Women as smugglers cover for contraband hides
An aged customs officer recalls how women now lead smuggling, using fruit and trunks to conceal lace, jewels, and cigars. He notes gloves in hay, boots with jewelry, and trunks with false bottoms, plus fashionable clients in Jersey resorts exploiting fashion to move goods. The interview covers methods, locations, and a Bar Harbor tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Tribune
Uncle Sam
Jersey
Maine
Jonathan Wild
M. Lecoq
Europe
Newport
Fort Hamilton
Custom House
Bootheels
New York
Liverpool
Stettin
Baltic
Sam
Felix
Tag
Rag
London
Man
Poole
Snip
Jim Alden
Cassowary Jim
Jim
Bar Harbor
Evenue
Arry
Mount Desert
Daugher
Sud
Harry
The Cuban Woman Described by a Smitten Correspondent
A Springfield Republican correspondent extols Cuban women as the loveliest type of the sex. He highlights their beauty in form and movement, dainty feet, graceful carriage, and expressive eyes, claiming the standard of elegance spans from girlhood to motherhood. He notes a Latin facial charm and waxen complexion, with the eyes as a crown of loveliness that remains constant through life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield Republican
Cuba
States
Queer starts in life from Drake's Magazine
The article surveys global cradle customs, noting Guiana baby cradles fashioned from itirritt reeds carried by belt and fore head, Esquimaltot jumper hoods on mothers' backs, Siberian ice-rock cradles, Samoan torture boxes, Chinook lashing with moss pads and inclined boards, and Northwest coast practices with head-banding to shape skulls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Drake's Magazine
Siberian
Inebriated Traveller Seeks Road to Wilsontown
A drinking traveller asks a farmer if a road leads to Wilsontown. The farmer confirms and the exchange hints at the traveller’s uncertainty about when the journey begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilsontown
John Brown as a Springfield wool merchant 1846 1849
Albert H. Xy outlines John Brown's Springfield years from 1846 to 1849. He ran wool business, lived in a cottage on Franklin Street, and attended the Sanford Street Colored Methodist Church. His abolitionist activities here connected Boston Worcester stations and the Underground Railroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
John Brown
Torrington
Conn
Charlestown
W. Va
Virginia
Kansas
Canada
Ohio
Brown
L. H. Taylor
Thomas Thomas
Thomas
Akron
Russell Tavern
Boston, & Albany
Union Depot
Main Street
Heston & Albany
Iy King & Curtis and Brown
Athol
Downing, Sturtevant & Co
John Aponlesinger
Thomas Middleton
Vermont
John M. Woods
Charles Staetings
Chileren
John
Owen
Frederick
Watson
Salmon
Oliver
Annie
Sarah
Ellen
Franklin Street
Main
Rey
Underground Railroad
Worcester
Boston
Colored Wesleyan Methodist Church
Sanford Street
John Williams
Durne
Congregationalists
England
Albert H. Xy
Billy and Father Break the Drink Curse in Edinburgh Tale
In Sheffield weekly Telegraph style, a boy named Billy endures a life with a drunken father, Steedman, a tailor who spirals into crime. Billy quietly endures, plots a drastic cure by enforcing abstinence, and later helps convict the thief while caring for his injured father. Steedman, imprisoned, seeks forgiveness. Billy remains faithful, and recovery follows.
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Billy
Steedman
Father
Land of Shadows
Sheriff Court
England
Ash
Sather
Wilson
Cavengate
South Bridge
Pool
Stediman
Bily
Steediman
Wilson’s
Stedman
dSteedman
Arman
Ss Cetamic
Oiden
Illy
Prohibition on Liquids in Mivials Sparks Weight Loss Debate
A column in Fat People to Know praises strict liquid abstinence during mivals and surrounding meals. It details intense thirst, eventual adaptation, and notable weight loss claims, including a Fifty-second Street woman who lost 54 pounds in three months and reports improved health and diminished cravings.
Packing Young Ones Like Kittens In Oxford County
Early March years ago a pioneer settler decided to move his family of seven children. The passage recalls the difficulty and care in packing and relocating a large family, comparing the task to packing kittens.
