New York Tenement Housing Crisis and Street Life
Observes vast tenement growth in New York City with as many as 840000 residents in crowded buildings. Describes construction, overcrowding, and safety concerns, noting the East Side prevalence, dubious distribution of families per floor, and the lure of cheap rents. Details social conditions including nightly street scenes, liquor saloons, and widespread hardship among families facing job loss and hunger.
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New York
Tohous
Department of Buildings
First Avenue
Words of Wisdom on happiness and virtue in life
A compact meditation on giving, restraint, and the making of happiness. It argues that happiness is home made, true strength comes from recognizing weakness, and ethical conduct shapes both heart and mind. It cautions against duplicity and urges honesty, self-control, and kindness toward others.
The Ticinese in California’s Dairy Belt
A San Francisco Chronicle piece describes the Ticinese as a industrious, frugal, temperate Italian community of about 7,000 mainly in Marin Napa Santa Clara and San Luis Obispo counties. They dominate dairy production, yielding half of the state’s butter and cheese, with high quality and weight. Many are small farmers with rented land, own milch cows and wagons, and host generous feasts reflecting close community ties.
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California
Ticino
Switzerland
Marit
Napa
Santa Clara
San Luis Obispo
Marin County
Ticinese
San Francisco
Thurlow Weed Recalls Henry’s Path From Stage to Science
In a letter to the New York press Thurlow Weed recounts Joseph Henry’s near start as an actor. Henry chose academia over the Green Street Theatre career, accepting a gratis course at Albany Academy after friends debated his future. The future Smithsonian secretary later recalled the episode as dreamlike.
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Thurlow Weed
New York
Henry
Smithsonian Institute
Joseph Herry
John F. Doty
State Street
Albany
Albany Register
Henry ©. Southwick
Solomon Southwick
England
Green Street Theatre
Greenbush
Thespian Hotel
North Pearl and
Patroon Streets
Joseph Henry
Norval
Damon
Hamlet
T. Romeyn Beck
Albany Academy
Beck
James Dexter
James Hunter
Hunter
Dexter
Sock
Buskin
Joe Henry
Bernard
Doty
Academy
Roscius
Washington
Scarlet Fever by Mail Warns of Envelope Infection
A medical correspondent reports a scarlet fever case linked to a letter and envelope from a country house. The child who played with the envelope developed fever and a red rash, and ulcers on the tonsils. The writer urges banning nonessential communication from infected homes and burning letters and envelopes.
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London Telegraph
East Sheen
Curiosities and figures from distant lands and eras
A miscellany of notes cites global trivia and statistics. It notes Alaska salmon abundance, a French Legion of Honor count, Spanish washwomen on the Manzanares, a Chilean hairpin crop value, and Burr’s duel pistols in Louisville. Also mentions hounds attacking sheep near Knoxville, and a Chinaman learning English letters in Cincinnati.
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Philadelphia
Sonnéck
New York
Long Island
New Jersey
South’ America
Alaska
Manzanares
Spain
Marseillés
France
Knoxville
Tenn
Maine
William
Berkley Hazeltine
Bakersfield
Mass
Julius Cxesar
Cincinnati
Philadelphia Bulletin
Mount
Burr
Grove
London
Engle
Russia
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