Inside the U S Bureau of Engraving and Printing
A New York Star account details the Treasury Bureau’s complex processes from engraving and transferring dies to printing and numbering notes. It explains protective measures, paper types, transfer presses, and the counting and packaging of bills, with emphasis on security and accuracy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. E. Spinner
John C. New
A. A. Wyman
Jas. Gilfillan
James Gilfillan
Treasury Department
Bureau
Department
New York Star
Police of London Becomes A City District Carrier Of The Metropolis
The Boston Herald notes the London police district houses about 5.5 million people with a force near 14 000, over 12 60 available for metropolitan service, and around 9 900 for street duty. It describes shifts, beats, patrol lengths, and duties, including day and night rosters, reliefs, and duties across city and outer suburbs. It also mentions recruitment criteria and origins of recruits. A separate item profiles Grov Mariners in Youngtown, praising his resilience after limb loss and long journey home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Metropolian
England
Liverpool
Leeds
Manchester
Glasgow
Home Counties
Boston Herald
Cannibal Combat Details From Central Queensland Tribes
Carl Lumholtz describes a borboby contest among central Queensland tribes with red and yellow earth paint, beeswax in hair, and a shielded, weapon-filled duel. Scenes include war cries, leaps, shields, spears, boomerangs, and wolla-nollas, with women and old women supplying weapons and urging fighters as disputes over wives are settled by battle. Interwoven is a Virginia note on hen dentists, citing two known cases in Virgina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl Lumholtz
Queensland
Australia
Barbody
Unusual Tales and Court Notices From Millvale and Beyond
A man moves water in a skull after finding a dead skeleton in a drought area. Josefh Gretter, before Justice Young in Millvale, faces neglect charges as his wife testifies with five children about a dove shaped infant. A resturant worker Josie Ellis flees jail during a chase, wearing six dresses. A gold ring is recovered from a horse’s shoe calk after a string of misfortunes and theft rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queensland
Josefh Gretter
Justice Young
Millvale
Penn
Josie Ellis
Waukesha
Wis
T. W. Martin
Elizabeth
Martin
Also Mentioned on This Page
Samutdl
Treasury
F Street
Washington
Bureau of Engraving
Secretary of the Treasury
the Police OF London
Grov
Youngtown
Virersta
Page County Courier
George E. Heath
Hanover County
Ashland
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