Effects of Tea on Health Warns of Overuse
A New York physician reports on tea toxicity from five tea tasters and self experiments. Moderate tea acts as a mild stimulant improving mood and work capacity, while immoderate use causes headaches vertigo heart rate changes sleep loss and can lead to dyspepsia over time. The study notes immediate mental effects are not caused by dyspepsia and tea can curb tissue waste reducing food demand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. J. Morton
New York
Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Popular Science Monthly
Malt Bitters Cure Feeble Digestion and Dizziness
An old advertisement claims Malt Bitters cure feeble digestion chronic headache dizziness and faintness. The brief notice markets Malt Bitters as a general health tonic promising relief from indigestion and related ailments.
Medals of Excellence Awarded for Witch Hazel Preparations
Finding of the Committee of Experts and Judges recommends Medals of Excellence for the Liebig Company's Witch Hazel Preparations for great value and purity. Following the finding the medals were awarded. Also mentions Charles Wager Hull, Superintendent General, and lists various clinical claims and pricing for a range of products.
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Orvice
American Institute of Science, Art and Industry
City of
New York
Liebig Company
Charles Wager Hull
Cinderella’s slipper seals Minnie’s fate at Oaklands
Dell and Jo crave a grand ball and a richer life at Aunt Vavasour’s Oaklands. Minnie, aided by a lost slipper, helps fund outfits and inspires Arthur Vavasour to woo her. He returns, finds Minnie’s rightful prince, and asks for her hand, leaving the sisters to face their thwarted plans and new prospects.
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Dell
Oakland
Arthur
Aunt Vavasour
Tam
Oaklands
Arthur Vavasour
Aklands
Mamma
Mother Eve
Minnie
Min
Vavasour
Apa
Papa
Nora
Setgnia
Packege
Hershandea
Vayasour
Pecohee
Tade
Squire Headly
Leighton
Col. Leighton
Tam Arthur Vavasour
Shell
Cinderella
Sid
Amfinnie
Skiever
Peterson
Miscellany reflections on virtue and self discipline
A collection of aphorisms on temperance, fortitude, reason, and self education. Notable thoughts include Locke on usefulness of discussing ideas, Seneca on wealth, and reflections on youth, health, and beauty.
Cat Plays Dead To Feast On Birds In Country Field
A traveler near an ample plain witnessed a huge cat feigning death to feed on a nearby flock of young birds. The cat suddenly sprang, catching a bird, then again played dead and consumed more before slipping away unseen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carson
Men’s clothes on women and style critique
Harper's Magazine urges reconsideration of women’s dress trends noting that masculine styles affect manners and carriage. It condemns Derby hats as unbecoming and calls for alternatives to ulsters and short skirts to preserve grace, warning fashion shifts may erode feminine decorum in a generation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper’s Magazine
Baltimore pauper Katie DasuIelL remembered after death
Katie DasuIelL who died in Baltimore after fifty years as a pauper never spoke nor moved since childhood. Adopted at Bayview asylum during the 1882 cholera epidemic, she was fed and cared for like a baby and ceased growing at six, with a large head and a habit of rocking in a chair.
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Katie Dasuiell
Baltimore
Bayview Asylum
Katie
A Boy Again
Pain and sickness bring on old age with rapidity and drain vital forces. Diz Kennedy and Kennedy turn aging back to youth. Headache pains in limbs trouble the liver bowels kidneys vanish. Feeble men stand before life’s end while schools and youths suffer under illness.
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Dil Davia Kennédy
Hennedy
Bondar
Learn to Be Short Condense and Deliver the Core Message
A compact exhortation urges brevity in speech and writing. It emphasizes seizing main facts, trimming extraneous detail, and delivering clear, concise messages without unnecessary ritual or repetition. The author advocates condensing multiple points into fewer, sharper statements.
Crippled Christians as a Test of Christian Character
A moral lecture describes Christians lacking limbs or senses as symbols of spiritual deformity. It argues many fail to help others, encourage the downtrodden, or listen to suffering, and asks what a street procession of such people would look like in heaven’s light.
Resits of Work. Philadelphia Mayor’s Humble Beginnings
Philadelphia’s mayor, three-time leader, recalls his poverty as a boy in the House of Refuge. He describes sleeping under a counter, earning a dollar weekly at fifteen, learning a trade, and marrying at twenty-one when he and his wife pooled six and three dollars to start a shop making ice cream and serving oysters.
