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Night quarrel ends in jealous duel at Bastille canal
In a nocturnal scene two couples dined in a restaurant then walked toward the Bastille. A jealous lady feigned scandal and a fight followed with hair pulling. One woman fled toward the Temple in a impulsive act, while a passerby named Lecat helped calm the scene and the drama subsided.
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le Figaro
Bastille
Mademoiselle X
Mademoiselle C
Monsieur Lecat
No Evaporation Claims For Dr Thomas Eclectric Oil
An advertisement asserts the remedy's ingredients are fixed pure and imperishable with no evaporation or strength deterioration. It claims the product relieves pain lameness and stiffness and can be used externally or internally for rheumatic throat and lung relief.
Day's Kidney Pad Praised by Adrian Druggists
At Adrian Mich Reed Beach and Smith druggists report Day's Kidney Pad gives top satisfaction. A customer says he would not trade his pad for two hundred dollars if unable to obtain another.
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Reed, Beach & Smith
Aavarice of Madame Rossini Upheld by Wealth Refusal
In winter the Rossini drawing room is described as icy and frugal. A banker and his son visit with a small billet of wood for the fire. Madame Rossini reacts with scorn at such frugality calling it shameful for the rich to bring only two sticks.
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Wall Street
Madame Rossini
Greenland
Biblical Names and Spring Blossom Mentioned in Odd Ad
A dated remark notes that the Testament mentions John the Baptist but not denominations such as Methodist or Presbyterian. It also quips that Spring Blossom could cure boils, offered at a price of 1 dollar 50 cents.
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John the Baptist
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St. John
William Bayard
Epwin Bayard
Walker
Joan Berryman
Johnson
J.D. White
Grange Keater
T. W. Camroot
W. Harding
Aaron Alward
New Brunswick
Curious Telephonic Concert In Switzerland At Fete
The Nature reports a telephonic experiment in Switzerland during the federal fete of singers. A telephone was placed in the Zurich Festhalle and connected to Bale telegraphic office eighty kilometres away. The Bale audience enjoyed the singing as if in an opera house and clapped, with sounds transmitted faithfully to Zurich.
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Perils of Alpine Climbing on Jungfrau
The Gazette de Lausanne recounts an Alpine accident on Jungfrau featuring M. Theodore Gehrs of Grasburg and guides Rudi and Inabnitt. After a fall from an ice cornice into a crevasse, Gehrs and Rudi were injured but survived, while Inabnitt suffered serious injuries and a perilous 9 hour trek to safety with Gehrs and Rudi aiding him.
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Rudi
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Eggeschhorn
Grindelwald
Rockville Sportsman’s Pups Stir Hollow Laughs
A Rockville man feeds newborn setter pups by placing a milk pan behind the stove. He carries the pan to the wood house in the night and dips each pup in milk, then discovers his wife used the bread pan for rising dough. The pups end up doughy and odd looking, prompting a humorous tale.
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Rockville
New Haven Palladium
The British Tenant Farmers and Their Plight
The piece contrasts the grumbling landlord with the despairing tenant farmer and a dull laborer, noting emigration as the laborer's hope. It compares education levels with German and French peasants and discusses the, “magic of property,” immigration trends, and the threat of bankruptcy as subsistence on borrowed land collapses. It ends with a witty gloss on a politician described by Monsieur de Falloux.
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Court of Bankruptcy
London Cor, St. Paul Press
A Romance of Love and Spring Blossom Cure
A romance depicts a couple’s meeting love and separation over foul breath, then reconciliation through a Spring Blossom cure. The tale offers the cure at prices one dollar and fifty cents.
Caution on Kerosene Use Prompted by Local Accidents
The article warns families to caution domestics against using kerosene to start fires and recommends keeping Dr. Thomas Eclectric Oil on hand as the best remedy for burns cuts and wounds.
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Dr. Thomas
Parisiennes fashion sense through ages and beauty
The essay traces Parisiennes as interpreters of eras from Louis Philippe to the Empire, noting how hair styles reflect fashion waves. It highlights Rachel as a paragone of Parisian grace, the rise of false chignons, and the Parisienne’s ritual of aging, claiming true youth is willful and lasting for thirty years.
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Louis Philippe
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Milo
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A Worldly Old Maid Advises on Picking a Husband
A satirical columnist shares tea table wisdom on selecting a life partner. Observations warn that domestic, prudent, and self centered traits indicate potential husbands. The speaker suggests marriage to the man who ends tea without any toast and whose patience yields the best wife and mother in law.
Washington headquarter tour names at Valley Forge
Since the opening of the Washington headquarters at Valley Forge daily visitors have left names in the register, creating page after page of entries.
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