After Twenty Years Contrasts New York Then and Now
Prentice Mulford recalls his 1856 New York return in 1871 noting shifts from Wallack’s theatre to Union Square as the hub, price changes in drinks and oysters, the bobtail car mishap, and social norms from daguerreotypes to spittoons, detailing a city transformed by time and wealth.
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New York
New York City
Cape Horn
San Francisco
City Hall
Wallack
The
Star
Union Square
Broadway
Stewart
Stewart’s Palace
Burton's Theatre
Chambers Street
National
Barnum's Museum
Forty-second Street
Oyster Saloon
Hoboken
Palestine
Hell
Heaven
City Hall Square
California
Dickey
Prentice Mulford
Baltimore Oysteropolis and Chesapeake Bay Industry
Baltimore is called the oysteropolis of the world with the Chesapeake Bay as its vast oyster territory. The industry drives a $10 million annual sale and licenses cost over $250,000 yearly for about 1,500 boats. Oyster pirates clash with police as illegal dredging rises amid strong reproductive powers and curious oyster habits.
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Bart Tim More
Baltimore
Chesapeake Bay
Te West
SOME ALBANY REMINISCENCES
Special correspondence recalls Albany politics during a senate contest and J. Husted as speaker. It recounts a public clash with a New York City member who called Husted a liar, Husted calmly exiting and requiring withdrawal of the epithet. It notes clergymen seeking Sunday paper limits and Husted's flamboyant dress at his first speaker stint.
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Albany
Jan. Sr
United States Senate
Jimmy Husted
Assembly
Miller
New York
Conkling
Platt
Husted
Washington
New York City
Judiciary Committee
M. J. Dexter
Farmer Stokes Collects Rock Souls On His Farm
Special Correspondence reports Edgar G. Stokes a Connecticut farmer who believes souls of great figures reside in rocks and pebbles. He places stones around his farm to house departed spirits including George Washington Napoleon Bonaparte Queen Elizabeth and Caesar. Neighbors view the hobby as odd but see him as a shrewd businessman with a well balanced mind.
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New York
Edgar G. Stokes
Connecticut
New England College
Rocky Mountains
George Washington
Farmer Stokes
Bess
Napoleon Bonaparte
Hannibal
Caesar
Grant
Garfield
Tilden
Hendricks
Stokes
Terrapin Hunting Methods Among Upper Chesapeake Men
A historical note describes terrapin hunters along the Patuxent and nearby waters. It explains terms like counts bull and cow, notes terrapins’ size and eggs, and outlines capture methods including silent skiffs, a three pronged stake, and dredges used to haul diamondbacks from the mud.
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Chesapeake
Patuxent
Baltimore
Electric High Wires and Urban Transit Debates in New York
Walter Wiberly surveys dangers of electric wires and the push for underground systems. He notes unsafe practices, rail transit delays, and the promise of electric locomotion, while condemning urban mud and praising cleaner power possibilities.
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New York
Subway Commission
Brooklyn
Church and Cortlandt
Metropolitan
Broadway
Walter Wiberly
How Dakota Was Settled
Dakota’s first permanent settlers were Americans in the southeast, followed by large Scandinavian groups who now dominate five southern counties. Mennonites and Dutch-Hollanders form notable colonies. Icelanders exist far north in Pembina. Land remains plentiful in the north, with a population 416,000 in 1885, while the southern half is termed Dakota. Congress has not approved the split into North and South Dakota.
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Yankton
Dakota
Russia
Douglass
Pembina County
Bismarck
Pembina
North Dakota
Congress
Planters of Rice Contrast Old Ways With New Machinery
Rice planters recall hands on hoe and sickle days while adopting plows, mules, and self binding reapers. Flooded fields and labor costs persist as land values fall from 100–200 to about 30 dollars per acre. Native laborers earn around fifty cents daily, while pest and disease challenges persist in malaria rough conditions. The essay contrasts slave era productivity with modern costs and notes protective duties, plus limited innovation in milling and processing.
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Savannan
Europe
Georgia
South Carolina
Louisiana
Changes in the Star Spangled Banner since its origin
The article notes only a few changes to the national anthem since its first performance. It cites corrections such as altered wording in the lines about the band that vauntingly swore, the bloodbath washing out the foul foot, and the archaic phrases doth wave and When our cause it is just being modernized to he wave and Then conquer we must when our cause it is just.
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Highland Lake
Denver
Highlands
Weld County
Denver P. D
Grece
P. O
Greeley
Taylor's Baking Powder Price List Note
An advertisement proclaims 25 cents for a one pound can of Taylor's Baking Powder and calls for testimony about competitors. The copy emphasizes pricing and promotes the product.
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Taylor
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North and
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Greeley Tribune
Hiauanpuake
George Davis
Greeley Board of Trade
Longmont
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Boulder
Supreme Court
Fa County
Boulder County
Georgetown
Maud Ethel
Ostrander
Middle Park
Ostrander’s
San Miguel
H.C. Watson & CO
Gale, Lee & Wilson
W. A. Nichols
Our Mail Order Department
A. B. Crook
McNamara
Coloralo
Percheran
M. W. Dunhams
Draft & Coach Stallions
France
America
Colorado
South
West
John A. Witter
Colo
J. K. Thompson
Cariload
East Greeley
Scituates Prize
Fred Billings
Woodstock
Prince of Scituate
Bell of Scituate
Scituates
H. B. Jackson
E. H. Abbot
Drs. F. L
O. E. Miller
Lawrence Street
Mrs. Winslow
D. F. Camp
E. M. Nuspaum
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