Fashions Reign as Novelties Dominate Ladies Styles
A survey of late season feminine attire covers carnation ruches on dress skirts, velvet and plush trims, jaunty black velvet bodices with jet edging, English hats, and opera wear. It notes silk trimming, netted scarves with hoods, and new stockings including mosaic patterns, with children's and men's fashion updates and fur accents.
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Virot
Portia
Lyons
N. JV
Sveining
Angelina
Princess Battenberg
San Francisco Report
The Cellar Door Club and a Mushroom Lesson
A Philadelphia boy grows mushrooms in a cellar after learning demand and price of champignons. He creates a marketable crop sold at 200 cents a box, funding his college aims and inspiring a tale of ambition and practical skill. The piece blends stories of industrious youth and moral reflections on finding one’s proper path.
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Philadelphia
France
Epicures
Christian Weekly
Jimmy Jackson
Jackson
Congress
Qid
David
Joe
God
Orchard Brook
The Cellar-Door Club Comes Of Age In Story Time
A portrait of a boyhood group meeting on a cellar-door in a rural setting. Tom Miller and six companions, including Jimmy Jackson and Will Sampson, plan Friday storytelling sessions with Sampson as chair. Harry Wilson starts with a tale about a Pennsylvanian village on the Schuylkill River.
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Davie
David
Sam Peters
Blankville
John Harlan
Harry
Tom Miller
Jimmy
Jimmy Jackson
Edward Eggleston
Parson Miller
Will Sampson
Harry Wilson
Hans Schlegel
Tsay
Hans
Sampson
Miller
Pennusylvania
Schuylkill River
Reminiscences of Public Men in Civil War Era
The article surveys Felix Caleb Cushing and Rufus Choate reminiscences and discusses Washington Jefferson Madison and Jackson legacies. It notes Mount Vernon as a national shrine attended by American ladies. It recounts Franklin Pierce's failed house plans and Benton’s farewell with Buchanan and Congress adjourning for Benton’s funeral.
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Caleb Cushing
Mount Vernon
Washington
Jefferson
Madison
Jackson
United States
Ladies of
Rufus Choate
Daniel Webster
America
North
South
Franklin Pierce
Pierce
Concord
Willard Williams
Main Street
Europe
Jeff Davis
Senate
Col. Benton
Buchanan
Youn
Pyemont
Mgr. Buchanan
Tennessee
Houston
Jones
Congress
Chinese Age Rites and Social Custom Newspiece
The piece outlines how Chinese age is counted from New Year rather than birth, creating confusion for outsiders about a child’s true age. It notes respect for age, varied titles by age, and the practice of dating life events to the New Year, with examples of social interaction and expectations.
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Brooklyn Magazine
Puzzling Skin Color Question in Antiquated Notes
The article discusses physiological questions about skin color and sun exposure. It cites Mattieu Williams and Blumenbach on pigs, light penetration through skin, and a proposed method to illuminate the stomach. It notes a corollary that dark skin may protect internal tissues from bright sunlight and heat, with references to sun stroke and epidermal shielding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mattieu Williams
Blumenbach
Franklin
Nature
Full Blood and Thoroughbred in Horses and Sheep
The piece explains full blood and thoroughbred as terms for horses and sheep, noting that full blood denotes pure lineage while thoroughbred is a refined product molded by humans. It contrasts natural selection with artificial breeding and argues for careful breeder-led selection.
Lecturer Fails to Draw Crowded Missouri Hall
A traveling lecturer enters Missouri with doubts about attracting a crowd. The hall owner says shelves are bare but promises a full house. Despite low hopes the bills go out and five dollars is collected for rent as the audience remains tiny and the lecture falls flat.
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Earth
Terra Firma
T’rinceton
Missouri
A Little of Her Base and a Drunken Woman
A fragment from the Chicago Ledger recounts Fred noting a visibly intoxicated woman approaching, joking about her condition with sailors' slang about being sober or not and a navy metaphor. The dialogue centers on observation and humor regarding the inebriated individual.
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Ohio
Chicago
Earache
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Perley Poenk
Benton
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Fremont
California
Beileau
Calcutta
St. Louis
Fred
Chicago Ledger
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