Follow Through the Bureau of Engraving and Printing Safes
A New York Post account outlines the BA Engraving and Printing safeguards from die making to note printing. It details vaults time locks, dual doors, custodian controls, requisitions with dual signatures, separated face and back presses, guarded paper supply, and strict receipt chain at every stage to deter forgery and loss.
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Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Secretary of the Treasury
Bureau
Treasury Department
Growth of 1890 US Buildings Revealed in City Reports
The New Haven Record publishes 1890 building reports from 22 cities. Ninety percent more structures were built than in 1889, totaling 77 598 structures costing 295 329 551 dollars, led by Philadelphia with 12 278 and Chicago with 11 608. New York had 1 969 structures costing 85 08 062 dollars. Chicago fronts 266 284 feet of frontage, extending over 50 miles if lined up, with about 25 percent added for contractor under valuation.
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New Haven
Conn
United States
Philadelphia
Chicago
New York
Hotch Potch Soup And Its Legal Roots In One Dish
A New York Tribune excerpt recounts an epicure’s praise for hotch-potch a Scottish soup with mutton carrots onions and cabbage and notes its legal sense as a term for undivided property in the common fund plus a reference to a writer linking the dish to a pudding where many ingredients combine.
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Scotland
New York Tribune
Curious eating contrasts in climate and culture
The article notes that climate shapes dietary taboos in Hindoostan making Brahmins avoid meat stews, while Japanese peasants resist cow milk, and Abyssinian highlanders would refuse both options yet quickly take other foods.
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Hindoostan
Acquaintance Tales Amid Snowbound Fads and Tastes
The excerpt notes a neighbor’s leanings toward defiling self by broiling a rabbit while Moses bans rabbit flesh as Jakvots starve for luxuries. It contrasts Tartar emirs scolding American missionaries over milk brandy and koumiss with their own guests preferring pork to horseflesh. After all there is no disputing about tastes.
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Moses
Picayune
Ogowe Dwarfs of the Forest People in Ogowe Basin
At a Paris Geographic Society meeting a Crampel letter reports the Bayagas, a dwarf people living among the M fang, hunt elephants with a long two edged spear and possess distinct facial features. They live in patriarchal clans with limited marriage, women often pierced ears, and rarely join other tribes. Their language confounds both strangers and M fangs. London Times notes the Bayagas avoid direct attack.
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Paris Geographical Society
M. Paul Crampel
Ogowe
Stanley
Bayaga
London Times
The Baby King Delights Spain With Bold Remarks
Harper's Weekly notes little Don Alfonso amuses Spain by speaking his mind about his lieges, including their appearance. His frank among church remarks at Attocha Church amusees the court and audiences, while his mother enforces quiet during services.
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Don Alfonso
Spain
Attocha
Harper’s Weekly
First Ring Story From Fairy Land Inspires Love Tokens
The New York Sun recounts a folklore tale of the first ring found by a peasant girl after a moonlit sprite danced with a fairy. The piece links precious stones to white hands and notes that women increasingly wear rings for love.
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Fairy Land
New York Sun
Check Beaters Target Wall Street's Equitable Building Crime
The New York World reports a heavy security regime at the Equitable Building with seven on site guards led by ex-detective Dusenbury. Inspectors patrol Broadway Nassau Wall and Broad to deter thieves. Check-beaters, notably at Cafe Savarin, use a multi check theft to dine and pay later. Detectives Wandell and company pursue repayable thefts and eject offenders. The article notes vast portable wealth in Wall Street with high security, yet easy targets for cunning criminals.
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Equitable
Dusenbury
Inspector Byrnes
John Street
Byrnes
Broadway
Nassau
Wall Street
Broad Street
City
Savarin
Theodore Wandell
Pinkerton
Mr. Wandell
Wandell
New York World
New Skin Graft Method Used At Massachusetts General
The Boston Herald reports at Massachusetts General Hospital a new instrument by Dr. Mixter used to detach and transplant skin from the left thigh to the breast after cancer removal. The quick six minute grafting aims for first intention healing, with aseptic precautions and minimal bleeding.
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Massachusetts General Hospital
Mixter
Boston Herald
Roses and violets bought for a hungry girl on Fourteenth Street
A hurrying crowd on Broadway watches a ten year old girl in patched clothes eye flowers offered by a poor worker. He buys her a red and white bouquet, giving it with a bow and a kiss, while the scene hints at hardship, drink, and distant charity.
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Fourteenth Street
Broadway
Remarkable fig tree springs from canary fed figs
In St Paul, Minn at J M Sprague drug store a four year old fig tree grew from seeds that had been fed to a canary above a tub with an oleander. The seeds, somehow preserved, produced a five foot plant. the note ponders if preserved fig seeds retain germinating power. Nature's Realm.
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J. M. Sprague
St. Paul
Minn
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