Two Beauties At A Seaside Veranda Studio
A narrator compares two women at a Saratoga hotel, one with vivid blue eyes and expressive brows, the other with regular features and a charming smile but eyes badly set. He recounts overheard innominate observers and an attempt to protect a sleeping beauty from wandering guests. The notice closes with a magazine publisher credit and an editor name.
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Saratoga
Pero
Saraysel
Yegts
Bac
Petersons Magazine September issue features Milton engraving
The September Petersons Magazine offers an elegant steel engraving of Milton Dictating Paradise Lost to his Daughters after Munkacsy, with an illustrated Milton Life and Poetry article. It includes the usual fashion plates, patterns, and stories like The Crimson Phial and The Siege of Yorktown. Subscriptions cost two dollars a year with club premiums, specimens available on request from Chas. J. Peterson, 306 Chestnut Street, Philadelphia.
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Peterson’s
Piind Milton
Munkacsy
Milton
Lady Washington
Lucy IL. Slooper
Yorktown
Mary W. Spencer
Ann
Chas. J. Peterson
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
September Illustrations Highlight New Pictures and Serials
The September issue features Bodfish and Ado Bates works with Miss Amanda B Harris fishing rods and King Philip's Head water lilies. Charles Merrill and Mrs. Jenness contribute frontispieces and full page art for Uncle Alec's Cane and Mirage Man.
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Bodfish
Amanda B. Harris
Ado Bates
Boston Curier
Champ
Jenness
Merrill
Uncle Alec
John Sherwood
New York City
Robert Lewis
Green Apple
Humphrey
Miss Wilkins
Boy Blue
Walter Shirlaw
Exquisit
Sharon
A. M. Diaz
Polly Cologne
Mr. Valinois
Margaret Sidney
Rey
Hate
Garfield
September Number Presents Global Arts and Science Pieces
The September issue features Basil Vereschagin in A Russian Artist, Constance F. Gordon Cummings on The Wheel as a Symbol of Religion, Ernest Ingersoll on Stars of the Sea, and John Muir’s Coniferous Forests of Nevada first of a series. Other items include The Society of Decorative Art, A Boy in Gray, Peter the Great, Victor Hugo as a Dramatist, The People’s Problem, Daughter of Henry Sage Rittenhouse, Queen Titania, Topics of the Time on the President, Culture and Progress, new books notes, and World’s Work telephony progress illustrated by two cuts.
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Richard Whiteing
Basil Vereschagin
Paris
Constance F. Gordon Cummings
Ernest Ingersoll
Nevada
John Muir
Brownell
Society of Decorative Art
Gray
Allen C. Redwood
Mr. Schuyler
Peter the Great
Peter
Alexis
J. Brander Matthews
Victor Hugo
Stickney
Miss Sprague
Henry Sage Rittenhouse
Titania
Boyesen
Lippincotts Magazine September issue previews seaside and country life
The September number features light summer reading with sketches of Naworth Castle, Sylt, Old Nantucket, and rural West Jaalam. Maurice Thompson writes on Grayling haunts, Bruce on A Dish of Vegetables, Oswalds Zoological Curiosities, and a new serial The Valcours by Sherwood Bonner. Short stories include Frant and A Pretty Kettle of Fish, plus The Dress Maker at Green Harbor and various brief papers and poems.
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Lippincott’s Magazine
Lippincott’s
Kingsley
Cumberland
Naworth Castle
Howards
Sylt
North
Germany
Old
Nantucket
West Ja
Frant
Champney
Green Harbor
Eclectic Magazine September issue overview
The Eclectic Magazine's September number is praised for quality across topics. Contents include Early Life of Thomas Carlyle by James Anthony Froude, Reminiscences of Prison Life, Italy Home and Foreign Policy, poems by Dutton Cook and F W Bourdillon, Kith and Kin serial by Jessie Fothergill, Seeley on Bonaparte, and bookish essays by Bonar and others. Published by E R Pelton New York with yearly and trial subscription rates.
