Largest Paper in the County reveals global curiosities and emigration
The 1882 issue notes 6 million Americans not attending church, 66 thousand in Ireland, and a Hagenbeck firm stock in Hamburg. It cites Dr. Chamberlain on farmers seeking easier work, a Connecticut gymnast teaching dismissal, and mass emigration from Japan to Mexico Canada and Australia. It reports a mastodon tusk discovery near Port Williams and the Skokomish Indians, plus Philadelphia Engineers' Club Inland Waterway plan from New York to Charleston, and Beevry's Kansas anti alcohol institute tests for prohibition cures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mrron Eells
Port Williams
Eells
Bluffs
Mr. Evll
Skokomish
Clallam
Engineers’ Club of
Philadelphia
Atlantic Coast
Spencer S. McCorkle
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Boards of Trade of
Congress
New York
Charleston
Raritan Bay
Raritan River
New Brunswick
N. J
Raritan and Delaware Canal
Bordentown
N. Y
Delaware River
Delaware City
Delaware and Chesapeake Canal
Chesapeake Bay
This Bay
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Southern River
N. C
The Elk River Trestle Heroine and the Night of Fear
In a stormy night near Homer’s Gap, fifteen year old Ann Stratton races along a collapsing trestle to warn the Romabolds station of a coming express. Her father Matt, trapped beneath debris, wrestles with guilt as Ann crosses to safety and the train thunders past, a crowd rallies at the rescue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Homer's Gap
Matt Stratton
Ann
Marit
Elk River
Stratton
Matt
Rembolds
Murt
Rombous
Smething
Jess
Armas
Rombolds
Yankee Blade
Accommodating Mindoo Barbers In India Bedside Shaving Service
In India an EHindoo barber shaves clients in bed with minimal gear and no wake up necessary. He visits daily or every other day, uses a brush razor and scissors, finishes with the client unaware, and leaves the face slightly clammy, as baths are taken after rising. Apples as a Medicine note discusses phosphorus, nervous matter, brain and liver health benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Ehindoo
London
London Hospital
Word Counts in Biblical Texts and Classics
A Presbyterian review notes the New Testament has 4829 words excluding proper names. It compares Old Testament vocabulary and lists word counts from Gesnius Lexicon, the Iliad and Odyssey, Shakespeare, and Milton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gesnius
Milton
Presbyterian and Reformed Review
Adventures of Mrs Littledate in Central Asia and Other Fashion Tales
A digest of late 19th century notes: Mrs Littledate joins her English husband on a two year Central Asia journey visiting the Pamir plateau and local tribes, a milestone since Marco Polo’s era. Also brief vignettes on a Miss Hattie West quail hunt, the kimono lounging gown, black dress cautions, and evolving fashion trends including hats, pelisses, and crape finished silk gowns.
Cleaning Delicate Laces and Home Remedies Corner
A column blends lace care with old fashioned home cures. Instructions cover calcined magnesia sachets to freshen fabric, Seidlitz powder use and dangers, plus kitchen tips like onion poultices for pneumonia, brick dust on potatoes for rust, Javelle water recipe, giblet gravy, Indian bread with yeast, and jellied cranberries to serve with chicken pot pie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mme. Modjeska
New York Press
One Man's Fad
A quoted gentleman at the Laclede notes every man has a fad and cites a brother whose habit is to build a house with care and expense, then after a couple of years abandon it to start another project, repeating the cycle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Petrified Forest
Arizona
Atlantic and Pacific
Petrified Forest of
Billings
Sam
St. Nicholas
Wrens Battle Blue Birds Over Jug Nest in Pennsylvania
In Silver Lake Township a fifty year old jug nest in a stone milk-house becomes the arena for a two hour battle as wrens and a pair of blue birds vie for the opening. The wrens ultimately drive the larger birds away and claim the jug. Dudley Thought Aloud is recounted from the Sheffield Telegraph about Lord Dudley’s humorous dining invitation remark and a neighboring guest’s imitation leading to a lasting friendship.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silver Lake Township
Pennsylvania
Goldthwaite
Geographical Magazine
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Wednfeday
Ireland
New York World
Hagenbech
Hamburg
Germany
Japan
Caroline, Bonin
Ladrone Islands
Pacific Ocean
Bureau of Emigration
Mexico
Canada
Australia
Sway
Tsa Perry
Dave
Nimrod
Hattie West
Wesleyan University
Delaware
Oho
Little Darby
Unionville
Miss West
New Orleans Picayune
St. Louis Republic
Castoria
Lemuel Pitcher
G. C. Oscoop
Lowell
Mass
J. F. Ericestorg
Conway
Ark
Casteria
I. A
Oxford St
Brooklum
Medical
AiLes C. Surra, Pres
The
Centaur Company
Ti Murray Street
Dudley
Sheffield
Lord Dudley
Wesher von
Amd
Momey
Paniertars
Caine
Fry
Ures
Herrery
Europe
Americ
United States
Sahara
California
Columbus
America
England
France
Nicholas
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