The Ladies Corner and Energy in Women
A compact column mix of discussions on female energy, daily duties, and moral uplift drawn from Harper's Bazar and Union Signal. It contrasts the active, charitable woman with idle power, cites examples like Loniza Alcot and Julia Ward Howe, and notes the Prince and Princess of Wales as differing personal pursuits. It also covers domestic ideals in kitchen life and moral exhortations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loniza Alcott
Clare Barton
Julia Ward Howe
Voyage in Steerage: Twelve Days Aboard a Transatlantic Liner
A first person account describes steerage life aboard an Atlantic liner, detailing cramped bunks, mixed nationalities, brutal food distribution, limited privacy, hazy sanitation, crowded decks, and the rough humor of emigrants from Germany, Norway, Sweden, Russia, Poland, Ireland, and Britain as they endure vaccines, meals, and cramped quarters before reaching New York's quarantine.
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Lam
Prince's Landine
Liverpool
Bundie
Mie
Arrival of emigrants at haven ends perilous voyage
The fragment describes exhausted passengers cheering as they near safety at a harbor. The Health Officer inspects them before they reach the required formalities and complete the journey of an emigrant.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ara
Arris Hakniyeroy
Cowardice of Crowds and a Savage Presence of Mind
Walter Besant argues that the crowd’s inaction at a burning woman reflects a broader loss of presence of mind due to modern life. He claims courage is not the issue, but readiness to act in sudden danger, linked to humanity’s shift from hunter survival to easy, safety ridden living.
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Mrs. Smith
Hersel
Pa A
Ray
Ben Wakefeld
Biddeford
Ben
Cape
Spectator
Gari
Walter Besant
Self Controlled Burr Meets Hamilton Bust in Boston
The story, recounted from Rufus Choate to Richard H. Dana, recalls Aaron Burr calmly facing a Hamilton bust in the Boston Atheneum. Burr’s self discipline enabled him to endure the sight, while Devereux exclaimed “Ah, here is Hamilton!” and Burr noted “There was the poetry.” Hamilton’s writings reveal no poetry, yet he is remembered for a poetic mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aaron Burr
Rufus Choate
Richard H. Dana
Mr. Dana
Burr
Hamilton
Boston
How Lightning Makes Glass Fulgurites Form From Sand and Rock
Lightning carves glass tubes called fulgurites when it passes through sand or rock. The heated silica fuses instantly, creating glass conduits from a quill to several inches wide. Fulgurites appear in sand up to thirty feet deep and also as thin surface coatings on rocks, notably around Araret in Armenia.
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Araret
Armenia
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Mitchell South Dakota
Thell Printing Co
Alexandre
Alexandra
Prince of Wales
Jace
Windsor Forest
Bismark
Plimsoll
Disraeli
T. Detitt Talmage
Across the Ocean
London
Latlyton
Eble
Mack
Louis
New York
Sandy Hook
Liberty Statue
Brookyn Bridge
Mr. Spilllsins
Pra Ogi
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