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Thomas Carlyle
James
Anthony Froude
Italy
Jier
A. Gallenga
Dutton Cook
Leon Michel Gambetta
Duke of Argyll
F. W. Bourdillon
Jessie Fothergill
Cambridge
William Alliangham
James Bonar
E.R. Pelton
Bond Street
New York
Carter’s Little Nerve Pills Ad Offers Relief
An advertisement touts Carter’s Little Nerve Pills as suitable for nervous and dyspeptic men and women, claiming they help with insomnia, weak stomach, indigestion, and headaches. It recommends pairing with Carter’s Little Liver Pills, priced at 25 cents per vial, sold by Emmert & Burrell.
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Carter
Emmert & Burrell
September issue promises artful frontispiece and crafts
The September number features How to Make Dolls of Corn husks and Flowers for young girls. Poems include The Song of the Fairies by Robert Richardson and Ilerve Riel by Robert Browning. The Cry of the Children appears as well. October promises further fineries as serials conclude.
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Robert Richardson
Robert Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Great cry from ocean to ocean Kendall's Spayin Cure
Read advertisement describing Kendall’s Spayin Cure as a nationwide remedy. The copy claims broad relief and urges readers to try the product for their pets.
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Kendall
Atlantic September issue previews new serial and essays
The September Atlantic features three chapters of Mr Lowell's serial Dr Breet's Practice and a notable piece by Mr Godkin on the attempted assassination of the President. It also presents mythological study by John Fiske, Mary Hallock Foote's Exile part two, Katrina Saga by H H, and various housekeeper sketches and theatre notes. The magazine includes book notices, a contributor’s club, and Harvard related pieces.
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Atlantic
Mr. Lowell
Dr. Breet
John Fiske
Koshchei
Mary Hallock Foote
H. H
Norway
James V. Sears
J. Brander Matthews
Dumas
Wm. Chauncy Langdon
Harvard
Harvard Divinity School
Dr. Holmes
Edith M. Thomas
the Atlantic
Houghton, Mifflin & Co
Boston
Sword Fish Trophies From Captain Chapel Cruise
Five sword fish trophy specimens from Captain Henry Chapel's Chapel Brothers cruise captivate the market. The largest nearly 800 pounds after trimming. The method resembles whaling with a barbed lance from the bowsprit and securing the fish aboard before finishing it. Swordfish gather around Block Island in June and move south along the coast to Maine by September.
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Henry Chapel
Chapel Brothers
Block Island
Maine
New London
Price Increase Announced for Wide Awake Magazine
Publishers reveal a substantial price rise for Wide Awake from 2 to 32.50 per year after October 1 1881. An advance offer lets buyers prepay 3 to receive July 1881 to December 1881 and a full year and a half at the old rate. D Lothrop Co. 32 Franklin Street Boston Mass.
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Wide Awake
D. Lothrop & Co
Franklin Street
Boston
Mass
Uncle Ben Rates Gilhooly With Clever Cipher Billing
An old man known for his ciphering ability visits Gilhooly to demand cash payment for garden work. He claims to have worked eleven days at a dollar a day and, after pretending to calculate, concludes Uncle Ben owes about Neben dollars, phrased as a humorous cipher.
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Darkey
Gilhooly
Ben
Elgin resident praises Eclectric Oil for rheumatic knee relief
E Balch says after trying many patent liniments he used three bottles of Thomas Eclectric Oil and found it the best application yet. The note mentions New England spinters moving west affecting emigration toward the South.
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E. Balch
Elgin
New England
Burdock Blood Bitters touted as cure for lung pain
A testimonial from Binghamton New York describes relief from months of dull left lung and shoulder pain after using Burdock Blood Bitters. The ad notes a one dollar price and a trial size of ten cents.
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Binghamton, N. Y
Kendall's Spavin Cure Endorsed by District Elder
Rev P N Granger Presiding Elder of the 8th Albans District St Albans VT reports Kendall's Spavin Cure cured a horse of lameness from spavin and later a ring bone issue improving the animal. he notes prior mixed results but says the cure made the horse non lame and the lump disappeared.
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Ohio
B . Kandale & Co
Kendall
Chicago Express
P. N. Granger
8Th Albans
St. Albans
Kendall & Co
Hinmi
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