SMALL SALARIES OF ROYAL SERVANTS REVEALED
A court testimony shows royal staff earnings were modest in regular wages, but lavish tipping by the Earl of Northcreek’s guests produced annual income well above 300 dollars in wages, reaching two to two and a half thousand dollars. The speech notes sweeping reforms by the late prince consort reduced royal household costs decades ago.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prince Consort
Prince of Wales
Earl of Northcreek
Stratton
Disaster year sees mounting chainers face many accidents
This year has been unusually disastrous for mountain climbers with Wot fi Week noting a season begun in Switzerland without deaths but numerous accidents. The text emphasizes that the tragically injured are often among the most capable and useful individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Switzerland
Sacred Confidence and the Pinkham Remedies Story
A reader letter from Mrs. W. L. Exxuert of Liscomb Iowa endorses Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after suffering years of headaches backaches bearing down pains and dizziness. She credits eight bottles of the remedy and three bottles of Blood Purifier with restoring health and enabling her to do her own work, urging other women to consider the treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Dilcott
Liscomb
Pinlehap KE
Lydia E. Pinkham
W. L. Exxuert
Liscowb
Lowe
Watermelon Spree Sparks Crowds and Kind Deeds
A summer watermelon sale draws a lively crowd of youths around a busy fruit stand. One girl buys for her sick mother, then secretly gobbles both portions. The scene grows chaotic as shouts lure more children, and a rescued traveler escapes a rushing car while local generosity shines through the crowd.
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Kreedy
Friend
Ikey
Morris
Au’ Nor'west
Hints for the Household From a Old Newspaper Recipe Column
Practical household tips on cleaning zinc tubs and pressing fruit with a little flour to prevent settling. Denim floors, news paper bedding, cornstarch substitute for eggs, new silver table nuts, linoleum usage, kitchen pad notes, market lists on a slip, and a ginger beer recipe with aging notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tor
Evry
The Vive Acre Fair Hotbeds For Early Vegetables
The article argues hotbeds extend vegetable production from March to January, enabling early radishes lettuce and cabbage while lowering costs. It emphasizes managing hotbeds properly to maximize yield and profit by having vegetables available both early and late, improving quality through faster growth.
Notre Dame Sainted Piety Seen Near Piccadilly
A personal reminiscence of Sunday evenings at Notre Dame in a tiny street near Leicester Square. The writer admires the fragile charm of a French church, its choir and sermons, and the devotion of worshippers amid bustling London. A brief printer’s ad from 1843 about a widowers’ housekeeper follows.
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Notre Dame
Lincester Square
Ireland
England
London
Sir Joshua
Piccatilly
Palzapol
M. Pierre Loti
M. Ferdinand Fabre
Cevennes
Treasury
France
Saucieuse Peur
Pletore
Iest
Hving Ag Vaillant
Vaillant
Leicester Square
William O'Brien
Star View
London Times
Farming in Frames Yields Large Cucumbers and Long Tomato Seasons
The article extols frame gardening as a profitable and pleasurable practice near cities. It describes shading frames to grow large cucumbers and extending tomato seasons with late May or June sowing, followed by lettuce in winter protection. It emphasizes readiness of cold frames in spring to harden tomatoes, cabbage, and cauliflower, and notes the method saves space and provides fresh, first-class produce.
A Gettysburg Survivor Recalls Civil War Bonds and Illness
A St Cloud Minnesota newspaper column profiles James M. Makelvey Pout and Ro ton B. Sweet, veterans of the Civil War in New York Company G. The piece praises Sweet’s character, notes his Minnesota residency and 51 years age, and describes his heart disease and nervous system remedies touted by Dr. Wilkins.
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St Cloud
Minn
Wualler
James M. Makelvey
G. A. St. Claud
Roton B. Sweet
Mr. Sweet
Minnesota
Company G
New York
Grayshure
Mr Sweet
Wilkins
Humber
Sweet
Sterns Gouncy
Juan
Tsa
James 1
Jerkraed
Notary Public
Will Bk
Williame
Med. Co
Schencetady
N.Y
Hand Sewing Returns As Grandmothers’ Craft Revival
A late 19th century notice extols a revival of hand sewing as a refined art, with classes offered at $1.50 per half hour, teaching sewing as a fine craft for fashionable women and their daughters, while contrasting with machine sewing and modern dress trends. The piece also mentions a Belgian report on working families and a tobacco and household product ad mix, along with political fusion talk in Michigan.
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Prines
Calltarnia Fie Syrup and other remedies
Fragmented note touts Tis Mensant effect and perfect safety of a fig based syrup. It warns to buy under the Calltarnia Fie Syrup Company name printed on the package. Mentions Baltimora druggist and Heptasophs regionally. Also notes the death of Charles Stanley Reinhart at the Players Club in New York.
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al Condita
Jouk
Calltarnia Fie Syrup Company
Uwe
Wll Te
Ppanable Druggist
Chis
Stanley Reinhart
Players Club
New York
Too Late to Mend Indication and remedies in old column form
A fragmented historical clipping notes various topics including health cures such as Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for rheumatism and digestion, Knight-Amore Clothing Company in Denver assigning, three mortgages totaling 35000 foreclosed, Mrs Winslow's Book for children, a drowning incident of a person aged 18 in the Kanawa river, Catarrh Cure priced at 75 cents, Russian purchase of tube mill machinery at Delaware Iron Company Newcastle plant, Glona Snipbur Seay beauty claim, and Mrs Longerman of North Adams recalling a horse sold years earlier.
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Delaware Iron Company
Newcastle
Del
Kansas City couple united in marriage older residents
Rabbi Krauskopf of Pilladombia and Sybil B. Felnaman, among Kansas City's oldest residents, were united in marriage in a ceremony noted for bringing together two generations and highlighting long-standing local commitments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rabbi Krauskopf
Pilladombia
Mist Sybil B. Felnaman
Kansas City
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Pinkham
Kennedy
Ronnald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Boston
EMU
Icee
Wis
UNION
Gamins
Agettysburg
Milton F. Sweet
State Department
Belgium
Tabbin
Michigan
Prudential
Baltimora City
Maryland
York
Mra. C. Beitz
Ave
Leurer
Col
Knight-Amore Clothing Company
Denver
Mra. Winslow
wAsthiix
Anns Balle Wateon
Kanawa River
Sha Waa
St. Paw
Fall
Indy
Longerman
North Adams
Whit Ingham
Punt
Hood
POND
Pong's Extract CO
Opie
United States
Sapolio
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