The Lost Pocketbook Sparks a Village Transformation
Miss Arethusa Peppard loses her pocketbook in New York and a guilty boy Dick Poplar returns it with a baby picture inside. She helps him reform by giving work seeds and clothing funds, finding him a path to redemption and a family-like home in Summertown.
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Arethusa Peppard
New York
Summertown
Miss Peppard
Peteona
Peppar
Peteona Alwas
Ady
Baby
Polly
Pieter
Angel
Chile
Oaterp
Ona
Michigan
Platoena
Pusson
House of Refuge
Bradder
Dolly
California
Py Doe
Bobby
Robert
Dick Poplar
Seedstore
Mina Peppard
Miss Peppar
Misa Peppard
Harper's Weekly
Fragmentary verse line on weather and sound
A damaged, fragmented text line evokes birds, rain, and waves in a rough inexact opening. It reads as stray poetry fragments without clear context or event details.
Curious Derivations From Place Names And Legends
A fragmentary discussion traces the origins of words and phrases to historical sources and place names. It notes Pamphylia as the source of pamphlet and links Pontius Pilate Judas Iscariot to Panch and Judy, with further etymologies tied to Visigoths Hamburg Gaza and other locales.
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Pamphylia
Panch and
Judy
Pontius
Judas
Pontius Pilate
Judas Iscariot
Spain
Hamburg
Gaza
Fashion Notes on Spring Garments and Accessories
The piece surveys spring fashion including trims, fringes, and designs for costumes, with emphasis on new color palettes such as pearly blues, greens, and wine shades. It outlines buttons, jewelry, and accessories like fans, ribbons, and hats, noting metals, crystals, and garnet accents, plus practical notes on fabrics and tailoring.
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Muriel
Lilea
New York Herald
The Heroic Physician of Marseilles Fights Plague Mystery
In Marseilles a deadly plague devastates families and the city. One physician, Guyon, volunteers to dissect a corpse to reveal the disease's nature. He vows to study and record findings, dies within twelve hours after completing the autopsy, saving others through his sacrifice.
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Marseilles
France
Guyon
A Grocer's Trick from Minneapolis History
A St Cloud resident recalls a Minneapolis grocer story from the early days. Four chests of tea bought at twenty five cents a pound were priced at thirty five fifty seventy five and one dollar to show customers varied value. Deacon assessed samples and judged quality by price, noting that the one dollar tea was the finest and the thirty five cent tea the least, illuminating trading wit.
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Minneapolis
St. Cloud
Deacon
Sanitary impact of work versus idleness in New Jersey records
Extract describes health outcomes in New Jersey State prison workers from 1871 to 1879. It notes low death and insanity rates when many were employed, and higher illness and death with increased idleness, citing years 1875 1876 1877 1878 1879 and figures of workers and deaths.
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New Jersey
Carnival in Rome Sees Poor Attendance and Rough Festivities
The Rome carnival this year is the poorest since 1870 with cloudy skies and bad weather. Crowds on the Corso were unruly and a U S gentleman faced confetti bombardment before leaving with a friend. Police protection proved lacking as his party clashed with the crowd. The top prize depicted a medieval town on a giant elephant. second prize showed a car full of young devils.
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Rome
Corso
Naples
Fiano Palace
Piazza Navona
Globe
London
Simple Remedy for Rabid Animal Bite
A friend reports a simple, timely remedy to prevent hydrophobia after a rabid bite. Use elacampane root brewed in milk, three doses on empty stomachs across nine mornings, extended to eighteen days with alternate days off, starting within nine days of the bite.
Diverse curiosities and trivia from an old newspaper page
A collection of short anecdotes and facts from 19th century journalism. It mentions cotton factories in Mexico, a joke about editors and wives, a Paris debt figure, salutes upon leaving rooms, a watch hair-spring weight, European coal usage, humorous questions for children, and details about France’s League of Instruction with village and soldier libraries totals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Paria
Wheeling Ledger
Paris
France
Belgium
Abese Bis Ae
Snosmperotr
Copenhagen
Traverse County
Michigan
The
Cincinnati Saturday Night
Walking Matches and Realistic Endurance Limits
A New York paper critiques walking matches for their unpractical conditions. It notes that eighty five miles daily for six days is near the limit under ideal rewards, urging studies on civilian walkers or squads under realistic military conditions. Weston’s English walk suggests humans can cover about half that distance with warlike loads.
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Gilmore's Garden
New York
Weston
England
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Father Time
Nuwest
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Ohio Senate
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Tucker
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Colorado
New Orleans
Arkansas
Mississippi
Canyon City
Arkansas River
Afew Solths
Comus
Varieties Theater
League of Instruction
League
Fefgue
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