Vexico's Interior and peon family life described by a Detroit corresp
Zacatecas cor respondent to the Detroit Free Press paints a vivid portrait of life in Mexican huts. He notes mud and adobe houses, crowded family rooms lit by a tallow candle, and a diet of tropical fruits meat and tortillas. Women wear shawls and high heeled shoes, while men favor dressed animal skins and silver adornments. Clothes and customs contrast with Western comforts as blankets replace coats in heat and even July heat cannot deter the sunlit scenes described.
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Terras Calientes
Republic
Dalerge
Edirt
Calatta
Mexico
United States
Zacatecas Cor
Detroit Free Press
Witness recounts failed assaults at Cold Harbor
Frank Wilkinson of the Chicago Times describes the 1864 battle scene noting officers urging lines to assault under hill crests, the mass refusal of Union troops to renew a direct attack, and the subsequent entrenchment with earthworks by daylight.
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Ae Aflernvon
Cold Harbor
Grant
Desault
Meade
Hancock
Warren
Wright
Burnside
Frank Wilkinson
Chicago Times
Sobering Off Drunken Moon Bathhouse Claim
A Turkish bathhouse proprietor claims nightly success in sobering drunken men with baths and rubdowns. He says twelve to fifteen such men are treated each night and returned home without visible signs of a night of drinking.
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T. New York News
Portrait of a Famous Man and the Coat Mystery
An Academy portrait of a renowned subject draws attention for the subject’s remark about the clothing. The artist, who created the garments, exclaims to a friend that he never made the coat, highlighting a notable discrepancy noted by visitors and critics.
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Academy
Pio
Scott
Paris American Register
Ancient Salem tanning vivid in old yards and yards of hides
A Boston Herald corresp describes 19th century Salem tanning, noting open air yards, huge Chinese hides, soaking, lime vats, bark liquor, splitting by machinery, and the dangers, costs, and odors of the trade. The piece contrasts tanning with currying and outlines firm practices and worker risks. It also surveys life of New York Sun on dwindling newspaper girls and their perilous paths in poverty and vice.
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Salem
China
Mass
Cor
Boston Herald
New York Sun
Merciful Man Mr Childs Keeps Elegant Stables
A Philadelphia News correspondent admires Mr Childs for his humane care of horses and cows. His Jersey dairy stable is plain yet equipped with every comfort, while the horse stable blends beauty with practical design and ample water features enhance milk cleanliness.
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Mr. Childs
Tigat
Frank Worth
New York
Wootton
Philadelphia News
Old physician’s tears mark wartime emotional awakening
An old doctor recalls a lifetime of stoic work ending in a wartime awakening. Four of his stalwart boys leave for service, and his grief reveals a tenderness long suppressed. The speaker notes the nation grew emotionally during the war, not just prospered.
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Inter Ocean
Woman witness in divorce cases loses edge in presenting claims
A Pioneer Press Voices column notes female plaintiffs in divorce trials often seem unable to fully expose their case against cheating husbands. The judgment varies, with pity or limited expression possibly dulling the presentation, leaving much to her witnesses.
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Pioneer Press
Encyclopedic Mr Spicer a Tireless Piazza Talker
A pi zza promenader praises Mr Spicer as a mine of information and a perfect encyclopedia. Seth, after listening, prefers the encyclopedia in book form and asks for silence. The Rev Dr Wayland Hoyt of Philadelphia has begun a bicycle tour of England.
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Wayland Hoyt
Philadelphia
England
Egypt's Plunder Under Viceroy Ends in Starvation Crisis
A dramatic account recounts how Egypt's viceroy drained about 200,000,000 francs during fourteen years in power, leaving nine tenths of Egyptians barely subsisting on rice and maize. A later scene follows Professor Exlinger’s survey team as a desert boy snacks on maize, dried fruit, and butter before fleeing a torrent of mustard pickles.
