Crowning of Rose Queen at St Aus ten’s Mission
A Saturday ceremony at Epping Forest crowned 16 year old Alice Hicks as the rose queen in a event organized by Father Nigee’s congregation. Twelve maids of honor attended plus many young girls. The procession traveled from New Kent Road to Liverpool Street, then to Chingford for coronation at the Bedford Oak with a royal crown and modest purse. The Rev. Nugee spoke on uplifting London’s sewing machine workers and a new South London institution. The day ended with tea and a national anthem before returning by special train.
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Priory
New Kent Road
Liverpool Street
Great Eastern Railway Company
Chingford
Bedford Oak
Robin Hood
Father Nugee
London
London Standard
Turning Point Tale Shows Alcohol Help and Hope
A town drunkard recounts how witnessing his children play while he nearly returns to drink changed him. He recalls leaving a half bottle and seeing his kids, the daughter’s question about his behavior, and the plea to stop drinking. The memory drives his resolve to reform, ending with a reflective note from Arkan saw Traveler.
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James
Arkansaw
Wonderful Plants and Moving Leaf Phenomena
The west of India hosts thorny trees with minimal verdure except hairlike growth. The moving plant from the Ganges basin rotates its leaves day and night, stopping only in extreme heat or when wind blows. Large leaves near Irrawaddy and a dangerous thorny leaf near Timor are noted, with the latter called devil's leaf. Mrs Snizzle complains a late night remark.
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India
Ganges
Irrawaddy
Timor
Java
Cleverly Caught The Rich Man's Fear of Burglars Story
A Buffalo News excerpt recounts J B Anthony, a Troy wholesale grocer, awakened by a burglar alarm as a roof entry leads to a confrontation with a would be thief. Westfall, an electrician, discusses alarms used by wealthy households and recalls an electrical shock incident. He credits Warner's Safe Cure for recovery after a prior kidney scare.
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Buffalo
N. Y
J. B. Anthony
Troy
Sing Sing
C. H. Westfall
Westfield
New York
Boston
Philadelphia
Elmira
Albany
Mr. Westfall
Warner
Fruit in Ceylon Descriptions of palms and fruit trees
Observations describe Ceylon flora including cocoa palm breadfruit areca palm yak tree banyan teak and cottonwood. Notes cover fruit sizes coconut banana pineapple and mango, uses of nut meat shells sap and leaves, and palm protection against thieves.
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Singapore
Where Women Are Old at Thirty
A reader letter paints a Brahmin family home as a prison where women are confined from marriage. Wives wed early, lived veiled from society, with access restricted to male kin and a priest. The letter describes daughters married by age ten, mothers by twelve, aging to thirty.
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Montreal Star
Solar Heat By Solar Power In Paris Presses Print Shop
Ingenious Parisians test a solar heat device using a movable reflector to focus sunlight on a vertical boiler. The heated boiler generates steam to drive a press, recently producing several thousand copies of a specimen newspaper. Enthusiasts hope to generate steam without coal and cut heat costs.
Beware of Roorbachs and political lies
The piece discusses the historic Roorbachs election lie warned by the New York Times and Whigs in 1844, noting how such fabrications arise late before voting. It contrasts the lie with telegraph era reality and urges distrust of unfamiliar candidate rumors on election day. It also mentions patent medicines and cautions against laxatives like calomel and purgatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Telegraph
New York Times
What Cripples the Balloon
A compilation of assorted quotes and anecdotes about ballooning, remedies, and travel hints. It includes Coxwell on gas retention and ascent limits, brief remarks from the Philadelphia Chronicle about Sage’s remedy, and notices about products, hotels, and curiosities.
Draft Horses Forty Years Experience Adolph Ott on Acid Phosphate
A columnist cites Prof Adolph Ott of New York praising Horsford's Acid Phosphate for aiding long mental labor. The piece includes lifestyle aphorisms and promotional notes for Lydia E Pinkham's Compound. It quotes A B Chamberlain of Bull's Head Stables on draft horse breeds, preferring French Percherons, and mentions Kinham's Stud in Wayne Illinois housing top Percheron stock with pedigrees.
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Adolph Ott
New York
Chamberlain
New York City
Chicago Tribune
France
M. W. Kinham
Wayne
du Page County
Ill
A. J. Powkll
Woodbridge St
Detroit
Hops & Malt Bitters CO
Mich
Dunham Wayne, du Pays Co
America
Societe Hippique Percheronne
Dunham
Rosa Bonheur
Gault House Advertising Rates in Chicago
The Gault House offers first class accommodations for three dollars to three dollars and sixty cents per day. Located at Clinton and Madison in Chicago, the hotel boasts modern service and central proximity to Union Elevator, under proprietor BW. Bort.
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New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Famiran
Jess
Grand Union
Gault House
Chicago
Clinton
Madison Streets
Serviees
Bort
Small deeds spark results and cures in old times
A mix of medical cures and home remedies highlights early advertising text. Dr Sage’s Catarrh Remedy and Brown’s Bronchial Tracheas are claimed to relieve headaches nasal obstruction and coughs, with testimonials from Pittston and Boston. Also mentions of Henry Whiting praising Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery and Caswell Hazard’s Elixir of Calisaya as tonics.
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Henry Whiting
Boston
Mass
R. V. Pierce
America
Mr. Whiting
Krom
Drs
Pittston
Ely
Barber
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Mrs. Snizzie
Ceylon
Coxwell
Wcith Aeronaut
Conwell
Sage
Philiedetpna Chronicle
Maussis, Wells, Richardson & Co
Underhiea. Vt
Quarts
Horsford
Lydia E. Pinkham
Heaven
Ann Lacour
New Orleans
Hall
Brown
Caswell, Hazard & Co
Dracos Suir
Allen
Abppison
Alen
Ad. Hileman
R. I
Addison
A. J. Colbom
The
Somerset Herald
Astoria
H.c.moonsy
Ali
Sueco USA
Seata
ELY Brothers
Xeiata
Owego
N.Y
Rample Book
U.S. Card CO
Centerbrook
Conn
W. Ziegler & CO
L. Bingham
Washington, D.C
H. V.peeterson
Preston, Fillmore Co
Minn
Stephens
Lebanon
Ohio
Wrislegraphy
Valentine Bros
Janaaville
Patani Rive
Ra Tecernt
Novalimpouting CO
Pleasant Valley
Dutchess Co
Edward
Hicks
Poughkeepsie
Rondout
David Kennedy
Kennedy
Albdru
R. U
Lorillard
Frosts
Mammoth
Addreeay
Nsusae Street
Expresgani P. O. Addres
T. A. Slocum
Pearl St
John A. Salzer
Wis
Duar
R Frizpatrice
Malden, Maas
J Worth
ST. Louis
Golden Seal BiTteRs CO
Holland City
Conntent
Amu Chal
Kansas
Raneas Orry Timra Co
Orry
T. DE Witt Talmage
Brooklyn
Wshington
Wewararn
Tex Times
Saallen
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