Palm leaf fans and cool wards keep hospitals in Pittsburg
In a Homeopathic Hospital on Second Avenue, palm leaf fans are praised as comforting tools in hot weather. The article explains ventilating wards with high ceilings and a central air chamber fed by ducts, plus window vents and a large brick smokestack. It notes cooling from closed windows and an underground air system, with temperatures guiding prognosis and care across diseases, praising Pittsburg and Allegheny hospitals for ventilation.
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Homeopathic Hospital
Second Avenue
Sia Black
Slack
Homeopathic
Ventilation Core to Hospital Health in Summer
A hospital superintendent emphasizes the paramount role of good ventilation in large wards, detailing the building's cooling and air exchange system adapted from London hospitals, and noting how temperature fluctuations guide care while foul air removal and fresh air introduction affect patient comfort and recovery.
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Eny
London
Athletic ghosts revive sport with stone throwing at Piddock house
The New York Herald notes a ghostly athletic revival after years of literature and table tipping. Ghosts have begun throwing stones at Mr. Piddock's mark in Clapham, hitting drawing room windows and aiming for smaller targets as skills grow. The writer favors this ghostly athletic trend over past activities.
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Paria
New York Herald
Mark
Mr. Piddock
Clapham
Expanding the Brain
A Paris edition reports a surgeon’s claim of expanding a small brain by removing skull to enlarge intellect. The tale describes an idiotic child’s head and a transformed intelligence, alleging brain size governs minds and promising broader utility and fame for the discoverer.
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Paris
New York Herald
Gene Boulanger
West Shore Lady Newspaper Artist Featured in France
Rose Maury, a prominent illustrator for five Parisian journals, serves as a station master in France. Sir of M. Durity, Minister of Talon, happened to see the scene as Maury managed the station bowse, a moment amid railway activity.
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West Shore
Rose Maury
France
M. Durity
Talon
Bowse
Arthur and Teller Cabinet Tale From 1882
Washington dispatch recalls the Colorado Senate race and Teller's forced cabinet appointment under President Arthur after a tense, drawn out negotiation. Don Cameron urged acceptance, Chaffee discussed, and the piece highlights Teller's reluctant entry, the White House talks, and the era's political pressure. It also profiles David Harpster the Ohio sheep farmer and notes Evarts as a noted gourmet among Washington figures.
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Dispatch
Washington
Colorado United States
Senator Teller
Tabor
New York
Holland
Teller
Denver
Central City
Colorado
Senate
N. P. Hill
Hill
Arthur
Interior
John A. Logan
Don Cameron
Logan
Eix
Chaffee
Dannes
Chaffee ii
Phillips
White House
Mr. Chaffee
Senator Chaffee
Secretary of the Interior
Cameron
Senator Cameron
Alley
Texas
Harpster
Asid Alley
Aig
Exas
David Harpster
Ohio
Senator Evarts
Philetus Sawyer
Evarts
Frank G. Carpenter
Water Ousel Nesting Habits In Mountain Streams
An observer describes the water ouzel as a dark blue bird living on mountain streams. They nest behind waterfalls or under overhangs and routinely dive into water to feed on periwinkles. Nest with two eggs can be valued at 25 dollars. They are rarely seen, with solitary birds often mistaken for elusive wildlife.
Inside the Postal Car A Nightly Labor of the Railway Mail Service
The dispatch correspondence reveals the heavy mental and physical strain on railway mail clerks in the New York division. Probationary workers memorize routes, read 100 envelopes daily, and endure relentless shifts from city routes to Pittsburg. After night work, they sleep in a shared dormitory above a hotel, paying 15 cents for a bed and enjoying quiet, dark rooms to restore before dawn duties.
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Dispatch
New York
Park Row
Broadway
Fulton Street
Post Office
Washington
New York Post Office
Postal
Pennsylvania
Pittsary
Pittsburg
Ange
Railway Mail Service
Heiress Florence Blythe Inherits Blythe Estate
Florence Blythe, now to receive the four million dollar estate of the late Thomas H. Blythe, is described as a handsome heiress with substantial gold and social appeal. Her position as heir and wealth may attract high status suitors from abroad.
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Florence Blythe
Thomas H. Blythe
Bite of the Mosquito
The article discusses irritation from a mosquito bite and the secret of its saliva. Prof Macloskie cites droplets of oily fluid from the hypopharynx as key. Mrs Anron notes that a female mosquito finishing a full meal and flying away reduces the poison effect, while interrupted feeding causes itching.
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New York
Tayn
Macloskie
Baron Rothschild Buys Louis XVI Clock Jewelers Weekly
Baron Alphonse Rothschild recently acquired a clock made by the royal and ill fated Louis XVI, noting it with his Bonds. The piece is described as not particularly beautiful despite its remarkable pride, valued at $168.
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Jewelers
Baron Alphonse Rothschild
Louis XVI
Pettin
The Laughing Creole Voyage Aboard A Stormbound Brig
In 1840 I sailed on the Laughing Creole to Kingston Jamaica to visit an uncle who might name me his heir. Captain Larkins and Only Mate Wharrier command, with a heavy crew and a dark foreboding squall. A tropic storm erupts, the sea tightens, and the ship is engulfed in a suffocating blackout as lightning rends the sky.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Antilles
South Shields
Larkins
Aharrier
Tropics
Jack
The Cyclone Strikes a Clipper Brig in Tropic Waters
In the tropics a clipper brig named under Captain Larkins endures a sudden cyclone. Lightning rips the foremast and spars, masts are torn away, crew scatters, and Old Wharrier and Captain Larkins struggle to manage the crisis as the hurricane looms.
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Captain Larkins
Asherao
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John Alder
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Florida
Union
Senator Sherman
John B. Alley
Massachusetts
Credit Mobilier
Postal Clerk Requirements
O. D. Turner
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Baron Rothschild
Artileo
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