World Notes and Antiquities Echo In Brief
A Rouen shipyard decline prompts caution on a $25,000, 2000 ton hulls as losses mount on launches. In Baden a Roman era tomb of Flavius Sternis and Flavius Vehemens is unearthed near Durlach. British government buys Agshburntam manuscripts for $225,000 after earlier private sale at $40,000. Art instruction reaches 2,445,785 annually in England and Wales, with schools drawing 2,250,000 pupils costing $890,000 yearly. Dr. August Potthast, former Reichstag librarian, dies at 74, authoring a key medieval history guide. Navy clerks gain combat training through drills and rowing as part of new admiralty orders.
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Rouen
Durlach
Baden
Christ
Flavius Sternis
Flavius Vehemens
Agshburntam
Stow
Earl
England
Wales
Department of Science and Art
August Potthast
Reichstag
Food adulteration tests for coffee milk and peas
Instructions describe methods to detect burnt sugar or caramel in coffee by darkening water, test milk fat by coating a needle with emery cloth, test coffee with chickory on water, and reveal copper in preserved peas by lemon juice in a glass overnight.
Hood's Sarsaparilla Extols Nation’s Favorite Medicine
A testimonial touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as America's greatest medicine. It claims the tonic cures paralysis-like weakness after diphtheria, restores appetite, and builds strength, noting 100 doses per bottle and a bargain of 200 doses for one dollar, tied to Lowell Massachusetts makers.
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Hood
I. Hood Co
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
Fae
Through Tourist Sleepers Portland Trip Feature
A fragmentary travel note praises a northwest travel feature by Burlington Route including connections to St Louis Denver and Denver via Colorado Salt Lake City. It quotes a Boston Transcript remark and mentions L W Waxrruer as G P A St Louis. Also humor and ads about Kemp's Balsam St Jacobs Oil and a minister remark about skating appear in brief snippets.
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St. Louis
Kansas City
Denver
Scenic Colorado
Salt Lake
L. W. Waxrruer
Boston Transcript
Odds and Ends from a Victorian Notebook
A compact miscellany notes a fly’s proportionally rapid gait, Japan's iron coins and Siamese porcelain in currency, English oysters priced a penny per five a century ago, Japanese apple trees four inches tall bearing currant-sized fruit, and the etymology of yokel meaning one who yoked oxen and other beasts.
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Japan
Siam
England
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