Fringed rumors spark Sunnydale reconciliation
In Sunnydale a gossip about Richard Dale and Julia Frankland triggers jealousy and fear of scandal. A fringe on Richards coat reveals the truth, clearing the air as Dolly Frith and Julie confront accusations. Bessie Frankland reveals the collarette's chain of events, uniting the lovers. George Lane returns to Vienna.
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Richard
Dolly
Main Street
Luke Cameron
Sunnydale
Richard Dale
Julia Frankland
Julia
George Lane
Europe
Dolly Frith
Julia Dorr
George
Fred
Texas
Gossi
Julie
Vienna
Julie Frankland
Frederiick Frith
Poe
Grandpa Frankland
Frederick Frith
Sherman
Miss Lowndes
Miss Frankland
Frankland
Mrs. Allan
Dr. Allan
Paris
Bessie
Mr. Dale
Mrs. Allen
Bessie, Just Take the Reins. Mr. Dale
Grandpa
Bess
Lily Dale
Ichard
Brother Dick
Southern Pacific Buys Senator Fair Rail Lines in California
The Southern Pacific Company announces its purchase of Senator Fair's railroad from San Francisco to Santa Cruz and the senator’s street railway system in Oakland. The total price is stated to be a little over $1,006,000.
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Southern Pacific Company
Senator Fair
San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Senator
Oakland
Jackson's Great Battle at Chalmette Recounted
An 1815 account from Harper's Magazine describes Gen. Jackson's victory near New Orleans and the Bore plantation. A fleeing band of English attackers arrives at the estate as Mrs Bore and family witness the scene, while M. de Bore denounces them and orders them away.
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Chalmette
Charles Gayarre
Harper's Magazine
M. de Bore
Mr. de Bore
Inspector Byrnes Powers Rogues to Confess in New York
A Harper’s Magazine writer highlights Inspector Byrnes of the New York police who allegedly compels criminals to talk. Byrnes uses undercover rooms, selects college bred agents, and states crime is a fine art while detection is a science. He recalls trapping Henry W. Jaehne by gaining his trust and securing his admission of bribery.
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Harper's Magazine
Inspector Byrnes
New York Police Department
Cheff
Byrnes
Henry W. Jaehne
Sing Sing
Jaehne
The Little Children That Are Gone
A devotional meditation on child loss from the Chicago Advance. It reflects on why children die, the pain of bereavement, and the belief that such losses deepen faith and draw families toward heaven. The piece honors parental love and the sacred bond of children in life and after.
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Chicago
Heaven
Earth
Agricultural Tips and Household Advice from Home and Farm
The article blends farming guidance with domestic etiquette. It warns that slack farming leads to rural decline and city migration, urges prosperity through modernizing agriculture, shares onion growing notes using manure and ashes, and explains humane wound care for a horse. It also includes a brining recipe for beef and pork and ends with old-fashioned table manners for gentlemen and guests.
The Case For Moderate Weekly House Cleaning
Marion Harland argues against dogmatic weekly brooming for all rooms. She suggests lighter spaces like drawing rooms or guest chambers need less purging than dining or sewing rooms and praises the dust pan and brush as labor saving tools enabling less than a full furniture sweep when tidying.
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Marion Harland
Bacon Curing and Smoking Instructions from the N Y Tribune
The piece outlines selecting lean pork from about 100 pound pigs, recommending Duroc Jersey for bacon, directing salt and brown sugar cure, rubbing every three days, and smoking with maple hickory birch or corncob smoke until brown. It covers brine curing, packing in pickles, sewing in cloth for distance sales, ochre-dipped packets, equal piece weights, and eye appeal for buyers.
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N. Y. Tribune
Proper Restraint and Training of Young Bulls
A young bull requires strict restraint and constant work to stay safe and under owner control. The text recommends a rawhide-on discipline, constant labor, and keeping the animal lean. It advises nose-ring insertion at three months and cautions against playing with or petting a bull at any time.
Hand Care Advice From The Analyst
The piece offers home methods to soften and whiten hands using ammonia borax oatmeal and white of egg with alum. Desktop tips include lemon juice for cleansing, glycerine caution, and a night routine with gloves, a nail brush, and simple household acids as alternatives to shop manicures.
Milk Quality Improvement Through Feed and Generational Change
Professor Stewart notes progress in dairy cows where feeding improves milk quality, reducing butter yield from twenty-five to thirty pounds per pound of butter to about twelve pounds in some cases. He cites cows improved over two years, with proteins enhanced and milk output per butter drop, and claims each generation may improve.
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Professor Stewart
Country Gentleman
Baby slippers knitted for morning wear with zephyr wool
A brief guide for making ten months old baby slippers in knit or crochet. Use zephyr wool a bit longer than the foot, sew ends, crochet a scalloped top, thread elastic for ankle fit, and add a toe ribbon. Any color may be used. The slippers snugly warm the baby’s foot from waking until after breakfast.
How To Take Foot Baths And Prevent Colds
Instruction from the Detroit Free Press advises taking foot baths in mid forenoon when vitality is high. Immerse feet in hot water, then dash cold water over and rub until dry to close pores and stimulate circulation. Dry, warm stockings and boots follow, with sweet oil rubbed on feet to prevent cold.
