Fragmented 19th Century Gossip and Global Oddities
A compilation of curious notes: marriages on Fridays in England dip to five percent. Japan celebrates its 2555th coronation anniversary. Judge Garry in Chicago on the term anarchist. missionaries in Africa struggle with white dress codes. timber delays on a Boston and Maine bridge. vast world industry stats on steam and gas. a rash of assassinations. Canada maritime provinces and Newfoundlanders’ annexation talk. Astor’s luxury book editions. bacteria talk and cash value. various political and legal snippets across nations.
Untold Words and Silent Love in Frost’s Rosy Metaphor
A reflective verse fragment contrasts unspoken feelings with tender love that dies unconfessed. It likens the sweetest rosé to buds killed by frost and argues the truest thoughts remain unspoken, while lost love remains dearest and rare.
Blue Rose-Jar and Two Orphan Girls in Cobble House
A household scene unfolds around Mrs. De Bassett as Celia and Hilda shelter from harsh guardianship with a roving Captain Portsdown earring to take care of Celia and Wilda. Old stories of Madame Boughton and a lost ship crew thread through a tale of class, loyalty, and escape.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Xerifs
Xarifa
Aurora
Linda
Celia
Mrs. de Bassett
Miss de Bassetts
Madame Boughton
Lin- Ma
Mary
Celina
Sil- Ma
Hilda
Lilda
Colin
Storeman
Mr. Wilkinson
de Bassett
Sixtieth Street
India
China
Portsdowne
Neptune
Hildegarde
Wilda
Madame Boughton’s
Captain Portsdowne
Tilda
Great Pole
Woodsbury
Dick Portsdowne
Hero Tam
Chickie
Celi
Tam Celia
Enid
Damons
Calia
van Schoenhoven
Verdinand
Xarifo
Dickena
Mra
George
Slender
Cocoanut Trade Across the Port and Its Processing
The piece outlines coconuts imported to the port by three firms, with 70,000 imported last month and 1,143,000 in the year. It describes husking by a “hucker,” steaming, opening, peeling, washing, milling into desiccated, riding markets, and coproducts like copra oil. Also notes husk utility and European trade, plus a shift in furriers and a separate olive oil and oddities section.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Tat
Europe
San Francisco
First Shave Tradition Traced to Ancient Times
The article notes uncertainty about when Alexander the Great popularized shaving by ordering his soldiers to shave. It suggests smooth faces gave an edge in close combat, shaping early adoption of shaving practices. The Washington Star excerpt highlights the historical spread of shaving customs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Ulen-lhiang
Foo-Chow
Lien-Kiang
Aland
Coasul
Enat
Alexander the Great
Washington Star
Novelists Wife and Other Courtly Notes Across Fashion
A collage of society items: Tolstoi’s wife copies War and Peace six times for printers while the painter Millais’s wife is praised as his mascot in France. Fussy fashion notes follow with warnings on neat dress and a Dublin court scene of Irish ladies and the lord lieutenant. A Bombay law on Kadra marriage expenses and beads that discolor skin closes the item.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tolstoi
Griselda
Iris
Syoman
San_ Fancisco” Chronicle
Millais
John Ruskin
France
Pittsburg Dispatch
Elo
ontLace
Ireland
Dublin
Times of India
Bombay
Ahmedabad
Kaira
Food for stout people and Bismarck autograph door
A physician’s dietary list shows foods to avoid and eat for weight loss including liver oysters sweets and rice pudding while permissible items include meats fish dairy and many vegetables. A later note reports Bismarck’s autograph carved on the door of the Gottingen university prison during his law student days, a doorway souvenir now in a museum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Star
Bismarck
Museum of Antiquities
Gottingen
London World
Household stains and kitchen tips from New York Weekly
Practical remedies for stain removal using egg yolk solution and boiling water, plus methods for rhubarb pies and cheese digestibility. Recipes include crust pie technique, custard serving, and a cheese sauce with bicarbonate of potash. Also cover cold slaw, apple tapioca, curried fish, and a comic pane.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
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England
Japan
New York
Iudge Garry
Chicago
Liellous
Tia—Mero
Africa
Tvs
Raibiee Queer
Portland
Boston
Maine
Mittery-Portsmouth
Spain
Rochester
N. Y
Post
Sve
New York Telegram
Maritime Provinces
Canada
United States
Newfoundand
Une‘o Sum
William Waldorf Astor
Paul
Russia
Alexander
Abdul Assiz
Balta
Peru
Morales
Bolivia
Morena
Ecuador
Gill
Paraguay
Ilo
Willis Steel
Mt. Idaho
Idaho
Jing
Stanley
Lorthén
New York Times
Parke
London
Shirley Browne
India and China Trading Company
Tim
London Spectator
Weard
Cocoanut Trade
Chicago Herald
Kia
Holy Land
Palestine
Mount of Olives
Jerusalem
American Agriculturist
Jason
Nake
Detroit Free Press
Ladies* Hom Journal
Limoges
Cre Fydd
W. Matthia Williams
New York Weekly
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