Christmas Charity Lifts Poor Sisters With Found Treasures
In a tale of hardship and generosity, Dolly and Polly Blake receive help from Miss Kent, Mr. Chrome, Mrs. Smith, and others after a sparse Christmas. Gifts include a small tree, mittens, bonbons, and eventually two kittens, bringing joy and a renewed sense of community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dolly
Polly
Santa Claus
Mr. Chrome
Miss Kent
Turuine
Chrome
Mrs. Smith
Toor
Pitkin
Mrs. Blake
Sam
Letsey
Poly
Mother
Puss
Mil
Uss
Marquis of Carabag
Blosson
Blakes
Louisa AM. Alcott
Facts and figures on industry and labor in multiple regions
The report surveys French bread making using boiled apple pulp, fast Chicago to New York trains at 35 mph, Italian pasta imports hit by Philadelphia mills, South Carolina phosphate royalties totaling 121 541 dollars, a 120 000 pound planing machine built in Wilmington for Alliance Iron, California fruit growers buying Oregon nursery trees, rising fruit demand in California amid drying and canneries, California fruit tree destruction by pests, railroad cross ties need and costs, timber land yields, and Chinese coal mining methods with minimal equipment and low daily wages of about 76 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
New York
Philadelphia
Italy
South Carolina
Wilmington
Del
Alliance (O.) Iron Company
California
Oregon
United States
China
Wit and Wisdom and Oddities from Various Papers
A compilation of humorous lines and observations from multiple newspapers. Quips range from advice on house building and skating to pithy one liners about habits, love, theft, sleep, and farm life. Includes playful admonitions about fishing and a peculiar trout tale from the Denver Tribune Primer.
Practical Household Remedies And Recipes From An Old Page
A dated guide offers earache relief with cantharides plaster, infant skin caution, Cracker Griddle Cakes with egg yolks and milk, Potato Cakes from mashed potatoes and flour, and nosebleed control using tincture of iron and oak bark infusion. Also includes bread crust tips, stringhalt and spavin notes, oilcloth care, and braising techniques for tender meat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malionil Live Stock Journal
The Value of a Fast Walking Farm Horse
A farm horse’s walk is the most useful gait for plowing harrowing planting and hauling. A fast walker averages near five miles per hour while at work. Faster walking increases productivity and wages while slow horses are costly. Buyers prize rapid walkers for marketability and performance across gaits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
National Live Stock Journal
Fearful Tale of a Telephone Mix Up at Clifton
In Clifton two hunters stray after a fruitless game search near St. Marys between Toledo and Dayton. They telegraph to Cumminsville for a carriage to meet their train but the message misleads, causing a late arrival and a mistaken body for a carriage. They return in rain, one bearing fish, the other wrath, with an undertaker’s wagon misidentified as the body cart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clifton
St. Mary's
Toledo
Dayton
Cumminsville
Nimrods
Mr. S
Cincin
Calendar fragment with unreadable OCR data
Fragmentary OCR calendar text shows scattered numbers and words with no clear events or entities to summarize into a coherent item. No identifiable people organizations places dates or outcomes are extractable from the legible portions.
Remarkable skin-sculptor Haag draws urban curio gaze
The Deutsche Zeitung reports Henry Haag of Eribach Bavaria displaying extreme skin looseness by lifting and extending neck skin to form a ruff and hiding his face. He can pull skin from limbs at will and plans scientific inspection at Vienna College of Physicians. A Pennsylvanian girl keeps a 210 pound beau in an arm chair. In Odessa, St. Petersburg approves night harbor lighting to aid day and night wheat shipping, countering the American grain corner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deutsche Zeitung
Henry Haag
Eribach
Bavaria
Mr. Haag
Vienna College of Physicians
Pennsylvania
Odessa
St. Petersburg
America
St Jacobs Oil Endorsed By Cleveland Official
A Cleveland Herald treasurer confirms St Jacobs Oil relieved his four year ankle pain after a severe sprain. The piece cites other endorsements from Trenton and Deadwood readers and warns of illness paths with Dr. Pierce products.
