Choosing a Servant Agencies and the hiring predicament
A New York Sun look at employment agencies for domestic help. Agents note rising difficulty finding ordinary plain help as women gain kitchens experience wanes and immigrant labor declines. Two agencies operate on Sixth Avenue with a wealthy client base relying on typed preferences and lettered trust.
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Nee
Europe
Florida
Sixth Avenue
Philadelphia
Washington
Baltimore
New York Sun
Counterfeit Five Dollar Bill Sparks Police Chase
A counterfeit five dollar note leads to a prankster’s taunting exchange before an officer is alerted. A quick wit offers the bill to throw authorities off his trail, then departs with a final farewell.
Girl asks aloud if she is good for not talking
A three year old taken to church for the first time promises to stay quiet. She begins prim and still but then turns to her mother and asks, Mamma, isn't I a good girl not to talk? This brief anecdote from the Boston Traveller captures a child’s moment of self awareness.
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Mamma
Boston
Proud of His Work A Scotch Professor Praises Manual Labor
An Old Scotch professor Dr B W Richardson of London told Sanitary Institute delegates that work done with pride is essential. He recalled a lecture by a Scottish judge on self culture and a mason who built a university hall with his own hands, finding purpose and delight in crafted work.
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B. W. Richardson
London
Congress of the Sanitary Institute of Great Britain
St. Andrew's University
Scotland
Jewelers’ League
New York Sun
Changes in New York as carriage era fades
A New York Tribune quote recalls a stately elder from one of the oldest families describing how fancy dinners and carriage keeping have declined. She notes her youth when she knew everyone who kept a carriage and contrasts it with today where horses are scarce and most intimates no longer keep carriages.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Central Park
New York Tribune
Curious icicle tale in Minnesota winter weather
In St Paul a visitor from St Louis hears a boast about a ten foot icicle that supposedly dropped on Sam Bones and pinned him to the sidewalk before melting. The tale ends with a dry climate quip about the season’s harshness and an odd escape.
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Minnesota
The Value of Effort Beyond Easy Success
A New York Ledger reflection argues success requires effort not luck or idle praise. It warns that paying equal wages for nothing or giving applause to mere triflers would strip meaning from achievement and erode genuine happiness.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wnman
New York Ledger
Boyish Qand A Reveal Humorous Scale of Man
An examiner asks what comes next to man in the scale of being a boy answers with shirt. A fort and fortress distinction is given as a place to put men and a fort ress to put women in. The chief end of man is stated as what’s got his head on.
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Cagsell
Balloonists Gower and Tissindier Fall Then Save Themselves
An eyewitness account from Hennequin recounts the Paris balloon voyage of Tissindier and Gower. They rose to 1,500 feet from Paris and 6,000 feet near Fontenay before entering a thinning air pocket, rapidly plunging. ballast and anchor were dumped to regain balance and a mile plunge ended with a safe landing fifty feet above ground.
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Acmed Meles
San Francisco
Hennequin
Fontenay
Tissindier
Gower
Paris
Vincennes
Mr. Hennequin
Chicago Tribune
Old Wood for Violins in a Historied Workshop
An interview with a violin maker explains that prized violins use seasoned spruce and curly maple from aged wood. He notes old spruce is easier to obtain than old maple, and describes salvaging wood from century old farmhouses and bed frames to craft necks backs and scrolls.
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Pierce
Tremontaris Court Streets
Greek style finger tapering bands patent praised by fashion
A Washington Letter describes a new patent for aluminium finger bands worn at night to produce slim tapering fingers. The set includes thimble shaped rings with adjustable outer rings to compress the fingers and has been tested by leading fashion ladies in Washington and New York.
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Patent Office
Washington
New York
Anthracite Coal Field Near Shenandoah Mountains
Mining Engineer Robert B. Allen reports a vast coal field in the Shenandoah mountains within twelve miles of the Valley branch of the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and 140 miles from Baltimore. He notes three seams six to nine feet thick of high quality coal, awaiting development, with capital-raising hurdles cited as the barrier to exploitation.
