The Pilot on Steamboats and the Laffing Parlor
The article contrasts licensed harbor pilots with river and coastal pilots who guide ships beyond the harbor. It describes pilot duties, apprenticeship length for Philadelphia pilots, and the dangers and responsibilities of steering vessels at sea. The text then shifts to dialect humor about manners and laughter from Terras Siftings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Delaware Bay
Capes
New York Bay
Boston Harbor
Philadelphia
Youwth
The Fate of Professional Beauties
Mrs Langtry and other royal favorites faced declines after reigns as professional beauties. Each woman's end varied from strained health to alienated husbands and social snubs, often ending in exile or obscurity when their position collapsed.
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Riviera
Pull Alul Budget Pushes Parliament Return Door
A fragment notes a politician urging a return to parliamentary duties via another path as budget talks continue. The terse line highlights ongoing political maneuvering and doors opening for reintegration into public life.
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Tion
Alul
Decolloty Dresses Stir Washington Etiquette Debate
An old merchant learns from his wife about decolloty dresses in Washington social life. He fears such attire leads to pneumonia, indelicacy, and social danger as women mingle at receptions. He worries for his daughter Lucy and for the district representative’s family amid society’s temptations.
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Vilage
Washington
Shaeder
Wiser
Congress
Isaac
Lucy
Tom Bowles
Warner's Safe Cook Book featured by Harper's Bazar
Harper's Bazar praises Warner's Safe Cook Book as attractive, five hundred pages of original, reliable material. The work is illustrated and typographically fine, offered in cloth at 2 reduction and paper at 1. cloth bound $1.15 postpaid within the United States.
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Harper's Bazar
Warner
United States
Safe Care Laboratory
Rochester
P. O
Harpers Bazar
Warner's
Gussie and the Superstitious Father Story
A fragment from the Washington Republic recalls Gussie recounting how her father poorheartedly kicked Gus three times with his left foot after Gus visited, leaving him hurt and accused of bad luck. Gus, deeply superstitious, refuses further visits, insisting such kicks curse him.
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Gussie
Gus
Washington Republic
Cross Purposes or Saved at the Altar teaser
The Chicago Ledger previews Cross Purposes or Saved at the Altar by George W. Ogilvie a thrilling tale about a young woman at the altar facing deadly danger fate intervenes and saves her Readers are urged to subscribe and request free sample copies by mailing to 271 Franklin Street Chicago IL.
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the Times
George W. Ogilvie
Chicago Ledger
Wranklin Street
Chicago
Pickaninny Names at Train Station Lead to Quiet Walk
A Latka Herald reader recalls a scene at a Jacksonville station where an old colored woman and two young pickaninnies wait for a train. She exclaims praise to God and orders the children Abraham Lincoln and Jeff Davis to walk with her, as if their names reflect unity.
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Abe
Hands Softly Gloved Man Delights In Sleepwear Vanity
A conceited young man boasting of sleeping with gloves on his hands is questioned by a witty woman. He explains his habit while the small company smiles, puzzled by his display of vanity and supposed comfort.
Common Sense versus Education Reflected in a Daughter’s Marriage
An old man laments that practical sense outpaced formal schooling as his daughter, educated at cost, wed a man who died from blood poisoning after a cane mishap. The piece satirically contrasts knowledge with street wisdom in a Boston Courant excerpt.
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Boston
Weather Lore and Remedies Against Rheumatism
The text extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a preventive and curative for rheumatism and associated symptoms. It asserts the product expels rheumatic virus, cures fever and ague, biliousness, constipation, and dyspepsia, while warning of various wild weather-predicting signs.
Esteemed Boston Physician Endorses Moxie Nerve Food
A leading Boston physician declares the Moxie Nerve Food plant will become a great national staple as substitutes for stimulants rise among nervous women. The product, on the market fourteen months, is now carried widely with grocers delivering it like other eatables and the company selling 7,200,000 liters per year.
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Boston
Contempt of a Play Sparks Quick Witty Exchange
In a Boston theater lobby Dr. A ridicules a new play on opening night. The author asks for a verdict, and Dr. A replies that if he had written it he would be proud beyond measure. The narrator pulls him away before the author basks too long in praise.
