Clear prose and feminine style praised by Conan Doyle
The New York Commercial Advertiser quotes Conan Doyle supporting women writers. He notes that plain or florid styles both read clearly and that true style is unobtrusive. He praises Olive Schreiner and Miss Wilkins as models of prose romance and dismisses purple patches as unhealthy.
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Conan Doyle
France
England
Olive Schreiner
Miss Wilkins
New York Commercial Advertiser
Flag Brand Chicory Promises Big Coffee Savings
Advertisements tout Flag Brand Chicory from the American Chicory Company of Omaha Nebraska claiming a 25 percent cut in coffee costs and a wholesome taste. Sample requests, factory address for orders, and mailed samples are noted along with a brief fiction excerpt about a tense household scene. Also mentions Burlington Route travel offers for Christian Endeavorers with through sleepers and stopovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Chicory Company
Omaha
Nebraska
Unlikely Marriage Claims Drawn from English Papers
A sensational note claims a marriage at South Shields featured a six foot two groom and a three foot two and a half inch bride with three witnesses of extreme body sizes. The item blends oddities with local color and includes various unrelated ad-like snippets and quotable lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Shields
Lucyallace
Marquet
Prediction by Bavarian doctors on railways
In 1835 Bavarian physicians predicted rail travel would harm public health. They argued steam locomotives should be banned and urged barriers six feet high beside tracks to shield bystanders from frightful brain delirium. They warned the sight of a locomotive at speed could provoke delirium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Royal College of Physicians of
Bavaria
Nuremberg and
Furth
Stomachs Bitters advertised as fortifying mist remedy
An advertisement proclaims Tostetter's Stomach Bitters as protection and cure in miasmatic regions. It claims the product guards against ague fever and treats dyspepsia constipation kidney trouble and rheumatism for residents and travelers alike.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tostetter
Paradox Quip Sparks Dueling Dirt Jokes
A corner evangelist declares man is made of clay, prompting Perry Patettic to quip that if man is dirt the dryer he is the more his name is mud. The exchange blends humor with a civic street setting and a local character remark.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Perry Patettic
Summer Rail Excursions advertise Wabash trips
Vacation tours for the season go on sale with half rates to Toronto in July and Buffalo in August. Reduced fares to Nashville Exposition are available, plus special Great Lakes tours. The Western agency handles Trans Atlantic steamship lines. request rates, timetables, and cabin plans at the Wabash Ticket Office 1415 Farnam or by mailing Geo. N. Clayton Omaha Neb.
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Toronto
Buffalo
Nashville Exposition
Great Lakes
General Western Agency
Trans-Atlantic Steamship Lines
Lake
Wabash
Farnam Street
Paxton Hotel
Geo. N. Clayton
N. W. Pass. Agt
Omaha
Neb
Tommy and Noah's wife riddle and shoe ad note
A classroom quip asks if Tommy can name Joan of Arc and Noahs wife. An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease a foot powder claimed to cure sore feet and ease tight shoes. It touts a trial offer and mail order option. A lighthearted line closes with a baseball preference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy, N. Y
No-To-Bac Miracle Cure Ad and Side Notes
An assorted ad fragment promotes No-To-Bac as a tobacco cessation aid with claims of certainty and a guarantee. It also references Mel Winslow's Seething Syrup for teething children and a note about long range guns on foreign ships. The passage closes with a remark about engaged people believing others discuss them.
National Crop Report Shows Mixed May Conditions Across States
May agricultural reports indicate declines from April in overall crop condition while winter wheat averages vary by state. Illinois suffers winter injury. New Jersey and Maryland record high spring pasture and meadow conditions. Europe reports favorable crops but France predicts a reduced wheat area and India cites no wheat exports this year.
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Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Illnois
Missouki
Kansas
California
Pennsylvania
Mississippi
Texas
New Jersey
Delaware
Maryland
Virginia
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Missouri
Nebraska
Pacific
New York
Tilmots
Minnesota
Oregon
Europe
France
Prussia
Viceroy of India
Tomato Breeding Notes from Bulletin of N H Experiment Station
F Wm Rane outlines tomato breeding principles emphasizing whole-plant heredity, selection over fruit, and care in maintaining variety through seed selection and isolation. He warns against careless selection, soil and cultivation effects, and poor rotation, noting color transfer and typical intermediate offspring from cross breeding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. Wm. Rane
Bulletin of
N. H. Experiment Station
Cornell
New York
Origin and history of tomatoes and Dorset sheep
The text outlines two wild tomato ancestors Lycopersicum pericarpellum and L esculentum, tracing European knowledge to 1561 and U S adoption around 1798 in Philadelphia. It highlights Paragon as a milestone, predicts further gains, then shifts to Dorset sheep noting prolific, three-lamb production, milking capacity, strong maternal traits, dog resistance, horned elegance, fine combing wool, and successful crossbreeding yielding quick-maturing high-quality mutton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brazil
Peru
Mexico
California
Europe
England
Munson
Philadelphia
St. Domingo
Come
Salem
Mass
Wool and Cotton Reporter
Dorset
English Cattle Importe and Livestock Trade Figures
English export and import figures show Great Britain importing live cattle and sheep for food from the United States Argentina and Canada with totals and year to year changes. The report notes quantities and values of beef and mutton, and discusses breeding purposes and clover varieties for fodder.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
United States
Argentine
Republic
Canada
Argentina
Britain
Tin Pails His Holby. Every Day.
An elderly Brooklyn man John V Gilchrist 84 lived in two bare rooms at 264 Pacific Street and bought a new tin pail daily for milk. After his death neighbors found hundreds of tin pails stacked around his room revealing his odd habit and solitary life funded by sisters in South Orange.
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Pacific Street
Brooklyn
New York World
Reagan
John V. Gilchrist
Schnorr
Gilchrist
New Jersey
South Orange
Plague Mortality Drops in Bombay Presidency as Famine Relief Grows
Latest Bombay presidency reports show a marked fall in plague deaths and a hopeful famine outlook due to rains. It may take months for rain to affect crops, with an estimated two million dollars needed to avert starvation. About three million people work on relief programs, and Congress funds a vessel to ship American food gifts to India.
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Bombay Presidency
Congress
India
A Yuang Bigamist
William Fay aged nineteen is jailed in New York on a bigamy charge. He has two wives, one of whom lived with him for two years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Fay
New York
PITHY POINTS From The Daughters on Manners and Mind
A compact meditation on manners and self improvement references thrift, reading, and restraint. It urges treating others as you wish to be treated and compares life to a voyage where aid to the shipwrecked mirrors aid you may need later. The tone echoes moral guidance from The Daughters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rossini
Brigid
Aristocratic figures in humbling London labor roles
The notice recalls aristocrats of lineage working in menial jobs in Europe. The French nobleman described as a blocker in London echoes peers such as the Marquis de Beatmanoir toiling in a Nantes flour mill, the Comte de St Pol a gay-bill collector, and the Vicomte de St Magfin driving a Paris taxi.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aristocraise Worainginen
London
Marquis de Beatmanoir
Nantes
Comte de St Pol
Vicomte de St. Magfin
Paris
No-To-Hac Patent Cure Ad
An old advertisement touts No-To-Hac as a tobacco habit cure priced at fifty cents. It claims to strengthen weak men with bicod pure, and labels itself as a druggiat product. It notes a trend that potato farming in New England has declined over fifty years.
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27Th St
Omaha
Kay
Mal
Zoe
H.J. Kay
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C.C.C
Wabash Rail
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Joan of Arc
Noah
Sterling Remedy Co
Mel. Winslow
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Ayer
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