Place Women of the Crescent City
The article describes New Orleans place women or quadroons and octoroons, their history as offspring of unions between free women of color and white men, the social ballings that link mothers to wealth, and the secrecy and strict etiquette surrounding these relationships. It notes the social and legal complexities, the wealth of families involved, and the fading status of these arrangements.
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New Orleans
South
France
Spain
Abraham Lincoln
Europe
Maglland
Rann
Holland
Germany
America
Rendera
Niin
Ursuline
Eir
Froedness
Louisiana
Rome
Naples
Venice
Sue
Adan
Waent
Salle
Emra
Neste
Monsieur XII
Papa
Dumases
Maries
Macartes
Eltigens
New Orleange
John Clay
Ashland
Harry
West
Henry Clay
Lexington
Delacroix
Canal Bank
Custom House
John Sherman
W. D. Kelley
Garfield
Stanley Matthews
RE. V. Smalley
Barn painted with ads teaches reading for free
A Kansas farmer had his barn painted by a Chicago syndicate at no cost. The bright yellow barn displayed large red green and blue ads for patent medicine Chenw ing tobacco shoes soap hams and more. The painter claimed readers would learn to read from the signs, seen as cheap education in hard times.
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Chicago
Edinburgh minister's sermon sparks churchyard joke
An Edinburgh minister preached at a country church and an elder overheard an old woman praising the sermon while joking that Sodom and Gomorrah were not man and wife. The parson repeated the anecdote at a dinner party, prompting a witty remark from a young woman.
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Edinburgh
Sodom
Gomorrah
Witty Exchange Sparks Judicial Snub
A sharp courtroom quip centers on a line about knowing a wife. The judge retorts with a dry jab about not sharing that pleasure, highlighting courtroom wit and social tension in a brief exchange.
The Fog's Dumb Army Up the Canyon Foes
A vivid, nature driven poem contrasts fog as a marching army sweeping through forests and canyons. The speaker uses vivid imagery of pine, fir, redwood and misty battalions to dramatize a night battle against the invading fog. The Lark signs the piece.
Forthcoming Books From Chicago Record Preview Season
The Chicago Record surveys advance publisher lists for fall and early winter, noting large outputs despite election uncertainty. Hugo, Brontes, Stevenson, and Dickinson feature, with dozens of novels, poetry volumes, histories, biographies, and art books planned by major and smaller houses.
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Victor Hugo
Paul Meurlee
Choment K. Shorter
the Brontes
RK. L. Stevenson
Austin Dobson
Gouwin Smith
Frederic Harrison
W. D. Howells
Warner
Woodrow Wilson
George Burnebury
Ten Hrink
France
George Pelllesier
Benjamin W. Wells
Spain
H. C. Chatfield-Taylor
Philip Gilbert Hamerton
Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Mary Cowden Clarke
Tales and anecdotes from late 19th century curiosities
A collection of short vignettes and quotations. Senator Arlee fiddles with eyeglass strings during sessions. A jail visit reveals a warden’s witty banter about his wife and daughters. A writer recalls Edith Wharton and a realist’s insight on falling. Charles of Württemberg jokes about a portrait. Sir Astley Cooper recounts a surgical tally with a humorous take on outcomes.
The Northwest and Northland Steamship Line Ad
The Northwest and Northland steamship names the Ideal American line leaving Buffalo on Thursdays and Fridays for Cleveland Detroit Mackinac and Duluth with daylight stops. It touts direct routes with the Great Northern Railway and mentions the Luffet library observation car and a Portland via Spokane passage.
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American
TRI Northern Steamship Company
Northwest
Northland
Buffalo
Cleveland
Detroit
Mackinac
Ie Boo
Duluth
Estern
Great Northern Railway
Minnealis
Paul
Grest Falls
Velens
Futte
Spokane
Lins
Mansfield State Normal School Admits Women Students
Mansfield State Normal School offers three courses plus preparatory work with emphasis on college preparation. Thirty graduates pursue further studies this year while sixteen teachers support arts, music, and physical training. Facilities include gymnasium, grounds, and nurse with an annual cost around 148 dollars. Fall term August 2, winter term December 2, spring term March 16. Catalogue from S. H. Albro, Principal, Mansfield Pa.
