BRIGHT New England Woman Tutors Children In English Literature
A New England woman innovates by teaching English literature to children in New York and nearby cities this winter. She selects an author, recounts his life and influences, then guides students from biography to analysis of a poem, a method praised for generating interest and sometimes leading to evening entertainments.
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New England
New York
Princess of Wales
Winse
Canon @leming
Iiddy
New York Tribune
Remarkable Woman in White Oaks Home Described
The article profiles a highly remarkable woman living in White Oaks New Mexico. Her adobe house is described as a refined retreat with straw walls, green ivy, and lavish furnishings including carpets art, books, china, and silver.
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White Oaks
European Lady Collects 700 Teapots in Japan
A European woman in Japan has amassed 700 teapots of varying patterns and kinds, yet many common shapes remain absent from her collection.
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Japan
Rapeca
Doddica
Chang & Eng
Hey
Orissa
India
America
Roberts Brothers
Barbara
Caroline H. Dall
Whittier
Frederick
Maryland
Gladstone
England
Philadelphia Ledger
Catzner
Wellesley College
Harper
Chicago University
Alice Freeman Palmer
Talbot
Cold Shivers in a Lone House Delivers Ghostly Pranks
A narrator details how a house alone at midnight reveals its quirks. The parlor furniture creaks, doors lock themselves, and phantom noises echo from stairs, chimney, and pipes while the reader frets over unseen presences and imagined hauntings.
Brotherhood Strikes Spark Largest Labor Action Rumor
A dispute over discharging Brotherhood members spreads rumors of a pending massive strike. An express service agent faces removal on the Louisville division of the Pennsylvania lines, sparking talk of wider layoffs and potential action.
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Express
Brotherhood
Louisville
Pennsylvania Lines
Deer Attacks and Wreck Raising Highlighted in Journal Clippings
A Tahquamenaw River encounter details a woman rescuing a fawn only to be attacked by a buck, sustaining a broken arm. The excerpt then shifts to the evolution of wreck raising, noting early limits, later steam-powered methods, and the economic aim of clearing harbors and rescuing ships after sinkings.
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Michigan
Tahquamenaw River
Chamber
Wanton Buffalo Slaughter Described By Steamboat Captain
John Kirker, a veteran steamship master, recalls buffalo hunts seen from river steamers near Fort Leavenworth in 1857. He describes hunting herd crossings the river and mass killings as steamboats forced to stop to allow buffalo to swim. The account contrasts past slaughter with modern peat-based textile advances offering cheaper fabric material.
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Buffalo
John Kirker
State of Kansas
Fort Leavenworth
South
Public Opinion Shapes Law and Daily Life Across Society
A dense meditation on public opinion as the sovereign force guiding law education reform business hours and family life. It argues opinion both elevates virtue and curbs vice while shaping morals and social standards, with quotes from Hamerton and examples on debt idleness and gentility.
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Hamerton
Christmas Customs in British Isles Past and Present
The snippet notes old Scottish Lowland farmers giving each animal fodder on Christmas morning, Ackworth in Yorkshire once hung a corn sheaf for birds on Christmas Eve, and North Clifton residents were ferry free with a Christmas dinner for the ferryman and his dog plus a loaf for the ferryman.
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Scotland
St. Cuthbert’s Church
Ackworth
Yorkshire
North Clifton
Nottinghamshire
Out of Reach and the Bass Drum Obesity Tale
A humorous old exchange notes the burdens of excess obesity. The band leader left over three months ago. described as first rate, he became so fat he could not strike the drum at the center while marching.
The Story of a Kiss in Vienna Court
A young student Bier Ogger kissed a nineteen year old in the Austrian capital and faced a court. The judge acted as counsel, the plaintiff demanded ten gulden damages, the student argued he would not kiss again, and the case closed with a five gulden payment and a dismissed claim.
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Bagdad
Bier Ogger
Eac
First Overshoes Arrive in America From Rio de Janeiro
In 1830 the United States imported the first arctic overshoes from Rio de Janeiro. The rough India rubber gunboats, gilded like pagodas, were sent as curiosities to a New York gentleman. Demand grew with 27 pairs imported in 1831 and 500 in 1832, as trade expanded in subsequent years.
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New York
Boston
Ak Louia Republic
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