Are Our Teachers and Pastors Oblivious to Perils Ahead
A letter responds to Shirley Dare's critique of Newton and her child, arguing that modern schooling and clergy ignore risks to youth. It defends parental influence, condemns the hullabaloo of public education and peer pressure, and calls for stricter discipline, reverence for authority, and healthier approaches in homes and schools.
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Newton
Today
Mee
Spe
Farrar
England
Jacob Abbott
Bornee Ann
Subtry Dare
Etiquette Q and A on manners at theatre and calling
Readers submit questions on proper conduct in social events and daily courtesy. Topics include introductions, card etiquette, hosting, rising for guests, leaving rooms, addressing widows, and handling servants. Answers emphasize respect, timing, and discreet civility across social settings.
A Queen Turns Editor in Elegant European Magazine
The Belgian queen Maria Henrietta and her daughter Clem entine start La Jeune Fille a refined magazine to guide young girls in housekeeping and arts The queen writes on household matters and theater criticism while Clem entine handles art and literature The Roumanian writer armen Syva signs poetry and crown princess Stephanie may contribute pictures If Archduchess Maria Valeria joins it becomes an aristocratic venture experts doubt journalistic success would have been higher with a society paper and exposé of royal circles
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Philadelphia
Maria Henrietta
Miss Cleveland
Clementine
Orey
Armen Syva
Roumania
Stephanie
Austria
Maria Valeria
Waitin' for the Cat to Die poem memory song
The speaker recalls a bygone era with a rural swing and old places in a nostalgic poem. A granddaughter asks why he rocks slowly as he waits for the cat to die, linking past freedoms to present family moments. The piece blends memory, weathered experience, and gentle humor in rural life.
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James Whitcom
Riley
Harper's
Lawry
Ewing
Danglin
The Shakespearean Play of the Near Future
A fragmentary notice advertises a Shakespearean play titled The Shakespearean Play of the Near Future. It references a demand for a horse and a humorous product advertisement for Shackly's Peerless Bicycles and Dr Frand's wealth-Giving Salve, forming a quirky, period-tinged page item.
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Richard III
Flexible Sand Stone From North Carolina Mountain
A report from the North Carolina mountains describes a stone found on Samuel Hodgkins desk weighing about a pound and 13 inches long. The rock bends and flexes like rubber in multiple directions, yet remains smooth with no visible stratification, earning the name flexible sand stone.
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Samuel Hodgkins
War Department
North Carolina
Dancing Girls of Siam in Royal Bangkok Gymnasium
Buffalo Commercial Advertiser describes the training of Bangkok dancing girls aged 6 to 20 in the royal gymnasium. It details eyelid straw pickup, cup dances with cups on heads, and intricate leg and arm movements, noting striking feats and disciplined routines amid praise for refined physical training.
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Siam
Buffalo
Bangkok
Royal Gymnasium
Antipodes
Erasium
Airl
Price Talk Sparks a Watch Bargain Scene
In a lively dialogue at a jeweller's shop the shopper asks about a watch, the jeweller quotes forty dollars for a standard piece and raises to fifty for the smaller model. The conversation continues with a question about a more ornate style priced at seventy five dollars while Mr Berkshire reacts with surprise and disbelief.
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Uncle Berkshire
Altogether Too Sour for Most People Dinner Note
A Washington letter describes a Friday dinner hosted by Senator Stanford for 14 friends with hot hors d oeuvres priced at three dollars, noted as being sour to most palates. The report adds commentary on social dining costs and taste preferences among the invited guests.
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Chicago News
Washington
Stanford
Hanes Eer Oort
HAND SHADOWS FOR YOUNG FOLKS IN NEW INSTALLMENT
The Grone prints another hand shadow feature with easily made figures. Instructions note cardboard and scissors needed for models including a pitcher hat and serenader bugle. A cardboard visor and pencil-sized strip create the cap nose aid for the illusion.
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Tue Grone
Odd items and curios from the era of year 1888
A London postal card circuits the globe in 70 days while a New York man pays 265 for a 276 year old item. Notes cover inventors fortunes, cremation wills, rare fossils, ancient coins, and quirky discoveries across the United States and Europe, including a mastodon skeleton in California and a 300 year old Spanish coin hoard.
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London
Globe
New York
Indus
Sukkar
Wichita
Kan
Liberty
Colonel Stewart
Nevada City
California
China
England
Pacific
Vicey Chance
Polk County
Arkansas
Minnie Palmer
Cleveland
Frederick
Germany
Galliera
Victoria
Netherlands
Duke of Cambridge
Paris
Andrew Langenstadt
San Francisco
Henry M. Stanley
John Howlands
Chicago Herald
Nebraska
Atlanta
Griswoldville
Bridgeton
N. J
Peru
Callao
Norma Leander Burnett
Readmond
Emmetounty
Mich
Bank Ofngland
New York Tribune
Frank Thornton
Elberton
Saxony
P. T. Barnum
Bridgeport
Bartents Eagw
Horace Eer
Mathew Arnody
Mark Twain
Carey
Kansas City
Citi
Banner
Harrisburg
Anner
Aren Perena
Grand Rapids
Detroit Tribune
K Rock
Nevada
Soak
Uae
Nels
Pany Elas
BOSE
Une
Bt Kreu
Spears
Two Kinds of Conscience in Society’s Moral Ring
A St Louis Globe Democrat column argues conscience varies by culture and class. It contrasts a poorly educated man who may steal in evading poverty with a cultured man who avoids pilfering yet might mismanage estates. Both lack clear moral condemnation, illustrating that true moral discernment comes from inherited and acquired sight to recognize wrong acts.
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St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Origins of Halloo and Murrah Exclamations
Explanations of common exclamations halloo hurrah prithee and marry traced. Halloo possibly from halloup used by Charnwood forest folk echoing wolf call. Hurrah linked to Slavonic hurai to vaunt courage and victory. Prithee derives from I pray thee and marry from swear by the Virgin Mary.
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Charnwood Forest
Leicestershire
Littre
Pisa
Beaven
Unconventional Courtship Beside Eclipse Tale
A young man who visited an Oakland young lady during New Year’s eclipse was met with a sharp remark as she shut the door. She quipped that she hoped he would call again the very next Mane and noted they would not have another total eclipse for 110 years, prompting curiosity about astronomical forecasts.
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Congress
Europe
Prince of Wales
Duc d’Aumale
Diplomatic Corps
Thackeray
George IV
Kicklebury
Rhine
M. FE
W. Sherweod
Venice
New York City
Icture
St. Petersburg
Brancovent
United States
France
Indies
Constantinople
England
Henry VI
Brentwood
Eng
Tagliabei
Milan
George II
North Carolina
Christ
Clyde Station
Haywood County
N. C
Kinchafoonee Creek
Buena Vista
Pine Grover
Esmeralda
Nevada
Charlee Manning
Anna Station
Mars
Earth
San Francisco
Oakland
For All He Is Worth headline
Martha's Vineyard Herald reports on a domestic scene as a husband tidies the home during a washing day. The brief item notes routine household tasks and reflects local paper tone of daily life.
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Martha's Vineyard
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Indianapolis News
News
Osthers
Pau
Boston
Stevenson
Loston Society
Sharp Publishers
Mission Veadors
Longfellow
Samoa
Billy Farren
Pesse
Miss Clark
Puck
Hi-Yi
Sherwood
R. FH
G. W
T. B. OC
St. Ives
Lochinvar
C. de C
Alice
George TV
Jane
Washington Star
the Elephant
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