Canine Uppetendom and New York Dog Care Trends
A New York feature notes dogs fare better in the city than elsewhere with upscale bathing grooming and clipping parlors near uptown theatres. It describes a typical wash and scent routine lasting from fifteen minutes to an hour, costs 50 to 75 cents, and mentions visiting staff in uniforms servicing multiple dogs weekly. It contrasts Parisian park life and open-air culture with New York’s indoor dog care, hinting at broader urban social habits.
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Yfan
New York
Globe
Arists
Capua
Paris
Vienna
Metropolis
St. Petersburg
Australia
Yorkshire
Skyes
Brooklyn
West Point Cavalry Drill Described By Cadets
The article portrays West Point cavalry drill with cadets scrupulous in neatness and dress. It highlights daily grooming, the 11 o'clock drill, horse handling, and precise evolutions with sabres, culminating in dueling lines and a charge, before cadets return to grooming.
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Sam
New York Mail and Express
The Contractor Died Game
An Arizona work crew of rough laborers strikes for $4 a day after agreeing to $3.50. The contractor confronts them with a gunfight, killing the red shirted strike leader. The contractor dies from a gunshot wound to the lung within a day, while a self styled chronicler recalls the event and the workers' response. The story ends with the question of whether the strikers returned to work for $3.50.
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Arizona
Zip
Kingdom Come
Noah
Drake
Toothpick trade grows amid hotels and whimsy
A New York dealer cites booming toothpick production from soft pine as hotels supply vast numbers to guests and outsiders. The trade, once dominated by goose quills, thrives on affordable wooden picks, with New York likely leading the market.
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New York
New York Mail and Express
Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup Teething Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething children. It claims immediate relief for crying and pain, plus cures for dysentery diarrhea wind colic and inflammation. It cites a pleasant taste and nationwide druggist availability at 26 cents, also mentions Shiloh’s Vitalizer with a printed guarantee and J F Fezer as seller.
Sealskin processing details and a champagne slipper anecdote
The article explains sealskin preparation from source to finished product with dyeing in London and notes the labor cost. It also recounts a Washington social event at the White Sulphur where a young wife wore a small slipper to a champagne party, and a Richmond attorney drank champagne from it, with her later regret.
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Ann Thomas
Chicago
Lewis Lewis
Vancouver
Island
London
New York Tribune
Baltimore
Fifth Avenue
Walter Raleigh
Richmond
Eli Perkins
Inter Ocean
Local Stratford Critique Sparks Monument Debate
Mr Halliwell Phillips claims Stratford on Avon is controlled by a few individuals tainted by modernization. American readers note strong subscriptions to preserve Shakespeare’s monuments amid reported mischief by local authorities as discussed in Frank Leslie's.
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Halliwell Phillips
Stratford-on-Avon
Stratford on-Avon
Shakespeare
Frank Leslie
George W. Cable Ambidextrous Novelist Profile
The New York Sun notes novelist George W. Cable writes with either hand. He drafts with his left and copies for publication with his right, becoming ambidextrous after learning to use his non dominant hand.
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George W. Cable
New York Sun
Palmistry Protest Grips English Society At Last
Palmistry once a fashionable amusement in English society now reaches genuine craze levels prompting energetic protests, according to The Standard.
Encyclopaedia of Chemistry set for sale in two volumes
The Encyclopaedia of Chemistry in two volumes offers theoretical practical and analytical content applied to arts and manufactures. Profusely illustrated with 25 steel-plate engravings and numerous wood-cuts. Extra cloth set priced at 15 dollars. half morocco 20 dollars. library sheep 318 dollars. J B Lippincott Company Philadelphia.
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Morocco
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Cleveland
Johnny
Harger
Ata Y
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J. F. Fezer
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Cor
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Denver, Colo
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BROS
Ruggists
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Iss
Clingman Tobacco Cure CO
Durham
N. C
U.S. A
JAJ, Reithman & CO
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Colorado
THE
Omaha and
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Omaha
Rock Island Freeport
Rockford
Elgin
Madison
Janesville
Beloit
Winona
LaCrosse
Greeley Cole
Chicago, Milwaukee& St. Paul R’y
KR. Miller
A.W. H. Carpenter
Gen'l
J F. Tucker
Geo. H. Herfford
J.T. Clark
TER
Worcester
Worcester’s Dictionary
Lippincott’s Biographical Dictionary
J. Thomas
M. D
LL. D
Imperial Soc
Lippincott
Chamber’s
Reader's Reference Library
Roger
Soule
Cinches
SPURS
Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
R. E. Hart
Encyclopedia of Chemistry
J. B. Lippincott Company
Market St
Philadelphia
Dr. Clark
U. S
M. A. McLauchlin & CO
Skinner Block
Col. N. B
Quae Joyce
Maple Street
Greeley
Colo
Foundry & Machine CO
Std
Larimer Streets
Castoria
Missouri Steam
Scsseson
John R. Dodge
Eyessiee
Normel
Mrs. Hauck
St. Joseph
J. G. Jaques
St. Ignace
Mich
Tam
A. W. Morrison
Loneview
Tex
Tral Medical
Stitute
St. Louis
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Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Riumphant
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