Fashion’s Fancies and Feathers Across The Atlantic
An article surveys fashion trends featuring velvet toques and dyed feathers while exposing the cruel bird trade feeding London and Paris millinery. It notes rich imports, two toned hat designs, and a shift from moire to satin, with flowers returning to winter wear and vivid felts in rose green brown purple and blue petunia shades. It also includes a disjointed Baltimore Blackwood’s Magazine and a reminiscence from Alexander Macaulay in the New York Sun about drowning and survival.
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London
Paris
Pretty Things In Paris and a Mauritius Cyclone
A Parisian life note praises the Parisian shopper as precise and value minded, showcasing a myrtle green glace silk gown with lace and balloon sleeves. The piece also recounts the Mauritius cyclone of April 20, 1608, describing massive loss of life, injuries, and widespread destruction across the island.
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Madame
Paris
Autumn Styles Ind Great Variety of Wool and Silk Weaves
The article surveys autumn imports of wool and silk goods with wide weight variety and patterns. It notes black fabrics, two tone woolens, coated cloths, serge, and new waterproof cravenette fabrics, plus the shift from velvet to trim uses and the fading fashion of spangled passementerie. A blue and beige wool gown example highlights velvet trims, gold buckles, and gigot sleeves.
Healthful peanuts and wrinkle prevention fashion notes
An article extols peanuts for thin people as a healthy fattening food while advising wrinkle avoidance through calm nerves, ample sleep, sun protection, facial care, and modest fashion. It highlights silk petticoats, simple hair, crocheted lace patterns, and returning pockets as current trends with decorative and practical notes.
Fall and Winter Cloth Costumes in Dark Tones and Boucle
The article surveys autumn fashion with darker fall and winter cloths in brown green and olive tones. It notes worsted fabrics, rough boucle woven surfaces, trimming astrakhon cloth, and revival of loose sacks likely to fail. Describes gowns with plain skirts silk lining long tight rectangles capes sleeve styles skirts and bodices with plastron belts and stitched straps.
Hands Feet and Hair Fashion Tips for Women
This feature offers manicure care, weekly rose tinted polish, and cleansing steps to prevent hang nails. It praises woolen stockings for warmth and weather, notes street boot fashion with low heels, and suggests tortoise shell hair ornaments and shell pins as stylish accessories.
A Moustache Over Seven Feet Long
In Bellington West Virginia a local man Brown Iain James Brown attracts fame for a beard and mustache surpassing seven feet in length. His extraordinary facial hair is the town’s pride and a striking curiosity noted by residents and newspapers alike.
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Bellington
W. Va
Brown
Iain James Brown
Virginia
Republic
English Soldier Wolseley Victories and Narrow Escapes Tale
A profile of Lord Wolseley, Britain's lead general in Ireland, tracing a career from early army service in 1832 through Burmese, Crimean, Indian Mutiny, and Chinese campaigns. It highlights repeated battles, near death experiences, and the earning of the Victoria Cross, with notes on his later rise to major general and key campaigns across Africa and Sudan.
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Crimea
Lord Wolseley
Great Britain
Great Wellington
Her Majesty
Ireland
England
Burmah
Wolseley
Lord
Mr. Lowe
Sebastopol
Wolsely
Sir Hope Grant
China
India
The
Soudan
Gordon
The Horse Is Useful Even if Dead
The article extols the utility of both horse and whale after death. It lists uses for hair, hide, skin, tendons, flesh, fat, intestines, heart, tongue, hooves, bones, blood, and bones for various products from leather to lamps, glue, food, knife handles, and fertilizers. It highlights broad reuse of animal parts for industry and daily life.
Tutelary Trees Among Ancient Scandinavians
Ancient peoples revered tutelary trees like the ash in Scandinavia, believing it sacred and home to protective power. Serpents avoided it, allowing women to leave children beneath its shade while they tended other duties.
Persevering applicant lands editorial post after bid at Chicago papers
A young woman sought editorial work in Chicago, visiting publishing houses until one editor admitted her fit. She argued she could write on any subject, even if the paper specialized, and joked about her uncle who sings about hogs. Her perseverance won her a good position at the paper.
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Chicago
Chicago Mail
Pins Delivered on Rochester and Pittsburg Train
An old gentleman aboard the Rochester and Pittsburg railroad anxiously asked the conductor if the train would stop at a small crossroad town. It did not and the man, wanting to drop off a box of clothes pins for his cater, rode on as onlookers followed to watch the mishap.
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Rochester and
Pittsburg
Carter
Harper
Irish Ball Confusion in The Watchman Verse
A humorous debate arises from an Irish ball in the song The Watchman. Moore and a young Englishman dispute the line good night meant for morning, provoking a grave reply and a quoted verse snippet from the Westminster Review.
