The Pension Office and Its Giant Brick Building
A Washington report outlines Uncle Sam’s pension system as of 1887, noting sixty million dollars paid annually, a growing private pension list, and vast postal and clerical activity. The Pension Building is described as the largest brick structure in America with a vast interior hall, 1600 clerks, and a stream of daily correspondence. It highlights the longevity of Civil War veterans, Widows of presidents receiving large pensions, and the department's busy, military-style administration.
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Mentof
Grant
Hancock
McClellan
Logan
Sheridan
Gray
Tennessee
Georgia
Virginia
West Virginia
North Carolina
Uncle Sam
United States
Gen. Meigs
Meigs
Washington
Pension Office
Merrill
National Museum
Rome
Diocletian
St. Peter's
Milan
St. Paul's Church
London
Mormon Tabernacle
Salt Lake City
Pension Hall
America
Black
Pension Bureau
Gen
Col
William McLean
Indiana
McLean
Gen. Black
Blaine
Lincoln
W. T. Sherman
Franklin Pierce
Robert E. Lee
Jefferson Davis
Thomas J. Topd
Western rails feed passengers with dining cars and night travel
The piece praises western railroads for meal service on local trains with open dining car doors and portable lunch chests. It notes lower prices, better pace of travel, and friendlier conductors, contrasting with eastern lines. It also describes nocturnal travel habits and social dynamics between trainmen and passengers. The Aurora epilogue adds a fiction vignette about Epaminondas and Aurora.
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New York
Philadelphia
New Haven
Albany
New York Central
Pennsylvania
Eastern Railroad
Brooklyn
Chicago
Boston
St. Louis
St. Paul
Kansas City
Omaha
Westchester County
Comany
New York Sun
Fishing by Sand and Striped Flannel Attire at the Villa
A visitor recalls an afternoon expedition with a large party from a villa. Women in striped jackets and cork shoes dig in the sand with pitchforks to scoop small anchovy-like fish, later frying the catch as a curious seaside pastime. The scene includes donkey carts, barefoot men, and playful wagers over the catch.
Proper Canine Medicine Administration
The Globe-Democrat advises gentle handling when giving medicines to dogs. Use powder capsules or liquids in broth or water, dose gradually if needed, and reward with a bite of meat and a run to prevent vomiting.
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Globe-Democrat
Preying Upon Grief in Mail Obituary Scams
A New York Star notice by Miss Justice decries a scam exploiting mourning readers. Florists embalmers tombstone sellers and other grief merchants flood newspaper death notices with deceptive ads. A Philadelphia operator sells accidental obituary notices for 1.50, while a fraudulent herald pretends to be from a newspaper to solicit payment.
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Friends of
End
Philadelphia
Miss Justice
New York Star
Dreams of the Blind and Dreaming Sighted
The article cites studies by Jastrow and Hall noting that people born blind do not dream of seeing. Jastrow tested nearly two hundred individuals in Philadelphia and Baltimore institutions for the blind, finding no dream of vision among those blind from birth. Laura Pridgman is referenced as an example of sensory absence in dreams, with sight and hearing missing from dream life.
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Lind
Joseph Jastrow
Presbyterian Review
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Laura Pridgman
G. Stanley Hall
Jastrow
J. M. Buckley
Question of Vital Importance in Marriage and Law
A Pittsburgh Bulletin reprints a Boston Prison Association debate on civil marriage, arguing that state licensing of matrimony panders to chance rather than fitness, likening human mating to a lottery and warning of rising crime and pauperism from unregulated unions. The piece contrasts civil licensing with church views and cites Reeves on the need for exams before professional licenses.
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Boston
Prison Association
Indiana
Reeves
Pittsburo Bulletin
How Policemen Wear Gloves Across the City
The New York Evening Sun notes policing fashions on Broadway and downtown. It describes officers wearing gloves in varying styles from full white cotton gloves to single left hand use, with new men initially wearing both before adopting district norms.
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Broadway
New York Evening Sun
American View of English Manners in The Forum
T. W. Higginson notes that English upper class allure persists abroad and that noble manners often fail to meet American standards. He recalls London dinner parties where a dull lord silences strong speakers and argues transplanted aristocrats drift among admirers, implying limited high bred behavior among English nobility.
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Darwin
Edward Jenkins
House of Lords
London
England
T. W. Higginson
The Indian's Bark Canoe in Harper's Magazine
C H Farnham describes the birch bark canoe as the Indian craftsman’s chef d œuvre a natural boat built from birch bark cedar roots and pitch with tools of bone and knife and the work carved by hand. He notes women press pitch into cracks and the canoe’s life as a forest creature faithful to nature sailing lakes and rapids with beaver and otter companions.
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C. H. Farnham
Harper’s Magazine
Weather Change Noted By Italian Observer
A Palmieri observation from Italy notes that on a clear day with continued fine weather the electrometer indicates a pressure change long at the barometer. The Arkansas Traveller reports this weather remark as a curious meteorological aside.
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Italy
Palmieri
Arkansaw Traveler
Out of the Breastworks Tate Springs Tennessee Swift Specific Ad
A testimonial from J Tl Robinson of Tennessee dated July 4 1833 describes severe blood poisoning and throat ulcers. After bad experiences with physicians he used Swift s Specific and reports healing of ulcers skin and throat. A catarrh struck a year prior and was cured after two bottles of the medicine.
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Tate Springs
Ten
the Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Swift
J. Tl
Ropinson
Swift's Specific touted for long standing skin disease remedy
A letter from UrMAN Texas dated June 23 1838 endorses Swift's Specific for a twelve year skin ailment claiming great benefit. The notice lists the Swift Specific Co addresses in Atlanta New York London and urges purchase from all druggists.
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Urman, Tex
The
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Swift
WM. Jones
Ture Swit Specific Co
Drawer
New York
Broadway
London
Eng
Snow Hill
Union Pacific Railway Service Areas Listed
Denver to California routes and Pacific Coast Points include Cheyenne Ogden Salt Lake City Sacramento San Francisco Los Angeles Portland and regions across Nebraska Colorado Wyoming Utah Idaho Montana Oregon Nevada Washington Territory with extensive cross‑country connections.
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Denver
Cheyenne
Ogden
Salt Lake City
Sacramento
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
Nebraska
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Oregon
Nevada
California
Washington Territory
Pacific Coast
Train advertised free family sleepers across routes
An old advertisement promotes free family sleeper accommodations on all through trains. It invites readers to request fare information and pamphlets from Union Pacific agents or the acting general manager, with notices including mailing details and sample orders for cigars sent by return mail.
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Union Pacific Railway
M. Oppenheim, & Co
Columbia St
N.Y. City
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Wasumnoros
Sam
Act of Congress
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Polk
Tyler
Hendricks
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Washington City
George Washington
Detroit
Aurora
Epaminondas
Epaminondas Chugg
Aurora Fitzgarlick
Choir of
Paradise
Fitzgarlick
Chugg
Mr. Chugg
William D. Howells
Chicago Tribune
Normandy
Dreams
United States Overland Mail
Misssouri River
FE. L. Lomax
T. A
J. Ss. Tebbets
Hallet & Co
Maine
Montgomery Ward & CO
Michigan Avenue
Winslow Nothing
Pierce
Golden Medical
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