Li Hung Chang Sends Scent Bag to Brooklyn Girl
A Brooklyn girl, Josephine Amelia Claudius, received a silk scented bag and a letter from Li Hung Chang in 1896. The gift, attached to a belt, bears four Chinese characters meaning All things as wished. Li explains his travels, health routine, and offers a bicycle if a future rider proves skilled. He urges continued correspondence and mentions family duties.
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EA Hung Chang
Brooklyn
Josephine Amelia Claudius
Li Hung Chang
Claudius
Lasten
Hang Chang
Syn
Prospect Park
Union League Club
Broadway
Lo ‘Feng Luh
Peking
Josephine
Waldorf Hotel
China
Li Hune Cuane
Shadow profiles entertain with simple curtain screening
Home entertainment idea from the Philadelphia Ledger describes shadow pictures using a sheet and backlighting. Audience guesses the profile of each performer, with children in playful costumes marching behind the screen for a charming or comic effect.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Balloon ascent mystery in a playful misquote
A little girl described a balloon ascent using a curious phrase about a man becoming “an airy knot” and going up in a saloon, illustrating a whimsical misquote she shared with playmates.
Grapes and the Appendix A whimsical medical reflection
The Washington Times essay notes that grape seeds never actually lodge in the vermiform appendix despite surgeon debates. It argues the appendix and tonsils are unused organs prone to disease, urging health through strength and prompt medical help rather than avoiding grapes.
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Noah
Washington Times
Germantown once thought to be the capital of the country
The Germantown tale that the first Congress met at Germantown Academy is debunked. Congress sat in Philadelphia from 1790 to 1800, with Washington and Jefferson residing here during outbreaks. The Germantown academy never hosted Congress, though it briefly housed banks during the 1798 yellow fever scare.
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Germantown
Congress
Germantown Academy
West School Lane
United States
New York
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Board of Trustees
House of Assembly
Washington
Jefferson
Randolph
National Bank
Main Street
School Lane
Thomas Jefferson
John Randolph
North America
A Youth’s Adventure in a World-Wide Meeting with Stevenson
An observer recounts a remarkable London News tale of a boy of 14 obsessed with consumption. He flees to Bournemouth, works as a fishmonger's helper, and later meets Robert Louis Stevenson in an uncanny encounter. The story traces the boy’s travels to Sydney, the Gilbert Islands, and the South Seas, ending with a reflection on the smallness of the world.
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Peckham Rye
London News
Bournemouth
Louis Stevenson
Skerryvore
Stevenson
Paris
Sydney
South Seas
Gilbert Islands
Lace Lappets Fashion Advice From a Bygone Era
A fashion writer suggests reviving lace lappets by arranging them to trim the front of a gown with large satin bows and diamond buttons. She recommends lining them with bright velvet or satin to form shoulder crossing bretelles and hints at rhinestones for a modern vulgarizing touch.
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Bretelles
Law For the Poor and Literary Anecdotes
The Legal Aid society offers free assistance to New York's indigent, has operated for twenty years, handled eighty thousand cases, and secured over five hundred thousand dollars for clients, funded by voluntary contributions. A Milton biographer notes a long plan before Paradise Lost, with three years of actual writing.
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Law
Legal Aid Society
New York
Milton
The Snow Miracle Poem Excerpt by J Li Heaton
The excerpt cites a poem titled The Snow Miracle attributed to J Li Heaton from The Quilting Bee. It contrasts the era of miracles with a winter scene where Christ and the Holy Spirit seem distant before a snow event. The lines describe waves hardening into a solid floor as the snow is formed by divine breath.
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Christ
J. Li Heaton
Miss Parlon’s Escaloped Fish Recipe From New York Post
A recipe described by Miss Parlon for an escaloped fish dish uses cooked boneless fish with salt pepper butter flour milk and grated bread crumbs. Layer fish and sauce in a small dish, top with crumbs and butter, bake twenty minutes in a hot oven, with heat guidance for bottom and top heat.
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New York Post
Death of Berthold Tours Violinist and Editor of Novello
Berthold Tours a noted Dutch born musician and composer died after a long illness. Born in Rotterdam in 1828 he studied in Leipsich and Brussels and moved to England in 1861. For many years he acted as violinist in Costa's orchestra and for the last 19 years served as reader and editor at Novello & Co. He contributed greatly to reducing orchestral scores to piano form and was a prolific composer of violin pieces songs hymn tunes anthems and church services.
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Berthold Tours
Mr. Tours
Rotterdam
Leipsich
Brussels
England
Costa
Novello & Co
Duel on Stage Sees Audience Cast as Victim
A backstage exchange frames a theatrical duel where the critic and the villain clash on stage and the crowd bears the brunt of the impact, highlighting the audience as the night’s unintended casualty.
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