Interesting Views On New York Capital Punishment
The assembly passed abolition of capital punishment by 78 to 30, but the senate defeated it 24 to none. Debates argued that intent to deter murder is weak and that juries are reluctant to condemn to death. Authors claim reforms would better deter murder and reduce brutal brutality, noting global trends toward abolition or abolition in practice.
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New York
Assembly
Senate
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Munter
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New York Sun
Trophies of a Fragrant Memory and a Brother's Loss
A Chicago News Record passage reveals a girl observing her brother’s ritual with faded flowers and a red rose beside a portrait. He preserves fragments, questions sentimentality, and burns keepsakes after a blunt “trophy” moment, shaping the narrator’s wary view of romantic gifts and memory.
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Chicago News Record
Leading Soprano Rose Sings Despite Illness
A theater anecdote shows Mme Rose of Basta’s opera troop insisting she cannot sing yet manager Basta insists she can sing superbly. He consoles and pivots to praising her superb singing ability, revealing a witty miscommunication through a playful exchange.
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Mme
Rose
Basta
Busta
Zoprano
Tamsicvk
Boston
Two tailors work together on a dress
A problem asks how long two women take to complete a dress together. One needs three days, the other five. Combined work rate is 1/3 + 1/5 = 8/15 of a dress per day, so time = 15/8 = 1.875 days, about 1 day 21 hours.
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Johnny
Progressive science teaching outlined in home building analogy
The Chicago Post quotes a view on science education outlining a progressive approach. It compares learning to constructing a house using concrete, wood, and stone as foundational ideas. It emphasizes hands on apparatus, then moves to elements, fire, water, then coating and furnishing, and finally personal life topics like clothing and food.
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Bin
Chicago Post
Pity For Bashful Men And Cycling For Children
A long fragment urges kindness to bashful men and recalls personal embarrassment in entering strangers rooms. It then surveys cycling for children, detailing age suitability, bike fit, saddle position, and safe riding distances for young riders. A note ends about John Atkinson’s experiment with learning to smoke, progressing from cigars to five-cent variety.
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John Atkinson
Philadelphia
Sun Never Sets on U S Soil in The North American Day
A historical note explains that the United States spans from Quoddyhead Maine to Attu Alaska and from Point Barrow to Key West, with the geographic center near 55°N 110°W. It states that while the sun never sets on the country’s land, time zones show solar noon varies, such as 9:30 a m next day at Eastport Maine when it is 9:30 p m at Attu Island Alaska.
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E. B. Turner
United States
United Staates
Quoddyhead
Maine
Attoeigdind
Point Barrow
Alaska
Key West
Montana
Great Britain
Attoc Island
Eastport
America s First Recorded Eclipse Observed on Long Island
The first recorded American eclipse observations were made on October 27 1780 by a Tarverd college party led by Professor S W Ylollis LL D. They landed at Bounty Cave from Castle commanded forces and used crude instruments to observe from Penobscot bay and vicinity. Harvard scientists conducted successful measurements despite crude gear.
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Tarverd College
S. W. Ylollis
LL. D
Castle
Bounty Cave
Shubael Willams
Harvard
New York Press
Sioux City Corn Festival Aims For Greatest Triumph
Things Lovely Farwer announces a Sioux City corn festival from September 20 to October 18 to boost corn showpieces. Europe’s rising demand for American corn drives emphasis on the Columbian year’s events and growing import figures.
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Sioux City
Europe
United States
Loyot
Argentina
Philadelphia Farm Journal
Milk and eggs as diet aid for delicate stomachs
The article notes milk and eggs can be tolerable for patients with sensitive digestion. It suggests rinsing the mouth with water before and after drinking milk and describes techniques to prepare milk with beaten egg white to tempt a reluctant stomach. Over time yolk can be added gradually, keeping white separate at first.
Queen Bees Vary in Age and Garden Tips for Successive Crops
A correspondent notes queen bees do not age uniformly with appearance. Some live to five years, others to one. First year queens look bright, second year similar, third year fading, and by fourth year wings shorten. The piece shifts to planting for succession, advising early and late plantings for potatoes peas and corn every 10 days, with cautions on mildew. Also covered are celery varieties, melon pests, and soil, with bagging tomatoes and cabbage needs.
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American Bee Journal
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Wisconsin
Farm Journal
Pennsylvania
Rural New Yorker favors specific fertilizers for potatoes
The Rural New Yorker recommends using nitrate boosters as fertilizer for potatoes, preferring superphosphates and sulphate of potash over muriate of potash, and advising against raw bona.
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New Yorker
Sense of place beyond reason, per Mackintosh
A London Spectator note cites A J Mackintosh on a subconscious sense guiding people in darkness to familiar spots. The piece claims this instinct is shared with lower creatures and does not require conscious mental effort. It highlights an intelligent woman who lost her way near her long-time home.
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Lace
A. J. Mackintosh
London Spectator
Recipe for Letter Writing From a London Journal
A breezy London journal offers a satirical “recipe” for letter writing. It outlines steps from choosing the addressee to assembling parts of family news, inquiries, weather and gossip, ending with a postscript that reveals the writer’s individuality. The piece humorously cautions about addressing and posting the letter correctly.
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London
A Child’s Snow Farm From Old Toy Tales
A mother seats a child at a table with a high chair and a shallow tin pan. The child creates a miniature snow scene using salt, a gravy strainer, and two pounds of salt forming drifts. With a toy house named fannyani and wooden trees the child builds fences, pens, and a glass pond, using toothpicks and leaves for scenery.
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New York Recorder
Woman’s role through ages and a child’s quiet protest
A social tendencies student recalls a tender scene where a child’s drawing is dismissed by a distracted mother while an auntie praises it, prompting the child’s whispered verdict. The piece then surveys historic shifts in women’s public influence, from primitive tribes to ancient empires, noting a long arc toward broader roles and away from polygamy and seclusion.
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Brooklyn Eagle
Greece
Rome
Egypt
London News
Work of women in type setting and Maud Banks noted
The piece contrasts women and men in typesetting work noting clean money eight to fifty weekly with an average of fifteen. It cites oyster plant as a celery substitute for soup and praises Maud Banks as a well educated multilingual actress.
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New York Sun
Paris Styles and 1830s Fashion Trends Reemerge
French modistes push short tele shape skirts with 1630 style bell skirts, godets and wide foot widths. Extensions include high lace flounces, horsehair bands, and voluminous sleeves. bridal wear shows white satin with ironiton lace and yellow bridesmaid dress trimmed in guipure lace.
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Paris
Louis Philippe
Waal Dresses For Girls Gingham Styles and Embroidery
Finely striped gingham dresses for girls ages 6 to 34 feature a straight four-breadth skirt with open patterned embroidery above the hem, a two inch gingham belt overlaid with insertion, a rosette concealing back hooks, and a square yoke with bias collar band. Sleeves are bias puffed to the elbow with insertion at the wrist.
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Waal
Aetherston
Flower bonnets and novelties in Petticoats in fashion
The article describes hats and bonnets made entirely of flowers with wire and lace elements, including transparent brims and diamond shaped crowns, plus a new Elisabethan petticoat of horsehair designed to replace crinoline. It notes skirts evolving away from wide hoops as fashion shifts.
Recipe text fragment with baking ingredients and table setting notes
Fragmentary list describes butter sugar flour and flavors for a cake mixture plus a six-person table setting. It mentions butter 1.5 cups brown sugar 1 pound white sugar 1 cup, milk, eggs yolks six, baking powder, chocolate, lemon rind, spices, almonds, and mixing steps. It also includes table linens, cloth and furniture cover notes.
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