Old Negro Folklore and Humorous Anecdotes at Tuskegee Lecture
A lecture by Booker T. Washington at Gray's Armory for the Tuskegee Institute endowment features tales contrasting ethics with property and a folksy ferry vignette about Uncle Mose. A village tale follows of John the mail carrier and Sue, ending in a humorous resolution about marriage.
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Booker T. Washington
Gray’s Armory
Tuskegee Industrial School
Mose
Uncle Mose
Peddler Offers Ingenious Inventions for Three Shillings
A peddler demonstrates a multi use rat trap that also works as a coffee roaster and egg holder. A curious kitchen mirror device is shown enabling an observer to see through windows. The buyer quickly agrees to purchase for three shillings, Cassell's Magazine notes.
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Cassell
Motive and Mercy in a City Sidewalk Tale
An elder philanthropist comforts a tearful boy searching for a penny and a dropped half dollar, offering coins and kindness. The next day the same scene repeats with another loss, prompting continued charity amid hardship. A Civil War drummer boy at Spottsylvania fears battle and asks why enemies must take his drum with noise rather than force.
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Dewalk
Spottsylvania
Johnny
Curb Speech Sparks Clash Over Earnings in Crowd Exchange
An orator asks when all a man earns will be his. A man in the crowd retorts that true earnings arrive only when a man takes all he gets, fueling a sharp exchange about justice and pay.
Various World Briefs on Agriculture and Industry
A recap of scattered items notes Georgia and Alabama wheat, California prune output, Colorado gold, Mississippi cotton damage from grasshoppers, and an New Orleans ice price. It also mentions telegraphic earth circuits, census livestock, and costs of coastal artillery projectiles.
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Georgia
Alabama
California
Colorado
Mississippi
New Orleans
Buffalo
Duluth
United States
Florida
South Carolina
Virginia
Jefferson
Thinning Peaches and Poultry Remedies from Farm and Fireside
A New Jersey peach grower stresses thinning to balance fruit and tree health, detailing hand thinning and pole methods. Tips cover fruit counts by size, color value, and grading. Also includes chicken cholera remedy using ash bark, pepper, and corn meal for fowls.
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New Jersey
E. Norris
Cedarville, W. A
Home Remedies For Sores And Hardening Shoulders
Instructions advise rubbing air slacked lime on sores at night and applying axle grease or sweet oil each morning. For hardening horses shoulders, a strong tea from white oak bark is recommended, peeling bark to the wood and applying it twice daily.
Habit of biting nails needs early correction
The habit can deform nails in children and should be stopped promptly. Dipping fingertip ends in a bitter tincture often prevents nail biting. if that fails, encase each finger to eradicate the tendency.
BeV BuG DESTROYER and Lemon CAKE Recipes
A fragment lists a bedstead treatment with camphor turpentine corrosive sublimate and alcohol plus filler soap. It also provides a lemon cake recipe with sugar butter milk flour eggs soda and lemon juice rind.
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Bev Bug
Lantern report notes visits and local incidents in June
Chester notes visiting Alabama residents and Yorkville residents at W. A. Latimer's. Union reports heavy rain in West Spring causing flood damage while a Kentucky re union delegation sails to Louisville. Eclipse viewings, veterans transports, and remarks by Governor McSweeny accompany local updates on schools, deaths, and crime.
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Chester
Donald Herndon
Jennie Swann
Alabama
Mary Davidson
Yorkville
W. A
South
Ed Alston, Jr
Seaboard Air Line
Portsmouth
Alston
UNION
the Times
M. B. Lee
West Spring
Mitchel
Louisville
R. W. Tinsley
J. G. Long
W. Friend
W. H. Gault
A. B. Lane
Edna Tinsley
Messrs
N. P. Dunbar
Paul McNally
Drayton Cransby
Arthur Long
Mr. Tinsley
Strothers
Columbia
Charleston
Camp Hampton
Hampton
McSweeny
Depot
Board
State Board of Health
Evans
Board of Health
Gaffney Ledger
Janel
Albert Bettis
Presbyterian Sunday School
Goat Island
Mary Mills Scruggs
Chesterfield Scruggs
Lee
U.S. S
Philippines
Cherokee
J. D. Bailey
Limestone College
Bailey
Cherokee County
Cowpens
Lodge
King’s Mountain
Lancaster — Ledger
Crockett McMurray
W. M. Dunn
Davidson College
Jim Jones
Caskey
Revolt of the Boxers and the Anti-Foreign Society
The New York Sun reports the Boxers in China as a growing anti foreign movement active since October. They operate across Hunan Shandong Pechili and adjacent provinces, threatening missions and natives, with eight missionaries reported killed though details are unclear. The movement risks provoking foreign intervention as it spreads over an 850 mile north south arc and broadens its reach.
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New York Sun
China
Hunan
Yuangtse
Shantung
Pechili
Shan-tung
Pekin
Tientsin
Sydney Brooks
Germany
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Sue
John
Wayside
England
Milan
Italy
Tennessee State Board of Health
Franklin
Buffalo Times
Alaska
Siberia
Behring Strait
Alabama Great Southern Railroad
Chattanooga
San Francisco
Seattle
Wash
Japan
Washington
Kansas
Russia
Simpleton
Darfore
Ordnance Bureau
War Department
Coast Defenses
Bay Waveland
Bay St Louis
Sea Coast Echo
Bryant's
Louisville and Nashville
State Supreme Court
Sixth Circuit
Sarah Gladney
J. S. Gladney
Pine Bluff
Ark
Ernest Stogner
Antioch
Mack Feshererman
Charlotte
Kershaw
North
C. H. Wilmoth
Chas. M. Stieffs Factory
North Tryon Street
N. C
M. Stieff
Baltimore
Maryland
W. B. Moore & CO
Lucas
York Drug Store
Wilburn & Wilburn
King’s Creek
S. C
Hickory Grove Drug Store
Finley & Brice
H. C. Strauss
Ulgers
Dru
Blood Balm Co
Atlanta
T. Baxter McClain
Iim
King’s Mountain Military Academy, Yworekville, S. Co
High Grave
Beverly A. Davis
W. G. Stephenson
Rock Hill
Glenn & Allison
South Carolina & Georgia Extension Railroad CO
Camden and Blacksburg
Ieee
Dally
DeKalb
Westville
Heath Springs
Lancaster
Riverside
Springdell
Gatawba J’en
Blacksburg
Aris
Patterson Spr'g
Pleasant Hoecan LS
Newport
Tirzah
Sharon
Smyrna
Daily Daily
Pally, Pay
Bae
Henrietta
Forest City
Rutherfordton
Ll Ve Alli Wood
Golden Valley
Thermal City
Glenwood
Wee Morion
AJM
P.M
Cy Bra
A.M
East
Cherokee Falls
Gaffney
Camden
Southern Railway
Catawba Junction
Rock I Hill
Ging
Marion
Samuel Hunt
A. Tripp
Ss. B. Lumpkin
P. Agt
Pp. M
Geo. W.S. Hart
Yorkville, S. C
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LAW Range
Carolina & North-Western Railway Company
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LyNewton
LyHickory
Lenoir
Ssenger
Newton
LyGastonia
Gastonia
Southern Ry
Lincolnton
Newton and Hicke
Southern
E, F. RE
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Liberty Street
J.R. Schorb
Yorkville, 8. C
The
Yorkville Enquirer
L. M. Grist
W. D. Grist
C. E. Grist
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