The Window Dresser First Vocation Of Modern Art
An article from the Chicago Daily News traces window dressers as a new professional craft, noting salaries from 15 dollars weekly to up to ten thousand a year. It describes duties, training, and the spread of attractive dry goods displays across regions, with examples of display practices and questions about women filling window positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Daily News
United States
State Street
New York
San Francisco
New York City
Autobiography of a Jersey Mosquito
The New York Journal reviews a lavish 1500 page autobiography of a highly cultured Jersey mosquito. It traces a long lineage from the Alhambra to Columbus era, noting flights from Spain to America and encounters with Isabella, royal palaces, and early American mosquitoes near Florida.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jersey
New Jersey
Elizabeth Marshes
Atlantic City
Mosquito
Alhambra Palace
Crescent
Spain
Columbus
Royal Palace
Isabella
America
Europe
New York Journal
Prairie Dog Catcher Describes Creek Water Passage Idea
An observer recounts a plan to trap prairie dogs from a creek by draining water with a water tank and engine. The account notes belief in underground water passages from dog residences to the river bed and describes securing a box, buckets, and a crew to operate an engine for the task.
Pioneer Park Fire Scene and Rescue at Prairie Dog Park
A fire engine halted before Prairie Dog Park and the old pioneer, guarding the denizens, vanished as the hydrant hose was shut. Water buckets filled the hole to the mouth, freeing the box and later drawing a dozen more to join the shelter. The incident drew coverage in the American Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Prairie Dog Park
American Field
Strayed Away Watchman Gets Shuffled on Woodward
A downtown Detroit scene at Woodward avenue features a young man with two watch chains and an elderly passenger who teases him about his timepieces. She mocks his fashion and asks if his watches are proof he’s punctual, then deems him a likely 25 cent-store misfit before he exits the streetcar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodward Avenue
Bay City
Detroit Free Press
Boston Quakers of the Olden Time
Prof. Austin Phelps argues Massachusetts would be strange not to hang Quakers who offended its sacred rights of colonial governance. He contrasts them with Penn and Mott, labeling the trio and one woman as railing against decency and morality and condemning their public displays as shameless.
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Austin Phelps
Massachusetts
Our Fathers
Boston
Gov
Winthrop
Sewall
General Court
Prof
Phelps
William Penn
Lucretia Mott
Snake blocks wagon wheels on Nevada stage run
A mountain runner snake about twelve feet four inches long entwined between the rear and front wheels near Woodford canyon Nevada. The driver found the animal after stopping to rest and lantern inspection. Passengers clubbed and killed the serpent then freed the team, midnight untying.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Woodford Canon
Nevada
Isolation from Cholera Demonstrates Blocked Infection
The text cites 1831 Russia at Peterhof where 10000 palace inhabitants were unharmed during plague. In 1855 Constantinople military school and a prison isolated within a cholera city, with no pupils or prisoners affected. Sicily also stayed isolated and remained free of the disease.
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Russia
Peterhof
Imperial
Constantinople
Hicily
L. C
Washington, D.C
Adams Campaign Documents in Western New York
In the 1828 presidential campaign a discursive episode describes handbills attacking Mrs. Andrew Jackson. Thurlow Weed recounts his handling of two boxes of campaign documents, Coffin Hand Bills and Gen Jacksons Domestic Relations, stored in his Rochester printing office cellar awaiting distribution. He avoided elector exposure until polls closed, then planned a firework illumination to celebrate Adams. Despite denunciations, Western New York and other regions favored Adams, while most of the state backed Jackson.
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Andrew Jackson
Thurlow Weed
New York
Adams
National General Committee
Gen. Jackson
Dickinson
National Committee
Joseph Blunt
Blunt
Gen. Matthews
Judge Strong
Boston
Jackson
Wait Awhile Girls Willing to Accept Duties of Wife
An essay argues that choosing law or journalism limits future roles for men and women. Women marrying must accept lifelong duties of wife and mother, including constant care from cradle to grave, sacrificing personal ambitions for family. It urges postponing marriage unless one seeks larger duties beyond domestic life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilhelm Meister
Anon
Notable Dwarfs and Oddities Mentioned in Antiquarian Note
The text recalls several historical dwarfs including Tom Thumb Richard Gibson and Ann Shepherd, Sir Geoffrey Hudson, Count Borulawski, and remarks on their ages. It also notes Sturcrow's eggs from Pentwater sold to Germany as caviar and a line about Momrama paying $24 per bear’s scalp, all in a miscellany of curiosities.
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Tom Thumb
Richard Gibson
Charles I
Ann Shepherd
Geoffrey Hudson
Westminster
Count Borulawski
George IV
Sturcrow
Pentwater
Germany
A Good Dog and Horse Story From Our Dumb Animals
A Pipress account from Aiken describes a couple with ponies and a spaniel. The dog senses new bays at the town home, disappears, and returns with the two ponies at the gate, implying he warned the ponies their place was taken by strangers.
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Aiken
D. C
S Paniel
Mammoth Apple Tree Captures North Missouri Spotlight
Adair county farmer Abel Schofield near Kirkville boasts perhaps the largest apple tree in North Missouri. The tree measures six feet ten inches in girth at ground level, six feet high six feet from the ground, and a limb of four feet ten inches. It has yielded forty bushels annually for a decade, with excellent fruit quality.
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Abel Schofield
Adair County
Kirkville
Missouri
Adair County (Mo
Malarial Pest Remedy and Cures Highlight Broad Ad Claims
The notice extols Hostetter's Stomach Hitters as a universal cure and tonic for malarial illness and related stomach, liver, and bowel disorders. It promotes its fortifying effects, appetite improvement, and safety for invalids, while touting other health products and remedies with varied claims across the faded health column.
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Boston Quakers
Annie
Nista
Parken
Erhapa
Andrew Jackson’s
Dwarks
Momrama
Maine
Sandy
Zenas
Journal of Health
Vennor
Fenderson
Baltmore
Irwin H. Elderidge
Cubiaco
Hood
Lowell
Fogg
Tus Voltaic Bext Co
Marshall, Mich
Dye
N. B.ie
Gault House
Chicago
Clinton and
Madison Streets
Union Depot
H. W. Hoyt
Caswaun, Hazagp & Co
Mar
Our Lady Friends
L Cragin & Co
Philo
CrawrEp
Caswarz, & Co
Welle
Lyor
Bc Beck
T. H. Marks
Brinson & Doe
Portland
Bright
A. Felton
Tunbridge
P. P. Boynton
Manchester
Conn
C.J. Hood & CO
Apothecaries
Mass
Ann Lacour
New Orleans
Wm. Hall
Dunxo
Perry Davis
Burns
Orthwestern Medical College
St. Jostrg
Fres Low
Adrianan College
Eircar
Xaguata
National Publishing Co
Milwaukee
Cramer, Ens & Cramer
Chicago Scale Co
South Jefferson Street
Fll
Lowrience
A. W
P.O. Sox
Gro
F. Seely
Ort Wayne
Hunt
George E
W. H. Terrill
GorFrstown, N. H
H. Hatierr & Co
Piso S
Ee Turny Dee
Dr.horne
Electric Best
W.J. Horne
Wabash Av
Englan Conservatory ‘of Music
E. Tourjee
Franklin ,Q
Mask
Pepe Poum Ayers
Buel Beazings
Jones
Ali Siseseslow
Eggleston 1 Truss. Co
Hall
Hen
Advertiser
Hagan
Providence
R. I
Hunt's Remedy Co
W. H. Blanchard
Mast
Boston and
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