Beauties of St Bernard Pass Describe Alpine Journey
The writer recounts a perilous crossing of the St Bernard pass with a rising stream from a snowbank feeding sparkling waters. Pink crocuses, barberry bushes, and fields give way to medieval towers and vineyards as houses appear along ledges. After a burning sun and dust we reach Aosta weary yet proud of Italy memories and experiences.
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St. Bernard Pass
Italy
Aosta
National Magazine
Poetry painting and furniture in Rossetti era notes
Rossetti urged painting over books and Morris embraced painting and later furniture making under Rossetti influence. The piece notes their collaboration, with Morris building large chairs and Rossetti decorating their backs from Morris poems. It also cites poems and a historical note on a stickit minister term and an ancient rose tree in Hildesheim.
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Rossetti
Morris
Barbarossa
London News
Old Men Recall Gaiters In Newspaper Quips
A boarder quips about gaiters while recalling past fashions as a cheerful idiot notes fewer sightings. The dialogue contrasts aging memories with present scarcity of social invitations and meals.
Ammonia as a Fire Extinguisher
A report extols aqua ammonia as a powerful extinguishing liquid with two incident examples. One half gallon suffocated a cotton seed fire in a pile, while in Savigny France a gallon and a half of ammonia water quenched a linen laundry fire after vapor from a 50 gallon gasoline tank ignited. The druggist used a glass demijohn of ammonia to suppress flames, leaving the iron tank undamaged.
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Savenay
France
Mother’s Friend offered as safe aid for childbirth
An advertisement extols the uses of Mother’s Friend a liniment to ease childbirth and reduce risk. It claims the remedy prevents pain and danger, praises its safety and affordability, and invites requests for the free booklet Before Baby is Born from the Bradfield Regulator Company in Atlanta Georgia.
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Bradfield Regulator Company
Atlanta
A Pretty Little Story From the Boston Transcript
A mother tells her naughty daughter she will not kiss her for a week. The girl begs for a kiss, and the mother insists she must keep her word. The child asks if kissing her while asleep would break that word.
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Boston Transcript
Returning Good for Evil in Egg Fight
A portly man recalls two boys scrapping in the street smeared with eggs. He initially believes in letting children settle quarrels but intervenes when foul language escalates. One boy claims he threw a rotten egg, while the other asserts the incident was a good one.
Browns Iron Bitters and the Blood Purity Theory
An old idea claims impure blood causes most diseases and notes that Browns Lion Bitters inspired Browns Iron Bitters twenty five years ago. It asserts many cures from this familiar household remedy and states Browns Iron Bitters is sold by all dealers.
Yale Names Arthur Hadley as New University President
Yale selects Arthur Twining Hadley 43 as its new president, a Yale insider and noted political economist and author. He is 43, graduated in 1876, and has long occupied Yale's chair of political economy, earning national reputation.
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Yale
Arthur Twining Hadley
Eli
Hadley
Hadley and His Influence in Economics and Railways
The piece recounts Professor Hadley before the Cullom senate committee and notes his influential works. It highlights Railway Transportation and Economics as key texts, mentions translations under the czar’s finance minister, and sketches his social interests including tennis, clubs, and travel through Europe.
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Cullom Senate
Hadley
Tam
Skat
Switzerland
Europe
The Place of Sculpture in Fine Arts
An essay argues sculpture offers little broad value to humanity, noting its lack of color and life and its appeal mainly to the rich or dedicated amateurs. It suggests architecture’s adornment would suffer if sculpture were abolished, a view tempered by its religious uses in idol worship.
Clergyman Complains of Dull Razor After Sermon
The Retort Discourteous notes a barber taunting a clergyman as he leaves the chair. The barber jokes about sharing a dull razor and compares it to the clergyman's sermon yesterday. The exchange reflects sharp local humor in the Doston Courier.
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Barber
Doston Courier
Great Eastern beginnings at Millwall in 1854
The Philadelphia North American recalls Brunel and Scot Russell starting construction of the Great Eastern on May 1 1854 at Millwall. The vast iron-hulled ship spans 680 feet between perpendiculars, 118 feet broad, 60 feet deep, and weighs about 8 000 tons with full load 25 000 tons. It uses 3 000 000 rivets and 30 000 plates each about a third of a ton.
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Great Eastern
Brunel and
Scot Russel
Millwall
Thames
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