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Detroit Free Press
Eggs Cheaper Than Beef and Aadvise Substitution
A columnist argues eggs offer cheaper calories than beef, urging wider egg use in diets. It notes summer prices of ten to twelve cents per dozen and winter comparisons, citing boiled eggs as clean nourishing fare with phosphorus.
Etiquette Notes on Courteous Manners for Ladies and Gentlemen
A set of guidance on polite conduct in social spaces. It covers offering seats, guiding a lady, stepping aside at doors, and standing when ladies or elders enter a room. It emphasizes letting ladies pass first and standing until they are seated. It also advises looking people in the face when spoken to and accompanying a lady upstairs.
A Penwoman of Remarkable Skill in Government Service
Mrs. Helen M. Avery of the interior department stands out as the foremost penwoman among over 15 000 government clerks in Washington. The New York Herald praises her uniform, clear handwriting used for commissions promotions and dismissals, and notes the president’s high regard. She also excels as a pen and ink artist and earns 1600 dollars annually with duties taking about two hours daily.
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Washington
Helen M. Avery
Interior Department
New York Herald
Avery
The Great Danger of Kidney Disease in Consumption
The Brompton Hospital in London reports that over half of consumption cases involve inactive kidneys. They claim 90 percent of diseases originate from kidney trouble, with uric acid poisoning spreading through the body. Warner's safe cure is promoted as restoring kidney activity and removing this poison to avert systemic illness.
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Brompton Hospital
London
Warner
Grain and livestock price roundup from multiple markets
The report lists Wheat No 2 spring 76 to 78 cents in Curiaco and varied values for No 3 spring No 2 red. Corn No 2 around 36 to 38 cents, oats 24 to 40 cents, rye 50 to 54 cents, barley 50 to 52 cents, flaxseed 1.09 dollars. Pork 20.10 to 20.50, lard 7.75 to 7.85, butter 25 to 31 cents. New York Minneapolis St Paul Duluth Milwaukee markets show similar ranges for wheat corn oats rye barley flax eggs hay and potatoes with several cent variations.
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New York
Chicago
Inneapolis
St. Paul
DuLuth
Milwaukee
U.S
W.M. Woolworts
Irnwin
Noted converts and political views noted in letters
The passage surveys varied topics from John Ruskin’s Catholic conversion and his odd mix of home rule views, to claims about St Jacobs Oil, German medical authority Dr. Schroeder’s death, Zed Star Cough Care, and a call for US Canada reciprocity. It also recalls Harlan W Brack’s 1882 Forest Hill railroad disaster testimony about loose nuts and rusty bridge fittings.
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John Ruskin
Ruskin
Ireland
Scotland
Douglas
India
England
Gladstone
Mr. Bright
Forest Hill
Boston
Harlan W. Brack
Review of Kidney Disorders and Potent Remedies Mentioned
An 19th century notice extols Hose tetter's Stomach Bitters as a stimulant for urinary glands boosting kidney activity and purifying blood, plus Dr Pierce products for consumption and female ailments. Also notes Dr Pierce's Pellets and Favorite Prescription as cures and a Missouri river break up near the Yellowstone mouth on the 17th.
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Missouri River
Yellowstone
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Congress
Michigan
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Weaver
Post Office
Washington, D. C
Zed Star Cough Care
Congressman Butterworth
Ohio
Toronto Mail
United States
Canada
AST Care
Ely
Tam Bain
USA
CPIUM
Marsh
Quincy, Mich
de J. Stephens
Ledavon
T.H. Koc
Crisfield
Maryland
Ainaenayen Pen
C. M. Sites & Co
USA Fé
A. P. Lacey
Paten
J.C. Hoffman
Jersonu
Wisconsin
Bryant’s College
Anna C. Dre Hale
Dr.j
Woodbury
N. Pear
St. Albany
E. Roth & Bro
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Arena
Big Boston
Minneapolis
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J. A. Sayer
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Poudreau
Fred, T. Hopkins
Bond St
N. Y
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Payne
Marshal Law
Lowe
Esiscornan
Ps Nerge
F. Heath
Idinn
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
America
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Caretome
Horne
Wabash Ave
N. W.N.U
Whitney
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Bright
Hostetter
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Dr. Perce
John Irelandt
Eee Treland
Pierre Sclider Miion
Napoleon Bonaparte
Philadelphia
Brown
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St. Patrick's Day
Albert A Larson
Kirkman, In
Y. M.C. A.of
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Marion Todd
Albion Mieh
Monarch Laundry Works
Warren St
William G. Judd
Fargo
Piso
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Carbcuna
Deva
OneMican Co
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Hood
Erriz M. Perris
Poremouth
C. I. Hood & CO
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Lowell
Masa
Tut
Tautt
Lydia E. Pinkham
SPO
Douggists
Pardees
Flaca Prieta
Pri
C. R. Finnegan
City Building
Front Street
Dr. Pardese
Lhuren Pardee Medicine CO
Tomen
Liebigs
Liebig
Geary
Cal
Cort
Lake
Brewster
Comt &Co
T. Chicago
J. Tomes
Salzer
LaCrosse
Wis
Procter & Gamble
FERRY
D.m.ferry & CO
Ferry &Co
M. Ferry & CO
Detroit
Mich
Wilson
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