When shadow falls I must work while day remains
The speaker contemplates readiness for death and duty, urging action before night. Helen T. Clark writes that one must toil and weave while light endures, accepting the inevitable silence of death.
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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Sep 22, 1888
Page
1
Why Do You Eat A Question Of Nature And Law
A discussion contrasts dyspepsia and natural appetite through views of the dyspeptic epicure glutton laboring man and natural man. It argues that license without restraint leads to misery while true salvation requires discipline, ending with lessons on living to enjoy life. The piece cites enduring struggle and moral reform as it weighs appetite against natural law.
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Globe-Democrat
New York Cities Reimagined Says Princeton Review
The piece contrasts a reshaped New York with iconic European capitals noting Fifth Avenue Broadway and Madison Square remain landmarks while Central Park grows modest. It critiques the city’s illusions of grandeur, referencing the Lenox Library and a towering apartment house as visual contrasts.
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Torvelen
New York
Paris
Vienna
Milan
Fifth avenue
Broadway
Central park
Chatham square
London
Madison square
Thirty-fourth street
city hall
Lenox library
Princeton Review
Tramp asks for biscuits amid cold streets
A tramp begs for two or three biscuits from a passerby and explains he carries no Weepins while avoiding a savage dog at the next house. A Chicago Tribune snippet notes a Paris well depth of 2,359 feet and a water jet 114 feet high.
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Chicago Tribune
Paris
Individuality of States Across the Union
In Harper's Magazine the piece argues that each state is a distinct, almost empirelike entity with unique political action, institutions, and social tone. It notes regional differences within lines such as Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and Minnesota, and asks why neighboring states like Indiana and Iowa differ so markedly.
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New York
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Missouri
Iowa
Illniis
Harper’s Magazine
Artistic Costuming Pioneer Shapes Children’s Wear
A Buffalo Courier feature profiles an “artistic costumer” who dresses children from infants to pre-dressmaker era. She blends old pictures and nature to harmonize color, avoids fashion plates, and highlights the business as an outgrowth of decorative arts. Her first three customers remain with her as their children progress through long clothes to short dresses.
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Buffalo Courier
Girdle worm threat to forests urges thinning woods
The article warns girdle worms destroy forests more than fires and winds by tunneling in sapwood after hatching in bark. Dense stands reduce air and light, so thinning woodlands is advised to prevent damage seen in Maine and Adirondack regions.
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Maine
Adirondacks
Struck by Cold Water During Desert Crossing
In the bishop’s last journals a narrator recalls wading through icy water, feeling sudden chill as each foot and then knee went in. The water’s saltiness blurred the line between normal sea and the strange, and when attempting to dry they felt as if turned to stone. Irritation lingered for days despite washing.
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Bishop Hannington
Artificial Silk Promises New Material Breakthrough
Frank Leslie's notes that artificial silk, produced from collodion with perchloride of iron and tannic acid, is nearly complete and could end the silk trade in time. The new substance is described as practically equal to real silk, suggesting significant disruption for silk manufacturers.
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Frank Leslie
Green paper printing used to aid eyesight on railways
Several French railway companies and other public bodies now print on green-white paper. They believe black on green reduces eye strain compared with white paper with black characters. The practice, noted by the New York Sun, is also used for railway tickets.
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New York Sun
Teeth extraction and stereotypes in Calgary clinic
A dentist in Calgary Manitoba claims natives had no decayed teeth before civilization and that even brave braves endure sun torture but tremble under forceps. The remark appears in the New York Evening World as a sensational, race-based characterization of Indigenous peoples.
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Calgary
Manitoba
New York Evening World
Manila Police Guards of the Law in Spire Dept Gossip
A private letter from Alexander R. Webb, U S consul to Manila, describes Manila police and fire departments in vivid detail. It covers uniforms, weapons, day and night forces, alarm methods, water supply, fire fighting gear, and the frequent destruction of bamboo houses, noting fires and low household losses among natives.
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Alexander R. Webb
United States
Manila
Philippine islands
St. Louis
police and fire department of
royal arms
St. Louis Republic
Flying gas bubbles from soap solution
The Philadelphia Times notes a method for making soap bubbles fly like balloons. A yard long rubber tube over a gas burner is sealed with wet paper wrapped clay pipe, dipped in soap, and lit to release gas that inflates bubbles which rise and eventually collapse.
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Philadelphia Times
Horrific Spanish Custom Displays Corpses in Windows
A San Francisco Chronicle correspondent notes a grim southern Spain practice of placing corpses in storefront windows dressed in bridal finery. Spectators gaze and mutter, treating the sight as entertainment, a macabre ritual linked to high virulence smallpox in the region.
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Spain
San Francisco Chronicle
Dinner for Prince of Wales discussed brain earnings
Eminent men from bar church music painting and literature hosted a dinner for the Prince of Wales. The group debated earnings by intellect and agreed on a maximum of 100000 dollars a year, though a leading painter claimed 150000 if he sacrificed his vacation.
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Prince of Wales
New York Sun
Blizzard heater for trains uses portable firebrick stove
A device to heat passenger cars after detaching locomotives is described as a blizzard heater. It comprises a firebrick pot and a telescopic chimney modeled on a traveler's cup. When folded it occupies ten and a half inches and can be stowed under a seat. It hangs from the car roof and floor by chains.
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Leslie
Night Watcher Keeps Vigil Over Silent Sweetheart
A scented solitude fills the air as a night wind lifts silken hair and dreams, while a devoted watcher vows to guard the beloved as she sleeps. The poem evokes intimate devotion and protective tenderness in quiet, lyrical language.
Blood Drinking Consumptives Spark a City Tale
A pale young woman, daughter of wealthy Prairie avenue parents, drinks blood daily at nearby slaughter houses seeking recovery from consumption. The article notes she and others do this, with foreman and a butcher recounting cases, including a cured lawyer whose vigor returned after lifestyle changes, while warning that genuine consumptives gain little from blood and that debility improves with diet and exercise.
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Forty-second streets
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New York
Chicago
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Chicago Herald
iSite quote on wisdom and deception
A fragment cites Uncle Esek labeling a man as a fool who can easily pose as wise. The line hints at self-awareness of deceit and the ease of passing as knowledgeable in social pretenses.
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Esek
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