Nellie Grant's Frome Visit and English Life Reflections
Nellie Grant Sartoris visits England with her children at her Frome estate near Southampton. In a Washington Letter, observers note her English home life, the Sartoris family, and her views on English women and society while recalling memories of her American upbringing and father’s presidency.
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Southampton
Ahernon Sartoris
Nellie Grant
Bremen
Hamble
Algernon
America
Rosa
Sartoris
Ryde Esplanade
Southsea
Far Rockaway
Uniteds Kingdom
England
United States
White House
Learie
Eng
Washington
Frank A. Burr
Newark
Disease in Second Hand Books and Disinfection
The New York Star notes fears that zymotic diseases may spread via books through lending libraries and second hand shops. It calls for literature in such outlets to be subjected to efficient disinfection to curb potential transmission.
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New York Star
Descent into a Steamship Engine Room Adventure
Albert H. Munsell recounts a voyage into a steamship engine room described as monstrous with pistons and dynamos. The captain guides the tour past oil and coal dust, burning furnaces, and the driving steel shaft that powers the ship as crew toil in heat and glare.
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Cptain
Albert H. Munsell
Chasing the Swordfish Pursuit Reveals Nature of the Chase
Professor Goode argues swordfish fishing is thrilling and dangerous as hunters stalk a visible quarry. He notes ships suffer damage from strikes and crews face injuries, with old sailors dreaming of the chase and harpoon work at night on cruising grounds.
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Goode
Ashby
New York Mail and Express
Shakespeare's Old Home and Its Admission Fees
A New York World corresp argues Shakespeare's house mirrors Mount Vernon as a people’s property. He notes sixpence paid for viewing living rooms and another sixpence for a second, rubbish-filled section, totaling about 25 cents per visitor and roughly 60 dollars daily from 250 visitors, questioning royalty and upkeep costs.
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Shakespeare House
Mount Vernon
Washington
England
New York World
Unlikely North Pole Cane Marveled by Bazar Reader
A Harpers Bazar reader recalls a boast about a cane claimed to be from the Greely expedition cook. The owner insists it is a unique genuine north pole piece.
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Yaas
North Pole
Greely
Harper’s Bazar
Public school system to be established in Alaska
A Detroit Free Press item notes a husband and wife exchange a ten and a ten cent piece in a humorous vignette. A separate dispatch states federal agents will establish a public school system in Alaska, outlining the government-backed effort.
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Detroit Free Press
Alaska
Statue to President Harrison tostand in Cincinnati for centennial
Ohio plans a bronze equestrian statue of William Henry Harrison to honor the first territorial governor. The statue, by Louis F. Rebisso, will be placed in Cincinnati with possible collaboration from Indiana for the Harrison grave at North Bend. Ohio has appropriated $25,000. a $1,000,000 interstate exposition is guaranteed for Cincinnati's centennial celebration.
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Ohio
William Henry Harrison
Cincinnati
Indiana
North Bend
Benjamin Butterworth
John Stevenson
Kentucky
Harrison
Louis F. Rebisso
Marietta
Gen. Putnam
Allegheny River
Pennsylvania
Gallipolis
England
Cromwell
Benjamin Harrison
United States
Wabash River
Tippecanoe
Vincennes
Sea Plains
Putnam
Wabash
Maumee
Canada
Louisiana
A Fine Challenge Cup For Steam Yachts
The American Yachting Club offers a perpetual challenge cup for all steam yachts, a 3 ft 9 in silver vessel decorated with Neptune and Pluto and racing scenes. Founded May 1883, the club has grown from 15 members and 6 yachts to 50 yachts and 200 members, elevating steam yachting to a leading sport.
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American Yachting Club
Pluto
Neptune
Eolus
rAbave
American Yacht Club
Gossip Sparks Marriage Talk in Texas Sifting Collage
In a witty exchange Brown teases about his sister's engagement to Mr. Jinks of New York. Robinson confirms the match and notes Jinks's prominent family, mentioning his brother is in a neighboring cell to Ford Ward, hinting at a jailhouse joke.
