John Jay's Journey to a London Christmas Love
In a fogbound London boarding house on the eve of Christmas 1879, John Jay, a poor journalist and dreamer, obsesses over Florence Leyton from the Seyton circle. A cobbler, a dressmaker, and a vanished romance push him toward a doomed journey of longing toward a hopeful marriage in America.
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Min
Ned
Dan
Jobin Jay
Johan Jay
Miss Rensew
Mr. Jay
John Jay
Cobbler Dan
Miss Renfew
Florence
Thal
Florence Renew
Rex Leyton
Ste
America
Jay
Ponacre
Most Curious Divorce Suit Ends in Desertion Verdict
San Francisco December 24 the jury awarded Saran Althea Hill a divorce from ex Senator Sharon in a case famed for its oddities. The judge found Sharon guilty of wilful desertion and declared Hill entitled to a divorce and a division of the couple’s community property after considering the marriage contract and disputed writings.
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San Francisco
Saran Althea Hill
Sharon
Miss Hil
Hill-Sharon
California
Miss Hill
Palace Hotel
Miss Brackett
Miss
New York
Boston
Chicago
Sullivan
Nevada
Sarah Althea Sharon
Reigart
Wilf
Willian Sharon
William Sharon
Humorous note on winter fashion and the rough toothache cure
A lighthearted item from the St. Paul Topic depicts a man planning to color his winter ulster for use as a coat while the humorous editor braves the cold. It hints at an instant relief quick cure offered by 160, Druggists.
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St. Paul
Ulster
Prince Albert Victor to Visit America After Majority
Prince Albert Victor eldest son of the Prince of Wales turns 21 in January and plans a tour of the United States and Canada to learn about the continent. He has naval training, will study law at the Middle Temple, and may attend Montreal winter carnival events including the New Orleans exposition.
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Prince Albert Victor
Prince of Wales
United States
Canada
Albert Victor
Atlantic
Prince Big
Middle Temple
Lonon
Montreal
New Orleans
Crochet Work Definition and Baby Accessories Tutorial
Crochet basics for edging boot and hood. Defines single, double, and treble crochets with step by step instructions. Includes crotchet edgings and a baby’s crocheted book plate style projects, bone hook sizes, yarn, and assembly notes for a hood and boot accessories.
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Lloop
Lapy
Fancy Work Recreations by Eva Marie Niles
The note describes Eva Marie Niles new book Fancy Work Recreations a large handsome volume on knitting crochet and home adornment. Published by Buckeye Publishing Company Minneapolis priced 2 dollars cloth binding 2.60 gilt edge mailed to subscribers if no agent nearby. A reader praises its variety unlike any other on fancy work.
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Eva Marie Niles
Buckeye Publishing Company
Minneapolis
Fashion Notes From Madame La Mode Votaries
A summary of dress fashion ideas notes velvet materials for bodices and jackets and ball gown ensembles. It mentions walking dresses with simplicity, small buttons, Vestas on toilets, lace and pearl or rhinestone fastenings, shoulder scarfs of netted chenille in blue pink scarlet and white, and glove styles with embroidered gold on black. It also notes French worsted laces, florites at four dollars a yard, ruby velvet jackets with cream lace skirts, and elbow sleeve issues in Worth designs.
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Department of Fancy Wraps
Paris
Worth
Eulor
Brooklyn
France
The Match Boy's Christmas Miracle
A wind swept night on Washington street follows a nine year old match seller. He hawks five cent boxes of matches to warm hands and is finally aided by a generous passerby who buys him a jack in the box with a fifty cent coin, and later purchases gifts for himself, learning charity begins at home.
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Washington Street
Pedler
Hox 17
Jevacy
A Day in the Slums Surveils Board of Health Tour
Commissioner Taylor leads a Board of Health team through Boston slums to examine sanitation and housing. Inspectors report vacated tenements, blocked ash pits, and neglected yards while officials confront tenants who balk at orders. Ailing residents plead not to be turned out as the caravan visits Mechanic's Court, North End alleys, and Sands Court amid drizzly, muddy streets.
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Board of Health
Taylor
Tremont Row
Hanover Street
Boston
North End
West End
South
Mechanic's Court
Honover Street
Boardalley
Mechanic’s Court
Renaty
Fleet Street
Black Seas
Beacon Street
Fleet
North
Richmond Streets
North Brimmer Place
North Street
New England
Powers
Vince
Tors
Mr. Taylor
Dee
Barber's Alley
Tam
Commercial Street
Endicott Street
Barton
Brighton Streets
Brighton Street
Charles Street
Hillips Street
Anderson Street
Garden Street
Crystal Palace
Lincoln Street
Newton
Sands Court
No. 487
Harrison Avenue
Commissioner Taylor
Dover Place
Mrs. Murphy
The
Dear Santa Claus a shocking child’s letter
A Victorian era letter from Will to Santa contains shocking requests and violent fantasies including a drum to hurt his father and a powder gun to shoot his sister. The missive expresses extreme anger toward his mother and requests a horn, a hatchet, and other dangerous items, ending with threats of death if deemed naughty.
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Dodge
Santa Claus
Will
Annie
Granny
Kingdom Glory
Sunday All the Time Sermon Joke
A Philadelphia Call humor column portrays a Cincinnati mother prompting her daughter to recall the sermon. The child recalls heaven and endless Sunday leisure described as music gardens races baseball games and theatres. The punchline: the preacher said it would be Sunday all the time.
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Philadelphia
Cincinnati
Canned Tomatoes Industry Expands in Massachusetts
Massachusetts leads in tomato canning with a record pack last year totaling over 2.02 million cases of two dozen cans each. Nationally the pack averaged about 2.26 million cases annually, though 1884 saw a drop due to multiple factors. Acreage fell in Maryland Delaware and Ohio while the western crop exceeded expectations. Prices ranged from eight to twenty five cents per bushel as Boston packers faced stock surpluses. The industry has widened its area and, despite this year’s setback, is expected to grow, though packers resist price increases to keep farmer prospects dim.
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Fle
Maryland
Delaare
Ohio
New Jersey
New York
Mississippi
Massachusetts
Boston
The Oldest Daily Congratulates Itself on Snow
The Philadelphia North American boasts of subscriber loyalty among readers and declares it influenced the weather by calling for snow, noting the Christmas request and the beard as a humorous measure of its reach and influence.
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Philadelphia
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Euston
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Rey Seyton
Jonn Jay
Lorence Seyton
North Star
Miss Seyton
St. T Woner
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John Yey
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Florence Seyton
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Madame la Mode
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