Whitman’s Life and Drafts of Early Career Explored
The text recounts Walt Whitman’s youth and early journalism days from age eleven, detailing work on the Mirror and Islander in Huntington, his moves to New York papers, and edits at the Brooklyn Eagle and Crescent. It notes wartime shifts, journalistic ventures, and friendships altered by Leaves of Grass.
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Walt Whitman
Whitman
Brooklyn
Mirror
Huntington
Long Island
N. Y
Suffolk Counties
Thoro
New York
Aurora Daily
New York City
Alec
The
Tattler
Brooklyn Eagle
Thoee Times
the Radicals
Pearl Street
Orleans
Jourey and Louisiane
the Crescent
the Freeman
Lvers
Washington
Armory Square
Colorado
New US coin designs approved for dimes quarters and half dollars
The Mint director has finalized designs for the next issue of dimes quarters and fifty cent pieces. The designs depart from all prior US coins and were selected from over 900 drawings featuring a colon on the obverse and a symbolic reverse. A new wax based die making process uses a red wax model formed with detail by hand and then finished with nails and tools before the machine produces reduced dies for stamping.
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Mint
United States
Cain
Remembering James Russell Lowell in a Cozy Evening
The fragment recalls A G Youngman and Lancaster Gazette mentions and then shifts to Roscoe Conkling and Senator Whyte satire. It depicts late 19th century literary scenes with Lowell in his library, a wood fire, a pipe, and casual talks ranging from politics to literature.
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Roscoe Conkling
Thurman
Whyte
Maryland
Conkling
Napoleon
de Party
Springboard to Europe by New Ocean Route to Riviera
A new transatlantic service by North German Lloyd links New York to Genoa with landings on the Riviera in eleven days. The feature discusses social craze, travel comforts, and the line promising quicker winter health resort access from New York to France and Italy, plus potential trips to Morocco Algeria or Egypt.
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New York
Mediterranean
Lloyd Steamship Company
Newao
Genoa
Calle
Riviera
Manhattan
Fulda
Bailly Islands
London
Purgatory
Dover
Calais
Paris
Papa
Standard Oil
Europe
France
Italy
St. Raphael
San Remo
Morocco
Algeria
Egypt
Atlantic
Proverbial Pearls and Puns From a Texas Siftings Page
A collage of quips and witticisms on luck, honesty, marriage, and education. Notable items note that time saves nine, fortunes favor the bold, and a revival of cotton speculation is promised by experts. Harvard reports 2613 students this year, up 261 from last year.
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Harvard University
New Lakes of Mars Hint at Planetary Change
A nineteenth century note from Youth's Companion suggests a newly formed Earth lake could illuminate Martian history. It references Schiaparelli naming a Martian region Lybla and notes color changes on Mars akin to water-filled areas, proposing a lake on Mars as a parallel phenomenon.
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California
Mars
Lybla
Schiaparelli
Earth
Ways of Grinding Wheat Across Ages
A Harper's Young People excerpt recalls how sailors ground wheat aboard old whaling ships using a round bottomed pot hung in the ship’s ravine and rolled by the motion of the vessel. It contrasts primitive grain pounding with modern patents, noting the mortar and pestle as enduring tools across eras.
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Abraham
Harper
Practising Song for a Good Little Girl
A playful verse on music practice and rhythm notes. The singer ridicules and embraces drills like the sixteenth and thirty-second notes while jokes about scales and drills, ending with a drum cadence praising practice.
Rumor of Hopkins Millions and Searles Inheritance
The passage discusses a rumor about widower Searles and Timothy Hopkins, suggesting Searles would surrender eight to ten of the Hopkins millions while keeping fifteen to twenty million for himself. It implies such arrangements would be sensible if true and comments on the allure of vast income.
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Searles
Timothy Hopkins
Hopkins
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United Tea and Coffee Growers Tion
Otkeee
Aeletion
Endle
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Lancaster Gaxetts
Orillia Patriot
Mr. ‘ Lovell
Mr. Lowell
Scribner’s
Porte
Evans
Texas
Joel BR. Briast
West Fifth Street
Joel BR
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W.K Cddington
Amos Morrett
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C. A. Brown
American Steam Laundry
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H. W- Marshall
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Plainfield
Messrs. Haffner and McVey
Rogers Bros
Plairfield
N. J
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Mulford Estil
Park Avenue
New Jersey
Plainfield Avenue
Penannanng
M.E. Marvin
JOHN N/SCHENCK
Manning Ave
Plainfield, N. J
C. M. Ulrich
Ubea
West Front Street
Jacot
Elkwood Cafe
J.B. Miller
Hallock & Davis
Plainfield Produce. CO
Ratitan Mills Feed and Meal
North
R. J. Shaw
Front Street
Brown & Sharp
Sear Sharett
Pierson
Coal & Wood
E. Ae Holmes
Lehigh Coal
North Eer
Overstyr
Ping. A. M. Griffen
East Front ST
Heth.lvr
O. M. Dunham’s
F. Wu
Somerville
Easton Halls
Trenton
Philadelphia
Malia
U. Mall
BR. Pope, P.M
A. D. Cook & Bro
Lehigh
Carload
John Johnston
South Avene
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