Have Found Her at Last in Aunt Annes Quiet Life
In a domestic tale a shy pair, Alice and Maud, watch Aunt Anne’s plain attire hide a romance. Colonel Hargrieves discovers Aunt Anne is the woman he seeks, having loved her since youth, and vows to marry her, revealing a family secret and reuniting a long-lost couple.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maud
Anne
Colonel Hargrieve
Mollie Sanders
Aunt Anne
Colonel Hargrieves
Alice
Magd
Eally
Annie
Madgeburg
Germany
Spain
United States
Counted the Stairs Story of a Swedish Shoemaker
A Kansas City Journal tale from Stock holm describes a Swedish shoemaker famed for cigars and a wife he won after counting stairs. He recalls learning to smoke in Sweden and recounts his door latch mishap that led to meeting his future wife, now living in America.
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Stockholm
Sweden
America
Kansas City Journal
Athens Turkey Merchant in Modern Athens by George Horton
An 19th century vignette describes a turkey merchant in Athens who arrives with 200 to 300 birds and travels the city for weeks selling them individually. He uses a long pole to manage restless birds while calling out Gallous Gallou poula Gallopoulos, keeping the flock moving without clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Athens
George Horton
Scribner's
The Merry Side Of Life Funny Press Quips
A collage of humorous newspaper gags and exchanges from Chicago Post and other papers. Jokes range from romance and obedience to clever one liners about doctors, nerves, and social foibles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Times Herald
Wandering Topics: Poles, Beet Sugar, and Early Baseball
A survey of varied 19th century notes covers polar sunrises, hidden metal welding, plant evolution, beet sugar supremacy, early English public transport by motor car, Baltic ice breaking ships, and a Palmistry primer. It closes with a history of baseball tracing its roots in New York and the rise of professional play by 1869.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Knickerbocker Club
Atlantic
Mutual
Union
Brooklyn
National Association
District of Columbia
Harper's Weekly
Inscrutable Minds and Odd Nuggets in Stray Shots
A column mix of social musings on understanding women, quirky asides about naval cases, a sales pitch for Botanic Blood Balm, and brief notes from the era. The piece blends reflections on gender, a court-martial report, humorous quips, medical ads, and a fact about elephants needing rest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theodore Seifert
New York
Macon
Pensacola
Nervous Prostration and a Woman’s Recovery by Lydia Pinkham Aid
A reader describes severe nervous prostration with chest pains fatigue and insomnia. Testimonials praise Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound aiding Adele Williamson and Della Kaiser, claiming cure or major improvement and renewed vitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Williamson
Adele Williamson
N. Boulevard
Atlanta, Ga
Della Keiser
Enville
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Pall Mall Gazette
Sy Susuutouucuuto
W. G. Matthews
Merry Side OF
Cadleigh
Chicago Post
Jibbs
Chicago
Detroit Journal
New York Weekly
Pway
Miss Smythe
Freshleigh
Ohio State Journal
Chicago News
Baltimore American
Hloise
Tesla
Cleveland
Boston Transcript
Marmaduke Jones
Gayety
Puck
Philadelphia Press
Hanau
England
Bournemouth
Ermark
Baltic Sea
Russian Empire
Russian Tartary
Vladivostock
Blood Balm Co
Mitchell St
Atlanta
Luke P. Blackburn
Thompson’s
the National City Bank of
Lynn
Tee
Adele
Williamson
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