Kitty the Kitten Speaks on Cruelty and Care in Our Young Folks
In a letter attributed to a kitten named Pussy Miss Kitty writes about cruelty from a boy named Billy and explains a kitten’s fears and needs. The piece recounts a child’s playful neglect and asks readers to treat animals with kindness, urging regular meals and water and respect for a kitten’s feelings, in Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Our Young Folks.
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Nlv
Karl
Marie
Kitty
Lulu
Patience
Fauxs
Billy
Papa
Mamma
Nurse
Little Billy
Susan
Pally
Ted
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Pigeons Time Trials Through History
Reports on carrier pigeons recount spectacular flights from London to Brussels and Paris to Cologne, with speeds near fifty miles per hour and even a claimed mile a minute. The anecdotes cite stages of 6 to 12 hours for hundreds of miles, puzzle-like routes, and Audubon notes on pigeons in New York.
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London
Bury St. Edmund’s
Bishopsgate Street
Antwerp
Maestrichti
Brussels
Liskeard
Cologne
Paris
Audubon
New York
Georgia
Carolina
Odds and Ods of a Worldly Chatty Column
A long miscellany of witty vignettes, proverbs, and anecdotes. It blends moral quips about sunbeams, eyes, and keys with sketches of manners and vanity. The piece riffs on language, marriage, priests, and social foibles, noting playful exchanges and humorous misdirections.
Explosion on the steamer S ends in dramatic panic
The steamer S exploded years ago with terrible effect and burned to the water. Captain S was blown into the air and landed on a floating bale, floating uninjured but blackened. He later reached a village where the editor pressed for a story and printed a vivid but incomplete account, joking the captain was up three months.
Child survives after spool lodged in throat incident
A two year old child of Lester Sheldon in Sturidge Massachusetts nearly choked when a two to three inch spool got lodged in the throat after being held in the mouth. The spool wedged behind the tonsils but a doctor split the object and removed it in pieces, saving the child's life.
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Lester Sheldon
Sturidge
Mass
Capitalists invest $200000 in local manufactures this year
Our home capitalists have put about $200,000 into local manufactures during the past twelve months. In that time we have started the glass works, stage works, Watch factory, and Marseilles quilt factory, besides adding largely to the established houses already in operation. That policy continued a few years will give this point an impetus that will put it beyond reach of reverse.
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Coop Snowine
Marseilles
Stock Island Union
Countess Kisseleff Dies in Brussels After Long Social Rise
Countess Kisseleff, a familiar Coombe watering place visitor and noted society figure, died recently in Brussels. Wealthy and once famed for flirtatious style, she renounced flirting twenty years ago to pursue the rambler goddess. She left an immense fortune of five million florins. her husband was a Russian diplomat of note.
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Ountess Kisseleff
Coorman
Brussels
Advances in Dentistry and Preservation of Natural Teeth
A historical perspective extols rapid progress in dentistry, praising skilled training and modern anesthetics while urging preservation of natural teeth. It contrasts old methods with new artificial replacements and stresses hygiene, diet, and prevention to maintain mastication, articulation, and overall health.
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Eve
Ohio
Newbern
Alice Day
France
Plaster of Paris
Dean Swift
Jack
Boyle Roche
Sirloin
Addison
Mr. Simpson
Thad
Laban Bradley
Sheffield
L. Bradely
Fletcher
Nisbes
Lam
United States Securities
Treasury Notes
Preaport Journal
Dentistry
Chromos
E. &H.T. Anthony &C
Broadway
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N.Y
Metropolitan
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Blossburg
Pittsburg
Illinois
Stephenson Street
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Life Insurance
Freeport
Hon. H. ©. Burchard
D. Atkins
G. J. Bliss
B. Bidwell
F. W. Hanch
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Farmers Fire Vnsu Co
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