Illusions of Progress and March of Change Across the Atlantic
A compendium of 19th century notices: Britain’s gender balance shifts, Britain and Canada trade, literacy gains under Victoria, a name change bid, thin sheet iron, Philadelphia vs New York World’s Fair imports, New York University buildings replaced, origin of English names, railroads in distress, vivisection debates, live-animal entertainment, game bird management on Long Island, fox population surge, and calls for lawful protection balancing hunting.
Various Global Notes and Local Views From 1893 Era
The piece compiles snippets on revaccination intervals, vast coal oil usage, Native soldiers, a possible East Tennessee to Mississippi canal, and Texas population claims. It notes Florida and Kentucky horse concerns, electric lighting hopes, quackery exposure by health boards, and a Missouri impostor tale. Argentine immigration in 1893 shows higher arrivals than departures, with reports of prosperity and a pending census plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bureau of American Republics
Argentine Republic
Republic
Journal of the Republic
Argentina
Egg Shell Brings Record Price At Auction
A London sale fetched 31600 for an egg shell from a great auk, an extinct bird. Only sixty eight such shells are known, purchased by Sir W. Crane Mark, the highest price yet paid for an auk egg in auctions.
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London
Sir W. 1
Crane
Mark
Sommer
New York
Horald
Song of the Early Spring in Scribner Verse
Duncan C. Boolt contributes a lyrical fragment to Scribner style prose, describing spring imagery across dells pools and fields. The piece mentions willows amber pools golden bells and the robin, blending nature with an intimate lyric narrator seeking a blooming garden and distant stars.
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Spangled Dells
Duncan C. Boolt
Quaker Hillsboro tale of love and secrecy at odds
In a Quaker Hillsboro community a flirtatious summer romance between Ella Stratton and Jack Cox blindsides Brother Cox. He pursues reform and a home makeover to win her, then discovers Jack aided by Ella to woo him. The uncle consents to a union, reshaping family ties and village norms.
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Hillaboro
Brother Cox
Cox
Hillsboro
Ella Strattan
Jack Cox
Mrs. Stratton
Ella
Jack
Strattons
Red House
Ella Stratton
Sersbly
P Ortless
Suo Oyex
Stratton
Himeself
Wickengss
Ells
Cor
Shep
Mr. Cox
Coxes
Theo
Autumn
Jock
Erin
New York World
Young man rises to collector then partner in debt firm
A Detroit Free Press interview recalls a youth’s stint as a collector under a strict boss. He chased a stubborn debtor, waited six weeks, then collected with interest, earning praise and a doubled salary. The boss even made him a partner after six months.
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Detroit Free Press
Tover
Bac
Influence of Clothing Fit on Comfort and Heat Transfer
A Cas Sell s Magazine physician summarizes how clothing protects the body by regulating heat. Woolen materials maintain stable body temperature. looser fits trap air, reducing heat loss in cold and overheating in heat. Tight clothing can exhaust energy and hinder work by speeding heat dissipation.
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Carlyle
Cassell
Explosive Well in Dublin Indiana Booms When Torch Applied
An explosive well at Avwell in Dublin Indiana has been acting queerly. The well is about twenty feet deep with eight feet of water. Recently it began to bubble and boil. A lighted torch caused a loud explosion. A second torch produced the same result and several more torches caused bursts, blowing off surrounding material while the force continued with no loss of strength.
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Avwell
Dublin
Ind
Chicago Herald
Beason
Taking A Mean Advantage From The Nations Game
A collage of humorous sketches and witticisms from various sources. Jokes about marriage, social scenes, and language mix with quips on hair, nerves, and clever wordplay. Contains light satire on manners and society in quick snippets.
Giant Argentine Wheat Farm Tops Wide Lands Hardily
Bonanza farming spreads beyond the United States as Argentine grower Guazoni fields 720 acres of wheat under cultivation. The piece traces Argentina's growing wheat industry from 1850 to 1893, noting rapid expansion and the role of bonanza farming under autocratic influence, contrasting it with American farming ideals and large North Dakota ventures.
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Uncle Sam
Argentine Republic
Guazoni
Argentina
Fargo
North Dakota
Safe sale reveals hidden gold in old Bilas Camp chest
Allentown Pennsylvania, a month after the death of Bilas Camp a rich bachelor, his executors opened an old store safe sold at auction for 3.50. A boy found a private drawer inside containing about 609 in gold. Plumbers who bought the safe claim the gold, and threaten legal action to recover it.
