Boston Baked Beans Seafaring Tradition and Domestic Craft
A housekeeper asks how Boston baked beans differ from common methods and offers a detailed home method to prepare them. The piece contrasts parboiling then slow baking with longer oven time, discusses bean pots salty pork, sweetening debates in Boston, and the practice of bakers delivering pots for breakfast. It also notes a historic Boston Sunday ritual of carrying bean pots to bake shops and returning with brass checks.
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Boston
The
Morning Journal
Back-Scratchers Arrive From Pacific Coast In New York
New York hosts the first back-scratchers brought by San Francisco travelers. The article notes fleas on the Pacific coast and humorously contrasts back-scratchers with seaside life. It also highlights a Leeds Mercury claim that celery cures rheumatism when cooked and eaten, with a physician endorsing boiled celery as a remedy.
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New York
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Leeds Mercury
Why the United States Still Trades With England
The writer argues that England takes seven tenths of grain exports and questions the value of continued trade if gold payments are impossible. They suggest stopping imports to keep foods and resources at home, while noting temporary leverage to use England until a coin-based system is possible, using Japan as an example of balance in payments.
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England
Pennsylvania
Japan
Wells, Richardson & CO
Burlington, Vt
Frozen Mammoth Carcasses Reported Above Arctic Circle
Juneau Alaska Free notes a tale of mammoth carcasses found frozen in ice above the Arctic circle. Indians are said to extract meat for feeding dogs, with bodies preserved as if killed yesterday after millennia in solid frost. The piece argues the glacial period ended nearly instantly, killing all life and freezing flesh before decay.
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Arctic Circle
Juneau
Alaska
The Houses of Abyssinia
The Abyssinian houses are small circular structures with pointed roofs built of bamboo or cane. People prefer outdoor life, sleeping on the ground wrapped in a skin. Men are hardy, warlike, combative and cruel, armed with a lance a broad sword and rhinoceros-hide shield.
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St. James
Congo Forces Reclaim Stanley Falls Station
Despatches from St Paul de Luanda report Barttelot leading a 640 carrier and 100 soldier expedition with three whites, Rose Troupet and Samesson, advancing slowly to trace Stanley. June updates say first stages completed but no Stanley information. A Fountain explosion inquiry will be pursued by the District Court grand jury to verify testimonies.
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Congo
Stanley Falls
St. Paul de Luanda
Barttelot
Stanley
Tippo ‘Ib
Rose
Troupet
Samesson
Camp Tambuya
Swift's Specific Adverts Claims Medical Triumphs
A July 4 1888 notice features testimonials of Swift's Specific Co claiming cures for blood poison skin disease and catarrh with endorsements from J H Rosinson Kaufman Texas. It also mentions Shiloh's Cure for respiratory issues and a cartoon panel about a kiss and wholesale retail shift.
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Tate Shrines
Tenn
the Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
Swift
J. H. Rosinson
A Cure for Diarrhoea Claims from Mont Colburg Resident
Mr J A Burnison of Colburg Montgomery Co Iowa says he cured his two children of six weeks diarrhoea using Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy after trying four patent medicines. He asserts it will cure any case when directions are followed and notes its availability from J F Fezer.
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J. A. Burnison
Colburg, Montgomery Co
J. F. Fezer
Hackmetack Perfume Sold By J F Fezer
Advertisement notes Hackmetack lasting fragrance perfume sold in pieces 25 and 50 cents by J F Fezer with price and vendor details.
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Hackmetack
J. F. Fezer
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New England
Valladolid
Fannie B. Ward
Yucatan
Parrero
Merida
Sanchez de Aguilar
Yuleoba
Pacific
Germany
America
Chicago Banker's Monthly
Houses of
Abyssinia
Fountain
Swirt Sproirie Co
Broadway
London
Eng
Snow Hill
Shiloh
Alice
Charley
Dansville
Shoeh Store
Greeley
Walnut Street
Madison Avenue
H. A. French
Brooks
Greenlee
Denver, Colorado
Lawrence
United States
New Orleans
Weld County Abstract Office
Weld County
MONEY
Toiloan
Reeley
Hunter and West’s Bank
James B. Phillips
Colorado
H. A. Axcour
Mt. D
Oxford
Brooklyn
N.Y
Tax Centaur Company
Fulton Street, N. Y
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