Alaska and Yukon River Facts From an Old Gilded Text
The passage extols Alaska and adjacent regions with measurements and claims about size, rivers, fisheries, gold, and geography. It notes the Yukon as vast and navigable, compares Alaskan rivers to global basins, and mentions natural resources. It also includes health tips on silk clothing and citrus to prevent scurvy.
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Texas
New York
Ohio
Virginia
West Virginia
San Francisco
Our
North America
Yukon
Ita
Danube
Li Plata
Orinoco
White River
Alaska
Hawai
Yukon Basin
Sele
When Nestlings Take Wings In Alaska A Strange Almanac
An OCR fragment presents a chaotic Alaska miscellany with odd assertions on mosquitoes, stock companies, weather, animals, health myths, and prospecting. It claims Alaska holds vast spruce timber, gold fissures, and abundant hay while offering tips on shelter, clothing, and digestion amid extreme cold. The text ends abruptly with a suicide note fragment.
A Wild Yukon Tale From a Distant Dawn
A garbled Herald paragraph recounts Alaska and Yukon themes from the Klondike era. It notes long distances, a Dawson-Dawson boat chase, glaciers in the Aleutians, forests breaking into sea, avalanches inland, and rough costs for rifles, boats, and meals. It mentions miners making laws under Congress, and instructions about cautious investment and prices.
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Act of Congress
Sitka
Klondyke
Dawson
Aleutian Islands
Alaska
Tenough
Ming Coil
H. SS Caufield
the Herald
Passing Childhood and the Rise of Adolesence in Home Guidance
Florence Hw Winterbarn argues in September Woman's Home Companion that parents should prepare children to govern themselves within the home. By fourteen to fifteen, guidance should yield to reason and shared rules, with tact and forbearance essential as childhood fades into adolescence.
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Woman's Home Companion
Florence Hw Winterbarn
Neven
Fragmentary Notices From A Busy Street Page
A garbled clipping notes ads and names: a country dentist touts sparing pain in the west. a Philadelphia firm seeks a large boy to fire under boiler. Burks and Cackles is a pager in Vopoka devoted to dogs and poultry. It claims Dr Chauncey M Depew is Penny Magazine’s heaviest stockholder. Dream robes for a dollar is advertised by an uptown haberdasher and in the window stand red and blue eight gowns for men.
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Philadelphia
Chauncey M. Depew
Reading the Advertisements as Weekly Habit
A short note from the Dry Goods Chronicle urges readers to study weekly ads promptly after they arrive. It emphasizes habitual reading for special offerings and timely purchases, framing ad cycles as a routine consumer practice.
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Dry Goods Chronicle
Woman Killed by Farm Roadside Electrical Wire
A peasant woman named Bataille walking to a farm with two buckets was fatally struck when a broken live wire along the road touched her bucket, delivering a deadly current. The body was described as partially carbonised.
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Bataille
Painter
Two Hundred Years Of Duty At Sleepy Hollow Church
Washington Irving enthusiasts gather in Tarrytown for the 200th anniversary of the Sleepy Hollow Dutch church founded in 1697 by Frederick Philipse. The oblong site reflects a shift from colonial days to a modern manufacturing region as locals mark the historic milestone.
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Tarrytown-on-the-Hudson
Washington Irving
Sleepy Hollow
New York State
Frederick Philipse
Philipseburgh
Abode of Millionaires Near Sleepy Hollow Recalled
The piece recalls Posantivo above the Hollow where John D. Rockefeller bought hundreds of acres to create an aristocratic estate. It notes New Yorkers like William F. Church and Charles Jefferson Leach, mid 19th century palatial change, Sleepy Hollow’s church, Battle Hill, and Revolutionary memories, with efforts to restore the old meeting house to its colonial look for August and September services.
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John D. Rockefeller
Posantivo
William F. Church
Charles Jefferson Leach
Irving
Tay Church
Sleepy Hollow
Ichabod Crane
Battle Hill
Albany
Washington Irving
Andre
Paulding
Wilhems
van ‘Wart
Albany Road
First Reformed Church of
Tarrytown
First Church
Queen Victoria and Her Water Loving Cat
A fragment notes a tabby fond of water and swimming, contrasting with Queen Victoria’s dislike of smoke. It mentions expensive Havana cigars shipped to Windsor in glass tubes for royal guests, describing high costs and skilled workers behind the production.
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Falias
Queen Victoria
Havana
Windsor
Cuba
Donkey Beer Binge Dominates Glen Island Ride
A mostly abstemious stance on alcohol is urged by doctors amid heat illness fears. At Glen Island, Jim the donkey drank beer left by a careless attendant, went on a chaotic spree through a cafe and lawn, and was locked up for the day. In Bern a naked passenger causes a station drama before clothing is forced on him. Archbishop Temple dines at Windsor after Canterbury appointment.
