Editor and Madman Reminiscences at a Fleet Street Printing Office
A former sub-editor recalls life at the Illustrated Social Review, his nervous breakdown, and a harrowing Christmas 1876 night when a deranged intruder revealed a deadly threat. The piece recounts a knife attack, visions of family ruin, and the subsequent years of uneasy memory in two different printing offices.
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Illustrated Social Review
Fleet Street
Winchester Court
Bain
Tian
Tlustrated Social Review
John Kempston
God
William Jee
Long Acre
Long Acre. Mr. Kempston
William Dee
Colney Hatch
Kempston
Dee
New Zealand
Deerhound Court
the Review
St. Paul's
St. Paul’s
Neteria
Rug making and doll house crafts for winter fun
A 19th century guide describes economical rug making from old flannel and merino scraps, detailing leaf and flower motifs, borders, and dyeing. It also shares cozy DIY ideas for a cardboard doll house with fabric, calico walls, and hand crafted furniture to keep children busy indoors.
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Toose
Macaroni and Its Uses in Dinners and Travel Diets
A long housekeeping article extols macaroni as a cheap nutritious substitute for vegetables, notes its Italian origin and inferior domestic production, explains gluten-rich flour matters, and offers practical recipes from Twenty-five Cent Dinners. It includes cooking directions and several dishes plus a few dessert and soup ideas using macaroni and related ingredients.
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Italy
Europe
Miss Carson
Barber Shop Etiquette Moral in a Shave
An Oil City barber humorously argues with a customer named Jones over talking during a shave. The barber frets about delays as headlines and jokes pass, ends up shaving Jones in two and a half minutes while a playful moral notes that letting a barber talk is cheaper than losing business.
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Oil City
Jones
George
Life's Comic and Tragic Aspects lecture by Mr Young
Boston journalist Mr Alexander Young lectured at the Hawthorne rooms on comic and tragic life, arguing both merge in human existence. He cited social shams, art, and literature to show appearances versus reality and urged that tragedy disciplines character, with satire and humor challenging public evils and pretensions.
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Alexander Young
Hawthorne Rooms
Boston
Walter Scott
Burns
Byron
Shelley
Keats
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Spurgeon
Senator Burnside
Superior Court of Chicago
House of Commons
R. 8
Storrs
Bayard Taylor
Joseph P. Thompson
Broadway Tabernacle
Thompson
Berlin
Gilbert Haven
Texas
Austin
Jesus Christ
Fes
St. Louis
imes-Journal
Caleb Cushing
Hannah F. Gould
General Cushing
Tay
Cushing
Thomas Graves Law
Brompton Oratory
England
Haydock
Oratory
Law
Filevuborough
Philadelphia Times
New York
Abrow
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