Evils of landlord rights and Westward weather notes
Indiana Progress cites an English MP railing at Tweed Commissioners over riverland rights causing family breakups and emigration. A study on evaporation estimates four to eight feet annually, then discusses Milwaukee weddings and hackmen profits, Chicago stock yards tough girl, and a New York Press obituary on Henry Wade Wilkes aka George Wilkes, once the King of Crooks, ending with a note that honesty remains best policy.
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Tweed Commissioners
New York
New York World
West
Chicago
Henry Wade Wilkes
George Wilkes
New York Press
Wilkes
New York Groz
Two Irish Laborers Die Together After Long Bond
John Murphy and Peter Duffy, both aged sixty-two and sixty-five, died in Ward's Island Hospital on Friday of consumption. Lifelong companions from Limerick, Ireland, they came to America together, shared work and drink, and lived in the same lodging house at 472 Pearl Street until recently. They passed within ten minutes of each other, ending a forty year companionship. The article notes Vermont maple sugar production may reach six million pounds and a government bounty of one hundred thousand dollars.
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Ward’s Island Hospital
John Murphy
Peter Duffy
Limerick County
Ireland
Peter
America
John
Pearl Street
Ward
Paris
Donrof
Dourof
Races in the Air Pigeon racing history and training overview
A detailed exploration of homing pigeons as racing birds from origin to breeding and training. It covers body features for speed, tail use for message attachment, and methods of training and transporting birds. Also notes devices to record returns and cautions for safe liberations and weather.
Music and Muscle in Barnum and Bailey Acts
A New York Commercial Advertiser piece explains why each performer uses a personal music piece. It notes rhythm calms nerves, tones muscles, and helps timing in acts like bareback or midair trapeze. Sudden tempo changes could derange coordination and lead to accidents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnum & Bailey
New York Commercial Advertiser
Adulterated Condiments From The Spice Trade
A Washington Star report describes adulteration practices for black pepper and other spices. It notes producers use roasted ship's bread, mustard hacks, corn meal, fine seed meal, wheat, rice, and especially coconut shells to imitate pepper. Pure ginger and mace are forged from corn meal and flour with various additives. The piece cites a New York firm shipping 5000 pounds yearly of ground coconut shells for spice adulteration and promising dealers guidance on spice production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Washington Star
Two Views of It in Aging Proportions
A Detroit Free Press note presents a casual exchange between Snage and Boggs on aging and height. The pair debate the idea that length shortens with age, joking about exceptions and the notion of proportional weight, humorously concluding with a quip about measuring a man’s build.
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Snage
Boggs
Detroit Free Press
American mate tea and the paradox of Paraguayans
A New York Tribune reporter learns about mate, a Paraguayan传统 drink, from a tea merchant who explains its origins, preparation, and cultural distinctions. The piece notes Paraguay as the source, the gourd pipes used, and the term bom billa for the strainers, while contrasting views on its health effects and authenticity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Tribune
America
Water Street
Paraguay
Twiga
The Menhaden Industry Declines in Oil and Guano Supply
The industry faces three poor seasons as menhaden oil, vital for the feather trade, becomes scarce at about thirty-five cents a gallon. Typical output runs 3,000,000 gallons of oil and 50,000 tons of fish scrap, used as guano and fertilizer. The surface fish yield cheap illuminating oil, while fish scrap provides significant ammonia for fertilizers.
Queer Mexican Dairies Reflect Harsh Milking Practices
An American Farmer article describes Mexican dairy methods with cows driven to yards, restrained by ropes, calves kept nearby to ensure milk, and milk collected in large ollas. Conditions are unhygienic, cows hungry, and no care given to animal comfort.
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Mexico
The Great Gilt Cage and the Canaries
In Harper's Young People a scene shows Pierre the mockingbird in a sunny window with Dick and Julie the canaries. Julie is feathered by the bird, then Dick gathers the feathers and brings them to Julie, a gesture of comfort after the upset.
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Pierre
Canary
Julie
Canaries
Mocking-Bird
Harper’s
North Dakota stock and wheat bounty noted by senator Winsborough
Senator Winsborough extols North Dakota farmers for producing 28 million bushels of wheat and similar oil and barter. he highlights stock raising as highly profitable, citing cattle and sheep fed only on native hay during winter, leading to superior beef and strong ranges across the year. Also mentions anecdotal reactions to boomer claims. The excerpt ends with fragmented scenes from social life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Dakota
Red River Valley
Winsborough
New York Press
Dreamland and Oddities in a Victorian Page
A miscellany blends a bedtime poem about the Slumber Islands with short anecdotes. It includes a light verse about children sailing to dreamland, a tale of a Madrid donkey delivering milk, a Paris rat railway demonstration, and notes on detective clues and forgery patterns.
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Dreamland
Sumber Islands
Charles K. Shetterly
Boston Courier
Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery Adverts Blood Purifier
An 19th century advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a universal cure and purifier for blood impurities. It claims to invigorate liver and kidneys, improve digestion, and treat dyspepsia, liver complaint, scrofulous skin conditions, erysipelas, and other blood taints with a money back guarantee if no benefit. It contrasts with sarsaparillas and markets value and universal efficacy.
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Macnee
Dr. Pierce
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Indiana Progress
Weronsee Bay
Milwaukee
Wis
Vermont
Belgium
Eyea
St. Louis Republic
Jeff Bryant
Abe
Lexington
Jeffs
Jeff
Shain
Covington (Ky.) Post
South America
Maine
Massachusetts
Congress
New York Marine Journal
Pierre and
Willy Boy
Cnburba
Madrid
Picayune
M. Donrof
England
WW. Y. Sun
Siz
Warner
Tsay
J. G. Holland
Scribner’s Monthly
Holland
Brights
Warners
RL A
West Fortyseventh Street
Sarah J Cox
Rust & Sons
Atrick Ufarrel
Washington, D. CL
Bork
Dewries
Express
Bradfield Regulator CO
North Cape
W. L. Douglas
W.el
W. L
Douglas
L. Douglas, Brecktan
Mada
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