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Wilds
Jim
Glen Island
En Cosure
Beach Lawn
Lelong
Ogt
New York Tribune
Berne
Zallikofen
Sarfage
Canterbury
Temple
Windsor
What Tact Means in Sales Rewards Wealth
The piece emphasizes tact as the delicate knack of respecting customers while maintaining dignity. A straight and sensible merchant and his sales force can achieve prosperity and ultimate wealth through refined conduct in dealings.
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Chicago
Dry Gooda Reporter
Grant in disguise at Chattanooga aiding wagon train
A Chi Inter Ocean account recalls General Ulysses S. Grant visiting a quartermaster shed before the Chattanooga campaign. He corrected slacking soldiers, urging careful loading of provisions for half starved troops. Hannibal’s swagger faded as Grant ordered efficient work and extra boxes.
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Chattanooga
Qld
Hannibal
Anu
Grant
Chactenooga
A Trip to the Market for Retail Success
A retail merchant should visit the market to gain ideas, see wholesale stocks, and observe display methods in large cities. The trip yields bargain opportunities, knowledge of styles and qualities, and exposure to practical lessons unavailable from traveling salesmen or trade journals.
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Liz
Lim
Stouk
Step Ladder and Beat a Handy Western New York Invention
A western New York householder devised an ornate seat as a decorative yet practical step ladder to reach top shelf hooks. The clever device replaces a standard ladder with a compact home utility, illustrating inventive problem solving by a curious student.
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New York
Half the seat plant becomes a mahogany ladder
The object was transformed into a decorative ladder made of mahogany, carved on all sides, and now serves as an ornament rather than a functional piece in the library.
Wires a Protection Says Electric Lines Shield Cities
Edward W. Lok argues in the Ladies' Home Journal that more wires from telephones telegraphs and trolleys provide protection during storms. He contends the wire maze attracts electricity and directs it to the central station, reducing danger. The piece cites the fact of two hundred lightning discharges.
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Ciites
Edward W. Lok
The
Ladies’ Home Journal
Accidents in Cities Versus Country Compared
Fragmentary text notes yearly accident figures, stating cities average many more accidents than the country. It mentions a higher proportion of four cases in the country to sue in the cities. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
President's Scrap-book Shows White House Clippings History
A New York Post report discusses the president's scrap-books containing clippings of editorial and news items about the administration. A clerk earning 12,000 a year handles most of the work, and the scrap-books cost about four dollars each. The White House authority notes a Cleveland era incident when the president asked to view these books, illustrating the long-standing custom that reformers may not change.
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Avery
New York
White House
Cleveland
Experience and intelligent observation in testimony
The Bulletin of Pharmacy warns that experience alone misleads without training or reference to lessons, and that errors come more from faulty observation than poor reasoning. Only intelligent experience is trustworthy, and more intelligent time yields more trustworthy insight.
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Bulletin of Pharmacy
Droll Koala Bear Makes Remarkable Climbing Feats
The native koala is a curious animal that carries young on its back while climbing tall gum trees. It feeds almost entirely on eucalyptus leaves, showing notable behavior as it moves among the trees.
How to Say It in Newspapers Warns Against Insincere Ad Wits
Horace Greeley argues that noisy wits and poets chasing notoriety flood newspapers with second hand jokes and the sharpest phrases. He urges advertisers seeking business to use direct sober language, leaving clowns to the circus and letting honest men speak plainly.
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Horace Greeley
Value of Letters and Envelopes in Advertising
Letters of late date in original envelopes are worth money, those containing orders with money enclosed are most valuable. The close in waywer to anything offered frei ar the toweat grade, bringing a mere nominal price, and are usually bought up by publishers who aim to sustain a high watermark in circulation to boost their advertising rate, aided by flooding the country with sample copies.
Flat ter anti-department store candidate questioned
RIS fears exposure as Rixon derides Flat ter as a foe of department stores. Dixon jokes that abolishing department stores would force his wife to ask for a larger allowance.
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Rixon
Flatter
Dixon
Explanation of how readers skim last pages of papers
A light note on reader habits noting women often scan the last page of a newspaper first. It mentions that major ads and large headlines typically appear on the back page and hints at the pattern being common across papers.
Rejected with cheerful alseity
A brief note from the Electrical Review shows a playful reply to a query, stating the phrase equivalent for “fired with enthusiasm.” The exchange presents the coined term Rejected with cheerful alseity as a witty alternative.
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Jack
Arcond
Electrical Review
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