The Farm Home as a Seat of Taste and Health
The article argues beauty and comfort in farm houses raise intrinsic value and moral influence. It stresses choosing a good site on higher ground, ample light, and dry air, with features like porches, bay windows, and a lawn. It praises trees and a well-kept turf, advises against pigsties near the house, and cites John G. Baker on trees enhancing charm.
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Africa
Mifasmas
Mississippi Valley
Evazy
New England
Jack Frost
Jeweltey
Ina
Jim
John G. Baker
Massachusetts Horticultural Society
Wellshaven
Alexander Hyde
Why Not Learn to Swim
A London Globe prompted plea for universal swimming education to prevent drownings. It argues that schooling in swimming would save lives, strengthen youth, and make bathing and boating safer, urging parents and schools to act even without legislative mandate.
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Germany
Schoolmaaeters
London Globe
Confidence Game Targeting Grangers in Hotels
A Chicago Journal report describes a common scam where a con man imitates a granger at second class hotels to gain the victim’s trust. He convinces the target to leave his pocket book with the clerk, shows large bills, and then exits with both books after a staged exchange. The thief later cashes a check and retrieves the taken funds, leaving the victim stranded.
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Nnwa
Hirs
Granger
Chisage Journal
Miserien of Childhood in Appletons Journal
A reflective essay from Appleton's Journal September on childhood attire and ridicule. It contrasts harms of restrictive dress like sashes hoops and collars with lessons on maturity. The author recalls personal mortification, warns against forcing virtue, and notes youth's fierce emotions and fragile philosophy.
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Dreas
Nessus
Oine
Broadway
Appleton
Dead Letter Office Museum Reflects Postal Follies and Oddities
A vivid tour of the Dead Letter Office Museum showcases the mishaps of mail delivery. Glass cases reveal keepsakes, locks of hair, photographs, and even a live alligator found among letters. The piece notes tens of thousands of unclaimed or misaddressed letters monthly, with jewelry and other items often sent without proper postage or addresses, leading to strange postal fates.
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Dead Letter Office
Shay
Lost letters yield drafts and cash exceed
A rural Georgia post office tale notes about 3 million dollars in drafts and 75 thousand in cash yearly recovered from dead letters. Many small sums vanish, some readers speculate on the humor and tragedy as letters carry money dress samples and photographs, with a postmistress once accused of reading letters for romance.
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Post Office Fund
Providence
Dendetter
Georgia
Cer
Cleveland Leurter
Silks and Woolens Forecast for Fall Stock Prices
Textile columns warn silk prices will rise with fall arrivals as raw silk costs climb, with labor taking two thirds of the increase and finished goods up about fifteen percent. Black and dark shades return, with blue and ink tones leading, while myrtle green and related hues dominate Paris fashions for dresses, trims, and accessories. New woolens feature raised patterns, damask, crocaded small figures, and solid colors. camel hair and cashmeres remain in style with ink shades near black.
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Wenin
Paris
Winter Woolen Goods and Governing Color Trends
The article lists moorish dark greens and seal browns as top winter suit colors, with navy blue and granite following. It notes gray shades declining, bright cardinal reds in cashmere offerings, and Empress cloths in dark tones for dresses. Necrnes appears in light tinta for children's wear and wrappers, plus darker wearables. Gauzes for full-dress toilets feature arabesques and armure in silver white to blue range. Frosted gauze designs also described for crowns and uses.
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Jfarper
Wild Bill Hickok's Life Recalled in Frontier Shootings
A Denver News chronicle recounts Wild Bill Hickok born William Hickok, famed frontier scout and marshal at Abilene and Wichita, noted for killing in the line of duty. It notes his marriage to Mrs. Lake, later a California return, and his death at Deadwood City on the 2nd of this month at the hands of Sutherland, avenging a prior killing.
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Wild Bill
Buffalo
Wild Bills
Abilene
Wichita
Riso
Bill
Sutherland
William Llekok
William
Ka ®Ias City
Dramsa
Ned Bunstine
Thunder
Bullalo Bill
William Cody
Nebraska
John Omohundro
Texas Jack
Wild BU
Lake
Circus Fame
Granby
California
Cincinnati
General Crook
Bear
Deadwood City
Wild Jl
Black Tills
Dream Intervenes in Rescue From Ice Chest
A Franklin Mass man was trapped in an ice chest when the door sprang shut. He screamed and struck the lid as death loomed until a dream of his son prompted discovery and rescue. The son had dreamt of his father suffocating, then found him locked inside and saved. Woonsocket Patriot notes the uncanny link between dream and danger.
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Eauyv
Hall
Butcher
Franklin
Mass
Tal P
Woonsocket
Rt. I
Curious Oregon Tree Weds Deer Horns At Centennial Exhibit
A strange Oregon find reaches the Journal office via George Curtis of Balem. A white oak core pierced by a deer's horns shows a trunk sixty to seventy inches high and horns nine feet above ground. Scientists say horns may have been fixed for 75 to 100 years as trunks joined and surrounded the antlers. Curtis, a Midombail native, found the tree on Willamette River banks and plans to display the exhibit at the Centennial with a silver biography plate.
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Journal
George Curtis
Balem
Ore
Curtis
Midombail
Willamette River
Oregon
Oateayo Journal
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