Howard's Letter on the Speed of Population Motion
A New York column laments universal haste in modern life from trains to sermons and dining, contrasts past slower pace with present high pressure, and urges a return to measured living. It cites Uhl and Ottendorfer’s Staats Zeitung, Boston Goose, and local theater fatigue, urging balance, leisure, and temperate rhythms in daily conduct. Howard calls for slowing to recover true life’s balm.
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Lench
Neeall
James Gordon Kennett
Apu-street
City Department
Foreign Office
Franklin
Tme
New York
Mrs
Uhl
Staats Zeitung
Ottendorfer
Oswald Ottendorfer
Times
Herald
Bennett
The
Charles H. Taylor
Boston
Elysium
Howard
What Becomes of Old Shoes
A New York Sun piece traces the fate of discarded footwear from salvage to resale. Old shoes are repaired by an Italian cobbler or sent to junk dealers, then shipped to shoddy factories where leather dust is mixed with rubber to form cheap inner soles sold at deep discounts. The process evolved from straw board counters to leather dust and rubber blends, creating a poor substitute for real leather.
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New York Sun
Boston
China
Aes Avs
Everse
Just One More Kiss in a Carrollton Car Scene
A pious Carrollton man went to kiss his daughter goodbye aboard a train. He returned to the car window to speak, but another passenger sat in his seat and angrily demanded quiet. The scene ended with a sharp rebuke as the old man’s farewell kiss was interrupted.
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Newman
Herald
Carrollton
Bee
Tired Journalist Returns From Office After Late Edition
The journalist arrives home exhausted at 4 o'clock after putting the Sunday edition to bed. Asked if a copy was brought home, he replies he was too tired to fetch one. The brief exchange highlights the strains of deadline pressure in the newsroom.
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New York Truth
Kissimmee
Harlem Real Estate Dealer Hints Ten Story Build
A Harlem real estate dealer tells a party on the corner that they must move, promising a ten story flat house will rise quickly. A young man from Richmond, Virginia, who has arranged to work for J. F. Johnson & Co. offers to provide more information via mail.
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Harlem
Mau
J. F. Johnson & Co
Richmond, Va
East Pitt
Was
Levi Rathbun
Garrison, Mann
Kansas
New Hampshire
W. E. Chandler
United States
Dalton
E. Fields
Histepson
Dennis Taylor
Young Taylor
Daton
Hill
New York
Grantsdale
Missouri County
Mont
Gold Creek
Laggett & Meyers and
Drummond & Co
St. Louis
P. Lorillard
Jade McLain
Savannah
Kearsarge
M. Shepard
Bancroft Gherardi
North Atlantic
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Port Au Prince
Haiti
Major Wham
Anscop
Ari
Gilbert Webb
Wilford Webb
M. E. Cunningham
Nat Follett
Jyman_ Follett
Thomas Lamb
David Rogers
Edward Follett
Dakota
Yankton
Given's
Mustin
Tex
Cobre
Wilson
Ontario
Cperset
Quebec
Toronto
Ont
Elizabeth
N. J
New Jersey Central
Green Brook
Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
Pittsburg
Penn
Homestead Steel Works
Carnegie
Brunswick
O. Co, Everett
Harvard
H. L. Chapman
Burleigh
Dingley
Bontelle
Fraipont
Canaian Department of Justice
Eno
A. P. Cecil
Adolphustown
Kingston
Exeter
Rise Brigade
Canada
Marquis of Exeter
Lord Burghley
Burner House
Stanford Town
Indiana
Vincennes
Botto
Illinois
White
Wabash
Navy Department
Meigs
Washington
Commissioner of Pensions
Pension Office
Congress
Cardinal Gibbons
Randolph Uncles
St. Joseph’s Seminary
Polk
Andry
Stockton
Board of Inspectors
New Jersey State
Court of Pardons
Claytons
Howe Wadnesday
Bow Legged Battalions Duck Farm Exposé at Easton Massachusetts
Boston June 14. A tour of the Maple farm dock yards at South Easton owned by James Rankin reveals the world’s largest duck farm. Artificial incubation and brooding, vast houses, Pekin ducks, and detailed care methods showcase a highly automated operation with insights on water use, feeding, pests, and disease.