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Toston
Dr. A
Mrg
Epward Newton
Harrowsmith
Ont
Eself
Uber
Isaac FE. Downs
Eng
Ng Valley, Rockland Co
P. O. Boz
Saving Medicine And Safe Drug Use In The Home
A public health note warns against storing unused prescriptions and sharing medicines without medical advice. It urges keeping minimal household remedies and cautions that small quantities can change in character and cause harm, with a critique of treating others’ meds as a family inheritance. It cites a Fort Madison Iowa columnist praising St Jacobs Oil for rheumatism relief.
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Philadelphia Ledger
The
Plain Dealer
Fort Madison
Iowa
J. H. Duffus
St. Jacobs Oil
Seal skin lacque: why so dear in Prizel's Weekly
A young girl asks for a seal skin lacque and learns from her father that they are very dear because they are far away. The brief exchange highlights cost and distance as the reasons for the lacque's high price.
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Prizel’s Weekly
Have Any Children Been At This Cake Texas Siftings
A brief humorous dialogue from Texas Siftings features a father asking children if they have tasted cake. The exchange includes Tommy Johnny Willie and Sarah with a quip about children being seen but not heard at supper.
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Tommy
Johnny
Willie
Sarah
Butane from functional derangements and painful disorders booklet
An ad states a 160 page treatise by Dr. Pierce on self care for functional derangements and painful disorders. It advertises wood cuts and colored plates and offers purchase for 10 cents in stamps from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association in Buffalo.
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Pierce
World’s Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo
Impetuous Youth and Remedies Promoted in Advertisements
An OCR fragment lists remedies and cures from Dr Harter and other products. It touts tonics for nervous debility, indigestion, and liver issues, mentions mail-in symptom descriptions, and promotes cosmetics like Tar Soap and PISO’s for coughs, fever, malaria, and general ill health.
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Nic
Harter
Parmelia Brundage
Lock Street
Lockport, N
James L. Cony
Fucatan
Houston Co
Minn
Theresa A. Cass
Springfield
H. E. Mastery
Montmorenci, S. C
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Baxter
Jess
Pusson
Iseburg
Superstitious
Westen
Samuel I. Givmn
Saving Medicine
de RV. Lierce
WN. C
Gilead
Duzard
Taxard & Co
New York
Cutarech
Alan Ie Nae
Othe Hood
Hood
Jonn Massing
Chillicothe
Ohio
N. A. Stanley
Canastota, NY
1. Hood & CO
Lowell
Mass
A.W. McCommluk & Son
de Cay
Cincinnati
Kidder
Pastilles
Charlestown, Masa
C.G. AH Amt
Chicagoll
Usbar Tom
Rte
Unionac
Aati
Lumbag
Hson
Torah
Camden Hd
A. Sherman
Broadway
New Yorks
Mi Pynuikliat
Chiereo
Est
Sou
Tumensahai
Han
Chas. Alc Druguist
Cal
Addie
R. W
Tansile & GO
Atieerbone Company
Puree Oaks
Michigan
Autail
Chicago, IL
Ivor
Tuscola
Illinois
Henry T. Caraway
First Nat'l Bank
Lascola
LD. R. Payserson
Dearborn St
T. Hazeltine
Warren
Wne
S Melinbh
Wand Alwas
Seetera Enghtxi
Wizard Oil Company
Simmons Bt
Mary A. McClure
Columbus
Kans
I. V. Wesner
Yorkshire
Cattaraugus Co
D. LazAnn
Decatur Street
New Orleans
F. Asbury Howein
M. BE
Silverton, N. J
Mia
Ida M. Strona
Ainsworth
Ind
Democrat and News
Cambridge
Maryland
Eliza Ann Pooxusr
Leonard Poole
Williamsburg
Dorchester Co
Poole
Golden Medical Discovery
Forlo
Mr. Downs
Develo
Downs
Lunes
Joseph F. McFarland
Ath la
Ical Association
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