Varied global notes spark debate on reform and science
A collection of 19th century observations covers election holidays, one man one vote, security flaws in Washington vaults, Britain and Germany debt shifts, time reforms gaining rail interest, French opinions on Stanley, drift of U.S. population, new California wells, Italian return laws, Russian grain storage shortages, philanthropist medical aims, Rockefeller health concerns, Amelia Bloomer’s aging influence, Missouri education spending, Tamagno’s frugal touring, and a curious Mexico return tale.
The Old Story Recalled In Maytime Verse
A nostalgic poem recalls a forgotten old story from a golden May day. The speaker contrasts shared youth with the lover’s distance, noting sunshine and birdsong around others while only shadows fall on her. Poem attributed to F Matherson.
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Cowellp
F. Matherson
Florentine Doctor Attrapeccini Arouses City’s Suspense
In mid fourteenth century Florence a mysterious Dr Attrapeccini announced he would revive five people at dawn on May Day. The magistrate guarded his house as townsfolk debated the doctor's claims and fortunes, with nobles Gavazza and Marquess Paul pressured to back the rite. The Doctor vanished at 6 AM, leaving fifty thousand in attendance and a discovered payment for not performing a miracle.
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Florence
Podettal
Alleapereini
Dr. Attrapeccini
Aleo
Hariest
Ryan
Stramerer
Sy Olwok
Aponte
eAheer
Attiapeccini
Philippine
Tuscany
Kato Attrapeccini
Philippini
Gavazza
Pierre Gavazza
Paul
Dredrimpeccini
Gavasza
Duka
Attra
Peceini
Straneger
Chronicle
Washington
Kaneas City
Landville
Atrect 4
Robert FE. Lee
Rick
Ben
Windsor
Denver
oWell
Wooden Shoes in New York’s French Quarter Craft Shop
A vivid slice of life from the New York Star describes a shabby French quarter sabot maker Ilo, two French apprentices, and a gregarious girl. It details the craft of shaping bellied wooden soles, lacing uppers, and the rough tools used to create sabots. Prices range from two dollars to a dollar and a quarter, with women’s and stage sabots noted.
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Ilo
Varia
Millerspietur
New York
New York Star
Congress of Beauty to be Held in Nome
Nome hosts a beauty congress limited to four natural hair colors and ages sixteen to twenty five with two prizes totaling two thousand dollars for first and one thousand for second. Also notes on epaulette sleeves fashion, alcohol foot baths as a fad, intricate Chinese wedding dress description, and evolving women machinist achievements in Mount Carmel and Baltimore.
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Nome
New York World
New_York Star
North China Herald
Drebs-Reform Association
Mustin
Canbre
Surah
Cnel
Ladies’ Home Journal
Shi
Baltimore Sun
Household hints and recipes from an old newspaper
A lengthy compilation covers kitchen tips such as lime whitewash for cellars and borax hand cleaning, plus several recipes for fruit salads meat pies and curries. It also shares anecdotes on rug making stimulating curiosity about household projects and domestic science.
Whistling well in Great Valley as local weather barometer
In Great Valley New York a farm well known as the whistling well serves as a crude barometer. Dug about forty five feet deep by Col Weston Flint’s father the well showed air currents that shifted with weather. A whistle wore over the opening changing tone with the wind signaling approaching storms. The whistle is worn out but the well still signals weather changes.
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Chesapeake
New York Herald
New York
Great Valley
Cattaraugus County
N. Y
Weston Flint
Lpiuebu Commercial Gazette
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Ohio
Charles Russell
England
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Comte de Bizemont
The
French Geographical Society
Explorer Stanley
United States
New California
Ozaki
Europe
West
Japan
New Orleans Picayune
Irchigan
Chicagro Herald
Trance
Sweden
Italy
Bulgaria
Mexico
Waldoboro
Russia
William L. Scott
Pennsylvania
Magnet
John S. Rockfeller
San Francisco
Missouri
On¢O
Picayune
Tamagno
America
Florentine
J. G. Fraser
Indiana
India
Colombia
Popular Science Monthly
Louisiana
France
Hainois
Northwest Territory
Bas Canada
East
British West Indies
French Republic
Cannes
South America
Cuba
Teer
Providence
Caleb Cuahing
Newbury- Fport
Pray
Mbiss Peu
L. of
Couvee
Jeves
Fashion Notes
Manveelle
Isis
New York Tribune
Dorpat
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences
Yucatan
Starr
London
Paris
Spezzia
Crook
H. B. Freeman
Seventh United States Infantry
Powder Liver
Terry
Tiress
Afzame
Crobb
Mme
Omaha
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