Insanity in France and varied late 19th century notes
A mosaic of items from reformist protests in France to London's poverty, New York and Philadelphia debts, Chicago mail volumes, and commentary on Beaconsfield and Lord John Russell. The piece cites a hotel bill ruling, coffee prices, Cuban and Russian wine notes, and a Mojave desert squaw skirmish with warnings about presumed noncombatant roles. It also mentions honey longevity lore and a dead-man school certificate case in Oshkosh, with Dr. Searles pursuing justice for his son.
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Seatles
Oshkosh
Wis
State Board of Normal Regents
Oshkaga
Albee
Searles
Dr. Searles
President Albee
Cruelius
Mountain Pines Poem Describes Silent Winter Summit
A fragmentary verse by Frank D. Sherman portrays Mountain Pines as a holy high altar where summer services are silent and winter music rises as a solemn dirge. The poem likens the pine forest to a cathedral and a heavenly harp.
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Frank D.sherman
Boston
My Little Apache-Chum
A deserterfoot narrator recalls befriending a young Apache named Tada at a desert railroad station. Their bond grows with shared games and language lessons until Tada is taken back by his mother. Years later the narrator encounters three captured Indians en route to fort, recognizing the same boy among them.
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Tada
Christentus
Tads
Aly
Vads
Tenderfoot
Desort
Tade
Couraa
Mim
Mustang Wash
Falks
the Argonaut
Bakers In London Purse Grim Working Conditions
A New York Recorder excerpt notes about fourteen thousand London bakers with five thousand foreigners mainly Germans. Foremen earn 85 to 88 per week. second hands 6 to 25. third hands 2 to 3 a week. Labor ranges 12 to 15 hours daily, 20 to 23 on Saturdays. Many bakeries are underground, vermin infested, poorly ventilated, causing skin diseases. workers stay shirtless from the waist up with no washing facilities beyond kneading troughs.
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London
New York Recorder
Precious Palms and Their Many Uses Across the World
A Washington Star report highlights the Palmyra palm and other palm varieties as versatile gifts of nature. It notes uses from paper and sugar to wax, oil, medicine, clothing, and ceremonial items across regions including India, New Grenada, Brazil, Egypt, Sri Lanka, and the Amazon basin. It mentions palm products like wax from the wax palm, candles from Copaifera, and coconuts providing fiber, food, and oil, alongside a brief note on King Thantat of Annam as a precocious ruler.
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Saunders
Department of Agriculture
Washington Star
India
New Grenada
Brazil
Ceylon
Egypt
Thebes
South America
Amazon
Rio Negro
Orinoco
South Pacific
Indian
Wisdom Fragments From A Distant Page
A fragmented excerpt offers aphorisms on pride generosity culture and love. It praises soft responses over conflict and notes the rich who give are rare while a child can lift a family. It ends with a stray line about Ram's Hora from Indianapolis.
Milk and diet guidance from old culinary advice
A dated excerpt discusses milk as a food essential for most, advising gentle use, not skim milk, and keeping it within a warm range. It mentions a summer drink of buttermilk and includes a Bosporus of unrelated notes on a python incident in Borneo, a shooting lady, and a sun powered clock in a mix of brief items.
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Loma Companion
Do Some Plants See And Move Toward Light
A note from the Chicago News reports Lady Boughey and Miss Thornewill noting a claim that plants can see. She cites an experiment in Japan where tendrils turned toward a tree and later toward a stick, suggesting plant movement toward light or objects.
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Lady Boughey
Misa Thornewill
Mudh
England
Richelien
Darwin
Japan
Chicago
Three years for theft of a gentleman's watch
In a Chicago Tribune account a prisoner admits stealing a gentleman's wristwatch. The judge sentences the offender to three years and calls the next case in the court.
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Chicago Tribune
Conserved fruit and home remedies in a 19th century guide
A long excerpt offers recipes and household tips including conserving fruit by sugaring ripe peaches, making rose bandoline for hair, washing lace with borax solutions, and various desserts and dishes. It states methods for icing, frying tomatoes, rice pudding, wrapped cream, curried eyes, and notes on silk fiber, weathered curiosities, and miscellaneous scientific curiosities.
New York Venietv Tramp Sketch
A fragment from a New York Venietv item depicts two tramps observing a paper notice about new odd jobs for the idle. They lament lack of comfort and prospects in a dreary urban scene.
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Mike
York Venietv
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France
The
Christian Union
New York City
Philadelphia
Court of Appeals
Ilinois
Grotwere
Viosa
New York
Walpole
Lord John Russell
Lord Beaconsfield
Lord John
Dundee
W. T. Hornaday
Smithsonian Institute
Canada
Zoological Gardens
Washington
San Francisco Chronicle
Russia
Crimea
Siberia
George Kennan
Kentucky
New York Telegraph
Blue Grass
Mojave Desert
California
Farm News
Icarab
Christ
Little
Thantat
Annam
Tse
Hint
Goodnes
Ram
Muka
Saya
Borneo
Judan
Bisley
Miss Leale
National Ride Association
Leale
Enp
Mina Leale
Eat
Miss Lealo
Lento
New York Mail
Express
P New York Recordgy
Chicago Post
Indy
Paris
Orleans Time Democrat
Kate Field
New York Reporter
Aanan
Chicago Herald
Western Union Company
Alimont Ag
fChicaso News
Bridget
Pat Nela
Yoko Nod
Windsor
Atiff
New York World
Detroit Free Press
New York, Tribune
ASUK
Dandolo
Dry Goods Chronicle
Colomb
Jupiter
Solar System
Earth
United States
Great Britain
Germany
Dolcoat
Cornwall
Gratio Kelleis
Graotio Kellein
Salvator
George
Andre
Marie
Marlo
Harper’n Magazine
China
Chicago News
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