Courtesy A Poor Girl’s Room Good Cooking for Traveling Women
The piece argues Amsterdam and other Dutch cities should establish women friendly hotels with graded prices and genuine homelike comfort for travelers. It contrasts English and American hotel practices, notes women’s economic dependence, and praises foreign care, modest rooms, and low ceilings as fashionable but practical comforts for traveling women.
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Jennie June
Amsterdam
Holland
England
Germany
Wholesome Influence of Good Cook
The author recalls a 1856 journey through Norway's rough regions ending with scarce food and a craving after a single glass of claret. He argues hunger and bland fare fuel alcohol cravings and that moral reform efforts fail without providing nourishing, savory food.
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Corres
Popular Science Monthly
Norway
Kydlen
Lom
Jostedal
Sogne Fjord
Kindly teaching in courtesy on a steamer
Rosella Rice recalls two lake Erie incidents about sharing a comb and brush in a state room. A generous woman returns the items with a gentle lesson on polite conduct, its importance in good society, and the need to learn little social courtesies as one grows.
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Rosella Rice
Lake Erie
A Poor Girl’s Bed Chamber Advice from 19th Century Guide
A Pioneer Press excerpt advises a humble bed chamber furnished with white dimity and a simple Brussels carpet, emphasizing clean lines and thrift. It suggests embroidered initials on Swiss muslin and inexpensive lace, plain bedspread with wide lace, and modest knickknacks like a palm leaf fan and a quirky stuffed kitten hat to add charm.
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St. Paul
How to Save the Boys
Peck's Sun urges parents to reclaim at risk youths by making home life more engaging, especially boys rooms, and hosting neighborhood gatherings to keep boys away from corrupt company. It stresses winter as a peak danger period and calls fathers and mothers to create entertaining, morally constructive activities tailored to youth tastes.
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Peck
The Age of a Woman
A New York Sun discussion on whether asking a woman her age is insult or impertinence. It argues that age questions are generally improper unless required by law for census or other rules, noting a woman’s age is often discerned by appearance and character rather than numbers.
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New York Sun
How Colds Are Caught
Discussion in London Lancet explains that a healthy person resists colds until fatigue or stress weaken the body. Fatigue from long work days, late nights, partying, and overindulgence in meals makes the system vulnerable to colds pneumonia or jaundice. Luxury like hot rooms and feather beds may promote chill taking.
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London Lancet
Ex-King of Portugal’s wife once a Springfield singer
An American in Paris recounts Elise Hensler, later Countess d Esta, who rose from a 15 year old Boston operatic student to the morganatic wife of ex king Dom Fernando. He recalls generous Boston and philanthropic patrons who helped her and notes Portuguese nobles’ unease at a former actress in royal circles.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Paris
Springfield
Mass
Mr. Hensler
Elise
Rose
Boston
Elsie Hensler
Lisbon
Sealskin and Matrimony Opinion in Divorce
A New York Morning Journal piece notes a divorce case where a sealskin fur influences the verdict. The commentator questions the garment’s desirability citing cost moth damage and changing fashions, arguing it harms marriages despite popularity and installment plans.
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New York Morning Journal
William Wirt's Secret Letter on Small Courtesies
A William Wirt letter to his daughter urges kindness through small courtesies. It notes the world rewards attention and care, citing Sterne’s “small courtesies” shown by thoughtful acts and considerate behavior in daily life.
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William Wirt
Mansfield
Optical Illusions of Skirt Stripes in Ladies Dress
A fashion note explains how horizontal stripes on skirts make a wearer appear shorter while vertical stripes create the illusion of greater height. An experiment with a grid shows lines darkened horizontally or vertically alter perceived square dimensions when viewed from a distance.
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Fateaas Herald
Teaching 8 Child Sympathy in Early Education
A mother refrains from punishing a child for damaging an article and instead shows sympathy for the injured object. She dampens cloths to bound the bruise and the child, learning to feel for the object, grows to show empathy. The piece argues that early sympathy toward inanimate objects could extend to people in adulthood.
