Hindu Courtship in Early Indian Marriages
The Hindoo view favors early arranged marriage as a religious duty. Parents select brides, arrange dowries, and ceremonies unfold with ritual baths, red garments, and a long wedding process. The text notes health risks from early unions and cites debts from wedding costs as common in lower Bengal.
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India
Irl
Dacca
Benares
Ganges Bank
Ganges
Lower
Bengal
Boston Transcript
Insecticides for Farm and Garden Use This Season
Farmers and gardeners learn battle plans for pests. Paris green remains best for Colorado potato beetle, mixed 1 lb with 15 lb flour. Lime, tar water, and sulfur offer alternatives. alum wards off ants and cockroaches. Hellebore and Paris green deter currant and gooseberry caterpillars, with caution on handling.
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Colorado
Paris
Medea
N. Y. Sun
Scotby Quaker Minister Dodges War Tax Payment
Mr. Robert Doeg of Scotby England, a well known minister of the Society of Friends, refused to pay the War tax assessed on income tax and had his goods distrained for the amount.
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Robert Doeg
Scotby, Enland
Society of Friends
Self Indulgence And The Modern Wife And Mother
Mary Wagner Fisher argues that women should allow self-indulgence and spend on personal pleasures and stylish comforts rather than deny themselves. She contrasts self indulgence with perpetual self sacrifice, urging wives to demand respect, enjoy dainties, perfumes, and attractive items, and to let family endure some costs for their own happiness.
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Guerichy
Mary Wagner’ Fisher
New Yorker
Lessons in housekeeping and motherhood from Aunt Nora
A Household column urges good cooking, order, and simplicity to sustain a growing family. It champions wholesome food, regular meals, clean cupboards, and reduced household clutter while praising a cheerful, well cared for mother over elaborate domestic fuss. It compares American wives to England’s Queen and calls for practical virtue in daily duties.
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England
Nora
Colonel King Harman Emerges as Aublin County's Strongest MP
Reports crown Colonel King Harman as the strongest member of the British House of Commons. Entertaining tales circulate of his prowess in elections, including a legend of riding off with a massive shillelagh and sweeping the High Street of an Irish town.
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King Harman
Aublin
Etite &Trongest
House*of Commons
Queen Treated for Swollen Knee With Emerald Isle Remedies
All other remedies failing, the Queen is now using emerald isle based treatment for her swollen knee, signaling a shift to alternative therapies.
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Émerald Isle
How to Kill Cabbage Worms Excerpts from Experiments
The article reports experiment results from Geneva New York on cabbage worm control. Remedies tested include saltpeter boracic acid benzine kerosene soap and kerosene mix and hot water with varying effectiveness. The best solution combined soap and kerosene oil in water applied August 26 destroyed many worms but reapplication is advised due to hidden caterpillars.
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State Agricultural Experiment Station
Geneva
N. Y
Miscellaneous items from a late 19th century page
A collection of brief notes and anecdotes: linguistic notes from Prof Huxley. Raamses excavation linked to Exodus. Boetel the German tenor and a silver whip. Mr Biggar’s court kiss remark. Warner’s funeral complaint. Albert Blair’s fatal foot injury. a clever English tramp feigning lunacy in asylum. earthquakes, eruptions, and a Norwegian coast ash fall. a bulldog rides a train 200 miles. a Nevada Piute punishment method. the star and stripes origin from Henry VII’s coat of arms. a destitute Baron von R- in Paris reveals a scandal and a wandering career.
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Mr. Biggar
Albert Blair
Binghamton
Solano County
Cal
Trafton
Chester
Ararat
Norway
Hecla
Iceland
Nevada
Henry VII
Lawrence Washington
Mormon Missionaries Fail to Convert Negroes in South
A historical note claims Mormon emissaries in the South have not succeeded in converting a black person to Mormonism, reflecting era attitudes and religious outreach attempts.
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South
Yankee Wit Turns Bombshells Into Scrap Iron
A Pittsburgh iron firm paid a lone Yankee 64 cents per bomb to break condemned shells. He froze water in each bomb, rendering them into a dozen or more pieces overnight. The next morning the pile was scrap iron. Pittsburgh Post.
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Pittsburgh
Slim Yankee
Pittsburgh Post
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Egypt
London
Raamses
Boetel
Wachtel
Hamburg
Baron von R
Vienna
Baden
Monaco
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