The Base Ball Industry Reveals Hidden Labor and Scale
A New York Mail and Express report details the scale of baseball production in the city, noting about 1,000 horse hides and ten times as many sheep skins used yearly for covering balls. It explains craft methods, wages, and the global reach from Cuba to Canada, highlighting a $50,000 annual business and the shift to double-covered balls.
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Philadelphia
Barker
Canada
Omaha
New Orleans
Cuba
New York Mail and Express
Amazing Change in Ocean Vessels Across World Trade
A New York Sun analysis shows dramatic shifts in global maritime commerce over fifteen years. Tables compare merchant sailing and steam tonnage by eleven leading countries, highlighting the rise of cheap freight steamers and the decline or growth of sailing vessels with specific country figures and percentage changes.
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New York Sun
United States
Great Britain
Norway
Sweden
Germany
France
Italy
Wees
Russia
Spain
Panleur
Holland
Greece
Austria
Vane
Roaring Pemaquid Lighthouse and Coastline
Pemaquid Point near Damariscotta Maine is described as the roughest Atlantic coast point when gale winds sweep from southeast to southwest. The sea roars against bastions of stone carved by ages, with waves breaking relentlessly before reaching the mainland, aided by outlying rocks that usually disrupt offshore flow.
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Pring
Weymouth
Gilbert
Jamestown
Pemaquid
Plymouth
Boston
New England
Massachusetts
Acadia
Damariscotta
Atlantic
Wise Salmon Trout Endowed with a Power to Reason
In winter 1840 I fished Bonaparte Lake in Lewis County Washington and found trout learned to outsmart bait. After moving grounds several times, I observed a trout wreck bait by swallowing hook and minnow, revealing deliberate deception and problem solving. Record cites Seth Green, American Agriculturist.
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Bonaparte Lake
Lewis County
Seth Green
War veteran derides editor with graphic battlefield tale
An elderly man visits a newspaper office and, while bored the editor, recounts a famed battle using a map. He points to spots where a Major fell and where his leg was broken, prompting a sharp editor quip about his lost brains.
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Boston Record
Petrified chicken sale sparks landlady scare in Mississippi
A man in Mississippi sold a petrified chicken for $20. De Wiggs asks Le Diggs to read the item to their landlady, hoping she will fear diners will demand petrified birds and stop serving them. The punchline hinges on the landlady realizing the value of such curios.
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le Diggs
de Wiggs
Mississippi
Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegrapy
Diseases of Animals in Menageries at London Zoo
Several quadrupeds at the London Zoo suffer corns on their feet from hard floors causing ulcers that may extend through the foot. Monkeys suffer hernia and a tiger died from sawdust accumulating in the intestines. These are new diseases in menageries. Every man who has lost a limb defending his fireside should be remembered.
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London Zoo
Economy and Honest Ways to Save on Dress and Life
A humorous treatise on frugality contrasts buying an $8 blue flannel suit with risky alterations and quick fixes like sugar in shoes, ink on knees, or boiling paint. It mocks overpurchasing, extols cheap clothes, and jokes about renting, livelihoods, and marriage economics in a playful Puck-like voice.
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Barnum
Puckh
Cork classification and uses across trade notes
Dealers classify cork into four thickness classes from thick to thin with specific millimeter ranges and a clear quality standard for color and grain. Cork powder, branded as Kegine, appears in trade and is used in lime plaster and wall partitions. liner materials include cork powder linoleum and cork leather made from India rubber for waterproofing, with adulteration risks noted.
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India
Three Things From a Young Lady’s Album
An excerpt lists nine sets of “Three” reflecting values. Admire Intel lectual power, dignity, and graceful ness. love Courage, gentleness, and election. hate Cruelty, arrogance, and ingratitude. delight Frankness, freedom, and beauty. wish Health, friends, and a cheerful spirit. avoid Idleness, loquacity, and flippant jesting. fight for Honor, country, and home. govern Temper, tongue, and conduct. think about Life, death, and eternity.
Firework Cliffs of Kauai Create Nighttime Spectacle
In Hawaii near Kauai’s northern coast, cliff lights ignite a dramatic pyrotechnic show as a firework man lights papala sticks and hurls them into the wind. Spectators drift by canoe under a moonless sky, watching stars whirl above the sea in a fierce yet graceful display.
