German Home Life Shows Thrift Discipline in Domestic Life
Dresden correspondent notes German household economy avoiding waste with precise meal planning in hotels and homes. It praises efficient servants, early work hours, minimal gossip, and strict curfews while highlighting social greetings, punctual meals, and orderly conduct across families schools and public spaces.
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Dresden Cor
Detroit Free Press
Watts
Salisbury Plain
Glueck
The Swimming Master of Rockaway Beach
A New York report profiles a popular ocean swimmer known as the professor. He is slender, tanned, and wears blue flannel attire with a Derby hat, guiding bathers and rescuing those in need with pragmatic, sometimes blunt, responses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hleare
Cotopaxi
Ilyre
Stalian
Patti
Rockaway
Large extra illustrated Shakespeare volume on view in Strand
A prominent bookseller shows a vast thirty six volume edition of Boydell's Shakespeare with thousands of plates. Priced at 1500 pounds, the work may not reflect its original cost. The note laments costly pursuits by educated taste and contrasts with Grangerite wealth. Also mentions Georgia beef shooting pools and old world remarks on natives and Australians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strand
Boydell
Shakspeare
Canadians and Westerners Embrace Harsh Weather Traits
An excerpt notes New Englanders prefer mild climates while Canadians celebrate severe winters and westerners boast about a first-class tornado, reflecting regional climate attitudes and stereotypes from Chicago Times.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chcago Times
Excessive effort risks sudden death from lung apoplexy
The article warns that extreme exertion in running or rope jumping can trigger immediate death due to blood flooding the lungs faster than the heart can manage and before breathing can adequately oxygenate the blood.
Hoffenstein's Politics and a Race Scam Tale
Hoffenstein explains politics to Herman as a horse race tale involving Moses Goldstein and Solomon Loeb in Vicksburg. The group bets on a race, Goldstein loses amid shavings, and the plan swindles are exposed, leaving Hoffenstein frustrated and reflecting on political betrayal.
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New]Orleans
Milter Hoffenstein
Herman
Levi Loenburg
Magazine Street
Custom House
Hoffenstein
Bersimmon
Vicksburg
Jacob Rosenfield
Rosenfield
Goldstein
Toeb
Loeb
Bruce
Brack
Pat
Canadian officials warn of marriage prospects for young women
Government officials and many private citizens in Canada claim that women aged 15 to 21 who travel west for domestic service are likely to marry soon after arriving, with prospects of marrying well if they relocate far to the west.
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Boston Transcript
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
North American Review
Miss Phelps
Canada
Universal Language Idea Sparks Interest in Chicago
The Chicago Tribune notes a plan for a universal language with fifty two associations promoting it. An example verb tik shows declensions such as tikob for I think and tikol for we think. A captain aboard protests seasickness claiming disgust at the vessel's motion.
Very Extraordinary Case of Bigamy in English Court
A Brighton wedding tale perplexes courts as Captain Macdonald and James Malcolm are identified by scar, tooth, handwriting, and witnesses. The jury failed to reach a verdict, leaving both sides seemingly flawless in defense. The piece also notes a dissolution of Morley & Co in Greeley Colorado.
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New York Times
Emma Cash
Brighton
Captain Macdonald
Kaikoura
Australia
Miss Dash
Chichester
Macdonald
James Malcolm
Miss Cash
Malcolm
Philadelphia
Malcom
Islington
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Boston
Epson Oliver
New York
Pail Mall Gazette
Georgia
Micago Times
Chicago
Petherick
Upper
Nile
Leichardt
Cranz
Hall's Journal of Health
Cern
Peru
Cerro de Pasco
Wich
Lienry Meviges
Callao
Mayer Grace
Michael Grace
Lima
Chicago Tribune
T. C. Morley & Co
Greeley
T. C. Morley
T. C. Mortey
Rupert Sreee
Greeley, Colo
California
N. B
H. B. Jackson
Ghoo. N. Sphre
Portland Cement
Michigan
RED Cross Paints
Marshall & Fox Coal
Mansfield’s
Skinner Bros. & Wright
OUR
Lawrence
Denver
H. M. CuamBeruin
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Powell & Son
NCINN
Cincinnati
IT. Foundry & Machineco
8Th and
Larimer Streets
Denver, Colo
Chuich
Realstate
A. J. Wilber
Colo
Oscar Eaton
Bryan
Ohio
C. C. Eaton
Frank Baker
Fort Morgan
Ort Morgan
Colirado
C. A. Myers
Weld County
Yle
Cinches
SPURS
Main Street
Greeley, Colorado
R. E. Hart
Deakers IN
General Blacksmith
Main
Walnut
Pine
Alfred T. Bacon
Hunter
Mitchell's Bazar
Siison & Co
Portland
Maine
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