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Baltimore American
Robert B. Allen
Harrisonburg
Rockingham County
Baltimore
Shenandoah Mountains
Valley
Baltimore and Ohio
Pocono
Pennsylvania
President Eliot Opposes Personal Cremation Plan
President Eliot of Harvard stated he will not be cremated despite a share in the Boston Cremation Society. He plans burial in the usual manner, though he endorses cremation as beneficial during epidemics.
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Eliot
Boston Cremation Society
Harvard
Boston
Vienna City Council Suppresses Gymnastic Society
The Vienna city council recently suppressed a gymnastic society for adopting German empire colors and passing a resolution to admit no foreigners except Germans to membership.
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Vienna
An Ideal Idleness and a Bankers Day of Grace Debate
A midsummer scene follows a fisherman resting by a trout brook in woods described as lazy and free. The piece contrasts natural ease with human labor and notes a call to abolish days of grace as banking practice becomes uniform across states.
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Francis 5. Palmer
Christian Union
State Boards of Commissioners
Detroit Tribune
A Bride of Two Years in History Shows Child Marriage
English practice noted by All the Year Round includes extreme cases where a two year old bride was married to a one year older groom. The arrangement followed later ratification when mature, often to settle property, illustrating early marriage norms and legal consent by guardians.
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England
Lanbt
William Brereton
Tow of California Ends With Salvage Award
In April 1888 the steamship California from Hamburg to New York broke down about fifty six miles southeast of Nantucket shoals and 300 miles east of this city. Chateau Margaux towed the vessel to port and earned a $15000 salvage award.
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California
Hamburg
New York
Nantucket Shoals
Chateau Margaux
Bordeaux
New York Evening Sun
No shared traits between interior and western coast Indians
The St Paul Pioneer Press notes the interior Indians differ from western coast tribes with respect to feet size eyes hair and stature, arguing coast Indians resemble Japanese features and diverge from inland peoples.
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Interior
Western Coast
Japan
St. Paul
Why General Butler Stayed in Harness to the End
A Boston Globe meditation on why leaders like General Butler die in the harness at 75. The piece argues that labor is life for such men and rest equals the tomb, comparing steady work to Niagara’s unstoppable flow and noting the same question arises for Gladstone and others who die in action.
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General Butler
Mr. Gladstone
Boston Globe
Castle of Cirey Sells for 100000 Pounds
The castle of Cirey, famed as Voltaire's retreat with the Marchioness du Chatelet, has sold for £100,000. The site preserves Voltaire's bedroom and study, with inscriptions in verse in the library and gallery praising study and seclusion. The buyer is leading French industrialist M. Vielard-Migeon.
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Cirey
Voltaire
Amie
Marchioness du Chatelet
Henriade
Mme. de Graffigny
Monster horn to frighten Berkeley rivals at Stanford game
San Francisco Call reports Stanford students plan a giant steam driven horn for the football clash with Berkeley. A 50 foot long galvanized iron horn with 82 horsepower boiler will cost 500 dollars, 200 students pledge 2.50 each, and militia may be requested to guard it during the game.
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Stanford University
Palo Altos
Berkeley
Stanford
Berkleyites
San Francisco Call
Revival of English In the Colleges at Yale
Yale officials increase focus on English study with entrance exams starting in 184 and freshman instruction now offered. Papers will test familiarity with English literature and literary forms, chosen for appeal to preparatory students and intrinsic value. The Boston Journal notes neglect of English has caused sad results.
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Yale
Boston Journal
Standing Dead In Hollow Tree Found In Texas
Joseph Weir of the Delaware Bend district was missing for months. The body was found Thursday evening inside an upright hollow tree in Red river bottom with his rifle still by his side.
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Joseph
Weir
Delaware Bend
Denver
Frank Sneed
Red River Bottom
Texas
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
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