Sea Baths in Italy and the Public Bath Culture
The Chicago Tribune notes Italy’s coastal baths from Venice to Capri as open public spaces with pavilions and camerini, where etiquette fades once in the water. It highlights thermal baths near Naples, the Roman legacy of baths, and the lively scene with officers, signoras, and boatmen, praising sea bathing as a national blessing for rich and poor alike.
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Italy
Mediterranean
Venice
Naples
Capri
Amalfi
Rome
Pompeiian Baths
Nero
Pozzuoli
Bain
Carozzella
Vesuvius
Posilipo
Sorrento
Rock
Chicago Tribune
Two Strangers Reunite After World Travel
At a New York hotel table two strangers briefly met about a year earlier and renewed their encounter exactly six months later. Each had traveled around the world in opposite directions during the interim, exchanging hearty pledges of mutual friendship.
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New York
Choices Not Jokes From A Texas Paper
A miscellany of brief clippings notes humorous quips about hangings, letter collecting by Mr Gladstone, a frog thief in Spartanburg DC, and a general remark on educational need. a slice of periodical tone with maxims and wry asides.
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Texas
Delinquent Tax List for Cass and Crow Wing Counties 1893
Auditor Louis Tache swears the 16 page list covers all land parcels in Cass and Crow Wing Counties with unpaid taxes. It details delinquent real estate taxes from 1889 and earlier, descriptions of parcels, owners or assessees, and total judgments with interest under 1893 act.
Tax delinquent land list notice from Crow Wing and Cass
Clerk of district court notifies all persons and entities with any estate right title or lien to parcels in Cass and Crow Wing counties about unpaid 1889 and prior taxes. List describes parcels owner names and totals, with Sept deadline to file objections or face judgment on each listed property.
List of Delinquent Cass County Minnesota Tax Lands 1893
A public notice lists parcels in Cass County Minnesota against which Chapter 135 1881 tax judgments remain unsatisfied and delinquent since 1889 or earlier. The document names owners when known and cites the total judgment plus delinquent taxes interest and costs, with redemption rights prior to sale per the 1893 act.
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Minnesota
Crow Wing
Cass
Louis Tache
Case
Ainst
Sbal
County of
State of
Gossip on a Streetcar Ride Through a Gruesome Scene
A Chicago Herald note recounts a streetcar ride where passengers observe a morgue-bound body under a tarpaulin. The narrator reflects on human curiosity and collective voyeurism, comparing it to seeking discomfort and tragedy in daily life.
Fear of Snakes Discussed By Macmillan Authority
Macmillan's Magazine explores why children and some adults fear snakes while dogs remain beloved. The piece discusses innate, traditional, and learned fears, experiments with snakes and animals, and notes that European venomous bites are rarer than Hydrophobia deaths, attributing fear to childhood teaching.
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Herod
Europe
Fontana
Fea
Montana
Bushmaster
Fer de Lance
Hamadryad
Tic Polonga
Macmillan’s
Hawthorne Visits Portsmouth in Comradeship
In Commodore Bridge's Recollections, Hawthorne visits after an African and European cruise. He arrives amid packed boxes, worries about intruding, offers help, and stays for a week, assisting with unpacking and chores despite an initial reluctance to impose.
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Portsmouth
Hawthorne
Commodore Bridge
Mental Emotion and Jaundice Link in Historical Note
The article notes that simple jaundice can follow sudden mental distress. Examples include a young woman turning yellow upon discovering misdeeds, a woman reacting to fiancé’s death, and a man discharged from office for not meeting a height expectation. Jaundice can progress to acute yellow atrophy from shock. Cancer is also mentioned as potentially arising from this origin.
Street Car Dialogue Sparks Ottoman Etiquette
A comic exchange on a street car features Fogg refusing to give his seat to a young lady, saying he only offers to the aged. The young woman declines the seat, preferring to stand, and glares as the scene ends.
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Fogg
Boston Transcript
Remarkable Bombay Bedstead Priced At Ten Thousand Rupees
A Bombay man builds a bedstead costing 10000 rupees featuring four full sized Grecian damsels at the corners. The head figures hold banjos while foot figures hold fans. A long musical box under the cot plays twelve airs as soon as pressure from a sleeping person begins and stops when the person rises. The damselettes at the head move their fingers to pluck strings and nod, while those at the bottom fan the sleeper to sleep.
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Bombay
Tobacco smoke as a bactericidal agent against cholera germs
Dr. Tassinari reports in Italia Termale that tobacco smoke from Cavour Virginia and Tuscan cigars and other tobaccos shows strong bactericidal power against the Asiatic cholera bacillus. The effect is likely due to nicotine products. He suggests tobacco could aid hygiene in epidemics and as a prophylactic for oral microbial infections.
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Tassinari
Italia Termale
Cavour
Virginia
Noted Minister Praises Clean Family Bible
A brief exchange shows a minister commenting on a dust free Bible and a child replying with pleasure that it is neat and clean, reflecting a domestic, wholesome tone.
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Sivars
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