While You Wait Secrets of Rapid Repairs Across Trades
The New York Mail and Express notes a rise in “while you wait” services from hatters to dentists, tailors, and watchmakers. Firms offer on‑the‑spot soles, full suit construction, teeth sets, and watch repairs, with movements swapped or parts duplicated in minutes.
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United States
Daily Paper
Chicago
Michigan
Ilorida
Asbury Park
Ocean Grove
Greely
New York Mail and Express
Embarrassing to a Stenographer in Court Proceedings
A narrator recalls the strain on a court stenographer when reading fast written cross questions and answers amid wrangling remarks. The piece stresses keeping calm under pressure and notes anecdotes of stenographers in sharp focus. It also blends brief items on cork oak cultivation in California and social notes about Mery Anderson and Jen Davis.
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Globe-Demorab
California
Costly maid servants ruin speculator’s stock fortune
A Chicago Mail item tells how Ream, a leading speculator, lost over $50,000 of profit in a St Paul stock dump after delaying to unload while two servant girls at home argued and threatened to quit. The delay cost him dearly as the market fell and his gains vanished.
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St. Paul
Armour
Chicago
Here
Rockafeller
Cleveland
N. B. Ream
Nat Jones
Ream
Saw
New York
St. Pal
Ream Ansutered
Bly
Rem
Chicago Mail
St Petersburg Fish Supply Arrangements Highlighted
The London Standard notes St Petersburg obtains fish from lakes, rivers, Ladoga and Ladoga reservoirs. 1,000,000 nobles yearly value from Ladoga fish. 25,000 sterlet arrive each August. Berlin banker Istely once paid 600 rubles for six sterlets. Prices range up to seven rubles per pound.
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St. Petersburg
Neva
Volga
Dwina
Epicures
Berlin
Pskov
Lake Ladoga
Ladoga
Gulf of Tinland
London Standard
The Street Singer Hidden Behind London Harp
The New York Sun recounts a London tale of a renowned voice heard after dark on Piccadilly near Green Park. A discerning listener traced the cloaked singer to a modest home, learning she was a gifted former opera artist performing on the street to support a needy family and a unemployed husband in hardship.
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London
Piccadilly
Green Park
Curbstone
New York Sun
The Chinese Compradore in Hong Kong Firms
The British firms in Hong Kong rely on a comprador to bridge English and Chinese speakers. These educated, well connected clerks handle negotiations, with payment responsibility if purchases fail. Compradores are wealthy, trusted, and essential to trade, often from high-class families.
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Hong Kong
Gentleman's Magazine
Deaf Mutes of Asia Earn Philanthropy Quote
Crassett, long in China, writes to a Chicago paper praising deaf mutes of northern Asia as the true philanthropic field, noting their severe neglect and urging aid from readers of the New York Sun.
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Asia
I. Crassett
Chins
Cheago
New York Sun
The Cooks Kept Busy Aboard the Ocean Steamer
The Louisville Courier-Journal details the daily meal service and vast provisioning aboard a westward voyage with 517 cabin passengers and 287 crew. It lists meal times from coffee at 6 a.m. to supper, staff duties, and the enormous stock of beef, mutton, fish, poultry, dairy, and groceries. The piece notes egg and lemon usage, drink quantities, and frequent crockery breakage, all illustrating the shipboard economy and discipline.
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Liverpool
New Yok
Louisville Courier-Journal
Tribute to an American Singer in a Royal Gift Tale
In a Kansas City Times piece Althea Salvador recalls Miss Thursby praised by French critics yet not seeking opera stardom. European receptions included gold and two rare red cross nightingales gifted by a Prague prince who claimed no woman’s voice gave him greater pleasure.
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Thursby
Europe
America
Prague
ATL
Tie
Red Cross
Miss Thursby
Salvador
Kansas City
Lords in Disgrace Over Collarless Jevee-collars
Lords Granville and Northbrooke are in disgrace for wearing no collars at the Jevee-collars event. Wales barely spoke to them, and the affair was considered shocking.
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Granville
Northbrooke
Wales
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Rotten Row
Jen Davis
Beauvoir
Puget Sound
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Ivay
Denmark
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Kaseine
Quenxine
Gor Col
Terete
Raskine Sh
Prancis Hoaprin
Reviday Lal
Albany Peniste
Rane
TY Culy
Sherine sTialarit
Partenian
St Josebos
Losuse
el Bedi Creeble
College Wites
Pre. Co.ats
M.ehret, JR. & Co
Walnut Street
Philadelphia
Minnesota
Chicago Fang North Y Western Railway CO
Lota
Smit
Charles E. Simmons
Land Com. C. & N W. Railway
Ghicacgo
Ill
miLy
Auperever
Try Bros. Druggists
Oswego
N.Y
ARL Pfudenz
Chirandens
Carl Pudenz
Ifinken
Nigerpress
Pde
Elifarl
Prauds
Gatar
Menthol Catarth Boal Co
Mink
Prier
Ures
Natal
Fadrus Agapes, Brother & Thomas
Chester
Pransphea
Werke
York
Qutar
A. Pangolke
Ork
Pan
Fournitu Rsg
Peter Greenland
Water Street
Episcopal Church
Sirab
Episcopal
High Street
Hagel and
Laure
Luied
F. O. Pierce & Co
F. O Pierce & Co
B. O. Pierce & C
W.H. Pickett & CO
Warren, Pa
Vic
N. K. Wendleboe
Liberty Street
arenr,Pa
L. G. Noyes
Second St
Savings Bank
Warren
Boston Shoe Store
Reynolds & Eddy’s
Ladies’ Fine Shoes
Cotlan Gus
Ghemzbat
P. Nupagture
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