Portrait of My Queen and Memory’s Cowed Muse
A lyric tribute praising a beloved woman described with rich imagery. The speaker, Edward A. Oldham, writes from Boston Folio style, noting the queenlike figure, blue eyes, snowy cheeks, and a poised, musical presence. The poem expresses growing love as time passes.
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minster
Coromandel
Circassinn
Alhamora
Rome
pizhtadore
Edward A. Oldham
Boston
Follo
Orphies Hunter Mends Fateful Hillswood Marriage
Orphies French marries Hector Hunter, an 85 year old widower with four children, in a village where her sunny temper softens his stubborn ways. She enlarges their home, installs a piano, and shapes a disciplined, educated household, turning skepticism into pride as her stepchildren prosper and the town watches her quiet triumph.
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Hector Hunter
Orphies
Orphues
Hillwood
Miss French
Orpties
Charlie Chester
James Singleton
Rector Hunter
Mr. flunter
tyes
Miranda Highflyer
Miss Dean
Mrs. Flint
Hunter
Slocum
Hillswood common
Mr. Hunter
Rosa Bell
Arthur
Tom Jones
Ironsides
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Hattie Andrew
Lettie
Martha
Hector
Dunham
Hillswood
Florence Freeman
Percy Whitman
Percy Whitmans
papa
baby
Orphiea
Tomlinson
Blind & Co
Boston
Early settlers endure harsh living in Montezuma valley
The Baltimore Sun notes settlers faced cold, meager food, cramped shelters, and long travel to rail lines yet maintained cheer and cleanliness. Women aided households amid two room homes, improvised furniture, and shared burdens. The valley's climate, altitude, and sandy soil promise broad crop possibilities with irrigation later.
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Montezuma valley
Baltimore Sun
Woodchuck as Weather Barometer Cited by Reader
A Reading Herald note recalls a Berks County man who uses a beeswax sealed bottle as a barometer. He claims his barometer clouds twelve hours before rain or snow and remains clear in fine weather, a quirk observed over nearly twenty years.
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Berks
Herald
Nerve of a Sneak Thief Described by New York Sun
A Connecticut man retells a striking bank theft tale. A thief enters, dons an office coat, asks a director to move, then enters the vault area, seizes two large bags of gold, and vanishes, leaving witnesses puzzled.
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New York Sun
Pious St. Anthony Hams Gain Fame in Beechmast Feasts
London Telegraph notes the “thatched” hams of La Mancha rival Bayonne’s famed hams. The pigs, described as meek and grateful, supposedly seek slaughter willingly after feasting on rich beechmast, a curious cradle of religiously themed swine lore with Saint Anthony ties.
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St. Anthony
Bayonne
La Mancha
London Telegraph
Bung whittling contest by ladies draws town crowd
A recent literary entertainment featured a bung whittling contest by ladies. Contestants received wooden squares to whittle a bung for a stone jug hole, with prizes for best and poorest bung before a postevent auction. One entrant neatly fitted the bunghole.
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New York Sun
Workman Society Table Shows Disability Affecting Earning Power
A Leipsia workingman society table lists how body part losses reduce earning capacity. Loss of both eyes or limbs is 1003, right hand 40, right thumb 35 1-3, one eye 23, left thumb or right index finger 14, left index or other left-hand finger 5. Arkansas Traveler.
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Leipsia
Arkansaw
Exquisite Indian Carpets and Friezes From Amritsar and Lahore
Carter Harrison notes in his Bombay letter that in Indian shops exquisite carvings and carpets for the American market are produced by families, often with children learning the craft. Weavers and designers work under multiple hands, with carpets woven by several boys and five weavers, progress slow, and costs high for American buyers.
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Mr. Forrest
New York
Amritsir
Lahore
Punjab
Carter Harrison
Bombay
English name misread as foreign riddle on train register
Turner uses the unusual spelling Phtholognyrrh on a train register to disguise his name Turner. Jones suspects a foreign name and asks about the trick. Turner explains the phonetic rationale, claiming the spelling encodes English pronunciation and aims to provoke guesses.
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Volapuk
Jones
Turner
Janesville
E. EK
Chicago Herald
Thirty Millions a Year Cloak Trade Grows Rapidly
A cloak trade boom is described with figures from the last census. Total business in women s clothing nears 30 million dollars, two thirds concentrated in New York and Philadelphia, with several other cities each about one million. Capital employed rises from seven and a half million to about ten million dollars.
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Atlantic
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Cincinnati
San Francisco
New York Mail and Express
Quiet Wall Street Draws Fewer Passersby in Daytime
Strangers visiting Wall Street and nearby streets find the area unusually quiet with sparse foot traffic during the hours when crowds once filled Wall, Broad, New and Nassau streets. The New York Sun notes the change from a bustling financial hub to a notably calmer scene with ample pavement room.
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Wall
Broad
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Nassau
financial center
New York Sun
Immigration Surge to Jerusalem Fuels Jewish Population Rise
The Jerusalem Jewish community has surged sixfold since 1880 as waves of persecuted Jews from Russia settle there. The Turkish regime restricts nonresidents to thirty days, but bribes or favors allow continued residence without harassment, aided by the powerful backsheesh system.
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Jerusalem
Russia
Advertisement scam ends with move advice
A Philadelphia Call item recounts a reader sending $1 in stamps for a rat elimination scheme by mail. The response instructed the victim to move, revealing the ad as a cheat rather than a genuine remedy.
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