Bold young architect rises from farm to fame
A country boy Phil Thorn overcomes severe poverty and a heavy mortgage. A bridge collapse sparks a chance meeting with Albany architect Mr Orley. Phil receives a thousand dollar check and a path to an Albany office, leaving college plans behind to become a renowned engineer.
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Phil
Philip
Mr. Lisle
Mr. Orley
Albany
Orley
Pomgato College
Becs.c
Yaukoo Blade
Beggars Guild Flourishes In Cavalls Rich Brotherhood
A Cornhill Magazine extract describes Cavalls rich beggars guild with its Inna president and council. Beggars receive diplomas to beg with no alms at religious doors, Friday is beggars day, property is communally held, and annual feast on St John the Charitable. The president Demetrius is a vivid figure parading the streets with a famed wail.
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Beggars’ Guild
Balonica
Demetrius
Sims
Cornhbill Magazine
Why Bandannas Wash Poorly
The New York Sun explains that old fashioned yellow India silk bandannas fade colors due to their dyeing method. Silk squares are stacked high, pressed with a domino pattern plate, which squeezes dye away from the pattern, leaving color loss after washing.
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New York Sun
Rainy Day Promises Across The Country
A fragment from a Detroit Free Press item shows a child asking to visit relatives and a mother fearing rain. Dialogue reveals anticipation of a trip disrupted by threatening weather and an uncertain plan for the day.
Art of Making Oleomargarine Revealed in Detail
A New York Dispatch summary describes the oleomargarine production process step by step. It covers fat selection, washing, rendering, heating, crystallizing, aging, and pressing to separate butter oil from stearine, with storage and shipment notes and the origin of the term oleomargarine.
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The
New York Dispatch
Europe
Remarkable Lathe Artist At Buffalo Solves Puzzles In Wood
George Solomon, a turning lathe artist from Buffalo, N Y, created intricate wood and ivory figures and puzzles from a young age. He built fortune by thirty five then turned to art for pleasure, often turning four pigs at once with one stroke. He refuses to sell, plans to donate works to a museum.
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Buffalo
N. Yi
George Solomon
Strangled by the Dust at Georgia Chemical Works
Peter McArdle, a white employee at Georgia Chemical Works in Atlanta, died after falling into a dust-bin and suffocating before rescue. The department is described as filled with dust, with workers covering mouths and noses with bandages to avoid inhalation. McArdle lost his balance and plunged into the bin, resulting in fatal asphyxiation.
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Peter McArdle
Georgia Chemical Works
Atlanta
McArdle
Scientific Scraps and Inventions Across Fields
The article surveys various scientific notes from chemistry to biology. It mentions artificially reproducing mica group minerals, a tootomotor to imitate telegraph sounds, remedies for stings, new bases for physiology, improvements in child health statistics, and reduced illuminating power of naphtha gas. It also covers explosive gas mixtures, incandescent lighting efficiency, vegetarian nutrition, long endurance in endurance races, boiled versus steamed potatoes, extreme flight heights, cholera indicators, Pasteur on bisulphite of carbon as antiseptic and wood preservative, and widespread use of carbon disulfide purification.
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Wagner
Pasteur
Silent Ball Players at Kendall Green
A vivid portrait of Deaf and Dumb Institution players at Kendall Green Washington engaging in baseball with silent signals and gestures. The piece highlights their energy, skill, and disciplined communication led by Hoy of the Washington club, admired despite his deaf mute status.
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New York
Kendall Green
Washington
Deucel
Hoy
Waddhington Club
The Shaving Tool The Modern Tonsorial Implement
An exploration of ancient and modern razors detailing Biblical and Homeric references, global materials from obsidian to steel, and the U S blade manufacturing process. It notes twenty operations in production, edge formation, sharpening tests, and the effect of edge fatigue and rest on razor performance.
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Ezzkiel
Basbor
Homer
Cortez
Japan
United States
Sheffield
England
Navy
Barbara Oten
Brooklyn
The Vanderbilt Fortune Doubled After 65
A veteran investor named Vanderbit explains his fortune grew after age 65 with key buys. He increased from 15 million to 30 million after Harlem road, then to 60 million via Hudson River line, and finally to 129 million with Lake Shore. He notes heirs spend more than income.
