Christmas Tales and a New Home for Patty
A holiday tale follows Patty, sent to live with Uncle Joshua and Aunt Sally after a letter from Uncle Joshuay requests her company. Patty bonds with her hosts, endures worries about mortgage, and awakens Christmas morning to gifts and a mortgage payoff that endows her with a house and farm in Ruth Hall’s charitable Christmas chronicle.
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Polly
Amasa Andrews
Joshuay
Sally
Sarah
Amasy
Patty
Hieves
George
Amasa
Silas
Aunt Sally
Uncle Joshua
Mr. Andrews
New England
Ruth Hall
Independent
Ely's Cream Balm Prized By Patient Letters
A Portsmouth New Hampshire resident Mrs M A Jackson testifies Ely's Cream Balm cured catarrh after years of suffering with frequent nosebleeds and eye and chest distress. A Rutland Vermont resident Z C Warren says the balm left him apparently cured after long illness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ely
M. A. Jackson
Portsmouth
N.H
Z. C. Warren
Rutland, Vt
Christmas Cheer and Engagement Advice From a 19th Century Page
A miscellany column highlights Christmas optimism and moral reform. Advice on engagements urges early, sensible courtship, frank talk on dress and expenditure, and avoiding mistaken social aims, followed by Dr. Richardson explaining how a night’s rest reduces heart strain and alcohol’s negative effects on pulse.
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Ellen Bliss Hooker
Good Housekeeping
A Means to the End of Expressive Depth in Art
Rev Heber Newton argues humor and varied moods enrich Christ’s portrayal beyond grave dignity. He links eye contact and pathos to life like shades in music and painting, asserting humor belongs to a fully realized nature.
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Christ
Jesus
Heber Newton
Santa Claus' Suggestions For A Frugal Christmas
A fragmentary holiday note quotes Santa Claus advising sleep tight, chimney cleaning, paying for gifts, loving enemies, and doing good to those who persecute you. It warns against excess and boasts of future stock of tin sheep and candy rabbits while noting aging.
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Sana Claus
Christmas Jokes From Norway In Hay and Chaff Pranks
A historical note describes Norwegian Christmas gifts hidden in hay or chaff. Donors trigger hides above doors, causing hay to fall and a lively search for the gift. Chaff dusting the recipient prompts laughter as a welcome present is revealed amid the playful rough housing.
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Norway
Cent Doubling Promise Yields Huge Sum in Portland
A Portland father agrees to a daughter’s plan to give one cent on day one and double each day for 30 days. By day 30 the amount reaches $5,368,709.12, prompting the merchant to settle and the father to recall the folly. Arithmetical estimates show $10,436,517.48 would have been due if the promise continued.
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Portland
Pater
Penton
One Armed Boy Rescues Four In Augusta
A one armed boy in Augusta saved four persons from drowning. The ad promotes Dr BallCough Syrup claiming relief from consumption and Salvation Oil for pain. It warns against gout linked to heavy animal food and alcohol. Product price listed as 25 cents.
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Augusta
John W.dball
A.C. Mewer& CO
Baltimore, Md
U.8 S. A
Andromeda’s Mince Pie Threats and Delights At Yonkers Gazette
A Yonkers Gazette feature frames a playful exchange on a mince pie with epicurean fear of odd ingredients and a joke that the pastry could one day be weaponized by dynamite while preserving the tale of grandma's baking and wary diners.
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Andromeda
Yonkers
Christmas seasons and mince pie origins
The article recalls the Christmas season as starting December 16 and ending January 6, notes Dr. Parr’s quip on naming mince pie, and contrasts Puritan restrictions with Pilgrims in New England who ate mince pie freely, even for breakfast in summer.
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Parr
New England
I Wish I Was Twins A Grandchild Wonder
A four year old at a grandmother's Christmas dinner sighs after a second helping of pudding and tells the grandma I wish I was twins. The lad story contrasts a similar festive excess with a humorous remark from the child.
Hunt's Remedy Promises Cure for Nerves and Kidneys
Nervousness and urinary concerns urged to use Hunt's Remedy. The ad claims many men regained vigor and energy, citing Joshua Tathill of Saginaw Michigan who allegedly recovered from Bright's Disease.
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Hunt
Joshua Tathill
Saginaw, Mich
Bright
Baby Insurance in New York Tenement District
A man explains he runs a baby insurance scheme in a crowded New York tenement area. He insures funeral expenses for infants for a few cents a week, offering various burial options, aimed at families who refuse Potter’s Field burial and prize a decent funeral. Albany Argus.
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New York
Albany Argus
Monkey Drunkenness Among Baboons Highlights A Lesson
In a Popular Science Monthly tale a troop of baboons in Sudan drink meri sa a durrah beer and date brandy become intoxicated sick yet crave lemons as antidote next day they recover and continue drinking despite the lesson on abstinence showing strong animal behavior mirrored in human excess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meen
Soudan
Popular Science Monthly
Confessions of a Smoker by Bob Burdette
A humorous meditation on smoking as bondage and vanity. The speaker mocks breath, justifies cigar use with odd logic, and ends with the claim that tobacco protects him from danger while a cannibal would dream of the wrong prescription.