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Sloperton Cottage
Moore
Mornong
Westminster Review
Beggar Trick Stuns Broadway Shop Patrons
A German woman enters a Broadway wholesale dry goods store and, after selling a box of wax matches, secretly funds a beggar outside by giving him a cent. Patrons wonder aloud if they were part of a setup as the woman exits with her basket, while the beggar leaves the scene nearby.
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Broadway
New York
Langister Lake Found Near Vatna-Jokull Glaciers
Herr Thoroddsen reports a very long milk white lake named Langister extending from the glacier margin along the Vatna Jokull western flank in Tewnd. Vegetation is absent and the area features a southern termination plateau with a glittering watercourse likely Skapta and a distant lava flow possibly from the 1783 eruption.
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Herr Thoroddsen
Vatna-Jokull
Tewnd
Chicago ,Tribune
Only a Northern Light Seen in Wiltshire 1858
In 1858 the aurora was seen as far south as Wiltshire. A village gathered to view the spectacle and asked what it was. A woman urged to fetch the local rock and a selolard who would give a name. Jock arrived, gazed upward, and said it was only a phenomenon. The mother quips that she told him he would give us a name.
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Wiltshire
Jock
Etiquette Question Settled by Bowery Pie Scene
A Bowery museum displays an oil painting showing women eagerly devouring pie in segments without knives or forks. The scene, titled can of lady pie outers, is cited by the New York Tribune as settling the vexed question of how a lady should eat pie.
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Bowery
New York Tribune
Medical Diets Promote Peace From Malaria and Neuralgia
A physician reports diet experiments in his hospital finding that "Nothing" calms malaria chills as well as coffee with lemon juice. He also endorses tea as a simple remedy for neuralgia, noting its uncomplicated effect.
Where His Interest Lay Irish Counselor Questioned by Judge
An Irish counselor answered that he is concerned for Bob J, the plaintiff he is employed by, when the judge asked whom he was representing. The remark reflects a courtroom exchange over advocacy and allegiance in the case.
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Bob J
Whymper and Hamilton Visit President in Ecuador
A literary anecdote recounts Mr. Whymper and British minister Mr. Hamilton meeting the Ecuadoran president. The president, amused by a chalkboard improvised from a chimney pot, watches Hamilton describe Chimborazo’s ascent while a colonel nearby exhibits agitation and resentment at the odd demonstration.
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WhymaveSale
The
Republic
Hamilton
Whymper
Chimborazo
Mr. Whymper
Mr. Hamilton
How fur seals yield dense sealskin fur from living pelts
The passage explains the contrast between sealskin fur and imported skins, detailing under fur versus guard hairs, and outlines the thinning process where a blade severs long hair roots to remove rough hairs while preserving soft fur. It notes subsequent steps to soften and preserve the pelt.
Brainy dogs and a Newfoundland heist told by a Saint Louis note
In St Joseph a Newfoundland dog acted as family trader carrying a shopping note in a basket. The dog defended the prize against a hungry crowd until it was seized by others. Dejected, the dog trudged home with empty basket then hid under the house all day.
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Martin
St. Joseph
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
New Yorker Style Dress and Conversation Praised
The San Francisco Argonaut lauds a real New York society girl for dress as art and sacred rite. It notes her conversation as fine, capable of leading or following, and her ability to mask ignorance with remarkable savoir faire.
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New Yorker
New York
San Francisco
Fake travelers seek rough seas for bilious relief
G S Whitstar of Graham and Morten Inc warns of a class of con artists who seek storm news to push ticket sales. He notes travelers buy passages during rough weather hoping seas will cure biliousness, a belief he finds widespread in Chicago.
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Whitstar
Graham & Morten Inc
Chicago
Chicago Tribune
Simple Sermon Sparks Mixed Reactions in Scotland
A clergyman invited Bishop Selwyn to preach in his church and delivered an impressive yet plain sermon. The rector praised it, but a regular member disagreed, saying it was so simple a child could understand it, yet it confused for a week and failed to beat the bishop’s style.
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Scotland
Selwyn
London
Fashion Note Sparks London Style Buzz
A whispered fashion note among select circles in London hints at the season’s must face foliage look. Whispers suggest stylistic whiskers and bold statements as trends set to define the era.
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Willie Boys
London
Attorneys and offices listed in local legal notices
A fragmented OCR shows multiple law offices and practice details. Mentions Connell, Alley, Frey with addresses in Washington, Wyomingtva and La Vine street. Hours listed and office locations appear jumbled.
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Mad. Connell
Washington
Bunday
Alley
Lancia
FREY
Wyomingtva
la Vine Street
Rance
Forest Soaranton
Daenayiveni
Ksups
Burr Building
Washington Avenue
Price FL
T. OK
Law
FRASK
Coal
OKILL
Scranton
Milton W. Lowry
H. von Storch
Tere & Ware
Oakford
Commongreal Gamuel
Edgar
Spruce St
Heranton
Bornoe
Nemo
We Press
Ee F. Illam
Oiming Avenue
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