Tragic Fall River Mill Fire Claims Many at Saint Marys Works
A massive blaze at a Fall River cotton mill complex traps workers on the fourth and fifth floors. Firefighters rescue survivors from towers and balconies as the death toll rises with dozens injured. Witnesses describe chaotic scenes of children and women leaping from windows to escape the flames. Authorities estimate about forty killed and many more injured.
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Gomewihat Jarrelis
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Boston
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Julia Coffey
Boston Herald
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Variety of household recipes and farming tips from the era
The article compiles culinary instructions for cakes, stews and Honey Cake, plus advice on churning butter, hull corn, tinware maintenance, and field practices. It includes reader notes on trellises from umbrella frames, bread making, and farmyard fertilization guidance from Agricola in the New York Observer.
Renovating Grass Land for More Hay and Stock
A historical farming note argues grazing meadows early in the season reduces hay yield, while leaving fields bare harms next year’s crop. It proposes a small field trial: plow one or two acres of old meadow in autumn to boost soil fertility and hay production, using manure as available.
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Farmers urged to save straw and avoid wasteful burning
The Chicago Inter Ocean warns farmers to conserve straw and avoid smoke smudges that burn fuel and waste fodder. It cites experiments from Iowa and Colorado showing smoke as an ineffective defense against grasshoppers and urges careful straw management to protect future crops.
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Colorado
Wight County
Towa
Chicago Inter-Ocean
Build a cheap garden roller from stove-pipe and iron
A reader shows how to fashion a durable garden roller from stove-pipe ends, iron shafts, and sheet metal. By shaping two wheels, attaching heads, and inserting a rammer, the device becomes a serviceable roller at little cost and can be loaded with brick or earth for heavier use.
Fashion in Kid Gloves and Embroidery Trends
Glove fashion shifts with sleeves. six button summer gloves for open cuffs and three to four button pairs for day wear in winter. Embroidery on backs, plain or decorative, and a range of cloth gloves in blues, greens, damsons, violets, and browns align with outfits. Three or four button daytime. six button for full dress.
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Apyj
Ofan
Imeris Bazar
Fragmented OCR snippet on fashion, recipes, and cures
Fragmentary text describes gloves colors and prices, dress fittings, cake recipe with sugar and butter, a letter praising Pine Tree Tar Cordin for tuberculosis, and parents buying patent medicines or silver tipped shoes to prevent colds. It reads as a mix of fashion, cooking, and medical advertising.
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Ancrey McKussick
Rockdale
Dr. Wishart
Great Blood Purifier Vegetatine Claims Cures
A looser 19th century advertisement touts Vegetatine as a great blood purifier that relieves pain cleanses and cures diseases restoring health after other physicians failed. It appeals to public belief declaring the remedy safer and more effective than others and notes tests and testimonials including infant safety claims.
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