The Woman's Hour on Stenography Versus Morphine in Fashion
A column discusses women readers a broader range than assumed, citing Anna Ottendorfer’s success at Staats Zeitung and a nurse’s morphine withdrawal via stenography. It promotes occupation as key to nerve health, notes lace dress trends, bonnets, and spring fashion notes with practical dressmaking ideas.
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New York
Anna Ottendorfer
Staats-Zeitung
United States
Ottendorfer
Frank Leslie
BE THE LAST ROSE Why the New Costume Attracts More At tenon
A period of “between seasons” sees women in dull dress while fresh costumes make a stronger impression. Jennie June argues new gowns at season’s end boost status, with two social dames showcasing fashionable ensembles. The piece notes that dress counts less for celebrated women who gain fame in other fields.
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Jennie June
Debating Girls Gymnastics In Boston A London View
A London writer argues against extensive gymnastics for girls, noting Boston’s popularity and its unique ladies gymnasium. He cites anatomical limits in women, warning that heavy drills may distort the frame and cause stooping. He favors limited dumbbell work with adult-age drilling and medical clearance for entrants.
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London
Boston
America
Glimpses of Fashion and Remembrance Album Idea
Fashion notes forecast spring trends in gray black and white combinations, gray silk trimmed with black lace. An English woman shares a remembrance album concept inviting poems, writer details, art or natural items, and a broad margin for mounting. The piece hints at silk quality tests and cautious shopping by a silk expert.
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Beluz
Six Beautiful Scrap Books From One Dollar Newspaper
A reader explains how to make six decorative scrap books from last year's Weekly Globe, using blank pages, folded sheets, holes for tape, cloth glue, and gilt wallpaper. Each book covers topics like Peck's Bad Boy, knitting, winter gardening, and stories, featuring red back covers and elaborate embellishments. The piece promotes subscribing to the Weekly Globe for 1884, asserting value if readers feel their dollar was well spent.
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Boston Weekly Globe
Weekly Globe
GLOBE
Elegant Easter Egg Favors From Simple Plaster Shells
Easter favors described using blown or hollowed eggs filled with plaster of Paris. Decorate with gilt stars, violets, crocuses, and quotes in gold or colored paint. Add silk ribbons, rings from cardboard, and silk bags with sweets to craft charming Easter gifts for friends.
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Paris
Christ
Easter Cross Craft Instructions from a Contributed Note
A reader describes making a two foot high cross with a base and long arm, finished with a white coating. Melt spermaceti candies in hot water, dip the cross until thickly coated, then wrap white cotton yarn around the arms for decoration.
Easter Cross Ornament with Wax Ferns and Lilies
A detailed craft guide describes layering melted spermaceti and wax to form frosted cross decorations. It covers making green wax ferns, pond lilies, and calla lilies, attaching them to a cross base with wire and pins, adding gold inscribed phrases, and framing under glass with a green silk fringe to resemble a grass plat.
Gatling Gun Improvements Impress War Department
Dr. Richard Jordan Gatling describes in Washington the Gatling gun’s latest upgrades. The weapon now fires about 1200 shots per minute at any angle, enabling vertical fire into fortifications, with bullets reaching two to three miles. Gatling recounts his early trials, political hurdles, and widespread adoption by Europe and Asia, and cautions that war may persist despite better arms.
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Gatling
Washington
War Department
Richard Jordan Gatling
Ebbitt
Indianapolis
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Ordnance Department
Ben Butler
Chicago
Etersburg
Europe
Asia
Africa
Austria
Germany
ataEne
Hartford
Newcastle-on, the-Tyne
United States
Egypt
Congress
Chased by a Whirlwind On Narrow Gauge Train
A Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge train bound for Lincolnton chased a massive whirlwind that rode behind the cars for two miles before leaping off the track at a curve. Passengers, especially women, cried as engineers steered to safety in a dramatic, near-miss incident.
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Charlotte
N. C
Chester & Lenoir
Bottm
Fragmented 19th Century Clippings Capture Prominent Names
A hodgepodge of facts notes Pat Paragraphs Jay Gould gaining six pounds from yachting, Robert Bonner of the New York Ledger valued at 7 million dollars, and a Grinnell Congregational pew mimed for Wendell Phillips set apart for colored people. It also recalls Dom Pedro’s fifty three year reign, stock breeders in Minnesota showing three fifths of cattle west of the Mississippi, and mentions Hangman Binns and Upjobao of Victoria in passing.