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Boston
Ever
Anon
Maple Farm
South Easton
Mass
James Rankin
Rankin
Furan
Kissimmee Maiden Turns Car Ride Into Rhyme
A playful verse features a Florida girl from Kissimmee who charms a traveler in a car journey. The exchange centers on the cheeky refrain You're going to Kissimmee as the couple jokes about tunnels, routes, and curious travels amid regional chatter.
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Joel Benton
Florida
Kissimmee
Judge a man by his eyes but a woman lips remark
The Nomersine Journal quotes a saying about judging character and notes Benjamin Franklin’s deep interest in electrical phenomena, tying a gendered phrase to his scientific pursuits.
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Nomersine Journal
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin
Boston School Committee to Print Verbatim Debate Reports
The Boston school committee voted to publish verbatim reports of its debates. The measure aims to provide accurate records of discussions. The decision follows ongoing interest in transparency within city governance and will affect future council and committee proceedings.
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Lowell Courier
Boston School Committee
Boston Common Council
News in Brief Floods and ship scares dominate reports
Flood damage figures 300 500 dollars appear in damesee to canal and reports on Pekonshkeepsie bridge completion. The Saale steamer had a near collision with ice, Pomona lost near Baracoa but crew saved, and Mille Lacs whiskey inducement sparked local Indian unrest. Mackerel influx, Washington monument visitors, and other scattered incidents follow.
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Damesee
Chesaneake & Ohio Canal
New England
Pennsylvania
Pekonshkeepsie Bridge
Washington Monument
Wren
Strawberries Six Inches Round in Garden Tales
Mrs. William C. Dewey of Stamford grows strawberries six inches in circumference with fifteen berries weighing a pound. In another note Marland and Lendall Knight of Limerick report killing thirteen black snakes this spring, two six feet long and one six feet seven inches, sent to Portland for natural history displays.
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New Haven
Portland Press
Marland
Lendall Knight
Limerick
Natural History Rooms
Portland
Infant Miss Lucy Claims Six Grand Ancestors
Miss Lucy, infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Percy L. Pulcifer of Exchange Street, is described as having two grand grandmothers and four great grandmothers, totaling six ancestors. The oldest is Mrs. Betsy Pulcifer of Riverdale.
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Lucy
Percy L. Pulcifer
Exchange Street
Betsy Pulcifer
Riverdale
Postal Cards Sent to Icehouse by the Morse Family
A large bundle of blank postal cards was mailed to an icehouse by the Morses. The bundle was stamped to ensure delivery, but a new postal clerk on the train opened the bundle and stamped every card in the package.
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Morses
Prisoner Amazed by Wife Letter on Donated Clothing
A New London county jail inmate received a letter from his wife stating she donated his entire summer clothing collection to the Johns town sufferers since he cannot wear it in jail.
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New London County
Johnstown
Plaster Test Draws Praise in Old Town Home
Bangor Commercial notes N. C. McCausland recently plastered a room with saw dust mortar. Citizens examining it praise its lightness ease of preparation quick drying whiteness and lack of cracks. The surface is described as tough and smooth.
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Bangor
N. C. McCausland
Old Town
Dover shop clerks pray or collect for Johnstown relief
In Dover a store clerks feared the danger and one suggested prayer while another urged taking up a collection for Johnstown sufferers. Charles Squeen in Woodbury's shoe shop halted his charged machine until the shower passed. A Peirce street resident glimpsed a bright flash that lit the railroad line and saw a photo-like mark in his eye this morning.
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Dover Democrat
Johnstown
Charles Squeen
Woodbury
Peirce Street
Three confidence schemes exposed at Detroit depot
A farmer asks Officer Button about how confidence men operate. They use fake checks, worthless bonds, trunk swaps, and bogus loans. The distraught man claims he has fallen for all four schemes and asks to be shown the river’s deepest spot to vanish without a trace.
