Diverse 19th century vignettes from urban life and science
A Moscow charity supports poor brides with interest funds. Shipping cables extend to Bermuda, with ocean bed surveys and temperature profiling planned. Silk plush marbleizing improves within fabric finishes. London clergy and granite varieties noted. Opera larynx and earnings of a famous tenor discussed. Vatican guards and pay rates outlined. Electric paralysis case near Lockport astonishes locals. Various notices include rail ventures, mining, floods, and local incidents across multiple towns and countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Malifax
Bermuda
Life in Asyoot Egypt Reveals Harsh Living Conditions
P G Carpenter describes Asyoot’s flat-roofed mud houses with wooden lattice windows and no glass. He notes crowding, disease from flies and lice, sleeping on bare floors, animals in living quarters, and widespread eye problems among residents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nile Valley
Asyoot
Egypt
Pharaoh
Moses
Upper
P. G. Carpenter
National Tribune
Skull measurements and brain packing in phrenology debate
New York Herald reports Dr. Frederick Peterson in Europe and America measuring skulls to link size and shape with mental capacity and criminal tendency. He notes average head circumferences and arc lengths for men and women, discusses packing of brain tissue, and cites Bertillonan identification use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
America
Frederick Peterson
New York
Peterson
Tom
Ciall
Gambetta
Mvsn
M. Bertillon
France
New York Herald
From Poor French Maid to Wealthy Oil Speculator
The Boston Globe recounts Marie Pitou a French maid who arrived in 1875 with the Greaves, bought oil land near Butler and Gillespie farm, held on amid a market boom, moved to New York to trade, built a $10,000 nest egg, then married Colonel Blank after a hospital meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marie Pitou
New York
Mme. Blank
Mar
Pitou
America
William
Robert Greaves
Glasgow
Scotland
Pittsburgh
Central Hotel
Petrolia
Isaac Steele
Butler
Allegheny City
Gillespie
Baltimore
Atock
Marie Pitew
Wallstree
Paris
St. Luke's Hospital
Colonel Blank
Maine
Boston Globe
The Buffaloes Fate and the Great Slaughter
Henry Inman recalls the 1868 to 1885 destruction of North America’s buffalo herds alongside Union Pacific expansion and tourist traffic. He notes hunting for robes, rail transport laws, and the drastic decline from thriving herd to near extinction. A separate note cites electric light deterring worms and a Bavarian count’s Philadelphia wedding attire as casual items in Chicago Herald coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union Pacific Railroad
Kansas
Plains
Rocky Mountains
Buffalo Range
Platte
Arkansas
Congress
Henry Inman
Harper's Weekly
Philadelphia
Chicago Herald
Woman reports husband’s self harm and home incident
A distraught woman bursts into a station house claiming her husband cut his throat in their parlor. The tale includes a scolded Mohquet carpet and a judge’s quip about the garret. The snippet ends with unrelated mental notes from Demorest’s Monthly.
Water Power to Revolutionize Industry Says 1890 Census
The 1890 census reports 55 404 water wheels yielding 1 295 479 horse power, 35.75 percent of industrial power. Officials estimate rivers could supply over 2 000 000 horsepower and with electricity up to 4 percent utilized. Locations like Rochester Kearney Spokane Falls and Niagara Falls loom for vast power developments as Col Whittemore of Rock Island plans transmitting power from forty one wheels to distant shops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Kearney
Spokane Falls
Niagara Falls
Colonel Whittemore
Rock Island
N. Y. Sun
Umbrella Repair Costs and a Curious Trade
A casual dialogue over an umbrella's cover discusses a total cost of two dollars fifty cents, with a playful line about a combined cost of three fifty. The piece shifts to a street scene where a mysterious looking man alarms Brown who identifies him as the undertaker. The item ends with a note on floods in New South Wales Australia.
