The Cultivation of Beauty Across Races and Times
A long survey of beauty standards and racial traits from ancient to modern times. It cites saints, scholars, and rulers, noting outdoor life and temperance as factors. It discusses Caucasian, Russian, and Icelandic life, linking climate and diet to appearance, and recalls a tale of shared meals in Icelandic rural life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tougevieg
Andreas Clalpinus
Parneleus
Montaigne
Sweden
Aragon
Normandy
Tyrolesa
Lowell
Angeli
Stephen III
Cuthbert
Schleswig-Holstein
Bodyguard
Lesghia
Daghestae
Caucasus
Agenta
Caar
Felix L. Oswald
Popular Science Monthly
Devout Young Woman Dies After Fasting Suspected Cause
A poorly clad young woman identified as Johanna Burns of Noil Mil Street died at Sisters' hospital after a day of fasting and exhaustion. Autopsy blamed lack of food. she had visited several homes near Rev. Father Swift on River Street and planned an early marriage at St. Mary's Church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Incenere Able
Father Swift
River Street
Sisters’ Hospital
Pather Swift’s
Johnna Burns
Noil Mil
St. Mary’s
Troy
Fimes
The Language of Modern Greece
Athena letter to Springfield Republican discusses Greece’s dual language system the literary archaic dialect and the spoken popular tongue. It notes confusion and discomfort from attempts to revert 2000 years of language and mentions an academy modeled after the French Academy plus limited regulation prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greece
Athena
Springfield Republican
Academie
Why Some Days Vanish When Traveling Westward
A reminiscence explains how a day can be lost or repeated when circumnavigating westward or eastward. Travellers crossing the 180th meridian drop or gain a day, making Monday vanish or duplicate, and the Pacific becomes the day origin where the week begins. The writer muses about aligning calendars with the sun for religious groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peruyapure
Eorror
H.C. Austin
Orient
New York
Royal Observatory
Greenwich
England
Japan
Pacific Ocean
At Brigham Young's Grave Rhetoric and Local Politics
A fragmentary editorial mix comments on Brigham Young's grave as desolate and mocked mourning rituals, then shifts to a joke about Gov Stephens and a note that Brown and Roberts seek state approval to form Union Heating Co to supply hot air gas or steam for cooking in Erie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brigham Young
Utah Commission
Fac
Bill Nye
Brown and Roberts
The
Union Heating Co
Hart
Une
Erie
Holiday goods sale slashes prices on dolls and toys
The store announces a clearout of Fova and Holiday Goods to clear entire stock at half the town’s price. It lists dolls heads bodies carriages beds dishes toys and many more items while flagging heavy markdowns on cloaks shawls and black silks. A cash purchase of three dollars or more enters shoppers for a chance at a $45 Singer Sewing Machine on January 1 1883.
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Evening Observer
Iceland
Vigfueson
University of Oxford
Weengn
Cup
Cat
Gcorgla Darky
Gov. Stephens
Aleck Stephens
Opera House
Frank Gilbert
Madison Square Theatre Company
America
United States
Madison Square
Morrison Square Theatre
Carrie Secaret
Norton’s
Ani queSmay
Aloaa
Eun “Ig
J. A. Stapf
of Toys & Holiday Goods
Gidley & Bloss
Be. O Perry & CO
McDougall & Avery
Center Street
Dunkirk Gas Light Company
Retail Jew
Eler
He Is
Normal School
Fredonia
N. Y
Tuihoen
Githeopedte
Gentlemen's Club
Ginkeow
Palmebr
H. P. Monee
Dunkirk, N
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