Graphophone Promises Practical Sound Recording Invention
The Volta Laboratory's graphophone builds on the phonograph to record and reproduce sound on a waxed paper surface. It features dual diaphragms, a steel cutting point, and a rotation crank, capable of five minutes per six inch cylinder and repeating 106 times with consistent fidelity. It can transcribe dictation, support multiple listeners, and even capture multiple voices on one trace.
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Edison
Menlo Park
Franck Z. Maguire
Harper’s Weekly
Volta Laboratory Association
Washington
President Tyler's Two Wives Revealed by Gen Tyler
Gen. Tyler recounts the president's two marriages. He notes John Tyler married first at 23 and had a 29 year happy union before his second marriage to Julia Gardiner in New York. Julia Gardiner and the children remained in Washington and Richmond where she receives a $5,000 pension.
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Tom
Gen. Tyler
Tyler
White House
Josephine
Douglasses
Virginia
Perpute
Col. Christian
Julia Gardiner
New York
Gardiner
Washington
Europe
Richmond
Frank G. Carpenter
Lippincott’s Magazine
How Union Was Obtained The Cardwell Peel Anecdote
London Truth recounts Lord Castlereagh and Irish parliament negotiations. A key legislator, ill and nearing death, threatened to reveal the plot but Castlereagh replied I shall give you the lie direct and shoot you next morning. The tale illustrates Tory public morality.
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England
Ireland
Lord Cardwell
Sir Robert Peel
Lord Castlereagh
London
Man Shares Luncheon With Wife On Steps
A husband and wife rest on Mechanics' block steps at noon after walking. The man shares bread meat one banana and an onion with his wife while she smiles and eats. A lawyer's clerk notes the act. The reply emphasizes his promise to always share.
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Detroit
Bree Press
Paris Opera Ballet Corps Salaries Revealed
The Paris Opera Ballet comprises 1,027 dancers plus about 100 in costume workshops. Pay ranges from 40 cents per performance for rank dancers to monthly wages of 40 for quadrille, up to 5 000 to 26 000 yearly for stars, with total government expenditure around 900 000 annually.
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Corps de Ballet
Paris Opera
Terpsichore
Chicago Tribune
It Did Not Sweep Clean
A woman on Jefferson Avenue asked her servant to sweep the parlor with a sweeper but found the girl had used a lawn mower instead. The servant, in a sharp mood, dismissed Yankee inventions as a humbug.
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Jefferson Avenue
Greenhorn
Scranton
German School Lipe Endless Routines and Female Autonomy
An English observer describes German schooling for girls from age six to twenty four. Classes run from 8 to 5 with breaks and meals including breakfast coffee rolls and bread with fruit. Pupils learn housekeeping music crafts and languages with later social expectations and finishing schools for language history and literature.
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Germany
England
Oddities and quips spark nightly notes across papers
A collage of brief items ranges from Haymarket riot lighting with matches and Mayor Harrison, to Minnesotan hotel gossip and a joke about Eden Georgia. Other snips include a Virginia governor turning down a $10,000 lecture offer, Eden and Garden of Eden humor, church holiday notes, and a quip about Tilden outliving Steedman.
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Haymarket
Harrison
Chicago Journal
Gov. Lee
Virginia
North
Boston
Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup Ad
Wild Cherry and Tar relief for throat and lung issues with simple remedies in Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup. Marketed as a household article for colds cramps bronchitis and other ailments. Sold by Flower and Petrikin with samples free priced at 50 cents and 1.00.
Book Sale Notice From J B Lippincott Company
For sale by all Booksellers or sent free of expense on receipt of price by J B Lippincott Company publishers 715 and 717 Market St Philadelphia
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J. B. Lippincot Company
Market St
Philadelphia
Montgomery Ward &Co
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
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Phonograph
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Welll
Luke
Odds and Enda
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Eve
Adam
Augusta
Abel
Columbus
Cain
Jefferson County
Eden
Atlanta Journal
Detroit Christian Herald
Vermont
Grand Army of the Republic
Colorado
Ohio
Bellows Falls
Murat Halstead
Mexico
John R. McLean
Canada
Greasers
Globe
Chicago Inter Ocean
Miss Marshall
Central Conservatory of Music
Paul
Eutychus
Cleveland
Gov. Tilden
J. B. Steedman
Mr. Tilden
Henry
Samuel
Rocky Mountain Resort
Springdale
Boulder
Colo
Mineral Springs
Denver
Seltzer House
Boulder Co
Rhos
Orsets
Eas
Ly Nursing
Warner Bros
Aikcsca
America
H.hatserr & Co
Portland
Maine
Ely
Cour Heai
Val
Denison
Reference
Worcester
Worcester’s Dictionary
Nippincott
J. Tuomas
M. D
LL. D
Imperial
Lippincott
Reader's Reference Library
Roger
Soule
Encyclopedia of Chemistry
Iiters
Imperial &Co
Morocco
Trus & Co
Joseph Joyce, E
Estantisheed
Maple Street
Greeley
Oe Foundry & Machine CO
Sth and
Larimer Streets
Castaria
Castoria
Missouri Steam
John R. Dodge, Jr
Mrs. Hauck
Bt. Josep, Ili
St. Louis
Hayden & Dickinson
Lawrence Street
Hew
Mass
E. Tourjee
Franklin Sq
Anveres Lite
Meeses
W.W. Ayer & Son
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