Tea Culture: How the Chinese Make a Cup of Tea
A retrospective explanation of tea cultivation and processing in China. The piece details camellia tea plants, regional varietals from Honan Ho Peh Canton Amoy Foochow Formosa, and picking times. It explains curing methods for greens blacks and oolongs, iron pan drying, and colorings, plus how to brew refined infusion with porcelain teapots and soft water.
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Honan
Ho Peh
Canton
Amoy
Foochow
Formosa
Tropics
Europe
The Home of Lacemaking in Belgium
The article extols Belgium as the world's leading lacemaking nation with the widest variety and finest work. It notes US lace production is negligible for the market, cites low wages driving workers to other jobs, and explains lace progress is slow especially for the finest textures. It adds that pillow finished laces are faster and durable with careful handling.
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Belgium
Europe
United States
America
Chicago Post
Instant Lightning Photography and Perceived Paths
The article explains how instantaneous photography shows lightning travels in a near straight line, challenging the eye’s zigzag perception. It discusses background cloud effects and a test idea to watch a flash from start to ground to reveal the true path.
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Nature
French Glove Makers and Their Trade in Southern France
A Chicago est. report describes southern French glove makers in Grenoble and Mileau. Glove seams and skins come from South America and Paris standards set the high bar. Sewers earn about 2 dollars weekly, cutters 1 to 1.25 per day, as the trade remains modestly remunerated.
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France
Paris
South America
Grenoble
Mileau
Chicago
Birth Rate Decline in France and England
The birth rate in France has fallen for years, and England and Wales show a similar trend. Registrar General figures reveal births exceed deaths by 367 224 in 1889, but by 389 423 in later years, with low birth rates and rising emigration suggesting eventual population stagnation or decline.
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France
England and
Wales
England and Wales
New York News
Great Britain
England
Death Like Trances Warn of Premature Interments
A 19th century overview recounts cases of people believed dead revived after burial. It cites Sir Hugh Ackland and notable episodes in France and Nevada, Mo. and Philadelphia, with remarks by Dr. Kenneth Cornish on life after apparent death and the need for postmortem checks.
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England
Hugh Ackland
Devonshire
Godfrey
Duke of Marlborough
Colonel Godfrey
Rue St. Honore
Paris
Pe Pang
Nevada
Deepwood
G. W. McCain
Philadelphia Press
Thomas Hooper
New York
Kenneth Cornish
British
Royal Humane Society
London
Milan
Colonel Vyner
Leamington Priors
London Standard
Guatemalan Beauty Captivates New York Society
Donna Francisca Apaucia vel Vescuci, called Mme Barrios, is a 29 year old Guatemalan beauty and mother of seven famed for wealth and diamonds worth 300000. She lives on Fifth Avenue, loves dancing and classical music, and remains loyal to the memory of her soldier husband Barrios after fleeing Guatemala amid his assassination and dictator rise. Her two younger sisters, in New York, are independently wealthy and brilliant Central American brunettes.
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Donna Francisca Apaucia
Fifth Avenue
Mme. Barrios
New York
Guatemala
Barrios
New York City
Illustrated American
Doctoring at the Drug Stores
A pharmacy columnist notes a new trend where young mobile doctors visit drug stores to see patients, traveling between shops and treating indigent patients who cannot afford house calls or office rent. The piece praises the model for patients, young doctors, and drug stores amid shifting medical access.
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Pillar
Saad
New York Mercury
Sound patterns reveal ears best forward of line
Experiments show human hearing detects a ticking watch best 15 degrees in front of the head line. At 10 feet on a side line the tick is audible, 14 feet at 15 degrees front, 6 feet at 40 degrees, and 3 feet at 35 degrees. Back 25 degrees yields no hearing beyond 6 feet. Overall range about 95 degrees with peak acuity 15 degrees forward. Vertical angle raises distance to 12 feet at 35 degrees then falls. upward movement drops audibility to 3 feet at 60 degrees.
Cobbler’s Hope for Cheap Shoes Sparks Gloomy Talk
A fragmentary note discusses a cobbler business model selling inexpensive repairs and recycled footwear. It mentions discarded boots, rubbish heaps, and workers gathering old shoes for resale, with questions about social prestige and future prospects.
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Pennnett
Island lands vanish as sea encroaches on Scotia coast
Reports say the coast of Scotia is rapidly eroding with land washing away under the sea. The article notes the encroachment follows similar actions by a European noble and references ongoing coastal erosion.
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Scotia
Pall Mall Ff
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