Social Outcasts in India The Eurasian Half Castes Tabooed
Calcutta correspondent notes that Anglo-Indian society stigmatizes Eurasians, describing varied social roles from hotel clerks to clerks. The piece cites Kipling tales of attempted marriages and social ruin, reports rampant prejudice, weak health traits, and a split loyalty between white and native communities.
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India
Memsahib
O.ce
Kipling
Jess
Bin
Mr. Kipling
Ceylon
Calcutta
Montreal Star
Tae Thas
Gtk
The Oldest Bank Notes in China
The earliest bank notes in China date to 2697 B.C. issued by the treasury, later controlled by banks under government instruction. The greenbacks bore bank name, issue date, note number, official signatures, value in numbers and words, and a counterfeiting penalty notice. Notes were blue on mulberry fiber paper, with thrift exhortations. One issue from 1396 B.C. is kept at the Asiatic Museum in St. Petersburg.
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China
B.C
Treasury
B. C
Asiatic Museum
St. Petersburg
Montreal Star
Traveling salesmen and the warmth of home love
Two traveling men in St. Louis, one from Pittsburgh and the other from Wheeling, shared a tender moment about becoming fathers while lamenting being apart from their wives. They spoke of home, love, and the joy of fatherhood, ending with the Pittsburgh man noting the Chicago Mail also died.
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St. Louis
Pitssburg
Pittsburg
Chicago Mail
A Dog at Sunday School Devout Dog Sam Jones Wears Ribbons
West Fourth street resident Sohn C Prince walks his spitz to Sunday school. On weekdays the dog wears yellow ribbons, but a missing red rosette yesterday altered his behavior. He trotted behind girls, avoided attention, and crawled under a seat, yet the family calls it proof of keen observation.
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Sohn C. Prince
West Fourth Street
Spitz
Sam Jones
Revivals of the Old Comedies Worthwhile, Says Mr Florence
Mr Florence urges thoughtful revivals of classic comedies noting Jefferson in The Rivals drew crowded houses and refined matinee crowds. He argues old authors deserve reverence akin to masters like Raphael and Michelangelo, claiming such revivals are wholesome tonics that renew theatrical life.
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Florence
Jefferson
Sheridan
Raphael
Michael Angelo
Correggio
Philadelphia Times
The Earl Archdeacon and The Young Man Anecdote
A north country paper recounts a tale on the Northeastern line involving an Earl in first class with a director's pass, the Archdeacon, and a Young Man. Wind and window antics reveal social wit and travel etiquette as the trio shifts seats and the Earl collapses.
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earl-London
Nell Confronts Morning. A Child’s Time Tale Awakens
In a humorous exchange from Youth's Companion, Nell wakes her mother at six, claiming hours have passed since yesterday morning. Mamma questions the exaggeration as Nell recites a childlike definition of time and wakes with a clever notion.
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Nell
Mamma
A Maine Ghost Encounter in Bangor Cemetery
A Bangor man lingering after dark to finish a digging job collided with a regulation white ghost in a cemetery. The eerie figure groaned as in old legends, causing the man to flee and stumble into the spirit, both falling to the ground. an innocent white calf helped the man recover.
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Maine
Bangor
Lewiston Journal
Crabs and Their Curious Habits Across the Shore
A survey of crustaceans details crab anatomy, handedness, and sex differences, with note on live crabs inside shells, the Hetle pea crabs, and clever feeding mutualism. It covers methods of capture, branding, and the remarkable navigation of box-brad carapace crabs, plus how violet land crabs migrate to spawn and the ecological role of crabs as scavengers and pests in cocoanut groves. It lists American coast crabs including king, oyster, spider, hermit, and the blue crab, eaten widely as soft shell crabs.
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Europe
Great Britain
Jamaica
Indian Ocean
United States
An Observing Tramp Describes Robbery Temptations
A New York Sun anecdote presents a tramp detailing how robbers target farmhouses. He claims predictable hiding places for money and jewelry from kitchen shelves to the pantry can, noting how a thief can enter unseen at midnight without disturbing a thing.
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West Street
New York Sun
Restitution After Clergyman Announces Jewelry Seizure
A Paris judge heard a clergyman recount that a female parishioner, declaring herself a miserable sinner, had shared a relationship with Prado. He had given her jewels, unknown to her that he was a criminal. She returned the items to authorities. they will be restored to rightful owners.
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Paris
Prado
Gray Hair And Its Modern Concealment
Women turn gray as quickly as men yet artificial frizzes and bangs hide silver threads longer. Men dyeing hair or wearing wigs is rarer, as natural aging progresses, sometimes revealing a shining bald spot. Exchange.
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Warren, Pa
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Thie City
Casehold Ward
Kopf & Uenry
Warren Pa
Warren Mills Co
Hickory St
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PL Lund
Scott
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Morck Brothers
Opera
U. S
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August Morck, Jr
Mokuk Brothers
Finzer & Bros
Louisville, Ky
W 'W. Freeman
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Warren, Penna
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