The Best Cigars and the Cuban Leaf Debate
The piece argues about cigar quality and production in New York and Pennsylvania, contrasts cheap domestic 5 cent cigars with Havana blends, and explains Cuban leaf grading from Vuelta Abajo to Partido. It notes that true Havana cigars depend on careful blending, handling, and wrapper choice, and discusses consumer tastes and misconceptions in the market.
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New York City
Pennsylvania
New York
Cubs
Key West
Tampa
Woll
Havana
Connecticut
Sumatra
Housatonic
Vuelta Abajo
Vegas
Vuelta Abnajo
Partido
United States
Cuba
Vuelta
Europe
Russia
Sir Morell Mackenzie
Eemokes
Wir P. Poxp
Dynamo gas engine lights home cheaper than gas
A newly designed dynamo for gas engines shows greater light output from a given gas amount than direct gas burning. This suggests households within reach of gas could use the system for domestic illumination at lower cost than their current gas usage.
Clover Club Night Flaunts Wit And Poetry
In Philadelphia at the Clover Club a Chinese dinner honored Dr Bedloe now Consul General to Amoy. A Bellevue sub session featured Dan Dawson Frank McLaughlin and others debating spontaneity in writing then reading poems and quips. Dr Bedloe read Lucy's Lovers and Colonel Knox spoke amid ribbing and banter with local journalists and poets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clover Club
Philadelphia
Bedloe
Amoy
China
Bellevue Hotel
Frank MecLaughlin
The
Philadelphia Times
Moses P. Handy
Clovers
Dan Dawson
John S. Grey
Jim Haverin
Quaker City
Haverin
Handy
Frank McLaughlin
Frank
Grey
McLaughlin
Dr. Bedloe
New York
Dr. Bedice
Colonel Knox
New York State
Dawson
Continental
J. Anmoy Exox
Huge Solomon Islands butterfly rediscovered in London Spectator tale
The article describes Mr Woodford in Malaita, Solomon Islands, discovering Ornithoptera Victoria, a nine inch winged butterfly. He captures a specimen while protected by sentries, compares the moment to ancient heroes, and notes two color variants blue with yellow body and velvety black with metallic green. The piece celebrates the butterfly's majesty and forest beauty.
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London Spectator
Malaita
Solomon Group
Victoria
Alexander
Granicus
Hannibal
Canna
Notable Journalist George Sala Marries Typewriter Aide
A famed journalist George Augustus Sala, now married to his type writer, is described as 62 with sharp features and copperplate handwriting. He earns about $10,000 yearly for four editorials weekly at the London Daily Telegraph and is famed as Europe’s best storyteller. In Detroit a woman hanged herself after a quarrel over daily meals, leaving a note about day pot.
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George Augustus Sala
London Daily Telegraph
Europe
T. W. Dewing
Ripley Hitchcock
the Tribune
Hitchcock
Charlee DeKay
Times
Miss Coffee
He Sells by the Pound Detroit Free Press
An exchange outside a shop depicts a man dodging a cloud of dust as he notes that adulterants in groceries are paid for by the public. The grocer defends maple sugar prunes and evaporated apples as not his fault.
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Detroit Free Press
Queen Victoria Suppresses Unpublished Travel Manuscripts
Queen Victoria wrote two travel volumes recounting impressions of European places. She has refused their publication during life due to criticism of her earlier works. The manuscripts will be published after her death, prompting the playful exclamation Oh Queen live forever.
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Queen Victoria
Beer bottle stopper maker cites vast US market
A stopper manufacturer in a patent infringement suit reveals a massive US business, noting about 30 000 toppers in use nationwide. The remark underscores the scale of bottled beer distribution and related patent disputes before the federal court.
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United States
Among the Artists A Chatty View of the Academy Show
A lively column surveys the New York Academy of Design opening crowd. It notes varnishing day private view and reception rituals, portraits of painters and critics, and the social swirl around artists like Parton Gaul Dewing and Freer. It spotlights Mrs Miller, Lemoyne, Stedman, Freer, LeGendre, Carmencita, Innexs, and La Farge among the notable attendees.
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New York
Academy
George Innexs
John la Farge
la Farge
Inness
Portia
Trees That Make Music in West Indies and Nubia
Accounts describe a musical tree with peculiar shaped leaves and pods that whistle when wind passes. In Barbadoes a valley of these trees yields a mournful night wind sound. An acacia in Nubia and Soudan is also called whistle tree, its insect swollen pods acting as wind instruments.
