Hoop Skirt Factory in New York Weighs 12 Ounces Style
The Independent reports Douglass and Sherwood operate a hooped skirt manufactory in New York City employing 550 workers, mostly women and widows, with weekly pay around $2,500. The plant runs 180 sewing machines, producing about 3,000 skirts daily across 50 patterns, including the new Beauty design with steel hoops and extensive hardware, yet the fabric weighs only 12 ounces and folds compactly for travel.
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New York
Douglass & Sherwood’s
Eid Hicks
Tribune
Remarkable 1856 57 Delinquent Tax List for San Bernardino
A lengthy record on file with the State Controller, published by the Union, presents the 1856 and 1857 delinquent tax list for San Bernardino County. Sheriff Joseph Bridger supplied the document in 1858, noting numerous names with remarks indicating why taxes were unpaid, many tied to Mormon relocations to Salt Lake City and related fates.
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Union
San Bernardino County
Joseph Bridger
Salt Lake Zion
Salt Lake
Glory
Zion
Simple sponge pipe cooling boosts comfort and economy
A Manchester Examiner correspondent describes a cheap method to cool a smoking pipe. A small sponge is prepared and wetted, then placed at the pipe stem to keep the bowl in contact with the sponge center. After charging the pipe and filling the sponge with cold water, smoking reportedly saves 25 percent of tobacco and improves flavor.
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The
Manchester Examiner
Spare Moments Teach a Lesson on Time
A lean boy asks to see the principal, is guided through the kitchen to the library, and proves his worth in spare moments. The tale warns that idle periods invite temptation and that improving spare moments can forge a better path, contrasting a diligent youth with others lost to gambling and vice.
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House of Correction
Tippling Shop
Specter of Mexican instability and fair toast in Marysville
The Washington Union denounces Mexico as driftful and weak under recurrent changes, while Marysville editor invites readers to the State Fair praising climate, beauty, and commerce. A U S Navy cost review and merchant concerns about ships follow, noting delivery and funding tensions.
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Mexico
Comonfort
Washington Union
Look Before You Kick and The Unsettled Population
A mixed excerpt highlights a comic tale of a minister nicknamed for sausages in his pocket causing a dog and a punch line at a funeral. It then pivots to moralizing lessons about work and dignity through anecdotes about mechanics, concluding with readers’ correspondence and a critique of mass migration driven by gold rumors in Frazer River. The piece preserves period tone with multiple named items and regional references.
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Rome
Indian
Illinois
Mechanic
Frazer River
Sonora
Young
United States
California
J. C. Young
M. D
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R. W. Russell
Michael Cosgrove
Livery & Sale Stable
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Robert Chambers
Samuel Irvine
Broadway
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Otice
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Vezey
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Murphy's
Havana
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Peg
Justice Garretsee
Derrick
Channel Street
Geo. J. Hobe
UG. Welhe
Washington St
Aces
el Dorado St
Hobe & Weihe
Cigar & Tobacco Warehouse
Globe Foundry
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Steamboat Landing
Keep & Briggs
R. B. Hall
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HH Hewlett
J Sarles
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Vienna
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San Joaquin
Sutter
E. S. Holden
Sign of the Good Samaritan
Main and
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W. Webster
J. M. Waite
Pioneer Hardware & Crockery Store
Webster & Waite
Ppl
J. T. Mills
G. M. Doll
Mills & Doll
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Jenny Lind
Stage
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J. H. Gilmore
Celert
Kris & Ie
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