Pansing notes urge self confidence and hat etiquette at funerals
The New York Independent warns against removing hats at winter funerals while England mourns Sir Frank Lockwood MP as Charles Harrison dies after cold. Governor John W. Griggs of New Jersey is noted as the fifth Cabinet member from the state, and the first Jerseyan to hold Attorney General.
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New York Independent
England
Frank Lockwood
Liberal Party
Charles Harrison
John W. Griggs
New Jersey
United States
Griggs
Bicycle Gains Over Horses at Fairmount Park
Visitors to Fairmount Park show fewer vehicles and horses by about 60,000 from 1896 to last year, while bicycles exceed the prior year by 60,286. The trend suggests horses yield to wheels as city park access expands, likely in other well-developed park systems.
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Fairmount Park
Philadelphia
Cadets Dismissed From West Point After January Exams
The dismissal of thirty nine West Point cadets after January Academic Board exams draws fire from the New York Mail and Express. The paper says the high discharge figure indicts Congressmen who allowed such admissions and argues cramming yields an apparent but not real excellence among army appointees.
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West Point Cadeta
Academic
New York Mail and Express
Lunch at public expense for pupils gains support
The New York Independent notes growing support among educators for a mid day luncheon funded by public money for public school children. It cites Boston's success and reports University of Chicago students also suffer from poor diets affecting brainwork. The piece argues that nourishing meals are essential for intellectual and moral development.
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New York
Boston
Harper
University of Chicago
Paris Hat Etiquette May Be Tested by Thespians
The New York Times notes Paris sets fashion for women's attire and faces pressures over hat etiquette at theatres. French readers resist mandatory hat removal, relying on cultural influence, while Thespians are urged to help male patrons by avoiding hats during performances. Paris resists a prohibitory theatre hat law for now.
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Paris
New York Times
The Riddle of Things That Are Poem Note
Harper's Weekly outlines a meditation on life and death amid a world of vast scales from fern to star. It speaks of life pressure, death silence, and a journey through mist to a dawn ledge of faith and hope as human troubles lifelong mysteries.
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Harper's Weekly
The Crumpled Rosaleaf Honeymoon Tale at Algiers
On a serene Algiers yacht honeymoon Molly Astley savors letters and flowers as Harry plans a quiet future. A memento of danger arrives when a venomous adder bites Molly, the native healer Mahomed Nani saves her with a mysterious juice, and a jeweled bracelet bearing a crumpled roseleaf marks their fragile Eden.
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Bay of
Algiers
Panoy
Harry
Williams
Molly
Olor
Mr. Ashley
Olga
Eden
Mr. Astley
Wilson
Mahomed Nani
Common Mistakes in Health From a London Doctor
The piece warns against improper work habits and harmful practices such as overexertion, overheating underclothes, false beliefs about child labor, insufficient sleep, excessive or insufficient exercise, sleeping in a draft, quick fixes like stimulants, hurried meals, eating by force, and wasting time on rigid routines. It emphasizes avoiding these mistakes for better well being.
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London
Woman Engine Master in Tennessee Timber Mill
Annie Fables, a robust woman in blue cotton, runs a saw mill engine and has held the post for six years. She began as an off bearer after her husband died, later leading the monster machinery while earning men’s wages and supporting seven fatherless children.
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A Wowwan
Walter Wade
Tennessee Wood
Annie Fables
Louisville Post
Belated Telegram Prank Sparks Mother’s Worry
A Louisville Courier Journal clipping recalls a New York telegram in which a son claims a broken leg to extract money. The mother reacts with alarm, urging the father to wire large sums and seek the city’s best doctor. The tale lampoons slang and street talk of the era as harmless mischief.
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New York
Mater
Louisville Courier. Journal
Color Blindness and Dress Sense Across Genders
A Housewife note claims women surpass men in color perception due to dress detail training while men, though color blind, show good taste in selecting dress goods for women. It adds that a lecturer urged women to match street gowns to hair, house gowns to eyes, and evening wear to complexions.
Good Roads Notes Prodding Turnpike Companies
A Michigan Legislature act requires turnpike firms to build repair and maintain roads to charter standards within six months or face abandonment and toll bans. The Quincy Herald notes Riverside and Ellington farmers arrived with hay and produce while others, blocked by mud, had to stay home.
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Michigan
Quincy
Riverside
Ellington
Ellington Township
Power Required on Graden and Road Grades
In a Bulleting note L A. W. argues that American highways imitate Rome with steep grades. He asserts lower grades save energy, favoring four percent or less for mountain roads, warns against steep 10 to 15 percent rises, and urges reworking or rerouting existing main roads before macadamizing hills.
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L. A. W. Bulletin
Why State Aid Is Necessary
General Stone urges Maryland to amend its constitution to allow state aid for roads arguing it is a statewide issue. He notes local burdens on road upkeep, advocates using convicts to produce road materials, and urges mobilizing legislators to reform local road administration and secure more funds.
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Maryland
Stone
Lam
House of Correction
Annapolis
Road funding and state oversight promise better highways
A speech urges efficient state supervision to ensure new road funds are spent to best advantage. It calls for all property and interested parties to contribute their fair share to building and maintaining good highways for the future.
Arabs carry the British soldier in desert march test
The Vedette details a Cairo to Bitter Lakes drill by Twenty-first Lancers testing Arab Walers and Hungarian remounts. Arabs proved superior in stamina under harsh Egypt conditions, with short rations and extreme heat, while Walers and Hungarians lagged. multiple horses were laid up in the sick lines after the five day, 205 mile trek averaging up to thirty-five miles a day.
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Twenty-first Lancers
Cairo
Bitter Lakes
India
Seventh Dragoon Guards
Egypt
London
The Tocality of Disease in Britain
The London Saturday Review notes disease habitats, showing some ailments stay local while others spread globally. In Britain dense population keeps many germs around, with new arrivals at risk. Yet persistent foes like cancer and consumption still dominate despite centuries of elimination.
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London Saturday Review
Tropics
Review
Britain
Avakatian Fever Cure Deep in Camp Mystery
An Australian frontier scene shows a fever treatment where a sick man is buried neck deep in soil with the earth to draw out sickness as a doctor and guards observe. A sergeant explains local Black practices believed to expel fever by burying patients alive. The next day the patient reappears lively.
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Pella
Tim
Warrigul
Dalton
Joyet
New Bicycle Tires Offer Puncture Proof Design
Inventors have devised bicycle tires with springs plates and rubber to resist punctures. Numerous patents issued show models with springs under metal plates and a heavy rubber casing. The design aims for greater elasticity and less danger to the rubber, improving safety on rough surfaces.
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New York Ledger
Earth as a living frame feels studied by Milne network
Professor John Milne reports delicate instruments in Canada, Britain, the United States, South Africa, New Zealand, Java, India, Argentina, England, and Europe to study subtle earth tremors. The idea of the earth as a living entity, once fanciful, gains support from these global observations of quivers and shivers in its rocky frame.
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John Milne
Milne
Canada
British Columbia
United States
South Africa
New Zealand
Java
India
Argentina
England
Hurope
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