My Masculine Self and the Tutor in a River Town
A girl recalls her upbringing with brothers in a town on a river, insisting on masculine pursuits and self-reliance. She narrates early life, a nurse, and a Yale-bound twin, then a tutor named Professor Clifton becomes a companion. Their evolving relationship includes rowing, hunting, and a tense test of courage on a moonlit boat ride.
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Towa
New York
Jim
Lelungon
Fred
Arthur
Yale
Clifton
John
Miss Mayeve
Smythe
Maggie
Ross
Idimid
Maggie and the Professor Find a Happy Union
An unnamed narrator recalls a romance with a professor, culminating in marriage. The tale follows their courtship across romantic scenes, from sunlit rooms to twilight piazza conversations, ending with Mrs. Dilton reflecting on partnership, family, and shared duties. She notes her growth, teaching her daughters, and the enduring bond with her husband.
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Maggie
Pasa
Mann
Tam
Alice
Grice
A Portuguese Kipling on English in Malacca School
A Portuguese boy in a Malacca public school writes a vivid, biased portrait of English people. He lists their roles, habits, and class traits, noting they rarely work, wear hats and boots, ride in docuts, attend church once, and enjoy sports, brandy, cigars, and music. His father’s view contrasts Portuguese and English.
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Malacca
Englishmen in Malacca Mock Portuguese Spelling Joke
The English community in Malacca views a certain humorous composition as a bad joke while residents elsewhere claim it is true enough that if the Portuguese boy in question learned spelling he could rival Rudyard Kipling.
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Malacca
Rudyard Kipling
Sacred Pigeons of St Mark's Tale of a City’s Care
Venetian authorities recognize the Holy Pigeons of St. Mark's as sacred birds dating back to early times. Palm Sunday releases tied with paper fetters led to many birds seeking refuge on church roofs and steeples. Escaped pigeons bred freely, protected by law, and the republic backed their maintenance with grain. After the republic fell, thousands starved until a charitable will sustained them.
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St. Mark's
Venice
St. Mark’s Church
Republic
The
Hedgehog and Elephant Foot Dainties Across Cultures
A descriptive passage notes hedgehogs and elephant feet as popular dainties in various regions. It explains primitive cooking methods, comparing nations’ cooling and culinary lore, and mentions Shakespearean hedgehogs as clay-wrapped curiosities. The text details the ritual of uncovering the dish and releasing juices and bouquet.
Deepest coal mine in the world at St, Andre du Poirier
The deepest coal mine is at St Andre du Poirier in France. It operates a double shaft system with depths of 295 and 4083 feet with the latter to reach 4000 feet by year end 1891. Lower levels stay cool around 75 degrees Fahrenheit while gold and silver mines report corridors near 12 degrees.
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St. Andre du Poirier
France
Dee Mine
Comstock
Molecule size estimated by early researchers
Calculations by Loschmidt Stoney Thompson and Maxwell suggest the effective molecule size is never larger than 500 millionth of an inch and may be as small as 1 thousand millionth of an inch. The second power of our best microscopes makes examining such minute scales an easy task.
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Joseph Loschmidt
G. Johnstone Stoney
Ists
William Thompson
J. Clark Maxwell
Cholera Club Rumor Sparks Quarantine Talk At Sandy Hook
New York reporters discuss forming a cholera club with officers titled chief germ and fumigator while members are described as bacilli. Also recounted is a Georgia turkey hen that hatched ten chicks and a possum, plus a note on a medieval superstition that comet years yield finer wine and higher prices.
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New York
Sandy Hook
Fire Island
Speaking With the Mouth Shut
A reflection on early explorers and native peoples language contrasts. Portuguese mocked Brazilians for lacking certain phonemes. Mohawks reportedly could not pronounce p and b, questioning how someone could speak without opening the mouth.
Favorite Songs and a Feast of Asses Note
A compilation of song origins from the 19th century includes Tippecanoe and Tyler too by A C Ross of Zanesville Ohio written in church and performed at a meeting, Dunols the Brave linked to Napoleon III, The Old Oaken Bucket by Woodworth inspired by a well water remark, and references to the Feast of Asses with Beauvais rites in France.
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Tippecanoe
Tyler
A. C. Ross
Zanesville
Ohio
Ross
Dunols the Brave
France
Woodworth
New York
Variations in Disease Response to Exposure
The piece explains why exposure affects people differently, noting individual susceptibility to disease types, heredity, and past illness. It warns against hardening by insufficient clothing and advocates regular outdoor exercise to strengthen organs, with heredity shaping disease tendencies.
