Growth of cities and slums across the United States
Wright’s paper for Popular Science Month cites Census growth from 3.35 percent urban in 1790 to 29.12 percent in 1890, noting over half urban in the North Atlantic. He observes slum districts shrink as business encroaches, while slum housing shifts elsewhere. Articles also mention royal etiquette, Whitman’s obituary, Tennessee writer Drumgoole, and petitions to abolish the electoral college and separate church and state.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll Wright
Popular Science Monthly
United States
North Atlantic
New York
Chicago
Philadelphia
Wright
Boston
Alfred Russell Wallace
The Four Hundred Founder and Society Versus Caste Limits
The piece cites Ward McAllister on New Year balls to widen society beyond uniform sameness. It urges merit, education, morals, and wealth as criteria while rejecting caste or occupation biases. It also notes military rifles: Mannlicher smokeless powder rifles vs older black powder arms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ward McAllister
The
Four Hundred
McAllister
Society of
Washington
America
Edison and His Futuristic Inventions Hyped by Reporter
A city writer extols Thomas Edison's imagined advances from long distance electric transport to solar powered ships and wireless telegraphy. The piece claims zinc cues power lines and predicts iron ore extraction and a high voltage water spray weapon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edison
United States
New Jersey
Kalmyk Tartars Examined by Dr. Kaarberg
Dr. Hans Kaarberg travels to the steppes to compare Kalmyk women health with civilized women and notes Kalmyk men as horse thieves and drunkards. He finds Kalmyaks suffer fewer common ailments but face fevers and smallpox as civilization advances.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hans Kaarberg
Sir Herbert Maxwell on garden making and hardy blooms
The piece highlights Sir Herbert Maxwell's winter essay on garden planning for rich and poor, praising outdoor English flowers over flashy autumn blooms. It notes the importance of year round blooms, cites the hellebore family and the Christmas rose, discusses regional viability, extols native flora, and laments the decline of garden statuary for its tranquil effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sir Herbert Maxwell, Bart
Linnaeus
Herbert
England
United States
Maxwell
Press freedom praised by Justice Harlan in Wisconsin lecture
Justice Harlan lauds the First Amendment in a Wisconsin Law College lecture, arguing Congress cannot abridge press freedom. He says a vigilant press curbs corruption, notes improvement over 25 years, and credits daily reporting for exposing wrongs and informing the public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Justice Harlan
Supreme Court of the United States
Law College
University of Wisconsin
Congress
Congress of the United States
Washington
The Country Newspaper as a Community Pulse
The passage extols country weeklies as reliable community fixtures that reach more families and bind neighbors with joyful notices of weddings and sorrowful obituaries. It calls papers a business guide, moral pulpit, public forum, street supervisor, social friend, and promoter of goodwill across the county.
Local News Shortage Truths and Editorial Duty
Column argues editors cannot conjure local drama and urges readers to contribute items worth printing. It likens empty pages to draining a turkey and calls for proactive community input to fill the paper with meaningful local content.
Newspaper Writing Instructions For Clear Public News
A brief guidance note emphasizes one side of the paper, legibility of all proper names, no initials, no personal items, and brief reporting. It urges including the full news and nothing obscure while signing the writer's name for public protection.
Dr. John Bull's Sarsaparilla Promoted as Health Tonic
An advertisement urges readers to use Dr John Bulls Sarsaparilla to strengthen the constitution and ward off spring illnesses. It promotes mixing iodide of potash with the tonic, claims safer, lasting relief for blood disease, and cites Alfred Howell of Cairo Illinois as a user with John D Park & Sons Co Cincinnati as wholesale agents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bull
Alfred Howell
Cairo
Lll
John D. Park & Sons Co
Sycamore St
Cincinnati
Ohio
Bradshaw & Thoma
Fairfield
Pe Ru Na advertised lecture on sore throat and catarrh
Dr Hartman explains chronic Follicular Pharyngitis from overuse moisture and cold air. He cites risks to larynx and lungs and recommends Pe-ru-na as the cure, touting its success without gargles. A 32 page pamphlet from The Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co. offers further details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peruna Drug Manufacturing Co
Columbus
Ohio
Dr Bull's Worm Remedy and Salve Ad
An 19th century advertisement touts Dr Bull's safe worm remedy for children and adults, claiming universal health benefits and a 25 cent price. It also promotes a salve for cuts sores and skin disorders with a money back guarantee, available from Clarke & Junkin and wholesale agents in Cincinnati.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarke & Junkin
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Princess of Wales
Albert Edward
Walt Whitman
Tennessee
Charles Egbert Craddock
Will Allen Drumgoole
Senate
House
Best Society
Ridison
the Country Newspaper
S. B. Hartman
Surgical Institute
Ilias
Jordan
West Side Square
Iowa
Nate Savings Bank
J.E. Roth
Jas. Sullivan
W. Pres
EF. A. Howard
J. E. Roth
James Louden
E. A. Howard
D. G. Higley
James SullIvan
W. E. Bradshaw
J. 5
McKenney
Ed. Hunt
Jos. Ricksher
T M. Byrnes
T. R. Howlett
J. F. Loehr
Geo. D. Clarke
Late Coop
Ward Lamson
KR. W. Lamson
Geo. W. Ball
RK. F. Rateliff
W. A Lamson
J. W. Burnett
Joseph Roth
E. F. Simmons
Chris. Roth
D. W. Templeton
Eugene Campbell
Burlington Gazette
Burlington
Telegraph
Gazette
Gate City
Stour City Tribune
Constitution Democrat
State Line Democrat
Quincy Journal
Morning Sun Herald
Keokuk Chronicle
Des Moines
Bucken
Arnica
B. F. Black
Pittsburgh
J. W. Bean, M.D
Fairfield, Lowa
B. N. Gantz, M.D
Hufford
Calvin Snook
Fairfield, Iowa
D. G. Highey
F. R. Smith
Clarke & Junkin's Drug Store
G. P. Martin, M.D
D. H. Worthington
Clarke & Junkin’s
Northwest Corner Park
W. Fordyce, M.D
Ffice Over Risk
Hoffstedler & Whitham’s
First East Street
R. C. Sayers, D.V.M
Gordon's Livery Barn
J. B. Monfort
FFICE
Harris & Cuddy’s
T. L. James
Owa
McElbinny Building
Park
I. D, Jones
Chas, D
Fullen
Law
Jefferson County
Northeast Corner
Public Square
Fi, C. Raney
F. Simmons
Raney & Simmons
Lowa
Bell's Grocery
Square
Co. D. Leggett
M’kemey
Attorneys AT Law
State Savings Bank
Chas. P. Sipple
District Court
Robert F. Ratcliff
West Side
East Street
M. A. McCoid
Leggett House
Parsons College
Yall
Ambrose C. Smith
D.D
First National Bank
Jas. F. Wilson
B.S. McElhinny
IGS
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