An Artist and a Portrait Dilemma at Healey Studio
A New York portrait artist faced a delicate dilemma when a heavily painted young woman kept obscuring facial features. He devised a tactful plan advising rest and a cool water rinse before the next sitting, which restored natural coloring for the canvas. The piece also contrasts harem life with distant views of women’s world and a baby’s regal presentation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Healey
New York
Miss Jones
Washington Capital
Fashion and Pantaloons Through the Ages
Excerpts describe seasonal dress trends with plaid mantles and high puffed sleeves, feme attire, and trim details. A Philadelphia Press feature surveys pantaloons' evolution from revolutionary breeches to modern slim and baggy forms, notes on fabrics, pockets, buttons, and the social attitudes toward styles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Press
Visit to a harem described by Mrs Newman in New York meeting
Mrs John P Newman, wife of a New York minister, described her ten year old visit to the pasha of Hillah s harem at a Madison Avenue Congregational church gathering. She painted the interior with tapestries ornate garments gold jewels and pearl gardens. thirteen wives and many servants attended to guests.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Literary Society
Madison Avenue Congregational Church
New York
John P. Newman
Hillah
Babylon
Newman
Bliss
Mrs. Newman
Philadelphia
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Pulse rates in livestock and locating the pulse
The text lists normal resting pulse rates for horses forty beats per minute, cattle fifty to fifty five, and sheep and pigs seventy to eighty. It explains how and where to feel the pulse over major arteries, and notes that deviations indicate illness such as fever, inflammation, blood loss, brain disease, or heart trouble, marking pulse as a main health test.
Extraordinary Finger Nails and Asiatic Customs
The World of Wonders article notes that in China Siam and Annam long nails on all fingers except the forefinger grow extensively, with Chinese nails reaching 16 to 18 inches. Siamese nobles use silver cases to shield or feign long nails, while many Asiatic visitors allow the little finger nail to grow very long as a sign of distinction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
India
Asia
Concerted World Events Report From May Ending in 19th Century
The dispatch notes the Russian emperor's coronation in Moscow with amnesty to political prisoners and honors to Foreign Minister Giers. Peru and Bolivia political rhetoric. anarchist protest in Paris. French defeats, duel fatalities, and Swedish cabinet resignations. It covers railroad mortgages, Native American concerns in Cherokee Nation, a crossing dispute at Rochester and Pittsburg, Cincinnati labor lockout ending, a suicide-at-sea incident at Coney Island, civic debt negotiations, indictments in Alabama, New Jersey prohibitionist nomination, a Charleston bakery fire, and April earnings for the Northern Central Railway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Russia
Kremlin
Moscow
Czar
St. Alexander Nowski
M. de Giers
Arequipa
Montonero
Bolivis
Chili
Perce
Paris
Tonquin
Burlin
Sweedis
Cincinnati, Washington and Baltimore Railway Company
Recorder’s
Cincinnati
Muskogee I. T
Cherokee Nation
Cherokee Council
Rochester and Pittsburg
Lackawanna Railroad Company
Buffalo
Point Breeze
Coney Island
New Orleans
Treadway Rifles
St. Louis
Louisiana Field Artillery
Frank J. Badger
Crescent Rifles
Eichborn
Louisville
Hotlewaite
Decorah
Iowa
Rfles
Emlin Hewes
Wilmington
Del
New Jersey
Trenton
Isaac N. Quimby
Jersey City
J. C. H. Claussen & Co
Charleston D. C
Northern Central Railway Company
Pennsylvania
Archbishops, riots, and royal talk dominate London news
London reports detail Archbishop Croke's Vatican interview, French- Madagascar tensions, and Czars coronation proclamations. Other items include Irish fund appeals, Davitt and Healy parole discussion, Parnell support, anti Jewish riots in Russia, a New York Irish World arrest, and a Maryland drought impact. Also noted are theft of money pouches, a Kentucky governor nomination, Tropic ship trial verdicts, a horse thief warning, and frosts damaging Midwest crops.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Archbishop Croke
Thurles
Lord Granville
France
Madagascar
Cztrs
Moscow
Cork
Parnell
John Behan
New York Irish World
Rasoff
Russia
Errington
Vatican
House of Commons
Messrs
Davitt, Healy
Quinn
Justin McCarthy
M. P
Parnellite
Parnell Fund
Cuba
Cabarien
Sophia
Gothenburg
Greenland
United States Express Company
Union
Cleveland
Thomas J. Morrow
Lexington
Augustus C. Rand
Thomas Penders
United States District Court
Philadelphia
Hayti
Helena
Ark
Sanderson
Moore
Martinsburg Independent
Berkeley
New York
Brooklyn
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Richmond and Alleghany
Lynchburg
Clifton Forge
Virginia
Pennsylvania Notes on notable deaths crimes and gas fueling
Alexander Scott son of John Scott of Pittsburg was killed by cowboys in New Mexico on May 17 while cattle raising. Lancaster county jail outbreak of smallpox leads to quarantine. thirteen prisoners ill. In Pittsburg, Thomas Welch killed by wife with a red hot bayonet after drinking. City shifts to natural gas replacing coal in iron works and homes, aiming to end Pittsburg’s Smoky City reproach.
