Moving theater advertisement from a Fifth Avenue window
A Sun reporter watches a second story window scene turning a hotel lake street theater and carnival into pasteboard landscapes. Actors in a mock Alexandria battle, vendors, and a bicycle display evolve into a bustling city tableau as a window backdrop for advertisers.
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Fifth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Gene
New York
Sullivan
Mitchell
Ganvan
Alexandria
Muddle of Election Era Ad Tricks Exposed in 1890s Paper
A fragment describes a tactics scheme where a candidate is depicted in mock attacks with eggs and potatoes to imitate advertisers. The method involves copying ads from newspapers and drawing the advertiser's notice by mimicking the original style. The tone centers on opportunistic manipulation during election periods.
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W. Y. Sun
Information Wanted by a Curious Stranger at City Hall
A Detroit Free Press vignette recounts a City Hall official being harassed by a stranger calling himself John Linden. The man asks and debunks a string of oddities from postmortem resuscitation to Shakespeare and cats. A half-dollar changes hands as the errand winds into a hardware store episode.
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John Linden
Cleopatra
Shakespeare
Michigan Avenue
Henry VII
Saratoga
Detroit
The Purchase of the Cabin
A humorous Arkansas Traveller tale in which a sleepy old negro wakes to claim dreamt wealth and a new cabin, only to be reminded by his wife that he must chop wood for breakfast. He toasts misfortune with a jar of dream money and repeats the wall bumping in comic frustration.
Leprosy Cases Reported Among Hoodlum Boys
San Francisco physicians have discovered 107 cases of leprosy among the hoodlum class of boys. Whitemoke cigarettes allegedly made by Chinese workers.
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San Francisco
The Class Most Unfit to Carry Weapons Quote
Chicago Tribune notes the remark about the class least fit to bear weapons being the only ones who ever carry them, reflecting a critical stance on gun usage and responsibility.
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Chicago Tribune
Personal and Literary Revelations From Erie to Washington
A collection of brief notices quotes figures from Erie Pennsylvania ex governor Stanford Charles G Reynolds and others. It notes Horace Greeley’s Erie Gazette link and a Chicago Journal account of Chief Justice Waite’s Montana mishap. The Washington Post comments on sunward diplomats from China and a vivid scene of summer attire and sunlit avenues.
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S. A. Davenport
Erie
Horace Greeley
Erie Gazelle
Stanford
California
Charles G. Reynolds
Boston
Boston Post
Charles O’conor
New York
Michigan
William Shakespeare
Yellowstone Park
Sherman
Waite
United States Supreme Court
Montana
Chicago Journal
John Eggleston
Corinth
Aratoga County
N. Y
Troy
Washington Post
Washington
Humorous Journal Freethrow From An Amateur Page
A stitched together humorous continued story opens with odd exchanges about collar-buttons and threats. Fragments include a blind child story, a Scottish boy in debt, a poet lamenting vanished light, and a gas bill joke. Various quips follow about marriage, stock tips, and a New York school ma am, ending with a village woman’s quip over hay price.
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N. ¥. Journal
Castle Garden
Cheago Inter Ocean
Norristown
Newport
Buffalo News
Story of a Teller’s Speculative Bank Heist
A paying teller at a city bank built a fortune by replacing cash with six percent bonds and early government four percents, pocketing earnings from coupon changes. When exposed after the Oby Owen defalcation, he offered resignation but kept the keys, soon converting bonds to cash and restoring vault balance. He profited between fifty thousand and sixty thousand dollars, while the bank remained sound and the case drew no public prosecution.
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Sporan Aay
St. Louis Alobe- Democrat
A Misused Word Professor in Everyday Life
A Boston Traveller column critiques the overuse of the word professor across society. It argues the term has lost its meaning, being applied to faddish youths, street fighters, bootblacks, garbage collectors, and others, rather than those with true intellectual achievement. The piece urges reserving the title for genuinely high intellectual standing.
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Ephraim
Boston
Smuggler Caught With Jewelry Hidden In Coats
A passenger arriving from abroad carried three overcoats on his arm on a warm day. A Customs Inspector investigated and found the linings concealed jewelry worth about a thousand dollars. The jewelry was declared forfeited to the government.
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New York
N. Y. Tribune
United States mailing system cited as most complete in world
A San Francisco Chronicle illustration notes the U S mail system as the most complete in the world. Mrs J P Pond of Napa California recently discovered a long-lost letter from her husband dated sixteen years ago to a friend in San Francisco.
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United States
J. P. Pond
Napa
Bes Francisco
San Francisco
Chron le
Fashion Notes On Hats Fans And Dresses Of The Season
Fashion notes describe silver spider pins, baby-waist dresses with sash backs, five-divided parasols trimmed with deep triangle edges, gold filigree lace pins, ivory stick fans, Irish point embroidery, Valenciennes lace, and mull fichus. Swallows trim hats in Paris, Watteau landscapes on hand painted fans, and new kerchiefs feature bees birds roses and butterflies. A Newport dress used white mull with canoes and scarlet lace trim. tennis fashion favors striped flannels and Russian fibre brocade.
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Paris
Newport
Unskilled Laborers and Lost Knowledge Debate
An older article argues that educated laborers save vast sums annually, citing examples of practical mistakes caused by ignorance of mechanical principles. A Massachusetts Board of Agriculture discussion reports an instance where misusing a three-horse harness and misplaced equipment doubled workload for a lighter horse, illustrating the productivity gap between educated and uneducated workers. The piece emphasizes the economic cost of lacking basic knowledge.
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United States
Massachusetts Board of Agriculture
Cheever
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Boston Times
Detroit Post
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