Found on the Trains A Notebook on Forgotten Property
The New York Herald profile recounts Charlie a long time lost property man for the New York New Haven and Hartford line. Each day from 6:80 to 6:80 he searches incoming trains for forgotten items, from umbrellas to watches, and delivers them to the lost property room where owners can reclaim them. He notes Sundays see fewer finds and that many items are promptly redeemed, with umbrellas most commonly left behind. Charlie treats forgetfulness as universal and believes happiness or preoccupation trigger it, while brides and grooms are equally prone to misplacing belongings.
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New York
New Haven
Hartford
Grand Central Depot
Charlie
New York Herald
Death of the Earth by Sun’s Extinction in 20 Million Years
The piece cites M. Camille Flammarion warning that Earth will die not by accident but through the sun’s natural death, possibly after 20 to 80 million years. It argues the sun’s cooling radiation will end planetary life, with Earth, Venus, Mars, Mercury, and the Moon on divergent fates, while continents erode and seas steadily cover land, predicting all land could be submerged in about 10 million years by erasure.
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M. Camille Flammarion
Earth
Jupiter
Saturn
Venus
Mars
Mercury
Moon
Bronze Powder Making Process Described for German Mills
Nearly a hundred establishments in and near Furth and Nuremberg, Germany, produce bronze powder from copper, tin, zinc and antimony. The material is cast into rods, rolled, cut, hammered, washed in sulfuric acid, dried, and further processed. For bronze powder sheets are cut into clippings, then pulverized in stamp mills and sifted by quality.
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Furth
Nuremberg
Germany
New York Sun
British India Size Compared to United States Expanse
A historical note outlines Britain's expansion in India from 1842 to 1856 reaching 927,887 square miles, stating British India exceeds the land area east of the Mississippi and has a population five times larger than the current U S population, with potential future gains limited by native dissent and northern pressures. A second item describes a kitchen window transparency made from an old wire screen, organdie, and pasted floral designs, varnished for durability. A humorous exchange follows about bachelor life and remarriage prospects in London Tit-Bits.
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Great Britain
India
British India
United States
Mississippi River
Texas
Proper Thing Leads to Sealed Proposals Refusal
Miss Keedick proposed to Miss Darley via a postal card but she refused, preferring sealed proposals according to the Detroit Free Press.
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Keedick
Gilley
Darley
Miss Gacket
How Flour Is Made In The Mill At St Nicholas
A vivid tour of a large milling operation describes the deafening noises inside. Wheat enters between iron rollers, bran is separated through sieves, middlings are refined via reels with silk threads, and patent flour emerges white and pure after air purification. The life part of the wheat is kept for lower grade flour before packing into barrels.
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St. Nicholas
His First Experience with the New Telephone
John Smith, a clerk, handles a newly fitted telephone and misjudges how to speak into the transmitter. After several failed attempts he realizes the boss is listening from two miles away and tells him to take a fortnight's notice. The tale ends with the boss revealing he is not deaf and the prank is on the clerk.
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John Smith
John
Smith
Pittsburg Dispatch
Kier Hardie and the suit trap in London Letter
A London Letter recounts Kier Hardie resisting a clothier scheme to gift him a suit. He agreed to take the clothes only if the firm would pay its workers the union wage in future, ending the incident. The piece also praises corduroy portieres as stylish warm coverings for homes, noting patterns and color tones.
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Kier Hardie
Brigham Young Walks Out of The Lady of Lyons Row
Sir William Fraser recounts Brigham Young leaving a Salt Lake City theater during a performance of The Lady of Lyons. As the onstage uproar grew, Young rose with his wives and departed, declaring he would not endure such a scene over a single woman Argonaut.
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William Fraser
Brigham Young
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MM. Hammerly
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Ayer
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Lange's
APT
RE Medical Coo
Boston
Gmass
Ronne
Angelina
Edwin
Angy
London
ELGIN
Morocco
Eac Gubsan
R.ee
Ely
EJ. Sorg Company
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Thin County
Lst
SALE
D.shear
Gardless
Warren County
D. Shear
Nelson Greenland
Warren, Penna
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