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Alexander Scott
John Scott
Pittsburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
New Mexico
Scott
Lancaster County
Board of Health
Thomas Welch
Welch
Lancaster
Treasury destroys over two million in notes and certificates
Washington notes report a macerating process in the Treasury Department destroyed more than $2,000,000 in United States notes and gold and silver certificates. The State Department informs that a peace treaty has been concluded between Chili and Peru.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Treasury Department
Department of State
Chili
Peru
An Accurate Time-piece and Gallant Watch Gift
A letter from the Gordon Castle commander praises a Gold Keyless Waltham Watch presented by the US President on behalf of the London Local Marine Board. He notes the watch ran six seconds fast from London to Singapore, then three seconds slow on arrival, comparing favorably with his chronometers during the voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waltham
Gordon Castle
United States
London
Singapore
England
Wonders of ancient tech and modern curiosities
A collage of trivia notes spans ancient inventions like fire engines by Ctesibius and early plague dates, with factoids on Norwegian musket policy, Roman naming, a Connecticut woman's recovery, a log mill accident, Winnipeg’s boom, a royal palace car, and patent medicines.
Female complaints and cures advertised in a medical notice
A collection of testimonials and advertisements from a 19th century surgeon’s pamphlet notes cures for female ailments with Golden Medical Discovery and Favorite, promotes Brown's Iron Bitters for dyspepsia, and markets Frazer's axle grease and petroleum products. It mentions earthquakes, school holidays, and Seneca O.1 hair renewal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Delilaie. McMillan
Arlington, Ga
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Pasha
Fashion Notes
Pantaloons
Arthur
New Haven Palladium
David Todd
Justice Todd
Louisiana Supreme Court
Jos. Levesey
Mascot
Georgia
Strobach
United States Court
Montgomery
Ala
Bruce
Thomas J. Scott
United States Land Register
General News
Pennsylvania Notes
Washington Notes
Baltimore
Flour City Mills
Maryland
Hay
Timothy
West Virginia
Ctesibius
Norway
Hannah Tyler
New Slaven, Conn
Vanderbilt
Norriston Register
Philadephia News
Boston
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Tocooa Ciry, Ga
J. P. Newmar
Chicago
Frazer Axle
Frazer's
Waxcott
Mother Swan
Catholine
Lyon
Patel
Ethan Lawrence
Philp C. Balloa
Monkton, Vt
Daw3ry
City of
Providence
Hunt’s Remedy & Tong
Hunt
Bond Bireet
J- C. Power
Trepton
Liniment
Hostetter
Isra
Alex. H. Stephens
Norton
Gen. Cock
Cts
Peter Cooper
Washington Irving
Stoddarne
Sir Isaac Newton
James Part
RP van Winkle
Rok
Canon Farrar
Artemus Ward
S. B. Collins
la Port, Inc
Lngcand
New York City
Ali
John H. McAlvicwell
Maes
Chas. Jones
Elizabeth
Spencer County, Inc
James Beecher
Sigourney, Iowa
Wm. Hall
M. L. Noble
Santa Clara
Santa Clara Co
California
Aultman & Tayior Co
Mansfield
Ohio
Lydia E. Pinkham
Niatorp
Yoia Ft
Pinkwam
Western Avenue
Dairymen
America
Wills, Michandson & CO
Narlingter, Vt
Maxwoup
Voltaic Belt CO
Marshall, Mich
Hall
Middlesex
Middlesex Company
A Wendell, Fay & CO
Worth
Franklin
Fulton Street
Twombly Knitting Machine Co
Tremont Street
Mass
Te Marsh
Quincy, Mich
H.h.box
Yada
J. J. Stephens
Les Lebanon
Novelty Co
Brook Dyn
Witt
Ae Hee Ee Economy Printing Co
Murray Hill
National Publishing
Stinson &Lowe Portland
Voleman’s Business College
Newark
N. J
True &Co
Dr. Kruse
St. Loui
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