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Philadelphia
House of Refuge
Col. Forney
Discouraged Minds and Daily Trials in Faith and Fortitude
A reflective piece urging endurance amid poverty illness and loss, noting that true fortitude comes from daily struggles and aid from others. It contrasts cheerful resilience with the harsher realities many face and calls for small acts of kindness to ease burdens. The tone echoes religious consolation and community support.
Fashion Quarterly previews 1881 spring styles and trends
The fragment advertises the forthcoming Sprigg number of Enricus' Fashion Quarterly with advance sheets and a 50 cent annual price. It notes bronze hues, revived Roman sashes, colored straw, yellow and black dress tones, new bonnets with strings, and a wide range of fabrics and trimming trends for the upcoming season.
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Fasmon
Sprigg
Enricus’ Fashion Quarterly
Ehrich Bros
Eighth Avenue
New York
London
Milwaukee Homes Shape a City of Gardens and Quiet Blocks
In Harper's Magazine April issue, Ernest Ingersoll notes Milwaukee's distinctive urban form driven by large private grounds, shade trees, and well-kept lawns. He contrasts blocky downtowns with airy uptown avenues, praising detached houses with half-block plots and uniform half-Dutch English cottage styles, all in slate tones and lacking heavy ornament.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin Street
Rhine
Azure Lake
New England
Grand Avenue
Euclid Avenue
Cleveland
Ives
Ernest Ingersoll
Harper's Magazine
Have I paid the printer this winter evening
A nostalgic call urges readers to settle debts with local printers as winter chills the city. The piece compares routine payments like butchers grocers tailors and shoemakers to the printer who brings news from all regions. It notes a box cold street scene and hints at syrup remedies and wary smiles.
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Taper
One Inch Ad Rates and Publication Terms
Rates outline one inch for one week at one dollar and each extra week at twenty five cents. Special notices and marriage and death notices double the rates. Payment must be in cash with nonstandard text correcting typographical errors. Yearly advertisers have limits and ads must be submitted by Thursday noon for next issue.
Rhode Island Whale Rock Lighthouse Land Grant Act
Passed at the January Session 1881 an act cedes to the United States ownership and jurisdiction over Whale Rock at the Nar ragansett Bay entrance west of Beaver Tail Lighthouse for a lighthouse or navigation aid. The grant covers a circle seven hundred feet in diameter with tax exemption and immediate effect.
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United States of America
Beaver Tail Lighthouse
Narragansett Bay
General Assembly
United States
Whale Rock
Beaver Tail
Rhode Island Legislative Act on House Seats and Town Allocations
An 1881 act amends the structure of the General Assembly House of Representatives. It sets one representative per 3400 450 inhabitants per town with at least one seat and a cap of twelve. It lists expected town allocations including Newport Providence Portsmouth and others. The act takes effect April 1 1881 and directs Woonsocket to issue a warrant for an additional representative.
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General Assembly
House of Representatives
Newport
Providence
Portsmouth
Warwick
Westerly
New Shoreham
North Kingstown
South Kingstown
1St Greenwich
Jamestown
Smithfield
Scituate
Gloucester
Charlestown
West Greenwich
Coventry
Exeter
Middletown
Bristol
Tiverton
Little Compton
Warren
Cumberland
Richmond
Cranston
Hopkinton
Johnston
North Providence
Barrington
Foster
Burrillville
East Providence
Pawtucket
Woonsocket
North Smithfield
Lincoln
Joshua M. Addeman
Secretary of
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Pbnie
C. A. Sgreene
Phanix
Hope Street
Vance
Indy
Eleanor Kerk
Washington
Benson
Read
Ea Penelehe Este
Cinde
Locke
Seneca
Jory
Boycorrine
Earth
Erie Eaet
Glainis
Athenr Thomas
Aiteriti Spa
Nthe
Dr. Blecoaek
Laws OF
Rhode Island
Matlawoman
Port Tobacco
The
Sun
John Wilkes Booth
Booth
St. Thomas’ Catholic Church
Port Tobacco Creek
Brent
Maryland
St. Thomas
Society of Jesus
Jett
King George County
Greenmount Cemetery
Hop
Hood
Lepanon
N. H
Altea Cateche
Lai
Urs F ¥. C. Churchill
Carter & Churchill
Ant Zanover
Hodp
Sarsaparne
Hoov
Altetruggists
O. L Hood & CO
Lowell Bays
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