The Disadvantage of Cheap Paper and Its Critics
A historical critique on wood pulp paper versus rag paper, tracing price declines, tariff effects, and quality concerns. It cites publishers, papermakers, and librarians like William T. Peoples, discusses European imports, Canadian wood colors, and the impact of cheap books on durability and libraries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Tribune
New York
Germany
Argest
Australia
South Amerca
Gould Books
Grolier Club
Flowers Across Lands From Alps To Circassia And Beyond
Chambers Journal traces flowery introductions from 1528 to 1584, noting ranunculus from the Alps migonette from Italy rosemary from southern Europe jasmine from Circassia lavender from southern Europe laurentum from Hungary and the snowdrop linked to Sir Walter Raleigh. Spenser notes carnation as coronation in The Shepheardes Calender with its crown like form.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alps
Italy
Europe
Circassia
Chambers’ Journal
Switzerland
Flandera
Spenser
Shephearde
Philological Society
Shakespeare
Dame Quickly
John Falstaff
Hungary
Sir Walter Raleigh
Hoanoke
North Carolina
Kiljordan Encounters Mourning Mies High
Brooks and Kiljordan quote a grim exchange about Mies High, describing a dead face shown during a late call, with Brooks remarking that she should have buried it in her hands. The Chicago Tribune presents a stark, terse excerpt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rivers
Kiljordan
Mies
Brooks
Chicago Tribune
Gallant Civil War Heroes Highlight at Vicksburg and Fort Fisher
A Washington Globe article chronicles acts of extraordinary bravery by soldiers and sailors in the Vicksburg siege and Fort Fisher assault. It details Corporal Isaac Carman seizing a burning fuse shell and hurling it back, Captain Julius White leading two guns up a hill to breach the fort, Mrs. Doubleday's daring relief mission to Sumter, and Ensign William N. Rhoades’s storming party valor alongside Seaman Shannon. It also mentions Major Tremain, General Webb, Colonel Clendenin, and others celebrated for gallantry across Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, and Fredericksburg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vicksburg
Rhoades
Fort Fisherer
Julius White
Chicago
Washington
Globe-Democrat
Isaac Carman
48Th
Ohio Infantry Volunteers
Blair
Lawler
Larandam
77Th Mlinola
45Th Ohio
48Th Ohio
77Th Halnels
77Th Illinois
Carman
McClernand
General Smith
White
Fort Sumter
Charleston
Abner Doubleday
Henry TE. Tremain
Seventy-Third New York Volunteers
Daniel B. Sickles
Resaca
Butterfield
Coburn
Harrison
United States
Tremain
Sickles
Chancellorsville
Fredericksburg
Gettysburg
Alexander Stewart Webb
Mechanicaville
Antietam
Chancelloraville
Spottsylvania
The
Wilderness
David Clendenin
Wilinoa Cavalry Volunteers
Army of the Potomac
Clendenin
Jubal
Crendenin
Seventeenth Virginia
Seventeenth
Lew Wallace
Lincoln
Fort Fisher
William N. Rhoades
Navy
Susquehanna
jJoin
Preston
Ensign Rhoades
James Shannan
Seaman Shannon
Shannon
Dickens Inspired Life Of David Copperfield Details
The Philadelphia Ledger outlines how Charles Dickens drew on his own life for David Copperfield. It notes real people behind characters like Mr Micawber and Miss Mowcher, and recalls Dickens’ stay at Doctors’ Commons as shorthand work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Ledger
Dickens
David Copperfield
Micawber
Ilke Wilkins Micawber
Charles
Uke David
Hungerford Market
London
Murdstone
Grinby
David
Mita Betsey Trotwood
Doctors’ Commons
Ike David
Court
Chambers
Miss Mowcher
Twenty-Second
Peretty
Yartmouth
Ham
Steerforth
The Land of the Castanet and Related Pieces
Hobart Chatfield Chatfield Taylor plans a book edition titled The Land of the Castanet with additional unpublished articles. Publishers are Herbert B. Stone & Co. of Chicago. Elbert Hubbard’s Philistine attacks a dead man look remark as libel. Kansas City philosophy in the Lotus lampoons monogamy and Adam and Eve, ending with a note on Eve’s jealousy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hobart Chatfield
Chatfield
Taylor
Spain
Mesars
Herbert
Stone & So
Chicago
Kansas City
The
Lotus
Adam
Life dialogue on wages and broken china
In a clipped exchange a mother laments her child’s clumsiness and mounting woes and asks for a solution. The child replies that only wage raises would stop the misfortunes from piling up.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hringer
China
Also Mentioned on This Page
Maine
Canada
England
Esparto
Algiers
Egypt
Nile
Alexandria
Question OF
William T. Peoples
Lbrarian
Mercantile Library
Peoples
Ben
Publishers and Publishers
Seventy-second Pennsylvania Volunteers
Webb
Sixty-ninth Pennsylvania
Armistead
Meade
Mise Mowcher
Jones
Revorter
Detroit Tribune
Skinneman
Elbert Hubbard
Scranton
National Gallery
Walter Blackburn Harte
Radway
Radway & Co
Elm Street
Wheels Cqv
Jobber
Wolf
American
Pierce
Iver-Johnson
Waverly
Featherstone
Parker
Spruce ST
Pierce, Pean Ave
Maloney Oil and Manufagh. Co
M. W. Collins
Fia
Sarah Bernhard
Shaw
Emerson
Clough & Warren
Carpenter
Waterloo
Malcolm Lova
J. Lawrence Stelle
Spruce Street
James Moir
Lackawanna Avenue
Goite
Pacific Coast
St. John’s
New Foundland
Ireland
Spring House
Heart Lake
Susq'a CO. U
Hinghamton
Montrose and Lackawanna
Alford Station
Montrose
Adi Rirontask
Teen Gatakill Mountains
Baldwin
Hunt & Connell CO
Rogers
Wyoming Avenue
E. Robinson
Moosic and Rughdale Works
Laplin & Rand Powder CO
Repauno Chemical Co
Juveni
van Pelt
Arinc Rimwd
D.scape
Matthews Bros
Drugglist
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