Prices That Ruled In Paris During the Siege of 1870
A diary excerpt from a French officer details food prices and shortages in Paris during the siege. It notes the sale of zoo animals for meat, high prices for horseflesh and other victuals, strict rationing, and long lines at butcher and bakery shops as families endured hunger and cold.
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Paris
Zoological Garden
M. Debos
Avy
Friendland
France
National Guard
Generous Mrs Crewe and the Fox Gambling Tale
A tale recalls Charley James Fox, admirer of Mrs Crewe, who learns a debtor paid his gambling debt to Fox months earlier. A gentleman lost a sum to Mrs Crewe, left town, and entrusted Fox to collect. Fox says he paid the debt to the alleged debtor. Mrs Crewe smiles at the quip and moves on.
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Crewe
Charley James Fox
Gaganini Narrowly Escapes After Stage Eruption
Violinist Gaganini faced violent surroundings in Ferrara after perceived hisses from the pit. He vowed to mimic animals as revenge and performed animal sounds culminating in an ass bray. Audience surged toward the stage, and he retreated to avoid harm.
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Gaganini
Ferrara
Fixing His Status at the Lobster Palace
A waiter spiced soup on a portly old gentile man and his wife in an uptown lobster palace. The man, angered and calling the manager, declared the waiter “no gentleman,” while the manager noted the waiter is merely a waiter.
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New York Press
Spouse Bond Question Noted in Old Parish Rite
In a clipped wedding rite Temmy Spoke and Tommy speak of marriage as a minister asks for any objections. A quip about age differences follows with humor over an aunt’s age being twenty five versus forty.
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Temmy
Tommy
Economy as a path to wealth warned by Chicago News
The Chicago News notes that while economy may guide people toward wealth, nine-tenths of those forced to pursue it fail to reach their goal, reflecting cautious economic attitudes of the era.
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Chicago News
Clerks Blunder Shaped Revolutionary War Turn
A British clerk’s careless copy of a dispatch altered plans for Burgoyne and St Neger to strike at Albany from Canada. The delay and misdate led Howe to act in Philadelphia, culminating in Burgoyne’s surrender at Saratoga and a turning point in the American Revolution.
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Great Britain
Burgoyne
Campiaign
London
Mohawk
Tucison
Lake Champlain
Oswego
New York
Albany
William Towe
New England
St. Neger
Canada
William Howe
George Germaine
George
Avas
America
Howe
Washington
Philadelphia
Saratoga
Chicago Record- Herald
Soap Bubbles as a Delicate Art Form
An article from Windsor Magazine by Meredith Nugent explains careful technique for blowing large bubbles. A six inch diameter bubble can suspend from a pipe, allowing a finger to pass through without bursting, and up to ten or twelve bubbles may be nested with proper wetting and patience.
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Windsor Magazine
Meredith Nugent
Tears in Heaven and a Man’s Farewell
A 19th century dialogue shows a bishop Rowley TU and a clergyman as they bid farewell amid talk of heaven and possible reunion. The piece then notes Australian bushmen’ s remarkable homing instinct, claiming they can navigate home even when blindfolded for miles.
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Rowley TU
Isle of Man
Perrson
Plains of Paradise
London
Australia
The Fool and His Money Tale In Emporia Gazette
The Emporia Gazette notes a humorous moral about fools and money with the boastful cheery fool and a wiser neighbor. The piece contrasts wealth and miserliness, wishing the stingy figure would fall from grace.
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Emporia Gazette
Ants Speak Louder Than Words in Frankite Saying
A fragment cites a quotation about ants as a proverb of action, noting the saying about the ant preferring deeds over talk. The line attributes the quote to Frankite with minimal context, reflecting a terse folk wisdom tone.
Sign of a Beaten Man in New York Distance Race
An old champion observes a three mile scratch race at the New York Athletic Club. He notes both leaders ran with long distance form, but the winner pulled away only after the loser looked back to check the opponent, securing second place while the winner captured first.
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New York Athletic Club
ePhatian
New York Sun
Fashion Notes on Hosiery Hats and Frocks for the Season
A fashion column describes daytime and evening wear including stockings in matched hues to gowns and slippers, rose foliage in the season’s greens, corsages and embroidered lace blouses. It notes ostrich plumes returning after decay, campire and Greek inspired trim, and the return of simple classical styles in Hogharth Romney Gainesborough era dresses.
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Seehof
Hogarth
Romney
Gainesborough
Ape Pears
Texas' Great Bat Cave Sways Texas Wonders
The Texas Great Bat Cave near Unión, Texas, astonishes with a vast cave housing millions of bats and a stream inside. Dr. Phillips explored depths to study bat life while two youths clung to a cliff ledge during a dangerous bat-filled flight.
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Unynide
Cosas
Texas
Tir Willinay
Bo Phillips
Texas State Mineral Survey
Phillips
Br. Phillips
Sally
PR P
Conrad
Para Keleh
Frio
New-York
Heralad
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Harding & Misenheimer
Feldman’s Barbershop
Newton Bros
Sixth Street
Main
Main Street Livery
Ofange Grove
Letous
William G. Randall
Insurance and Loans
J. E. Russell
Corona
Sumatra
Cheerios
Retsen
Trias
Insecta
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