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West Indies
Nubia
Barbidoes
Soudan
Yale Juniors Embrace Peculiar Fence Tab Pranks
A Yale tradition spreads among the juniors as they strip the bottoms of new members shirts and remove tabs bearing initials, which are then displayed on an elm. The practice, observed by all three upper classes, draws amusement and cheers from onlookers.
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Yale
Durfee
Shirt number helps identify drowned Brooklyn man
A drowning victim in Brooklyn was identified by the shirt tag number 100,026. The maker recalled a shirt sold to John Robinson and the Robinson family confirmed the missing man was the deceased, linking the number to his identity.
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Brooklyn
John Robinson
The French Academy Prize on Labor Pessimism
The French Academy offers 4000 francs yearly for poems on a theme it selects. In 1889 the theme was labor. Of 200 entrants none portrayed labor positively, focusing instead on its pains, hardships, drudgery, and miseries, with no mention of benefits or duties.
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French Academy
The Literary Idea of London by Andrew Lang
A portrait of Andrew Lang as London’s leading literary force praised for genius and influence. The description emphasizes his tall spare frame, dark eyes, noble forehead, and delicate health, noting the Oxford drawl and nervous manner.
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London
Andrew Lang
Oxford
The Law of Arrest and Private Citizen Rights
An legal treatise argues law limits arrests to court processes, detailing when warrants are required, what constitutes probable cause, and the duties of magistrates and peace officers. It explains how arrests may occur with or without warrants, rules for private citizens, and the balance between liberty and protection.
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Congress
Arge
Therisoner
Petit Jary
Justice Court
T. J. Frezcenarn
Oldest Fayette resident recalls remarkable feat carries plow a mile
Davis Mosher, nearly 88, recalls lifting an old plow on his shoulders for a mile from John Crane’s near Moose Hill to his home. He also carried two bushels and four quarts of shelled corn along the same route. At age three he did farm chores daily and walked to Perkins to work for Jonathan Pike.
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Davis Mosher
Twelve Corners
Fayette
John Crane
Moose Hill
Perkins Place
Jonathan Pike
New slang Hilton cinch defined as dead sure thing
The Hilton cinch is described as the latest slang for a dead sure thing, replacing the lead pipe cinch once popular after a plumber’s fatal river accident. The piece notes shifting slang and touches on Civil War lore including Confederate uniforms and the song Dixie, with historical debate on secession origins.
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Judge Hilton
Stewart Estates
Virginia
New York
New England
London bureau for diseased diners sparks 13 at table fear
W. H. Mallock has begun a London bureau where men with no evening plans may register as diseased diners. The scheme aims to help hosts who have invited 14 guests but fear an unlucky 13 at table, hoping to fill seats and avoid superstitions.
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W. H. Mallock
London
Stesses
Ayer's Sarsaparilla Promoted As Blood Purifier
In a period advertisement, testimonials claim blood disease and catarrh improve only after completing a thorough course of Ayer's Sarsaparilla. Jesse M. of Holman’s Mills NC and Charles H. Maloney of Riverst Lowell MA describe prior failures with other remedies and credit the product with restoring health.
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Ayer
Wales
Jesse M
Holman’s Mills
N. C
Charles H. Maloney
Riverst
Lowell, Maas
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Major Handy
Dr. Bedley
Lucy
Liberal
Wiil
Ben
Dovar
John
Luke
Tom
Iarana
Dioenn
Forrests
Solomon Talands
Albert Shugg
Mauch Chunk
Queen Victorianne
Arthur Parton
Gilbert Gaul
MARX
van Cleve
Herald
Charlotte Adams
Bloomingdale Asylum
F. D. Miller
W. H. Lippincott
Browning
Lippincott
East Gallery
E. C. Stedman
Frederick Freer
Freer
Tenth Street
Hetake
Chicago
Chase
W. C. LeGendre
le Gendre
Carmencita
Sargent
New York Ledger
New York Sun
New York Times
the Posts and
St. Louis Republic
Dr. J. C. Ayer & Co
Lowell
Mass
S- Health P
Seueinen Sea
Spee
Tvith
Tabure
P.O
Scott's
Scott
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