Notable world notes from The Bulletin des Halles items
A terse roundup reports global trivia and economic tidbits such as horse and livestock counts, a St Petersburg pharmacy directory, railway lighting with American equipment, Bavarian tax support for Speyer tomb restorations, a cobalt strike in Oregon, Sakhalin forests for Chinese markets, Berlin gas use surge, Manitoba arable land estimates, Nelson’s walking cane in Montana, German libel actions venue shift, a Cheltenham hospital bed endowment, Sino US trade figures for 1901, and a rich telluride ore find near Custer South Carolina.
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Bulletin Des Halles
Paris
St. Petersburg
Russia
Speyer
Quartzburg
Oregon
Sakhalin
China
Berlin
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Nelson
Trafalgar
Newport
Mont
Germany
Custer
S. C
Endless chain scheme nets fortunes for Wilkes-Barre firm
A Wilkes-Barre mail order firm run by Van Kirk and Robbins built an endless chain operation from selling a horse for cash and a $2.50 fountain pen. They sent 60 letters daily to recruit buyers, promising $2.50 per letter and salaries for hundreds. Daily receipts allegedly reached up to $10,000 before postal authorities halted mail. The Post Office, while investigating legality, withheld mail as the case unfolds.
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van Kirk & Robbins
Efe
Washington
Wilkesbarre
Home Office
Harakiri in Japanese History and Custom
London Chronicle outlines the origins and evolution of harakiri or seppuku in Japan. It explains how the practice started to spare dishonor, became a noble privilege, and was witnessed officially at times. The piece cites feudal elites, the Forty Seven Ronin tale, and periodic enforcement versus outlawing of vendetta.
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Tokio
Yamaguchi
Japan
London Chronicle
The Blinders an Odd Paris Celibacy Club Ends In Marriage
In Paris a quasi secret society named the Blinders sought to prove celibacy's merits over matrimony. Presidents Hector de Meydesir and Dutailly, a naval officer, led as bachelors while society members faded into married life. Meydesir later married Sabine de Moultray after a dramatic mayoral ceremony, defying his vow. Dutailly visits Meydesir to learn why he wed, finding his friend content as a benedict, while the tale recalls flirtations, debts, and social consequences.
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Staris
France
Hector de Meydesir
Dutailly
de Meydesir
Benedicts
Duntailly
Figaro
Gaston de Foomerin
Monsieur de Meydesir
Mlle
Cleo
Saronne de Bastea
Saronne de Bastea, Adieu, Dutailly
Paris
Blinders
Hector
Monsieur
Dntailly
The
Sea Dog
Clicky
Ia “Bidare
Mile
Sabine de Moultray
Chen
Tapa
Mlle, de Moultray
Bois
Coffee Displacing Beer in German Factories
Coffee is gradually replacing beer as the beverage served during working hours in German factories. The shift reflects changing worker routines and rising coffee culture reducing beer consumption at the workplace.
The Morning Summons Poem by Richard Burton
A lyrical meditation on dawn and renewal. The speaker describes morning as a summons that awakens life, hope, and energy across landscape and mind. The piece blends nature imagery with a call to effort and forward motion, ending with the dawn bringing dew, fire, and rapture.
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Richard Burton
Atlantic
Beatrice Hastings Echoes on the Blinders Dissolution
An adapted excerpt where a weary speaker reflects on marriage misgivings and the dissolution of the Blinders crew. The old sea dog groans and contemplates fate, hinting at unresolved personal ties and consequences aboard the vessel.
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Sea Dog
New York
Beatrice Hastings
Military titles mix and matter in Senate debate
A Washington Star piece notes the unsettled use of military ranks during Senate debate over Maj Cornelius Gardener from the Philippines. Senators vacillated between major colonel and captain as official reporters later standardize the title as major.
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Washington Star
Patterson
Maj
Cornelius Gardener
Philippines
Gardener
Senate
Maj. Gardener
Byron Statue Barricaded by Westminster Abbey Rebuff
The Byron monument subscription failed to fund a Westminster Abbey installation. Thorvaldsenu created a life sized statue of Byron seated on a ruin with a skull beside him and the Athenian owl above. It arrived in London in 1853 but was declined for display by Dean Dr Ireland and remained in the custom house for over 12 years before being moved to Trinity College Cambridge. Thorvaldsen, born 1770, died 184 has incomplete date in source.
