NEAT TOWN HOUSE WITH Nine Rooms and Distinctive Features
A detailed prospectus for a nine room urban town house. Highlights include a library hall with staircase, parlor facing the porch, bright dining room with wood mantel, two yard entrances, and a well vented kitchen store closet. Attic two large bedrooms, balloon framing with 16 inch centers, white pine interior woodwork, and pine shingles.
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C. B H. Venn
West Twenty-fourth Street
New York
How to Get Fertile Exes Feed Rations for Eggs
Mr James Shackleton wins first prize for an article on feeding to produce eggs, detailing a balanced ration system used by Wyandottes. It describes daily portions including whole grains, animal bone, and vegetables, with two meals daily and seasonal adjustments to reach about 200 eggs per year per hen.
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James Shackleton
American Poultry Journal
Shackleton
Home Interior and Exterior Paint Plan with Costs
A historic note outlines plastering two coats on interior walls with a hard white finish. Hall and woodwork. mahogany stain for the hall. other woodwork white. kitchen brown. Exterior color scheme features light green side walls and trimmings white. roof moss green. Dimensions list front 28 feet, side 30 feet, story heights cellar 7 ft, first 10 ft, second 9 ft, attic 7 ft 6 in. Building cost estimated at $2,500.
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Halle
A Novel Incubator Sod House on Ruth Morris Farm
Ruth Morris builds a sod house on her Fairhaven Kansas farm using dried mud blocks and sod layers. The finished structure is washed to seal cracks and covered with gravel seeds to yield a green gray exterior. Farmers use similar dry, clean houses for dwellings and even stables and barns.
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Ruth Morris
Fairhaven
Kan
Dense population in London stirs wage density chatter
A fragment notes London's population density and a humorous quip about wages, mentioning that jokes were not understood. It contrasts with views from American papers Philly Record and Chicago News, which mention people going abroad for education either to finish or to start their studies.
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London
Philadelphia
Chicago News
Toilet Tips From A Past Era On Beauty Tricks
A short set of old fashioned beauty hints covers straightening hair with a curling iron, whitening nails with lemon, sleeping after a warm sea salts bath, and a hair wash of water soda and tartar. It notes general beauty linked to the stomach and offers a softening hard water trick using orange peel for fragrance.
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Streight
Spoiling Children by Care
A Swedish statesman warned that the world is governed too much and applies to children. Overanxious parental tutoring can stunt a bright boy, giving him a moral weakling's lack of resilience. Excessive guidance wears out the conscience. the old English lady advised a little wholesome neglect.
New Motherhood Focus Shifts To Sanitary Nurseries
Marsha Houk notes a shift in baby care toward practical comfort and cleanliness. The era of dainty muslin and lace has faded as modern mothers prioritize sanitary, wholesome sleep spaces for newborns, viewing previous elaborate dress as perverse taste.
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Hon
Jace
Nursery
Marsha Houk
Woman's Home Companion
Caution on glycerin use for skin and infants
The article warns against applying pure glycerin to skin and especially to infants. Glycerin draws moisture from tissues, causing burning sensations and drying of nerves. It recommends diluting with water or using flower water or rosewater and notes it can be safely applied to tender surfaces when properly diluted.
Women and Discontent Across Life’s Stages
A reflection cites Ella Wheeler Wilcox on gender based discontent noting women resist housekeeping burdens yet regret its comforts, desire travel and prefer mountains or sea, and fear unlearned repose in old age. The piece contrasts constructive male discontent with supposedly destructive female restlessness.
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The accented dinner gown a pricey extravagance
A fragment notes a gown trend described as a costly yet attractive dress item. The text mentions Sachyi powder used, though the passage ends abruptly with a reference to lifting or finishing, leaving the exact context unclear.
The Old Man’s Advantages in Hard Work and Loyalty
The piece argues that men over fifty endure sleep less, work steadier, and bear burdens longer, while youth sprint but cannot stay. Elderly men are less temptable, steadier in morals, more loyal to causes, and possess experience to read character and select agents, as cited from the Washington Times.
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Com Delavior
Washington Times
Why Nebraskans Are Called Bug Eaters
A Nebraska judge explains the origin of the nickname bug eaters. He recalls a speech from 1874 when a grasshopper swarm devastated crops and infrastructure, prompting eastern plea for aid. An orator claimed grasshoppers ate wagon tires and railroad tracks, concluding Nebraskans “have nothing but grasshoppers and bugs.” The story comes from the Washington Post.
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Nebraska
Washington Post
Doctress Anne Pouneberry of Bridgewater Legend
A village tombstone near Bridgewater Somerset memorializes Doctress Anne Pouneberry who died December 11 1813 aged 73. A seventh daughter of a seventh daughter she was famed for healing using herbs and charms including a toad leg powder worn in a bag for king's evil.
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Charchoard
Bridgewater
Somerset
Doctress
Anne Pouneberry
London Chronicle
Oldest known glass artifact hints at ancient dates
Research suggests glass was used 2000 years before Christ with the Slade collection at the British Museum holding a lion head in glass bearing an Egyptian king's name from the eleventh dynasty. The breezing varnish technique on pottery may trace back to the first Egyptian dynasty, evidenced by glazed glass in tomb pottery bends.
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Slade
British Museum
Weeping Tree in Legend and Fact Across Lands
The article surveys the vast lore of weeping trees noting much is mythical yet rooted in real world cases. Travelers described a rain tree on Padradock Isle of Ferro and Joby Cockburn in 1785 described Vera Pas in Central America where water drips from every leaf and branch.
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Padradock
Isle of Ferro
Joby Cockburn
Vera Pas
Central America
Autograph poem sale profits from grief letter
A widow’s grief after a daughter’s death inspires a dealer to display and price an entire poem sent by Thomas Kalley Aldrich. Aldrich mailed the verse from Bable Bell, and soon the autograph shop advertised the piece for sale at a handsome sum.
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Thomas Kalley Aldrich
Neighbor exchange over child music lessons
The neighbor discusses sending the little girl to the conservatory. A woman doubts the ear for music and Mrs Kostique clarifies the phrase. The playful miscue centers on what phrase means to be picked up by ear versus taught.
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Mrs. Kostique
Haehange
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