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Pat
Jay Gould
Philadelphia
Robert Bonner
New York Ledger
Congregational Church
Grinnell
Wendell Phillips
Dom Pedro
Brazil
Minnesota
Mississippi
Hangman Binns
Great Britain
Marwooda
Upjobao
Banemaun
Victoria
Garden tips on sowing annuals and pruning shrubs
The article advises sowing annuals like zinnias and asters in late spring in leaf soil to foster fibrous roots, using heat from frames to germinate, and hardening plants before June. It warns against uniform pruning, favors plant-specific habits, and notes best timing for pruning shrubs and hydrangeas to promote next year’s flowering while avoiding crowding.
Hardy Roses for Gardeners in the North
The author lists prized hybrid perpetual hybrid Noisette and Bourbon roses with strong notes on which varieties thrive with or without protection. He names Alfred Colomb, General Jacqueminot, La France, and others, plus climbers Queen of the Prairie and Baltimore Belle. Guidance on preparation of soil and best transplant timing in mid spring follows, emphasizing careful root handling and avoiding dry roots.
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Alfred Colomb
Antonié Mouton
Auguste Mie
Beauty of
Perle Des
Queen of the Prairie
Baltimore Belle
Mrs. Hovey
Jllar Roses
Jules Margottin
Victor Ferdier
Henry Ward Beecher
Tuberose Culture indoors and seed sowing guidance
Flower Gossip advises tuberose bulbs planted mid April with offsets removed. Keep pots in warm sunny rooms, water sparingly at first, and ensure air circulation indoors. For holiday blooms plant strong bulbs in July or August and protect them from freezing until they flower. Also outlines sowing primula and other seeds in shallow boxes with good drainage and careful soil preparation.
To Start Flower Seeds In Rich Ground For Transplant
Begin with a free working deep bed of sandy loam or clay, richly manured with two year old rotted manure. Rake smooth, mix small seeds with sand if needed, sow shallowly, cover with fine earth, and press firmly. Water lightly in dry weather, keep weeds down, and transplant when seedlings reach one to two inches. Balsams petaulas zinnias gaillardias benefit from transplanting.
The Mixed Flower Border and Self Sufficient Planting
The author argues for redefining garden beauty toward hardy herbaceous borders over mosaic beds. Early spring shows snowdrops, anemones, and pusch sandra procumbens towers in bloom, with bees visiting the scented but modest plants. They favor creating bold, unique displays of spring flowers like trailing arbutus and roses to inspire neighbors and reward patient gardeners.
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Maren
WHAT THEY CALL THEM Mysteries of Feminine Fancy in Dress Goods
A Boston dry goods clerk guides a shopper through spring dress fabrics with lively detail. They examine drop d Alma cloth, cordurettes, plo-stripe fabrics, Amazon and granite cloth, momie-like textures, pilin and plaid combinations, camel hair, Lyured Albatross, Tol Mmunette, Cecilian cloth, cashmere with velvet dots, and velvet sprinkled squares, noting prices and colorways as he expands on feminine taste.
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Boston
GLOBE
St Lauggtry
Amazon
Room at the Top: Buckeye Boys Never Made Big Names
A Chicago Herald piece recalls Ohio boys urged to rise, with anecdotes of Tommy Jefferson Smith becoming a lemonade vendor in Mount Washington, Jimmy Buchanan Cook delivering mortar on the Washington Monument, Andrew Jackson Murphy failing in New York, Sammy Adams Brown waging stock troubles, and Charley Foster Fosdyke dying after a circus pole attempt, arguing early schooling shapes outcomes.
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Chicago Heraldj
Ohio
Butler County
Dan'l Webster
Tommy Jefferson Smith
New York
Wall Street
Mount Washington
Jimmy Buchanan Cook
Washington
Washington Monument
Andrew Jackson Murphy
Yankee from Massachusetts Becomes Paiute Chief With Three Wives
A Walker Lake Bulletin piece tells of a Massachusetts man, 47, who joined the Piutes at Pyramid reservation, painted himself as a redskin, and was elected a chief with three wives. He traveled from Massachusetts to San Francisco and the mines before settling at Walker Lake, savoring roaming life over civilization.