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Vanderbit
Bara‘fogs
Harlem Road
Hudson River
Central
Lake Shore
Michigan
Harlem
Vanderbilt Fortuns
Magic Stone of Dr Dee Sold for 300000 in London Sale
A polished half inch coal disk called the black stone or magic speculum linked to Dr. Dee and his familiar spirits was sold last week as part of the London borough collection. The artifact once belonged to Peterborough’s Burla, then the Duke of Ararat, Horace Walpole, and now a British archaeologist bought it for 300000 dollars.
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Londonborough
Dee
Mary
Elizibeth
Burla
Peterborough
Duke of Ararat
Horace Walpole
Glasgow
A Victorian musing on virtue love and clay trade
The excerpt surveys flattery honesty ambition and duty as guiding traits. It features a discussion about self respect opportunity and forgiveness and a Terra Cotta interview noting clay quality from New Jersey adjacent to New York and Philadelphia pricing with details on colors and materials used in terra cotta making.
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United States
Gath
Trenton
Union
Urs
Perth Amboy
Porta
New Jersey
New York Bay
Philadelphia
Nail Bit During Nervous Habit Causes Throat Irritation
Dr Jerome Tuthill of Chicago reports a case of a nervous habit leading to a piece of finger nail lodging in the throat. A woman presented with throat irritation after a prior sore throat. Removal with forceps yielded a brittle nail fragment with cheesy deposit. the patient admitted nail biting and losing a piece swallowed prior to her coughing fit.
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Jerome Tuthill
Chicago
Til
A Fable of Etiquette on a Narrow Mountain Path
Two travelers from Tehheran and Bagdad meet on a narrow rock path and refuse to yield or speak. In their rushed standoff they remain stationary until deciding to leap around one another. They collide near the edge and tumble down a flight of goblins in the tale’s fanciful ending.
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Tehheran
Bagdad
Enys
Moral Courage Quote Sparks Barroom Exchange
In a brief Epoch excerpt Dum ly declares, I believe in moral courage, give me moral courage every time, as he pounds the bar and the bar tender asks if he desires a bittern, illustrating a charged barroom moment.
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Dumly
Costly dinner cloths and new fashion notes mix with crimes
The column catalogs rich dinner cloths in use, with Mrs Naylor Leyland and Ms Dennistoun cited and describes decorative plant and flower trends. It reports a hair theft gang in Joseph Missouri and birds and millinery trade shifts amid a wealth of miscellaneous social notes and local crime reports.
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Court ‘Journal
Fashion Notes and Wilde Gossip From A Season In London
The piece recalls Oscar Wilde’s wife and gowns in a London season, noting the pink gown’s repeated appearances and public reactions. It also surveys fashion trends from gauzy veils to wool gowns, lace, and parasols, and ends with a report from Ceylon on hand made shoemaking and prices, highlighting cheap labor and export goods.
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Saya
Hankow
China
Germany
Leiden
I Rxper
Society of Agriculturists
Aick
Seema
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Wales
Sineer
London
Samal
Captain Rivers
A. G._Ropos
Ban Branelaco
the New
York
Charles “Te Bione
Gettynburg
Bat Lo
New Mexicos
San Mateo
Guldywater
Mobile Times
Joy
Grinf
Issome
H. 8. Keller
West Canada Crook
Theo
Brngo
Lisle
Ricwanp
Fartheut
Little Falls
Phil Thorn
Arain
Mr. Theron
tMaster Thorn
iziih_tamn Or loy
Toso
Ind
Jimmie
Mamma
Dutroit Frea
Docker
Kossel
Berlin Physiological Society
Glaisher
Toulon
Bengal Cavalry
India
Ruth
Lova
Joseph
Silo
Fifth
Putco
Plumath
P'Umaga
Chicago News
Indy
Gantoss
Thera
Chicago Herald
Moses Taylor
Long Branch
America
Golid
Offic
Taylor
Chicago Times
Newark
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Ruth Fielder
North Bergen
Fielder
Mies
Oscar Wilde
San Francisco
Mia
Directorro
Rodingote
Ceylon
Crispina
Indian Ocean
Morey
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