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Phil
Detroit Free Press
Remedy for Dandruff by Dr Hanaford
Wetting the scalp with soda and water can dissolve dandruff albumen and provide relief. Rub the scalp daily with the damp fingers, adding salt to the mixture for better cleansing.
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J. H. Hanaford
Remove Oil Stains and Manners in New York Sermon Note
Instructions on removing oil stains suggest scattering corn meal to absorb oil and pressing with hot iron on blotting paper. A New York sermon condemns adult and baby kissing as unseemly. Emerson on manners notes a best way to do things. Calcutta plans a hospital employing only female physicians.
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Mr. Deems
New York
Emerson
Calcutta
India
Burglaries Drive Newsmen to Extreme “Scoop” Tactics
A St Louis newspaper culture piece details sensational reporting practices. Harry W. Moore of The Post-Dispatch pushes for exclusives, even prompting a major breach of Veiled Prophets secrecy. A reporter memorizes floats and pages, producing a nine column pageant description printed next day. The piece notes burglary as a journalist’s enterprise in prior cases.
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St. Louis
Cleveland
Post-Dispatch
Harry W. Moore
Order of
Moore
Bool
P.D
Globe-Democrat
Lebaume Street
Richest gold find in Nevada County near Neville mine
A mining pocket near the Neville or Mammoth mine three miles from town yielded quartz bearing gold worth between 75 000 and 100 000 dollars in two tons. Pieces ranged from heavy chunks to a largest oval block sixteen by twenty two inches thick six to seven inches. The gold is almost black and seen as the richest surface find in U S history.
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Amador Dispatch
California
Neville
Mammoth
United States
Scarcity of Beeswax and Adulterations Highlight Trade
An Indianapolis druggist asks where to obtain genuine pharmaceutic beeswax as honey becomes cheaper. The piece notes rising use of artificial combs from paraffin and glucose feeding, with wax yield low and Japan wax as a leading substitute.
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Indianapolis
Japan
Russia's Turf Beds Revealed as Light Source
A Chicago Times piece notes Russia's vast turf beds covering seventy thousand square miles could supply light for ten thousand years. Export limited to a few provinces with turf used as fuel by some railways, the article argues the resource is underutilized.
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Chicago Times
Russia
Prolific Poet Tupper in Poverty at 73
The "Proverbial Philosopher" Tupper, once selling a million copies, is now very poor at age 73. The English are raising a relief fund for him. The article notes the Chinese exclusion law influencing Japanese emigration to California.
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Tupper
Inter Ocean
California
The Peak Of The Lofty Spirit In A Poem
A poem narrates ascent to a symbolic peak beyond weather and disaster where the summit remains calm and unchanging. A traveler once carved a message in ashes on the crest and returns to find it enduring in granite as proof of enduring inner height and peace. The verse frames spiritual elevation as higher than any physical peak.
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Earth
Visiting an impressionist
In London last summer I sought Whistler, father of the impressionists, whose bold methods and clashes with Ruskin defined the era. The artist painted feelings not visions, built the White House studio on Chelsea embankment, and worked at a distance with a single model as he orchestrated rapid, intense brushwork.
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Croffitt
Pioneer Press
London
Jimmy’ Whistler
Whistler
Vauxhall Gardens
Grosvenor Gallery
Ruskin
Wilde
Whistler and
Moscheles
Chelsea Embankment
White House
Monte Carlo
Wrestler Meryine Thompson Defies Horses in Outdoor Feat
Meryine Thompson, Canadian champion wrestler, boasted he could pull against any city or county team of horses for a $100 prize. He wore a harness, lay on a ladder fixed to a telegraph pole, and, after horses failed to move him, two large sorrel horses pulled with a snapped whiffletree, proving his strength before a cheering crowd.
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Auburn Dispatch
Meryine Thompson
Thompson
Not a Grave of Common Green in Texas Siftings
A dialogue from a Texas Siftings piece depicts Madeline promising to honor her husband’s grave with a refined olive green color, asking to avoid the vulgar common green used at Simpson’s grave. The exchange centers on grave marker aesthetics and memory.
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Texas Siftings
Madeline
Sept Green
Simpson
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