Extravagant Boston Wife Sparks Social Scandals and Oddities
A Boston merchant endures his wife's lavish lifestyle with wine suppers costing two thousand dollars weekly. The item highlights fashion trends like reintroduced ruffs, journalism as profit, a reporter's windfall, tunnel progress near Comstock, a wedding cake feat, and varied curiosities from New York to India, including missionary efforts in Maine and a famine alert in Bengal.
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Boston
Suiro
Comstock
Virginia
Nevada
American Institute
New York
Washington
Surene
Wancock County
Maine
Nwuar Arcadia
Mr. Bynam
St.elena
Napoleon Bonaparte
Pain
San Francisco
Parepa- Rosi
Parena- Rosa
Wile Miss Raterp
Lommy
Mamma
Jimmy Brown
Tommy
England
Excerus
Dublin
Shelburne Jotel
Opera House
Tim United States Circuit Court
Indianapolis
Indianapolis and
St. Louis
Henry Hersh
Russia
Seraphinus
Seraphinovski
Parchov
Ordher
Seraphnus
Bengal
United States
Texas
Taying
Beneal Presidency
Multiplying by Five and the Hidden Cipher Rule
A historical note on multiplying numbers by five, adding a cipher when no remainder and annexing five when there is a remainder. It cites figures like 464 and 357, then references Babbage, Laplace, Newton, and Leverrier as pushing beyond what figures could reach in future science.
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Jupiter
Phere
Babbage
Laplace
Sir Isaac Newton
Leverier
New Market
Messrs. Perry
Davis
O. P. Snyder
Time and Experience Shape Virtue Through Regret and Growth
The passage argues that repeated misdeeds lose sweetness and become costly, while time dulls passions and sharpens judgment. It notes that sympathy and virtue arise as we weigh harms, learn from sin, and prefer long term well being over worldly advancement, with time preserving the body as the ultimate influence.
Fragmented quotation on time and moral influence
A fragment reflecting on Time and its effect on character and intelligence as it softens humanity and erodes grandeur, comparing decay to beauty in ruins and the fading of places and temples into the picturesque. The excerpt cites Giieg's Literary of Social Judgments as the source.
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Giieg
The Caliph and the Vizier Seek One Happy Woman
A tale set in Bagdad with Caliph and Grand Vizier clashing over finding a single happy woman. The search spans a water carrier, a rich banker’s wife, a newlywed, and a peasant woman, all yielding unhappy verdicts until the Caliph reveals his own wife is happy at home, confirming the Vizier’s failure.
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Bagdad Police
al Rashid
Sultana
Sam
Palace
Bagdad
Bross
Ioa
Rashid
The
St. Louis Globe
Hog Pens and Barn Design for Better Pork Production
A farm guidance piece argues clean, roomy pig pens with seven foot clearances, dry floors, and good absorbents improve swine health and profit. It stresses separating pens from yards, proper manure management, and the value of well built commodious housing for fattening hogs.
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Ohio Farmen
Breeding for Beef at the Iowa Agricultural College
A Homestead article by a faculty member argues for improved cattle stock to convert corn into beef efficiently. It criticizes native steers for excessive offal, thin market cuts, and slow, wasteful growth, and advocates selective breeding to shorten time to maturity and boost meat yield.
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Iowa Agricultural College
Jayson
Beet as Potato Substitute Emerges in Scarce Harvest
The article notes a potato famine in autumn with rising prices and scarce supply. It compares substitutes, highlighting the sugar beet as the best vegetable replacement, detailing its nutritional balance and cooking methods, and contrasts it with carrot parsnip turnip maize and rice. It cites export data and regional price trends in New York Philadelphia and Chicago.
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United States
New York
Philadelphia
St. Louis
Northwest
Minnesota
Lide
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Cnough
Chicago
No Man Independent Who Owes Money
A commentary on the cash system of business during the monetary crisis. It notes many formerly wealthy individuals now owe overdue sums and questions how or when they can pay, leaving the outcome to future events.
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Vapa
Joan HN
Mitre
Chicase
SUN
Indies
Vinecar Brrers Promised To Restore Vitality
An ad touts Vinecar Brirers as a family medicine from a Scotch physician’s aphorism. It claims to cure lazy liver, improve digestion and appetite, purify blood, and energize the patient like a walking electrical battery. The inventor is praised as a philosopher and benefactor.
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TIM Press
New Yorker
Vinecar Brirers
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