HOWARD'S LETTER ON BROOKLYN'S GROWTH AND BRIDGE DRIVE
A historical column recounts Brooklyn's rise from a small ferry village to a mighty city. It highlights early settlers Seth Low and Joseph Howard, Beecher’s influence, and the city’s churches and leaders. It laments provincial management hindering the Brooklyn Bridge and Brooklyn’s access to waterfront and commerce.
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New York
Brooklyn
Holland
New England
Massachusetts Salem
Seth Low
Joseph Howard
Brooklyn Heights
Salem
Jersey
Brooklyn Neights
Fashionable Greek knots and changing hair styles good for health
The article notes fashion readers prefer variety in hair dressing to avoid health risks from constant styling. It highlights Greek knots for certain face shapes, front hair management, and elaborate coiffures for opera and masquerade occasions, with accessories and perfumes from milliners.
Some Men Understand Women Cartoon Snippet
A New York Sun comic panel sketches a photographer directing a sitter Miss Smith at church, noting a pleasant, contrived expression. The exchange mentions a friend Biown and a hat, with light irony on how portraiture captures attitude.
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New York Sun
Poebvaraeber
Miss Smith
Hatshy
Michigan Democrats adopt district based campaign plan
Detroit Jan 29 The Michigan Democrats will reshape campaign management with the state central committee chairman acting as commander in chief aided by district chairmen who direct operations across congressional districts. County and township chairs will report to their district and county leaders under the new system credited to I M Weston.
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Detroit
Mich
State Central Committee
O County
I. M. Weston
Democratic State Central Committee
Apple mishap harms man in New Castle incident
A young woman in New Castle threw an apple over her shoulder striking Mr. Gibson in the eye, destroying sight. The report notes he is not the first man harmed by such a stunt, a recurring claim in local anecdotes.
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New York
Beecher
Cox
Dr. Cox
Rae Ormet Chue
Ever Forest
Bethune
Galt
Iseter
Church of the Pilgrims
Richard Storrs
Beiling
Irs
Brooklyn
New England
Dr. Storrs
Newcastle
Mr. Talmage
Mr. Beecher
Norristown Herald
New Castle
Mr. Gibson
A Barn-Raising Dinner and Old Time Pumpkin Pie
In a reminiscence from 1827 and 1887, Aunt Betsey recalls a barn raising dinner and her Aunt Linnie’s pumpkin pies. She details cooking on a brick oven, molasses sweetened pies, rye crusts, and simple sustenance, contrasted with later abundance and modern sugar use.
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Linnie
Sarah
New England
Betsey
Old Fashioned New England Barn Raising Dinner
Clarissa Potter’s excerpt recalls a 60 year old barn raising with 50 men helping raise a barn while a long dining table bears hot meats, bread, pies and coffee. The narrator notes changes in modern meals and labor, contrasting past self sufficiency with today’s crowds and kitchen help.
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Clarrisa Potter
Daughters of America
New England
John
Brey
Minute pudding and brown bread old time recipes
A reprint of homey era cooking rules from a correspondent. Instructions cover a hot milk flour pudding called minute pudding with a sweet cream or vinegar syrup sauce, and brown bread made with molasses rye and Indian corn meal baked from morning to evening until red as a cherry. Also notes on baked beans with pork and mustard.
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Sarah
New England
Saul
Linnie
Betsey
Han
Betsey Agswares
Nat
Citas
Hannah
Sileratus
Petsy
Appy
Grandme
Reading
Mass
Modern toilet theme sparks reader correspondence
A reader letter to Jean Kincaid, editor of Woman's Hour at the Boston Daily Globe, requests that communications be addressed properly and stamps provided for replies. The writer notes prior article on the modern toilet and reflects on forming an opinion some time ago.
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Brooklyn
City of Churches
Historical Society
Long Island
Carroll
Plymouth Church
Long Island Historical Society
Arrol
Jean Kincaid
Woman's Hour
Boston
G Lose
Mass
Corres Om Depty
Zawistowsky’s Whiskers Case Ends In Big Verdict
A jury in Carcaco awards Elizabeth Yawistowsky 3900 against the Knights of Pythias. It is the widow’s second victory over lodge insurers after suing the Knights and Ladies of Honor for insurance money. The tale recounts Zawistowsky’s 1882 trouble, his apparent suicide note, a misidentified body, and a bizarre discovery of chin whiskers washed to form a false beard, ending with unsettled suits against lodge groups.
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Carcaco
Knights of Pythias
Elizabeth Yawistowsky
Knights and Ladies of Honor
Knights of Honor
Zawistowsky
West Side
Giebe
Zawiszynsky
Sun
Why not try Free Specimens of The Rural New Yorker
Why not send for free specimens of The Rural New Yorker, the leading farm weekly. It is a farm garden religious news home and literary paper with 16 pages priced at $2.00 a year. It offers experiment grounds, 82 acres, 600 contributors, and impersonal reporting with careful testing of seeds and plants. Address 34 Park Row New York to request specimens.
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Rural New Yorker
Nature
Rural
America
New Yorker
Park Row
New York
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Dr. Putnam
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Church of
St. Charles Borromeo
Henry Ward Beecher Toas
Belp Medcine
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Ayetye
Henry Clay
Webster
Calhoun
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Sherman
Eridan
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Union Ferry Company
Brooklyn City Railway Company
Prospect Park
Greenwood Cemetery
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Anchorage
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Packer Institute
Polytechnic
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Unonberry Company
Booklyn
New York Times
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Henry VC. Murphy
Monte Cris
Medina & Co
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Boston Theatre
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E. H. Bailey
Forman
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J. H. Wilcox
Stearns
Eaton
Gluck
White, Smith & Co
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Helier
Lichner
Lange
Spindler
Michigan
Democrats
Arrie Harcch
Andford
Quant
Ana
Erk
Separty
Ohex
Binmelf
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Salpetriere
du Midi
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French Academy of Medicine
Jean Civiale
France
Prof
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Hotel Dieu
Varia
Medical Academy
Legion of Honor
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Washington, D. C
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Seville CO
Fla
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Standard Silverware Co
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Wu Stiggrords Conn
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Union
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Paul
Minn
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P.O
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Ill
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Enns
Civil Service Gazette
James Epps & CO
Homeopathic Chemists
London
England
Sec’y F. W. Co. Bradford Block
Vine
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Ohio
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Faris
Chichester
Atte
Chichester Chemicon Co
Madison Square
Philada
Frink
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M.C
Pearl St
Agents’ Journal
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M. Dors
Marstow
Park Place
NewYor
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Advich
Mad
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Main St
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D. H. Lowe
Winsted
Wilcox
B.D. Baker
Burrato
N. Y. Cowlst
Royal Card Co
Northford
J. F. Hill & CO
Augusta
Leslie & Keeley Company
Dwight
Illinois
Webman
Clinton Bros
Clintonville
Chicago Scale Co
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