Wide Awake August issue highlights art and fiction
The August Wide Awake presents Elizabeth's home life and art by P Humphrey with illustrations including Andover Study. It features poems like Babyland and The Wisp, stories such as That Which Owed to Tommy and A Bit of Nature, and essays on Flora in a Garret, West Point Abbey, and London sketches. A vivid miscellany ends with a focus on authors and plates from Pelton New York.
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Mary Ashbury
Ella Joan
Nora Perry
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Eliza Wood
Florence Allen
Fidget
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Elmer Lynnde
Niel
J. A. Sever
Ella Farman
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William H. Rideing
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Danube
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H. Knight
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Hooper
Lapress
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How
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America
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Meryon
Frederick Nedmore
The
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J. Arbuthnot Wilson
Matthew Arnold
Johnson
Philochristus
England
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Rum-Light
Prof. Helmholtz
Nature
E. R. Pelton
Bond St
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St Nicholas for August opens with King Cheese poem
The Midsummer Holiday issue features a long humorous verse by J. T. Trowbridge, adapted from Maud Christiani, about a Paris Exhibition 1867 incident. Hopkins provides a comical frontispiece and several smaller illustrations.
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J. T. Trowbridge
Maud Christiani
Hopkins
Scribners Midsummer Holiday opens with Bryant portrait
The Midsummer Holiday number of Scribner's Monthly begins with a Bryant portrait by Cole from Eaton's drawing, plus a Bryant life sketch by Rev. H N Powers. It features twenty illustrations of Cum menton and Roslyn homes, editorials on Bryant, and reprints including Thanatopsis.
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Scribner’s Monthly
William Cullen Bryant
Cole
Wyatt Eaton
Cummington
Roslyn
Short Paragraphs From Various Papers Feature Quips and Oddities
A Yonkers Gazette quip notes a toothache signals extraction. The piece mentions a Georgian who sold 60 000 pounds of battlefield bullets, a Dighton Mass man growing a oversized huckleberry, and a Sunday sea boat church service with no alcohol. Puck jokes about cramps. Baby shows join county fairs as pairs. London club tricks with hat through ring. A demeaning racial crack from a race program is noted. A flute student falls. neighbors fear he may recover.
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Mass
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London
Jasper
Cato
Yonkers Gazette
Pictures in Babyland August Reading Charming
A quaint notice extols the August issue of Babyland published by D. Lothrop & Co. in Boston. The monthly publication is praised for its pretty pictures and charming reading, priced at fifty cents a year, and urged for every child.
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River of Death Swamp River Floodwaters Carry Dead Fish
A Rockford reader laments polluted waters after recent rains, describing a river flushed with filth and hundreds of dead fish drifting downstream. Large sturgeon, a five foot seven inch behemoth weighing 117 pounds, was reportedly hauled near the bridge as officials face a foul stench and looming pestilence.
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Hell
McDermaid’s Cooper Shop
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