Golden Gilt and a Carpenter's Wordy Love Tale
Mary Poole, a serving girl, faces marriage pressure from Alfred Hill and social dangers as Tom Dawlish pursues her. A clash of class, love, and pride leads to betrayals, an elopement scare, a child, and a late spring wedding finalizing a weary, moral lesson.
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Alfred Hill
Franky
Thetis
Tom Dawlish
Master Franky
Franky Poole
Mary
Tom
Cassell
Alpine peril described in ascent of Matterhorn
The excerpt from Leppincott's Magazine recounts a novice climber's risky progress along a razor thin ridge on the Matterhorn. The narrative notes sheer drops, a 59 degree ice coated slope, and a rope hanging above the icy cliff as the climbers edge toward the main peak with careful footing and reliance on guides.
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Mosely
Boston
Matterhorn
Charles P. Howard
Leppincott’s
Z’mutt Glacier
Bromtschen
Zimutt
Z’mutt
Wages and Cost of Living Across Regions
A Washington letter reports agricultural commissioner Le Duc gathered data on farm labor wages and living costs nationwide. Wages declined about fifteen percent generally, with Colorado New Mexico Texas and others showing increases due to mining demand. several New England states show pronounced drops in both pay and hiring costs.
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Washington
le Duc
United States
Minnesota
Colorado
California
Oregon
Washington Territory
New Mexico
New England
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Maryland
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Alabama
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Michigan
Wisconsin
Tortoise Shell Combs and the Extraction Process
The article explains that theatre shell is not the turtle's bony shell but its thirteen scales. Four large flat plates, up to a foot long, are variably colored and polished. It describes how fishers separate lamina from the shell by heat and knives, noting turtles often die and that recovered shells may split into fewer pieces.
Women s Exchange core aims and reach in New York society
The Women s Exchange at 4 East Twentieth Street New York run by Mrs Choate and a lineup of vice presidents acts as a depot for impoverished women s industries. It reports over 15 000 items registered with a 10 percent commission and a treasury balance above 1 000. Similar exchanges exist in Brooklyn Boston Philadelphia and Washington and more cities should adopt the model.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Evaline C.asky
New York
Y. N. Otis
Henry Anderson
Jacob Wendell
Women's Exchange
Women’s Exchange
East Twentieth Street
Brooklyn
Boston
Philadelphia
Washington
United States
New York Sun
Farragut's Bargain With His Son Over Tobacco
Admiral Farragut offered his ten year old son a contract that if he refrained from tobacco and alcohol until age twenty one he would receive one thousand dollars. The son accepted and the bargain stood until he reached twenty one when the cash was handed over.
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Admiral Farragut
Farragut
Evolution of carriages from ancient to modern travel
The article traces carriage history from ancient Rome and Egypt through medieval England to the early modern cab, noting heavy open chariots, sedan chairs, and early one horse cabs with sprung advances, while comparing them to today’s automobiles and rail routes. It also includes a light anecdote about a cat learning to ring a bell to gain entry.
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Philadelphia
General Washinton
United
Rome
Europe
England
Egypt
John
Nicholas
Phrase too thin as English in Smollett’s Peregrine Pickle
A Baltimore Every Saturday writer notes that the expression too thin was sound English a century ago. In Smollett 1751 Peregrine Pickle the hero tells Amelia he goes abroad and her tears show grief, yet she claims the pretext is too thin to deceive Sophy.
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Tom Dawlish
Baltimore
Smollett
Peregrine Pickle
Amelia
Sophy
Smallest Bank Robber in the World Found in Nest
Bank cashier Mr. Farnsworth noted a small theft from the First National Bank months ago. While tearing down the old vault workers uncovered a mouse nest made entirely of one two and five dollar bills, totaling about fifteen to twenty dollars. The tiny culprit is displayed in Mr. Farnsworth’s Plumert block office as the “mous e robber.”
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Feltham Road
Dawlish
Jim
Messrs. Bradbury
Macy
Ms. Poole
Mary
Clara
Aia
Tom
Kensing
Cambridge
Emmanuel College
Chance
Serable
Lydia
Puss
First National Bank
Farnsworth
First National
Broadway
Main Street
Growth of Baltimore and rivals in the 1880 census projections
The Detroit Free Press cites a Baltimore population near 350 000 from the recent voter census, an increase of about 80 000 since 1870. It notes Baltimore’s likely drop in rank by 1880 and compares Boston’s growth, while predicting New York and Philadelphia to remain first and second. Cincinnati is noted as holding eighth place.
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Baltimore
Detroit Free Press
New York
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Chicago
St. Louis
Boston
Cincinnati
Final Bequests Etched On Stove Plate
A line from Griewold notes a man who penned his last bequests on a stove plate revealing iron will and resolve.
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Griewold
Hidden Villages on the Hill and River
A fragmented verse portrait describes two villages. one on the hill and one under it, both still and silent. It contrasts forests, night skies, and distant fires with empty houses, closed marble doors, and villagers asleep or longing for lost family. A final refrain promises patience and eternal gathering in the forest home.
Assorted Humorous Snippets and Notable Curiosities
A collage of quotations and short notices from 19th century papers. Items include playful jabs at spelling habits, a Russian envoy's near-attack over a holy hot spring, a bedbound woman in Virginia regaining mobility through prayer, Tulare County lake receding and land reclamation findings, and the discovery of vanilla scent from pine sap and oats yielding aveneine by M. Eugene Perullat.
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Banat
United States
Philadelphia
Cincinnati
St. Petersburg
Shalazgori
Fraynham
Richmoid
Tulare County
Cal
Haford
Tulare Lake
MM. Ziemann
Armann
West Indies
Cochin China
M. Eugene Perullat
Tramps and a fallen Wall Street figure in New York
A De trové Free Press correspondent describes two deaths in New York. A young tramp who sang for distillery patrons died there with his mother denying burial. a former Wall Street man, ruined and drinking, died on Fifth Avenue steps. The piece contrasts social rise and fall among the city’s destitute.
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New York
Gle
Wall Street
Fifth Avenue
Dea Trové Free Press
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Miss Brooks
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Lehigh County
Lehigh Valley
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New York Woman's Exchange
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New York Star
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