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Brown
Mr. Jinks
New York
Robinson
Ford Ward
Texas Sistings
New York Sun
Bashful youth seeks kisses in bakery shop
A bashful youth asks a baker’s maid for kisses, blushing as he learns they cost twenty cents a dozen. He protests mishearing the offer, and the maid playfully suggests samples, leaving him red faced and torn between accepting or passing.
Old Chocolate's Target Practice
A humorous collection of proverbs and sayings attributed to J. A. Waldron in Judge. The lines discuss luck, health, perception, and human folly with rustic dialect and folk wisdom.
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Hailstawm
J. A. Waldron
Family Census Laughs and Pranks in Dakota Town
A Chicago Tribune excerpt recalls a Dakota household with a large brood and a blunt census tally. The woman counts eleven children plus a newborn, describing routine near the road and playful anecdotes about Sheridan as a baby. The tale blends rural life with humor and cautionary family memory.
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Ophelia
Schoo
Sheridan
Washington
Chicago Tribune
Bill Nye and Spencer on Evolution in Prose
The Boston Globe cites Bill Nye favoring Herbert Spencer for comfort during the Civil War era and quotes Spencer describing evolution as a change from indefinite incoherence to definite coherence through differentiations and integrations. The reader notes Nasby’s light commentary as a relief from serious study.
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Bill Nye
Herbert Spencer
Mr. Lincoln
Petroleum V. Nasby
Spencer
Boston Globe
Woman Suffrage Shift After Mass Meeting
A World dispatch notes Mrs Politician joins the suffrage association after attending a mass meeting. She had opposed it but Indiana about voting changes her stance to prompt swift action for the law. She mentions her husband’s politeness during campaigns as a motivating factor.
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Omaha
Trickster merchant tale and moral fable roundup
A cadaverous man on Madison Street offers a box of matches with deaf and dumb note, later sells two dozen boxes. A commuter jokes about his nose blasts, while a Fox and Buzzard fable ends with a crowning moral about not wasting effort on worthless enemies. The snippets echo era humor and street- carried parables from Chicago and Detroit papers.
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Madison Street
Chicago Tribune
Condition of Ireland and Mitchellstown Bridewell
Reports on Ireland’s coerced resistance and a fatal police action at Butcherstown, with a coroner’s verdict of murder against police and a glimpse of Mitchellstown Bridewell where Irish MP W O’Brien faced charges. Also a Northwestern barnstorming tour tale from the Minneapolis Journal about a rugged grand tour and makeshift theater in Anaconda Montana.
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Mitchelle Town
Ireland
Butchellstown
Bridewell
Mitchellstown
W. O'Brien
Pariement
Baseball Talk Reflects Club Movement and Salaries
The report outlines players seeking new teams, including Glasscock and Pfeffer, and mentions Detroit Boston New York Chicago finances. It notes low umpire counts, rising salaries for Ganzel Twichell Thompson, and Detroit’s pennant win aftermath. Dorgan’s arm improves and Anson negotiation looms.
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Mike Dorgan
Ganzel
Twichell
Thompson
Detroit
Mark Baldwin
Pfeffer
Clarkson
Chicago
Mike Kelly
Washington
Capital
New York
Boston
Stearns
Frank Gardner
Indianapolis
Hackett
Spence
Educational Gleanings Reflect 19th Century Global Ideas
The piece surveys rising school enrollment in the south, a planned Catholic training college on Falkland estate in Scotland costing £250,000, and Swiss schooling adding singing in common schools. It notes women in western towns, a nurse training school in Pittsfield, and memorials to Helen Hunt Jackson. It also covers U.S. policy honors, a Santa Fe Ramona School costing $30,000, Leland Stanford’s university pledge to aid the poor, and Princeton football star R. E. Speer balancing athletics with scholarship.
