Women patrons bow to King Gambrinus in Boston beer den
A St Paul Pioneer Press correspondent visits a Boston beer saloon run largely by respectable women. He notes two dozen ladies of varying ages drink beer, smoke, shop talk, and gossip in a quiet, well behaved setting. The piece suggests such women only bars may become common and cites a physician warning of rising female drinking among the upper class.
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St. Paul
Nonne
Boston
Addifont
Japanese Schoolhouse Near Yokohama Observed by Visitor
A visitor describes a Yokohama area schoolhouse by a clear stream surrounded by lilies. About fifteen children sit at plain long tables with a teacher writing characters on a blackboard while children imitate sounds, read, write, and do arithmetic with evident freedom and happiness. The observer expresses optimism about Japanese youth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yokohama
Japan
Chicago Editor Credited With Piety and Partisanship
A Chicago editor famed for denouncing St Louis and lampooning political history is parodied in a clipping that jokes about vice presidents becoming presidents and mocks the editor’s knowhow of Carter Harrison. The piece ends with dialect verse lamenting age and weariness.
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Chicago
Boston Herald
John Adams
Thomas Jefferson
Martin van Buren
Carter Harrison
St.Louis
Everything Destined to Move Up Town Pie Marker To Be Change
The article argues that New York’s center of gravity will shift uptown as business and population push northward. It predicts pressure on lower Manhattan structures, incentives for more bridges, and a harbor moving toward Harlem River, with the city’s character changing over eighty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York World
Wall Street
Quanibus
Jersey
Long Island
Brooklyn
North River
New York
Harlem
City
163
Battery
Lower Broadway
Sound
Printing House
Mount Morris
Where His Cigara Went at Hooley's Theatre
Chicago gossip reports comedian W E Crane missing cigars for weeks at Hooley's theater. He bought a dozen loaded cigars and staged a gag during Our Roaming House where Robson’s joke blast sent a blue flame and shotgun-like smoke into the Widow Manhelm’s chair, provoking uproar. Crane fled stage with a gag-packed handkerchief while the crowd roared, leaving no doubt where the cigars vanished.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago News
W. HE. Crane
Hooley's Theatre
Crane
Clayton's
Robson
Gilliped
Elevator
Manheim
Manhelm
Billy Crane
Gath in New York Tribune on the nation’s vastness and scattered reach
Chief Justice Coleridge’s remark on America’s vast size appears in a New York Tribune piece. The author notes travel exposes how diverse regions pursue contrasting aims from polygamy to temperance, vengeance to gambling, with towns like Chicago Missouri Kentucky and Arkansas cited. The piece ends noting the country’s lack of full homogeneity and mentions P. T. Barnum as a uniquely known figure.
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New York Tribune
Coleridge
Chicago
Missouri
Kentucky
St. Louis
Indian Territory
Duke of Wellington
Frank James
Arkansas
Dakota
Wales
Denver
York
Derby
P. T
Barnum
The Rejected Aspirant in Chicago News
A young woman seeking work as an actress faced a manager who derided her for lacking the divine afflatus and instincts of the profession after she answered no to questions about divorce or serious scandal. He mocked her and sent her away.
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Chicago
Linpolitic Politeness in a Chicago Scene
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt Miss Mac screecher asks Prof Sharp for an opinion on her voice. The polite professor replies he cannot be rude. In private she questions Prof Sharp’s abilities as a musician, revealing tensions over talent and civility.
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Chicago Tribune
Prof. Sharp
Miss Macscreecher
Miss. Macscreecher
Census figures for five largest U S cities in 1880
The five largest cities are New York 1,206,203 Philadelphia 46,981 Brooklyn 617,000 Chicago 503,804 and Boston 862,830 according to the 1880 census.
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United States
New York
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Chicago
Boston
Tools of Trade and Novel Customs Ruling In New York
The Inter Ocean notes that actresses dresses are deemed tools of trade by New York customs and exempt from duty after Mrs Langtry won a case over a $5,000 lot of such tools. The New York Sun adds a Port Jarvis anecdote about standing with one foot in New York and the other in Pennsylvania at low water, touching New Jersey with a hand.
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Inter Ocean
New York
States
Port Jarvis
Pennsylvania
New Jarsy
Clumsy German Farm Tools Highlight Century-Old Methods
Amos Kaeg writes from San Francisco as he surveys rural Germany, noting peasants survive on hard labor and small dowries while clinging to heavy, outmoded implements. Spades, mattocks, scythes, and a century-old bulky plow dominate fields, with limited use of modern machinery due to conservative farming culture. Waking adoption appears slowly, though dedicated stores hint at gradual change.
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Amos Kaeg
San Francisco Chronicle
America
A Politic Duke and a Cour Tier Dialogues
A fragmentary exchange describes the duke of Wellington as a good courier and George IV recalling his Waterloo cavalry exploits. The great general bows and notes hearing his majesty say so. Dion Boucicault is mentioned as a tea drinker with a pat of it on the table.
