The Dead Novelist Wilkie Collins Remembered
A memoir of Wilkie Collins from an interview with the author at Gloucester Place and later at Wimpole Street. The piece covers his appearance and manner, views on critics, friendships, writing process, battles with laudanum, and the dying years, ending with his funeral and legacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wilkie Collins
Rosetti
Regent’s Park
Collins
Ewily
Gloucester Place
Garibaldi
Les
Loth
Enid Anaeies
Ray Little
Wimpole Street
Holman Hust
Mr. Watt
Chatto
Tates
Quilter
Besant
Beard
Willesden Junction
London
The Leather Trade From South American Hides to Kangaroo Skin
The article surveys global leather markets from South American and Mexican hides to kangaroo skins. It details sources of hides, import trends, and the leathermaking process from soaking and liming to tanning with oak or hemlock bark, plus new methods like electric tanning. It notes New Orleans as a key trading hub, discusses calf and kip leather, and explains finish and uses for various skins while highlighting supply and price dynamics.
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Lesther
New York
Texas
New Mexico
Mexico
South America
Buenos Ayres
New Orleans
North America
New York City
Philadelphia
Boston
Kipskin
France
London
Calcutta
Kid
Morocco
Europe
Brazil
Curacon
I Enaia
Leather lore and secret dyes from Russia to piano leather
A historical note traces Russia leather and its scent secret, the import costs, and a minister's access to factory methods. It discusses dyeing leather, alligator usage, and American zebra calf patterns, plus the value of piano leather and deer skin in Germany. It ends with reflections on leather as a lasting essential.
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Russia
Onc
Germany
Michigan
M. C. Williams
Haunted soul and Rhine dream fade into legends
A weary soul recalls a dream of a wild second past while autumn airs glide over the Rhine. A radiant figure on a rock with golden hair captivates a youth, foretelling doom as a singer’s lure leaves the speaker in gloom. A final image hints at fashion’s latest toilettes and powder on Fifth Avenue.
A Cheap Disinfectant Frankincense in Catholic Homes
Reverend Father Shea writes in the Globe-Democrat praising frankincense as a cheap effective deodorizer for homes. He notes its strong penetrating aroma and insect-preserving properties, dismisses myths of church patents or prohibition, and suggests daily use to keep houses fresh.
Somnambula and the Westside Bed Mystery
Humorous clippings describe a somnambulist girl on the Chicago Westside found asleep in the cellar coat after waking search, and a bee stinging a horse in Harmony. The items keep a playful, tabloid tone with odd anecdotes and light banter.
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Chicago Herald
Westside
Autumn Prairies In Amber Seas Of The Plain
A lyrical meditation on autumn prairies with amber seas of grass, clouded skies, and vivid floral details. The scene blends mystic imagery of Hesperian seas, wind flowers, golden rod, and wild asters with shifting light.
Clara Belles Chat on New York Soda Cashiers Craze
A humorous profile of New York soda water parlors around City Hall Square highlighting the stylish charm and social power of lady cashiers. The piece contrasts their poised presence with diffident male patrons and notes a rising craze for gray hair as mere fashion, with wigs and artificial colormerchandise discussed.
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Europe
Paris
New York
City Hall Square
Sixth Avenue
Upper Broadway
Classroom Blunders from a Maine Teacher’s Pupils
A Lewiston Journal note collects humorous classroom errors from pupil exercises. Mistakes include misused verbs, incorrect Greece examples, oddly worded biology lines, and faulty history statements showing gaps in grammar and world knowledge.
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Maine
Lewiston
Lance
Greece
Battle of
Monte Cristo
Sloth
Lincoln
Dudley
Belle
Franklin Pierce
Daniel Webster
Anderson
Mexico
Sarah
United States
Wig market values a woman's hair in El
A wig maker displays bundles of hair in various colors and lengths, noting that a full head of hair can fetch three to ten dollars per bundle and that most women would not earn enough to cover a wig or even a plain switch. The piece argues women should not cut hair unless they have rare white hair.
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Wilkie Collins
Collins
Dickens
Reade
Lytton
Hautz
Matthew Arnold
America
Washington
Joseph A. MacDonald
Indiana
PNC
Elle
Old Lady Partington Inevitable News Book Drop
Boston writer B P Shillaber recalls Mrs Partington and the origins of the famed character. He says a book about her will not be published due to publisher profit pressures. The tale recounts breadstuffs jokes that popularized the old lady in 1947 and a Tennessee eating house debate about her being a real woman.
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Wilkie
Woman In White
All England
Fosco
Collins
Lord Lytton
Dickens
Farmer
Broadstairs
Clif
Kingsgate
Bleak House
North Foreland
London
Wilkie Collins
Mrs. Partington
New England
Ike
Mr. Shillaker
Tennessee
Hog incident and sword anecdote amid Chantilly battle
During a Chantilly advance a captain swaggered with a sword provoking battle lane tension. A hog charged, knocked him down, while soldiers shouted “Shell be burned” and rallied with “Fire at will.” Judge Jones later boasted of drawing a sword in a raffle years ago.
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Chantilly
Conti
Judge Jones
Atest
Man and Leaves Fall Like Time in a Quiet Verse
Fragmentary poem compares human life to falling leaves and changing seasons. The speaker notes life’s brief spark and eventual return to earth, describing mortality as part of a cyclical, indifferent nature.
Fragmentary OCR Note With Erratic Words
The readable text shows garbled phrases and scattered names such as Zoe and Sean amid unclear references. No coherent event or identifiable actions emerge, making it impossible to determine a factual news item or outcome from the fragment.
Fragmentary OCR hints at a personal conflict or plan
Readable phrases suggest unknown subjects consider yielding or backing away from a confrontation. No clear dates, places, or explicit actions emerge, though the tone implies a withheld decision or pressure within a dispute.
Fragmentary item hints at political symbolism and figures
The readable lines reference a gift to Uncle and a debate over color symbolism in a political context. Mentions of Columbia, labor, Democrats, and a figure named Jack surface in a fragmentary, era voice. The text lacks clear events or dates.
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Columbia
Unclear OCR note on letters and a lectern
Fragmentary OCR from a LA letter page describes items including a letter and a lectern and mentions a unit cut with scissors. Details are garbled with stray characters and incomplete phrases.
Unclear Text fragment from historical page
The provided OCR fragment mentions names and phrases but lacks a coherent event or context. It reads as a jumble of names such as Whittier and Meats with scattered words and dates, offering no clear report or outcome to summarize.
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Hall Caine
Dispatch
Tom
Masons of
Christendom
Wimpole
Dante Rosetti
Talker
Deaily
Wilkie Colsius
Ana
Dumas
Victor Hugo
Three Musketeers
Scott
Cain
Rae
SO Paith
Ilkie
de Quincy
Bulwer Lytton
Edmond Yates
Gad’s Hill
Surley Song
Heine
Rhine
Garmen
Anon
Tiim Boer
Bestman
Roth
E. Roth
Times
Fifth Avenue
Father Shea
Globe-Democrat
Chicago
Lewiston Journal
Harmony
Gray
Smoky Hills
Clara Belle
Dence
Indy
Eashdea Vane
MES, Partington and
IRB
San
E.R Chaprovan
E. J. Abadbesr
Dewan
Teen Earth
Pani Ten Fraser
Ry Tate
Sean
Zoe
W. Witscy
Houe Glass
Tis
Comedrum
Tim
Jack Nothing Loth
Patel
Weet
Feaux
Secod
Abswees
Whittier
Wittier
Pope
Pop
Akin
Ray
God Save the King
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