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Mansfield State Normal School
Specia
Adel School
Perearth
S. H. Albro
Mansfield Pa
Two Gases Cited Prove Rheumatism Yields to Right Treatment
From the Argus Vernon Michigan. John Q Davids of Vernon credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing his long standing rheumatism after years of pain and failed remedies. He describes severe attacks from 1869 to 1893 and says he now enjoys health and mobility. A second testimony from Frank Westcott JP and local druggists confirms the cure and promotes Pink Pills as effective for rheumatism and nervous weakness.
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Argus
Vernon
Michigan
John Q. Davids
Davids
Shiawassee County
Bay City
Williams
de Hart Brothers
Methodist
Belen Church
State OF Michigan
Sintawassee
Shinswamee
J.Q. Davids
Frank Westcott
Justice of the Peace
Miraculous Cure Reported Near Utica Mississippi
A Duke resident, C. L. Farris of Utica area in Hinds County, Mississippi, is said to have been cured of a rheumatic condition lasting over thirty years. A Memphis newspaper team visited Duke to verify the extraordinary relief reported by the community.
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Memphis
Tenn
Hinds County
Miss
Utica
C. L. Farris
Duke
Farris
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Chicago Record
Rudyard Kipling
Thomaus Bailey Aldrich
Emily Dickinson
Brander Matthews
Celia Thaxter
Laat Wwe
Metithon
Mra. Humphry Ward
Sir George Treasady
Klenry James
Tommy
Margaret Oulley
JM. Bag.rit
Marion Crawford
Henrik Slenkiewi
Bt Crockett
Gray Man
Paul Bours Ket
Tan Muehireen
Prank KR
Stockton
Captain Harm
Chandler Harris
Slater
Nieratore
Focal Color
George Ade
Lk, Wriedman
Robert Tait Stevenson
South Seas
United States of America
A. P. Tverskoy
Bryce
South Africa
James Bryce
Iver Schreiner
Miss Kingsley
Goldwin Smith
Engh
Friedrich Rutzel
W. HW
Aubrey
Theo
Genjamin Andrews
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Martin A
Hume
James Schouler
Reuben Gold Thwaites
Henry and
Thompson
Northwest Companys
Lilent Coues
Inez
Curtis
Ty. Crestus Tsountas
L. Godin
Wiliam Hirsch
Moreivnd Lowell
Annals of Lowell Observatory
Huskin
Vasari
Be, HH
W, Mlashfield
A. A. Hopkins
Richard Mither
Profeveor Dohy CL Ven Dyke
Hotticcelli
Herr B. Lippman
Michael Angelo
Eens Architecture
Russell Sur Bla
Thoreau
Cape Cod
Constantinople
John Fiske
Triity
Bracebridge Hall
Alhambri
Phil May
Charles Data Gibson
Kemble
Carlyle
Hy, DL Trail
Marriet Heecher Stowe
Dret Harte
J. M. Barrie
Lowell
George Meredith
Hurna
Andrew Lang
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Aotory Ie
Altthe
George Ellet
Charles of
Sir Astley Cooper
Paris
En Chet
Empire
Heachman
Sir Astley
Eva M. Hetsel
Abushes
Lackawanna Ave
H. Pierge
Penn Ave
Vicksburg
Atlanta
Duke, Isinps Co
Thirty-eighth Mississippi Infantry
Dr. Williams
Peter
Williame
Jessra
Terrell Bros
G. W. Ellis
E. Dudley
Pleof Utien
Dr. Willinus’ Medicine Co
Schenectady
Florel Walton
Locust Streets
Philadelphia
St. Denis
Broadway
Eleventh St
New York
Grace Church
Careas
Bt. Denia
Athens
Illiams
Faylor
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