Blaine's Pan Americanism and Reciprocity Legacy
The article extols James G Blaine as unmatched in Republican influence and enthusiasm among followers from the old plumed knight era to the Minneapolis convention. It highlights his Pan American idea of closer US Latin American ties and arbitration, plus his reciprocity plan to open US ports for goods from other American nations. It notes the reciprocity law’s partial passage enabling trade with six Spanish American republics and Cuba, affecting populations of about 40 million.
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Blaine
Minneapolis
Congress
Pane American Congress
Lis
Schedne
United States
Cuba
How One Farmer Got Rich
A Rural New Yorker correspondent reports on a farmer who became wealthy by spending less than he earned. He advocates frugality in livestock care and household limits, substituting scarce purchases with existing goods, trimming tea and coffee, and selling surplus to a grocer who paid cash yearly. The tale contrasts thrift with overwork, warns against excessive skimping, and emphasizes education and balance.
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New Yorker
Max
Gidthen
Imadew
Siyao
Richard Ring
Tennyson and Satolli in The Review of Reviews
The Review of Reviews discusses Tennyson's popularity in America and England, noting copyright issues and affordability affecting readers. It also covers Monsignor Satolli and possible Papal canonical court in the United States, plus stray notes on Wallace & Forbes and the Orleanist plot involving the Countess of Paris.
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Monsignor
Satolli
America
Leo
Rome
Lome
Propaganda
United States
Poperon
Tongian
1809 births shaped great minds across fields
The article notes a rash of notable born in 1809 including Darwin Lincoln Poe Holmes Hamlin Pierce Pike Semmes and McCormick. It reflects on their contributions, contrasts their lives of suffering with fame, and admires McCormick as a pioneer of mechanized farming that fed the world while hinting at 19th century literary and political figures. It also discusses the Panama scandal in France as a royalist plot threatening the republic.
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Mr. Glad
Gladstone
Bismarck
Wellington
Napoleon
Charles Darwin
Abraham Lincoln
Darwin
Lincoln
Washington
Jefferson Davis
Davis
Edgar Allan Poe
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Dr. Holmes
Hannibal Hamlin
United States
Benjamin Pierce
Harvard
Albert Pike
Raphael Semmes
Virginia
Cyrus Hall McCormick
McCormick
Cyrus McCorwick
America
Europe
Mexico
Pampas
South America
Alfred Tennyson
Mark Lemon
Tingrist
Lindon Punch
Ist
Jules Favre
Count von Lust
Cilia
England
Oliver Wendell Polives
Webb Convert to Mohammedanism Prompts U S Religious Shakeup
Alexander Russell Webb once U S consul at Manila has converted to Islam and aims to spread the faith in the United States. He has raised over 25000 to aid his mission and appeals to American subscribers to join the new creed. Meanwhile steamship plans and aging Panama Canal figures also color the era’s headlines as global events mix with domestic curiosities.
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Brillat Savarin
Alexander Russell Webb
United States
Manilla
Sons of Islam
Webb
Mohammed
Chicago
The Illustrator of Today Shapes News in Black and White
The piece extols illustrated journalism as a rising field for ambitious artists. It urges learning drawing over painting, focusing on expressive noses and legs, and notes a New York committee studying taxation and its impact on capital, labor, and wage workers. It highlights Mme de Lesseps and philosophy of success amid trials.
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New York
Mme. de Lesseps
poet of the future in Texas hailed by Lone Star pride
A Texas passage asserts Texas will supply world literature and cotton, praising the state’s genius and potential. It cites the Texas White Ribbon lines urging concise writing and warns against long, padded tales, urging poets to boil text down and say it quickly.
