Duty on crude petroleum and listed imports under act
The text details duties on imported crude petroleum and various listed goods including ores, chemicals, plant products, spices, and personal effects. It also specifies exemptions for certain scientific, religious, educational, or literary uses and for goods accompanying travelers, with conditions on use and sale.
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United States
Department of Agriculture
United States Botanic Garden
St. John's
Tripoli
Venice
Duty Provisions and Exemptions on US Return Goods
The bill outlines duty-free admission for US residents returning from abroad on identity verification, with a $100 cap on articles purchased abroad. It lists unmanufactured woods, cabinet woods, and various works of art and scientific items eligible for duty-free treatment, and notes that administrative features mirror the Wilson law. It also covers artifacts and artistic items brought by professionals for exhibition and not for sale.
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United States
Secretary of the Treasury
India
Zaffer
Southern pig iron output rises in late 19th century
The Manufacturers' Record notes Southern pig iron production grew from 11,000 tons in 1872 to 1,833,235 tons in 1896, with Alabama leading at 922,175 tons and Tennessee Kentucky and Georgia totaling 334,591, while Virginia Maryland West Virginia and North Carolina produced 575,469. Phosphorus content limits Bessemer use. historically foundry iron dominated, though Southern pig iron has gained favor in Pittsburg basic hearths.
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South
Alabama
Tennessee
Kentucky
Georgia
Virginia
Maryland
West Virginia
North Carolina
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Pittsburg
Labor Day Drive Seeks Union Label Momentum in Chicago
Labor notes report a push for a union label in Chicago on Labor Day with a rule that marching workers wear boots stamped by the Boot and Shoe Workers' International Union. The American Agents' Association cites a million-dollar battle against a major industrial firm. The firm rejects canvassers tied to the union. Additional items cover Vancouver fishers strike with demands for 15 cents a fish, and 10 cents by cutters, while last year 25 cents briefly prevailed. The Minnesota Union Labor League seeks contract clauses to cancel papers amid trouble, and the Catholic Benevolent Legion requires Typographical Union labeling for all printing. The Fall River Slasher Tenders Union expelled a man who refused to join the barber union. Over 6,000 new Knights of Labor members and a narrow anti-reaffiliation vote are noted. Minneapolis barbers debate Sunday work after years of rest. Washington Building Trades protests convict labor on district projects. The American Federation of Labor revokes the Canvassers' Protective Association charter. Dublin engineers press for weekly wage increases. Cleveland Street Railway enforces saloon bans for workers.
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Chicago
Boot
Vancouver
B. C
Minnesota Union Labor League
Minneapolis
The
Catholic Benevolent Legion
Plattsburg
N. Y
Typographical Union
Fall River
Barbers’ Union
K. of L
Knights
Barbers
Washington Building Trades’ Council
American Agents’ Association
American Federation of Labor
Canvassers’ Protective Association
Dublin
Amalgamated Engineers
Cleveland Street Railway Company
Paderewski Flooded With Stranger Hair Requests
The pianist Paderewski receives a steady stream of letters from strangers asking for locks of his famous hair. He handles them with quiet patience as fans seek a personal memento from the celebrated musician.
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Paderewski
The Smeller of Oil Killed by Train in West Virginia
John Moosman, a deaf and illiterate Swiss native famed as a powerful oil locator, was killed by a railroad train near Parkersburg. His skill, described as supernatural, helped locate dozens of wells, including a famous Lubeck Company gusher near Cairo, and made him wealthy before his death at sixty three.
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West Virginia
Parkersburg
W. Va
Pittsburg Dispatch
John Moosman
Switzerland
St. Mary’s
Belmont
Moosman
Wilson Hurley
Lubeck Oil Company Gusher
Cairo
Share Your Bright Thoughts For The Benefit Of All
The passage urges spreading kind thoughts and feelings instead of burying them. It treats hopeful feelings as a trust to be shared with others to grow happiness, encouraging those who have a ray of sunshine in their hearts to shed it onto others.
