How Sugar is Refined From Dirt to Pure Ice Sugar
A lurid unfiltered account describes the refining process of Cuban sugar at the Williamsburg docks. It depicts dirt, hogsheads, and bilge water as feedstock for vats, lime and bullock blood as clarifiers, bone black filtration, and open vacuum boiling to produce nearly pure sugar. The piece contrasts white granulated sugar as cheaper and purer than brown sugar and lists types of sugar and their relative sweetness, concluding with editorial asides on the nature of newspaper item selection.
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Williamsburg
Cuba
Crystal Spring
Perkins
Europe
New York Graphic
The Art of News Collation in 19th Century Papers
A reflective critique explains how newspapers compress worldwide news into brief items. It notes editors select "good" items, balancing scissors work with imagination and judgment to publish concise, attention grabbing summaries for readers.
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Philadelphia
Indus
Frost’s influence makes soil richer and crops surer
The frost deep in the ground acts as a natural plow and mixer. It loosens soil, frees plant food, and counters rain and animal compression. Heavy fall plowing plus fertilizers aid soil with frost and water, boosting spring growth. Severe winters in temperate zones correlate with prolific soils and reliable crops.
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Sas
Gentle Grooming Rules for Safe Horse Handling
The author emphasizes careful handling of sensitive horse areas during training, arguing against rough teasing and excessive currycomb use. Proper hygiene, dry bedding, and regular rubdowns with a rubber glove calm horses, reduce kicking and biting, and enforce calm language and consistent signals between handler and horse.
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Fiat
Cor
N. H. Farmer
Times Changed Servant to Master in Housekeeping Tales
A housekeeper advertising for a cook explains that bias and friction over race and class complicate hiring. A cook demands a subordinate helper. a colored waiter refuses to light the furnace for fear of changing his routine. The piece laments shifting servant roles, noting frequent job changes, rigid meal times, and the universal burden of household chores.
Hen and Johnny: odd tricks lure hens and meals
A humorous Eli Perkins tale from New York features a crafty boy named Johnny who uses kernels of corn and a fish line to lure hens for dinner. He feeds cacklers powdered bones and even aids a physician by scavenging medicated eggs while a German chemist notes mustard oil prevents ink molding and starch souring.
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Central Park
Johnny
Hye
Egzackly
Eli Perkins
New York Graphic
Orchestral Romance Shapes a Boston Union
An English girl travels to Boston as a health aid for a voyage home, falls for a renowned New York musician Mr. Koppitz in a letter box encounter, becomes his fiancée, and finally marries after his promise to escort her to England. The tale, told by a Springfield Union correspondent, ends with reports of the couple sailing home as a happily united pair. Umbrellas enter London life with Jonas Hanway, who popularized their use after carrying one for thirty years until his death in 1786.
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England
Boston
Europe
Koppitz
Thomas Orchestra
New York
Atlantic
Springfield Union
Cunard
Jonas Hanway
London
Mental Projection and Illusion in Historical Insight
The text describes volitional hallucinations from mental projection of external impressions. It cites a painter who produced many portraits by projecting sitters, later losing touch with reality and entering an asylum. Actor Talma similarly projected skeletal forms before performances, rendering them as real to him.
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Wigan
Joshua Reynolds
Anita
Talma
Pears
Igan
Alma
Popular Science Review
Antiquity of Umbrellas Across Civilizations
Dr. Monnison notes umbrellas and parasols appear in China over 1,500 years ago and Layard records a king in Mineveh with an umbrella bearer. In India and Burma royal use is marked by large umbrellas and royal titles. the Chinese emperor reportedly travels with twenty four umbrellas. The device serves rain defense and status across cultures, with early English references from Cambridge hinting at use in the early eighteenth century.
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Monnison
China
Layard
Mineveh
India
Armah
England
Cambridge
Marriage and Work for Women in Galaxy Discussion
A discussion on women workers in Galaxy argues marriage adds burdens and that women should seek employment to gain independence. It warns against romanticized marriage, urging practical labor to steady minds, with emphasis on independence, financial security, and purposeful activity over domestic ideals.
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Hymien
Sahara
Avery
Atolus
Port of Peace
Drowning tale from Dixon river rescue and Hoffman’s ordeal
Dr Hoffman survived a drowning ordeal after the Dixon bridge collapse. He describes conscious underwater traversal, buoyed by a strange peace as memories flashed before him. Rescued and revived at home, he suffered vomiting and thirst, later aided by vinegar water. Mrs Hoffman’s body was found about three hours after the span fell.
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Dixon
Hoffman
Jie
Mr. Pratt
The Wet Blanket Within The Home: A Cautionary Tale
Olive Thorne in Hearth and Home laments the dampening effect of the wet blanket in households. Affects children and spouses, crippling ambition, provoking ruinous outcomes, and passing a discouraged infection to future generations, with warnings from philosophy and history.
Air and odors expose a idle homes and moral collapse
A Country Gentleman essay criticizes shut up rooms where doors stay closed through seasons, linking stale smells of cabbage and cooked meats to unclean living. It urges airing, opens with guidance on freshening and notes how fashion and health depend on ventilation. It also includes recipes for horse health and wall finishing.
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Mir
Various Household Tips and Remedies from an Old Page
A compilation of practical advice including poultry care with charcoal treatment, skin whitening using lemon and glycerine, lead pipe safety by flushing water, onion water for picture frames, a tobacco development caution, lemon coconut candy recipe, rust prevention for stove pipes with oil, a Farina de Cologne recipe, grease removal with potter’s clay, water-proofing tweed via sugar and alum, an insurance agency anecdote, and a pain killer advertisement.
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Castile
Faria Eau Pe
Arthur's
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Ross
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Hume
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Ilinois
New York Life Insurance Company
Broadway
Sanfords
Nostetter
Perry Davis’ Paine-Eliller
Tiesty
J. Ne Uwarris & CO
Cincinnati
R. Wilson Carr
Baltimore
T.C. Pugh
Ev. Dabney Ball
M. E. Conference South
Clements & CO
Commerce St
Mid
Pierco
Phoryo
Jeravo, N.Y
Heytt
cHueyen
D. Ransom, Sow & Co
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Buffalo
N. 1
J. R. Miller
D.ransom &Goo
Ottle
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Schence
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Chanles
DR. Whittier
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Maclean, Stoddard & Co
Chicago
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Colorado
Pearre
Tlatehond
Pampulet
David
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New
J.W. Chapman & GO
Madison
Ind
Addieas D. G. Cutler
Carthage
Sinvis
Cisat
Cnanrnrs
GT. Louis
Smaphier
Callour Walle
Welch & Griffiths
ABE Nts
Hosten
Muse
Detroit
U.S
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Market Street
Harrisburg
Farenenilent &Oek
Diow
Coli
Childaes
Lci
Vail
Kearney Junction
Bulle Co
Bowman & Mathews
Third Street
St. Louis
York
G. Stinson & Ga
Portland
Malac
Jones Com’ and Telegraph College
Fifth and Olive Streets
Jonathan Jones
John W. Johnson
BLAIR & + Bt
Lanis, Mo
Sewing Machine Co
N.Y
Quicksand
Inesa
M. Spencer
Hanover'st
Great Atlantic, and Pacific Tea Co
Fulton St
Church St
Vox
UAKEN
Iron Worp Puruishing Co
Drewms
Campies
Canden
Pitrsnundt
aAddress Prrtspuren Enterprise
Pittaburgh
A. B. Earley
J. Earle
Maes
Leena
Aer Association
J.B. Houdrion
South Ninth
Yetness Legitimate
Particu
Lars Frea
Je Worth
St. Louie, Mo
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