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Monticello Express
Joan Blanomard
Monticello
Northland
Juliet C. Marshy
Fred King
Union Depot
Canal Street
Aell
King
Mr. King
Madison Street
Chacagé
France
WIT and Wisdom
Lowel
Courier
Boston Courier
Yawcob Strauss
Caronele Herald
Yonkers Stalesman
Philadelphia News
Zeus Siftings
Boston
Vennor
Luther Benson
Hades
Denver Tribune Primer
Dune
Tae
Ere
IEG
Wnrw
Decora
Livestook
Cattla Ee
Cholea
Patonia
WHEA
Baliimore
Cleveland
Ohio
Penny Press
H. G. Keffer
Cleveland Herald
St. Jacobs Oil
Interyaess
St. Jacobs
Deadwood
Trenton
N. J
John Wood
American Pottery Co
City
Lorph Byron
Bellef
Worup
H. &. Bryant
Chicago Business College
Kheemusgu
Kiemann
Wads
C. F. A. Hinrichs
BS Park Place
Bond
Circular
New Yong
ANCON
Morocco
J. Bergmam
Deyst
Ee Teaatieas Ee
Tony Pastor
Pastor
Jacobs OL
Brooklyn
N.Y
St. Jacobs Oi
St. Louis
Ind
Charles A. Whitney
Park Garden, Providenes, R. 1
Ulen i ‘Ss. Sl Uy
Mintatern
Heller
Allen
Cincinnati
Strauss
Franz
Olivette
Mascot
Patience
Bath Book
Lyon & Healy
Oliver Ditlow & CO
Wakefield's
C.wakefield & Co
Bloomington
TS. Johnson & CO
Mass
Baxdon
Wmorgan & CO
Anapolis
Indiana
Meliday
Wren
Businean Housee
Sharp & Smith
Randolph Streeze
Pauding & Bnos
Madison
Hubbard Bros
Chica
Liberal Co
Manil'a
Johnson
Clca
Parent
Best
Gunther
Tamonds
Warchies
Hyman & Co
State & Madison
Photoe &E
Chicago Copying Co
Story & Dump
I. Howard
Prica Tist. DE Costid
Wadham
W. Kimball Ielanas and Organs
Corner State
Adams
Arsital
State
Washington Sts
Hale
E. J. Lehmann
State Street
Adams Street
Dearborn Street
W. G. Leroy
Chirk Street
Chicau
Jesry &Co
Nassau Be
Frank
Tomson
Michigan Ave
Swith
Theo
Thanazndy
Stiit
Erec
Tliberal Ternss Sant Tor i Nive Virelline Gut Estinignisis
Daied & Co, ‘Olmetamat
We Or R Bt
Louisy Mo
Janes A. Garfield
Lewis
Long Branch
McCuripw && CO
Chienpro
Studens
Pats Ind Te Ae
W. Borlan
Sixtren
Dw. Parsons
Johnson & Co
Masa
Bangor
YON & Healy
Stans
Staffe
Wats
Alan
Ads
Eau Pun
Ceuta
TM Fnetmuatt
Warrx
Adbert J
B. Ruepard & Oh
Bt. Louis
Frazer
Syle E. Kassom
Iden Lane
New York City
Mks
Randalph St
Frey
Ries sysTes Co
St. Vehleogo
W. Jennings Demorest
East 14Th
Geuneral
Department of the Interior
Supreme Court
N. W. Fitzgerald & CO
Pond
Pension and Patent Lawyers
Washington, D.C
Patten & CO
Bronson
Detroit
Mich
J. Stephens
Lebanon
F . Snow
FA. M. Ding
Leta
Fino
Nutpe and
Addr
Ir. Chase
Chase Pub'g Co
H.hallettk
Portland
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