World’s top cotton grower Edward Richardson profile
The Register notes Coll. Edward Richardson of Mississippi owns 25,000 acres of cotton land and last year produced 12,000 bales. He also manufactures the crops’ products, becoming the world’s largest cotton raiser, with the Khedive of Egypt in second place. The piece also cites 1882 homicide statistics across the nation and lists Massachusetts Legislature occupations, plus a brief nationality tally.
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Edward Richardson
Mississippi
Egypt
Curious Theft Tales From Grands Magasins de Paris
A Pierre Giffard note lists four thousand women yearly caught stealing at Paris stores. It cites titled ladies seized for kleptomania, including a Russian Princess and an English Duchess, often let off with a charity payment. It mentions a New York museum Beauty and the Skeleton, a performer famed for a 5 cent life sketch, and a marriage pact with a living skeleton.
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Frances
Ingenious boy uses Leyden jars to kill cellar rats
Ratry Corsir, a 12 year old from Honeybrook Pennsylvania, built Leyden jars and an electrical plate to shock rats. He charged the battery with a self made machine and reportedly cleared his father's cellar of rats in days. Also cited are Wheat and corn sale figures for New York in 1882 with large gambling transactions and vast quantities traded.
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Ratry Corsir
Honeybrook
Chester County
Boonaa
New York
New England
Soup misfortune sparks all in one moment
Joan Mahoney of Somerville narrowly escaped severe scalding after a kitchen mishap turned a pot of soup into a rolling calamity. He dropped the kettle and slipped, causing the soup to spill onto his feet and drench his legs, leaving him seated and receiving care though not in danger.
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Joan Mahoney
Somerville
Boston Post
Mr. Mahoney
Odd Tales Of Possums And A Medical Divorce
The New York Tribune praises the possum tail as a useful invention while detailing a North Carolina man who drives 123 possums home for Christmas sales. It also recounts Dr. Tanner and his wife divorcing after a French bean diet experiment and a wager on how diet alters character.
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New York Tribune
North Carolina
Tanner
France
Br. Tanner
Dr. Tanner
New York Tourists Meet Unusual Northern Michigan Inn
A group of New York visitors seeks lodging in Northern Michigan and encounters a blunt cabin landlord who offers a stark stay with outdoor sleeping, pork and potatoes meals, Sunday shaving soap, no card games, and a price around $30 a week plus a $22 whisky charge, claiming a big reduction over last year.
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New York
Michigan
Yass
Wall Street News
Enquisy Officers Debate Rifle Fire Rate Across Ranks
Enquisy officers discuss military training demanding each soldier fire 1 000 rounds annually, a standard some question as Nehinke testo sits in a cellar while his unit fires the 1 006 rounds.
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Enquisy
Nehinke Testo
Agricultural notes from Farmer Machinery to Poultry Monthly
A collection of agricultural insights covering feeding horses on corn in the ear versus shelled corn, the value of sheltered farm machinery, and proper use of manure. It discusses Switzerl and cattle traits, a saltwater horse cure, two types of colic, and poultry management, including colony sizes, eggs vs store eggs, and breeds best for meat or egg production.
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Michigan
Switzerland
Plymouth
Poultry Monthly
Pancakes and Potato Cakes Recipe Pasteurised Style
Domestic recipe notes advise mixing pancakes with three pints milk six eggs and flour to form thick batter add salt and six finely chopped apples then fry in hot lard. Also suggests making potato cakes from mashed potatoes butter flour milk salt pepper yeast rise bake into small rolls.
Cream Can Batter and Other Household Dishes
Recipe fragments describe Cream Can Batter with eggs cream and cabbage, Buckwheat Shortcake dough using sour milk and spleratus, Pea Nests boiled eggs on buttered toast, Pressed Chicken molded with meat liquor, Apple Dumplings with cream crust and sauce, Prune Poppy Pudding bake with prunes, Veal Bread Pudding with crackers, Chocolate Cream Drops rich with sugar cream and chocolate coating.
Too Much of a Frentieman to Be a Masher
A crowded Shawmut Avenue horse car carries six well dressed young men and a plasterer who defends his seat offer with a humorous tale about not being seen as a masher. The scene highlights social tensions as a colored woman boards and the car falls silent while the plasterer asserts his modest status. The piece also notes Boston race tensions and remarks on city fare changes between Lynn and Boston.
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Shawmut Avenue
Leddy
Boston Journal
Saxon Sketches on Towns and High Buildings in Saxony
Consul Flynn from Chemnitz notes Saxon towns compress housing within clear corporate lines, preferring stacked homes to expanding town area. He contrasts German healthful, dry interiors and strict vacancy rules with American single dwellings, citing damp beer gardens and common illnesses like consumption, lung troubles, colds, and rheumatism as ailments influenced by climate and lifestyle.
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Consul Flynn
Chemnitz
Saxony
Meadows Green
America
Chicago
New York
Dresden
Leipsis
Berlin
Hamburg
The Texas Hog and Its Berkshire Train Crossing
A humorous account describes a Swiss cottage style hog living on acorns and roots, aiding nearby crops at night when possible. It notes crossbreeding with railway stock, calling the result an imported Berkshire or Poland-China hog, valued by railroads at one dollar per pound if it derails a train, with shoveling of remains.
Razorback compared to iron fire-dog hind leg in epitome
A quip from Agricultural Epitomist humorously ranks the razorback as juicier than the hind leg of an iron fire-dog, yet not as fat as a pine knot, reflecting a rustic comparison of animal and wood as a playful measure.
Making Love at the Play in Berlin Theater
An American observer describes a Berlin theater night where a couple in the back rows openly express affection amid a warm venue. The man embraces and kisses his partner while sharing beer, drawing amused glances from others. The narrator notes envy of German liberty and muses on introducing it in America.
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Berlin
Thas
San Francisco Chronicle
Chicago
East Oakland
America
Why Alcoholism Exists In Small Towns
A discussion grounded in poverty and overwork explains why spirits appeal to rustic communities. Liebig argues alcohol is an effect of insufficient food and labor demand, not the root cause, as workers underfed to sustain toil drink to regain energy, harming body and labor capacity.
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Liebig
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