Peabody Homes Redeem Charity Gift For London Poor
London letters recount how George Peabody funded a 3.5 million dollar charity for London's poor. Trustees built tenement houses for working people, with rents from five shillings to two shillings nine pence weekly. First houses housed nearly 500 tenants, yielding about 32 percent return, now housing around 10,000.
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Peabody Mouse
London
Peabody
England
Mr. Peabody
America
London Leter
The Art of Being Happy and Shadow Games in a Paper
A meditation on finding happiness urges counting blessings and cultivating a sunny outlook. It is paired with instructions for a shadow play game using light, a sheet, and walls to create shifting silhouettes for amusement. The piece includes light social humor and classroom style tips for playful performances.
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Seti
Pebreaui
Pollet
Gael Americhit Agriculturtat
Astonished Recruit at Camp Verde Meets Captain Coppinger
At Camp Verde in 1872 a feared Captain Coppinger of the Twenty third Infantry converses with a skeptic recruit in the sutler’s store. The exchange ends with Coppinger praising the recruit’s courage and inviting him to his quarters for Bourbon, after which the recruit is promoted to corporal.
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Col. Coppinger
Senator Blaine
Camp Verde
Arizona
Twentythird Infantry
Coppinger
Eiverybody
Capt. Coppinger
A Few Facts About Farmers and Voting Power
The 1880 census lists 7 670 493 agricultural workers with 2 323 876 wage workers and the rest farmers. Wages pale beside political power as lawyers and officials earn far more, and farmers vote them into offices paying from 1 000 to 16 000 dollars yearly. If farmers tolerate this, lawyers prosper. a clerk of court earning five to fifty times a farmer’s pay raises questions of fairness.
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United States
Electric Tricycles Challenge Horses in Future Transport
Electric power promises twelve horse power in a 300 pound battery with a practical electric bicycle in months. It will run fifteen to twenty miles per charge and climb hills previously possible only for foot trikes. Top speed seven mph. The animal world may face a ripe new rival, though horses endure. J E Shaw endorses St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism and neuralgia.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Wilmington, del
J. E. Shaw
Grand Union Hotel
New York
St.Jacobs Oil
Vulgar Habits and Public Embarrassments Described
A fragmented 19th century lament discusses vulgar behavior private questions public talking and dwelling on personal matters. It notes egotism detraction and insubordination as signs of vulgarity. The piece oddly mentions a cork factory in Pittsburgh producing 800 bushels daily for whisky and a brief Danvers Mirror reference.
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Pittsburgh
A Doctor's Occupation Gone and a Noted Remedy
A tale recalls a physician whose most profitable patient, an elderly woman with dyspepsia nervousness and weak kidneys, found relief only with Dr Guysett's Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. After the patient improved her nephew dismissed the doctor, who then quit practice and promoted Gui sett's widely.
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Guysett
A Joke of Associate Justice Story's Diary Tale
In Josiah Quincy's diary a Washington visit with Judge Story yields little promise of influence as Story notes that judges dine with the President once a year and otherwise keep ascetic habits including denying wine except in wet weather. He recalls Chief Justice Marshall joking about rain and jurisdiction. A Japan execution reportedly required thirteen sword strokes to behead, with deliberate blade blunting to prolong suffering.
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Washington
Marshall
Josiah Quincy
Japan
Clergy Endorsement for Warner's White Wine Tar Syrup
Public notice cites Rev. M L Boonen and other Michigan pastors endorsing Warner's White Wine Tar Syrup for throat and lung ailments. Sold by all druggists with testimonials from Reading, Albion, and Ann Arbor clergy. A quip about a tar prophet drying molasses rounds out the piece.
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Warner
ML. Boonen
Presbyterian Church
Reading
Mich
J. C. Ippines
Albion
V. Ll. Loerwoop
Ann Arbor
C.D. Warner
There Where the Shoe Pinches and Corns Policy
A historical ad style note touts a corn relief product advertised as a painless permanent benefit. It claims corn removal in days with an accident policy reference and urges purchase from druggists and a Chicago wholesaler. The piece ends with a social-ad line contrasting poor and rich enjoyments.
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Putnam'’s Parquess
Lord, Stoutenburgh& Co
Chicago
Claims and tonics flood a crowded ad page
An assortment of patent medicine offers and testimonials fills the page. Readers are invited to test tonics by trusted doctors and ministers, with free wine bottles, electric belts, and tonics for coughs, blood purity, and vitality. Ads promote Hood s Sarsaparilla, Voltaic Belts, and beef tonic claims, alongside hair products and car starter pitches.
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Hood
Voltaic Belt Co
Marshall, Mich
Dye
N. B
Mothers and Daughters In Loving Obligation
A Christian Inquiry essay praises filial care and fair play between daughters and mothers. It recalls a young speaker who urges gratitude and mutual support, noting mothers often neglect self care while daughters enjoy comforts. The piece urges daughters to ease their mothers’ burdens and share duties.
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Christian Intelligencer
Mother
Jenny
Lacy
Emily
Powerful eruption case in Boston promotes Hood s Sarsaparilla
A Boston family cites a four year old with a severe facial eruption once deemed incurable by doctors. After three weeks on Hood s Sarsaparilla the sores healed, the eyes cleared, and the child became well. The testimonial from John Carey and attestation by Clinton Cook accompany the notice.
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Hool
Boston
Hood
John Carey
D Street
South
Clinton 'H. Cook
Milk Street
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