Alfred Corning Clarke Neighborhood House opens in New York
A new five story New York City neighborhood house memorializes Alfred Corning Clarke. It offers a four floor facility with a boys gym library and lecture hall a day nursery and cooking sewing classes for girls and women a tea room and affordable club dues to attract residents of the crowded East Side. The project emphasizes discipline self government and practical instruction over books and includes a roof garden and winter glassed playground for children.
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New York City
Alfred Corning Clarke
Rivington and
Cannon Streets
Younster
Snobbery on Seventy-Second Street Impresses Elderly Visitor
An elderly country gentleman is shocked by New York’s snobbery atmosphere after he takes his granddaughter on a trolley ride. She signals the conductor to stop at Seventy-second Street, a showy thoroughfare, rather than seventy first. The girl explains they always choose the nicer looking stop. The source notes early references to ancient Oriental vaccination practices.
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New York
Seventy-second Street
Seventy First Street
Mary
New York Commercial Advertiser
Silk Thread Gut From Silkworm Stomachs Exposed in Procida Trade
A London report describes Procida's manufacture of fine gut from silkworm stomachs known as fli di seta. The process, from worm selection to long threads, is labor intensive and export oriented to northern Italy and beyond at about 150 lire per kilo. The industry employs many women, faces variable worm quality, and relies on costly inputs despite high value for fishing tackle and brushes.
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Procida
Bay of Naples
Torre Dell
Italy
Prooida
Ischia
Capri
Bay of
Naples
Loudon Globe
Quotations on Life and Character From the Chicago Record
A collection of aphorisms on fame luck love pride and restraint attributed to the Chicago Record. The wry observations touch on art nature knowledge dignity perseverance and social behavior in compact pointed lines. The sayings explore how attention equals value and how missteps teach as much as success.
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Chicago
Model Town near Pittsburg to house 3000 miners
The owner plans a brick and stone model mining town with quarter acre lots, orange osage hedges, and complete amenities including schools churches stores and a club. Homes would become miners' property, stores run on profit sharing, dues for club and reading rooms, and spa sale barred.
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Pullman
Dolgeville
Pittsburg
Rochester Post-Express
Women Artists Earn Right to Be Called Artists
A quotation from the Atchison Globe argues a woman baker merits the title artist just as a woman painter does, asserting equality of创 creative recognition across crafts.
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Atchison Globe
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promotes Best Value in Health
An ad style message proclaims the best value in health care, asserting Hood's Sarsaparilla offers the best cure and cheapest option for overall well being and longevity across life’s departments.
Broker Learns French In Central Park Lesson
A New York stockbroker, delayed in language study, learns French from a kindergarten student during daily Central Park drives. The child teaches a few words each day, including arbres and orb, sparking the broker’s plan to master the language as the child grows.
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New York
Renan
Central Park
Tiibes
Monroe Drug Co
Unionville
Newlywed Banter About Captain Sparks Humour
A humorous dialogue follows a wedding ceremony where a bridegroom asks if he will be a good mate and the bride responds with a playful remark about their captain, capturing lighthearted social wit.
Indigo Industry in Behar Faces Collapse from Synthetic Dyes
The indigo industry in Behar, employing hundreds of thousands, fears ruin as cheap synthetic aniline dyes threaten its dominance. Local landowners, cultivators, and factories once enjoyed peace through an influential partnership. now artificial indigo, developed from W Bayer and Heumann research, rivals the natural product, offering comparable quality at lower cost and independent of transportation.
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Behar
India
W. Bayer
Heumann
Zurich
Tetterine Promises Quick Skin Cure in Savannah Advertisement
An 1880s style ad claims Tetterine cures tetter and all skin diseases after seven years of toe trouble. It offers 50 cents a box at druggists or by mail postpaid from J T Shuptrine Savannah Ga.
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Onawrorpville
Fun
John M. Towles
J.T. Shuptrine
Savannah
Reporter Worth a Million Frontiers in Jersey City Journal Boss
Col Sheffield Phelps owner of the Jersey City Journal was once the richest newspaper man in America. He inherited millions from his father William Walter Phelps and built a leading state paper while fending off libel suits. A Yale graduate, he rose from reporter to editor and played a major Hudson County political role, backed by Gov Voorhees.
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Col
Sheffield Phelps
Jersey City Journal
America
William Walter Phelps
Hudson County
Voorhees
Griggs
New York City
Palisades
Yale
Col. Phelps
World Nn
New York
Mail and Express
World
Wall Street
West
Phelps
Philadelphia
Saturday Evening Post
Imitation and Idleness in a Busy Bee Tale
A quirky exchange contrasts a busy bee with a man of unoriginal ideas. Meandering Mike cites that the little bee rests for six months. An old classified note advertises jobs for traveling salesmen in Southern states with a $50 signing allowance and expenses. Address Peerless Tobacco Works Co Beatoraity Va
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Mike
Busy Bee
Peerless Tobacco Works Co
Beatoraity
Nest-Home Folk of Australia and Africa Unearth Primitive Dwellings
Travellers describe bushmen in Australia as forming birdlike nests from twigs and grass instead of huts. Nests shelter large families in jungle clearings with natural cover, lacking rain protection yet enduring harsh weather. Multiple nests cluster closely, forming a bushwide communal living pattern.
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Africa
Australia
Imaginative vision hides true manhood in plain view
A reflection on how true eminence often remains unseen by confident pretenders. It argues that imagined greatness distorts perspective while genuine merit goes unacknowledged by those who seek it.
Dashing Widow Brown and the Leaving of Real Estate
In a witty exchange, Cholly quips about a widow whose husband left nothing but earthly real estate, and Jack retorts that he left the earth itself, delivering a grim punchline attributed to a judge.
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Cholly
Brown
Jack
Tea Poisoning and Health Claims for Stomach Hitters
Public notice warns against tea poisoning and urges women to use Hostetter's Stomach Hitters to strengthen digestion and nerves, claiming it improves beauty and mood, regulates bowels, and cures dyspepsia. Advertised as available from all druggists.
Hard drinker from Western dime museum marries snake charmer
A man known as a hard drinker from a Western dime museum recently married a snake charmer, illustrating an unlikely union reported in local gossip.
Cheney Oath Promises Reward for Uncured Tarr e
In Toledo county district an oath by senior partner Friare J. Cheney of F J Cunary Co pledges one hundred dollars for each tarre case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Girabor attested December 6 1886. The notice promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure and Trall's Family Pills with testimonials and other remedies.
Lydia B Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound Praised by Two Women
A fragment from a testimonial letter extols Lydia B Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound and Sanitative Wash for womb trouble and nervous symptoms. Mrs E B Kuhn of Genuine, Om reports eight years of suffering with monthly pain and fatigue relieved enough to work full days. Mrs M L Sezans of Gux Mansa, Mion says eight bottles plus washes cured her womb disorder, insomnia, and poor appetite and she would recommend the remedies widely.
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Dean
Mas. E. BE. Kuan
Genuawo, Om
Lydia B. Pinkham
Mus
M. L. Sezans
Gux Mansa
Mion
No Cure No Pay Eye Salve Ad Warns of Sore Eyes
An old advertisement touts Findley’s Eye Salve with a no cure no pay policy. It claims chronic and granulated lids cure in 30 days and common sore eyes in 8 days with money back if unsatisfied. Sold at druggists or by mail from Decatur Texas. It ends with a quip about Japanese anger and slamming doors.
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Findley
Box
I. P
Haytex
Decatur
Texas
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