Alligator Market and How They Are Hunted in Louisiana
A New Orleans Times-Democrat report tours Chartres street alligator tanks describing price ranges from fifty cents to two hundred dollars. It details breeding, egg collection, hunting methods, handling, and the market for skins and curiosities sent to Europe and sold to saloons, showmen, and collectors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Louisiana
Chartres Street
Johnny
Alligator
Chicago
St. Louis
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Origin of the Bustle From Persian Roots
Women will be interested to know that the bestis is of Persian origin. Nott, in his notes on the Odes of Hafiz, defines the refaight as a bolster placed under the garment to create a rounded silhouette deemed becoming by some.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nott
Hafiz
Chicago Tribune
Student Life in Paris and the Latin Quarter
Paris Cor. New York Sun surveys a Paris student’s life with torn youth, fashion and manners. It contrasts rough morning howls and night singing with serious study in lecture rooms and laboratories, noting allure, play, and intelligence amid cafes and brasseries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Boulevard Saint Michel
Cafe de la Source
New York
Foot Loose at Coney Island and the Coney Tone
A New York correspondent observes Coney Island’s shift from disreputable to respectable, noting how visitors from fancy resorts reveal different manners and tastes. The piece contrasts old atmosphere with new swell patches, mentioning artists Smillie and Ubse as precursors of the island’s evolving charm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coney Island
Coney Taland
Coney’s
Oriental
Manhattan
New York
Threshhold
Narragansett Pier
Bar Harbor
Smillie
Ubase
Chicago Times
The Smart Young Man and the Tramp on the Dock
A tramp sleeps on the French line dock as three well dressed youths witness. One throws water from a bucket, startling the tramp who falls into the river. The tramp swims to the tug deck and climbs back to the dock while the youths flee amid ridicule. The tramp taunts the clever man then dries his clothes in the sun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dann
New York
Poem Excerpt Voices Love Through Craft and Life
The fragment envisions art as a bridge between soul and form where a sculptor would carve a living ideal of love. The speaker imagines a sculpture that wakes with breath, a voiced soul, and a wife’s sleep stirred by a pulsing life model.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bneath
Ami
Ben D. House
How It Is Done in Venezuela in Coffee Estates
Dr. W. F. Hutchinson describes Venezuelan coffee farming near Caracas. He explains the shade grown system, diagonal seed lines, and the pairing of banana shade trees with bucare to protect coffee, with yields averaging ten pounds per tree over a thirty year span. He notes harvests from March blossoms to autumn picking and discusses the curious contrast between low market price and high consumer price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Venezuela
Caracas
San Bernardino
Silla
Laguayra
W. F. Hutchinson
American Magazine
A Baltimore Negro in Africa
W. P. Tisdale, late Congo conference commissioner, visits Baltimore after reporting adversely, famed African explorer who traveled deep into the continent. He speaks many languages and recounts a Liberia episode where a Baltimore guide joined Kong tribes and traded a pea green jacket for passage. The tale ends with his departure aboard a ship, jacket on, cigar lit, tobacco under arm. The Business of Railroading. Uncertainty of tenure haunts railway leaders, from general managers to clerks, with annual or appointment risks and possible removals. An Iron House. Liverpool exhibition shows iron houses, including a tropical villa built of wrought iron with self fixing bases, easily erected by natives or workers, interior of pine and red wood. President Cleveland writes few letters and dictates none, using a stub pen and cork holder, wearing spectacles and shaving each morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Senegal
Liberia
Kong Mountains
Mr. Tisdale
Africa
New York Commercial Advertiser
Globe-Democrat
Liverpool
San Francisco Chronicle
Cleveland
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New Orleans
Pbme
Sandral Kilner
Bing
Kilner
Man U
Hesselroth
Psa
Lawrence Hesselroth
Chicago Ave
Johnson & Siegfried
Pratt
Geneva
James FE. Morris
Chambers ST
Warren Pa
E. Bartsch
Water St
Diamond Block
Warren
Axle Frazer Ace
Fes
Jane
Omaha
Risa
Simmons
Aimons
JH. Zeilim & 60
Philadelphia, Pa
Minnesota Dakota
Aan
Ann North Western Railway Co
Charles E. Simmons
Swayne Tio Lung Akioar
Swayne
Eswaynexson
Warren Carriage Works
Workslandnerkert
Laprtf
G. Koerley
Drs.j. N
J. B. Hobensack
North Second St
Philadelphia
Pygmalion
Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
Minnesota
Dakota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Pia
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Council Bluffs
Free Lands
Black Hills
California
H. A. Gross
Lancaster
Marvin Hughitt K.G. Wicker
E. P.wilson
Faw
Pearl
GEO. A. Macbeth & CO
Tiesburgh
Grapoline
Hendriche
RG Ag
P.O
Eline
Arch St
Acker
L. G. Noyes
Bucklen
A. W. Merck
Gorwemrends
I. G. Noyes
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