The Rejected Army of the Hodges and Hy-Ways of Letters
A humorous yet pointed piece from a late issue reflects on struggling writers who fail to reach elite publishers. It celebrates country newspapers as vital channels that lift rejected authors, urging writers to persevere, adapt through practical trades, and find meaning in broad, local readership rather than elite fame.
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Todiy
Oriento
Wall
Weite
Yenina
Hue
Thawkgray
Lordly Publishers
Aly
Beight Howells
James
Niko Phelps
Childeen
Alcott and Stockton
Alory
Miss Angele
St. Niehowes
A Tome Made Telephone With Simple Wire Boxes
A period notice describes making a serviceable telephone using two vigor boxes and wire. By drilling holes, threading a pipe wire between houses, and tightening with a nail, a line can extend across yards or rooms. The account claims a 200 yard length for 45 cents and asserts it carries music when organs play nearby.
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Vemorest
Kolye Wwek
Groves
New
Silversmiths Artifacts and Ornamental Jewelry Features
A New York Graphia passage describes knife edge bracelets with small gems, silver spoons inspired by Red Riding Hood, shells and seaweed motifs on silver tableware, and a Huggarian knot on bracelets and lace. It notes parlor clocks as gold birds, gold lattier pins with rose blooms, rose diamond bracelets, wooden handle silver forks, and a half moon diamond pin. It also mentions ocavia Newer enamel hair sprays, a pearl spoon with a Japanese-figured fan, and a bell shaped flower pendant watch with a crystal bottle, all as examples of intricate jewelry and decorative items from the period.
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Jonela
New York
The Mexican Soldier in White Coat and Blue Exp
Report from St Louis Magazine describes Mexican soldiers in a harsh camp near New Bilbao. They endure a mud wall corral with canvas shelter, meager rations, and pay delays, guarded by armed sentries. Many enlist as punishment or due to desertion, with mutinous tendencies noted prior to improved guarding.
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New Juliedo
Conner
St Lonis
A Wonderful City London Declares Its Value and Growth
The City of London is praised as the most wonderful place, despite its small size. It yields extensive rents, funds a large share of metropolis rates, and shows steep land prices from country to city markets. The piece notes daily influx of about 10,000 people seeking wealth with little toil.
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London
Lund
Lonsbord
Berkshire
Leas
Loudor Tree Press
What is a Yankee and who is a Yankee
Washington Post discusses the term Yankee as a regional identity across the United States. It notes varied usage from New England to the Mid-Atlantic and rural Maine. The article also references estimates about water power from the Satro tunnel enabling rapid ore processing and cape mills.
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Boston
Patamas
Fortseata Cape
Isle of Dogs described in London News style and contrast
A long, historically flavored account describes the Isle of Dogs as a harsh fringe of London, once home to charity and piety, now a dockside district with mills and factories. It contrasts old squalor and later urban development, noting churches, schools, cottages, and modern industry shaping its present identity.
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London
Mays Fair
Clubland
Argerien
Isle of Dage
St. Paris
Nordin Imonareh
Greenwich
de Bosteley
Curata
Virginia
Isle of Dogs
Millwall
Cubitt Town
London News
Reporters Nerve Ends in Tragic QuincY Death
A young journalist M M Wood died at the Fay house in Quincy. Found upright by a Bible with a manuscript claiming he shot himself through the brain after supper. The note cites temporary insanity as the possible cause and notes no prior signs of death by own action.
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M. M. Wood
Fay House
Quincy
Eighth
Hampshire Streets
Lose
jHouse
Wood
Where Do the Old Maids Go to in Summer Romance
A critic questions where young women go when summer idylls end and seasons pass. The piece argues that as girls await marriage or social escape, many fade from prospects while debutantes rise or vanish. a call to track outcomes over years.
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Ping Ant Ip
Stafford Two
Pllls
Old Maida
Oldest Woman in United States Lived On Sourland Mountain
Sylvia Du Bois, said to be 116, lives with her daughter on Sourland Mountain straddling Hunterdon and Mercer counties in New Jersey. Born in 1769, she recalls events of the last century, once enslaved in Great Bund, Pennsylvania, and now travels daily with a basket, still vigorous and independent despite her age.
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Sylvia du Bois
Sourland Mountain
Hunterdon
Mercer
N. J
United States
Sylvia
Great Bund
Break-a-Day Tonic on Labor and Self-Made Success
A reflective installment argues labor rivalry, self-reliance, and the value of gradual advancement. It cautions against idle intent, praises steady effort, and warns that associates influence status. The piece links thrift, persistence, and prudent social choices to personal standing. It also weighs beauty against moral virtue in public judgment.
Brown Bread and Odd Sayings From A Paper Tale
A quirky compilation from a Chicago Ledger page features quirky aphorisms and garbled wordplay about mice scaring queens, a three year old with iron pray hair, a Florida editor trading for a mule, and whimsical notes on electricity and stamps. It blends humorous fragments, slang, and odd comparisons, reflecting a late 19th to early 20th century style.
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Loniayilie
Florida
Chicago
Snake Found in Coryville Chicken House
A Coryville woman discovered a large bull snake three feet long in her chicken house while checking for missing birds. The reptile, likely living on young chickens, hid under a sill and measured about three feet in length, with a girth resembling a wagon tire. It had grown fat on the hens and could scarcely be distinguished from a wagon tire in shape.
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Nevada
Walker Lake
Ben and Brother John in a Prodding Penny and Whisky Tale
A fragment from a Detroit Free Press item recounts a begging penny request at a fruit stand tied to a nephew's embezzlement and a reluctant cash gift. It then shifts to an Arkansas Traveler joke about a man determined to drink himself to death, preferring two barrels of whisky over water.
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Ben
Fruit Stand
Detroit
Hee Press
Little Rock
John
William
An Improving Time
A country congregation brother just back from an overseas trip relates his voyage home. He says he had an improvin’ experience after a hurricane struck days out. Women prayed in the saloon while men cursed in the smokin’ room, and among such profanity he faintly recalls church last night.
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Juston
Not the Right Man Who Captured Jackson in Arkonsaw
A garbled exchange from Arkonsaw hints at a pursuit over a claimed reward. A governor denies any bounty while a man asserts the captured killer may be the suspect, amid muddled dialogue and a Saratoga reference involving a young Mr Algernon de Courcy.
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Arkonsaw
Jackson
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