Quaker City Quips and Idle Advice Parade
A jumble of antiquated humor and ad blurbs touches on courtship, marriage, and social pretensions in a raspy urban voice. It mocks fashionable vanity, financial distress, and a yacht run by women while sprinkling quips from a variety of characters and brief notices about medical products and a promoter’s money making pitch.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anon
Philoropter
Dobson
Jenkins
Nobbit
Soiwaster
Temperature records and railway news from the era
Observatory notes December's lowest temperature at 13 deg 4 mio on the 22nd. England records only three years in the last half century with lower temps. Burlington Route adds trains through Lincoln Nebraska to Deadwood and Newcastle Wyoming with sleeping cars. Hall's Catarrh Cure claims to cure constitutional catarrh and offers a 100 dollar reward for failure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Observatory
Greenwich
Iaat
England
Deadwood
Burlington
Hall
I. J, Cheney & CO
Toledo
Tho
Old Hebrew Inscription Found in Fool of Siloam Taken
A boy discovered an ancient Hebrew inscription cut in rock at the Fool of Siloam. Vandal exhumation damaged the artifact as it was removed. fragments were purchased by Toate Creek of Jerusalem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toate Creek
Jerusalem
Wisconsin and Minnesota Poenic Views Offered Free
A publisher offers a collection of twenty fine poetic views from Wisconsin and Minnesota free of portage. Send an address and fifty cents to Geo. H. Heaford, General Passenger Agent, Chicago. Supplies are limited and early orders are advised.
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Wisconsin
Minnesota
Portage
Geo. H. Heaford
Pas
Micnols
Penger
Chicago
Sisters Practice Polite Gentlewomanly Conduct at Home
A moral exhortation urges sisters to respect each other’s rights and leisure, practice the golden rule, and maintain politeness at home. It warns against interrupting work, sharing materials without leave, and forgetting thanks, urging gentle conduct as a model for guests and society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. Snider
Fashion Notes and Social Snippets From a 19th Century Page
The page surveys dress fabrics and trims for children and women, noting cloth types braid embroidery and velvet ribbons, plus coral amber beads and fringes used by French couturiers. It also covers Madrid tobacco factory events and Queen Christine’s aid, plus quips on courtship signals, wife property rights, and light humorous vignettes.
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N. Y
Madrid
Christine
Charles V
Odds and Ends of Curious Facts and Figures
A jumble of notes covers various topics from women in medicine at Boston University to fading ink in Boston land records. Other items note peanut crops in Virginia North Carolina Tennessee and the Fiji Islands customs, language evolution, Japanese Parliament women, Missouri cavalry horses, New York riches and alleged mil Jonaires, wild horses in Antelope Valley Nevada a boy with a dog team in Maine a New York philanthropic plea for a teaching job and parrot, Leaven for Laurens county Georgia plants from 1840 U.S. Department of Agriculture.
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Bosion Register of Deeds
Virginia
North Carolina
Tennessee
Fiji Islands
Department of Biology
Missouri
Union
New York
London
Paris
Berlin
Vienoa
Antelope Valley
Nev
Lewis Mountain
Monson
Milo
Indy
Leiter
Laurens County
Richard A. Odom
United States Commissioner of Agriculture
Profiles of Smoke Habits Reveal City Officials
The report notes David B. Hill does not smoke or drink while Mayor Grant smokes little and occasionally uses cannabis. Inspector Byrnes smokes moderately at home and rarely has a cigar at police HQ, illustrating varied personal habits among city leaders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
David B. Hill
Grant
Inspector Byrnes
Police
Realities of Life and Love in Daily Reflections
Amedley of maxims on love, pride, faith, and honesty. quotes from Harriet Beecher Stowe and Rev. Dr. Phillips Brooks touch on courage, self awareness, and moral guidance. The piece contrasts male and female viewpoints, warns against vanity, and urges character as life’s guiding law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harriet Beecher Ftowe
Phillipa Brooks
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Lewie
Fayette
Baltimore, Md
Legion
William K. Vanderbilt
Cubs
Poe Seer
Mr. Vandertilt
Cuba
IMW
Beeness Matter
William Waldorf Astor
Havana
Mr. Artor
Amos J. Cumming
Brown
C. Fulch
Miamdeile
Ohio
Henry Ward Beecher
W. H. Grifith & Co
Zanesville
L. Morton
Robert G. Ingersoll
Kans City
Catcaco
St. Paul
Missouri River
Southwest Limited
California Fig Syrup CO
SAN Frangi
Cal
Couisville
G. Gloger
Wis
Boschee
Avin Illiaama
Queen Victoria
North American Review
France
Edison
Turkey
Phil
Mr. Dimmick
North Dakota
Kansas
Supreme Court of
Indiana
Ladies’ Home Companion
Mr. de Blank
Clara
Bertha
Harry
Maud
Congress
Misa Hytone
Mr. Western
West Pointer
West Shore
Ophelia
Odds and
Boston Uni
Castoria
Miss
Castork
Thorean
Quincy
Bel Drugelan
Chicharter
Zaenee
Drigeisa
Mall “oweMida Co
Audieon Eyes
Scott
Soott & Bowne
Manufacturing Chemista
Dr. Pierce
Owen
Northerbadway
St. Louia
Mio
Chaumo
Pereno
United States
Shumway Kookturdi
Tal
Tm Walvereal Ferar Co
Tiniaunast
Hbo
Ontas Isanc
Tinia O
Mideni Br
Torener
Nurterers
Decatur
Girard
Snr
P.O. Wills
T. A
N.Y
Jas Woom
M.A. Wood
SAS Wood Brothers
Live Stock Commission
Union Stock Yards
Omaga
Sioux City
Wea
Canaries
Rita
Hermon St. Worcester
Meng
Boas
Serta
P Farms
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