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Great Plains
Lone Star
Texas
German Hausfrauverein runs co op store in Vienna
A Viennese women’s union, the Hausfrauverein, formed twenty years ago to tackle high prices and poor quality. It runs a cooperative store with quality goods at reasonable prices, maintains a reference list of reliable shops, and operates a cooking and household training school and an intelligence office. Some 3,000 housekeepers belong. a diploma guarantees good help and steady work. The piece also notes ornate opinions on public life and a salt water flushing proposal for New York.
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Republic of France
France
Republic
M. Delahaye
Panama
Baron Reinach
Giltogether
Senate
Chamber of Deputies
United States
Grant
Third Republic
Panama Canal
Austria
Vienna
America
Hausfrauverein
Hausfrauverein Cooking and Household Training School
Razor in mouth leads to dramatic hospital case and pledge not to bite again
An English woman held a razor between her teeth to free a shelf, breathed in, and the blade slid into her esophagus. Surgeons opened her stomach, removed the tool, and sewed the wound. She recovered but vowed not to repeat the act. Separately, Toronto’s Evening Sun advocates peaceful annexation of Canada to the United States, stressing constitutional consent.
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Canada
United States
Toronto
The
Sun
Republic of the
England
Thrifty Fashion Care From a Parisian Influence
A well dressed speaker shares clothes care methods learned in Paris to keep garments crisp and costly items lasting longer. She describes dust removal, proper storage in racks and boxes, tissue stuffing for bodies and sleeves, hat preservation, and glove handling to avoid wear.
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France
Treat
New York
A Tribute to Woman's Carefulness
A Cincinnati Enquirer editorial quote from a salesman in a men’s and boys’ wear shop mocks women for selecting suits for their husbands and then nitpicking minor defects. The piece portrays the wife as bossy over tailoring, leaving the husband with little say and the tailor frustrated.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
A Woman's Tears and the Warning to Teasers
A historical column discusses how tears influence men, warning women that crying to gain advantage often backfires. It notes some women wield tears like a weapon, but cautions such behavior may not yield lasting results and can mislead.
Why She Does Not Call
A woman with refined tastes explains why she avoids visits to certain families. Bread and butter and jam ruin dresses and wraps, and erratic children’s snacks fill reception rooms. She notes she cannot afford repeated wardrobe damage and that several friends share the same problem.
Woman Equal to Men by Labor-Saving Devices
A St Louis Globe Democrat quote recaps Professor W C Cunningham praising conventors of labor saving devices as emancipators of womankind. He notes Ark Wright elevated women by reducing drudgery from spinning, farming, cooking, and house chores, thanks to factories and inventions like the sewing machine transforming the home into opportunity for self improvement and companionship.
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W. C. Cunningham
Laclede
Arkwright
St. Louis Globe Democrat
When Ladies Wore Masks in the Seventeenth Century
From the Buffalo Commercial summary a fashion arc shows masks evolving from toraline lips and linen chin pieces to the mimi, sparking quarrels between factions. By the 1630s upper mask trims with lace and beards appeared, while some young women used black crape for concealment and flirtation.
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M. Engeland
Mimi
Buffalo
Disease at the Back Door Warns of Waste Dangers
An 1890s Farm Life column warns that pouring greasy wastewater and kitchen scraps behind houses breeds fevers and bilious diseases. It explains soil fermentation and gas formation from waste, urging proper disposal in towns and countrysides alike, with trees absorbing excess water.
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Aly
Improving the Mind and a Rail Sale Report
A 10 minute daily reading habit is praised to broaden the mind and keep a woman young as per St. Louis Star-Sayings. The second item notes the Davenport Iowa and Dakota line sale to Burlington Cedar Rapids and Ni er a for 320000 amid railroading equipment losses.
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St. Louis
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Stead
Wallace & Forbes
French Republic
Countess
Clyde
Chesapeake and Ohio Steamship Company
Newport News
Norfolk
Old Point Cotfort
Count de Lesseps
Legion of Honor
Rouvier
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Constan
Comercial Advertiser
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Vayvenport
Iowa
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Stoye
Dugetts Railroads
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