New York Tenement Toilers In Class Of Their Own
A detailed exposé of New York tenement workers in crowded lodging, showing families living in multiple small rooms, working from dawn to night finishing clothing with machines and handwork. inspectors enforce licenses and clean floors, while pushcart vendors and immigrant families struggle under harsh conditions and laws.
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New York
Theodore Dresser
Centralenx
York City
Jerstand
Jean
Irumination
Balttery
Ubis
UN Uder
New York City
Constantinople
Lelaw
Brooklyn
William Waldorf Astor
Loomis Finds Cure for Seasickness in Odd Memoir
Charles Battell Loomis recounts a sea voyage with Massenger and other travelers detailing tips to prevent seasickness, comic observations aboard the ship, and impressions of Kentucky camaraderie, London first impressions, and traveler’s generalizations while noting the contagion of good spirits among shore meetups.
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Charles Battell Loomis
Spectacular Lava Storm Devastates Savaii Island in Samoa
The new Savaii volcano on Savaii, Samoa’s largest island, erupted violently after a year and a half of activity. Aerials show a six to seven mile plume and rivers of lava destroying forests, coral reefs, and settler homes while white traders and planters watch from distant shores. No deaths were reported though white residents lost plantations and a planter family’s house is now a melancholy ruin.
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Savaii
Samoa
Lavall
Savall
Maugaan
Thues
Apin
German Samoa
Upolu
Polynesa
Saray
Ima
Pacific
Evangelist Sam Small Reframes Devil in Indianapolis Sermons
In Indianapolis revival meetings at Pine Street and Lexing ton Avenue Sam Small presents a personal devil not as a grotesque figure but as a real being who could disguise himself and enter the city unseen. He mocks popular devil images, questions angelic form, and contrasts biblical angels with modern notions, urging residents to stay wary of deception.
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Evangelist
Indianapolis
Sam Small
Pine Street
Lexington Avenue
Mr Small
Angela
Two Adventurers Shape The Lost Legion Frontiersmen
A London led segment describes The Lost Legion Frontiersmen, an imperial force formed as an intelligence and mobile scouting unit. Biographies of founder Fr Roger Potrott and London commandant Mr eo Horn highlight rugged, globe trotting eligibles, including Pogock and de Hora, with experiences from the Northwest uprisings to Greenland expeditions and a dramatic early career in piracy and exploration. A second item notes a suffragette anecdote from the Liverpoal Daily Post about a proud moment aboard an American liner ending with a man overboard call.
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London
Campa
Roger Potrott
Eo Horn
Cable
Ontario
Mulkman
Regina
Prince Albert
Yokohama
Free Lance
British Columbia
St Kootenay Nithing
Blue Mountain
Wilds
Alberta
Fort McLeod
Canada
City
Mexico
Greenland
de Hora
California
South
Beas
Peru
Ber
H M Shah
Hos
Rio Negro
Col North
Brazil
Ecuador
Johanneshore
Liverpoal Daily Post
Hot Weather Snapshots From the Great Metropolis
A lengthy portrait of New York during a severe heat wave describes doorstep charity, street venders selling ice, and the theft of ice from a charity by a man on the East Side. It notes humane efforts for animals, public sleeping habits on piers and parks, and the public’s use of parks, beaches, and late bedtimes to cope. It also critiques lingering subway cooling plans and jokes about weather forecasts and city resilience.
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New York
Haines
Municipal Art Commission
Many
East Side
Troy Lines
Aguma
Subya
Beng Underground
Cellariike
Weather Bureau
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Strakow
Strakew
Madison Avenue
Parente
York
Thelpiers
Doveller
Hungerian
Koslovsky
Buch
Broadway
Sti
Concide
Fourteenth Street
Charles Sattell Loomis
Massenger
England
Mase Spraer
Niaz
Deltavns
Crn
Y Eosin
Mariposa
Llym
Bert
Beal
Kentucky
Maine
Strand
Magzenger
Myopia
Chasen
Plaice
George
Bloomsbury
Trenasan
Westminster
William Jennings Bryan
Teryan
Bryan G
America
Bryan
Dakota
Tuares
Wars
Goodspeeds Landing
St Pauls
Pittsburg Gazette-Times
Fourth Avenue
Knoxville
Hhs
Cowes Island
Coney Island
Roosevelt
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