Ireland’s natural wealth and need for industry
A discussion on Ireland’s vast natural wealth contrasts with population density and recurring distress. It argues Ireland offers lucrative opportunities for capital and labor through abundant resources, fisheries, waterways, and fertile soil, but requires patient, intelligent industry to unlock potential.
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Ireland
England
Wales
Saturn
Beggar Plea Forces Change in Wardrobe Choice
A stray remark about giving up white neckties reveals a humorous exchange on appearances and charity. The speaker jokes that the ties look humanitarian as beggars in the street press for alms, highlighting social frictions in a light tone.
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Freeport Board of Education Fourteenth Annual Report
The Freeport School District presents its fourteenth annual report for the year ending July 9, 1881. It covers twenty five schools, shows receipts and expenditures, staff allocations, and detailed pay rolls and repairs across multiple schools including Knowlton and Mitchell.
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Board of Education At
Freeport
Charles C. Snyder
Joseph Frick
Knowlton School
A.w.greene
F. A. Rosebrugh
FE. A. K. Sherbunda
Jessie M. Cross
M. E. Davis
T. ©. Porter
Silena Gransden
Belle Galloway
Wright School
B. L. Porter
M.mccall
M. 5. Byert
A. Barnes
K. Goodhue
Maggie Flanagan
Shaffer School
C. H. Miller
C. KE. Rundlett
Hahn
Matilda Frick
Galloway
Alice Serfass
WO Wright
Addie J
Tartin
Williams
Fenae
OC Lathrop
Florence
Frisbie
Silver Creek
Hedanes
Brown, Sanford & Rowell
C Clark
Daily Herald
Wenene
Stoskopt
Rockey
Whartesseen
CC Snyder
W Greene Seereee
Stenee Ewone
Eraneet Eeseneferenee
Areee
Ree Tee Beeee
Ja Judson See
F A Rosebrugh
E A K Sherbon
J Ann Bernese
M Flanaga
B Galloway
A J Martin
E A Braithy Eaeeeeeene
J M Cross
F B Hazlett
Miss & M Fifield
J C Snyder
A A Buekma Ohevereerar
MS Byerly
MW M McCall. Sweeees
TO Porter
BL Porter
A Serfass
C H Miller
C E Rundle
Eliza Murphy
H. J. Porter
W. G. Barnes
W. C. Wright, Frerwort
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Boarder With Two Throats Stuns Landlady
Mrs. Bombazine of West Twenty fourth street takes in a new boarder who chokes on coffee at the first meal. He jokes that the coffee went down the wrong way and wonders if he has secured a man with two throats. The landlady has long complained about how much a one throat man can eat.
Mountain retreat plans and a chilling farewell
A woman plans a summer getaway with her father while the man stays behind to work in the city. She seeks a tender pledge from him and asks what she should take, to which he tersely replies, a bottle of cholera mixture, darling, and don’t you forget it.
A Most Delicious Pea Soup Recipe
In Summer Soups Mrs Beecher shares a pea soup method using butter peas and stock. Start with butter and a quart of green peas, brown them by stirring then remove half. Add two quarts stock or water and simmer with spinach onions mint and celery until jelly, return the peas, thicken with butter rolled in flour, season, boil briefly and serve hot.
Meanest landlady of San Domingo boards in town
A boarding-house keeper in San Domingo described as the meanest man on record reopened after last winter’s quake. The earthquake turned the building upside down and the next morning he began charging first floor prices for garret ledgers and other spaces.
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San Domingo
Garret
Spectator questions fashion trends and the odd look of London women
A London Spectator piece laments the clash of hair colors and doomed fashion choices. It mocks dead gold and greens reminiscent of overcooked vegetables and dislikes terra cotta outfits and eel skin styles. It rants about shapeless clothes and ugly outerwear in the city crowds.
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London Spectator
South
Observer
New Natural History Museum
South Kensington
No Good Preaching and a Boston Auctioned Mare
An Albany Times blurb warns against working while miserable and promotes Hop Bitters. A black mare seized in Boston for customs violations was sold by a U S marshal for 8500. it was shipped from New Brunswick priced at 8100, with duties and appraisers valuing 960.
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Albany Times
Boston
United States
New Brunswick
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