Winter verses and festive rhymes of yore in a comic sketch
A playful collection of humorous rhymes and comic sketches set in winter. It features a shmall boy on a fountain, a rustia named Mallory with a small salary, a redhaired domestic from Kildare, a Geneva girl with hay fever and a nose that won't blow, a critique on Disraeli, a pratical Simeon on novels, an Urbania old man and a stick of banana slapstick, plus dancers on ice and a cheeky sledding finale urging people to enjoy coasting and buffalo robe cheer despite poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Johnny
Look Ahead on Southern Policy After Grant Era
The piece outlines the central challenge for the next administration in reconciling the South to Republican rights and elections. It argues for end to political proscription, equal tolerance, and honest elections, with Garfield pursuing a persuasive, not oppressive, approach and Hayes-era shifts aiding reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Hayes
Gen. Grant
Garfield
Hayes
South
Congress
Atlantic
Eclectic Magazine January issue enlarged and reviewed
Eclectic Magazine presents its January number with a premier steel engraving Marguerite by Bertrand. The publisher announces a large expansion adding about 200 pages yearly, promising greater variety and value. The table includes diverse articles by Tyndall Myers Ruskin Huxley Lansdell and others with notices and literary items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertrand
Marguerite
Prof. Tyndall
Hester Stanhope
Lebanon
Richard A. Proctor
Duke of Argyll
Newport
Frederic W. H. Myers
John Ruskin
Trevelyan
Charles James Fox
Professor Huxley
Siberia
Amur
Ussuri
Henry Lansdell
Ceylon
John Halifax
E. R. Pelton
Bond Street
New York
Atlantic opens new volume with varied excellence
The January Atlantic begins a new volume presenting vigorous fiction and essays. Miss Phhelps's Friends: A Duet starts strong, Aldrich offers a Smith paper, Henry James's Portrait of a Lady is praised, and Rossetti begins Wives of Poets. Whittier and Stedman contribute poems, with other pieces and a robust Contributors' Club lineup. Subscription details: $4.00 per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic
Miss Phhelps
Aldrich
Smith
Henry James
John Fisk
William James
The
Harriet W. Preston
William M. Rossetti
Euripides
Lucretius Dante
Alfieri
Cervantes
Lope de ‘Vega
Corneille
Richard Grant White
Houghton, Miflin & Co
Boston
The Nursery publishing lineup and prices for 1880
The Nursery lists its editors and top contributors including Marian Douglas George Cooper and others. The note promises a flow of poems and sketches in future issues with works by Mrs M D Brine and Josephine Pollard. The 1880 yearly volume is now ready, mailed postpaid for $1.75 from The Nursery Publishing Co. Boston.
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Marian Douglas
George Cooper
George S. Burleigh
Emily Carter
Jane Oliver
Mary N. Prescott
the Nursery Publishing Co
Bromfield Street
Boston
Mass
Don’t Put It Off Insure Now For Future Dependents
The writer urges a young man to insure his life while uninsurable risk growth is avoidable. He notes most people gain dependents within hours and that early policies are cheaper, arguing many become insurable later but at higher costs. Emphasizes buying promptly to secure lower rates and prevent future financial strain.
Getting to the Rew from Harper's on Chancellorsville
An officer quote from Harper's Magazine recounts a Confederate cavalry skirmish near Jacksons corps at Chancellorsville. A wounded trooper staggers from the woods, seeks aid, then returns as Union and Confederates clash around Stonewall Jackson. The exchange underscores the fog of war and hurried marches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stonewall
Jackson
Chancellorsville
Blue
Bill
Rar
Harper’s Magazine
Nevada's Strange Springs Defy Normal Water Paths
Nevada displays eerie natural wonders with no ocean outlet for rivers and vast alkali deserts. Lincoln county hosts a cold spring that bubbles over a rock and vanishes, and another shallow, restless sand-bottomed pool where no bottom has been found. A teamster once dropped a wagon wheel into the shallow water and never saw it again.
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Nevada
Lincoln County
The Speed of a Hound in Pursuit of a Train
A Battle Creek hound owned by J A Ford proved remarkable endurance. The dog ran six miles in thirty minutes, following a train at eighteen miles per hour and arrived home moments after the car.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. A. Ford
Battle Creek
Mick
Gambetta Eye Injury Tale Debunked as Fiction
Historical claim that Gambetta blinded himself as a child to escape a seminary is dismissed as absurd. The real incident occurred at age eight when a knife drill broke a foil and struck his right eye, perforating the cornea. The accident left him different from his peers and he was continually indulged by his parents.
