Demorest's Monthly: World's Model Magazine in 1884
Demorest's Illustrated Monthly claims status as the largest and best two dollar family magazine. The 1884 edition marks the twentieth year with 64 pages in quarto format, tinted paper, full illustrations, and steel engravings or art posters. Published by W Jennings Demorest of New York and Defrance County Express at $3.00 per year.
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Demorest
W. Jenning
New York
Defrance County Express
Personal Power Reform Sermon Sparks Fight Against Bosses
Rev James Chambers of Calvary Presbyterian Harlem declares there is no divine provision for political bosses and attacks temper, ambition, and debility as tyrannical bosses. The piece includes an advertisement for Parker's Ginger Tonic by Hiscox & Co New York offering cure claims and prices.
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James Chambers
Calvary Presbyterian Church
Harlem
S. P. Lewis
Eighth Street Baptist Church
St. Louis
Parker
Hiscox & Co
New York
Snuff Takers and Birds in Fashion History
A long passage recounts famous tobacco users from Raleigh to Tennyson and Carlyle, then shifts to a Santa Barbara report on hummingbirds used in fashion. It details how boys trap birds with slingshots, the economics of selling birds to Rosk and San Francisco, and the global trade feeding Paris and London fashion.
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Walter Raleigh
Thomas Cooper
Shakspeare
Milton
Newton
Thomas Campbell
William Makepeace Thackery
Thomas Carlyle
Chelsea
Lord Beaconsfield
Tennyson
Legion
George III
Charlotte
London Telegraph
California
Santa Barbara
A. M. Ruiz
Mr. Ruiz
David
Goliah
San Francisco
Paris
London
Santa Barbary
Cal
Oddities and anecdotes from distant places and times
A collage of brief items ranging from Paris cafe profits and corn yields in Louisiana to jokes about weddings in Springfield and playful acts in Washington. Other notes include ants used in wound dressing by Indians in Brazil, a buried owl in New Hampshire, a Mongolian philosopher's moon theatre tale, and practical jokes in Miles City and Humboldt Wells with ensuing reactions.
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Paris
Grosse Tete
Louisiana
W. C. Picayune
Russia
Lord Coleridge
Chicago
N. Y
India
Society Reporter
Rochester
Post-Express
Yuma
Cal
San Francisco
Lytle Station
Mary
Chicago Herald
Brazil
Porthmouth
N. H
Sir John Moore
William
William Owl
Boston Post
Springfield
Mass
Boston Herald
Texas
North Carolina
Detroit Post
Across The Nation Science Bits And Oddities
Reports from major papers describe Adamscobite a sharp mineral from Missouri and a sorghum field study yielding twelve percent sugar. Sweden makes moss paper. German steel belting promises durability. A Bloomfield craftsman built a multiwood desk with nineteen worn knife blades used inlay. A captain recalls a near antique copper knife found at Isle Royale possibly made by early Indians. Water described as oxidized hydrogenium among sun and planet abundances.
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Louis Post
Missouri
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Washington Star
Sweden
Germany
George Mercur
Bloomfield
Conn
Mercur
Boston Post
J. A. Nichols
Duluth
Isle Royale
Ischia Earthquake Toll and Italian Currency Note
A report notes the Ischia earthquake may have killed at least seven million aires. It compares wealth: possessing $200,000 makes one a millionaire in Italy, with lire used as currency and a lire equal to a franc or about twenty cents.
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Ischia
Italy
Talkative donkey and stubborn humor Across Papers
A collage of light humor and brief anecdotes from multiple papers. Jokes include a Frenchman teaching a donkey to talk, a suggestion Mary Walker reside in Middlesex England, fake sovereigns in circulation, and a stuttering clerk with a Central Office gag.
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Boston Post
Mary Walker
England
Boston Courier
Middlesex
France
Lowell Courier
Detroit Post
N. Y
Chicago Journal
Central
John
Sam Johnson
Bekase
Dar
Texas Rifle
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