Small Salaries in Royal Service Revealed by Court Testimony
The piece notes reforms by the late prince consort reducing royal household wages and vagrant abuses. It compares servants under the crown with those in noble households, citing a Northbrook footman who earned 100 annually but received 2000 to 2500 in guest tips at Strattan, illustrating inflated income through tips.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Consort
Prince of Wales
Earl of Northbrook
Strattan
Unusual Mountain Climbing Year Sees Losses in Alps
This unusually disastrous year for mountain climbers in Switzerland has brought frequent fatalities and injuries. Many victims are among the most capable and intelligent climbers, slipping into tragedy as the season begins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Women share cure tale to aid others in pinkham's remedy
Mrs. W. L. Billort of Lisworob Iowa asks the publisher to print her case so other women may benefit from her experience. She suffered years of headaches backache dizziness constipation irregularity and nausea before using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Blood Purifier after eight bottles and three bottles she reports improved health and the ability to do her own work and praises the remedy to friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Billort
Lisworob
Iowa
Mry. Winkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
W. L. Exsiort
Liscomb
Lows
A Watermelon Spree Attracts Crowds And Kindness
A summer fruit stall shows cheap watermelons as children crowd around. A boy offers to buy slices for all, and a dealer is paid. A brown-skinned girl says she will give her share to a sick mother, but she eats hers anyway. The crowd swells, and the narrator escapes across a moving open car amid shouts and bustling activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ikey
Abey
Morrle
Vanderbunts
Mor’naor'west
Nos
Hints for the Household From a Penny Dime Text
Practical household tips ranged from cleaning zinc with kerosene to flour dusting fruit to prevent settling. Articles advise denim floors, triple news paper bedding, a kitchen linoleum strip, a kitchen pad over a table, and a ginger beer recipe with lemon and yeast for two gallons.
The Five Acre Farm and Hotbeds for Extended Veggie Harvest
The article extols expanding a farm’s yield by extending the season with hotbeds. It argues for early and late vegetables, noting early crops like radishes and lettuce, and suggests hotbeds can produce quality produce two months earlier and at moderate cost, if managed to span March to January.
Frame Gardening For Cucumbers Tomatoes And Lettuce
A Rural Farmer piece extols frame gardening for Engish frame cucumbers grown in summer under shaded frames, with tomatoes sown late June to ripen before frost, frames later filled with lettuce for December supply, and spring frames set for broccoli and cauliflower. It notes frame farming is profitable near cities and valuable to small farmers for fresh produce and garden rental savings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abje
Notre Dame Reminiscences in a London French Chapel
London Reminiscences recounts a Sunday visit to Notre Dame in a tiny side street near Leicester Square. The narrator praises the French vesper canticles, sermons, and timeless devotion, contrasting a bustling city with the enduring sanctuary and its nuns, a scene evoking Braton village and memories of Franco‑British religious sentiment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Braton
Ireland
Notre, Dame
Nim
London
Sir Joshua
Piccadilly
Pumpol
M. Pierre Loti
M. Jerdinand Fabre
Cevennes
Hospital
Treasury
Formhs Church
France
England
Mother Givement
Souciense
Leet
Sopre
Den
Vallant
Tone
Vaillant
Notre Dame
Leicester Square
Alhambra
William O'Brien
Contemporary Review
Widowers and bachelors seek household superintendant
Ad from 1842 London Times solicit a wife substitute for two widows, offering a role to oversee the household and preside at table. The notice lists favorable traits such as agreeable, cheerful, industrious, sociable, vivacious, and other flattering descriptors despite evident misspellings and odd phrasing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Times
A Gettysburg Survivor Recovering in Minnesota
James M. McKelvey Post, G. A. R. of St. Cloud, Minnesota, reports the recovery of comrade Milton F. Sweet in Stearns County. Sweet, aged about sixty, served with Company G, New York. He suffered heart disease during the war and collected benefits after using a popular medicine described as life restoring. The letter praises the remedy and notes local use among veterans, with a public attestation by James E. Jerrard, Notary Public.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Journal-Prees
SS Cloud
Minn Esch Dey
Grand Army of the Republic
Grav Amaller
Iria
James M. McKelvey Poat
St. Cloud
Ming
Milton F. Sweet
Dee
Mr. Sweet
Oeen
Minnesota
el Penta
Flower Veil
New York
Mr. Sweat
Cnme
Sweet
Dirk
Stearns County
James £. Jerrard
Nulaty
Willian Oninin
Stand Sewing Sparks Old Fashioned Craft Revival
A piece on the reemergence of plain needlework and stand sewing as a social trend. It notes women adopting sewing as an art, with high prices for private lessons, and contrasts this with broader shifts in fashion and domestic life. Also mentions a state report on Belgium showing rising bread, butter, lard, and meat consumption among workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Setare
State Department
Belgium
Tiis
Dobbin's soap praised as superior cleansing product
Fragmentary notice claims Dobbin's Floating-Barax soap is the only fort ing soap with Horns bar roiey or haundry use it is incomparable. It asserts it is perfect for households and will be a staple in shops. A later line mentions Democrite, populista and silverites uniting in Michigan to nominate a slave ticket and choose presidential electors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dobbin
Utdur
Michigan
Peat TV
Bnek
Ladies Syrup of Figs recalled social reunion in York
The article notes the popular Syrup of Figs as a pleasant safe remedy under all conditions. It advertises the California Fig Syrup Company as the genuine product. It also mentions a social reunion held by the Heptasephen of Baltimore in Baltimore City and County, Maryland and nearby Pennsylvania border counties at York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Esse
All Responsible Drugpista
Baltimore City
Land County
Maryland
Pennsylvania
York
Flso's Cure for Cennsumption Ad Promises Cough Relief
An advertisement from Mrs C Dulux of Denver promotes Flso's Cure for coughs and colds claiming it as the only medicine. Separately, Chas Stanley Rainhart a renowned draughtsman and illustrator died at the Players Club in New York.
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Flso
C.dulux
Denver
Col
Chas
Stanley Rainhart
Player’s Club
New York
Late 19th Century Advertorial Fragments and Notices
Fragmented OCR items show a mix of medical tonics, cosmetics, real estate foreclosures, a drowning obituary, and a distance of dated product pitches. Notes include Nostatter's Stomach Bisturs, a Denver clothing firm, $35 000 mortgages foreclosed, Mrs Winslow’s Sooraive Arno, Anna Helle Watson aged 18 drowned in Kanawa river, and Grenny's Sulphur Soap promoting beauty. Also references to Ruslan government purchasing milling equipment and a North Adams elderly aunt recognizing a long-sold horse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anna Helle Watson
Kanawa
Wills
St. Paul
Minn
Unall's lair Renuwerta marriage links two KC pioneers
Rabbi Krauskopf of Philadelphia and Miss Sybil Feinamsa, among Kansas City's oldest citizens, were united in marriage. The ceremony joined two prominent families and marked a notable social event in the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rabbi Krauskopf
Philadelphia
Miss Sybil
Feinamsa
Perental
Kansas City
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Pinkham
Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Boston
Wis
PUB
UNION
Notre Dam
Agettysburg
Wilton F. Sweet
Nostatter
Knoight-Atmeré Clothing Company
Ams
Ruslan
Delaware Iron Campe ‘Nya
Newgantle
Del
Unall
Gray
Dolor
Feith Ave
Tak
United States
Sapolio
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