Polly Rutherford and the Polly-wolly-winkum bakery rise
Polly Rutherford grows a biscuit business after her grandfather’s failure. She rents a downtrodden home, launches Polly-wolly-winkum biscuits to hotels and eateries, teaches cooking to wealthy daughters, and funds a modest expansion while facing a pending court case over claimed pay owed by suitors.
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Polly
Licht
Rutherfords
Mr. Rutherford
Virginia
Polly-wolly-winkum
Paul McIlwaine
Pollywinkum
Postal Thieves and Buffalo Bill's Early Life Portraits
A Sun report details postoffice thefts in the New York office focusing on the registered letter division and a dishonest receiving department. It explains decoy letters, detection methods, and a clerk who evaded capture for 35 decoys before being exposed. Buffalo Bill Cody’s youth is recounted by Harry Beaconsfield, noting his rough start, a failed schoolteacher romance, and eventual transformation into a famed scout.
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New York
Sun
Ihie
Buffalo Bill
Harry Beaconsfield
Leavenworth
Kan
William Cody
San Francisco Examiner
West
Cody
Ma‘ams
Illinois
Ohio
William
Bill
Mane
Hieed Fa Ee Avary
The Miser’s Dated Dinner Plan Confusion
A rich man known for stinginess asks a friend to dine next Tuesday. The friend agrees readily, prompting the miser to note that the Durands dine on Tuesdays. The Durands have changed their day.
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Durands
Education of a Mexican Gentleman in the 19th Century
The article traces a wealthy Mexican boy's early upbringing from riding burros and learning letters to mastering guitar and fencing. By 13 he wears silver regalia, studies under parish tutors, and maybe attends Chapultepec or Mines, before returning home at 16 to 18 to begin serious work in business, law, medicine, or estate management.
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Sia Farve
Toons
Military Academy
Chapultepec
School of Mines
Mexico
Europe
United States
Sunshine
A Lovely Complexion Among Social Chats
A brief social snippet records Mr Waldo complimenting Miss Breezy on a soft complexion and noting a perceived asymmetry with Miss Wabash, while Miss Breezy agrees the complexion seems lighter on one side. The exchange captures light, witty social banter in New York gossip.
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Mr. Waldo
Breezy
Miss Wabash
A Very High Church Above Salux in Graubunden
The pilgrimage chapel of St. Maria above Salux in Graubünden sits 2484 meters up, open only in summer from St John to St Michael’s Day. Alpine herdsmen, hunters, and a few foreign tourists attend the first mass and sermon each year, with Michaelmas the final service.
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Bundner Tagblatt
St. Maria Ae Zieit
Salux
Canton
Graubunden
Graubunden Oberland
Tyrol
Europe
Moustain
Instinct Guides Their Steps In To Bed After Banquet
A Philadelphia Call report recalls a wealthy patient who drank at a lively banquet and woke with a severe head wound. He cannot recall the events after leaving the event but managed to reach his home, enter, and lie in bed, a mystery the physician calls one of the strangest phenomena.
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Philadelphia
Quicksand Swallowed the Train in Kansas Horror Tale
A railroad veteran recalls a Kansas incident near Fort Wallace where a freight train including the engine vanished into dry creek bed after an accident. He compares it to the Tay Bridge disaster, noting the Kansas event swallowed the entire train with no tide to drown it.
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Chatsworth
Kansas
K. P
Fort Wallace
Tay Bridge
Scotland
Chicago Tribune
Unmarried Ladies in Holland and Fashion Notes
A column discusses Dutch courtship customs with unmarried women escorted by male relatives and weddings. It surveys fashion trends including tortoise shell combs, felt hats, jet garnitures, and Parisian influences in autumn attire, noting materials like bicilhand and peau de soie and a new Neapolitan jewelry brooch.
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Bicilhand
Peau de Soie
Sarah
Women of Syria in Domestic Life and Labor
A historical profile contrasts Syrian housewives with Arabian grand women, detailing daily tasks. It describes fetching water, grinding grain, baking bread in earth ovens, caring for large families, and arduous house repairs, while husbands smoke and converse on rooftops. It notes strict social norms including veiling and limited public speech.
