Various World Notes and Local Highlights from 1900
A compilation of brief items covers science and industry trends, military pay changes, travel and trade notes, social observations, and notable figures. Topics include peppermint oil mice control, U S army surgeon pay, Paris theatre size, women’s equality in 19th century South Africa, a London protest by General Gordon’s family, imperial scales, automobile bells, Lady Georgiana Grey’s longevity, Brazil’s medical demand, global language counts, Dr. Martineau’s birthday, U S Senate salaries and staff, Morrill statue funding, art auction gains, Cripple Creek mine sale, funeral practices debate, Minnesota Bible printing, a child’s safe travel to Oklahoma, English dress fads for soldiers, San Francisco fortifications, and Henry Oxnard’s tariff lobbying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
South Africa
General Gordon
London
Georgiana Grey
Earl Grey
Brazil
Martineau
Vermont
Justin S. Morrill
Capitol
Washington
Sis¢y
Bordeaux
Paris
Stratton
Cripple Creek
Colo
A. B. Church
Universalist Church
Akron
American Bible Society
Minnesota
St. Paul
Helen M. Francis
Stroud
Okla
New York City
England
San Francisco Harbor
Henry T. Oxnard
Sugar Trust
Porto Rico
Notable Americans and their ventures in dates and land gains
Wu Ting Fang, the Chinese Minister in Washington, buys a car as an expert wheelman. Ex Senator Washburne of Minnesota has made a fortune in North Dakota land, once worth about eight million dollars. Consul Thomas E. Heenan of Odessa returns to Philadelphia on leave. Bland's widow hopes for earnings from a life of the late congressman being prepared. Thatcher R. C. Crowell promotes flax mills in North Dakota, teaching farmers straw can fetch three dollars per ton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wu Ting Fang
Washington
Washburne
Minnesota
North Dakota
Thomas E. Heenan
Odessa
Russia
Philadelphia
Heenan
United States Service
Agassiz
Congressman Bland
Missouri
Bland
Thatcher R. C. Crowell
Boston
Wit or Wisdom Sayings From the Chicago News
A collector of quips notes that wealth does not equal crankiness and odds and ends of wisdom cross editorial waste baskets. The piece riffs on manners of concealment, preserved fruit, and social opinion with sharp editor’s wit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Noah
Chicago News
Odd Bits from the Era: Trade, War and Travel Highlights
A survey of varied notes cites London's flower trade at over 10 million dollars yearly and the first khaki-clad regiment as dust men. It mentions marriages, biographies, curios from the Philippines, skin pores, immigration fears, penny notes, electric car demand, Minnesota taxes, bicycle evolution, a Transvaal general’s daughter in England, and Governor Wells’ San Francisco reporting past.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
England
Minnesota
Minnie
Gotha
Highgate
Wells
Utah
San Francisco
Prairie dog plague threats Kansas farms and remedies
Western Kansas farmers face a prairie dog surge spanning hundreds of acres. Articles detail towns of interconnected holes, crop and pasture damage, and methods to control the pests including arsenic-treated bait, bisulphide or carbon drops, and strychnine mixtures. The sand hill owl is not a resident of prairie dog towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Plains
J. B. Perry
Oberlin
Fruit Farms Expand Across North Carolina South
In North Carolina fruit farms are growing with 30 acre strawberry fields and expanding peach orchards. Various fruit crops are being raised and the enterprise has seen notable success across the region.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South
North Carolina
Restoring Dimmed Picture Frames With Alcohol or Egg
The article describes methods to brighten faded frames by applying a small amount of alcohol with a camel hair brush or using a beaten egg white. It notes gentle application with a soft cloth or brush for best results.
