On a Tandem and a Dutch City Directory Tale
A reflective poem about a ride with Jennie on a Humber followed by an excerpt from an older New York City archive map and directory for 1665. It notes twenty streets a population of 251 with Dutch names for main thoroughfares and lists prominent Dutch ancestors and early families. It mentions birds and food supply of the era.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Common Council of
New York
Broadway
de Heerestraat
Battery
Aen de Strandt van
de N. Reveir
Wall Street
de Waal
Pearl Street
de Perel
New York Times
Animals as companions for toil and shipboard life
The London Telegraph prose laments a world without animal pets and praises dogs, cats, birds, and other creatures as universal companions for sailors, soldiers, and workers. It notes the dog guarding a midday meal and the loyal, faithful servitude of domestic and regimental animals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Telegraph
A Happy Wedlock and the Stages of Love
The excerpt compares love’s early days to a first blush of youth and beauty. It contrasts youthful infatuation with mature marriage, noting a golden, lasting phase beyond initial passion and a hopeful, grateful view of future days.
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Autumn
Tea upset prompts railway line search in czar's route
The London News reports a sudden jerk of a railway carriage near Izora spoiling the czar's tea. The following morning guards searched the entire line between St. Petersburg and Izora to learn what caused the disturbance.
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Izora
St. Petersburg
Peterhof
London News
English Youth and the Army Notes on Gentry Attitudes
Walter Besant in London observes a shift in the early 19th century as younger sons of gentry turned from trade to military service. Mercantile life lost appeal, causing the city to detach from the counties and altering social ties among elites.
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Walter Besant
London
Remarkable watch claim and curious natural notes
A Newburyport Herald item mentions a man showing a watch with a crowd claiming it has a crowmalaker balance and peculiar heat cold confinement. Cape Colony is cited as the habitat of the largest earthworm six to seven feet long. Other notes warn against a baby seeing its reflection before age one and offer recipes for mucilage and remedies for pets and stoves.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newburyport Herald
Cape Colony
Wall Street Paper Tearing A Curious Habit
The article notes famed financiers such as Henry Clews and J P Morgan tearing and manipulating small paper scraps during discussions. It contrasts their habits with a Chicago Chinaman who insists on live chickens, a ritual observed before dinner. Washington street Arabs describe a cold, snowy journey from Chicago to the capital.
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Beek
Aes
Henry Clews
Wall Street
Jay Gould
Russell Sage
John H. Inman
Samuel Thomas
J. Pierpont Morgan
John D. Rockefeller
New York Times
Washington
Chicago
Washington News
Local Couple Wed In Court After License Surprise
Julius Wolpe aged twenty one and Dora Alberti aged nineteen obtained a license at the county clerk’s office. Judge Hutchinson officiated as the couple, led by a luckless lawyer, exchanged vows with a swift ceremony. The lawyer offered his card in case of future divorce.
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Hutchinson
Wolpe
Dora
Chicago Times
Ocean steamers burn vast coal as they voyage
The London Letter notes Orient line steamers like the Austral require 3,650 to 4,000 tons of coal per round trip between London and Sydney. liners such as the Oregon burn about 830 tons daily on the Liverpool to New York run. Coal stocks of up to 200,000 tons are kept at stations in St Vincent, Madeira, Port Said, and Singapore.
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Orient Line
Australia
Great Britain
London
Sydney
Oregon
Liverpool
New York
Sterling Castle
China
St. Vincent
Madeira
Port Said
Singapore
Finding for the Lawyer in a Welsh Courtroom
A historic snippet notes Mr John Jones a leading Welsh barrister delivering a felicitous speech. After summing up the jury cried out We are all for a Jones with costs signaling a favorable verdict for the lawyer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Jones
London
Woman Finds Relief with Pinkham Vegetable Compound
Mrs I A Rice of Florence Kentucky recounts eight years of female troubles and shows relief after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She endorses its help for irregular or painful menstruation and stomach weakness. All druggists sell it and the company offers Liver Pills at 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia L. Pinkham
I. A. Rice
Florence, Ky
Lupia
Pinkham Mep, Co
Lynx
Mass
Arrival of the Baby and the Telegraph Office Pranks
A Detroit Free Press fragment portrays a Kalamazoo bound baby news dispatches scene at a telegraph desk. A young man scribbles then discards lines until a late message proclaims a boy named and shared joy, with clerks joking about first-time fatherhood and humor in fragile wording. A final dispatch notes a death line beside the cheerful birth notes.
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Telegraph Office
Gould
Kalamazoo
Julia
Charley
Kazoo
Toledo
Presitontiaed
Tom
Jack
Tom Jack
Sally
Jim
Irene
Freddy J
John
Detroit Free Press
Brush with a Wildcat in Spring Brook Woods
Elezer Goodrich reports a wildcat leaped from the bushes near Moosic while he rode home. The animal grabbed the horse by the neck, was kicked off, and collapsed in the road after the horse trod on it. He searched the scene and found the crushed wildcat in the road.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elezer Goodrich
Spring Brook
Moosic
Goodrich
Scranton Cor
New York Sun
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Jennie
Mount Washington
Boston
Heaven
Earth
Theodore Parker
John Chinaman
Chicago Tribune
Maynard
Lovell Diamond
Waltham
Express
T. F. Parker
Main Street
Maynard, Mass
Dr. Stetson
Concord
Hapgood
Stow
Anterprise
Horace Tuttle
W.A. Cunningham
Haynes & Tourtellot
Morcan
Noth Americain
Harrow
Planet Jr
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