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Bob Burdette
Electric Bitters Claim Swift Cure for Kidney Liver Complaints
Public notice boasts Electric Bitters as a universal cure for Bright's disease diabetes and back weakness. It claims thousands cured and daily recommendations. Purifies the blood regulates bowels and acts on diseased parts. Sold at 50 cents a bottle by J H Young & Co.
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Bright
J. H. Young & Co
Stranger on Omaha Express Shares Tender Moment with Infant
Two passengers on a Chicago to Omaha express formed an unlikely bond as a sad baby soothed the gentleman who pressed his forehead to his hand. The man revealed he had a dying child awaiting him by telegram, and tears filled his eyes as he prepared to return home.
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Ilcre
Christ
Jesus
Patty
Ol’ Daffer
Joshua
Sally
Franklin
Amasy
Polly
George
Mike
Joshuay
Amasy Andrews
Mr. Andrews
Amasy Andrewe
Georgy
Leggin
Amasa
Chicago
Omaha
Baby
Unmarried Adults Rising in France in 18th Century
Statistics presented to the Academie de Medicine show 1770 unmarried men numbered 190 per 1000 and 224 per 1000 inhabitants. Men marry at 28.5 years and women at 25. Unmarried men cluster in frontier departments while women dominate central regions. Large cities promote celibacy and mortality, disease, and suicide rates are higher among the unmarried.
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France
Academie de Medicine
Man questioned by gamekeeper over missing wife
A French gamekeeper asks a poacher for a license, the poacher reveals he seeks his runaway wife and her young neighbor. The keeper smiles and asks for a marriage certificate before actions proceed.
Anglo American Talk Spreads in London Society
An English Nation with Yankee accent becomes fashionable among London aristocrats. Lord Dunraven’s acquaintance notes Americanized speech, while the Marquis of Lorne and Earl Dufferin, aided by their wives, are said to have adopted Canadian American intonation. The trend captivates London society as a novelty that may endure or fade.
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London
Lord Dunraven
Marquis of Lorne
Earl Dufferin
Canada
Women in Magazines Share Lags in Authorship
Women make up less than a quarter of magazine writers in major journals. The Atlantic Monthly leads with sixteen women among fifty-one authors, while the Century trails with eleven women among seventy-six.
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Atlantic Monthly
No Codfish Ball Prompt Declined by Nevada Patron
In a Nevada restaurant a waiter set codfish balls before a patron who refused them stating they tasted as if something dead was in the dish. The exchange highlights the patron's polite yet firm decline and the waiter’s query about the reason.
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Nevada
Present for him foreshadowed by sister’s remark
Bobby teases Featherly about a promised gift from his sister. He recalls a remark on making a silk purse from a son's ear and guesses the present will be a purse. Featherly asks who the gift is from and accepts the possibility with pleasant curiosity.
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Featherly
Bobby
Sister
Wages of Sin Riddle Ties Laundryman to Sin
A Sunday school quip on Mott Street features a teacher and Ah Sin the laundryman debating wages of sin. Sin replies with seventy five cent a dozen, no checks no washee.
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Mott Street
Ah Sin
Alderman Blair Endorses Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil For Ailments
M L Blair Alderman 5th Ward Scranton Pennsylvania on November 9 1883 states he used Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil for sprains burns cuts bruises and rheumatism and was cured over time.
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M. L. Blair
Scranton
Dr. Thomas
Rates for Advertising and Transient Notices Published
Rates listed for one inch one week one dollar and twenty five cents for each additional week. Twelve lines per parcel type. special notices before deaths and settlements double the rates. Transient ads must be prepaid. Yearly contracts offered on reasonable terms with restriction to immediate business. Ads due by Thursday noon to run in next issue.
A Japanese Girls Toilet and Dress Traditions
A study of a Japanese girl’s daily toilet and festive dress describes a sequence of routines from hairdressing to powder and lipstick. It outlines layered garments including a waist garment with scarlet trim, a long skirt, and an outer kimono with a wide sash, plus festival attire with fine materials and ornate embroidery.
Booth Refuses Kiss Then Gifts Money to a Widow
A Philadelphia Press tale recalls Booth on a Boston and Albany ride after a New England engagement. A rich woman offered 850 to kiss him. Booth accepted the kiss, kept calm, then gave the bill to a poor mother with children, saying it was for the kids, and departed.
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Boor
Booth
Philadelphia Press
Boston
Albany
New England
Ik as a model of balance in character
A concise conceit praises Ik as open and generous yet restrained secretive without craft humble yet bold without insolence cautious yet steady regular without moral strictness mild yet firm, claiming it passes the tests of honor friendship and virtue.
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Lowell
Mass
Mary E. Evans
Ager
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Freehold
N.J
Tr. J. C. Ayer & Co
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America
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Belgium
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Sunny South
Southern Colonist
Southern Pines
N.C
TH. Z
Otis Munro
E. G. Munro
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Father Christmas
Universal Brotherhood of Man
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Chew Lange
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