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I. C. Withers
North Locust Street
Denton
Menu
Cainesville
Dallas
Haskell
Tex
Comanche Country
Hill County
Alew
Kilgordan
Grindstone
Chicago Tribune
Jones
Brown
Texas Sistings
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Odds and
Martha's Vineyard
Church of England
St. Paul's Cathedral
London
Hailowell
Red Beach
Addison
Ober Ammergau
Oxford
Bad ‘Tndstein
Dean Stanley
Nouveantes
Gavarre
Madrid
Gayarre
Vatican
Pontifeal Arny
Guarda Nobile
Hosmer Road
Lockport
Jasper Brown
Peron
Cor
Br. Louis
Globe- Democras
Slowpay
Eall
Slowpey
West Bhore
Se Monest
Man
Brousen
Brckeley
Munsay's Weekly
Bellefontaine
Lisbon
Menna
Switzerland
Texas Mexican Railway
Navasota
Peets
Brenham
Wichita County
Africa
Oakville
Germany
Congo State
Galveston
Turkey
Trades Union Congress
Liverpool
Otto of
Bavaria
Oscar Wilde
Herwell
George Bo McClellan
Worms
Riemarck
von Moltke
Hohenvsollern
Khedive
Impacl
Carlsbad
Department of the Seine
N Society
St. Peterburg
Moscow Society
Zoological Garden
Amsterdaa
Holland
Sanet Wendel
Rhenish
Prussia
Australia
Newcastle
Moos
Belgium
Ua Borinage
Dr. Koch
Vienna
Ixfe
Lord Balisbury
Ferpt
Creneva
M. Dumontel
Chamber of Deputies
M. Hermneix
Geo. Boulanger
M. Hermeix
Rome
Cardinal Manning
Hs Holiness
Berne
Canton of
Treiner
Grand Council
Lugaro
Mendrano
Locarno
Bundesrath
Lishon
Curzea
Senor Ribeiro
Serpa Pinto
Brandas
Rope’s Pass
Arassax Hay
Ben D. Lee & Co. of
Belton
Douley County
Capitelian
Tom Bowers
Austin
George Fields
Abilene
Mary Foster
Pittsburg Exposition
Rio Grande
el Paso
Pendleton
Fort Worth
James Pennington
Covington, Ky
Ohio River
Agnes
Ursuline Convent
J. H W. Leach
Kilgore
Longview
Imagne Are
San Antonio
Queenstown
Inman
City
Teutonic
Navarota Fair
Frank Rea
Prairie Plains
Grimes County
Little Sandy Creek
Nate
Charlie Miteon
Lampasas
William Mitchwell
Tarrant County
Mitchell
Cisco
Chicago
AJS
Curtis
Troy
Bartlett
Pearsall
Corrigan
Frank Davis
Willis
Waco
Philas
Rusk
United States
George Byrne
Port Worth
W. J. Doughtee
Gainesville
Christian Eagle
Houston
Augusta Brown
William Bradberry
James Barnes
Marshall
Conger
A. BB. Darden
Cotton Belt
Arthur Hall
Palo Pinto County
James Shepherd
Creedmore
Comptroller
Wike County
Sawyer, Wallace & Co
S. D. Dougherty
Ferris
Assssin
James Delisle
Houston and
Tesax Central
Waxahachie
Sherman Courier
Lron
Missouri
Texas
Denison
Sherman
Thomay O'Conner
Dallas Republican
Charles O'Connor
Texas and Pacific Railway
Connor
Beanville
San Pedro
Laredo
Corpus Christi
Uasting
Hubbard
Messie
J, DP. Douglas
John T. Bonner
Tyler, Alexandria and Northwestern Railway Company
San Angelo
Menard County
Wyoming
Unita
Sweetwater
New Jersey State Agricultural Society
Brighton
California
Arizona
Vermont
Bradford County
Lucky Marie Pitou
Durham
South Caroliga
Alice
Mamma
Lulu
Mamima
Demorest
Electricity and Water Power
Fis
Anvil
Norristown
W. B. Logan
Horseshoer
Logan
St. Louis Republic
New South Wales
Queensland
Brisbane
Grafton
Singleton
West Maitland
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