Hair Follicle Counts Highlight Scalp Variation
A health note explains that light-haired individuals average about 150000 scalp hairs while dark-haired people typically have around 100000 hairs reflecting thickness and pigmentation differences.
Remarkable Meat loving horse at Pacific Fruit Market
Billy the bay horse owned by A. Decour tieux & Son draws delivery carts in Merchant street and repeatedly nibbles steak liver and other meats from the market wagons. He once tasted fish but a crab clamped his lip before he learned to avoid such plunder.
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Billy
A. Decourtieux
San Francisco
The Stock Saddle and Cowboy Equipment
A discussion on Western riding gear contrasts the stock saddle with English saddles, detailing its Spanish American origins, heavy build, and high horn. It explains the essential rope, its typical length, throwing range, and the strong cinch rigging needed to withstand heavy workloads. Allan Hendricks, in Lippincott's.
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West
Allan Hendricks
Lippincott’s
Danger Side of Lightning Rods Warns on Proper Construction
Government Electrician J. E. Powell argues that conventional lightning rods often give little protection when improperly installed and may invite lightning to strike buildings. He urges hiring reliable, capable installers and notes many lightning-damaged buildings had rods that failed to safely conduct electricity to earth.
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J. E. Powell
Ladies’ Home Journal
Atlantic Cables Suffer From Ice and Volcanoes
The report notes cables face dangers from icebergs and volcanic activity. A few years back three Atlantic cables were cut simultaneously in roughly the same area, with no other expeditionary finds, aside from volcanic disturbance.
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Atlantic
Humorous Budget Parody and Puck Quip Remnant
A fragmented humor page item mocks budget transparency and social vanity with garbled captions and a quip about someone seeing through others. The fragmentary text references Time, chips, glass, and a playful exchange about thickness and clarity.
Al Fresco Privileges and Street Pianos
A Chi cago Record item notes street pianos as a curious urban feature. The column contrasts outdoor music with public taste and humor, highlighting city life quirks and casual reactions to open performances.
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Chicago
Warding Him Or Tolliver Harlem Life
In Harlem Life a terse exchange finds Tolliver asking an older man for ten dollars for a week and receiving a sharp reply. The brief skirmish centers on money and power dynamics in a street scene.
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Tolliver
Duero
Harlem
The Author and Penelope Spar Over Dialect Story Time
In a brief exchange, Penelope boasts she read the dialect story in six months while the author claims to have written it in two months revealing tension over writing pace and craft.
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Penelope
Time For Him to Go
A brief Detroit Free Press snippet notes a conversation about sleep with a woman claiming she can scarcely stay awake. The exchange hints at a larger domestic or personal pressure influencing behavior or decision making.
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Detroit Free Press
Proof of Her Value. Woman Pure Gold Money Talks
A satirical cartoon caption notes a lecturer praising a woman as pure gold while a sardonic man in the back seats quips that money talks, reflecting a gendered social exchange in a whimsical scene.
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Puck
On Record: Squaring a Circle Metaphor in 19th Century Wit
A Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune quip cites a press joke about “squaring the circle” as a metaphor for a perfect, all-round square meal. The remark reflects witty newspaper culture and language play of the period.
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Cincinnati Commercial-Tribune
Getting Out of Danger Pedestrianism in Decline
A brief old-time column argues pedestrian caution is fading as wheels and trolley cars make travel quicker and easier The piece reflects on how the pace of modern life reduces attention to foot travel.
Well Qualified and Smoothly as a Fisherman Liar
An anecdote from the Detroit Free Press quotes a critic praising Smoothly as an experienced fisherman through the claim he is a natural and artistic liar. The remark frames him as unusually skilled in deception in a literary aside.
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Detroit Free Press
A Man of His Word in Comic Exchange
A humorous dialogue in which a student promises to pay rent, the landlady retorts that he already claimed the same, and the student insists he kept his word this time. The snippet captures a light exchange about truthfulness and promises.
