What the Prince of Wales Did
A historical notice notes the Prince of Wales visit seventeen or eighteen years ago changed men’s fashion. It says Paris fashions dominated earlier, but English styles grew popular after the heir to Britain was honored, leading Americans to adopt roomier suits and broader silhouettes.
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Prince of Wales
India
England
Scotland
Great Britain
Paris
Prince
London
Com. Builetin
Lacrosse Newsitem From The New York Graphic
An incomplete lacrosse article from The New York Graphic notes an indebtedness to a source and mentions weather and an India related show, with fragmentary shorthand and misread phrases. No clear event or names are readable.
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New York Graphic
Training Lions and Tigers by the Lies Tamer
A historic note on tiger and lion training methods. The author rejects clipping claws or muzzles, warns of the beasts’ strength, and outlines gradual familiarization, feeding discipline, and constant vigilance to avoid treachery.
A Turkish clairvoyante mystery report
Fragmentary text appears to reference a Turkish clairvoyante and unclear mentions of individuals and places. The readable lines indicate a discussion of deaths and possible connections to scientists or locations, but details are incomplete and unspecific.
Seance in Turkey Reveals a Failing Fortune Teller
An account from Zineléy's Magazine describes a Medji or clairvoyant in Turkey who, exhausted and poor, conjures ambara fumes to enter a hypnotic state. She answers questions, predicts a sea voyage for the narrator, and begs rest as her powers fade. The party tips her four shillings, noting the woman’s grave poverty and belief in her gift.
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Turkey
India
Hera
Zineléy
The Use of Tea and Coffee
The article argues that tea and coffee ruin digestion and health. It cites Dr Johnson Hahnemann Bell Shurtleff Graham and Combe, claiming these beverages cause dyspepsia nervous disorders and brain derangement. It notes tea drinkers as a large, mainly female group addicted to excess consumption.
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Johnson
Hahnemann
Dr. Bell
Death of Mother Theresa Sewall, Oldest Carmelite Nun in America
Miss Mary H. Sewall, aged about 97, known as Mother Theresa, a long time superior of Baltimore’s Carmelite order, died Monday at the convent at Caroline and Biddle. Born in Georgetown in 1779, she may have served on General Washingtons staff and witnessed early Revolutionary history before entering the convent after a tragic funeral accident. The Baltimore convent moved from Charles County to Aisquith Street and then to its present site. the order now numbers twenty-two nuns in Baltimore with one other American convent in St. Louis Mo.
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Therees
Order of Carmelite Nuns
America
Caroline and
Biddle Streets
Mary H. Sewall
Georgetown
D. C
Mother Theress
Washington
Charles County
Aisquith Street
Baltimore
St. Louis
Blue Blood and Boston Politics
A Boston Commonwealth critique notes that so called blue bloods lack interest in public affairs and political life. The piece argues their wealth and social ease keep them apart from American civic matters and rooting in local life, preferring social proprieties over public duty.
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Boston
Europe
Orders and Estates of
England
Disagreeable Habits and Self Control
The excerpt discusses forming disagreeable habits and how persistence makes them feel like a second nature. It warns to stop and think before forming them and notes how some habits become hard to drop once ingrained.
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