Vast array of quotes on mortality and commerce reflects era
A compilation of brief notes cites mortality among the poor, charitable reports, and economic commentary. It notes Wanamaker's promotions for postal efficiency, European mortality comparisons, farm mortgage actions, and remarks on journalism and banking incidents. The piece also mentions surveying methods in the Dominion and frozen meat trade growth signals for New Zealand, England, and Australia, plus population shifts in the United States led by New York City and Memphis news items.
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Seterera
New Zealand
England- Ee
Engreed
Mike
Apsteana
Sydesey Foerest
England
Europe
Australia
The Turquoise Ring Ends Up With Sabina’s Cousin
Sabina Prewitt, expecting marriage to Ivo Jarvis, faces heartbreak when a turquoise ring Jonathan Jarvis gave her disappears. In a late twist, Mrs. Fowler reveals Octavia Fowler hid the ring moments before Sabina’s suspicions deepen about loyalty and fate in their village.
Spinner in the Garden Weaves Night and Day
A fragment from Emma C. Dowd appears in Youth's Companion describing a garden spinner at dawn, noon, and night. It uses imagery of sunbeams, bees, and birds, with the spinner mourning and recalling a misdeed tied to the number 17. The verse marks a reflective, lyrical scene with musical rhythm.
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Ley
Emma C. Dowd
Ring That Was Not Given Splits The Ties Of Love
Sabina discovers a ring on a toilet cushion and, after a tense scene, confronts Jonathan Jarvis about its fate. He denies giving it away, she defends her honor, and a reconciliation unfolds as Octavia Fowler’s whispered accusations dissolve.
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Jonathan Jarvis
Sabina
Jonathan Jarvin
Sabine
Jonathan
Bing
Octavia Fowler
Persimmons
Daniel Boone's Tomb and Parsimonious Paraguyan Orange
The article describes Daniel Boone's tomb near Warreton Missouri and the Boone era landscape with cliffs, cascades, and the Devil's Wash Bowl. It notes graves unearthed during railroad work and remnants of ancient defenses, then shifts to Paraguay's orange industry with Jesuit influence, exports, ports, and social scenes of orange collection, plus a stray excerpt on King Joseph and Napoleon about national hatreds.
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Daniel Boone
Motherly Democrat
Warrepton
Rhine
Femme Osage
Boone
Central Missouri Railroad
Seventh Avenue Back Street of New York City
An observer portrays Seventh avenue as a dense neighborhood of small grocers cobblers and second-hand dealers with tenement life and low lodging houses. The area draws working people including clerks and shop girls and is lively in warm months with music laughter and colorful attire from the black community, yet after 10 pm it grows quiet and has a history of robberies and murders in a once notorious but now controlled locale.
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New York
Seventh Avenue
Fifty-ninth Street
West Side
Signa
Bneinege
Sixth Avenue
Back Street
Harper’s Weekly
Keeptomania in Chicago Art Institute Case
A report from Chicago describes a suspected kleptomania case at an art institute where most pupils are aristocratic young women. The article notes differing judgments based on the victim’s wealth and questions motives behind the alleged crime.
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Chicago
The Mexican Swell on Horseback in Lavish Attire
A Harper's Magazine vivid portrait describes a rider dubbed the Mexican Swell. He sits atop a richly saddled horse with silver trim, a red cord rein, heavy silver spurs, and a curved sword. The look blends extravagance with bravado, contrasting cowboy poise with aristocratic display.
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Sydney Smith
Harper’s Magazine
Wedded in a Tennis Court at Milford Center
Andrew Bates and Bertha Stokes, famed tennis players, wed on a lawn tennis court at Aga Lutes. The ceremony halted a lively match as Rev Wardell officiated, then the couple finished the game and hosted a wedding banquet and barn dance for about 200 guests.
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Milford Center
Springfield
Ohio
Andrew Bates
Bertha Stokes
Bates
Miss Stokes
Mr. Bates
Chicago Herald
Leprosy Bacillus Isolated and Grown Outside Humans
Report from Allahabad, southwest India, details two Leprosy Commission members isolating and cultivating the bacillus in bouillon gelatin medium. They inoculated a rabbit, which quickly developed leprous nodules. This marks the first successful growth of the bacillus outside human subjects, suggesting further research may yield noteworthy results.
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Allahabad
India
New York Mail and Express
Quaint and Curious Nineteenth Century Tidbits
A compilation of odd facts and curiosities from around the world. Notes range from human nerve fibre counts and multilingual youths in Baltimore to bear valley springs in Pennsylvania, a dove brooding a Brahma chick, a jarred tarantula in Pleasanton, and historical notes on Gascon terms, royal colors, and early millers strikes in Viillingen.
Grasshopper pest remedies touted by California board member
A State Board of Trade member cites Kansas methods to crush grasshoppers with hot iron troughs and trenches outside fields. He urges California ranchers to adopt the plan to destroy nymphs and prevent further infestations. Also reported, a San Francisco Chronicle note on a boy saved after twenty five minutes in the bay and an odd item about a young woman receiving a marriage proposal from a man who sends eggs.
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Rennedy
State Board of Trade
California
Kansas
San Francisco Chronicle
Lars Valgersov
Grant Street
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Pearls of Thought and a Fire Smeller Tale
A collection of aphoristic musings on love trust adversity and virtue contrasts with a humorous Hoboken carriage tale where a man with a hoe handle detects supposed burning rag smoke leading to playful banter and mistaken alarm aboard a blue car reported by the Indianapolis Raw's Horn via the New York World.
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Hoboken
New York World
Spider Baronet Uses Web Changes for Weather Signs
A garden spider serves as a simple barometer, shortening and lengthening its web threads with changing weather. It signals rain when inactive, predicts fair weather if busy during showers, and even adjusts its web daily. A second item tells of a Black man’s shoes polished by a boy, a five cent charge and a remark about his thick sole.
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St. Louis Republican
Oxalic acid stains and lace washing tips in old paper
A fragmentary column offers home cleaning guidance including oxalic acid use to remove rust and salt stains, cautions about acid harm to fabrics, and traditional methods like French chalk. It shifts to baking and cooking tips with smithfield ham preparation, lace washing steps, and a sequence of old fashioned recipes for turnovers and ginger snaps.
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Delionta
Chicago News
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Andiana Progress
Wanamaker
Farmers’ Alliance
Beitieh Women's Temperance Association
Charles Emory Smith
United States
Russia
St. Petersburg
St. Louie
Deville
Emeds
Ses
Rocky Mountain
Dominion
Sante Canes
Jurge Beach
Philadelphia
Lewis, Reilly & Devries
Scranton
Pean
Meilly
Mies Davies
Miss Zawha
Recorder
Erica Segue
Memphis
Gee
Fowler
Bing Prewitt
Mrs. Fowler
Sibins
Mr. Keeler
Gibina
Absalom Prewitt
Reepin
Paraguay
Spain
Italy
Humaita
Asuncion
Harper's Magazine
National Hatrerds
Joseph
France
Naples
Napoleon
Pittsburg Press
Charley
Jones
Baltimore
Dubuque
Iowa
Gundal
M. Julian
Paris
Duke of Portland
Portugal
Prussia
Sweden
Germany
Austria
Crown Prince
Bear Valley
Chambersburg
Penn
Pleasanton
Cal
Gascony
Viilingen
Pearls OF
Thouuay
Alice
Society
Law
Indianapolis
Ind
Raw’s Horn
Bostblack
Smithfeld
Smithfield
Madras
Gecipes
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