Turkish home life judged by its separation of sexes
London Daily News reports on a Constantinople observer who argues Turkish home life is non existent due to strict male and female segregation. He condemns veiled education limits for women, polygamy, and the harem system as degenerative, contrasting Christian family life with Turkish practice and noting social moral decline.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Constantinople
Turkey
Europe
London
Bulgaria
Public Opinion and Snowflakes in a Miscellany Note
A short miscellany piece contrasts private opinion with public opinion, framing a day of snow as a sweeping, obtrusive event that erases landmarks and accumulates on mountains. It muses on the power of public opinion versus individual discretion.
A Promise Balanced by Care and Memory
A promise should be given with caution and kept with care. It stems from intention and is nurtured by recollection. Delayed promises defer justice and neglected promises are untruths. fulfilled promises are settled.
Calumny described as a monstrous vice and its harms
The passage defines calumny as a grievous vice where two wrongdoers contend with the victim. It notes the calumniator harms the absent and that those who credit the slander without truth are equally to blame, causing double injury to the person traduced.
A Goop Wife Says Three Ways to Be
A moral couplet contrasts a good wife with three ideal yet cautioned traits. It likens her to a town clock for time and regularity, a snail for prudence at home, and an echo for responsive speech, while warning against loudness being heard, carrying all possessions, or always having the last word.
Be Cheerful and Take Action in Adversity
The text advises cheerful living over lamenting hardship and asserts that a cheerful life lasts longer. It warns that prudence is important but when distress comes, despair does not help. Instead, one should act, rise, and seek remedies rather than suffer passively.
Be Something in Particular Aims for Young Men
A 19th century exhortation urges youths to learn a trade or profession to avoid aimlessness. It argues that disciplined training increases success and happiness, noting many inmates lack vocational skills. The piece ends urging young men to choose a path and act accordingly.
Letters From Home and the Joys and Sorrows They Bring
The piece reflects on letters from home as oases of happiness in life and as carriers of memories of comfort, fireside scenes, and loved ones. It contrasts the uplifting power of cheerful letters with the pain of grief when news of death arrives, noting that tears heighten appreciation of joy and enduring faith.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Craps
How Russians Meet Death in a Tortured Scene
The narrator recalls a Russian author describing death as a ritual, and recounts a peasant burned in a kiln. In a dim hut a gravely injured man lies under a stove as a girl eats bread nearby. Family, a priest, and simple care mark the scene before death.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tourgienoff
What Out Rich Man may Do
New York correspondence notes an extremely wealthy man on Broadway and Sixth Avenue watching two girls exit an intelligence office to avoid paying a service fee. He aimed to hire one without paying, hoping to save two dollars, a plan the policeman regarded as his right but not justifiable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abdul’ Aziz
London Daily News
New York
Chicago Tribune
John Jacob Astor
Broadway
Sixth Avenue
Dighton Rock Inscription Tells Norse Visit to New England
A Taunton river landmark, Dighton Rock, bears a half inch deep Runic inscription. Historians link it to Norse exploration near Vinland with Thorfinn, Gudrida, and the baby Snorre, noting a 151-man expedition and a Madonna image on the rock. Debate continues over removing the rock to Boston for preservation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taunton River
Fall River
Cotton Mather
New World
Vinland
Thorfinn
Gudrida
Snorre
Peregrine White
Plymouth Colony
New England
Columbus
Castile
Frobisher
England
Magellan
Portugal
Dighton Rock
Boston
Signor Blitz the benevolent wizard of markets and wars
The article recounts Signor Blitz a magician who entertained crowds in markets, freed animals, and donated half his earnings to charity. He entertained 182 times for 63,000 soldiers in Philadelphia hospitals and aided the sick and wounded. He joked with Daniel Webster about counting treasury notes and faced a boy with a holey pocket during a platform trick.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Island of
St. John
Alma
Philadelphia
Daniel Webster
Statesman
Washington
Signor Blitz
Mr. Webster
Treasury
Signor
Anecdotes of Signor Blitz in Early 19th Century Tours
In 1816 Exeter audiences faced charges of irreligion before archbishop and council as Signor Blitz performed a gratuitous ventriloquism show. Tales recount his feats from a dissecting room to meeting Paganini, opening mummy cases, producing gold sovereigns from oranges, and a Hartford clergyman denouncing his acts as dangerous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Signor Blitz
Exeter
England
Paganini
Glasgow
Cairo
Philadelphia
Signor
Blitz
Nova Scotia
Hartford
Conn
Sufferings of Arctic Explorers From British Expedition
Eyewitness accounts describe extreme hardships faced by a British Arctic expedition. Sufferings included frostbite amputations, scurvy, long sled journeys, and brutal conditions aboard the vessel Alert. Officers labored to comfort crew while defense against lone bergs forced urgent steam calls. Only the ship’s dog Wellie and a cat survived aboard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peterson
Alert
Wellie
Arctic Snow House Shelters Hunters in Labrador
In Labrador a snow house is quickly built by Esquimaux when deer are scarce. They stack sharpened snow blocks into four walls, waterproof with water if needed, lay cross poles for a roof, fill crevices with soft snow, and create a narrow front door. Inside the cosy shelter stores snow shoes skins and gear for a warm, protective night in the Arctic cold.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arctic
Labrador
Esquimaux
Old Woman Quizzes Settlement With Buried Husband Reason
An elderly woman before a magistrate contends her husband’s settlement in town by noting he was born, carried there, and buried there, asking if that doesn’t count as legal settlement. The exchange frames local settlement rules in a humorous light.
Advertising Rates and Policies for Local Paper
The notice outlines ad rates at 1.00 per inch for regular display and 0.15 per line for marriages and deaths, with advance payment for transient ads. Yearly contracts offered on fair terms limited to the advertiser’s own business, with submissions due by Thursday noon for inclusion in the next issue. Religious obituary and political notices treated as advertisements.
Public Laws 1877 Amendment on Justice Court Fees
The January session 1877 act sets Justice of the Peace fees for criminal warrants at 75 cents and recognizances at 35 cents, to be deducted from existing criminal fee allowances. It repeals inconsistent Acts and takes effect upon passage, attested by Secretary of State Joshua M. Addeman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joshua M. Addeman
Royal nurse and a gentlewoman tale from long ago
In London long ago I knew the Queen's nurses of the babies. The royal nurse was kind and loving but not allowed to kiss the children. She joked that borders prevent kissing but she would not be hindered from kissing the baby's toes. The scene is intimate and slyly humorous.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Countryman Finds Letter Turns Empty
A wandering countryman carried a sealed packet addressed to someone else claiming a thousand dollars in banknotes. A reader read the address, the bearer paid a dollar for carriage, and the recipient discovered only sheets of paper with the single word Dong after opening the seal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Max
Inquirer
Dong
Tyndall Advises Health Care as Warfare on the Body
Prof Tyndall urges students to guard health like sailors mending a rotted boat. He warns disease comes unseen, attacking stomach and liver, while urging use of Dr Pierce medicines and The People’s Common Sense Medical Adviser for defense and guidance from Buffalo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tyndall
University College (London
Dr. Pierce
Han
People’s Common Sense
R. V. Pierce
M. D
Buffalo
Also Mentioned on This Page
Bristol Phone
Phoenix
Hopes Street
Co. A. Greene
Saint Paul
London Society
Apostle
Charles the Twelfth
South Sea Island
Fer Hasbabi
Axinia
Houtes
Laws OF
Rhode Island
The
General Assembly
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!