Christmas in a New England house with Patty and Uncle Joshua
Patty visits Aunt Sally and Uncle Joshua to help with Christmas. Joshua offers a home and a five dollar gold piece after Patty bonds with him. The stocking gifts include a sled a doll and a gold watch and chain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin
Sully
Patty
Joshua
Sally
Amasy
Polly
George
Mike
Josua
Amasy Andrews
Aunt Polly
Amasa Andrews
Georgy
Leggin
Uncle Amasa
Fatty
Annass
Moggagg
Amasa
New England
Ruth Hall
New York Independent
Enormous foreign walnut log lands in New York sheds
A vast walnut log from Perigueux France, weighing around 22,000 pounds and measuring twenty seven feet around by nine feet through, was hauled to 156 Elizabeth Street in New York to be cut into veneer. Brought on the Katie and bought by L Hirsch of Center Street, it yielded an estimated 70,000 feet of veneer and hid musket balls within its trunk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thiaagh
New York Sun
Elizabeth Street
Katie
Paris
New York
Young Lady with Absolute Pitch Impresses Norwich Crowd
A Norwich girl with perfect pitch correctly identifies notes played away from her listening base. She names tones in isolated notes and chords and even identifies keys in modulations. The report notes her gift is natural, not learned, and mentions related curiosities about trees and a government appointee’s relative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norwich
Conn
Mennonites in Nebraska Grow Fruit and Silk Industry
A visitor describes a Russian Mennonite colony of seventy families near Fairbury Nebraska eight years in Jefferson County. They plant hardy fruit trees including apples apricots and Russian mulberrys for silkworm culture. Hedging windswept land with nine foot mulberry barriers, dammed draws provide water fish and cooling air. Women and children tend nurseries and share profits, setting an example for less industrious neighbors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines Register
Jefferson County
Neb
Fairbury
Severy
Abraham Thiessen
Nebraska
H.C.C
Great Trotters Endorse St Jacobs Oil for Horses
Calvin M. Priest of the New York club stables and Dan Mace of Excelsior stables praise St Jacobs Oil for treating horse pain including cuts bruises swellings lameness and stiffness. Professor Robarge also backs the product as an effective remedy for horses and humans. Priest cites a trotter cured overnight after one application and ready for the race track next day.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati Times Star
America
Calvin M. Priest
New York Club
28Th Street
Fifth Avenue
Dan Mace
Excelsior
West 29Th Street
United States
St. Jacobs
Avid Robarge
Metropolis
St. Jacob’s
Priest
Free breakfast table debate and Cuba sugar policy
A column voices support for a free breakfast table but warns American sugar producers cannot compete with Cuban planters. It notes the U S sends large gold payments to Cuba, argues against Cuban and Spanish slavery, and recalls Grant’s Santo Domingo proposal as a path to self sufficiency in sugar and production.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Truth
Cuba
America
Santo Domingo
Hayti
Congress
Grant
Santa Domingo
United States
Toronto donor makes Canada’s largest educational gift
Mr Gooderman of Toronto gave 81 million dollars to a Methodist university prompting comment from Samuel J Randall who was asked about Mr Carlisle's stance. Randall replied with a blunt remark about elections and campaign funding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Gooderman
Toronto
Methodist University
Samuel J Randall
Mr. Carlisle
De la Mishel Austin firm and the overcoat pausing tale
A fragmented dialogue recalls a law firm scene with a partner warning about leaving an overcoat with a pawnbroker. The conversation shifts to a bankerlike note about guarding possessions as a farmer comments on warmth and appearance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Mishel Austin Law Firm
Boih Per” ‘Bers
Omaha and Chicago Markets And Misc Health Ads
The clipping lists grain and food prices for Omaha and Chicago including wheat corn oats rye barley flour butter eggs pork lard and cattle with regional quotes. It also includes assorted advertisements touting health products and remedies with names and addresses, plus a quip about mother-in-law hospitality.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
ST. Louis
Piles and Travel Notes Mention Remedies and Dining Cars
A local ad extols Ely's Cream Balm for catarrh with a testimonial from A Nichols. Mentions the Dining Cars on the Chicago & North Western Railway offering square meals for 75 cents on routes including Council Bluffs to Minneapolis. Also notes a Long Branch life-saving crew spotting a monster sea serpent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. Nichols
Ely
Evers Bros
Independence
Town
Chicano & North-Western Ramway
Council Bluffs
Omaha
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Long Branch
Grand Union Hotel and remedies advertised in 1888 flyer
An assorted Victorian advertisement page cites the Grand Union Hotel in Omaha with room rates, notes on tonics and patent medicines, and mentions Dr Jaques German Worm Cakes, Uncle Sam's Nerve and Bone Liniment, and Eilert's Extract of Tar and Wild Cherry. It includes lottery notices and health claims for cough remedies and tonics.
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Chicago
Illy
J J Douglas
Louisville
Henry College Lottery Co
Fischm
Wabash Avenue
Ills
Henry College
Montgomery St
San Francisco
Cal
W dL Seager
Denmark
Ashixbura County
Ohio
E M Hawkins
Windsor
Henry County
Missouri
J M Trader
Dayton
A Botto
Cairo
Illinois
W Scott Glore
Przes
Lalves
Louisville Courier-Journal
Omaha
Metropolitan
Jaques
Uncle Sam
Purley
Eilert
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Ray Batt
Detroit Free Press
Sarah
Pattty
Silas
Kind
Aunt Sally
Uncle Joshua
Willy
Arkansas
Deuce
Kosciusko
Washington
Curtin
Vienes
Gormeey
Anette
Vvenka Care
Wiss
Philadelphia
Ne- Howabraska
Dave
Vennor
Allen
Picayune
Neryine
Peter Ross
Springwater
Wis
Druggists
New York Commercial Advertiser
Ford
J. MI. Allen
First Ave
New York City
Callanya
Tlizara
Vox
Williams
Pri
Frazier Mepierne Co
Cleveland
Carlisle
Tantalus
Yung
Dr. Richmond
Owenton
J. N. Beck
Japan
Alfen
J.P. Allen
Minn
Kansas City Corve Villey
Eldorado
Butler Co
Fifth
Delaware
Times
Ack& Dickeren
Grand Union Hotel
Ny of
Carter
China
Henry Ward Beecher
Jenra Outrats. Co
Brown
Army
Hale
Pike
Erastus Corning
Episcopal
Albany
Beast
Iuiek
Charles A. Vogeler
A Toosler
Hallitiure
S A
Waele
Samus
Fae Army
Nave
Asay
Navey
Hicharson
Pee Thomas Eae Vt Marine Vel
Aero Grees Pavay
Finyeuttier
Vba
Pau Mer
Lust
Nyaa
BS Og Raed
Eee
Fis
Enmahe
Sheridan
Ares Fr
Droge
SLY Brothers
Henry
Roy
Onty
Josepe Tilt
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