Books and the love of reading in a storied essay
A compact essay extols books as loyal companions and outlines rules to build a personal library. It cites Fenelon, Macaulay, Plato, Cervantes, and Mark Pattison, then lists practical guidelines from budgeting for books to maintaining a catalog and reading what you buy. A humorous aside follows about a gaggle of officers and a girl imitating a nervous officer’s jaw movement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fenelon
Kingdom of
Europe
Macaulay
Plato
Cervantes
Demosthenes
Dante
Cicero
Mark Pattison
Lincoln
New York Tribune
Schiller
Plutarch
Samuel Johnson
Joans
Floating wash houses of Paris one grand lavoir near Notre Dame
Boston Gazette correspondent reports on the large lavoir near the Notre Dame bridge in Paris. The floating village spans about 300 yards with twelve buildings, housing 240 wash women daily, half regulars and half workers wives, paying 0.40 franc and 0.05 franc per hour respectively. Drying rooms, a restaurant, and extensive boiler and soap facilities drive potential annual profits toward 40 000 francs for the proprietor, with personal gains over 15 000 francs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seine
Paris
Lavoirs
Notre Dame
Boston Gazette
The Girls of the Marquesas Islands
Sailors describe dining with Marquesan women, noting taboos on meat on the island and the priests’ proclamations. The goats are kept to increase undisturbed for five years. A ward room dinner shows the women mimicking officers and sharing food, observed with curiosity and amusement.
Wise sayings from Arkansaw Traveller
A collection of folk proverbs and dialect maxims about honesty pride and morals. The lines compare friends to love and hate and warn against bribery boastfulness and meddling while highlighting practical views on cunning and usefulness in everyday life with humorous rustic phrasing.
Old-Fashioned Beds in Anglo-Saxon Homes
The article describes early English sleeping arrangements two centuries and more ago. Masters and mistresses slept in a chamber or shed beside the mansion, daughters in the same, while guests and young men used the great hall on benches. Beds were bag-filled and daily remade, with woolen coverlids and wall hooks for clothes, attendants slept on the floor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Pressuring Editor Over Silvetus Pudgers Story
A stranger attempts a bribe to suppress a forthcoming article exposing Silvetus Pudgers. The editor bluntly asks how the money should be taken and confirms the bribe offer of 1000 dollars. Tid-Bits notes the exchange as a cautionary anecdote in journalistic ethics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sylvetus Pudgers
Rascal
Digest versus vulcanite in stomach remedies
The piece argues acids stronger than stomach juice harm the stomach and compares vulcanite to dyspepsia medicines. It extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a simple, harmonious, readily assimilable remedy that truly tonifies digestion, repairs stomach damage, and helps biliousness, constipation, malaria, rheumatic troubles, and nervous issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hostetter
How Children Grow and its Remarkable Finding
A long article notes Rev Malling Hansen of the Danish Institution for the Deaf and Dumb measured 130 children over three years showing that growth in bulk and height is not even across the year. It cites confirmations from other Danish institutes and mentions Bowen's Budget March 1886 praising St Jacobs Oil and Red Star Cough Cure as reliable remedies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malling Hansen
For the Deaf and Dumb
Denmark
Bowen
Fort Plain
St. Jacobs Oil
Red Star
Massacre era abuse in Damascus sparks Christian peril
Damascus, with 160000 inhabitants, is described as a fanatical center where Christians face ongoing abuse. The piece notes past massacres, bans on Quran purchases for Christians, street insults, stones, and spit from Muslims, with rising social outrages and dangerous daily tensions. It also cites claims about swamp land east of the Mississippi and a patent solicitor praising a vegetable medicine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Damascus
Syria
Bazars
Grand Union Hotel Promises Higher Living Standards in NYC
When visiting or leaving New York City, plan for baggage handling, expressage, and a $3 carriage hire and stop at the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central Depot. The hotel advertises 613 rooms fitted at a cost of one million dollars with European pan, elevator, restaurant, and horse care. It claims families can live better for less money than at any other first-class city hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Disappointment as Seward Loses Lincoln Nominated
Cayuga County crowds packed Auburn for a Chicago convention ballot. A telegram showed Seward leading on the first ballots then rising to a hopeful 1844 before Lincoln was named. Seward’s supporters cheered, then faded as the news spread that Lincoln won the nomination.
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Seward
Seward Ws
Chicago
Cayuga County
Auburn
Mr. Seward
Christopher Morgan
Gov. Seward
Morgan
Lincoln
T. W
Buffalo
The Force of Habit in a Barber Shop
A gentleman rushes into a barber shop requesting a quick shave with no cup, no hair trim, no dry shampoo, no tonic, and only a little pomade, asking to part his hair on the left side as the barber proceeds with a shave. Philadelphia Call.