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Fliegende Blaetter
Wealth Talk Sparks Investment Idea Amid Banter
In a quoted exchange from the Boston Transcript, Dawkins asks what one would do if all money were available and Kilsam replies he would invest to double the capital. The dialogue reflects speculative finance banter on wealth and growth.
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Dawkins
Bill
Kilsam
Boston Transcript
Grappling With Difficulties
A humorous aside from the Boston Transcript quotes a caddy asking a links player about golfing practice. The reply notes the respondent will take about a year to be ready, explaining this year is devoted to studying the equipment used in the game.
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Boston Transcript
Sufficient Reason Engagement Reported Broken
A Chicago Post quotation notes a broken engagement with claims of deception. The man had six centuries to his credit versus the woman's fourteen, suggesting she considered herself plainly his superior in class.
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Chicago Post
Little Girl Remains Unchanged by Stranger Question
A stranger in a family asks a child what she will be as a man. The child answers proudly that she will be nothing else but a little girl, revealing a humorous misunderstanding and a witty refusal to conform to gender expectations.
Three Suitors Vie In Clever Age Guessing Game
In Pearson's Weekly a young woman sets a marriage challenge among three suitors by guessing her age. The finish hinges on who guesses closest, but she ultimately marries the man who guessed the lowest. The tale hinges on wit and social intrigue.
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Pearson’s Weekly
Mustard Mix-Up Stuns Builders in Sand and Clay Scheme
A senior partner vows legal action against Jobbins after a swindle involving sand mixed into clay. The janitor questions the motive as the project rumbles on. The error leaves the last batch unusable, undermining the construction effort.
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Indianapolis Journal
Sprocket’s injuries prompt Cobbled bicycle quip
Yonkers Statesman recounts Egbert and others discussing Sprocket’s condition. He faces a cut face an arm in a sling and a limp. The joke implies his fall from a bicycle as the cause.
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Egbert
Yonkers Statesman
What He Was Good For
Mystifying garbled text appears to be OCR noise with scattered fragments about an old man, a porter, and unclear quotes. No coherent events, names, or locations are extractable for a factual summary.
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Indiana
Words of Wisdom from The South West
A collection of maxims urging balance and virtue. It extols taking holidays, mastering one soul with money lessons, generosity, courage in competition, finishing each day, and starting tomorrow with a refreshed spirit. It concludes that today is valuable and should not be wasted on yesterday s concerns.
Nelsons keen mercy halts dispatch to save a letter
Captain Mahan recounts Nelson’s kindness when a coxswain forgot to post his own letter. The admiral, unaware of Pasco’s presence, orders the dispatch vessel to return so the man’s letter could join the mail rather than be left behind.
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Lord Nelson
Mahan
Nelson
Pasco
Educated seal causes ruckus at Schiller Theatre
At Schiller Theatre an escaped trained seal attacked a dog on stage then fought with Policeman de Marr. After blows from a club and reinforcements arrived, the seal retreated to its tank nursing a injured fin as staff resumed quiet after an afternoon performance.
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Schiller Theatre
de Marr
R. C. Gardner
Chicago Tribune
Echo method locates underground conduit obstruction
A measured echo technique uses sound speed about 1100 feet per second to pinpoint carriers lodged in pneumatic tubes. Five trials yielded 2793 seconds and, after adjusting for air temperature, placed the obstruction exactly 1537 feet from the instrument, per Science.
Red Eagle and His Salvation Lassie Involves Volunteers Yard Romance
Red Eagle the Indian noted as a Salvation Army leader in Kansas towns lectured in the city last Saturday night and became involved with one of the Salvation Army lasses. The pair eloped into the Volunteers yard amid disapproval from other members. the tale ends with a disputed romance and staged rags.
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Red Eagle
Salvation Army
Kansas
Volunteers
Salva Army
Volunteers Yard
Pom Ag
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