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Duke of Wellington
George IV
Waterloo
Arthurs
Dion Boucicault
Come Not Again From The Realm Of Frost And Dew
Poem fragment in which a speaker pleads with a departed beloved not to return. The narrator dwells beyond mortal pain, yet recalls the rose like memories and the shared silent bond. Stars and distant dancing feet frame the lost child as the speaker clings to life’s shadow.
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George Parsons Lathrop
Manhattan
Mesmerizing a Mule in New York Street Parade
A crowd gathers on Park Row near Beekman Street as a mule resists a driver attempting to spur it. After a tense standoff with a policeman and crowd, a small Black man taps the mule’s eye and ear, then prods it to start a brisk trot away from the curb and around the corner.
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New York Sur
Amie
Park Row
Beekman Street
Bekasy
The Star theatre usher with a chorus of applause
In Chicago the Star theatre usher creates a riotous, multi‑instrumental clapping and stamping show to accompany Henry Irving’s American debut. The vivid scene blends wild, methodical noise with shouted Bravol as fans cheer the London actor’s performances.
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Bill
Chicago
Star Theatre
Henry Irving
Irving
What the Bird Overheard at the Theater
A Boston Post item notes Mrs Snaggs saying she left her husband with the baby while LT attended a theatre. She recalls the husband’s muted reaction and reveals their parrot had learned some horrible words, creating a comic domestic moment.
Levee Roustabouts at Utica Port Transition
An eyewitness account describes the Ed. Richardson unloading 600 roughneck workers, mostly Black laborers, from Vicksburg. The mate yells and wields a stick to push them to speed, with little concern for a man who falls overboard. Each man earns $2.60, then flees to gambling dens for whisky and monte.
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New Orleans
Utica Observer
Hichardson
Vicksburg
Utica
Wagins
Sal
Jess
Richardson
Spanish Monte
Difference Between the Bercum of Cahallabad and a Coon
Humorous piece contrasts Jim Crow era rules with anti black discrimination in Cahallabad settings. It notes bars hotels theaters and streetcars segregated by color and mocks pretended respectability versus real treatment. Mentions New Orleans Picayune on Christmas and Gen Bob Schenck's health.
DANGER FROM ELECTRIC LIGHT MEETING WIRE TO WHITE HEAT
Cincinnati readers learn of dangerous electric light wires after a gym janitor named John nearly burned and stunned himself trying to douse a live fire on a rooftop wire. Experts warn of lethal current, wet conditions, and poor insulation despite Brush company assurances.
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Cincinnati Commercial Gazette
John
Boutillier
Brush Electric Light Company
Wen
Walyligh
Lrush Company
Brush
Dayton
Cincinnati
Lincs Street
Me Wasnt Her Pa Chicago Tribune
A young woman greets a man at the station believing him her father. The middle aged traveler, mistaken for her dad, endures a comical Hug as she kisses him before realizing the error. He jokes about public life and theft, while his diamond pin is missing after the outing. He quips he died with his face to the foe.
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Chicago Tribune
Carrol” Aruina Okill
Seth
Ermyntru
Drea
Joe Laux
Arthur
Fire Alarm in Somerset Stables Ruins Property
A 3 40 am blaze gutted J I Coffroth's stable in Somerset Pennsylvania. A valuable cow was dragged from the burning building seemingly dead but later recovered. Fire crews and residents rushed to the scene as the "red demon" fire threatened nearby holdings and savings.
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Somerset
Penn
Herald
J. I Coffroth
Floating breakwaters adopted in England show promise
Reports describe a breakwater using triangular buoys with sharp points facing the sea and five concave sides. Each buoy is moored independently with anchors fore and aft and spaced apart. The system draws ten feet of water, splitting waves and diverting them toward adjacent buoys, with efficacy increasing in rougher seas as only the upper water column is affected.
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San Francisco ‘Chronicle
England
Alabama Welding Bridal Match Report
An Inter Ocean item notes Will Corley performing on harmonica during the bridal match. The groom wore a hickory stripe shirt and copperas colored pants while his bride was carried on his arm, with a ribbed sleeve and meal-colored attire described in vivid, if fragmentary, detail.
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Inter Ocean
Will Corley
Ermyntrude and the village courtship in a faded tale
A fragmented historical piece follows Ermyntrude and her suitors in a village setting. Characters like Ermyntrude, Jon, Arthur, and Mrs Okill appear amid family estates, engagements, and gossip as memory and love intermingle with social expectations. The scene shifts between epistolary talk and domestic intrigue.
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Boston Post
Crescent City
Cahallabad
San Francisco Post
Hyar
John- Ben
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Bob Schenck
Bright
Alabama Welding
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