A Little Mother Grace Helps Tended Wounded Dolls
Rose Graham presents a poem in American Housekeeping about Grace a motherly child nurse comforting troubled dolls. The scene shows Lily Bertie and Jennie Vere injured or ill and Grace sewing, binding and soothing with patient care and affection.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mamma
Grace
Lily
Baby Bertie
Jennie Vere
Bertie
Alement
Rose Graham
American Housekeeping
Forgotten Past Returns in Tragic Beach Rescue
A seaside tale centers on Elsie who recalls a hidden past as a shipwreck drama unfolds. Jack Lathrop chooses self sacrifice to save a rival, Henry, while Elsie’s memory forces a doomed outcome and a farewell kiss on a storm battered shore.
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Paradise
Jack
Jack Lathrop
Mrs. Lathrop
Sweet Elsie
Henry
Elsie
Eyes of Famous Men Reflect Literary Talent Across Era
Observers link prominent eyes to eloquence and genius in Burns Hawthorne Shelley Coleridge Wordsworth Keats and others. Descriptions praise blue warm or mottled irises, with eyes said to reveal rank and inner passion, from Shelley's wild gaze to Burns's intense expression.
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Emerson
Col. Higginson
Nathaniel Hawthorne
F. H. Underwood
Burns
Hawthorne
Shelley
Theg
Medwith
Tom Moore
Coleridge
Sterling
Carlyle
Keats
Ezekiel
Isaiah
Walter Scott
Frank Leslie
The Brave Fisherman Gives All for His Rival
In a coastal rescue scene, a fisherman's daring attempt to save a rival ends with his disappearance. The bride pleads for Henry while Jack remains missing as the sea bears the hero away in silence. The crowd learns the outcome only as they find the rescued man and search for the fisherman.
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Henry
Jack
Rose W. Thorpe
Detroit Free Press
Electric Currents and Shifting Theories in Modern Electricity
The article notes rapid changes in electrical theory over a few years. It shifts from viewing current as a fluid in a wire to a broader electro dynamic disturbance around the conductor, with energy flowing beyond the wire and induction aligning with radiant energy. It emphasizes limited attention to inside the wire and the role of short period alternating current in producing distant effects.
The extinction of the bison and the rise of hide hunting
An interview excerpt discusses the near extinction of the American bison by 1873 as whites expanded hunting for hides. It recounts tactics, weapon changes from 45 caliber to Sharp 60 caliber, and the mass slaughter along the Republican and Frenchman rivers. It notes 3,000,000 hides shipped from Frenchman river in one winter and the rivers’ impact on plains tribes.
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Plains
Republican
Nebraska
Frenchman River
Kansas City Times
Persecuted Editors in Germany Face Brutal Prison Abuse
The article details harsh mistreatment of German editors Boshart of the Gotha Gazette and August Bolger of the Westphalian Workingmen's Gazette. It describes shaving, confinement in unwashed clothes, solitary isolation, deprivation of basic comforts, and barred correspondence, all amid charges of gross misdemeanor and disrespect of State institutions.
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Vossische Zeitung
Germany
Ausa
Boshart
Gotha
Sachsen-Coburg-Gotha
Ichtershausen
Erfurt
Frau Boshart
Eiberfelder Freie Presse
August Bolger
Gazetta
Bolger
Dortmund
Herr Bolger
Berger
Business Accord Aims at Clear Agreements and Values
A discussion stresses the need for definite terms in contracts often lacking fixed pay. It cautions against laxity, urges treating arrangements as business, and cites practical advice from a National Grocer source. Also humorous anecdotes about figures Ochiltree and a frorece manufacturer end with light city humor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Scientific American
Three Balti Men Win Big Louisiana Lottery Prize
J C Warnefeld James Billups and John T Stansbury of Baltimore held one twentieth of a prize winning Louisiana State Lottery ticket. The group shared 15000 each from the 500000 capital prize drawn August 12 with payments processed through New Orleans and Baltimore banks. Stansbury, a night watchman, praised the lottery as honest and beneficial to state revenue.
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Baltiacqui
J.C. Warnefeld
Light Street
Charlotte
James Billups
Baltimore
York River
John T. Stansbury
Byrd Street
Warnefeld
Billups
Morning Herald
New Orleans
Adams Express Company
New York
Franklin
Stansbury
Herald
Toward
Maryland
Unusual Bustle Substitutes for Shoulder Pad in Coal Work
Norwich workers turned a woman's bustle into a makeshift shoulder protector for a coal carrier. The gag escalated as the boss learned of the joke, the man praised the ingenuity, and the bustle proved durable, having carried twenty tons of coal before the prank was revealed.
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Norwich
Mike
Moike
Pat
Pat Doneganl
Norwich Bulletin
Pleasant Pellets Liver Pills Offer Gentle Regulation
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as best liver pills. It claims they gently regulate and invigorate the liver, stomach and bowels, offering thorough action with mild effects.
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Darling
Gracie
Nantie
Mamma Gracie
Estall
Back Street
Sass
Institute
New Gallery
Tobolsk
Valparaiso
Petropavlovsky
London
Middlesex
London Beck Street
Persecuted Editors
Sensibe
Ochiltree
Lawrence Gardner
Gardner
Washington
Philadelphia
Morocco
Leather Review
Louisiana
Tery Ticket
Dr. Pierce
Montreal Star
Bill Nye
Capital
Supreme Court
Hill Nye
Scott
BayLon
Vive
IVY
Jeters
Waco
Cexample
Hunt
Hunt’s
Reme
Bright
Hunt's Remedy CO
Providence, Fh. L
Meyer Bros. Drug CO
Dallas, Texas
Kirkwood Hard Rubber Company
Cor. Market
Jones Sts
Moor
San
EL K, Jones
Caspar Nursery
Port ‘Ana
Mendocino County
California
Pensi
Ines
Nathan Bickford
Bb. T
Co. B
Oth N. II
Divine Co
Vas
Frank Lenet
San Angelo
Texas
Offee
Pearl St
Tesas Newspaper Union—No
Kidney
California Fig Syrup CO
San Francisco
Cal
Louisville
Sapolio
Gavestox
Lear
Galveston
Palmer & Rey
Strand
Teasas
Texas Newspaper Union
Ils Strand
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