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Massachusetts
Walker Lake
San Francisco
Meadow Lake
Bay State
New Haven Goat Roasts Itself In Oven On Cold Night
A New Haven goat crawled into its owner's open oven during a bitter night and roasted to death. The bizarre incident drew local curiosity and left the owner alarmed by the oven's accessibility to the pet.
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New Haven
Bridgeport
Bristol
Massachusetts
Barnstable
Berkshire
Hampden
Hampshire
Norfolk
Plymouth
Franklin
Dukes
Middlesex
Suffolk
Remnant Breakfast Plans and Frugal Dinner Menus
The column outlines economical meals for breakfast lunch and dinner with detailed recipes. It promotes using leftovers and simple ingredients like oatmeal, boiled ham, trout, venison, and poultry scraps. It includes step by step cooking tips, cost notes, and a list of supplementary supper items and a brief miscellany of odd items.
Top-steered glass-roof submarine engine described
A fragment describes a vessel steered from the top of the cylinder with a glass roof through which the operator at the wheel can view the water surface and direct the unusual submarine engine's course.
Wealthy Widows in New York Face Taxes Without Vote
The New York Mail and Express notes that many wealthy widows in the city pay taxes yet lack voting rights. It lists several widows worth millions, discusses broader female wealth, and cites English suffrage debates and the 1882 Married Women's Property Act as context for extending parliamentary or local franchise to tax paying women.
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New York Mail and Express
New York
A. T. Stewart
Commodore Stevens
Moses Taylor
Edwin D. Morgan
Commodore Vanderbilt
James Brown
Robert L. Stuart
William Coleman
Witliams&. Dodge
Jotms, Green
Hamersley
Puran Stevens
George Osgood
George Opdyke
W. R. Garrison
Gerry
Wendell
Givorge Merritt
Jonathan Sturges
Robert. B. Minturn
John Mineturn
Jesse Hoyt
W. H. Fogg
Augustus Schell
B. R. Alden
William T. Bloodgett
Isaac Sherman
Mary Mason Jones
James F. D. Lanier
Jane Townsend
England
Case of Commons
Petit Thons
Middlebury Merino Sheep Shearing Sets Vermont Record
The Vermont Merino Sheep Breeders' Association hosted a national style shearing event in Middlebury Addison County. Rams and ewes yielded fleeces up to 37 pounds 2 ounces for a two year old ram, with numerous 20 plus pound fleeces. Spectators from distant places witnessed the wealth of Vermont sheep breeders.
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Mipperbury
Vermont
Adaison County
Vermont Merino Sheep Shearing Association
Vermont Merino Sheep Breeders’ Association
United States
Middlebury
Addison County
Lyman Clark
Addison
al Leeee
Association
E. Ainsworth
James Forbes
Shoreham
E. N. Bissell
Compound Oxygen Claims Cure for Sick Headache
A Philadelphia doctors ad promotes Compound Oxygen as a cure for chronic sick headache and other ailments. An Wind Ridge Pennsylvania case reports rapid relief after three weeks of inhalation with no headaches for a month, plus reduced morphine use. The notice invites readers to request the Drs Starkey and Palen treatise with a free history and action of the remedy.
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Agentleman
Wind Ridge
Penn
Tha
Starkey & Palen
Girard Street
Philadelphia
Bannan J. Barer
Winthrop
Manoais Manan
North Twelfth Street
M. J. Cuapwick
Mullica Hill
N. J
Chestnut St
Vais Payer
Life of Ben Thompson Probed for Publication in Texas Topics
The Nacogdoches News cites a case of a county color woman aged 26 as a grandmother. Illinois visitors traveled to Abilene to view a pair of stockings. Coleman buried his 15 year old dog with 50 attendees. Willis distributes soap to tramps and issues a duck in a running stream and cream clothes. Callahan of Coleman Voice marked a silver wedding with a Mexican bit piece from a friend. A miscreant near Content stole two hams then died of heart disease the next morning 200 yards away.
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Texas
Ben Thompson
Nacogdoches
Ilinois
Abilene
Coleman
Willis
Callahan
Coleman Voice
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