Retina of the dead eye sparks a police theory
In a Paris murder scene Bernardet presses magistrate Ginory to test a controversial idea. Drawing on 19th century retinal photography, he proposes that the murderer's image could be read from the victim's eye, citing Vernois and Bourlonde and debating Kuhne's Heidelberg experiments as progress toward proving photography of the invisible.
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Bernardez
M. Revere
Quyer Bernardet
Rascals
M. Desbriere
Mme. Moniche
Bernardet
Oftien
Paul Rodier
M. Ginory
M.ginory
MM. Jacquelin Des Audrays
M. Audrays
AM. Ginorv
Horderand M. Audrays
The
Republic
Foot Inmissary
Mr. Ginory
Gernardet
Monsieur
Academy of Moral and Political Sciences
Ternardet
Academy
M. le Juge
M. Leriche
Bernareez
St. Anne
Quays
Societe de Medicine Legale
Boulton
Darnez
Vernois
Hs Own
Verness
Society
Roulton
Academy @ Medicine
Hygiene
Bourton
Ee Bourton
Academy of Medicine
M. Brouardel
Heidelberg
Kuhne
America
Kuhpe
Cinary
Put Comfort First In Furnishing Home
Guidance on home decoration stressing gradual purchasing, expressing individuality, proper lighting, avoiding clutter, harmonious color palettes, and careful choice of materials, frames, wallpaper, and lamps to create a balanced, comfortable, and aesthetically pleasing interior.
The College of the City and the Nation's Reborn Spirit
Debbie H. Silver in July Atlantic writes of a stately college citadel rising against the wind, a symbol where brotherhood and reform fuse. The piece speaks of a dawning cadre of builders and thinkers, a nation reaping what it has sown with patient labor and renewed vigor.
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Debbie H. Silver
Atlantic
Pennsylvania Railroad Forestry Increases Plantings
The Newark Star reports the Pennsylvania Railroad forestrys program has planted 625000 trees this year, bringing total plantings to 2425000 since the project began. A Morrisville nursery on the Delaware River aids tree propagation for station beautification and future timber needs, aiming to keep lines attractive even if wooden crossties fade.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Morrisville
Delaware River
Trenton
A Few Hints for Pies and Cakes From Old Recipes
A collection of home baking pointers. Guidance on storing pumpkins to preserve flavor, glazing pie crusts with an egg wash, a gold cake recipe with eggs sugar butter and flour, and a carrot pie using boiled carrots milk spices and eggs.
Women in Official Life in Europe See Slow Progress
The report notes women candidates in Bohemia with Marta Jumiore gaining 144 votes while a male winner had 592 in Hohenmauth, and Miss Macheva securing 20 percent in Prague. In Norway, Christiania voters show limited female returns, with five women among 84 city councillors as suffrage expands. Stockholm experiments with three women policemen at 1600 kronor salary, while England names Sophy B. Jackson as first woman school physician in Croydon.
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Europe
Marta Jumiore
Hohenmauth
Prague
Social Democrats
Miss Macheva
Norway
Christiania
Stockholm
England
Sophy B. Jackson
Croydon
Arabian cloth drapes offered as inexpensive curtain material
A new drapery fabric named Arabian cloth is described as inexpensive yet pretty and cool looking. The material resembles scrim or cotton voile and is printed in floral, conventional, and striped patterns with a dull ecru ground featuring tulip designs.
The New Check Skirt Fashions
The latest check skirts feature a sun plaited look with micro checks at the waist gradually enlarging toward the hem. They are stitched in wide fat plaits about half a yard from the top, with a striking black and white effect.
Amherst professor denies selling head for ten thousand dollars
Report from Amherst Mass claims Professor John Mason Syler sold or would sell his head after death for 10 000 dollars. Professor Tyler states it was a joke from Leipzig days and declines to confirm or deny any contract.
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Amherst
Mass
John Mason ‘Syler
Stone
Amherst College
America
Tyler
Leipzig
Flo
The Cost of Living in New York
Harper's Weekly surveys New York's grip of poverty and rising costs. It outlines that a single man spends heavily on meals while a family survives on around 700 dollars yearly, with rent and coal prices driving hardship in the East Side. It argues living within earnings requires restraint and a shift from temptations to future security.
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New York
Harper's Weekly
New York Department of Charities
Fifth Avenue
Fourteenth Street
Broadway
Notable Civil War Generals Ranked by West Point Class
The piece notes Grant, West Point class of 1843, rank 21 of 39, with Franklin at the head. It cites other generals and their ranks: Sherman 6 of 42, Sheridan 34 of 42, Thomas 12 of 42, Meade 19 of 66, Hooker 29 of unknown, Jackson 17 of 50, Longstreet 60 of 62, Hancock 18 of 25.
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Grant
West Point
William B. Franklin
Sherman
Sheridan
Virginian
Thomas
Meade
Hooker
Stonewall Jackson
Longstree
Clock plant of Borneo moves like clock hands
A plant native to Borneo known as the clock plant has three leaves. The large forward leaf and two base leaves swing in response to sunlight, the large leaf tracing a full arc every 45 minutes while the smaller leaves mirror its motion, resembling clock hands in motion.
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Borneo
Private letters between Johnson and Butler churn curiosity
In Crook's October Century memoir excerpt about Andrew Johnson's White House years, Crook recalls late night letters passed to General Butler. Johnson would fetch notes, sometimes tear up replies, and Butler lived near the White House on I Street. The secrecy and torn notes puzzled Crook.
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Johnson
Butler
William H. Crook
Andrew Johnson
White House
President Johnson
General Butler
Crook
Mr. Johnson
A Sailor's Christening in a Massachusetts Village
Harper's Weekly recounts Bishop Potter officiating a baptism where a young fisherman's father struggled with his newborn daughter. An elderly mariner in the crowd saves the moment by shouting a nautical command to redirect the baby, turning the baptism into a humorous maritime anecdote.
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Bishop Potter
Massachusetts
Harper's Weekly
Jack
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Pennsylvania Railroad Forestry
Newark Star
Bohemia
Lela
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