From Europe to Asia and America Notes on Curious News
A collage of misc items reports a German coal safety cost in a miners’ dispute, a Mt Louis poet ending his life, a 100 year old climber conquering a 7000 foot Swiss peak, a New York marriage to escape Sing Sing, a Boston waitress’s windfall, germ news in milk, Japanese women leading progress at home, a Washington jury valuing a voice lost to a cold, and the dowager empress advocating virtue in provincial elections. Philippine island counts, Panama Canal concrete, Dutch model farms and forced labor, denatured alcohol beginnings, a Christmas money joke, and Henry Farman’s Paris flight prize invite. The piece ends noting public curiosity about air navigation for the average person.
Shorthand Without Hands Ends In Remarkable Feat
A 15 year old named Possneck who lost both hands in an Arnstadt machinery accident has earned a speed certificate for shorthand. After losing his hands he lived in a crippled home. The Duke of Saxon Meiningen funded two artificial hands. He can now write and shorthand at 115 words per minute.
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Possneck
Arnstadt
Duke of
Saxre Meiningen
Ind
That Strange Ladd and Morality in a Chicago Exchange
A brief dialogue clip mocks ambition as a ladder with no top rung. A moralizer cites the saying and a demoralizer agrees, noting the line ends with a jab about Chicago. The exchange suggests a satirical view of ambition and urban life.
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Chicago
Fog filled Petersburg siege scenes and prisoner mischance
Fog so dense that soldiers could not find return routes near Petersburg lines. A Union picket sergeant and squad wandered into Confederate lines and were captured before a fog portended a flip in fortunes, uniforms swapped in confusion and later regained by the Union. Diplomats buy homes in Washington as Latin reps settle amid shifting governments. Desiccation of Africa’s Sudan region cited by J Dybowski as forests vanish and rivers dry.
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Miarsky
Petersburg
John T. Porter
Pittsburg
Walter McCabe
One Hundred and Fifty-ffth
McCabe
Yank
Sergi
Africa
J. Dybowski
Sudan
Adanson
Tomb of Confucius Pedigree Highlighted by 77 Generations
A lengthy feature notes the Duke Kung lineage as 77 generations of Confucius descendants living at his birthplace. It describes hereditary status in Shantung, imperial-style honors, and the town’s accessibility issues for foreign visitors, with a view on spelling variations and pilgrimage by Western tourists. Georgia Cotton Seed Sent to Mexico is also reported as a separate brief.
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Duke Kung
Confucius
Duke King
Familly
Shantung
China
Legge
Williamson
Georgia
Mexico
R. H. Smith
Monticello
Atlanta
Elderg Ulmer
Torreon Coahuila
Htip
Canetituten
Defense Dreakwater at Portsmouth Harbor Under Construction
Portsmouth harbor defense work began to thwart nighttime attacks. A wall of 34 ton concrete blocks to span shallow sandbanks will form a barrier across the harbor approach. Forts at each end will flank the obstacle to seal the creek quickly if needed.
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Portsmouth
England
Naval Harbor
Wale-t automobiles in Borneo spark debate
In a Washington Herald extract a Toledo man recounts a tale of visions in heaven and hell. He says white men recline and smoke while black men kneel to polish gold slippers, then describes white men holding black men between them and flames.
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W. Wale
T Nee
Borneo
T.T. M
Willie
Philip R. Bunge
Toledo
Heaven
Hell
Washington Herald
Three Cures of Eczema by Cuticura Remedies
A testimonial recounts three summers of eczema on a brother, cured by Cuticura Ointment after faithful use. A Indiana mother reports her daughter’s child and another family’s infant cured by Cuticura Remedies, with the disease never returning. Signatures from Coldwater Michigan August 15 and September 2, 1907.
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Indiana
Sarah B. Lusk
Coldwater
Mich
Old Gentleman Not Pleased At English Club Dinner
A white-haired old gentleman in Hongkong, visiting from a northern port, reacts angrily to a letter marked in Chinese. The hall porter’s envelope note insults him as a baboon with white fur, which shocks the scholar of the party who then questions the porter. The scene ends with the dramatic rebuke. Also a seaside holiday tale tells of a family seeking cheap lodging with one bed for six to share while the wife and children sleep on the floor.
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Indiana
Bridgeport
Stevenson
Tennessee River
Samuel Martindale
Martindale
Hiff
W. H. Catkins
Washington
Ala
Sam Martindale
Land of the Living
Newton County
Hongkong
Bairas
The Doctor's Gift Food Story
APennsylvanian patient credits Grape-Nuts with curing years of indigestion and biliousness after a doctor recommended the cereal. The testimonial says improvement began immediately, with full recovery in two months, boosting vitality and mental clarity as claimed in The Road to Wellville promotion.
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Grupo Nuts
Postum Co
Hattie
Wellville
Iy Okes
Time to Reform in a Mood of Reflection
A clipped, reflective fragment contrasts reformist sentiment with a boastful line about never too late to change. It cites a saying about reform and a remark on excuses, then pivots to a jumble of medical copy about headaches and a laxative product.
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E. ©. Burke
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Promise
A historical advertisement extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as uniquely effective for female illness. It cites testimonials and letters dating many women’s recoveries, claims the remedy avoids drugs, and asserts it saved women from gynecological surgeries.
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Lydia
Pinkham
Pinkham Laboratory
Lass
Iyilia Papas Caine
Lydia E. Pinkham
E. Pinkham
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