Mirrors Decorated in Soap Drawings Draw Local Notice
A Chicago Mail report describes soap artists who decorate mirrors in saloons with scenes and theatre promotions. Workers use white soap and colored pastes to craft flowers and landscapes, earning 60 cents to $1 an hour, with managers paying for prints via complimentary tickets. A joke about a misread sign at the Academy of Hearts of Oak underscores rough orthography among sign and mirror decorators.
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Michael Angelo
Madison Street
Struel
Palace
Academy
Hearts of Oak
Dan Shelby
Hartz
Oke
West Side
A Curious City and Fragments from The Times
A collage of urban life and literary fragments depicts crowded narrow streets, cigarette smoking workers, streetcar poeics, and a bustling city scene. The piece blends observations from Chicago Journal to Boston Transcript with notes on Irish politics and a survivor of the Light Brigade, ending with a blunt tip: don’t overwater houseplants in cold weather.
A Lifelong Love of William Warren Revealed
The veteran Boston comedian William Warren and Adelaide Phillips shared a lifelong romance. Adelaide declined marriage for her aged father’s sake, promising to wait for their future. Warren and Phillips pursued separate paths yet remained devoted, aging in singleness until their eventual reunion proved too late. The Brooklyn Eagle reports this poignant, enduring bond.
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William Warren
Boston Museum
William ‘Warren
Adelaide Phillips
Eccles
Aymy
Father Phillips
Adelaide
Philip Ray
Brooklyn Eagle
Mayor Wax Figure Deceived Cincinnati Critics
A St Paul man recalls Powers the sculptor staging a prank in Cincinnati to expose pretentious critics. Wax models of the mayor and other figures drew top art world elites who praised works until a critic blamed the nose, only to discover the live mayor reacting to the insult as the joke flipped.
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St. Paul
Cincinnati
Powers
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Duchess of Galliera Dies in Paris Rich Heiress of Genoa
One of the world’s wealthiest women, the Duchess of Galliera, died in Paris. She was the daughter and heiress of Marquis de Brignole Sale of Genoa. She married the Duke de Galliera and expanded the fortune through shrewd speculation. His £1,000,000 gift to Genoa and her £2,000,000 to build a hospital, restore churches, and widen streets marked vast philanthropy. She donated Palace Rosso to Genoa, endowed Paris with a museum, an orphanage, and other charities, and repurchased Spanish estates for Montpensier. Their son Signor Ferrari is a socialist. the duchess was a staunch Royalist.
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Duchess of Galliera
Paris
Marquis de Brignole Sale
Duke de Galliera
Genoa
Europe
Rosso
Duc de Montpensier
Signor Ferrari
London Court Journal
Remarkable Libau organ and chess prodigy Lavrotsky
A La Science en Famille correspondent describes a Libau Russia Protestant church organ spanning the full 60 feet width with 181 registers 8000 pipes 14 large bells four harpsichords an immense largest pipe of 3 inch thick planks 7 square inch section weighing 1540 pounds plus 21 accessory stops and pneumatic couplings. The piece compares other organs including Riga Cathedral Garden City St Albert Hall London Ulm Notre Dame Paris and more. It then tells of Madame Lavrotsky a Russian chess prodigy who rose from a bankrupt father to master and professional player.
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la Science En Famille
Libau
Russia
Cathedral of
Riga
Garden City Cathedral
St. Albert Mall
London
Cathedral of Ulm
St. George’s Hall
Liverpool
Banished Waltz Upsets Parish Leader In Minneapolis Tribune
A fragment notes a decision to ban the waltz at a local congregation while approving high necked and formal dancing by Mr. Nickerson, reflecting a clash between strict religious norms and social dancing in a Minneapolis context. The report highlights a community tension over morality and tradition.
Magnetic oxide coating slows rail rusting under pressure
A Philadelphia Times excerpt notes W Spring’s finding that moisture plus pressure forms a magnetic oxide coating on iron, explaining why in-use rails oxidize slower than dead rails. Moistened rust on iron under 1000 to 1200 atmospheres penetrates and coats the plate, mirroring locomotive wheel loads.
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W. Spring
Royal Belgian Academy
Spring
Quartz Dust Consumption and Child Rearing Dilemmas
A Virginia Chronicle report cites a physician linking prolonged quartz dust inhalation to coughs hoarseness and lung irritation, warning of a fast path to fatal consumption and advocating damp streets to reduce dust in Crown Point mines. A Philadelphia Call essay urges gentle discipline over punishment for children, recommending private guidance and praise to foster self respect and better behavior.
