Torrid Weather Impacts Trade and Crop Reports
New York August 15 Dan and We review notes that prolonged heat harms business across the United States. Government crop reports show serious injuries, banks deny loans, and labor issues reduce operations. Stocks fall to 17 year lows but rally late week as confidence returns.
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Canada
Bryan
Chicago
Carr
Connellsville
Lake
Alabama No. 2
Birmingham
Northern No. 2
Fruit Tree Roads Boost Public Revenue Across Europe
European systems plant fruit trees along highways to fund state needs. Germany Saxony Württemberg and AustriaLuxembourg show successful budgets from roadside orchards. Road sylvicultors manage plantings with training funded by authorities. Landschule in Basse Riviere trains workers. Alpine regions like Tyrol feature thousands of apple and pear trees, with railways also adopting edge plantings.
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Paris
Emmanuel Ratouin
Germany
Wurtemburg
Saxony
Bavarian
Hanover
Grand Duchy of Luxemburg
Austria
Wurtemberg
Palatinate
Bavaria
Landschule
Basse Riviere
Moravia
Bohemia
Hradisch
Drosing
Tyrol
Hoffgarten
Grand Duchy
Literary Digest
Signal Tower Blamed in New Jersey Rail Crash
A Susquehanna & Western train from Paterson collided with a Pennsylvania locomotive pulling an empty Chesapeake & Ohio consist in the Railegad Yards of Dorsey City on Henderson street. Engineer John Shay suffered a severe head wound. Fireman Matthews and Brakeman John Beck injured. Conductor John Baxter narrowly escaped. The Pennsylvania crew also escaped injuries. Officials blame the signal tower for the accident.
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Jansty City
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Paterson
Pennsylvania Railroad
Chesapeake & Ohio
Henderson Street
Railroad Avenue
John Shay
Susquehanan
Matthews
John Beck
John Baxter
Albert Chapman
Johan Peterson
Pennsylvania
Shaded Highways and Trees Bring Comfort to Roads
Shaded highways bring beauty and relief on hot days. Trees along country roads reduce dust, retain moisture, and create shelter from sun. The piece urges highway commissioners to ride sun-blasted roads to feel the need for shade and better roads.
Great Men In Love And The Wild Passion Of Famous Liaisons
A compact survey of historic lovers from Scarron and Mme de Maintenon to Keats, Beethoven, Petrarch, and Hall. It notes each figure’s declared beloved and the lasting intensity of their affections, including Abelard, Heloise, and others, with minimal context.
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Keats
Fanny Browne
Beethoven
Giulietta Guicciardi
Petrarch
Laura
Notable Names in Brief From Cultural World
A Smithsonian writer Dr J M Toner who died recently never married and lived alone in a large Washington house. The widow of Prof Huxley to receive 2000 pounds yearly pension now listed on English civil list. Rudyard Kipling likely to stay in America with a new farm barn addition noted in Bennington. Pederewski visited London secretly to consult with an English doctor about his child, a cripple. A Portland hotel guest mocked by George Gould's party after Gould left two dimes on the table. Marie Alacoque candidate for canonization after 200 years. Cardinal Perraud carries a petition from 270 church leaders to Rome for faster canonization steps.
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Smithsonian
Washington
Prof. Huxley
Rudyard Kipling
England
Bennington
M. Pederewski
London
Paris
Portland
George Gould
Gould
Marie Alacoque
Order of the Sacred Heart
Perraud
Rome
Hints for the Household on Stain Removal and Sickroom Care
Advice discusses removing paint stains from fabric using butter or olive oil and chloroform, and lowering fever in a sickroom by hanging ice cold sheets. It also notes whitening white clothes with borax dissolved in hot water before rinsing.
Reverend Coleman Sees Merit Through Purpose and Industry
In Beardstown Illinois Rev. M G Coleman of the Methodist Church contends that ascent to high office and achievement stems not from luck but from a noble purpose paired with diligent labor. His remarks emphasize character over chance in worldly advancement.
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M. G. Coleman
Methodist
Beardstown
Ill
Wonderful Phenomenon and the Dyspepsia Remedy
A quoted man claims passing life without indigestion is a rare phenomenon. The text notes many people are relieved daily by Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, advertised as a remedy for dyspepsia fever and ague debility constipation rheumatism and kidney troubles.
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Hostetter
Inquisitive minds and cures fill this compact column
A collage of quotes and jokes from 19th century periodicals notes scholars seeking divine meaning, a mother correcting a shirt, medical patent cures with free trials, office jokes about hotels and bands, a boy saved by Philo Opt, and references to Hall’s Catarrh Cure and a William Tell anecdote, all in a breezy anecdotal style.
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