supported by parents becomes the ward of the State and is paid 2 pension for support, placed in a private family with board and clothes until age fourteen. After that, he may work, pension credited until eighteen, when a balance may be due. The policy aims to be humane and responsible, reduce pauperism, and place youths on fair footing with the world.
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Australia
Qcbicago Times-Herald
How to Read Sealed Letters and Simple Remedies
The article outlines a classic stage deception by clairvoyants using sealed envelopes to fake mind reading. It also offers home remedies such as geraniums to ward off flies and lavender spray as a repellent, followed by anecdotes and an advertisement for McElree's Wine of Cardui with a testimonial from Mrs. M. J. Merges and a note on Hindercorns for corn relief.
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Tama
McElree
Cardus
San Antonio Hospital
Kingsley
D. ¥. Young
Facts on Indians and ancient cultures in early America
A compilation of observations on Native American populations from the era including counts by state, tribal listings, and linguistic notes. It discusses tribal numbers in New York and North Carolina, temple histories in Peru, domestication, education, diseases, writing systems, mounds, and a blunted medical claim praising hot water as a universal remedy for women.
Ending Letters: Preference for Yours Truly Over Others
A historical note analyzes 300 letters to judge closings. It favors "Yours truly" as the best simple, meaningful sign-off for ordinary business correspondence, while deeming forms like "Very respectfully" or "Yours respectfully" overused and weak. It critiques "Yours, etc." and "Resp." as lazy, and suggests no better shortcut than "Yours truly" for most purposes.
Fact snippets from era notes on transport and weaponry
Eighty one thousand passengers cross the English channel monthly on average. England proposes tram cars powered by springs or motion. Allens sixty inches diameter cast at Standard plate glass works Butler Pennsylvania for the American university telescope at Washington. Maxim's cavalry gun fires 700 shots a minute weighs thirty pounds and can be strapped to a soldier. Turkish Sultan gun fires 770 shots a minute on wheels. From Mexico cathedral spire you see the city and note lack of chimneys and grills. Cooking is done with charcoal in Dutch ovens.
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English Channel
England
Allens
Standard Plate Glass Works
Butler
American University At
Washington
Maxim
Turkey
Mexico
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France
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Eighth Cavalry
Twelfth Infantry
Twelfth Cavalry
Moon
Fate of Men Elocutionists
Atchison Globe
Brazil
Tyner
Drugg.sis
C. O. Tyner
Atlanta
St. Louis Journal of Agriculture
St. Louis
Nocareno Pay
Sterling Remedy Co
Chicago
A. M. Priest
Shelbyville
Ind
Alliz DowsGnass
LeRoy, Mich
United States
Woolley
Avanta, Ga
Cleveland
Roxbury
Vermont
Hood
Children & Sons
Bome
Maurice Thompson
Tatler
Garcia
Tarman
Words OF
Cupid
South-West
Royal F
Eaking Powder CO
Appleby, Texas
California
THE
New York State
North Carolina
Esquimaux
Central America
Peru
Spanish America
Smith Barton
Dora A. Guturir
Oakley, Overton Co
Tenn
J. T. Shoptrine
H Saransak
Femons
Georgia
Wmgutt & Bellingrath
AMMAR
Aervan
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Mon CO
Eorgia Basieness College
Macon
A.N.Y
Parker
Hever
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