Vastly scattered 19th century clippings mix in Indiana Progress
Nationwide snippets cover medical lore from Paris and old political feuds, with anecdotes about vigilante justice, Rhode Island crime trends, boot marketing gimmicks, and shocking beauty misadventures. The collage mentions Rev George Brown, Victoria Woodhull, and European rulers, plus a New Britain island practice of cage confinement for girls.
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Continental
Europe
New Britain
South Pacific
George Brown
International Loans and Weather Stir Late 19th Century News
A $40,000,000 loan to Hamburg signals finance shifts while global weather extremes bring costly damage and drought. England weighs signs of anti counterfeiting and chirography. American immigration policy targets Chinaman travel through Canada. Atlantic travel expands with new liners. telegraph cable plans and a United States guarantee proposal surface. British cotton imports rise as U S production grows. German court fashion faces modernization backlash to knee-breeches and wigs.
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Great Britain
United States
San Francisco Chronicle
England
Chronicle
The Ovidor and Brazilian social life described
A Rio correspondent portrays Ovidor Street in Rio de Janeiro as the continental grandest avenue where no vehicles roam. The scene details fashion, social classes, spectators, and the daily news heard there, plus a vivid note on flower yards and fortress-like homes. The piece shifts to the odd profession of molasses tasters, describing their discipline, taste tests, and the health cautions involved.
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Ovidor
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Charleston News and Courier
Broadway
Paris
Goves
Sense of Smell in Morgen and Horse Perception
A fragmentary 19th century style discussion describes a horse’s keen sense of smell guiding feed choices, water acceptance, and location of exits. It notes blind horses navigating fences by scent, mares verifying foal identity, and odors triggering strong reactions to objects like a bronze hare and buffalo robe. It ends with a physician’s remark on sleep health and a claim about mouth closure.
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Temple of
Olympus
Milan
Pliny
Pausanias
Horet
Stabe
How He Did Run A Civil War Anecdote From Fort Norton
A Virginian recalls a Northern unit’s field walk near Fort Norton where a amusing taunt led to a near miss as a sentry fired a cannon at a retreating figure. The shot startled a boy delivering food to his Confederate father, who claimed the experience vividly as the source of his lasting fear.
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NaTwakiri E. Howard
San Francisco
Frisco
Terry
Justice Field
Hopkins
Tom
Fort Norton
Jandel
St. Louia Republic
Gold Dollars for Ornament and Mint Policy
The Philadelphia mint official says almost all gold dollars go to ornament and not circulation. Only about 5000 yearly are kept for making change, with Treasury guidance to retain enough on hand for gold bullion deposits. A Cincinnati man’s request for 100 gold dollars was denied, and Director Kimball urged distributors to prevent gold dollars from being mutilated for adornment.
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Phiadelphia Mint
Treasury Department
Cncinnati
Philadelphia Record
A Cheap Telephone Guide From An Era Of DIY Wiring
A historical note explains how to assemble a simple home telephone using a copper wire, small boxes, rubber pieces, and nails. The instructions describe placing a pea sized hole and a coin sized hole in a cover, running wire between wall and box, and securing with leather straps to trees or pits to keep the line elevated. The article ends with a joke about fruit and vegetable dealers favoring moderate measures.
Quaint and Curious Chronicle Notes From Odd Corners
A jumble of curiosities and trivia including ancient guards origin in Saul, sawdust shipping to Bangor, England's Seven Brain inn, salt on a North Dakota farmer's land, a cow walking on trestle ties in Georgia, diamonds in a meteorite near Novoe Uréi, Siam's royal taboo on naming the king, plate parties with guests bringing and leaving plates, a Chinese journal quip about American respect for abstinence, a prolific minister's thousandth marriage, kangaroo leather demand endangering the species, an Aberdeen coal pit starling returning to the bottom after surfacing, a California tomato king A L Graham, Johns Hopkins Hospital's physician pay, reflections on speaking and tomorrow, differing cues about expectoration in Europe and America, Nova Scotia centenarians, Niagara rock erosion, Maine coast seals tamed by one friendly mate, and a prisoner escape by fashioning a ladder from a clothes horse.
A Dated Dairy Visit Reveals Farm Cleanliness and Odd Nests
A young farmer invites a visitor to inspect his dairy operation. The scene contrasts a foul, stinking dike with a clean, well kept house and byres. Inside, round cheeses are made and butter pressed, while oddities like swallows nests, shells under cow stanchions, and a stork with fledglings appear in the yard.
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Blackwood
Life's Recomponees at Home
A dialogue between Little Bister and Little Sister about catching something on a family stroll. Sammy notes nothing yet, but the sister reassures them that they will when they get home.
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Bemmy
Sammy
Little Sister
Pearls of Thought Reflects on Education and Self Discipline
A collection of aphoristic observations on learning, amusement, social duty, and personal restraint. It discusses voting by example, the value of antiquity, cheerful serenity, laziness, economy of time, and the idea that individuals bear different burdens within a shared humanity. It also notes marriage turbulence and the link between effort and achievement.
Young seals birth and life on icy seas described
A March description of young seals born on floating ice with white fur that becomes brown. Cubs stay with mothers for weeks, learn to swim and feed, and are suddenly abandoned. The text notes migrations of Greenland seals in the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Newfoundland caves, plus harbor seals seen year round along coastal shores.
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New Orleans
Deschamps
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Newfoundland
Atlantic
Hudson’s
Buffin’s Bay
Oysters Grown On Mangrove Trees Near Mok Cave Island
A traveler reports a voyage from Hon duras to Mok Cave Island where oysters supposedly grow on mangrove trees. The dory glides swiftly past coconut groves and swampy mangrove mangroves, with oysters found on submerged trunks and roots forming oyster groves beneath the water.
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Honduras
Mok Cave
Vorné
Arbor Day origins and distant trees across states
The piece notes Nebraska’s first Arbor Day observation with 12,000,000 trees planted and claims 600,000,000 trees now grow in the state, while other states report millions of plantings. It adds a quip about Mrs. Lockwood pressing for women in the regular army and an old Vienna bachelor’s fortune to a sympathetic young woman. It mentions Maine settlements since 1624, coal along the Kennebec, a corn map exhibit in Iowa, and a misdirected letter that has wandered since 1878.
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Nebraska
Vienna
Kennebec River
Maine
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Celestiake
Boston and Maine Railroad Company
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Washington Star
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Bangor
Seven Brain of
Manchester
Charles Chamberlain
North Dakota
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Rusais
Siam
Ellis Howell
Marshall
Airdrie
Scotland
California
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Alameda County
Johns Mopkins Hospital
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William Osler
Specter
Germany
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Niagara
Lake Erie
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Greenland Seals
St. Petersburg
Trousseau
Empress of China
New Mexico
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Farear
Berva Axx Lockwood
O’brien County
Iowa
Des Moines
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BK. Jamison & G8
Batkers
Third and
Chestnut Streets
Indiana County Depot Bank
Tacceastal
Sanking
Ous Spa
Wu M. Wart
J.G. Walker & Son
Corner
D. W. Anthony
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Greece
Stendesd Oil
Offa
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South Mirth Steel
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