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Bilas Camp
Allentown
Penn
Camp
New Orleans Picayune
Count Caprivi’s Routine Described by Chicago Record
The Chicago Record details Count Caprivi’s sparse staff a single bodyguard and a doubtful cook. He rises at six for tea and papers, rides, returns at ten to handle correspondence and interviews, lunch at twelve sixteen, and spends the afternoon on state duties before dinner at six. He does not work in the evening and pursues gardening as a hobby, admiring his cabbage and dabbling.
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Caprivi
St.six
Chicago
Paris Naoique House Unstairs Paradox Explored
A five story house without stairs is being built in Paris for a private gentleman. The Rue Muller site climbs a steep grade. as ground rises, floor levels rise creating five gradations like five stories. Visitors step from street onto the fifth floor, and onto each level, per London News.
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Paris
Muller
Lamarck
London News
Cultivating Peanuts in India
The piece notes peanuts or groundnuts are widely grown in India with the Madras presidency alone claiming 100,000 to 280,000 acres. Harvest relies on crude methods as up to eighty women per acre gather nuts by hand. Yields average fifty bushels per acre on irrigated soil, about double elsewhere.
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India
Presidency of Madras
Care of Blankets and Egg Omelet Recipes
Utility tips urge airing blankets instead of washing, favoring yearly cleaning after sunning to curb germs. Hospital examples emphasize minimal wear differences. misused airing is discouraged. Then a sequence of old time kitchen egg omelet recipes covers various fillings and methods for omelets and egg dishes.
Chinese Horror in Pokia Hidden in City Waste
The New York Post reports a grim sight in Pokia where no burial provision exists for infants and weak children. Wheelbarrows gather body scraps from streets, later dumped in fields where dogs and jackals feed. Christian missionaries, led by Mr. Michio, work to rescue and care for hundreds of waifs daily.
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Pokia
Michio
New York
What’s the use in crying when fortunes don’t please
A fragment from the Atlantas Constitution poem collage contrasts weather and life’s woes with shrugging optimism. It mocks melodramatic reactions to hardship and urges laughter amid misfortune as the world treats people unevenly. The piece emphasizes resilience over sentimentality.
Quotations and quips from many era’s humor pages
A collage of jokes and witticisms from various papers includes lines about life’s shows, poetry, fashion, courtship, and domestic life. It features pithy exchanges, puns, and humorous observations attributed to Atchison Globe, Texas Siftings, Philadelphia Record, Brooklyn Life, and others, linked by yearnful or bemused perspectives.
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Texas Siftings
Atchison Globe
Also Mentioned on This Page
Great Britain
The
North American Review
England
Europe
Dominion of Canada
United States
Queen Victoria
Wayback
Michigan
Pittsburg
Philadelphia Inquirer
Philadelphia
Tacoma
el Paso
Laredo
Washington Square
New York City
Washington Memorial Arch
Simpson Memorial Church
Dickens
Bt. Louis Globe-Democrat
New York Life
Long Island
Boston
New York Herald
San Francisco Examiner
East Tennessee
Mississippi
Chicago Sun
Texas
Florida
Inko
Ita
Okachobee
Trigg County
Kentucky
Woods
San Francisco
Claude Duval
State Board of Health
State Medical Society of
Missouri
Maryland
Buffalo
Mts
Bilton
Smothers
Skilton
Chicago Record
Taro
Prospect Heights
Misa Feadick
Maude
Brooklyn
Nodd
Todd
Flora
Missionary Society
Fido
Frank
Diggles
Mamie
Washington Star
Bamford
Miss Artless
Chumford
Raymond
Monthly
Hopley
Hepley
Farmer Corntessel
Cslino
Courier de l'Europe
Critish
New Jersey
Hudson River
Rocky Mountains
Gulf of Mexico
Ila
WIP
Roseleaf
Tommy
Johnny
Tims
Puck
Oalen
Bjones
Philadelphia Record
van Worbler
Stabbsa
Stabbos
Washington News
Doce
Chicago Tribune
McCorkle
Hostens
Cupid
Mr. d’Aulan
Vogue
Tyez
Ivery Wan
Elmira Gazette
Hardap
Lucy
Molly
Cleveland Plain Dealer
McClanters
Sixt
Emplo Oy
Witta
Watts
Witts
Biggs
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Mra
Jason
Indianapolis Journal
Mra. Jibson
Jibson
Angus
la Tribana
Fuaddy
Boston Transcript
Mr. Biling
Maria
Miss Quickatop
Hugo
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