Miscellaneous Abridged Quotes From Various Works
A collection of short literary quotes touching on religious feeling growth social reform taste in women and heroic leadership. The selections span references to Enoc h Willoughby The Minx Knights in Fustian The Prelude and the Play and others noting attitudes toward life society and knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Enoch
Willoughby
Knights
Fustian
Heaven
Wiorerhby
Growth of the Lobster Larval Stage
The article explains lobster handedness with 2433 specimens showing 1164 right claws and 1266 left claws, three with both. It notes the lobster can shed claws under fright, a habit common in Narragansett Bay catches, and recounts early larval life, growth to six inches, and predators including eels, cod, sharks, dogfish, sting rays, skates, bass, and tautog.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aristotle
Francis Hobart Herrick
Adelbert College
Western Reserve University
United States Fish Commission
Narragansett Bay
Travis
N. Y. Press
If Sea Level Lowered Lakes Would Disappear
A historical note discusses the hypothetical lowering of the Great Lakes to sea level. It suggests Michigan and Ontario would split into smaller or larger submerged forms, Erie and Huron shrinking, and Superior losing much of its size, with dramatic shifts in depth and geography across the basin. It cites depths, ranges, and regional observations from the Chicago Chronicle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Lakes
United States
Lake Michigan
Chicago
Superior
Michigan
Huron
Erie
Ontario
St. Joseph
Straits
Niagara
Chicago Chronicle
Faith groups and funds across nations and cities
Catholic and Christian Science communities report notable memberships in Japan and Boston while congregations in Milwaukee plan a Catholic summer school. Donations push a Brooklyn church memorial for Dr Storrs and Prague’s Bohemian National Church raises funds for a John Huss monument. The American Board offers 550 in prizes for mission essays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congregational
Twentieth Century Missionary Fund
Hugh Price Hughes
Church of the Pilgrims
Brooklyn
Dr. Storrs
Bohemian National Church
John Huss
Prague
American Board of Missions of the Congregational Churches
Hetty Green Hidden Beneath Rainstorm Orchestration
A Chicago woman recalls meeting financier Hetty Green at Rockaway Beach. The visitor described Green trudging through a rainstorm for two cents of milk, sharing a tea moment, and later securing a coal order through a payment, illustrating her shrewd, frugal reputation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hetty Green
Chicago
Rockaway Beach
Mrs. Green
Mormon Converts Reported in Milwaukee by Latter Day Saints
President J D Cummings of the Wisconsin conference says twenty one converts were made in Milwaukee over the last year. The Pope invites delegates from all countries to a conference in Einsieden Switzerland to discuss preservation of world library books and manuscripts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iuring
Milwaukee
J. D. Cummings
Wisconsin Conference of Latter Day Saints
Einsieden
Switzerland
Also Mentioned on This Page
Warren Mail
Warren, PA
Owl
Aristote
Europe
Deering
Geo. W. Spinnner
C. Smith & Son
Warren
Baker & Bowman Co
Utz & Dunn
Levis & Pifer’s
Ladies’ Fine Shoes
Goker & Son
N.greenland & Son
Pennsylvania
Sheffield
Harrisburg
New York
Sunbury
Lancaster
Baltimore
Pullman
Williamspes
Philadelph
Eastome
Wiisport
Williamsport
Kane
Williams- Porrain
Pullman Bee
Oomelphia
Wilsneer
Philadelon
Wpene
Dubois
J. B. 'Chinson
Wa R. Wood
Avent
Golden Horse Shoe
No. 309
Second St
Racine, Wis
St. Louis
Tobacco Workers
Connecticut
Colorado
Freestone Cutters
Mexico
Dublin
Ireland
United Mine Workers’ Union
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Rixey
Rochester
N. Y
Toledo
Ohio
Birmingham
Niagara Falll
Wardner “Bull Pen
Gould Steel Casting
Anderson
Ind
Depew
Omaha
Neb
Brotherhood of Leather Workers
Kansas City
Dayton
Building Trades Council
Indianapolis
Electrical Workers of
Great Britain
The
Tin Plate Trust
China
B. Altman & Co
Electric Vehicle Company
Electric Company
Traction Truck Company
Trenton, N. J
Berlin
France
Spalding
Bicycle Trust
Mulholland
Bicycle Workers’ National Union
Trust Pu
Kenosha
Wis
Fter
Japan
Christian Science Church
Christian Science Churches
Brotherhood
Salvation Army
India
Aun
Peel
W. H. Deven
U. S
Dearborn
the Union Pianos
OreanCo
Union Piano & Organ CO
East 134 Street
Riggs
Guaranty Rheumatic Remedy Co. (Incorporated
W. Genesee ST
Buffalo, N.Y
Dunkirk
Allegheny Valley & Pittsburgh Railroad
New York Central
Hudson River R. R. Co
Sun
Magara Falls
Tvowes
Valley
Bae Bob Col
Fitusville
W. Bartlett
Parry
General Beuat
Buffalo
N.Y
Cincinnati St. Louis
East
West
F. H. Garfield
Pas
Jamestown
N. V
Wsw
Edson C. Dayton
Minneapolis
Presbytery
Tionesta Valley Railroad
Sheffield Junction
Lamona
Shef
Jerry Crary
CY A
Manca
Olean Express
Pittsburg
Peer Bente
Tidioute
Tionesta
Oil City
Buffalo Express
Oil City Express
Tahine Sd Tel
Setermetios
R. Bell
Fellows
Mooney-Brisbane
Passeng
Clinton Streets
Batiale
N- Y
SLAW
Transvaal
Kitchener
Chicago Times-Herald
Omdurman
Edward III
Philip VI
Crecy
Hohenlind
Marengo
Tugela
Modder
Chancellorsville
Chickamauga
Gettysburg
Antietam
Plevna
Waterloo
Wellington
Rosa Bonheur
Fontainebleau
Isidore
Lincumdoddie
Upper
Tweed
Scotland
Burns
Willie Wastle
Stockholm
Woman’s Board of Missions of the Congregational Church
Far East
Patagonia
General Custer
Ladysmith
British War Office
Custer
Lagat Blanss
Mii
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