Automatic lunchage on Broadway sets new fast food trend
A vivid survey of a Broadway auto lunch with slot machines and glass-front dining, detailing a rapid self-serve system where customers pay and receive food via coin slots, from coffee to beans and sandwiches. It traces a history from early street vendors to the mechanized lunchrooms between Wall Street and City Hall, noting price ranges and patronage.
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Broadway
Walla
Lestred Aude
Stardimge
Prosbelors
Sountain
Pirmordia
Park
Travis
Citys Hall Park
wMce
Wlalbiuitol
Old New York Beef and Beans Lunches and Piemen’s Shops
A nostalgic tour of downtown New York pie and beef and bean lunchrooms. It recalls German pie bakers in Ann Street, the original beef and restaurant in Park Row, and later crowded lunch rooms with coffee, buckwheat cakes, and self serve or mixed service. The piece notes changing styles, waiter types, and the enduring popularity of the beef and restaurant concept since the 1880s.
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Pork Row
Apple
Ann Street
Park Row
the Diamonds
del Daly
General Knowledge Quiz Q and A From 19th Century Trivia
A long series of Q and A items on population, tariffs, education laws, geography, politics, baseball, Bible word counts, eight hour laws, Populist origins, pitching feats, Lake Superior details, political leanings by state, marching rate, and housing rent durations. Answers include Memphis population 3 360, tariffs five to twenty five cents per bushel, Elementary Education Act of 1870, Booth not Lincoln, Lincoln killing trials four, Bible word girl appears once in Joel, US eight hour laws found in twenty eight states, Populist party origins in Cincinnati May 1891, pitcher shutouts varied, Lake Superior dimensions, Vermont and Arkansas political history, typical marching rate three miles per hour, fifteen miles rented, and a fifteen minute army halt.
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America
Lake Superior
Vermont
Arkansas
Maine
United States Army
How To Win Out With The Woman You Married
A satirical look at gendered advice in newspapers arguing that men receive little guidance on managing wives while women are trained in domestic strategy. The piece critiques press biases, advocates mutual effort, and suggests shared responsibility in marriage with humorous examples and observations.
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Dorothy Dix
Iman
Fle
Paris
Israel
Daily Press
Lome
Efe
Hiis
Sean
Jack
Russia
Bessemer
Still Deals in Cattle in New York Market
The New York live stock trade remains active with 7,000 to 8,000 cattle weekly for city butchers plus 5,000 to 6,000 sheep and 10,000 calves during the fall. Western, State, and Harlem stock move through Union Stock Yards, with State cattle favored for frankfurters and bolognas. Cattle travel by rail to Brooklyn slaughterhouses since a Chicago meat strike, then by barge to city selling points. calves and sheep are kept in an animal nursery for recovery before slaughter.
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State
Harlem
Brooklyn
New York
Broadway Omnibus
Volunteer Fire Company
Five Boroughs
Boundless
Prairies
Sion
Knickerbocker
Sixtieth Street
North River
Union Stock Yards and Market Company
John
Vanderbilts
Commodore
New York Central
Eleventh Avenue
Aleck
Wnams
Commodore's
Governors Island
Hikers Island
Trion Yards
Hamile
Jersey City
Pennsylvania and Erie
New York City
St. Lawrence
Delaware
Westchesterland
Dutchess
New York Commission
Buffalo
John Ducey
Te Union Stock Yards
Coney Island Boulevard
Ducey
New Yok
Fifty Ninth
Shelieth Streets
Battery
Amelia
Forty-seventh Street
Hast
When Love Has Gone Poem by Charles Sumner Pike
A poem urging resilience after love ends. It counsels lifting the eyes, discarding despair, and channeling hurt into prayer. Though love departs, inner strength and renewed hope are urged, with calls to forget hate and move forward.
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Charles Sumner Pike
The
Independent
Reindeer Hunts in Water Along Anadyr River Siberia
The Anadyr River region in Siberia hosts a unique reindeer drive where hunters in small light canoes spear deer swimming in a river line. Women on shore create noise to drive animals toward the water, and carcasses are skinned and stored for winter transport. Marineky Post, Russia's northern outpost, stands as a desolate eight‑month frontier amid Arctic storms and sparse life.
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Siberia
Anadyr
Baring Sea
Ani
Bering Sea
Marinsky Post
Russia
Imperial Post-Office
America
Marineky Post
Luxury on a Ranch Dreamlife on the Prairies
A Kansas Star feature tours modern ranch life east of the Rockies. A party travels thirty miles by mule past windmills and sod houses to a ranch with a blue tiled bathroom and a telephone. Life combines luxury with water worries, distant neighbors, and the effort to manage land, water rights, and cattle in Western Kansas.
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Kansas City Star
Rocky Mountains
Bloorh
Kansas
Blake
Purcellta
Sittmg
Sylvia
Errike
High Plain
Tls
Iowa
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Swise Alps
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Omaha
Cincinnati
Terra
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New England
Weather Bureau
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Atlantic States
W. T
Mornington Island
Austrata
Gulf of Carpentaria
Germany
France
Great Britain
Austria-Hungary
Japan
Europe
Norway
Sweden
Bacon
Shakespeare
Congress
NEW York Central Stock Yards
Brooklyn Eagle
Dreamlife
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