The Boers of South Africa and Their Customs
A detailed survey of Boers from the Cape settlement origins to Transvaal life describes language, religion, courtship rituals, family structure, land and cattle wealth, wagon culture, and the influence of isolation on education and Puritanism. It notes marriage practices, farm economics, ostrich farming, and the plume of rural Dutch Reform life.
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Boston Herald
Bauer
Cape of Good Hope
Jan van Kriebeck
Holland
Transvaal
Orange Republic
Cape Colony
Frastern
Kestralia
Port Natal
South Africa
Alsberg
Feo
Cransvaal Op Oranee
Europe
Atsberg
Cuests
Conde Vrouw
Anthony Trollope
Prolope
Whch
Freying
Orange Free State
Transvaal Republic
Ane
Darky
Doren
Iash
Israel
Health Notes Exercise for Narrow Chest Stoop Shoulders
Dr George H Napheys recommends a specific form of exercise for children with narrow chests and stooped shoulders and a hereditary predisposition to consumption. He says systematic practice with other health measures could guarantee healthier outcomes for such children.
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George H. Napheys
Time trims away the tinsel of Washington’s birthday
Chicago Times revisits George Washington’s birthday, noting the holiday’s fading fame and the tainted memory of the man. It jokes that Washington’s legacy would alter politics, economy, and even the census, as Mayor Harrison contemplates closures and the city faces a busy season.
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Chicago Times
George
Logan
Pennsylvania Avenue
de Golyer
Morey
Vaps’s Creek
Aft Valley Forge
Royal Britannia
Pilate
Chicago
Harrison
Washington
Goddess of Justice
Chark Street
George Washington
Lucretia Mott Remembered as a Saint of Liberty
An obituary tribute to Lucretia Mott, praising her as a fearless reformer and moral leader. The piece recounts her fight for abolition and women's rights, her presence at key centennial events, and her influence on the suffrage movement, ending with fond memories at her July 1878 Rochester farewell.
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Lucretia Mott
Abigail Adams
Gueretta Mott
Courtezan
Equal Rights Association
New York
National Woman’s Suffrage Association
National Association
American Association
Independence Square
Liberty
Bayard Pavlor
John Hamden
Susan B. Anthony
Fanr
Europe
America
Centennial Commission
Hutchison
Newrer
Samuel May
Mott Game
Rochester
First Unitarian
Frederick Douglass
Association
Fair Hill
Phgbe
Couzlns
Badly Used Nose and the Roman Senator at the Ball
A strange scene at a Society Francaise event described by The New York Star shows a tiny man with one glass eye and a bent nose impersonating a Roman senator. He taunts two dancers until a police pair in disguise eject him as the crowd returns to the dance floor.
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Lacy
Society Francaise P Amiti
New York Star
Tenu Summiers
Antony
Octavius
Cassius
Scientific Gossip and Antiquarian Finds Across the World
The piece reports a meteoric stone fall at Wiener Neustadt and ancient pyramids at Saggarah with inscriptions of high value. It notes a cementation theory by Mr. Marsden on converting iron to steel and silicon diffusion, plus a Goldsmiths' Company push for technical education and a central Institute fund. It also describes electric properties of heated paper and high sea depths affecting deep-sea life, citing Dr. Jeffreys and Moseley.
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Wiener
Neustadt
Saggarah
Memphis
R . Marsden
Goldsmiths’ Company
London
Great Britain
City and Guilds of London Institution
Exhibition Road
South Kensington
J. Gwyn Jeffreys
Moseley
Jeffreys
Tennessee Dialect Letter From McMinnville Tennessee
A first person account describes a rural encounter with a traveler who asks for food from a white woman in a log cabin near the mountains. The exchange reveals local suspicions of revenue agents and a view of frontier hospitality amid distrust about outsiders during hard weather.
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Th B Revenue Office
Treckon
Kentry
Jess
Sud
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