Cicely's Blunder and the Chauffeur's Love
Cicely Delmaine travels to Aunt Agatha's Oakwood and falls for the chauffeur Peter Blair. Her parents fear and laughter follow as Cicely announces engagement to a man they assumed was merely a driver. Aunt Agatha reveals Peter's true identity and blesses the union, noting Cicely's affection remains strong regardless of status.
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Blair Bors
Aunt Agatha
Blairs
Peter
Blair
Mrs. Delmaine
Cicely
Agatha
Daniel Delmaine
Daugter
Delmaine
Long Island
Rosewood
Thomas
Arnold
Auntie
Hilton
Daniel
Jean Delmaine
Peter Blair
Tom
Cissy
Plan to Reform Hankow Into a Triangular Island
The Hankow project envisions a canal linking the Han and Yangtze rivers with the concessions and lake area creating a triangular island. An English company offered 50 million dollars at war’s end, and surveys are underway to lay out sites and build river bridges.
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Hankow
China
Yan Tu
Yangtze
Chinese National Gazette
War relic prices and odd finds in history
Auction sales have fetched notable war relics including a Napoleon table service for 3250 dollars and famed items linked to General Gordon and Lord Cardigan. A British court case revealed a hearthrug made from slain soldiers garments, while a Besancon windmill yielded a mummified pigeon with a 1870 message from a Paris siege.
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Gordon
Lord Cardigan
Balaclava
Napoleon
Paris
Besancon
Bunyan Portrayed as Hypochondriac by Dr. King
Dr. Howard D. King of New Orleans in the New York Medical Journal compares John Bunyan to a hypochondriac, citing Pilgrim's Progress and Grace Abounding Unto the Chief of Sinners. He quotes Bunyan on his desperate view of life and the belief that no normal person feels as he does.
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Bunyan
Hamlet
John Bunyan
Bedford
Howard D. King
New Orleans
New York Medical Journal
Doctor King
Cab driver fined for assault on undertaker in Philadelphia
James A. Ryan paid $25 after Judge Knowles fined him for beating Charles P. Milligan of Ninth street near Butler in municipal court. Milligan, an undertaker, had hired Ryan’s cab for a funeral but mocked its vehicle, leading to the assault accusation.
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James A. Ryan
Undertaker
Philadelphia Record
Gloom for the Early Riser
A quip exchanges dark humor about dawn and habit. One character cites a pessimistic view while the other counters with a proverb about early rising, highlighting contrasting outlooks in a concise dialogue.
Libraries by a Few Books in War Time
The war economy presses local authorities to cut library expenditure. Lambeth will stop buying novels during the war, while useful books stay funded. The Manchester Guardian notes committees may limit ephemera fiction yet continue works by leading novelists and war literature.
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Local Government Board
The
Library Association
Lambeth
Occupation One of Peril for Awning Removers
The New York Times notes awning removers climb bare faced roofs with no safety gear. They strip entire fronts from outside, moving from ledge to window sill and top stone. Three workers recently cleared 75 windows on a seven story Bronx flat in three hours.
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New York Times
Bronx
Artillery in the Alps Heights Alter Italian Gun Sights
Italian troops face unique challenges high in the Alps where air thinness alters shell ranges. At 5 000 feet a shell travels farther than at sea level, while at 7 500 feet the deviation grows. Mountain guns require specially corrected sights for accurate fire in this extreme altitude.
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Alps
India
Pearson
Radio time signal service for mariners at Slangkop
The Union government inaugurated a radio time signal service at the Slangkop wireless station for South African waters. Cape Town and Durban stations operate 24 hours daily with 600 meter wave length signals. At 11 pm Union time Cape Town emits signals for about 80 seconds, preceded by a warning signal.
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Acordng
Union Government
Slangkop
Cape Town
Durban
Union Time
Scientific American
Edison voice mill for cradle sparks safety doubt
A proposed device by Edison attaches a voice mill to a baby cradle to rock the cradle in response to crying. Critics warn the faster rocking with louder cries could lead to a child learning to cry constantly, raising safety and ethics concerns.
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Edison
Swat the Eggs War Cry For Fly Control
A historical plea promotes borax as a cheap, effective method to sterilize fly eggs and larvae. It argues flies breed in manure piles and that treating these sites with borax can drastically cut future fly populations, making cities flyless.
Laws to Abate Pestiferous Flies in Cities
A discussion notes that houseflies can be greatly reduced by practical methods. Health departments have authority to abate nuisances and can enforce rules on stables manure disposal to eliminate the nuisance.
Should Start a Co operative Cleanup
Community call to begin a winter campaign against allies with plans for town improvement. Proposes forming an association with district inspectors and food screening ordinances for sales. Suggests April to June prizes for children reporting living or recently killed housefires to promote a filmless town.
Filth Breeding Place Sparks Fly Habitat Warning
A sanitary notice explains that a heap of filth yields a cluster of eggs becoming 120 full grown flies in ten days. It warns that garbage manure and other refuse heaps, open drains and out houses are ideal breeding sites for flies.
Flies Threaten Life Warns Public Health Pioneer
An early health alarm warns that flies outrank armies in spreading disease. It cites germs carried by flies from decayed matter to food and milk, stressing danger to children and urging cleanliness, covered food, tight trash lids, and dry cool rooms to curb infestations.
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Nature
Learnings on the Fly and Health Risk Highlighted
Readable scraps describe the fly as a long standing nuisance to humanity and china plague era, with modern science stressing its filth and health dangers. The fragment cites repeated mention of pests and suggests ongoing concern over disease transmission and sanitation.
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Egypt
The Typhoid Fly Warning
A concise note proposes calling the common housefly the typhoid fly to stress its danger if breeding continues unchecked, attributed to L. O. Howard.
Swat a Fly and Save a Life Slogan Emerges in Health Drive
Health bulletins urge adoption of the slogan Swat a fly and save a life to combat summer disease risks. The text notes cholera infantum typhoid fever and other infant deaths tied to flies. It stresses springtime for effective eradication and warns that neglect allows a single fly to breed many in the home.
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Jean
England
South African Signal Service
United States
L. O. Howard
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