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Gambetta
Man Receives Dinner Note From Wife In Cape Girardeau
In Cape Girardeau Missouri a man known for frequenting bar rooms was eating with companions when his wife entered with a covered dish. She left the note I hope you will enjoy your dinner. It is the same kind your family has at home. under the lid and departed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Girardeau
Missouri
Population counts by race and birthplace in Rhode Island and DC
Rhode Island totals 276,538 with 133,084 males and 148,496 females and 73,930 foreign born. District of Columbia adds 174,688 people with 83,594 males and 94,044 females and 17,115 foreign born and 59,402 colored. Georgetown and Washington populations listed. figures include small counts of Indians Chinese and Japanese.
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Rhode Island
Newport County
Providence County
Washington County
District of Columbia
Georgetown
Washington
No more hard times with Hop Bitters remedy
The Chronicle urges readers to curb expenses on clothes and meals and avoid costly doctors. It promotes Hop Bitters as a simple, pure remedy that cures at a trifling cost, promising better health and times.
Spring Blossom Cures Indigestion and Headache Remedy
Advertisement style copy promising Spring Blossom as a cure for indigestion and headache. Claims benefit for those who indulge, notes prices at $1 and 6 cents each, with old fashioned phrasing and emphasizes affordability.
Vanderbilt's wealth: astonishing daily spend and endless uses
A Victorian calculation imagines William H. Vanderbilt earning 51 million dollars in 4 percent bonds, equaling about 85 000 dollars daily and over 6 cents a second. It jokes he cannot spend it all in one day, even if he lived nonstop, proposing extravagant feats from nickel belts to moonward roads and charity, ending with ten funerals at death.
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United States
Claas
A Sunday in London and the English Sabbath
The piece contrasts London Sunday customs with Paris, noting England keeps Sunday sacred with church attendance and quiet streets while shops close and recreation shifts to parks and suburbs. It says London’s Sunday resembles an American Sabbath with bells, churches, and limited public activity.
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London
Ris
Bois de Boulogne
Paris
England
America
Philadelphia
A Facet on Life and Knowledge and Dining
A cryptic reflection contrasts living without books, knowledge, hope, love, work, and toil with the elusive need for dining. The text hints at neuralgia and a misprinted term Electric Oil as a possible remedy, suggesting a satirical or fragmentary historical note on health and desire.
Bay City Tribune Praises Hop Bitters as Reliable Remedy
The Bay City Tribune cautions against overrating patent medicines yet endorses Hop Bitters as a genuine, effective remedy. The writer reports personal use in the local climate and finds it first-class and trustworthy, fulfilling advertised claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bay City
Tribune
Spring Blossom promised relief from constipation by Bound Unloosed
Chas Thompson of Franklin Street Buffalo reports long struggle with constipation. After trying many purgatives with only temporary relief, Spring Blossom cured him and his condition remained good for months. He plans to keep it on hand for future flare ups. Price one dollar and fifty cents.
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Chas. Thompson
Franklin Street
Buffalo
Carter's Little Liver Pills Promise Quick Cure
An advertising claim praises Carter's Little Liver Pills as a specific for sick headache and a preventive remedy. The copy asserts the pills act on the liver and bile to remove disease causes without a weakening purge and urges readers not to be disappointed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter
French advocate of woman's rights described as blue-eyed belle
Mlle Subertine Auciert, a celebrated French advocate of women's rights, is depicted as a blue-eyed brunette of refined appearance and delicate features. About 25, she is the daughter of a wealthy landholder, educated in a convent, not a brilliant speaker but earnest, sincere, and energetic, with a handsome patrimony living on her income.
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Mlle, Subertine Auciert
Parents Find A B T Co Black Tip Saves Shoe Bills
Parents discover the A B T Co Black Tip offers better wear and less objectionable metal. By requesting it in children's shoes, families can cut shoe costs by about half.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pierents
Three American Ladies At Inn Seek Husband In Simplin Village
A fragment notes three American young women staying at an inn in Simplin fill a column labeled Occupation with Looking for a husband, indicating a light social observation from a past issue. The brief line captures courting norms and class humor in a village setting.