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Marquis of Bute
Falkland Estate
Fifeshire
Scotland
Switzerland
Chicago
Pittsfield Mass
House of Mercy
Henry W. Bishop 3d
Williams College
Angell
University
Great Brita
Helen Hunt Jackson
Hew
Ramona Indian Girls’ School
Santa Fe
N. M
New York
New Mexico
Arizona
Leland Stanford
California
R. E. Speer
Princeton
Speer
Peer
Milton M Speer
Pennsylvania
Mortgage on St Louis Arkansas & Texas railway reaches 15 million
Fort Worth Texas September 12 First and second mortgages totaling 15 540 000 on the St Louis Arkansas & Texas railway cover a line extending from Sulphur Springs to Fort Worth the Sherman branch and a 320 mile Chandler to Fort Worth extension The Central Trust Company of New York holds the first mortgage and the Mercantile Trust Company of Chicago holds the second The filings were recorded in the county clerk s office with the project financed to extend the rail line through Texas Arkansas and Missouri
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Fort Worth
Tex
St. Louis, Arkansas & Texas Railway
Aj Ite
Texas
Arkansas
Missouri
Central Trust Company of
New York
Mercantile Trust Cothusuny of
New
Sulphur Springs
Sherman
Chandler
Actress and Shortstop Wed After Surprise Marriage
The marriage of John M. Ward, New York shortstop, to Helen Dauvray, famed actress, surprised many. Dauvray, born Gibson, acted from age five in Uncle Tom’s Cabin and later starred as Little Nell in California Diamond. Ward, Columbia Law graduate and ex captain of the New York club, will reside in Newark after the Philadelphia ceremony.
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John M. Ward
New York
Helen Dauvray
Steben Dauvray
Gibson
Eva
Little Nell
California
Paris
America
Peg Woffington
Herbert Tracy
John Montgomery Ward
Pennsylvania
Columbia College Law School
Newark
Valuation of Wages by Wealth Equivalents Across Professions
A domestic servant earning a yearly income equivalent to the interest on $3,000 in government bonds and a mechanic earning the same as interest on $20,000 at 4 percent illustrate income rooted in capital value. A Montana teamster or Colorado cowboy compares yearly earnings to $40,000 in land value, while a country town doctor or lawyer would require large bond capital to match their income loss, and a city editor’s mental power equates to $500,000 in capital. These comparisons, from Youth's Companion, explore how skill and labor translate into monetary value.
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Handa
Washington
Montana
Colorado
A Flat Coral Island Home With Few Brick Buildings
The description outlines a low coral island key about six square miles in area, flat and rarely submerged by storms, with a western city shore densely settled before the 1886 fire. Wooden houses predominate, few brick structures, coral rock roads, light soil, limited gardening, coconut trees, scattered fruit and flowering plants, and a landscape of sparse vegetation and abundant flora.
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Key
West India
Rochester Post-Express
A Scene of Love and Wits Across Old Papers
A collage of comic vignettes and verse fragments from a late 19th or early 20th century newspaper, including flirtatious dialogue about Nancy and a knight, jokes about nurses and ministers, social mischief, and light satire on fashion and manners. The clippings mix poems, squibs, and brief sketches with credited witty lines and local flavor.
Notable Authors and Works Cited in 19th Century Notices
Paris correspondent Mrs Crawford boasts earning £10 000 yearly by writing. Bill Nye listed in English Bookseller as Boomerang Shots under Sporting Looks. Stevenson’s Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde reportedly penned in four days. Howells’ next novel to be set in eastern Virginia. Mark Twain schools his children at home with multilingual study. A minister’s son recites Ten Commandments. a windlit cigarette joke noted. Wits and humblest satire called sober and polished.
Fragments from a city history piece and character sketches
The readable text hints at local figures and neighborhood portraits in a historical narrative. It mentions Grayson, Eyggleste, and Louis, with references to a toy author, a boy, and a girl, suggesting a portrait of community life and prominent residents.
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Louis
Peter
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