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Lord Byron
Westminster Abbey
Chantrey
Thorwaldsenu
Custom House
London
Westminster
Ireland
Childe Harold
Thorvaldsen
Newcastle Weekly Chronice
Bridge Moves 2400 Ton Span Across Raritan Canal
The Pennsylvania road shifted a vast bridge weighing 2400 tons over 14 feet 6 inches in 1 minute 45 seconds to rejoin the Delaware and Raritan canal. Under F L Sheppard, the United Railroads of New Jersey supervisor, the four 140 foot spans and 906 foot composite length were adjusted with expansion allowances. A westbound freight soon crossed the relocated bridge within 25 minutes of the move.
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New Brunswick
Raritan River
Delaware and Raritan Canal
F. L. Sheppard
United Railroads of New Jersey
What was summer made for to fish and dream
A Washington Star verse describes fishing and sunlit summer pleasures. The poem imagines fish waiting on lines and waters moving swiftly as willows laugh and grass becomes a pillow by the stream. It ponders the purpose of summer and its dreams.
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de Crick
Washington Star
Ills Illness Puts Sage In Somber Mood Amid Ocean Park Plans
Friends of Russell Sage fear his illness may deepen though denied at home as he endures a bad cold. Vaudeville entertainments are planned for ocean liners with male talent on the St Pauls next voyage. William K Vanderbilt Jr buys HO acres near Great Neck to build a grand country estate at a reported 350000 dollars.
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Russell Sage
St. Paul
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Lakeville
Great Neck
L. L
Long Island
Snaps From a Circular Letter and Witty Observations
A collection of pithy aphorisms and witticisms from a Philadelphia Bulletin page. Quips compare manners to earnings, note ironies about luck and wishes, and touch on language and poets. It includes lines about roosters, hens, period punctuation, and seed oils as meat substitutes.
Police exam questions stir Toledo amid mayor’s odd catechism
Mayor Jones launches a civil service test to form a police eligibility list in Toledo. Critics call the questions extreme and impractical, probing officers on arresting relatives, serving punishments, handling drunks, and judging punishment equality, while noting a political clash over a reconstituted police board.
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Jones
Toledo
Amon
Paderewski the Great Pianist and Gentleman
The Pilgrim profile portrays Ignacy Paderewski as a highly intellectual, practical man with broad learning and strong conversational powers on topics from American politics to philosophy. He is described as generous, devoted to his wife, sociable, and regarded as the greatest pianist in the world who also rises as a composer.
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Coney Island
Manhattan Beach
Anthony W. Brady
Gravesend
Gravesend Bay
Harway Basin
Mr. Paderewski
Schopenhauer
They loved but their hair was red
A romance tale from the era chronicles a Sherburne New York man and a Galeton Pennsylvania woman who exchange photos and plan a Binghamton meeting to wed. He sees she is red headed and flees, later revealing he is red haired too. Both accept the twist and part.
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Laura Jean Libbey
Sherburne
Nay
Galeton
Binghamton
New York Commercial Advertiser
Catching Cod on the Banks Ainslee’s Magazine
Ainslee's Magazine describes relentless codfishing on the ranks with sailors waking at 2 a.m. to fill bait tubs and lift haul before daybreak. Eight thousand hooks, nightly processing, evisceration, and storage fill decks by midnight. Sleep is scarce, men rub tobacco to stay awake, and damp decks and constant dripping rigging intensify fatigue.
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Ainslee
Birth of the Cicada Described In Detail
A Leslie’s Popular Monthly passage explains the cicada’s life cycle from subterranean growth to emergence. After a long underground phase a warm August morning brings a clumsy molt as the shell splits revealing a mass of damp material and a broad head with shining eyes beginning the new creature’s life.
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Leslie
A Patient Bride
In Lincolnshire at Bottesfield on Tuesday the 16th, John Kirk an occasional preacher of the Methodist connexion wed Susanna Seaton of Burringham a mantra maker. The patient bride had kept company with a local blacksmith for nearly two years and eloped with the preacher the day after a church ceremony in a curious, much noted match.
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London Times
Bottesfield
Lincolnshire
John Kirk
Susanna Seaton
Burringham
Mantra
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