Showing Cents Instead of Eagles in Money Windows
A San Francisco Argonaut excerpt notes money changers downtown replacing gold displays with copper pennies after thefts and security, with pennies resembling gold coins. It also recounts Geoffroy St Hilaire's wife hiding a missing diamond necklace and the naturalist’s lighthearted remark about his pet Waboon playing with a similar ornament.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geoffroy St. Hilaire
Mau. St. Hilaire
Mme. St. Hilaire
Traveling barber plus Japan’s animalless land
A 16 year old traveling barber on the upper west side visits homes of well to do businessmen at fixed hours charging per week and serving about 25 customers daily. He praises personal service and sees it as cleaner and more convenient. The piece also notes Japan’s alleged lack of domestic animals, few horses and dogs, and explains how this shapes its landscapes and daily life in a satirical tone.
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Upper West Side
New York
Japan
Sleepers and their curious methods across history
A humorous roundup notes famous figures who sleep oddly or little, including Edison who can stay awake a week, a Turkish bath sleeper who rests last twenty years, and others like Arkel, De Pew, Webster, and a Scottish minister whose sermon room crowd slept. It cites anecdotes from the New York Press and the London Telegraph about sleep habits and the playful rebukes of wakeful eccentrics.
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Edison
Joseph Howa
W. J. Arkell
Canajohario
de Pew
Webster
New York
Press
Manners In Suffolk And Aims of Strategy
Delicate table manners are scarce among Suffolk peasants. A farmer savors bread sauce on a knife tip and jokes about gravy. In London News a man steals a photo and hides it, while a wife glimpses her husband’s anatomy via X ray and falls into a renewed passion.
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Suffolk
Mme, Groome
London News
New York Herald
Popular Bicycle Prospects and Charitable Motive Tales
A Philadelphia Times note praises rising bicycle popularity as a sign of prosperity. A Chicago Times Herald excerpt recounts a curious exchange about voting out of charity, with an election manager and colonel debating a ward vote supposedly cast to help start the ball rolling.
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Philadelphia Times
Chicago Times‘Herald
The Linnet Learns to Draw Water From Seedbox
A London Spectator note describes linnets learning to obtain water from a seedbox by gradually extending a thread attached to a bone thimble filled with water. The bird initially pulls a lid open and progresses to hauling the thimble when distant, using a glass of water as the target.
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London Spectator
To Prevent Hydrophobia and Odd Dialogues
A correspondent recalls a six year old newspaper item about a German physician doomed to die and a mad dog bite treatment. The writer claims success washing the wound in warm vinegar water and applying muriatic acid to neutralize poison, though details remain unverified. Also included are quips from the Boston Journal misdirection and a humorous Washington Star exchange about argument and labor.
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Boston Journal
Ten Commandments of Buddha and a hunting tale
The text presents Buddhist moral precepts listing ten commandments against body sins, tongue sins, and mind sins with guidance to live righteously. It also recounts a Kansas City Journal anecdote by Cook Herman about a duck hunting trip near Indian, Kansas, where a vast sky of geese flew overhead, described in vivid imagery before a missed shot.
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Inman
Kan
Cook Herman
Kansas City Journal
Yankee-in-law revealed in Grant family lineage
A Boston Transcript note traces the Grants ancestry and debunks claims that Mrs. Grant was a Vermont daughter or a New Englander. Fredmarick D. Grant states his mother was born in St Louis, with other forebears from Cumberland Maryland and Pittsburgh Pennsylvania, while his father’s line traces to Windsor Connecticut and western Pennsylvania after the Revolutionary era.
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Grant
General Grant
Jeferson Davis
Vermonter
Noton
Vermont
New York
St. Louis
Herther
Cumberland
Pittsburg
Penn
New England
Matthew Grant
Windsor
Fredmarick D. Grant
Twelfth Century Tablecloths and Fashions Through Time
The article traces medieval tablecloths from double doublers in the twelfth century to the sixteenth century shift to two cloths and later a single flat cloth touching the floor. It notes Charles V owned 67 cloths up to 20 yards long and one 832 yards long with embroidered arms, all fringed, and describes the winding river fold of a large overlaid cloth and the eventual return to a single flat cloth. It closes with a dialog from Youth's Companion and a New York Journal remark on manners.
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Charles V
Rosecrans weighs poet or victor in Tennessee tale
In a Rosecrans campaign anecdote from the Louisville Courier Journal, General Garfield quotes Lowell as Rosecrans muses whether to write or win. The exchange shifts to Wolfe and Stone River, stressing that victories mattered more than poetry for the Union. A second tale recalls the Cursed Tower of the Rhone and Benedic tine abbey disruption by Huguenots in 1569.
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Rosecrans
Wolfa
Gray
Quebec
Stone River
Rhone
Pisa
Soyons
Louise d’Amante
Valence
Thomas A. Janvier
W H Denman Livery and Feed Stable Ad
W H Denman Livery and Feed Stable offers new rigs and First class service at honest charges. Located at H N Lewis old stand. Patronage sought through square dealing and reliable terms. Give him a trial.
C. M. & St. P Railroad Train Times and Insurance Ad
Train times to and from east west north and south listed with passenger and freight schedules ex Sunday. Insurance options from Travelers Accident Insurance Co with policy amounts and weekly indemnity premiums. Mitchell, S. D Steamship Agency offers world tickets and free reservations.
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Travelers Accident Insurance Co
Hartford
Conn
F. E. Clark
C. M. & St. P. Mitchell
S. D
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Wiltse
New York Sun
Blackie
Jowett
Igte
Uwckie
Balliol
Jowett Beate
Uly
Forbes
Aberdeenshire
Benjamin Mercer
Mr. Mercer
Charlie
Sandy
London Telegraph
Eben
Washington Star
Lucy
Chloe
Ned
Aunt Chloe
New York Journal
Buddha
Adam
Chicago
Milwaukee
W. H. Denman
H. N. Lewis
JNO
O. Walrath
Geo. E. Logan
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NATI
J R. D. Welch
V.president
O. P. Graham
Onal Bank
Suth Dakota
C. M. Swan, Ll. W. Seaman
R. D. Weldh
J.O. Walrath, J. D. Wood
L. O. Gale
The
Chicago Record
Harrisburg
Call
America
Trpe
Ideei Daily Journal
Nikcely
Prof
J. T. Hatfield
Evanston
Hadison St
Ladie
Cash Dry Goods House
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