Famous Old Misers. Daniel Dancer Who was Too Stingy to Bath
An old Pittsburg Dispatch retells tales of extreme thrift. It highlights John Elwes, Ephriam Lanes Pereira, Baron L'Aguilar, and Daniel Dancer, detailing their parsimony, secret fortunes, and odd habits. The piece links inherited greed to misery, ruin, and death, noting Guy of London as a contrasting charitable financier.
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Martha V. Olney
Pittsburg
Bordentown
N. J
John Elwes
London
Harvey Ewes
England
Geneva
Elwes
Suffolk
Chelmsford
Duke Oforthumberland
Ephriam Lanes Pereira
L’aguilar
Maria Theresa of
Austria
John Lwes
Daniel Dancer
Dancer
Harrow
Middlesex
de Can
Finiser
Thomas Guy
Guy's Hospital
Guy
Hopkins
Christ Hospital Pe
Barry B. Smith A Editor Of New Weekly Journal America
Barry B. Smith is identified as an editor of the new weekly journal America and as one who reviews poetry offered to the publication. The note places him among the magazine's editorial duties and hints at a literary role within the weekly.
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Chicago Times
Barry B. Smith
America
The
New Weekly Journal
Poem Payment Promptly Settled After Gift
A local newspaper note recounts a day last week when a handwritten poem was published and valued. The author died without immediate payment, a Jes' address received the manuscript, and Mrs. Harry B. Smith presented a check the next day to settle the donation.
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R. Smith
Harry B. Smith
Whistles and Whistlers in Daily City Life
A New York Sun summary of how whistles shape urban life in New York and beyond. It notes drivers rely on whistles for safety, letter-carriers and peddlers use them to announce arrival, and railroad engineers once signaled brakes with whistles. It also recounts love signals, superstitions, and cultural sayings tied to whistling across eras.
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New York Sun
New York
Connecticut
Everly
Endow Brook
Heywood
Shakespeare Heself
Goneril
Albany
Longfellow
St. Antonio
Benjamin Franklin
Frankln
Chinese Superstitions About Brides in Popular Science Monthly
A summarize of customs around a bride leaving her home includes eating only half a bowl, shoe heel breaks as a bad omen, hanging bacon and sugar for demons, coffin timing limits, and ritual basket use. It notes restrictions on visiting homes with recent deaths or births and the belief in possible marital trouble if rules are broken.
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Popular Science Monthly
Susan
Jane
Tone
Pega
How They Court in Mexico
A San Francisco Examiner note recalls watching a couple court in Mexico City through a secretive pantomime. A young man and a girl from a nearby window perform a long flirtation in silence across two days, unspoken and observable only through their gestures.
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Mexico
San Francisco Examiner
Mexico City
Ory
Fascinating Female Pawnbroker Prompts Cash Trap
A widow pawnbroker in a yearlong privilege prompts Mrs Solomon Leyi to a marriage proposal. Augustus resists, replying she can only be an uncle to him, underscoring a tense social exchange in a fragmentary scene.
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Augustus
Solomon Leyi
The Old Settler and the Red Headed Roxy
The Old Settler retells a Sugar Swamp tale about Roxianny Shotpunk, her red hair, and a comic feud with a red schoolhouse. A bootlegged chase involves Rozy, Artemesy, and Ben Teeter, ending with Roxianny rescuing two bear cubs and riding home on Ol Buttermilk after a bear pursues her.
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Ed Mott
New York Sun
White Horse
Clarion Blast of Freedom
Sugar Swamp
Ruther
Duset Pelter
Wild Gander Ridge
Duset
Long D'Vis
Suzar Swamp
Roy Shotpunk
Lubbs
Jonas Dibble
Roxy
Bes
Secon
Skrimmidge
Giner’s
Jonas
Squire
Janny
Prunel
Flicker
Jim
Caroline
Zip
Jordan
Caceb Teeter
Ben
Artery Lab
Reub
Ely
Rory
Rox
Lartin
Kim
Iule
Nor'west
Hinderas
Walking Upside Down Ceiling Walkers In Cincinnati Inquirer
The Cincinnati Inquirer reports on ceiling walkers, about 15 performers who travel head down across a long smooth board. They use concave bowl shoes with vacuum pressure and iron rods to grip the board, suspended from a trapeze, with a net below for safety as they traverse the stage.
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Cincinnati Inquirer
How Money Is Made in Counterfeiting Banks Notes
A Chicago Herald article outlines how banknotes are designed and produced, detailing engraving methods, multiple artisans per plate, and the intricate process from portrait lines to the steel roll matrix. It explains the safeguards, wax impressions, and the challenges counterfeiters face with aging paper and precise engraving.
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fChicago Herald
L. J. Hatch
Government Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Western Bank Note Company
General Grant
Mr.Hach
Treasury
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Men of Great Memories Freight Conductors Memory Skills
A St Louis Globe-Democrat piece extols freight conductors with exceptional recall. After fourteen years on the road, the narrator claims to memorize all car numbers on a train, even as cars are swapped, with no reference to a book. He notes familiarity with car styles and the roads, enabling instant identification of a car’s origin.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Department of Railroading
Young man haggles for pharmacist job in Minneapolis
A man carrying a “Watch on the Rhine” clip and a want ad for a pharmacist visits a Minneapolis newspaper office. He boasts three years farm and Dakota work experience while the clerk questions his qualifications, prompting terse exchanges and a wary humor.
