Sturgeons in Commerce and Southern Reconstruction Echoes
An excerpt discusses sturgeon biology with notes on European and American habitats, varieties, and historic abundance in San Francisco Bay, then shifts to a retrospective of the South in 1877, describing Birmingham, Chattanooga, Atlanta, Florida, Texas, and Southern industry and railroad development amid Reconstruction, concluding with Georgia cotton and Macon Telegraph observations.
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Birmingham
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Florida
Texas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Arkansas
Tennessee
Alabama
Virginia
New York
Boston
South
Georgia
Macon
Curious crowd misled by strange show of a wounded man
A wagon on Diamond street drew a crowd as four pillows were placed on boards and a stretcher with a white cloaked mirror was shown. The scene sparked worry of a coroner or doctor, but the event proved to be a furniture insurance stunt rather than a medical emergency, provoking laughter instead of fear.
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Diamond Street
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Wood Street
The American Frugal Housewife as a 1830 Retrospective
A New York Post retrospective reviews the 1830 cookbook The American Frugal Housewife noting obsolete household tricks and remedies. The piece highlights make do methods such as soap from greases, antique tips for bedding, dyeing, preserving, and home remedies, contrasting them with modern practice. The article treats the volume as a vivid snapshot of past domestic life and frugality.
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New York Post
Lasker’s witty raffle cigars at London restaurant
In London, chess great Lasker playfully accepted an old man’s odds of queen in a bet before departing for St. Petersburg to face Steinitz. Lasker won and received cigars, which he jokingly claimed helped win the match by gifting them to Steinitz after defeating him.
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Dr. Lasker
London
St. Petersburg
Dr. Steinitz
Lasker
Stexmmitz Lasker
Steinitz
Curious Chilean crab shell barometer used by Arauca rian remnant
A remnant group in Chile's southernmost Araucania region uses the shed shell of a crab as a barometer. In dry weather the shell is white, but as moisture rises the shell shows small red spots and then turns completely red, signaling the coming of the rainy season.
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Chile
Pope and Lorson Smoke In London Memory
The Pope Leo XIII once visited England thirty years ago when he was Monsignor Peco and legate at the Belgian court. He recalled Westminster Cathedral talks about marble color, noting white marble at St Paul’s contrasted with black marble and joking that London’s smoke makes white marble seem unlikely.
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Lorson
Leo XIII
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Monsignor Peco
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Westminster
St. Paul’s Cathedral
London
Westiminster Gazette
She Got a New One Bonnet Quip From London Tit-Bits
A witty exchange from London Tit-Bits features a wife defending her bonnet with humor and affection. Her reply to her husband suggests she loves him too much to call attention to an old bonnet, turning a fashion critique into a light domestic moment.
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John
London
By Their Fruits the Props Shall Know Them
A Baltimore era political column argues Republicans cheat, bribe, and steal. It cites an official tobacco warehouses inquiry, fictitious payroll names, and payroll theft, accusing Republicans of fraud, costly assessments, and bank-favored policies under 1896 pressures.
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Rivars
Thes
Baltimore City
Treasury
Association
Col. Tompkins
Callum
Tolacco
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Denton, Ma
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Julia Day
James Perky
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Mary Lane
James T. Cooper
Maryland
Cooper
King's Maryland
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Frank ©. Bolton
Lee B. Bolton
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Easton, MD
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Greensboro
J.B. Fletcher
Preston
Harry B. Mason
Wilmington
Philadelphia
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Ridgely, Md
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Talbot County
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