The Dogs of the Kickapoos
Kickapoos and their dogs, wild and domesticated, form a vivid portrait of Indigenous canine bonds. The text depicts distrust of white outsiders, noting Indian dogs hate whites yet are loyal to their own people, while white travelers often whistle, triggering a swift retreat from Indian dogs.
Ancient holidays and Saturnalia traditions
The text surveys Roman and other historical holidays. It notes January to December festival patterns, a Cheshire survival of Saturnalia where servants leave work Christmas week, and Athens Minerva day with a ship statue procession. It cites Saturnalia beginning December 17 with broad license and slave emancipation during the feast.
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Cheshire
England
Saturn
Bayswater's vast store and odd Oldham sign
The piece notes Bayswater in London as a vast department store famed for satisfying every want of civilized society, with services from furnished homes to ready wives. It also comments on a public Oldham sign for an overcoat and electrical supplier, amusingly incongruous alongside the firm’s title as tailors, clothiers, and electrical engineers.
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Bayswater
London
Trousseau
Oldham
Lancashire
New York Times
Madame Daudet the Elegant Collaborator of Daudet
The passage portrays Mme Daudet as charming and practical, skilled in housekeeping, conversation, dress, and poetry, whose influence and support aided Alphonse Daudet. It notes his tribute in a special edition of Il Nahab, dedicating the work to his devoted collaborator Julia Daudet.
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Alphonse Daudet
Julia Daudet
Army and mobs regulation shift in U S forces
The article notes that many new and revised army rules focus on handling mobs. It cites the Debs rebellion as a turning point and highlights a regulation authorizing sharpshooters to target ringleaders who direct or initiate attacks on troops, stressing strict accountability for officers and soldiers.
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United States
Higgins-Higgins press agent visits Smythe for unpaid bill
A collector from Spotcash & Co. visits Mr. Smythe to demand a seventy five cent bill outstanding for six months. He climbs creaky stairs and asks Smythe to settle the small debt to avoid further trips.
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Mr. Smythe
Higgins
Spotcash & Co
Huulers
The McLean Family At Appomattox Court House Tale
A Confederate officer recounts how McLean owned the property at Appomattox Court House where Grant and Lee signed the peace treaty. The tale traces his aloof stance amid war, Beauregard near Manassas, a fatal volley, and his movements to Mississippi before returning to Virginia for the pivotal peace landmark.
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Grant
Lee
Appomattox Court House
McLean
Beauregard
Manassas
Longstreet
Mississippi
Virginia
Massachusetts libraries lead expansion for public access
The state says 243 of 351 towns have free public libraries and aid backs 103 small towns without them, aiming for universal library service. A grocer’s warning shows misleading labels about maple sugar and botany. Nickel Plate schedules an excursion to Niagara Falls on August 19.
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Massachusetts
Niagara Falls
Corn's Financial School and Sequel Adverts
An advertisement for Corn's Financial School by W. H. Harvey. Describes illustrated editions of 150 to 200 pages with multiple prices for paper sewn cloth and popular editions. Promotes the books as educational, reliable on money matters, and urges readers to obtain both volumes bound in cloth in one volume for a dollar. Published by TIMES-POST Fort Wayne.
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Coin’s Financial School
W. H. Harvey
Corn’s Financial ScHool
Corn
Chicago
United States
Cox Urro Dare
Times-Post
Fort Wayne
Harvey-Laughlin
A Famous Locomotive Wrecks Near Altoona
A famed locomotive No. 1,149 was wrecked after flood debris near Altoona. Recovered from the Pennsylvanian wreckage, the engine survived as a shifter before a fatal misalignment caused a collision with a second coal train, turning the locomotive bottom up and severely demolished.
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Altoona
Johnstown Hood
Pennsylvania Railroad
Conemaugh
Johnstonia
Railroad Company
B. and C. Telegraph Station
W. D. Thomas
Tuomas
Grand Potentate Questioned On Lodge Visit
A caller, stating he is not on lodge business, bows to the Grand Potentate of the Ancient and Honorable Order of Muckamucers. He asks to confirm the name spelling 8-m-y-t-h-e and initials K. W. The desk official confirms the spelling and initials with a polite, amused reception.
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Order of Muckamucers
K. W
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