Cheapside London: a thoroughfare of jewelry and crowds
The Boston Herald correspondent portrays Cheapside as London’s key business artery from Poultry to the Bank with shops packed with silver jewelry, bustling crowds, and lively penny toy sellers. It notes modern commercial architecture, notable landmarks, and the steady stream of pedestrians and tradesmen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poultry
Ion House
Cheapside
Threadneedle Street
Eps
Royal Exchange
Bank of England
Robert Tee Bat
Robert Peel
London
Broadway
New York
Post Office
Wallstreet
Dick Whittington
Bow Church
Bread Street
Friday Street
Ironmonger Lane
Old Jewry
Zamara
Gafety
Stock Exchange
South Kensington
Lowther Arcade
Bobby
London Cor
Boston Herald
An American Queen and Her Four Daughters
A Duncannon Pennsylvania mother asserts daughters face threats from menstrual irregularities. The piece cautions about obstructed natural purifications and warns of stomach and kidney disturbances, headaches, irritability, and despair. It endorses Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a rapid remedy for irregular or suspended reproductive action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chas. Hines
Duncannon
Lydia E. Pinkham
Bonmot Question Echoes in Clever Putdowns
A quick witticism, or bon mot, lingers after it’s said, leaving Slowitz with a rueful thought on timing and sharp comebacks. The line from Nedders contrasts witty remark with missed chance.
Pacific Ocean Features and Steamship Routes Described
The San Francisco Call outlines the Pacific as vast and varied from Behring Strait currents to deep submarine benches near 88 degrees north. It notes differences in currents, icebergs near Tasmania, and compares voyage distances and times for Canadian and American steamers between Yokohama and San Francisco, highlighting circler sailing advantages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ervenes
Alaska
Siberia
Pole
Behring Straits
Behring Sea
Pacific
Polar Ocean
Aleutian Islands
Gulf of Alaska
Hawaiian Islands
Australia
Behring
Equator
South Cape
Tasmania
Pacific Ocean
Yokohama
Victoria
Pacific Mail
San Francisco
Dens of Famous Authors Collected by French Chronicler
A French chronicler surveys authors workrooms, noting Daudet's austere study, Dumas with wall pictures and a bronze sphinx, Coppee's disordered books and tobacco, Pierre Loti's bazaar like setup, De Goncourt's rich bindings, Sardou's plain untidy space, Zola's bric a brac, Massenet's sparse desk, Meilhac crowded with books and journals, Halevy sharing a warm hearth and chairs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Daudet
Dumas
Coppee
Pierre Loti
de Goncourt
Sardou
Zola
Massenet
Meilhac
Halevy
Westminster Gazette
Public kitchens for workers started in 1866 by Han Morgenstein
The Nineteenth Century reports German organizer Han Morgenstein opened many public kitchens for the working class. Each site has a dining room, warm seating, daily papers, and meals for 800 to 400 people under local committees and a central council. Wages are fair, waste is forbidden, and funding comes from a startup of 3250 dollars with ongoing reserves. Meals priced about 8 to 6 cents, a full dinner around one fourth cent for bread and pudding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Han Morgenstein
Berlin
Valuable Love Letters Demand Return in Kentucky Suit
A suitor in Kentucky demanded the return of his letters after addresses were rejected. After delays, he sent two more requests. The woman valued the letters at 500 dollars and the man paid 5.80 in express charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Swain
Louisville Courier-Journal
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David Henderson
Holden
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Acton
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H. Folsom
Register
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Main Street
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Frank E. Tasker, M. D
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Great
Marlboro Rubber CO
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Marlboro, Mass
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Majestic
Hartford
Columbia
Union P. D. Q
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Reces
Victor Flyer
Monarch
New
Phoenix
Altair
Sudbury
Mass
William Lind
Asahel Balcom
Warren A. Haynes
Haynes
Middlesex South
Willis
Balcom and
Parmenter
Jonathan P. Bent
Bent
Charles E. Haynes
Levi Fountain
Morse & Haynes
Levi L. Pratt
Pratt
Balcom & Parmenter
Asa 8
Balcom
Nathan L. Pratr
Abel G. Haynes
Asahel
W.N. Davenport
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
Concord Mass
J.C. Friend
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