The Thrifty Chicago Newsboy and His Rising Dreams
A Chicago newsboy, about 19, recounts growing up after the big fire, selling papers at a regular stand, saving money in Fidelity and other banks, facing hardships from peers and a bank failure, and planning to start a business in spring. He describes fellow boys with nicknames, risks in the streets, and his daily routine from 6:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. with time at a business college.
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Chicago News
The
Daily News
Harry
New York
Seilin the Daily News
Fidelity Bank
Savony Bank
Fidelity
Fidelity Vaults
Bill
Robely
Cadger
Business College
Cpen
Chicago
Seaside dog hero causes comic rescue at Marblehead
A party in Marblehead recalls a friendly bull dog guarding coats in a garret. The dog blocks access, bites appear, and the men debate risks before they fetch the owner to resolve the standoff. Nearby, a New York Sun account captures a snowy Third Avenue scene with a chatty passenger and drivers facing a sharp storm.
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Marblehead
Towser
Penser Eth
York
Third Avenue
Italian girl cloaked as old beggar intrigues New York
The 13 year old Italian girl found begging in Maiden Lane impressed onlookers with her disguise. She used coal dust and lines to look older and better than many actresses, hinting she could someday delight audiences behind the footlights.
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New York Sun
Maiden Lane
Y. O'B. Strayer
Jean
Competitive exams test not brain-power but training
Popular Science Monthly argues exams at Woolwich are unreliable as measures of intelligence. It contrasts Brown the poor son of an officer with Smith the son of a tradesman, showing how crammers, exam predictability, and coaching can skew results.
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Popular Science Monthly
Brown
Royal Military Academy
Woolwich
Smith
Rown
Detroit Free Press
Pickles Smith
Shindig Watkins
Brother Smith
Congress
Penstock
Shakspeare
Es Smith
Lake Tahoe Turmoil Described During Gale
An eye witness recounts Lake Tahoe’s fierce storm last Wednesday as heavy winds and rising waves churned the lake into a boiling sea. Currents funneled between canyon walls created towering walls of water that crushed ashore above the lake’s edge.
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Virginia City Chronicle
Lake Tahoe
Women as theater managers take the road with Mix Stockton
William A Croffut notes a growing trend of female managers led by Mix Stockton and Helen Lenoir. Stockton tours with Madcap Violet after producing it in London, while Lenoir, at about 25, controls D Oyly Carte's American opera companies and on tour. She speaks of auditions, keeps a detailed dossier, and receives weekly dispatches seeking performers.
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William A Croffut
Mix Stockton
Violet
London
Mr. Carte
Europe
Gilbert
Sullivan
Rice
Collier
Someody
Josie
An Object Lesson in Avarice In The Century
O. OB. Strayer argues against early mercantile indoctrination of children through banks and penny banks. He warns that premature entry into commerce fosters avarice, utilitarian thinking, and moral blight, urging parents to shield youth from trade tricks and hardened principles.
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O. OB. Strayer
Alma
Tom
Harry
An Old Couple’s Crowning Ambition in Lawrence Mills
An Irish couple with fifty years of toil for a paid home finally carpeted the fore-room. They live simply, are frail but patient, and feel blessed by the shining carpet and the Virgin’s picture. The wife says they are becoming respectable and rich in spirit.
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Lawrence
Maas
Mike
Messis
Margaret Holmes
Indianapolis Herald
Hair Album Fever Captures Young Men’s Locks
The new fad among women is a hair album for gentlemen. Young men donate a lock of hair tied with a blue ribbon and stored with others. Each lock bears the donor’s name age eye color date of donation and notes on appearance, all to be viewed only by women.
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Lation
East Cambridge
That Animal the Masher Ida Harper Explains Slang
Ida A Harper in Terre Haute Mail examines the slang term masher. The piece traces origins and traits of the so called animal and notes two recent public horsewhippings as context. It describes a masher as a man lacking brains yet needing cheek and shrewdness to dodge consequences.
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Ida Harper
Terre Haute Mail
Ida A. Harper
Tey
Chicago
St. Louis
A Delicious Cup of Coffee
A reader shares several old coffee methods from different regions including quick parched berry brewing in St Domingo and traditional pot methods with eggs and milk. The piece notes multiple techniques, temperatures, boil times, and the influence of ingredients like chicory and milk on flavor and color.
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Ella Rodman Church
St. Domingo
Exclusive tabloids and stifling propriety stir unrest
A fragment laments exclusive circles policing behavior and children's freedom, comparing mothers forcing stillness to harmful controls. The writer snarls at social exclusivity that imposes rigid norms and stifles life and movement.
Pioneering Women Shaped Early Newspapers
The passage notes Elizabeth Mallet in London 1720s as first daily paper editor, the Massachusetts Gazette led by widow M Draper after editor’s death, Anna Franklin and Sarah Goddard in Rhode Island in 1732 and 1775, and Clementine Reid in Virginia 1772, showing women as early newspaper pioneers.
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Elizabeth Mallet
London
America
Massachusetts Gazette
News-Letter
M Draper
Boston
Anna Franklin
Sarah
The Good Cheer of a Wood Fire
A reflective note on the joy and healthful benefits of a wood fire in homes. It celebrates the warmth of family gatherings, lively conversations, and comfort for the ill or retired, praising wood fire as an energizing, cheerful ally for domestic life.
Thoughtless youths misjudge girlhood's hidden cares
A reflective piece notes that sixteen year olds face anxieties unseen by peers. A girl laments her sister appears happier yet she endures troubles such as frizzy hair, sunburn, and other springtime irritations not obvious to others.
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Sweet Sixteen
Inside a brutal overcrowded jail cell in Ohio
A reader writes with stark, anguished imagery of a stone cell four by seven feet housing two inmates, part of a larger prison system. The account details dire confinement, lack of ventilation, minimal bedding, restricted writing, brutal discipline, and the harsh path from illness to death in a system that treats punishment as its primary aim.
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Tincinnati Enquirer
Neil
Therisoner
Bear-hunt misadventure ends with dinner in Muskoka camp
In Muskoka district a Toronto lawyer joins a hunting party that failed to cook. He naps while others chase game. a bear arrives and after a roof assault the bear is slain. The hunter’s nervous shot provoked a stiff backlash and the group ends with bear steak.
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Toronto
Canada
Globe
Muskoka
One Turn of the Tide and Regrets
A lyric meditation on love thwarted by fate. The speaker recalls white sunlit seas, misty shorelines, and a promised union that slips away with a turning tide. She muses on dreams versus reality, regrets, and choosing acceptance in a damp, rainy mood.
Panic in Mining Market After False Bank Robbery Report
The New York Mining board secretary was reported knocked senseless and robbed of 40 dollars triggering a market panic. Prices fell to fractions of a cent before telegrams clarified the secretary fainted and misplaced the money. Confidence quickly returned as the market recovered to about half a percent.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
New York Mining Board
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