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Honolulu
Kauai
Opening a New Trade In Fresh Fruit Transportation
An important experiment transported South Australian fruit to England packed in iodust and stored in a 40 degree cold chamber. Apples pears and grapes arrived in London in excellent condition. A business operated at a loss is like an empty pocketbook with no money in it.
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South Australia
England
London
Grand Union Hotel Promises Comfort and Central Access
Visitors saving baggage and express age can find one million dollar fittings at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The hotel offers 613 rooms, daily rates from $1, with European law and an elevator, and direct horse cars stages and elevated rail service to all depots. Families are urged that they can live better for less money there than at any other first class hotel in the city.
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New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Charm of Novelty and the Joy of New Things
The passage argues that novelty pleases the imagination by surprising and expanding interest. It notes people tire of repeated displays, making new or uncommon objects more engaging. It highlights spring as a season of fresh rural beauty and asserts imagination can shape pleasures from novelty.
Milestones on the Road to Health by Bitters
The passage extols Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters as accelerating digestion and liver, bowels, and kidney recovery. It asserts that resumed function quickly improves health and relieves symptoms like biliousness, constipation, headache, and blood poverty caused by dyspepsia.
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Brewster's
Holly, Mich
The Reason and Conversation in Boston Courier
Dialogue exchanges reveal a cautious invitation and cautious acceptance concerning family reputation and a bachelor’s status. A father’s dog and boots trigger social judgments while a heroine mentions seven other unmarried sisters. The piece frames courtship norms and family scrutiny in a Boston newspaper voice.
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Boston
The Druggist's Happy Blunder and Patent Cure Lines
A Arkansas Globe-Democrat correspondent recalls a drug-store mix up selling morphine for strychnine to kill coons, with harmless effects noted. The item lists Dr Pierce’s Pills and various patent medicines, ending with Rough On products and their supposed cures and prices.
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Arkansas
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Somebody's Child and the Hope for Consumption Cure
A mother frets over her dying child as tuberculosis grips with no current cure. The piece urges sharing comfort and cites Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy that has cured many, claiming it surpasses cod liver oil and hypophosphites. The note ends with a jab at society notes and plain bank notes.
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Pierce
Cure claims and patent medicine testimonials headline
An archival fragment quotes a physician favored remedy claim by Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription and cites testimonials from druggists. It also restates a courtroom remark by a criminal and promotes Piso's Cure for Consumption as a top cough medicine sold widely for 25 cents.
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Pierce
Teury's Carbolic Salve Best for Skin Ailments
Teury offers Henry's Carbolic Salve claimed as the world’s best for cuts bruises piles serous ulcers and skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction and warns to buy only Henry's Carbolic Salve as imitators counterfeit the product.
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Teury
Henry
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Pacific
Ager
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Tampa
Iyon
Radway
Dr. Rapway & Co
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ROBERT _O'DONNELL
East Lake Bt
Chicago
DE. Radway & CO
Rad Sarsapariliian Resolvyent
Adway
Minerva
Simmons
James M. Rollins
M. E.church
So. Fairfield
Simmons Liver Regulator
Simmons Liver
Ovid G. Sparks
Macon
J. H. Zeilin & Co
Sola Propriators
Perry Davis
Neweacalar Tor
Moody
Valentina Bros
Marah
Jhicago
Paver
Toelanati,q
Anesville, Wis
J. BK. Thursfield
THE
Garvanzi
Apber
Graphics
Mail
Com
School OF Eclectic
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E. A. Gills
Chicago, Ziegler & CO
Jones
Binghamton
Binghamton, N. X
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Sensible Trussi
Essa 51
Stig Truss
Toxil
Eggleston Trees. CO
Synvita
Frazer
Frazer’s
James Hasle
Madison
Ark
Wxanwnr
Randolph St
D & Thomas
LOR Cs
Houes
Taz Humana
Reakby Company
Lafayette
Ipd
Kidder
Sioux City Newspaper Union
Douglas St
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Iowa
Pullman Palace Car Co
Mason & Mamlin Organ & Piano Co
New Orleans Exposition
PIE Russta Cement Cov
Glenteenter
Aia Tcs Iz
IND Company
Los Angeles
Cal
A. Pur Xhre & Co
Clark Street
Rvus, Booth & CO
N. Main Street
California
Nez R.B
Laory
Washington, D.C
Tosteuctiona
Piso
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