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West Six Street
New York
Ross Schoonover
Kewanee
Ill
Schoonover
Ewance
Sharpers
Frosshiowa
Rockford
Georgia
Louisville
Kentucky
North Carolina
Texas
West Virginia
Louisiana
South
Secvetary Bussey
Mary Ellason
James Ellason
Ellason
Abcatta D
Chattanooga
Connnes
Salisbury
N. C
Bussey
National Furniture Manufacturers’ Association
Charles R. Leigh
Grand Rapids
Jid
Columbia College
Metropolian Opera House
Seyman
Mackaye Smith
Sara B. Rogers
Caroline Hankey
Detroit Free Press
Third Street
Button
George
Consumption Surely Cured
To the Editor please inform readers I have a positive remedy for the arnye named disease. My timely use has cured thousands of hopeless cases permanently. I will send two bottles of my remedy free to anyone who can prove they pay a small fee, with express and return. T. A. Slocum M. C. 181 Pearl Street New York.
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Eir Express
T. A
Slocum
M. C
Tow
York
Premiums on Hand for The Weekly Globe Offers
Advertises bundles pairing The Weekly Globe with various premium books and instruments at set prices. List includes dictionaries, music books, sewing items, and the Singer sewing machine, with totals ranging from 1.26 to 13.00 dollars. Concludes with address: The Weekly Globe, Boston, Mass.
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Globe
Globe and Ropp
Dsessverveee Sagenaiet
Globe and Dictionary
United States
Natural History Cyclopedia
Worcester
THE
Weekly Globe
Boston
Mass
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Tom
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Madame Duck
Long Island
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Mr. Rankin
Ames
Etate
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Irda
M. J. Svonx, Je
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Tam
Ponce de Leon
Mayden
Grace
Terre Haute
Richard
Lawrence
Peter Streb
Edward
Frankfort
Fortayne & Chi
Canton
Dednesday
Secretary of War
District of
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Harriet A. Balkman
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Adella Morris
Anniston
Ala
Connecticut House
Merced Market
Mexico
Hursday
West St. Paul
Minn
St. Paul Ice Coseroy
Treat & Co
Grinvell
W. F. Kramer
Reformed Church
Lebanon
Reading Railroad
Norfolk Street
Irs
Kirschman
Esther Goldberg
Frank J. Kastner
Newark
N.J
P. Ballantine & Sons
Military Academy
War Department
Young
Ohio
Michigan
National Cemetery
Tate
Jennie Maittill
Clarksville
Tenn
Century
Birmingham
Pennsylvania Railroad
Harrisburg
New York & Chicago
Telegraph Cocenter
Bear Creek
Colema Station
Alleghany Valley Railroad
Burlington
Salem
J. Anne de Beaupre
Bon Secours
Montreal
Jeannette A. Lincoln
Mutual Reserve Fund Life Insurance Company
Brockton
United States Court
State
Navy
Kellorg
Ayll
Hayti
O'Kane
Donovan Rossa
Cassidy
Smith
Rossa
Saenages
Hay
Catholic News
St. Clair
Potteville
Mamie Mull
Harry Hayes
Governor Hill
Mississippi
Jackson
State League
Supreme Court
Wilmington
Del
Eveinge
Walter Wright
Joseph Lawless
Thomas Cloney
Jrednessey
Wilkesbarre
Snakes
Gloucester Times
Bath
New London
Brooklyn
N.Y
Chichester
CROGE
Dane
Katy
Alaska
Hester
NAP Chichester Chemical Co
Madison Sq.,Phila
GEO, C, Goodwin & CO
Agents
RY & CO Btn
Leinernritie
Dr. Haines
St. Cincinnati
Eo Ts’ Journal
Cory
Agents’ Journal
Bromsield
Street
Wytf Myll
Scicoere
Ress National Sheet Metal Roofing CO
East Twentieth St
New York City
Wyém Jela
U. S
L. A. Silve Co
Cleveland
Fasg
Yanwood
Marston
Park Place
New Yorks
Nassau St
Suitle & CO
C. J. Mason
Une
Asi
L. G. Mitchell
East Haddam
Conn
J. L. Stephens
J. le Stephens
Jonn Oe
Itary
R. H. Woodwarp & Co
Baltimore
Cavendish Laboratory
Murray St
Rnte Brewster Safety Rein-Holder Co
Holly, Mich
A. Leamann
Washington, D.C
IRLS
Sage &Co
Federat
Evas
Charles E. Swanson
John BE. Swanson
Alma J. Swanson
Augustus Swanson
Maine
Moses J. Taylor
Eustis
I. Hendrick
Willison
Cumberland Mills
W.S Coomer Cumberland Mills
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