Leather-Stocking Series offer with portraits
Advertisers offer advance payments for four complete Leather-Stocking Series sets at 15 dollars with a steel engraved portrait of J. Fenimer Cooper. half payments for one set yield a portrait, full payments promise rapid mailing of series values and portraits postpaid.
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D. Appletond& Co
Fenimere Cooper
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Prarie
I. O. (. Darley
Luca
J. Fenimer Cooper
Cooper
Dd, Archron & Co
Penisures
OW OO Brospwar
New York
Broom Makers Advertise On Fifth Street
Kaiser & Co. announces a broom manufacturing house on Fifth Street near Le Giardi offering the best test article at the lowest rate. Call and see them. April 7. J.J. KAGSER & CO.
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Nevers
Joho
Dosepl Kaiser & Co
Fifth Street
J.J. Kagser & CO
How to Go West by the Burlington Route
Forty years ago Winds stretched to the West and rail travel offered a safe comfortable path. The Burlington Route links Indianapolis to Omaha Lincoln Kansas City and West via several connections and offers low rates and a reliable westward passage. A pamphlet with a map and travel information is available from General Passenger Agent Bramel at Burlington Iowa.
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Burlington
Great West
Pires Op Giovear
BR A
Are We a Thrifty People
A reader essay contrasts American spendthrift habits with European restraint. It blames a rush culture for high prices and poor value, urging leisure time, wiser buying, and a better view of time health and money. It notes China’s visiting card customs as well as etiquette.
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France
Germany
Europe
How Watch Springs Are Made In Large Cities
The article outlines a process used in New York and other cities to manufacture mainsprings for watches. It details cutting steel into strips, binding ends in a horizontal frame, smoothing edges, winding onto a woven centre, binding ends, heating and quenching in oil, bluing by heating, and final cutting to length with hooks added for spiraling on a tool.
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New York
What Cloves Are and How They Are Processed
Cloves are unopened flowers from a small evergreen tree grown in warm regions, native to Malacca and the Spice Islands and now cultivated worldwide. They are gathered before opening, smoked over wood fire, then sun dried. each clove has a round head with four petals and a four-point end, and its aroma and flavor depend on air quality and processing.
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Bay
Malacca
Spice Islands
America
Training girls for household duties in schools
An 19th century call argues for universal home management education paralleling reading and arithmetic. It promotes kitchen, cooking, sewing, cleaning, budgeting, and domestic oversight as essential, predicting thrift, health, and social success for families and wives.
Perspiration and Skin Function in Sealed Experiments
A historical note explains perspiration amounts in twenty four hours for a healthy adult as sixteen fluid ounces with one ounce solid matter, water and carbonic acid loss, and the dangers of skin obstruction. It cites Florence experiments on a child and Leo X. seeking a Golden Age figure, and mentions rubberized coatings stopping respiration in animals.
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Florence
Leo X
Ice Manufacture in India During Winter
In winter the natives harvest ice by evaporative cooling. Water is laid in shallow earthen pans up to 3 600 to 6 000 units, forming a film before midnight and freezing by sunrise. Women scoop the ice with a semicircular knife and transfer it to baskets and large jars for cooling water. The process relies on nocturnal evaporation and gradual freezing.
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Natves
Resinous shellac and an Indian monkey crime tale
The article describes shellac formation on India East In dies trees as a tree resin exudation or insect bodies forming a crust. It explains dissolution with water or alcohol and uses in varnish. A Bombay source recounts a monkey guiding police to a murdered merchant’s body, aiding the capture of thieves.
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East Indies
Bombay
India
Bazar
Minister Seeks Dinner After Sermon
Rev My. traveled far to preach to a congregation and after the service waited for an invitation to dine. One by one others left and the church emptied. He asked an elderly gentleman to dinner, learning the distance, then pressed him to come. The man agreed and the minister was no longer troubled by dinner requests.
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Poathis
Practical education valued over grand estates for boys
A critique of parenting that favors useful schooling and moral development over wealth. The piece argues church and school are essential, cites a clergyman’s note in a sermon, and mocks sensational reporting from the Chicago Times about a Senator and a dancer, highlighting confusion in public discourse.
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J. S. Bemiss
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C. L. Wedding
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Mir
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Bruler & Hatfield
Lew Ad Nerarys Public
Orfice
Sixth Street
Beeoreen Achans
Washington
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First Street
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Salare
J. F. Sulzer & Bro
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Frankfort
Husdues
Concord
Thomas Polk
Cloverport
Polk & Shoemaker
D. HW
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West Fourth Street
Cincinnati
Cincinnati and Evansville Packet Company
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Cannelton and
EVA Daily Packet
Mary AM
Jons AL
AMS
Rosgernr Avans
Isville
United States Mail and
Artims Company
Louisville
New Albany
Morning Star
Crider
Beverly
Mather
Phe Vlevant Steamer
Grey
Spencer House
Valrd and
Walnut Streets
Court House
Z. HW. Cook
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FISK
Joseph Duscil
VICK
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Mochester N.Y
Feni- Incre Cooper
Webster
United States
United States Subscription Agency
Philadelphia
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China
Wei
Ice Manufacture
Shellac
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Chicago Times
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Walesh Avenue
Boston
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