Reading tastes of American literary figures revealed
The Christian Union reports opinions from writers preachers and editors on books they plan to read. Notable picks include Adams History of the United States and Epictetus Enchiridion with many favoring history and philosophy. Readers rate America's best books with Emerson Hawthorne Longfellow and Uncle Tom's Cabin leading. debate over favorites continues.
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The
Christian Union
Edward Everett Hale
United States
Joseph Gilder
Critic
George W. Childs
Brander Matthews
Balzac
Tolstoi
Albert Shaw
Review of Reviews
Bourget
J. M. Barrie
Octave Thanet
Marion Crawford
Dr. Abbott
Hale
E. B. Andrews
Brown University
T. T. Munger
D. D
Monte Cristo
Robert A. Holland
America
Emerson
Hawthorne
Longfellow
Mrs. Stowe
Dr. Holmes
Irving
Lowell
Whittier
Wallace
Motley
Dutch Republic
Anti social classes and a Black resort on Long Island
The piece argues class divisions persist in society and in labor groups, despite legal equality. It notes racial boundaries remain strong and reports on a 100 acre Long Island tract purchased by Black residents to create a summer resort named Douglass Park by-the-Sea and financed mainly by African blood stockholders.
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Long Island
Douglass Park by-the-Sea
Notable Readings and Revelations Across Arts and Health
A roundup notes Julian Hawthorne’s success with new editions of The Scarlet Letter and a Texas editor’s offer for a Texas life novel. It mentions Mrs. Blaine’s marriage and public interest, rising cigarette use, and Francis Wilson’s casting for Erminie. An advertorial warns about mercury in remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with internal use and Toledo manufacturing details.
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Julian Hawthorne
Chicago
Texas
Hawthorne
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo O
Toledo
Ohio
Diverse Patent Remedies and notices in a 19th century Iowa issue
An assortment of patent medicines and cures dominates the page, praising Park’s Tea and Castoria for bowel and blood cleansing, Hood’s Sarsaparilla for vitality, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for liver regulation, and Ripans Tabules for digestion, alongside medical advisories, a note on a golden wedding, shipping, rail excursions, and local announcements.
Frogs study in September St Nicholas attracts readers
The September St Nicholas issue offers a study on frogs for natural history students. It promotes a Souvenir Portfolio of the World's Columbian Exposition, available for 15 cents in stamps, with a prepaid offer and a full refund if unsatisfied. Also mentions Dr. King's New Discovery and Life Pills trial offers.
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St. Nicholas
H. E. Bucklen & Co
Chicago, N
Dr. King
H. E Buecklen & Co
Chicago
L. M. Bosworth
Poisoning at Caucasus resort linked to koumiss drink
Over 100 people at a Caucasus summer resort were poisoned by koumiss. Advertisements tout Witt’s Witch Hazel Salve for piles burns and sores. Phineas Fisher dies at 100 in Hartford Vermont. Krause’s Headache Capsules pitched as remedy with domestic anecdotes. Bosworth advertises.
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L. M. Bosworth
DeWitt
Ames Drug Company
Caucasus Mountains
Koumiss
de Witt
Dr. Holmes
Witt
Krause
Papa
Plant and tree notes from diverse regions
A survey of flora and forestry topics highlights peach trees covering over 507000 acres in the United States, tall firs in Washington yielding 125 foot masts, new South Australian lavender appearing near Black Swamp, and the cow tree in Venezuela famed for milklike sap. It also praises ageratum as a border plant with blue white rose colors and a new delicate yellow variety.
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United States
State of
Washington
South Australia
Black Swamp
Venezuela
Atlas Sales Manager Wanted in Niantic Area
Salt blown from the ocean during a recent hurricane damaged trees and plants around Niantic Connecticut. Rand McNally and Co. of Chicago seek a local manager to oversee the sale of their new Universal Atlas. Those seeking a pleasant and profitable position are invited to write.
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Rand, McNally & CO
Chicago
M.ricord
M.C
Masonic Temple
Munn & CO
Broadway
New York
Bureau
America
Scientific American
Hill’s
Hill
HNLT
Niantic
Colorful coats and capes feature next season fashions
The New York Evening Post notes bold fashion directions with short wraps for most outfits and travel wear, revivals of corded cottons and linen duck in ivory and pale tones, cream jackets with red gold braided vests, scarlet coats with cream waistcoats trimmed in soutache, and semidolman capes reshaped for comfortable arms.
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Marseilles
Sarah
New York Evening Post
Facts from scattered notes of science and history
A collection of varied trivia covers psychology, marriage statistics, colonial leadership, mining quarries, tobacco naming, road construction, and Magna Charta. It notes one third of the mad recover, three thousand marriages daily globally, a Japanese farmer as monopolist, a Scotch head of colonies, long onyx blocks in Baja California, Nicot’s naming of tobacco, a 1794 hard turnpike, and the British museum preserved Magna Charta with King John’s seal readable.
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Japan
Lower
California
Jean Nicot
France
Portugal
Catherine de Medici
Lancaster
Philadelphia
British Museum
John
College scholarships and new institutions vary wide
Cornell offers 512 free scholarships totaling 150000 dollars. Across the United States there are 430 colleges with 8472 professors. Johns Hopkins will open a new medical school next October. Tufts admits women. Twenty five young ladies seek college entry. Adele Ellis and Flora Rosenhain pass Melbourne University BA exams. The minister of public instruction approves women at Beaux Arts Paris with separate studios and a formal course planned.
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Cornell
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Tufts
Adele Ellis
Flora Rkosenhain
University of Melbourne
Minister of Public Instruction
Beaux Arts
Paris
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