Selling Suite of Ready Made Goods in Detroit Then and Now
A Detroit clothes shop clerk discusses the art of selling ready made garments. He notes difficult customers including those who linger to window shop and a frequent challenge from confident ladies who challenge fabric identification. He explains the balance of matching price, fit, and customer expectations, adding that skilled salesmanship aims to avoid insult and secure a sale.
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Detroit
Ard
Iman
Bismarck Cigar Etiquette and Tudor Cowdray Curse
An 18th or 19th century anecdote describes Bismarck recounting Austrian smoking at the Frankfurt diet and Prussian habits, including a light given by Pechberg. The text then shifts to Tudor Cowdray near Midhurst, England, noting its destruction by fire in 1793 amid the so-called curse of fire and water.
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Busch
Bismarck
Frankfort
Pechberg
Lia
Rochow
Prussia
Austria
Berlin
Schrenich
Nostitz
Rothmer
Rechverg
Wurtemburger
Darmstadter
von Reinhardt
Hesse Darmstadt
Tudor
Cowdray
Midhurst
England
Hatfield
Audley End
Montague
Rhine
Mx. M. BE. Bivxtey
Hculturhst
Mr. Winkley
Zabuder
Aurora
Aic
Fruit and farming tips for towns and farms
Agricultural notes urge planting fruit trees and vines for home use, promote small grain with clover rotation, and advise soil enrichment. Experiments compare manure impacts, brine seed treatment for wheat, strawberry culture rules, cow exercise for milk, and practical hygiene aids in medical care.
Digest of Homely Cookery and Household Tips
A long list of kitchen guidance covers corn soaking and slow cooking, orange basket desserts, beef stew with lemon and herbs, eye cleansing with lashes, large cake frostings with walnut meat, beet and carrot serving ideas, celery for birds, raspberry jam desserts, peach marmalade on water bread, tea cakes, figural warm fricassee, carpet cleaning with borax, hand care, egg corn bread, and humorous notes on weather and atmospheric electricity theories. Includes recipes, household hints, and small science curiosities.
Stage Driver’s Story Marks Old Time Courage and Modern Cure
The article recounts Haskell the Lewiston Niagara region stage driver famed for daring rescues including a near disaster at the river and a General Scott funded praise. It notes long driving hardship, a late life health collapse, and a recovery after following his wife’s advice to use Warner’s Safe Time, claiming restored health and decades more of life.
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Ita
Seddomn
Fayette Deskell
Lockport
Haskell
Lewiston
Niagara Patta
Buffalo
Hale
Gil
General Beott
General Scott
Warner
Hoag
Mr. Haskell
Niagara
Falls
Wooden Nutmegs and a Connecticut Infant Industry Tale
The narrator recalls an anecdote about wooden nutmegs and a Bowdoin graduate recalling a Brunswicker tale. A New Brunswick practitioner bought smugglers wooden nutmegs at war end to resupply country stores, but his wife tested them and found they were wooden. The story ties to Silas Baker of Standish Maine, aged 77.
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Connecticut
Ife
Bowdoin College
New Branswick
Silas Baker
Standish
The Doctor and His Mocking Bird Legend
A Texas tale recalls a young beloved physician who falls to yellow fever. His garden mocker dearly loves him, sings by his bedside, and dies the night after the doctor. The story ends with the bird lying at the bed’s head as air is let into the room after the funeral.
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Soma
Texan
Ile
What a party platform is and the campaign tone
The piece defines a party platform as a long document with a preamble and many resolutions, bold on reform and anti corruption, vague on tariff, and heavy on parity. It likens platforms to torches and banners, aids the Grand Union Hotel ad, shares a revival anecdote, and ends with assorted quips and ads including patent medicines and odd dialogues.
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Poniridan
Julia
Callar
Garret
A Laughing Breakfast Of Oddities And Misadventures
A collage of snippets shows a worried citizen losing $15,000 in three months and a narrow wood chopping mishap. A humorous exchange with Lady New Style and observation on manners thread through casual scenes of wit and mischief in daily life.
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Giusa
Madagascar's Rich Lands and Wildlife Described
The article surveys Madagascar's southern Sakalava region describing rich minerals like iron copper and possible gold and silver, fertile valleys capable of supporting far larger populations, diverse woods including ebony and mahogany, variety of crops and fruit all year, abundant poultry and cattle with distinctive traits, lemurs replacing monkeys, diverse bird life, and fossils indicating prehistoric fauna along the coast.
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Madagascar
Flying foxes threaten fruit crops and exotic fare noted
The article describes flying fox bats in Southsea islands eaten by natives and blamed for crop losses. It compares bat meat to hare and woodcock, then shifts to horse meat nutrition, electric launches, spider webs in sails, and flour spoilage tests using methyl orange.
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Southsea Islands
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Gene Danger
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Anole Logan
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