Epidemics and social upheaval across distant regions
Reports describe a terrible intestinal epidemic in Persia and Khorassan with thousands dead, a boycott of an Australian executioner in New South Wales, and tensions with Indians as settlements expand. Other items note a Baltimore free library’s impact, a new religious sect in Kansas City, controversial state aid for authors in France, and Bismarck’s protectionist shifts affecting American meat contracts.
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France
Kansan City
Stc
Bilas Wilcox
Storm and Calm
Poem contrasts a stormy sea with a calm lighthouse and morning light. It depicts the sea’s roar and breakers fading to tranquil seas and a peaceful scene of dawn. The piece appears from Harper's Weekly and notes Munkittrick.
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Isles of Palm
Munkittrtch
Harper's Weekly
Damarel Love Tangle Ends in Tragic Night
Vera Claramont follows her heart despite Esther Claremont’s forbidding at a lake skating gathering. Esther reveals Conrad Damarel’s lifelong love for her, faces remorse, and dies as Vera and Lee Damarel’s union leads to a hopeful marriage while Aunt Esther’s death closes the chapter.
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Esther
Nhree
Ether Claremont
Vera Claramont
Esther Claremont
Damarel
Bho
Vern
Lee Damarel
Vera
Conrad Damarell
Conrad Damarel
Leo
Aunt Esther
Huch
Eava
Gonrad
Goss
Lee
Aunt Rather
Two Indies discuss servants in a curious chat
A pair of travelers in a carriage trade jests about their household help, Mary the housekeeper, and a dramatic scene of confrontation and gossip among intimate friends amid a drift of unrelated anecdotes on explorers, Africa, crime, and science.
Ava Consumption and Its Skin Affection in Sandwich Islands
The article notes immoderate use of ava in the Sandwich Islands causing skin disease with redness and a scaly surface. The condition forms ulcers as scales detach, though lesions are not permanent and fade when the habit ends. Natives once regarded ava as a remedy for leprosy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sandwich Islands
Ava
Australia
da Nature
Walla
Worms
Natu.ely
Atselt
Jay Gould's Neck and the Wrestler's View
An Epoch writer describes Mr. Muldoon as a handsome champion who notes that Jay Gould has a stringy neck with a hollow throat. The piece laments Gould's stomach troubles and portrays his physical condition in sharp, critical terms.
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Jay Gould
Mr. Muldoon
Epoch
Fashion Notes and Egypt Themed Fads Across Boston
The piece catalogs lace, collars, and linen bans in fashion, notes Egyptian inspired gowns in Boston, new bodice and embroidery trends, and a playful tale of royal ladies in Naples. It also describes hair parting changes, beauty routines, and a curious account of an Australasian earthworm with unique traits.
Household Recipes and Home Care Tips from Prairie Farmer
A collection of kitchen recipes and homemaking advice including bean soup, rolled beefsteak, bread pudding, chicken salad and household hints. Tips cover removing stains, cleaning metals, maintaining textiles, and using pantry scraps to minimize waste.
Odd Scientific Snips From The Era Of New Inventions
A digest of eclectic notes includes California’s 1200 sample studies for land classification, silo adoption by farmers to store fodder, a nickel photo slot machine by a Minneapolis inventor, a petrified viscera table from a Florence hospital, the Great Sunken Lake in Oregon, and Gatschett’s Klamath language grammar. Additional items discuss future Pacific coast oaks, metal railroad ties in Europe, soluble pigment in South American porcupine spines, eye color changes in newborns, and a strange Maine dog powered conveyance piloted by F H McGee bringing women to Togus in thirty minutes with dogs pulling a buckboard.
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Minneapolis
Hospital of St. .Spirito
Florence
Italy
Fiorentina
Cascade Mountains
Oregon
Europe
F. H. BicGee
Augusta
Dead River
Maine
Togus
Gardiner
McGee
Shaw
Wanted to Join the Family
A G A R member recalls a wartime hospital visit where a dying soldier, pale and unresponsive, is surprised by a visiting young Southern girl who offers care and asks the wounded man what he needs while he clings to a memory of kinship and faith.
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Baeernwissen
Lynn
Owen Dame
Mitchell
Miss Mitchell
Chatham
Boston
Boston Gazette
Persian Flower Worship in Bombay
A traveler describes Persian flower worship in Bombay where a true Persian adorns blue robe and a black cap. He visits each flower nightly, prays, then returns with friends to serenade, sip sherbet, and tell scandalous tales before it fades away.
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India
Bombay
Wade
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Noor -In
Accede. Ie
Perain
Khorassan
New South Wales
Wagga
New York News
Free Public Library
Baltimore
Enoch Pratt
Pacific
China
Yellow River
Russia
Gsimon
Bismarck
Germany
Chicago Herald
Quebec
Gideon Ouimet
Damaicl
Mary
Wissmann
Calomba
Baluba
Congo Basin
Lulua
Kassal
Luluaburg
Free State
Calem
Catemba
Calemba
Calembo
Batuba
Upper
Congo
Sankula
Bateman
Bran ‘Ool
Mr. Bateman
Equator
Grenfell
Jared
Miliitia
Starley Falls
Annals of the United Siniot
Wisconsin
Hinger
Ark Thunder
Wayfarer
New York Sun
Lacey
Avery
Hodicks
Paris
Ter Own Patand
Maris Mitchell
New York World
Frederick
Naples
Indy
Qucen Victoria
Empress
Prairis
Miss Staynard
California Agricultural Station
California
Tony
Sonia
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