New York Bridge Traffic Grows as City News Mixes In
The Register notes the bridge between New York and Brooklyn carries 60,000 to 65,000 cars daily, with about 11,000 pedestrians. It highlights health through river air and cites global trade chatter on British dairy methods, Indian marriage luck, and cotton demand. It also covers a quirky Georgia marriage misstep, a Japan panorama in San Francisco, a Deaf girl in Atlanta’s faith, Nellie Arthur’s charity, San Francisco unemployment aid with sectarian service rules, and a civic bureau portrait scheme.
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New York
Brooklyn
The Cooper Case and a Look Ahead to 1886 Predictions
A curious tale of tailor Henry Prouse Cooper resolves a bill with an unexpected repayment after an editor questions the debt. A France weather prophet predicts an 1886 of seismic and political upheaval, with meteoropsy chology linking cosmic events to politics and May as the worst month. The piece also surveys gold flows, coinage limits, and monometallism pressures across Europe, India and the United States.
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Carr. Dilaunney
France
Java
M. Delauney
Senator Macon Boots and Barber Shop Story
A Chicago News item recalls Senator Macons boy and girl overhearing a conversation about a Black man who shaves and blackens boots. The account implies racial humor from a 19th century era. It also notes a renaming of soft soap to taffy due to changes in lye strength and style.
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Macon
Papa
Chicago News
Poetic tribute to a noble hound in nature
A verse from Chambers Journal praises a noble, faithful hound amid meadow flowers and morning dew. Lyrical imagery of skylarks, woodland music, laurel shade, and mossy ground frames the dog as the truest companion in a tranquil natural scene.
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Chambers’ Journal
Dream of Young Days in Golden Times Poem Remembrance
A fragmentary verse recalling youth and merry wooing on a dusty road. The speaker longs for past happiness and simpler days, tasting Timothy and Clover perfumed hay and the glow of youthful summers. The memory, vivid yet bittersweet, contrasts with tireless present duties.
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Jovn
Sarah de W. Gamwell
Good Housekeeping
Cleopatra St. Hilary Sways Through Wealth and Love
Cleo St. Hilary, famed for her beauty and iron will, loses fortune and status after her lover deserts her. She works in a store to survive while enduring scorn and heartbreak. Dr. Hugh Carroll, a compassionate physician, woos her, and after much trial she finally accepts a life with him, while Clara soothes and supports the family through poverty and resilience.
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Julius Cwsar
Cleopatra St. Hilary
Moulton Hill
Cleopatra
Dian
Cleo
Leon
Neil Rosbud
Poes
Clara
Celeste
Leonard
Eee
Jack
Duncan
Australia
Autumn
St. Hilarys
Hudson
Johnson
Cleon
Hugh Carrol
Hugh Carroll
Mrs. St. Hilary
Dr. Carroll
Leonard St. Hilary
St. Hilary
Juno
Cleo St. Hilary
Leon Bertrand
Timplore
Mary
Bertrand
Mrs. Hunt
Hut
Untrained Face: Facial Expression and Social Grief
A Birmingham lecturer laments rude facial expression in polite society after a Scotch funeral. He urges early dancing training and the hiring of professors of facial expression to teach daily life performances and stage like grace, arguing civilization demands perfected expression.
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Birmingham
Edinburgh
Delsarte
Boston Courier
Striking the Wrong Man in Berlin Hack Row
In a narrow street two Berlin hack drivers collided and cursed each other as they beat the opposing passengers with their whips. One driver shouted that he would thrash the other’s fate while both sides continued to strike the passengers, mirroring imperial policy of targeting civilians. The piece notes Russians expelling German Jews from Russian provinces and Germans expelling Russian Jews from Poland and beyond.
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Justice OF the Peace
Oconee County
Georgia
Berlin
Strick
Russia
Germany
Poland
Globa
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Henry Prouse Cooper
Mr. Cooper
Cooper
Loetbeer
Burchard
Chicago Tribune
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Moses
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