Wigs Discarded by Jewish Girls in New York Result of New Freedom
A New York Sun extract discusses Jewish women in East Broadway abandoning wigs and shaved heads once in Russia and Poland. It notes how some adopt bangs with skull caps, how American influence loosens old customs, and recounts a trial involving Polish fur maker Alexander Levy over marriage and hair customs. The piece includes commentary from a chief rabbi’s stance and the shift toward hairdressing over strict observance.
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Rupesia
Poland
East Broadway
Germany
Austria
New York
East Side
Kalla
Russia
Russian
America
Joseph
Alexander Levy
Eliza Blashker
New York Sun
Read and partner save weekly paper with train passes
In a small Arkansas town a failing weekly paper survived winter by sleeping in their office and bartering subscriptions for farm produce and medicines. Editors rode freight trains at 9:07 p m and returned on passenger trains at 9:15 a m each night, aided by railroad passes before interstate commerce laws limited such favors.
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Arkansas
Read
Senator Cullom
Mr. Read
Analostan
Lamb and the Burglar and Other Odd Tales
A collage of humorous and dramatic vignettes from Harper's and Life. Lamb outsmarts a starving burglar with a comic kick. Uncle Henry and Tom reveal a playful grimace about after supper. A barber and doctor exchanges, a love ballad excerpt, and a tribute to Conductor Bradley highlight midcentury wit and virtue.
Quips and Snippets Across Newspapers
A collage of brief quotes from newspapers shows light humor on voice dropping, mothers and daughters, city pride, a waiter proprietor exchange, pet anecdotes, beggar woes, busy office woes, and a painter’s timed portrait joke. Multiple papers including Washington Post Boston Transcript Chicago Indianapolis Journal Philadelphia Times Boston Commercial Bulletin Epoch Philadelphia Record and New Britainnian? provide the quotes.
Being Woman and the Hypocrites and Children poems
A collage of verses and reflections. A woman visits a grave and mourns a wrongdoer, a spider’s artistry parallels hypocrites, and poems on songs and children celebrate living poetry and hopeful innocence. The pieces read like period literary snippets with reflective tone and moral contrasts.
Farmers Alliance hits stock watering and Maine Grange growth
The speaker blasts the Soo line road costs and watered stock, calling for prosecution and cancelation of stock while noting a political betrayal as a Republican senator is praised. The Maine labor commissioner records gradual Grange expansion from 1874 to 1890, with member counts climbing from about 2,000 to over 16,000 across two decades.
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Farmers’ Alliance
Soo
Stillwater
Republican Party
United States Senate
Commn
Maine
Labor Commissioner of
War’s end and devotion to soldiers in Florida farmers meeting
At a Florida Farmers Alliance session whispers urged ending war issues and sectional hatred. The Rural New Yorker quoted a Charleston News and Courier piece praising Wade Hampton’s defeat, urging reverence for all soldiers while discarding hatred and bitterness as the Confederate past fades in South Carolina.
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Farmers’ Alliance
Florida
Alliance
Charleston
D. C
News and Courier
Wade Hampton
South Carolina
Hampton
New Yorker
Hayes county Alliance forms cooperative loan association
The Hayes county Nebraska Alliance organizes a cooperative loan association to secure funds from abroad at 6 percent annually. The plan is to incorporate and lend to members at a small premium over the eastern loan rate. After expenses, any surplus is to be distributed as a dividend to members.
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Hayes County
Neb
Varios
Frontier Faber
Sound Principles and Direct Election Demand
President Hall of the Missouri Alliance argues that direct popular vote for U S senators embodies Farmers' Alliance principle to place power near the people. He urges curbing alien land ownership to keep American lands as farm homes, not syndicate speculation.
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United States
Farmers’ Alliance
Hall
The
Missouri Alliance
Hallowed vows and watchful promises in a fading page
A fragment from a 19th or early 20th century periodical blends devotional verses about lifetimes, watchful gods, and faithful bonds with snippets from letters and society notes. Includes fashion commentary on feathers, aging, and a medical advert for Ballard's Horehound Syrup claiming relief from consumption.
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Ballard
N. M. Warre
Electric Bitters Promoted at Berlin Reichstag Dinner
A Berlin dinner for Reichstag members included a toast to US Minister Phelps and praise for Electric Bitters. The ad touts the remedy as purer than any other and guarantees cure for liver and kidney diseases, pimples, and malaria, with a price of 50 cents to 1.00 per bottle at N. M. White's Drug Store. Also reported is a fire at Wells Fargo & Co.'s express building in Kansas City Sunday night causing a $255,000 loss.
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Reichstag
Berlin
United States
Phelps
America
N. M. White
Wells, Fargo & Co
Express
Kansas City
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Weer & Truax
D. Vanprne
Komxan & Marvix
O. Hall
Wonder Worker Healed by New Discovery for Consumption
Burlington Ohio youth Frank Huffman said two prominent doctors deemed his lung condition consumption and incurable. After using Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption Coughs and Colds he recovered enough to walk across the street. He urges others with throat lung or chest trouble to try it and notes a free trial bottle at N M White’s drugstore.
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Frank Huffman
Burlington
Ohio
Dr. King
N. M. White
Important Mining Sale Prompts London Syndicate Takeover
Bows Orry Idaho February 25 A deed transfers the Delamar mines to a London syndicate held in escrow with Boise City National Bank until funds arrive from Europe. Purchase price reportedly equals half the capital stock. Also featured are medical ads for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Dr Bosanko remedies, plus local notices of a fatal shooting in Columbus and appeals for miner families.
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Bows Orry
Idaho
Delamar Group of Mines
Boise City National Bank
Europe
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Tom
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J. G. Whittier
Mamma
Bacilli
Boston Transcript
Chicago
Boston
Indianapolis Journal
Philadelphia Times
Philadelphia Record
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Jack
Jang
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Marvin Hill Cana
Jean Ingelow
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Satan
Sather
Hughes
Housekeeper's Weekly
Estelle
Miranda
Barnes
New York Times
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Electric Bitters
Wonder Worker
Columbus
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N. A. Styles
Spring Hill
Nova Scotia
Bosanko
Arch St
Philadelphia
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Carlisles
Cleveland
Democratic Party
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Cherokee Strip
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O. EB. Morse
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Montana
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Doe
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