Installment System of Flint & Co Promotes Home Furnishings
A historical overview praises the French inspired partial payment plan now popular in Rhode Island since about 20 years ago. Flint & Co offer weekly or monthly payments on a wide range of house furnishing goods, enabling many to furnish homes and reduce immediate cash needs while training thrift and self denial. They claim low prices, direct from manufacturers, and no middlemen profits, making them the largest US dealer in house furnishings with goods from carpets to furniture across many rooms.
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Paris
France
Rhode Island
Messra. Flint & Co
Flint & Co
Emporim of
Flat & Co
Harper's Bazar
The Magic Flower Pot and a Widow’s Transformation
A poor widow in a neglected London garret receives a geranium in a red pot from a country cousin’s son. The plant inspires cleaning, thrift, and gradual kindness, leading her to read the Bible, attend church, forgive others, and improve her life. The boy’s gift and faith guide her toward grace and generosity.
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Knights and Dames
Sle
London
Jenny
Tim Finnegan Named Nineteen Mining Claims
A Salt Lake Tribune piece recounts a Prescott old West tale where Tim Finnegan and companions survive a brutal mining camp attack. After a barkeeper is killed and a gunfight erupts, Finnegan, drunken and sleeping, unexpectedly shoots the bloodhound and later defeats the killer. The narrator names nineteen claims after Tim Finnegan and vows to name his wife Mrs. Tim Finnegan if he dies.
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Truk
Salt Lake Tribune
Tim Finnegan
Prescott
Jake
Jes
Tim Finnegin
Kingdom Come
Tim
Agricultural Notes on Soil, Compost and Fowl Protectors
A farmer’s guide extols crop yields and nutrient removal, notes the value of charcoal as an absorbent in stable yards, and urges using feather down for quilting. It praises birds as farmers’ friends and encourages maximizing land output despite poor soil, aiming for marketable excess.
Winter's Bid and the Rise of Summer
A meditation on seasonal change likening winter’s departure to a mother’s touch and spring’s arrival. The speaker celebrates warming light, larks, flowers, and cloud races as signs that summer has begun, noting how mood and perception shift with day and night. The passage reflects on truth as shaped by light and darkness and the perceptual power of seasons.
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London Spectator
The Tidy Housewife and Spring Cleanser Hop Bitters
The article advises the tidy housewife to favor Hop Bitters for cleansing the blood and regulating the stomach and bowels to prevent spring malaria and miasms. It promotes Hop Bitters as the purest medicine and directs readers to see another column for more.
Debating Liquor's Decline and Prejudice in Press View
R F Mushet calls for manufacturers to unite against liquor’s economy and its social cost, citing vast past seven year spending and wages lost. A Nevada Methodist tale contrasts prejudice and grit over a Chinaman helper. Housekeeping ethics and Queen Victoria’s bodyguard John Brown are described, followed by reflections on Cadiz bells and Ireland’s changing names and commerce.
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R. F. Mushet
England
Labor Tribune
Pittsburg
Alleghany City
The City of Philadelphia Cleanliness Irony
Burdette lampoons Philadelphia’s famed cleanliness with sly humor. He mocks red brick streets and snow-white blinds, noting polished brass knobs and the illusion of spotless houses. He confesses wanting to fling mud yet finds none to spite the city.
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Philadelphia
Burdette
Joseph Porter
Hawkeye
A Lady Advises Gentle Crowd Etiquette at the Observer
A reader writes that a principled quiet woman avoids crowding by not pushing. She notes she steps back and yields space, and that men will sometimes help her forward, yet she contends many men favor rude behavior toward a masculine woman, blaming the women's rights movement.
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New York Observer
A Story of the Czar and the Siberian Student
A North American Review piece recounts a young Russian student facing Siberian exile after his literary circle debated political economists and philosophers. The Czar pardons him with a personal interview, offers a ring, and questions his belief in autocracy, yet sentences him to exile, praising honesty but warning against deception.
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Nicholas
North American Review
Siberia
Russia
Paper patterns let any woman dress stylishly at home
Any woman can exercise taste and stay stylish with paper patterns now on sale in country villages. Plump figures should choose neutral colors, short women wear demi train skirts, slender figures can opt for shirted waists and overskirts. Patterns are exported abroad, reaching China, as American dress gains popularity.
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China
Winter health rules from Albany Argus excerpt
Advice from the Albany Argus on cold weather safety and health habits. It warns against exposing the back to cold heat after warming, sipping warm drinks before outdoor exposure, breathing through the nose in cold rooms, warming cold feet, regular bathing, avoiding open carriage after exercise, speaking softly when hoarse, warming the back by a fire, and keeping the mouth closed when moving from warm to cold air to protect the throat and lungs.
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Albany Argus
A Not TasBle Group Striking Humboldt Bust Era Photo
Photographer Brady uncovers a 1869 New York photo taken at the Humboldt bust unveiling in Central Park. The image shows seated Bryant Bancroft Taylor with George H. Baker standing behind Bancroft, all visibly younger and less gray, with Taylor in full vigor and emphasis.
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Bayard Taylor
Brady
New York
Humboldt
Central Park
Mr. Bryant
Bancroft
Taylor
George H
Mr. Taylor
Child and Colt Draw Commentary on Temperament
A boy visits a colt with his father and pats its head while the stableman warns of danger. Returning home, the boy says he likes the animal, noting it is tame in front but wild behind, a tongue in cheek remark on temperaments.
Peat Work and Shetland Knitting Traditions
Peat digging sustains Shetland communities with old women carrying heavy baskets two miles to Lerwick and, meanwhile, knitting nonstop as they travel. Regent Street shops showcase Shetland hosiery while Fair Isle is credited with the craft’s origin. The yarn comes from local sheep and cottage wheels spin long skeins used for hoods shawls and mittens.
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Shetland
Lerwick
England
Regent Street
London
Fair Isle
Lonely Isle
Baby
A HomeLy Cure For Indigestion Chewing Leaves as Remedy
An exchange describes chewing open air leaves to cure indigestion. Beneficial greens include ivy laurel avoided, pine spruce currant mint and various grasses. Saliva flow and leaf action aid digestion, best before meals. taste guides selection.
Blackburn's Yellow Fever Tale Sparks Witty Comeback
In Washington at Willard's Hotel during the Yellow Fever Commission era, Representative Blackburn lectured a group about his fear of yellow fever. A Maine visitor jokingly remarking on his nerves, then quipped that only lockjaw would be scarier, eliciting laughter from the audience.
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Blackburn
Washington
Willard’s
Kentucky
Maine
Senator Hamlin
Mr. Blackburn
Ghosts of Old Diseases Promote Dr Pierce Remedies
A public notice-style feature reviews lingering health fears as the so called aristocracy of air ghosts reflect old coughs catarrh and overwork. It touts Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pellets as cures for coughs digestive ills and blood purification while noting limits if cancer or advanced lung decay is present. It also recommends Sage’s Catarrh Remedy for local catarrh and urges remedies for constipation.
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Col. Ingersoll
Pierce
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