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Hohenschwangau
Egypt
Professor Exlinger
Felix L. Oswald
Advantage of Color Blindness in Professions
A historical note explains color blindness can offer advantages in tasks requiring fine visual discernment. An engraver with total color blindness may better distinguish subtle lines, while a mourning goods clerk earned extra for acute shade perception. Other trades like railroading and postal work show missteps from color misperception and mis-sorted stamps.
Views of the City as a Popular Souvenir Album
The piece notes a rise in selling photographic albums of city views in large cities. It traces the spread from European origins to American hubs like New York and Washington and finally St. Louis, praising cheap photo lithographs and their growing accessibility for travelers seeking city views.
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New York
Washington City
St. Louis
G. C
Globe Democrat
Failure of the Phonograph as a Toy and Trial
The Detroit Free Press argues phonographs remain toys not breakthroughs. Edison shifted focus to lighting, leaving the device with tin foil too stiff to imprint sound loudly, making the phonograph a good listener but a weak repeater of conversations.
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Edison
Detroit Free Press
Wages of an Organist in Boston Church
The Boston Post notes a 250 yearly salary for a top rank organist at a leading Boston church. It also cites a renowned American organist offered 000 annually by a wealthy New York church, who said he could earn that driving a street car but would not demean his calling.
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The
Boston Post
Boston
America
New York
Freezing Triggers Germination in New Zealand and Himalayan Seeds
European botanists report many New Zealand plant seeds require freezing to germinate, a finding echoed for Himalayan seeds as noted by the Boston Budget. The observation suggests chilling enhances germination across distant flora.
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New Zealand
Boston
Vermont plans state asylum for the criminally insane
The Vermont legislature proposes a state institution to confine and treat individuals deemed criminally insane. The measure aims to centralize care and oversight within a state facility.
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Vermont
Odds and Ends Parody Snippets From Various Papers
A collage of quips and anecdotes from New Orleans Picayune Tid- Bits and other papers. Jokes about compensation for fence whitewashing, presidential candidacy, Rabbinic Torah teaching, a tramp seeking money, a spectator at a ball game, George Peabody’s penury and charity, a Greenville deacon, Central American annexation, Dr Johnson, a New Haven headline, and a bank scam involving a Dakota notary.
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Zeke
Massa Backus
Dollahs
New Orleans Picayune
Senator Blank
St. Paul Globe
Hartford Post
George Peabody
Greenville
Penn
Holyoke Transcript
Mexico
Buffalo Express
Dr. Johnson
Springfield Union
New Haven
Yale
Saybrook
New
Dakota Bank
Hartford Courant
Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup Ad
Wild Cherry and Tar touted as remedies for throat and lung ailments. Describes Dr Bosanko's Cough and Lung Syrup with additional healing remedies and priced 50 cents to 1 dollar. Samples offered. Sold by Flower and Petrikin.
Book sale notice from Philadelphia publishers
For sale by all Booksellers or sent free on receipt of price by J B Lippincoy Company publishers 716 and 717 Market St Philadelphia.
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J.B. Lippincoy Company
Market St
Philadelphia
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Ros
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Petites
Tata Health
Coraline
Warner Bros
Wabash Ave
H.hateerr & Co
Portland
Maine
EAM Ball Taures
EL Bros
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Denison
Worcester
Worcester’s Dictionary
Lippincott
J. Tuomas
M. D
LL. D
Koperial
Yorta
Chamber's Encyclopadia
Reader's Reference Library
Roger
Soule
Morocco
Popular
Encyclopedia of Chemistry
True & Cs
Augusta
Apace Joyce
Maple Street
Greeley
Up Foundry & Machine CO
Larimer Street
Castoria
Mins
Missouri Steawns
Jones
John R. Dodge, Jr
Hauek
St. Joseph
G. Jaques
Ignace
A. W. Morrison
Longview
Tex
Particu
New York City
Science
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St Louis
Lawrence Street
Shoula’s Tnehef
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
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Bostun, Ma
Tising Agency
Meas WA
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