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Minneapolis
Colwin
Dakota
The New First Reader and a Tale of Two Sisters
A fragmented reader tale contrasts two boys James and John with simple sharing, tragedy from a loaded musket, and two sisters Susan and Jane whose contrasting dispositions lead to moral consequences. The piece shifts to a moralizing sketch of their later lives and fates.
Childrens Joys at Detroit Sunday School Feast
The Detroit Free Press describes a Sunday school festival where a superintendent guides children to sit quietly for a meal. The scene depicts hurried requests for ice cream, cake, and spoons as youngsters shout and scramble, reflecting playful chaos and limited orderly conduct.
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Detroit Free Press
Boyes
Pate
The Very Natural and Very Common Mistakes Girls Make
An 19th century style column warns Pittsburg readers that husbands are not bought, and urges women to judge men by character and habits rather than looks or wealth. It cautions against falling for flashy appearances and notes how idealized dreams harm marriage prospects.
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Pittsburg
Develi VO
Must Have It Life Note Divorce Talk
Mrs Lardine of Chicago protests a $500 fee for a simple divorce. Mr Bigfee stands firm and offers to write a receipt. Lardine refuses to pay more than she has and asserts she will not pay again.
Prompt Menial Matilda Watering the Flowers
A fragment from Texas Siftings shows a Lady addressing her servant Matilda. The exchange notes watering duties and mentions a specific line about whether the flowers were watered more than two weeks ago.
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Texas Siftings
Matilda
Matilda Snowball
Bald Eagle bar witness links to defendant in court
A judge remarks on recognizing the prisoner while the defendant admits past work at a Bald Eagle bar, noting a prior tavern connection. The exchange hints at prior familiarity between court and defendant without detailing charges or outcomes.
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Texas
Hand Organ Novelty Market and a Green Monkey Tale
The New York market for hand organs and melodeons shows uneven demand with four tone organs and melodeons trading, while monkey stock fades. Mr Taylor, the city’s sole hand organ maker, recalls a board of aldermen ban on street monkeys after a prank. He notes country use, varying tunes, and a decline in the business, with prices for street organs ranging from forty to three hundred dollars and new tunes costing four to five dollars.
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New York San
Mr. Taylor
Taylor
Board of Aldermen
Lexington Avenue
Mr. Monkey
Achester
Jimmy
Rochester
Alli
Scanlan
Nellie
Jack Eyes
Digby Bell
de Wolf Hopper
Mary Ann
Maloney
New Orleans
J. Taylor
Italy
Bric a Brac Of Love and Death Verse Fragment
A fragmentary verse extract titled Bric a Brac Of Love and Death notes Maybury Fleming in May Scibner's. It contrasts transience with beauty and the inevitability of decay, questioning mortality as life endures in memory and emotion.
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Maybury Fleming
Scibner’s
My Lady's Eyes and the Love Beam
A lyrical reflection on the perfection of a beloved woman’s eyes and the happiness and constancy her love inspires. The speaker, addressing Orelia Key Bell in Detroit Free Press, elevates this love as a near heaven’s vault and compares past ideals of beauty to the beloved’s surpassing radiance.
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My Lady
Orelia Key Bell
Detroit Free Press
Mizpah and The Lord Watch Between Us
Fragmentary verse piece reflecting on absence and prayer across distance with religious motifs. Mentions Mizpah, "The Lord watch between me and thee" and a melancholic scene of stormy coastlines, lost items, and longing for peace amid turmoil.
How to Tell Him A Harper's Weekly verse on a country bumpkin
A verse about a country born man visiting city sights without exposing his background. He traverses Brooklyn Bridge and sees the Park panorama theatre and Greenwood. He eats at Delmonico's buckwheats and syrup, observing but not praising anything.
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A. W
Harper's Weekly
Brooklyn Bridge
Park
Panorama
Theatre
Greenwood
Delmonico
April the saucy quean in Youth's Companion sketch
A vivid character sketch of April, a woman whose forty moods charm and torment. She smiles, sighs, and feigns scorn, then bursts into sunny laughter and flirtatious coquetry. Her shifting gaze ranges from peaceful Sundays to stormy Mondays, as lovers seek her.
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Mary Elizabeth Blake
April
Sweetheart Come Back to Me Poem Fragment
A lyrical plea from Harriet Maxwell Converse expressing longing for a lost beloved. The speaker watches night and day for the sweetheart, imagining visions of reunion and peace. The poem frames yearning, dreams, and memory as the heart awaits return.
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Harriet Maxwell
N. Y
The Hill Path a May Scribner's Poem by Scott
The speaker entreats the wind to guide a hillside journey toward a waiting lover. Through breezes and shifting pools the scene unfolds with nature and affection, as distant birds and daisies react to the pursuit. The wind must stay quiet to preserve solitude while the speaker reaches the wood where the beloved awaits, hoping for a kiss before departure.
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Duncan Campbell Scott
May Scribner's
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