Women physicians fund hospitals across major cities
The August 19 1892 issue notes women physicians expanding philanthropy by funding six hospitals in Boston New York Philadelphia Chicago Minneapolis and San Francisco. It cites census driven gains in education and industry plus a glacier discovery in Southern California and a new Andes crossing railway opening remote regions.
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New York
Boston
New York City
Philadelphia
Chicago
Minneapolis
San Francis
Be Patient with the Living Poem Fragment
A reflective verse urges patience with the living after death and notes how praise fades, merits vanish, and sorrow lingers. It contemplates the futility of grief as friends depart and the need to endure tenderness in loss.
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Neithor
Thee
A Chocolate Thefts Twist Ends In Courtroom Laughs
Eleanor Goode and Miriam Kasson become entwined in a jewel theft misunderstanding when a box of chocolates hides a diamond necklace. A mistaken suspicion against Miriam drives Eleanor to a dramatic confession and a courtroom reveal, ending with both friendships and fortunes altered.
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Kasson
Miriam Kasson
Miriam
Goode
Laura
Milly
Mr. Goode
Scott
Nell
Eleanor
Bob
Tam
General Grafton
L Eleanor
Darling
Mrs. Grafton
Sarah
Miss Kasson
Electric housekeeping devices from England promise a home revolution
A New York electrical firm has not yet fulfilled hopes of domestic power tools, while English makers produce complete sets. The lineup includes an electric kettle, toaster, and saucepan for quick meals, an electric grill for cooking, plus ironing irons, heaters, bath warmers, and specially arranged fans to cool rooms during summer heat.
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New York
England
New York Commercial Advertiser
Buying Eggs by Weight Reform Spreads to Western Dealers
An important reform in egg trade has Western dealers buying by weight for English markets. They reject underweight eggs as culls, making the standard fairer to both buyer and seller, and suggest selling by weight will eventually become the rule locally.
Honey Making Across Beings and Regions
A naturalist explains honey sources beyond bees, noting honey-wasp and honey-making ants in Texas and New Mexico, tszma in Ethiopia, giant bees in India, and Lithuanian hive practices. Swiss beekeeping remains vital, Europe’s apiculture grows, and the United States hosts leading beekeepers with large swarms and substantial annual honey output, including a San Diego farm yielding 150,000 pounds.
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Tropical America
Texas
New Mexico
Santa Fe
Ethiopia
Intia
Kovno
Lithuania
Switzerland
Canton
Europe
Russia
United States
California
San Diego
Egypt
West Indies
Washington Star
Algerian Wild Beast Dealers and North African Trade
An observer describes the animal trade around Algiers with beasts for Circuses and exotic pets. North African coastal towns feed international dealers, with stock farms near Casbah housing lions leopards and baboons. A Hagenbeck buyer tours zoological farms, noting dense enclosures, restless lions, and the challenge of keeping creatures contained.
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Africa
Algiers
Casbah
Hagenbeck
Altona
Hamburg
Pete
Lion Kennela
The Jaw Muscles Explained By Jaw Strength Tests
Professor Karl Sauer of Berlin explains jaw muscle power using a steel band tied between teeth. A wire pulls weights to the floor while the jaw remains open. average lift discovered over twenty years ago is about fifty pounds. Strong eaters and nut crackers gain greater jaw strength. refined eaters gain less.
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Karl Sauer
Berlin
St. Louis
Antiliterate Man's Bargain Story From 1831 Flood
A Kansas tall tale from Independence recounts a 1831 flood when a Kansan owner of eighty acres traded forty Kaw bottom acres for a calf, boasting he could swap the whole eighty because the other man could not read. The tale, linked to Gospel facts, circulates via the Kansas City Times.
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Missouri
Independence
Tother
Kanaas City
Ships That Are Lost and the Rattlesnake’s Signal
A critical note on Atlantic shipwrecks and the density of sunken vessels in a defined area, estimating thousands of wrecks beneath a 3,006,000 square mile Atlantic sector. It contrasts onshore visibility with ocean floor reality and links to the Scribner quotation. It then discusses the rattlesnake’s rattle as a slight, metallic tinkle and the caution it signals to first observers in unfamiliar terrain.
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North Atlantic
Atlantic
Scribner
Quarterly Review
Couldn't Stand It First Boy Refuses Swim
Dialogue fragment shows two boys debating swimming with one boy citing parental objection. The exchange hints at family dynamics about summer activity and obedience while the mother and father influence the decision.
The Hat Triumphs in This Century Fashion
A fashion feature extols hats as the decisive element of a woman’s attire, praising Parisian caps and the tall headgear that dominates late century style. It describes ensembles for croquet outings, masculine shirt accents, and decorative black straw hats with velvet trims, while noting how headgear suits tall figures. It also touches on courageous acts and a mother’s influence, weaving in a moral tale of a Russian battle and a sergeant-major’s push.
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Sarah
Mulhouse
Marechal Niel Rosa
Lord Nelson
J. C. Young
Big Journal
Alma
Laddie
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Indiana Progress
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Nore Way
Webster
Napoleon
Los Angeles Herald
Jevere
Grayback Mountain
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Warde
Red Cloud
Big Cloud
Hampton
South Dakota
Litle Bear
Yellow Minnie
Andes
South America
Horn
Chili
Helen Forrest Graves
Eleanor Goode
Miriam Masson
Tuck & Nipp’s
Barrington
Iam
Venus
Casson
Messrs
Tuck & Nipp
Orange County
Biddy
Matee
Mrs. Goode
Robert Goode
Fifty-seventh Street
Mother
Robert
Grafton
J. W. Sanborn
Wish Experiment Station
Sanford
Indiana
Msi
Lindell
India
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Montana
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