Monte Men Taken In
Professor Herrmann recounts thwarting three card monte players aboard a Paris to Havre train in 1867 He notes his knack for manipulating cards and his wish to avoid betraying his skill to strangers He saves a friend from loss by exposing the tricks and the three gamblers flee at the next stop Chicago Post
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New York
France
Paris
Havre
Mec
America
Europe
Herrmann
Monte
Chicago Post
Perfumed Butterflies Describe Odorous Wing Scales
Fritz Muller notes patches of distinct odors on butterfly wings. Androconia are outlet glands at the base of unicellular scales. Danais archippus shows a prominent example. Microscopic study by M. B. Thomas in The American Naturalist explains gland placement, papilla coverings, and odor distribution on Lepidoptera wings.
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Fritz Muller
M. B. Thomas
American Naturalist
Philadelphia
The Economy of Pure Food
A Baltimore Telegram editorial condemns buying inferior food to save money. It argues that cheap, substandard edibles harm health and nerve power, labeling such choices false economy and a form of crime, and stresses the link between pure nourishment and blood and brain function.
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Baltimore Telegram
Bookkeeper Shown Steady After Night Out
A quote from the Indianapolis Journal notes the new bookkeeper appeared unwavering after a group outing, contrasting with others who staggered. The senior partners discuss concerns about his steadiness.
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Indianapolis Journal
Stamp Milling and Gold Recovery in a Mill
A Cassier's Magazine excerpt describes a gold stamp mill used to recover free gold from ore. It details a 125-stamp battery, 600 pounds each, at 20 or 80 strokes per minute, water washing through screens and copper plates, and mercury plates catching gold while tailings are reprocessed with blankets. Weekly amalgam becomes a corn meal like mass, mercury is distilled, leaving a porous cake of metal.
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Malay Islands
Cassier
Lecture on Reading Audiences by a University President
A humorous anecdote from Youth's Companion recounts a former president of the University of North Carolina who encounters an unlawful student gathering. Moving slowly with his eyes on his boots, he commands the lone offender to disperse to his place of abode, and the student complies despite the president's stern delivery.
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University of North Carolina
Legal Tilt prompts laughs in Westminster hall over brougham vs omnibus
A Westminister hall trial between Lord Campbell and a queen's counsel features amiable dispute over carriage terms. The Q C insists the vehicle is a bus while Campbell defends brougham and omnium omnibus pronunciation, triggering mutual laughter and a light moment in the courtroom.
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Westminister Hall
Lord Campbell
Q. C
Dyed Milk For Londoners Revealed By dairyman
A London writer recounts his efforts to run an honest dairy in the capital and exposes a secret practice. He found London milk is dyed with a small amount of anotta dye to look cream colored. Customers demanded the colored milk and rejected white milk as chalk and water.
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London
London Standard
No Time to Waste
A dialogue from a New York Weekly snippet dismisses a young man with aristocratic ancestry. The speaker notes the man’s Mayflower lineage including William the Conqueror and King Egbert, concluding that such families are “too poor to marry.”
Tree planting in towns and municipal care urged
An editorial advocates city control of shade tree planting and pruning, citing Joseph Meehan's guidance. It stresses proper soil, old decayed manure, careful root and top pruning, and timely shaping to prevent tree loss and improve street scenery.
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Joseph Meehan
Pennsylvania Horticultural Society
Advertising to arrest public attention in print
The Holyoke Mass Free Press excerpt from a fifties guide urges thorough advertising to reach the public. It argues that public media are the cheapest and best way to find customers and that even modest ads can grow a business while people sleep or eat.
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Holyoke
Mass
Free Press
Stable Nuisance In Cities
The Ladies Health Protective Association in New York has fought stable nuisances for eight years in dense neighborhoods. It advocates compulsory baling of manure, showing it reduces bulk, cuts air pollution, and eases handling. The memorial to the legislature carries endorsements from leading scientific and medical authorities.
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The
Ladies’ Health Protective Association
City of
New York
London Model Tenements Pioneer and Profit
Sir Sydney Waterlow pioneered model tenements in 1860 by building four blocks in Work Street Finsbury at his own expense. The venture housed 80 families and inspired the Improved Industrial Dwellings Company, now chairmen by Waterlow, which has spent over £1,000,000 on 465 estates in London with a 5 percent dividend and average room rent of 50 cents.
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London
Sydney Waterlow
Work Street
Finsbury
Improved Industrial Dwellings Company
How to Care for Mattresses in Old Guidance
This guidance explains covering springs with unbleached muslin or ticking, removable and washable, to keep dust off. It outlines stain removal with ammonia and soap, turning for even wear, airing daily, brushing dust, and hints on refurbishing old mattresses or sending fine mattresses away for renovation.
Fried toast breakfast method described
A quick breakfast dish is described using stale bread dipped briefly in milk and egg then fried in butter. The egg keeps the bread from soaking fat while browning quickly, yielding a tender, delicate fry.
Onions as Home Remedy for Croup and Cold
The article lists multiple onion based remedies for croup and colds. It recommends squeezing juice from raw onions mixed with sugar, applying camphor and turpentine rubs with oils to the throat and chest, and preparing onion pastes with goose or other oils applied hot to the throat chest and extremities.
How to Make a Piece Bag for Work and Storage
A practical guide describes making a piece bag from any size with an interlining. Outer sections are stitched into divisions with outside flaps revealing contents by cues such as a loop of black braid or white tape and scraps stored inside.
How to Make Lettuce Salad Dressing
A recipe outlines mixing four tablespoons of oil with two tablespoons tarragon vinegar and half a teaspoon each of salt and paprika. The emulsion should be smooth, using a drop at a time, and notes greenish olive oil often sold blended with cottonseed oil as a common practice.
How to Treat Burns and Scalds
Burns from steam or dry heat are treated the same. Apply a thick paste of cooking soda wet with water to slight reddening, cover with a cloth bandage and keep it wet with cold water. When pain subsides remove the soda dressing and use vaseline if needed. For acid burns, immerse in water then dress as other burns. For alkali burns, apply vinegar and water before dressing.
How to Make Crystallized Fruit
Recipe notes describe crystallizing fruit by boiling two parts sugar to one part water. Scald fruit for one to five minutes depending on size then roll in powdered sugar and dry on a sieve. Treated fruit makes an appealing luncheon sweet and can substitute for bonbons.
Kissed Her in the Mornin Fog of Field
A rustic speaker sings of parting and memory beside a gray dawn. The narrator recalls kissing his beloved before parting, watches the plow and horse, and notes a rose that carries the memory of the kiss as he dreams in the field.
Origins of the Phrase Cases Pending
A Philadelphia Call excerpt recalls how medieval German courts piled case papers on a wire above the judge, with older cases removed from the bottom and newer ones added on top, explaining how the term cases pending arose from the visible stack above the table.
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Germany
Philadelphia
Adulteration of Rubber Noted in Cheap Goods
The article warns that rubber is adulterated with barytes white lead or roasts to increase weight. Cheap rubber from Mexico and Nicaragua sells around 15 cents a pound and is hardly rubber. Chiole is also cheap and used in chewing gum. The piece stresses price and warns against low quality rubber in lasting goods. A testimonial promotes Chamberlains Pain Balm for rheumatism from Susan GoibBausM in San Luis Rey Cal with druggists and dealers carrying it.
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Nicaragua
Chamberlain
Susan Goipbausm
San Luis Rey
Cal
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