Fire-Worshipers entertain Parsees nobleman at palace
A Parsee nobleman Sir Framgee Denishaw Petit hosts a lavish East inspired evening. Guests dress in sarre garments with jewels while an Italian opera score plays. Guests stroll gardens then dine on native dishes with European wines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
India
Sir Framgee Denishaw Petit
Framgee
Americ
Europe
Marguerite
Italy
London
W. L. Chatfield
America
Short Saws About False Friends And Virtue
A Quiver excerpt συλλ depicts short moral sayings about false friends and pretended virtue. It contrasts voices of animals with human duplicity, noting how people claim abstention from evil while failing in practice and how pride appears in self righteousness.
Millions for Charity The Keermans Bequests of an Italian Duchesse
The late Duchesse de Galliera left France and Italy vast fortunes and gave millions to charity. Donations funded an orphanage at Meudon, working class housing in Paris, Genoa port improvement, hospitals, and art collections. Her endowment also built two asylums for the elderly and disabled.
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Keermans
Duchesse de Galliera
Mme
Bouecicault
Ange
Duke of Galliera
Tle
France
Italy
The
Univers
Seventh Arrondissement
Paria
Brignole Galliers Museum
Trocadero
Meudon
Paris
Genoa
Pope
Palazzo Rossa
Rubens
Vandyke
Bologna
Duc de Montpensier
Chris Lan Brothers
The Charge of the Ewes in North West Texas
A sheepherder describes a dramatic incident with his flock of five hundred ewes and lambs in blustery noon conditions. He uses a handkerchief to frighten the sheep, the wind catching it and spurring a sudden backward charge that throws him, leaving him astonished by the unexpected reversal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Ene
Maine Granite Quarries Fuel Nation's Construction Boom
Maine's Hollowell and coastal quarries supply granite used in major projects from New York museums to Pittsburgh banks. Four hundred workers keep prices steady as statue work and monumental shafts travel to Chicago and New York, with a Bodwell bust prepared for the State House.
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Dix Island
Vinal Haven
Blue Hill
Mt. Waldo
Gouldboro
Sullivan
Hollowell
Kennebec
Knights of the Hammer
Metropolitan Museum of Art
American Bank
New York City
Plymouth Monument
Bodwell
State House
Bangor
United States
Cana Price Baking Powder Co
New York
Chicago
San Francisco
Boston man borrows time for wife by stealing to pay doctors
A Boston tale recalls Balzac as a young husband with a sick wife spends to meet a doctor’s orders. He steals a clock and a five dollar bill to pay for tonics and wine, then pawns possessions to cover grocer and apothecary bills. He later keeps the house intact, arguing health over furniture.
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Boston
Balzac
Lut
Kavoce
Boston Post
Separation of Municipal Elections Advocated in Editorial
An editorial argues for separating municipal elections from national and state politics to curb corruption and high taxes. It cites municipal burdens on the poor and urges voters to focus on local issues such as taxation, schools, police, lighting, and services.
Old Omaha Doctor Offers Free Remedy Recipe
An elderly Omaha physician, retired, claims to have a simple vegetable cure for consumption, bronchitis, catarrh, asthma, and nervous debility. He will mail free of charge the recipe in German, French, or English with full directions, from Le Pruver's Block. Palmer & Rey advertise new quarters and a large stock of printing type and presses in Portland.
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A. Neves
le Pruver
van Monciscar
Third Street
Portland
Oregon
Coly
Positive Remedy for Consumption Promises Free Bottles
A letter offers a cure for consumption and claims thousands cured by timely use. The author T A Slocum M C cites New York address and promises to send two free bottles to readers who provide their express and postal addresses.
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T. A. Slocum
M. C
Lal Pearl St
New York
Jaxo P. Boerman
Sansome St
San Francisco
Cal
Tile Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Palmer and Key Move to New Three Story Printer Warehouse
Palmer and Key, Portland printers, relocate to an elegant three story building at the corner of Alder and Front streets. Cure for Cough or Cold advised. when chest unease or breathing difficulty appears, use Brown's bronchial Trochea, 25 cents, recommended as a boon.
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Palmer & Bey
Ype
Alder
Palmer & Key
Alder and
Front Streets
Portland
Toke
Ty Palmer & Rey
Cor
Frent
Antisell
Antisell Plano CO
Odd Fellows’ Hall
Market and
Seventh Streets
San Francisco
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Colonel Jones
Colonet Jones
Harper's Magazine
England
Calcutta
Washington Post
Maine
Anasa
Owl
Wiliam W. B. Miller
Deerludge
Montans
Hrandreth
Beanmeru
Wa Beohetor
Isaore
Hen Franklin
the Straits
Kingston
Kingstonian
Kingston Freeman
Miesie
Puck
Clara
Hiven
Eorr
Palmer & Rey
B. FeesnMas
Sydney
Joo Annon
Yimon
Ror
J. R. Cates
PROP
Sansome Street
Sam Francisco
Oscar
Consumptio
Tainters and Publishers
Almer & Rev
Northern
Pacific
Pullman Palace
Atlmy Coaches
Fatgaut Magra
Ae Centrates Bane Soca
Ashington
Mnts
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Conasi Northern
Sioux City
ST. Joseph
Eaves Worth
Arlington
ST. Louis
All Pointe Throw East
Ru— Uncil Bluffs
Tonio Ansas City
Lincy
Wut
Minneapolia
Enthryom
A. D. Charl
West
Weabhagion
Rtland
Seienne
Isaac Thompson
Brewster
Hein Holder
Holly
Mich
MONTGOMERY WARD & @ CO
Michigan Avenue
Goulds & Austin
Lake St
Chicaco
Ill
Pearl 40
Secon
Curtis Publishing CO
Philadelphia
le Bgt
Gt Pau
Iby
Ferry
M. Ferry
Ip M. Prenat
Iano
Ferry & CO
Detroit, Mich
Weatherbe
Aitken
Mar Room
Ann
San Pre
METO
New Mexico
Earth
Jew J. Fitagerrell
Las Vegas
SPF
N. U
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Bampla
Charles & Vogeler CO
Gaan Pease & Steinway
Meno
Burdett
Big G
Ag. J. Stoner
M.D. Decatur
Dr. Pierce
Worn
Dispensary Medical Association, Proprietors
DR. Sage
Drummete
Paine
J.B. Jenkin
Cloyd’s Creek
Tenn
F. G. Streeney
Havana
Alo
Druggista Wells, Richandson & Co
Burlington, Vt
Hastings
Mann & Benedict
Hastings & Co
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