Mustache of a St Petersburg comedian ends in tragedy
A Russian actor Ivan Layechnikiff faced removal of his prized mustache by his theater manager. He appealed to the Czar Nicholas II, who then ordered the mustache removal at the cost of his position and life. The actor sent the mustache to the Emperor and was found dead the next day. The mustache is preserved in a glass case at the Imperial Theater.
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John Carboy
N.Y
Nicholas
St. Petersburg
Ivan Layechnikiff
Ivan
Tran
Neva
Mperial
Growth of Lowell Cotton Mills Shows Labor Shifts and Foreign Grows
The Lowell mills began in 1828 and now hold nearly 17 million in capital. They employ 12,000 women and 8,000 men, consume 1,000,000 pounds of cotton weekly, and run machinery at higher speed cutting labor needs by 60 to 64 percent since 1860. Three quarters of mill workers are female. The workforce has shifted from New England natives to many foreign born workers, with foreign residents rising from 2,661 of 17,663 in 1886 to 19,000 of 58,000 in 1879, a pattern echoed in Lawrence Holyoke and Fall River.
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Lowell
New England
New York State
Lawrence
Holyoke
Fall River
Irish land reform grows despite English crackdown
The article argues that England’s attempt to curb free speech and arrest Irish reformers will not stop the land reform movement. It frames it as a historic, God-given right of the Irish people to share land, predicting eventual triumph and a prosperous, less impoverished society. It lauds brave dissenters who challenge despotism and emphasizes the moral weight of the cause.
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England
Ireland
Erne
Origin of Pin Money Traced Through Pins History
The term pin money means a woman’s personal allowance for expenses. The article notes the pin’s origin after pins appeared in the 14th century with limited sale dates, dispels a French origin myth, and cites royal inventories in 1847 and later decades. It estimates hundreds of millions of pins used yearly in the United States and questions what happens to all pins.
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France
Francis I
England
Catherine Howard
Henry VIII
Francis
Joan
D’orleans Purelasea
Jehan le Breconnier
Paris
Henry IV
United States
Military discipline and celery cures shaped in colonial misadventure
The narrative mixes a strict colonel scolding two privates for night wandering with a tale of rigorous discipline and a later claim that boiled celery cures rheumatism. It cites colonel X of John Morgan's cavalry, a stern approach to control, and a physician endorsing celery as a universal remedy, plus statistics from 1876 on rheumatism and heart disease.
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John Morgan
Jeunesse Doree
Rhadamanthus
Lincoln as a Prophet in National Standard
The piece argues Abraham Lincoln was a political prophet and friend of laborers. It cites his first inaugural warning against giving capital power over labor and warns laboring people to guard political power to prevent new disabilities and loss of liberty. It closes with a quip about a baby and twins in cradle manufacturing.
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Lincoln
National Standard
Abraam Lincoln
New York World
George Washington
The Star for Issé Subscription Offer and Premiums
The Star announces a one dollar per year advance subscription for 158 and touts itself as a first class local and family newspaper. It pledges increased entertainment and new attractions and thanks past agents while offering liberal premiums to help grow the subscriber list.
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STAR
Premium Subscriptions Drive Premium Gifts Offer
The publisher offers rewards to agents who recruit the largest blocks of subscribers. Prizes include a No 8 Early Breakfast Cook stove, an Advance Cultivator, a luxury eight day watch case, an Oliver Chilled Plow, a gold cameo ring valued at 10, and George Bicknell double shovel plows. Contact F A Arnold at Svar Grencastle Indiana for details.
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J. D. Stevenson & Son
Oliver
George Bicknell
R F. A. Arnold
Svar, Grencastle
Ind
Farm for sale near Bainbridge Indiana
I will sell my 107 acre farm one and a quarter miles south of east from Bainbridge on the state road through Hainbridge. It is well watered by strong springs, with limestone and cultivated grass, suitable for stock raising. Sold together or in lots. Inquiries to John Gordon in Bainbridge or at Greencastle business place of H. E. Ellis Greencastle Indiana. Vee, 0, Sts, Sm
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Bainbridge
Hainbridge
John &. Gordon
Greencastle
H. E. Ellis
Ind
A Novel But Sure Cure for Eyes
A doctor tells a patient a cure for eyes requires stealing a horse and five years in prison with no whisky. The patient questions the remedy, and the sober prescription is not adopted.
Colored emigrants return from Liberia in disappointment
About a dozen and a half of the 870 African Americans who sailed from Charleston to Liberia in 1878 have landed in New York and are returning to South Carolina. Many died or stayed behind in Liberia due to fever and climate. Remaining survivors in Liberia struggle to subsist.
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New York
Liberia
America African Colonization Society
South Carolina
Charleston
Azor
Whistling and Wit in a Dispatches Collection
A compilation of quips and anecdotes from various papers skewers drinking, smoking, and marriage, with a Circassian girl tale from Lancaster. It includes warnings on vice, a card game gambit, and a museum comedy involving an alderman’s kiss and a reaction.
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Lancaster
Dr Kings New Discovery Promises Cures for Coughs
An advertisement touts Dr Kings New Discovery as a universal throat and lung remedy. It claims over one million bottles used in a year and guarantees satisfaction with a ten cent trial bottle available in Greencastle Indiana.
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Dr. Kings
Dr. King
Jerome Allen Greencastle
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