Extraordinary Esthetic Housekeeper Ends Poultry Market Debacle
A Girton College graduate, now Mrs. Julius Augustus Smythe, parades a refined market visit that turns chaotic. She misreads prices, buys odd items, samples Limburger, and mishandles eggs, ending with a ruined dress and a smoky omelet. The couple burns the notebook and boards at English paper reports.
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Girton College
England
Julius Augustus Smythe
Pallas Andora von Plurky
Turkey
Julius Augustus
Jwsus
Julius Agustus
Julius
Girton
Morocco
Evils of Tobacco Smoking Reported in 19th Century Text
The article argues tobacco harms health, focusing on Americans with sensitive nerves in a competitive society. It cites 1857 cigarette production of 1,680,945,400 and notes rising use among boys under 14 and some women. It urges legal prevention of sale and parental action to curb consumption.
Parents Warn Against Cigarette Danger to Boys
The author laments pennies once spent on candies and nuts now go to cigarettes as boys set out for school. They urge parents to investigate and curb this moral decline, stressing the sacred duty to protect future manhood from demoralization and irreparable harm.
Keeping His Boy's Grave Green
A rugged Indiana farmer recalls his dying son in the Civil War era. He asked that his grave in Indianapolis stay green, and vows to keep it painted and cared for, even as the memory of his boy and his service endure through time.
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Indianapolis
New York
Too Much Meat Debate in Daily Diets Across Europe
A Philadelphia Star quotation argues that meat is overvalued as essential, noting Europeans eat meat sparingly yet stay robust. It cites Russian soldiers, Spanish peasants, Smyrna porters, and coolies fed on simple fare to claim heavy meat consumption is unnecessary for strength or endurance.
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Philadelphia Star
A Beavers Dam Proven By Househeld Pet Lesson
A Maine college professor tells how he challenged a skeptic by sending a baby beaver to his friend. When a leaky pail of water spilled, the beaver sprang into action, fetching a chip and building a full dam around the pail over four weeks, convincing the friend beavers can build.
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Maine
Lewiston Journal
An Extinct Race of Servants
In a fragment from a 19th century Life humor piece a conversation unfolds in a boarding house where a customer seeks a dish washer. An employment agent clarifies that staff are kept upstairs in the waiting room. The landlady insists on filling a position for a lady renovator of hotel china.
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F. A
I. A
George
China
Life
Feeding a Pig After Four Days Absence
A Lewiston Journal quip asks what to call a man who feeds his pig for four days after it escapes his sty without noticing the theft, labeling it absent-minded or absent-piged. The piece also recalls historic sieges of Henzat and a note on MELOpRAMA experiments and Dost Mohammed.
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Piscataquis County
Lewiston
Dr. Greene's Nervara Nerve Tonic Promoted as Cure
Advertisement touts Dr. Greene's Nervara Nerve Tonic as a universal nerve strengthener for weak and nervous individuals. Claims include relief from insomnia indigestion irritability and fatigue with a promise of restoration of memory focus and vigor. Available from druggists for one dollar with consults from Dr. Greene at 35 West 14th Street New York.
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Greene
Dr. Greene
West 14Th Street
New York
Humorous toast and sea travel cures in a cluttered tale
A mix of gossip and promotional tidbits describes an earl delivering a misfired toast at a glittering event, with swine applause. The piece then touts Hosetetter's Stomach Bitters as a sea voyage antidote, notes a Portland recruiting tale of weight gain, and ends with a quirky Adelina Partr bath scene using dew-catching silver basins and sponge for eye care.
A Horse That Could Speak and Modern Cures
A column compares a talkative horse to miraculous advances in medicine and technology. It touts Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for diseased lungs and references various patent medicines and remedies, including ROUGH ON ITCH Ointment, with testimonials and general assertions about healing and progress.
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Pierce
Private Cipher Codes in Telegraphic Trade Aids
The piece notes several commercial cipher systems used by brokers to save telegraph costs and keep deals private. It cites operator leakage risks and miscommunications from odd phrasing and misspellings, while telegraph firms resist cipher use due to lost revenue.
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Wall Street
Telegraphic
New York Times
The Engineer Recovered at Staples Covell's Saw Mill
A 1887 letter from Whitewall notes recovery from kidney trouble and blood poisoning after Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup, praising its effects and recommending it. It includes testimonials for Scott's Emulsion, Bruxin's bronchial Creches, and other patent remedies, with ads for Wells' Health Renewers and skin products.
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Montague
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Spring Health Boost
An advertisement extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as the ideal spring medicine to purify blood and revive a weakened body. It cites a Brooklyn testimonial of kidney and liver relief, praising the remedy’s vegetable ingredients and broad curative claims for scrofula, rheum, headaches, indigestion, and general debility.
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Hood
Toory
Atlantic Avenue
Brooklyn
N. X
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Buffalo
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Ithaca
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