Artisans' Homes and Municipal Tenements in Glasgow
The Glasgow Cor. describes municipal tenements designed for poor families, detailing one to three room flats with rents from 40 to 80 dollars per year, city gas at 60 cents per 7,000 feet, and a top-floor laundry. It notes the experiment of single room blocks as a response to housing needs, their limited social benefits, and the ongoing, costly redevelopment under the improvement fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Glasgow
Improvement Fund
Glasgow Cor
Boston Herald
A Duke Rebuked for Plain Clothes Visit Incident
A Duke of Edinburgh visiting in plain clothes was rebuked by an Admiral who said he would welcome royalty on another occasion but was awaiting the Galatea's captain. The Duke returned to his ship and donned his uniform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duke of Edinburgh
San Francisco
Fragmented Verse Exchange From Detroit Free Press
A young man requests a poem from a woman and laments his own inability to compose one. He imagines borrowing her eyes cheeks brow voice hand and heart, then concedes he cannot write a worthy poem and fears his effort is hollow.
Reincarnation Theory Told Through Far East Tale
In a Washington paper inspired discussion, Allan finds a curious theory of transmigration of the soul as a canary to a flower and then a donkey, narrated by Dr. Bedloe and a Pottsville reader. The piece blends humorous dialogue with the notion of metempsychosis. Also noted are pigeons at Henry W. Williams’s Rialto window feeding daily at 11 and pumice stone facts from Lipari islands used in polishing and soaps.
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Allan
Washington
John Chamberlin
Edward Bedloe
Philadelphia
Far East
Pennsylvania
Pottsville
Strauss
Dodor
China
Bedloe
Theosophical Society
Henry W. Williams
Rialto
Boston Transcript
Campo Bianco
Lipari Islands
Brooklyn Eagle
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Story Collection
Letters from women in New York Texas Pennsylvania and beyond praise Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound for womb related troubles and nerve issues. Testimonials claim relief sleep and improved health after trying the remedy with many calling it miraculous and life changing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brodie
Lydia E. Pinkham
Kate Morris
Mulberry St
New York
Texas
Jennie Arthur
Taylor
Education and care for the mentally and physically challenged
Dr Walk outlined six classes of defectives and urged public education for blind and deaf children in specialized schools. He supported industrial homes for blind adults, proper funding for insane asylums, and regulating and separating feeble minded and epileptics from marriage. He advocated long confinement for inebriates and saw conversion into self supporting work as possible.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walk
Dorothea Dix
Pennsylvania
Commonwealth
Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia Press
Moon legends across cultures on who the man in the moon is
The St Louis Republic surveys beliefs about the man in the moon from Pratorius imagining Isaac with a lighted bundle, Dante linking Cain to thorns, Icelandic faces of Adam and Eve, Fireburgers tracing Judas’s sneezed gesture, to legendary causes of lunar marks and the moon’s role in creation and curses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pratorius
Isaac
Dante
Cain
Iceland
Adam
Eve
Judas Iscariot
Luna
Christ
St. Louis Republic
Grip and Camphorated Oil Remedies and Immigration Debate
An old health note promotes camphorated oil to relieve grip symptoms and post illness pains, advising rubs on the forehead muscles legs and joints with a preparation of rum water and ammonia. Separately Paris conference coverage notes American delegates struggling to secure immigration exclusion facilities amid political concerns.
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New York Times
Paris
America
Turtle Weighing 650 Pounds Seen Near Welhaven
Second mate Knut Rasmussen reports that a giant 650 pound sea turtle rose near the Welhaven as it passed Cape Fear Just after daybreak last Wednesday It was drawn toward the ship’s propeller and cut to pieces leaving all hands in awe of the monster catch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Knut Rasmussen
Welhaven
Cape Fear
New York Press
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Detroit
Dot
Atlantic
Pacific
H.p.n.dahl
Naylor’s
Nason Street
Maynard
N. S. Daniels
Express Office
Main Street
Concord, Mass
Guo & Lock
W. C. Hancock
Pratt
Lexington ST
Man In the Moon
Holmes
Maynard, Mass
Daniel
J. Y. Tucker
Monumental
Quincy
Concord
Barre
Scotch
Granitte
P. J. Sheehan
Bedford St
Mass
F. D. Gilmore
Maynard Block
H. S. Richardson
E.H. Maker
Concord Mass
Tattles, Jones and Wetherbee
South Acton, Mass
Marlboro Dye House
Liberty Street
R. W. Geddes
W. D. Cross & CO
I. N. Fowler
Jane
A. D. Russel
Augustus Fletcher
Marlboro Laundry
James Devane
West Acton, Mass
M. E. Sheehan
Frank E. Tasker, M. D
C. H. Taylor
Middlesex Oil Can .O
Hatch & Poland
Neil Currie & Coo., Maynard’s Block
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