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Simplin
The New York Tribune’s Record of Growth and Policy
The New York Tribune reports its peak year nationwide circulation, second only to Lincoln campaign highs, signaling public verdict on its political stance and journalistic merit. It pledges to advance free suffrage, sound money, home industry protection, and civil service reform, while maintaining agricultural, household, youth, literary, scientific, religious features, and market reports.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
United States
Tribune
Necming
Terms of the Tribune and subscription rates
The notice lists postage free in the United States and rates for Daily Tribune and Sunday Tribune, plus weekly edition pricing. It details single copies, year subscriptions, club rates for multiple copies, and payment methods including drafts on New York, post office orders, or registered letters.
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United States
Daily Tribune
the Weekly Tribune
Tribune Premiums Offer A Bible Concordance And Tribune Subscriptions
The Tribune adds two valuable premiums this year. The Analytical Concordance to the Bible by Robert Young offers a lexical, geographic, and scriptural reference work with 311000 references, 11000 beyond Cruden, bound in cloth. Packages include six dollars for the Concordance plus five years of Weekly Tribune or five copies for one year. Postage is 40 cents, mail delivery favored over express. Our second premium follows.
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Robert Young
J. D
Vincent
England
Tribune
Library of Universal Knowledge offered with Tribune subscriptions
Embracing Chamber's Encyclopedia with extensive American additions, the Library of Universal Knowledge expands to 16 octavo volumes, printed on calendered paper and bound in cloth. Subscriptions include Tribune delivery for periods up to six years. pricing ranges from 20 to 19 dollars plus postage and express options.
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Chamber
Tribune
Library of Universal Knowledge
Library of Universal Knowledge offer from Tribune
The Tribune promotes a rapid sale of the Library of Universal Knowledge with a special offer. The first two thousand orders receive Macaulay's History of England in three volumes as a free gift, mailed or expressed at subscriber expense. Postage for the three volumes is 21 cents.
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Library of Universal Knowledge
Tribune
Macaulay
England
Magnificent Gift Offer for Dictionary Subscriptions
The New-York Tribune offers Worcester's Great Unabridged Quartollustrated Dictionary with free freight in New York or subseriers expense. Pay ten dollars for a five year subscription advanced or five one-year subs to Weekly, or 165 dollars for five years for Daily Lippune, or 50 dollars for three years for Duly. Mail delivery also available for one dollar extra.
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The
New-York Tribune
Lilpune
Tri-Weekly Journal publication schedule note
The Tri-Weekly Journal is issued every Tuesday Thursday and Saturday. Each issue combines contents from two Daily issues including news markets and more.
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Tri-Wihkly Journal
WrexLey JOURNAL Weekly Overview
The WrexLey JOURNAL is a large weekly general newspaper for home office and workshop readers. It condenses the news of the week with diverse literary and miscellaneous reading matter, editorial discussions, full market reports and market reviews, claiming to be the best weekly in the West.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
WrexLey Journal
West
Daily Journal Saturday Supplement Highlights Sketches
A two page supplement filled with raes sketches literary reviews poetry and anecdotes accompanies each Saturday issue of The Daily Journal and every Weekly issue, offering a compact look at arts content and commentary.
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The
Daily Journal
Weekly
SatuRDAY JOURNAl Supplement Mail Subscription Note
The notice announces mail or carrier delivery for the SatuRDAY JOURNAl Supplement at 2 dollars per year. It notes subscription terms and indicates a single copy rate per year.
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Vorseleta
Rustia
Mallory
Uppermos
County Kildare
Geneva
Disraeli
Endymion
Practical Simeon
Wim-Meon
Urbania
Moses
Eclectic Magazine
London Times
Great Britain and Ireland
Erernrens
Eestreseeesereeenes
Etree
Sesterseenersrercess IG
Seersasers
Newspaper
the Tribune
Berly Tribune
Vergens
Aaa
Library of Universal Tewisive
Theeekly Tribune
Weekly Tribune
Worcester
New-York
Chicago
Telegraph
Northwest
LERMS
Cn Advance
LRI
Veree
Gigve
Shuman & Wilson
Evening Journal
Dearborn Street
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