Saying Mean Things In Polite Speech
The piece discusses how people disguise harsh criticism with conventional politeness to avoid accountability. It recounts Mrs Sharp’s method of spreading rumors through an imaginary third person, stirring curiosity, and delaying truth until the target feels exposed. The narrator identifies the pattern and reveals the deception.
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N. Y. Tribune
Striking West Indies Coolies Highlighted in Detroit Piece
A Detroit Free Press excerpt describes West Indian coolies in Jamaica, noting their display of jewelry, fashion, and fiery colors. It contrasts their industrious labor with the laziness attributed to emancipated negro workers, claiming coolies work longer hours and perform better on plantations.
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West Indies
Coolies
Jamaica
West Indian Islands
Detroit Free Press
Huichol Indians Exhibit At New York Museum
Explorer Carl Lumholtz brings back Huichol ceremonial objects from Sierra Madre del Norte in Jalisco. The 4000 strong group, famed for weaving, rain rites, and symbolic offerings, are shown in New York with details on temples, deities, and prayer symbols.
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Carl Lumholtz
Mexico
Museum of Natural History
New York
Sierra Madre del Norte
Jalisco
Cortez
Lumholtz
New York Herald
Scavengers of the Air Warn of Food Spoilage Risks
An article notes gelatine onions and milk as notable scavengers of the air and cautions they should never be left uncovered to prevent odors and spoilage in kitchens.
Mrs Brunot Earns Praise For Kindness And Plain Style
Salt of the Earth Mrs Brunot, wife of the Indian commissioner, is praised for charity and simple dress. In New York at the Church of Missions house a young clergyman meets a friend who recalls Mrs Brunot and a witty remark about her uplifted character.
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Brunet
Church of Missions House
New York
Hints on Baking Cakes
Light cakes need a brisk oven to rise and set. Cakes with baking powder require a quick oven. Too much sugar makes a cake burn quickly, so the oven should not be too hot. Large rich cakes demand long careful baking. Small sugar cakes need a slow oven. Gingerbread should be baked gently. Keep the oven door closed until the dough sets and open it as little as possible during baking to avoid a heavy cake.
Convenient Hog House Plan For Limited Herds
This design targets small hog operations with a 30 by 22 foot building and 12 foot posts. It features eight pens plus a middle alley, movable partitions to create up to 11 pens, vertical slide doors, and an upstairs loft. materials include timber, siding, flooring, and oak plank with a venetian red paint finish.
Pacific Ocean Turns Red Along California Coast After Quake
Reports describe a 65 mile coastal stretch near Los Angeles where sea water turns terra cotta red and phosphoresces at night. Fisherfolk move to deeper water as the colored wash reaches shore. A nearby point yields drinkable fresh water and a tidal wave followed the earthquake.
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California Coast
Pacific Ocean
Los Angeles County
Pacific
Stage Tears Prompted by Manager Skipping Receipts
A literary quip recalls an actress crying on stage after being told mid performance that the manager ran off with the receipts. The remark highlights theater finagling and public gall.
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N. Y
His Modest Reply
A dialog notes a remark on living with a genius and doubts the wife is a genius. A contrasting line imagines goats as mascots on racing yachts and Rams on battleships as no more remarkable. The piece ends with a quip about maintaining temper when unable to stay cool.
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Philadelphia Times
Market price snapshots from multiple cities
New York reports flour and patent values and grain prices with beef veal sheep and hog ranges. Cleveland lists flour wheat corn oats butter cheese eggs potatoes cattle sheep hogs. Toledo and East Liberty add cash grain prices and cattle hogs sheep ranges.
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New York
Minnesota
Cleveland
York State
Toledo
Soaking Corn Improves Hog Feed Efficiency in Study
The West Virginia experiment compared soaked corn to ground corn meal in Poland-China cross and related hogs. Soaked corn fed pigs gained more efficiently, needing 385 pounds of corn per 100 pounds of gain versus 410 pounds for ground meal. The study suggests soaking grain is a good practice pending further research. Cincinnati hog prices rose to 4.00 6.05.
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West Virginia
United States
Poland
Peruna touted by Hawaii's Congressman in testimonial
A congressional delegate from Hawaii Robert W. Wilcox endorses Peruna for catarrh of the stomach and dyspepsia. He praises its cure potential and urges readers to seek Dr. Hartman’s free counsel if results are not prompt.
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Hawaii
Robert W. Wilcox
Sandwich Islands
Washington, D. C
R. W. Wilcox
Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus
Dr. Hartman
Pig Cupid Marriage Ends Farmyard Feud in Pa
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania an old bachelor and an elderly maid, aged over a century together, quarrel over possession of a single orphan pig. A judge proposes killing and dividing the pig, but the couple reject that. They marry to keep the pig in the family and end the dispute.
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Solomon
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