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Lewiston Journal
Oxford County
Reaa
Pioneer Family Carries Seven Cubs in Straw Basket
A pioneer's tale recounts a family journey where seven young refreshed by warmth and safety were transported in a large, straw-filled basket attached to an ox-sled. The neighbor supplied the basket, originally for grass seed, and it remains in descendants' possession.
Fido Will Play With Dodie’s Dog Despite Nervousness
In a brief exchange Mr Dodie agrees to lend his dog Fido to someone wishing to play with it. The reply notes Fido is nervous and should not be irritated, reflecting a cautious, cordial arrangement in a small domestic scene from Gre Little Blasien.
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Little Blasien
Mr. Dodie
Calle
Fido
Many odd items from late 19th century America
A collage of brief curiosities: residents of White Oak Pennsylvania and Nahant summering, a Philadelphia young woman rumored to have five lovers all named Samuel, a Florida ad for mild Alligators, and notes on emperors, naval gunners, and odd happenings from Chicago to Paris.
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Dave Ober
White Oak
Penn
William D. Howells
Nahant
Philadelphia
Samuel
Florida
Frederick
Riverside
Paris
William II
Germany
Liverpool
Chicago
Oshkosh
Wis
Juryman
Pennsylvania
Delano
Cal
New Orleans
Messenger
Navy
Gunner
Navy Department
Washington
Allen McLinn
Texas
Mich
Aldershot
London
Cornelius Collins
Government Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Talulah
Josie Carroll
Birdseye
Ind
Vienna
Dom Pedro
Milan
Rio Janeiro
West Madison Street
Jefferson Davis
Beauvoir
Mr. Davis
Virginia Davis
Newark
Bar Harbor
New York
Western Union Telegraph Company
Congress
West Point
Fort Monroe
Fort Riley
Chicago Journal
Doylestown Intelligencer
Bradley
Asbury Park
New York City
Milon
The Ticker and Its Electric Race Against Time
In 16 Broad Street reporters describe the stock ticker business with two keyboards, a moving inked ribbon, and parallel wires called ticker and press. Edison is blamed for tickers complexity and royalties. Storms disrupt wires, delaying quotations and rattling brokers in New York’s Broad Street.
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New York Graphic
16 Broad Street
14 Broad Street
Uni
New York
Mr. Edison
Broad Street
Courtship's Cloture in the House of Puck
A playful verse depicts a House scene where a male member chairs the Committee of the Whole on State of the Union and moves the Previous Question. The female objected yet remains silent as he rules the motion carried under a flirty, tongue in cheek tone. The piece ends with a romantic pledge that debate ends when they are married.
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Union
Turayes
Wall Street man bungles telegram to wife over Polo Grounds game
A well known Wall street man relates to a New York Evening Sun reporter how a misdirected telegram caused a comic chase between Brooklyn and New York. He intended to take his wife to a Polo Grounds baseball game but failed to meet her, leading to a sequence of boat rides and mistaken stops that ended with both laughing at the mix up.
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Wilson
Themelves
Edinburgh
Billy
Steedman
Stedman
Igh
Elly
Glasgow
Indianapolis
Whro
Tosa Jones
Chicago
South Carolina
McBndefessor Davis
Patton South Carolina College of Agriculture
Columbia
New York Evening Sun
Wall Street
Brooklyn
Wall Street Ferry
Polo Grounds
Nothig
Sit
New York
Pedigree of the Dinner Pail from Good Housekeeping
The article traces the evolution of the dinner pail from a simple tin vessel for solid foods to illuminated designs with multiple compartments for coffee and heat. It notes several iterations, including alcohol heating and attempts to separate or combine components, reflecting ongoing tinkering with portable meal containers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Good Housekeeping
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Guiana
Sey
James McGowan
Sheffield
Eng
Weekly Telegraph
Ag Simpet
Ie Steedman
Lilly
Wilson’s Public House
Ray
Jai
Seedman
Canongate
Pyet
Jackson
America
Ecrutch
Aken
Ane
Steedman & Son
Arthur
Bleih
John Adams
Freedom
Newiston
Austin Snead
Puck
She
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