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Crown Point
Belcher
Oregon
Washington Territory
Virginia
Ney
Philadelphia
Pussy Pays Her Own Board in Farm Advice
A Maine farmer correspondent praises the cat for pest control and urges keeping several cats alongside a hardworking household. The piece argues that even the hired man or owner should be kept modest to avoid waste, noting a case where a farmer lost 100 dollars worth of fruit trees and suggesting cats would have protected the crop. It hints that a well-placed cat could have brought credit to the West and saved trees and cider.
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Philadelphia Times
Maine
Ttana
Hovea
Linnell
Mines in Japan Rescue Reveals Entombed Miners
Reports say a coal mine accident in Japan trapped five to fifty workers, with a later rescue revealing the entombed miners' bodies. Officials confirmed the mine was opened and victims recovered, detailing the tragedy and ongoing investigation.
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Japan
New Catarrh Cure Promises Permanent Relief
Advertises a home remedy claimed to cure catarrh catarhal deafness and hay fever in one to three applications every two weeks. Promised exclusively for female discharges as a specific. Offers pamphlet for ten cents from A I Dixon & Son Toronto with note from Scientific American urging readers to study the claims.
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Ivy
Howver
N. B
A. I. Dixon & Son
West King St
Toronto
Canada
Scientific American
Light of the Christian Path in a Dream Poem
An excerpt from J. Waller Henry in the New York Graphic explores anxiety and yearning, tracing a woman's name along life’s sandy shore. It contrasts earthly struggles with a steadfast inner light described as the Christian guide that leads souls toward heaven and resilience amid storms and fate.
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Heaven
J. Waller Henry
New York Graphic
Mario as a Stage Lover in 1850 St Petersburg
The San Francisco Argonaut recounts a tale of the tenor Mario in St Petersburg around 1850. During a duo he whispered Mia cara Mia bella to his daughter then a girl who would become Mile. de Caters, prompting a later scene with an unnamed ugly woman. The whispers were a theatrical device to sustain the passion needed for his role.
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Mario
St. Petersburg
Blade
Mia Cara
Adoro
Min Cara
San Francisco
Dreams and Coincidences in The Globe-Democrat
A reader recalls an item from The Globe-Democrat about curious dream related coincidences. The fragment mentions Libbitua and a supposed light metal worth high sums, plus a note on a Bridgewater canal project.
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Globe-Democrat
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Mexico
Albany
Lebouchere
Coho
Labouchere
Ui Ves
Mr. Labouchere
Biggar
Shea
Chicago Journal
Sarah Vi Imires
Tae Nom
Piriehe
Pete
Midianapoli
Crimea
Electric Light Brigade
Boston
America
Madame Lavrotsky
M. Lavrotsky
Pall Math Gazette
Col
Nickerson
Reayn
Spain
R. B. Kyle
Appomattox Co
Bt. Jacobs
Charles A. Voge
ER CO
Baltimore, Ma
Pearl
GEO. A. Macbeth & CO
PitTsBurgh
Par
Avice Erie Medical
Sanden
Bava && Com
Euth
LaSalle Bu
Chicago
Illedstriethy Sf
Munn & CO
Broadway
N.Y
Scientific American Great Success
Publishels
Architects & Builder
Munit & CO
Patent Office
Patent Solicitor General Office
Broapwa
Peprice’s
United States
Dr. Price
Paice Baking Powder CO
New York
ST. Louis
G. V. Parmmelee
SUR al Geon
Mitchell National Bank
Offce
Mitchell
Dakota
H. J. Mor
Mitchell, Dik
Farm Loans
R. C. Warne
Warne
Fourth St
Minneapolis & St Louis
Albert Lea
Minneapolis
St. Paul Minneapolis
Cara
Des Moines
Owa
Fort Dodge
Lins
Watertown
Oak
Mississippi Valley
Union Depot
Manitoba
Northern Pacific
Duluth
Minneapolis & St. Louis Railway
Horton
Tal
Aeonigon
Kansas City
Union Pacific
Atchison, Topeka & Sante Fe
R. McMillan & CO
Davison
Frank Weller
Salzers Giant
Frede Ark
Rere Sas
Gur Cae
Si Wilton
Hibbard
Summit St
Rochester
B. F. Knapp, Walcott
N. Y
Nelson Moore
Walcott
Alpina
Mich
Babe
Joan Mueller Weiss
Rheumatic Syrup Co
Jackson, Mich
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