Our Little Folks and City Boys Pastimes in St Nicholas
A vintage column blends children’s lessons with playful pursuits. It recounts Bet and Black-eyed Sue amid a vignette about boomerangs and yard games, then shifts to essays on iron’s role in weather, a London rival tale, and New York versus Chicago population notes.
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Sue
Bradley
St. Nicholas
Frank M. Chapman
Chicago
New York
London Daily News
London
Paris
United States
New York Sun
Great Britain
Glasgow
New Roe
Dana
Brooklyn
Chicago Tribune
What Women Wear in New York Fall Fashions
A New York fashion note highlights autumn street dresses and tailor made outfits. Details include cloth and dotted tulle ensembles, blue serge street gowns with gold trim, Indian cashmere promenade wear, flower figured foulards with lace, and velvet ribbon trims. The piece praises skilled dressmaking and urban display as the season progresses.
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Madam Roland
Beau Brummell
A Mans Mast in Warship Light and German Population Rise
The article discusses naval mast warfare with a hollow mast glow searchlight and turrets for weapons like a Gatling gun, enabling night harassment of enemies. It then reports Germany's census growth from 1871 to 1885, highlighting urban concentration, emigration effects, and comparative gains with other European nations. It also notes Victor Belanger’s two miles a minute one wheel cycle and a humor piece about placid telegraph clerks and a funeral dispatch. It ends with Maine college graduations showing teaching and ministry as common career paths and contrasts with larger universities.
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Germany
Russia
Berlin
Austria
British Islands
Italy
France
Victor Belanger
Worcester
Mass
Belanger
Five Press
Analay
Police
Ohio
Maine
United States Civil Service
Yale
New York Post
Senate Passage Sparks Debate: The Lie
In Kate Vield's Washington report Primus notes key political developments in the Senate. Secundus confirms a notable action passed yesterday, remarking on controversy surrounding truth and accountability in the capital.
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House of Lords
Primus
Senate
Secundus
Kate Vield
Washington
Picture and Portrait Echo a Fatal Reminder in Western Cabin
An Eastern artist in a Western cabin notices a striking portrait. The woman replies it is her husband’s, hung with fatal effect, recalling the artist’s own tragic history. She quips that her husband met the same fate as the artist’s early works, then the artist ends his observations. A final reflection notes true repentance means greater caution.
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New York
Academy
Progress and Poverty in a Suburban Home
Mr Bilgate hosts a Western guest at his modest residence noting years of self sacrifice and affection for the home. The guest praises it while asking about the mansion across the street, which Bilgate says belongs to a traveling man. The conversation ends with a wise quip on store-bought spelling.
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New York Commercial Bulletin
Earth
Bulletin
Abraham
Bilgate
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