Eyes for the Blind A Tribune interview on glasses and sight
A Tribune reporter talks with an optician in Broad about eyewear care and safety. The discussion covers reading light, eye strain, eye wear selection, and the dangers of cheap vendors, plus notes on lens materials, history, and shoe industry links to optics.
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Tribune
Elie A Optician
China
Europe
America
Brazil
France
Germany
England
the Tribune
New York Tribune
Pair of Shoes and Global Footwear Imagery
A naturalist quips about drawing fish if shown a letter. A shoemaker might offer the wearer a tale if shown a shoe. The text surveys sandals and shoes from Arab, Chinese, and Dutch traditions in concise, vivid imagery.
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China
Selecting a Church and the Motives Behind Choice
The Advance urges new churchgoers to choose not by business advantage wealth or social status but by where they can most help build Christ's kingdom. It warns that many seek largest or strongest churches for self serving reasons and counsel newcomers to assess where they are truly needed and can contribute.
Remarkable Woman Acclaimed In New Orleans
The New Orleans Picayune calls Mrs. Alice Le Plongeon a remarkable woman scientist and linguist, English by birth, who travels with her husband in Yucatan. She wears a bloomer outfit, carries a rifle and revolver, and once held off Indian guards protecting a statue until help arrived. She is a hunting shot, a skilled horsewoman, an accomplished writer, and a graceful speaker.
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Alice le Plongeon
New Orleans
New Orleans Picayune
Yucatan
Rumor Bolton to Gerrymander Ireland if Unchecked
The report suggests the Crown Solicitor in Ireland, Bolton, is implicated in alleged atrocious crimes and may set policy to shape Ireland to his own will if not restrained.
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Ireland
Bolton
National Mausoleum Idea Echoed by Cleveland Leader
The Cleveland Leader argues for a national mausoleum to honor U S presidents, detailing depictions of graves and monuments across the country. It notes Harrison Tyler Monroe Van Buren Jefferson Adams Washington Adams Lincoln Garfield Taylor Pierce Buchanan Polk Jackson and more with varied markers and inscriptions.
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United States
Westminster Abbey
Gen
Harrison
Cincinnati
John Tyler
Hollywood
Richmond
President Monroe
Monroe
Virginia
van Buren
Kinderhook
Thomas Jefferson
George Washington
Henry Clay
Senate
Mount Vernon
Potomac
Washington
Adamses
Unitarian
Quincy
John Adams
John Quincy Adams
John Quincey Adams
Adams
Abigail
Lincoln
Garfield
Springfield
Taylor
Capital
Kentucky
Frank Pierce
Concord
Francis Pierce
Franklin Pierce
Millard Fillmore
Buffalo
James Buchanan
Lancaster
Polk
Nashville
Andrew Jackson
Jackson
Hermitage
Tennessee
Cleveland Leader
New York 1751 Public Notices and Advertisements
A run of items from The New York Gazette of Runaway and public notices dated Sunday night, 3 instant, recount runaways like Judah Hays’s Sarah a mullatto woman of about thirty, plus slave sales and trades in Amboy and the Jerseys. Notices cover grafting wares in Broad Street, ship and post letters, drowns in harbor, lamps stolen, rising firewood costs, and ads from Ebenezer Grant. An obituary for Isabella Morris and a Kean benefit dispute follow, with a 1807 street layout note by Gouverneur Morris and Simeon DeWitt on city expansion and Harlem projections.
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New York
Wall Street
New York Gazette
Judah Hays
Sarah
Amboy
Col Hamilton
Jerseys
City of
Elizabeth Boyd
Hog’s
Broad Street
Long Bridge
Ebenezer Grant
Hanover Square
Albany Post
Boston
Philadelmia
Isabella Morris
Lewis Morris
Fsq
New Jersey
Hempstead Plains
Kean
James Parker
N. B
Thomas Kean
Gouverneur Morris
Simeon DeWitt
John Rutherford
Inhospitable New York Man Finds City Unfriendly
A Omaha native who bought a $40 000 house on 36th Street two years ago says New York is the most inhospitable town he has seen. He notes no neighbors call, few acquaintances ripen into friendship, and his daughters would struggle to find a local party guest list. Source: Boston Journal.
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New York
Omaha
Thirty-Sixth
Europe
Jboston Journal
Maine
Springfield
Mass
Tucson
Arizona
Portland
Jeremiah Austin
South Coventry
Guerneville
Cal
Ira Jenks
Lanesboro
Boston
Virginia
Nev
United States
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Alta California
Peterborough
Canada
Foreign Language Newspapers in the United States
The New York World reports 623 foreign language newspapers and periodicals in the United States. German leads with 483 titles, followed by French 41, Scandinavian 33, Spanish 25, Bohemian 12, Dutch 11, Italian 6, Welsh 4, and Polish and Hebrew 2 each. One paper each is published in Irish, Cherokee, and Chinese.
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United States
New York World
Freedmen's Claims in Indian Territory Move to Washington
Hon. J Milton Turner ex minister to Liberia and freedmen agent says he may appear before a congressional committee to present freedmen claims. He argues treaty of 1866 and later acts entitle freedmen nationwide to rights equal to native Indians and seeks $50 000 to $75 000 from Cherokee land sale proceeds.
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J. Milton Turner
Liberia
Indian Territory
Washington
Congressional Committee
Turner
Indiana Territory
Phillips
United States
Secretary of the Interior
96Th
Dawes’ Commission
Five Civilized Nations
Parker
Oklahoma
Capt. Payne
Mr. Turner
Payne
St. Louis
General Grant Rumor of Tongue Swelling and Cancer Threat
The article reports a circulating rumor that Gen. Ulysses S. Grant suffers swelling of the tongue possibly leading to cancer. Dr. Fordyce Barker notes uncertainty about danger or cause and cites irritation from smoking, while reporting relief from a local anesthetic and reduced redness.
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Gen. Grant
Lill
Georgia
Fordyce Barker
Douglass
Senator Hill
French siege gun of prodigious power described
The French government tested a steel siege gun nearly thirty feet long with ten coils of plated steel wire around the tube. After a few discharges the gun lengthens by three millimeters and fires a 297 pound shell that can penetrate armor six inches thick at seven miles.
Various snippets From 1880s News Across the U S
A digest of assorted notes cites 1884 Maine homicides count and Maine lobster totals, Arizona restaurant staff, Boston tenements, and Vermont church statistics. Other items cover peculiar weather, industry shifts, odd animal finds, and humorous local lore from New England and beyond.
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Chicago
Peabody
Harper's Magazine
Harlem
Harlem Flats
New York Sun
Freedmen’s Rights
Gazette
Skeat
Pet
David
Troy Times
Paris
Florida
Massachusetts
Dr. Macadam
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