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Philadelphia
Breach and Bearded Remedies Advertise Elixirs and Cures
A collage of medical claims hawks cures for hernia smallpox typhoid and coughs. Advertisements promote Golden Seal Bitters Lung Food and Hall's Balsam with testimonials and free facts. Messaging touts cures with no surgery and urges sending money or pamphlets from Buffalo Holland City and Pittsburgh.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter W. Schmidt
Pete
Golden Seal Bitters Company
Holland City
Mich
Free to Ministers Lawyers Doctors and Teachers
Vintage medical advertisement offering Warner’s Whirl Wine of Tak and Ely’s Cream Balm. Claims free bottles with dealer orders, maps of the Holy Land, and testimonials from users including a New York boy and Mrs. Kate Sherman. Promotes Ely Bros products for colds, catarrh, and rheumatism with prices and mail options.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner
Tak Syrur
Holy Land
C. D. Warren
Chicago
Ill
O. K
Ely Bros
J. Hazard
New York City
Rough on Itch and Related Remedies Advertised
A vintage advertisement touts Rough on Itch cures for skin conditions including ring worm tetter and ivy poison and mentions Rough on Catarah for odors and diphtheria sore throat and foul breath. Also promotes Rough on Piles with guaranteed relief and a Piso's Cure for consumption aiding sleep.
Catarrh Remedy Promises Cure Across the Nation
An appeal urges readers not to neglect catarrh as it may cause serious illness and promises Dr Sage's Catarrh Remedy as a proven cure with widespread testimonial support. It claims years of reliability and availability from all druggists. A separate remark cites a government warehouse as purgatory due to spirits held in bond.
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Ely
Ely Bros
Owego
N. Y
Fane
Bond
Notorious Patent Medicines Mocked by Satirists
A sanitized colonial era collage mocks patent medicines and quack cures, praising Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Purgatives and Vivecan Breezers while lampooning readers and journalists. It also references Dr Jones Red Clover Tonic and Bigelow’s Positive Cure with quoted testimonials and moral jests about liquor and health myths.
A Warning to Farmers on Home Medical Remedies
A rural advisory urges farmers to be ready to treat common illnesses like diarrhea dysentery and cramps without a physician. It promotes Percy Davis Pars Kruver as a reliable quick remedy and notes dosage for adults and children. Also advertises Rough on Rats Rough on Corns and Rough on Toothache with small price points.
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Percy Davis
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Marquesas Islands
Arkansaw Traveler
Sharen
Mississippi
F. O. McCleary
Washington, D. C
Red Star Ac
Tampa
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Main Street
N.Y
Massachusetta
Haddam
Ayer
Buckingham
Finor
Finis
Sidney Ourchandre
Pittsburgh Pa
WM. Hall
Hall
Athlophoros
Kate Sherman
Streator
Lyon
Isaac Thompson
Maverick
Too-Forte
Dr. Bigelow
Tre Devil
Sam Jones
Perry Davis
Sauk
Mrpicine
Washington, D.C
T. Felix
Ferd
T. Hopkins
Bond St
U. S
Canadas
Louleville and Jeffersonville Ferry Co
Dorsey
Wall St
Jeffersonville
Ind
Yall Bt
New York
WM. Wnes
Dimauillon
Iamckiela
E.W. Burr
Saya
Brown
Atonic
P. Ceupwast
Grewe
Iowa
Asaya
Yaver Brown
A. Conxy
Lansing, Mich
Brown Chemical CO
Baltimore
G. E. DePey
Detroit
Joan Wylie
Moody St
Lowell
Mass
Fr. J. Woorf
Menaunee
Wis
Graceney
St. Louis
A. J
Boston
gCo
Toe Humane Reagvy Company
Lafayette
Clydesdale
America
Chicago Fair
New Orleans
Royal Society of England
Galbraith Bros
Janesville
HH. H. Green & Sons
Ugre
H. H. Green & Sons
Jones Avenue
Atlanta
Post Office
HB. G. Root
Paarl &T
New Yorks
el Ipalding
Spalding Ne
4& Bros
Abteago
Broadway
JOHN_H
Woodbury St
Albany
PISO
EK Wares
Kintner
C. B. Lannwen
Kirkwood
Pixo
We. Rouverson
Brandywine, Md
Tina
Seba
L. Ropga
Abilene, Kans
Gough
Newark, N.Y
Teel
Dr. Ward & CO
Louisiana
Dye
Seine Oltaic
Marshall, Mi
O.n.u
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