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Arabia
Scciety
Bible Land
The Mosque of Omar and Mount Moriah in Historic Detail
The writer visits the beautiful Mosque of Omar and the adjacent Mount Moriah site. He describes turquoise domes walls of pearls and gardens surround white pavements and cypress trees. Inside the mosque he notes marble pillars tortoise shell and mother of pearl decorations and the sacred rock associated with Abraham and the Son of God. He recounts passages leading to ancient temple galleries and the Crusader era stables revealing the valley’s submerged levels.
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Omar
Mosque of
Solomon
Golden Gate
Mount Moriah
Santa Maria Maggiora
Rome
Abraham
Kedron
el Aksar
Golden-Gate
Japanese Buy 400 Acres for Mokelumne River Irrigation Farm
A party of Japanese reportedly purchased 400 acres in the foothills near Campo Seco, Calaveras County, Cal. They plan to irrigate via a mining ditch from the Mokelumne River and convert the land into a tea farm. Authorities say they have tested ten sites nearby and found success.
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Campo Seco
Calaveras County
Cal
Car Chasers and the Railroads Car Tracking System
The New York Sun explains traveling car agents track every railroad car across the nation. They record ownership and numbers at junctions, notify rival roads of movements, and arrange mileage payments for loaded or empty returns. The system aims for uniform, durable rolling stock across major lines.
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New York Sun
Central Railroad
New Jersey
Pennsylvania Railroad
Union
Los Angeles
Bangor
Madsidie
Oxere
Key West Then and Now Shape of the Island and Town
The Key West is a flat six square mile island with a highest point of about fourteen feet. The city covers the western end and before the 1886 fire was densely settled with few brick buildings. Roads are coral rock and soil is scarce, gardens require picking, coconut trees predominate, and a mix of ornamental trees and shrubs dot the landscape.
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Key West
Key
India
Heredity in Handwriting Theory and Inquiry
A discussion on whether handwriting traits are inherited argues that children’s signatures often resemble those of their parents without deliberate copying. While some similarities are striking, studies show similarities may arise without intent, suggesting heredity as a potential research field.
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Atudertt
Sheredity
Pionsor Press
Scientific Scraps Conveys Wonders and Oddities
A collage of notes on Congo missionaries banana beverage malaria prevention, electricity speed, inks fading in light, deep space distance to Alcyone, Gruber’s anatomy career, Edison’s fuel electricity, Berlin diseases from Morse work, skin sensation timings, and a Dutch City in America describing a Manhattan style port scene with Nieuw Amsterdam echoes from the American Magazine.
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Wenzel Gruber
St. Petersburg
Royal
Deaf‘ Mute Tastitu
Edison
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Berlin
Ines T¢is
Goldscheider
Army Atte
America
Peter Stuyvesant
Nieuw Amsterdam
Manhattan
Island
Southeward
Curacao
West Indies
Rotterdam
The
the-Zuyder- Zee
Herbor - In -A-Square-Pont
Willembraat
Nieuw
Amsterdam
American Magazine
Balcony romance with roses echoes and a shared quip
A romantic scene unfolds as a man in a balcony pours passion to Priscilla about roses and perfume. He admits arousing emotion, while Priscilla bluntly quips she has noticed the same thing about Oniais, grounding the moment with a practical remark.
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Earth
Priscilla
Pegasus
Oniais
Windmill powers flour mill in Great Yarmouth
An Ex-Astenco wind motor, among the largest, powers flour milling in Great Yarmouth. It features four sails 40 feet 9 inches by 19 feet, extending 100 feet. at 25 mph wind it yields 50 horsepower and can crush 120 barrels of flour in 34 hours. The mill structure rises 11 stories, 99 feet above foundation with 95 feet base diameter narrowing to 16 feet at the top.
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Minnesota
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Salvation Army
London’ Musical Standard
England
Ford Deptor
Canada
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Heath
Fifth Cavalry
Price
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Australia) Herald
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Connecticut
Society For Savings In
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Norwich Savings Bank
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Middletown
Norwalk Savings Bank
Post Office Department
Elizabeth P. Allan
Rutherford
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Mr. McIlwaine
Mr. MeIlwaine
Paul McIwaine
Mei
Grandpa
Mellwaine Doces
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Charles ©. Abbott
Holland
Chicago Times
Orater Street
Central America
West India Islands
Broider
Thara Bean
Syria
Fashion Notes
China
California
Congo Region
Alcyone
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