Faithful friends and a lesson on wishes for children
A group of five girls discuss their wishful desires from palace money and fame to being very good. Katie’s wish to be loved is fulfilled when her friends insist their day would be dull without her, proving the value of achievable hopes. The piece then recounts a dog and donkey tale from Miss Cobbe’s Friend of Man about loyalty and loss. It ends with a bird training device to teach a canary to drink from a hanging bucket by gradually lowering a water tumbler into a bow window cage.
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Jittle Susie Rice
Ela Dudley
Dora Kye
Margie Wilkins
Katie
Margis
Tam
Katie Otis
Margie
Wordsworth
Walter Scott
Helvellyn
Miss Cobbe
Ins Beak
Charles Carson
Corsons
Charles
Mrs. Carson
London
Gladstone
Valague
Gladstone House
Hawarden
Woma
Commons
Mrs. Gladstone
Canaries Taught Clever Tricks by Naturalists
F H Stauffer notes canaries are highly observant and trainable, capable of tricks from firing a small cannon to ringing a bell for meals. A girl taught a canary to signal hunger, and a kingfisher story shows birds learn danger alarms. canaries can even lift a light wire lid to access seed and water.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. H. Stauffer
Philadelphia Times
Inquisitive Folk and the Pumping Machine Gossip
A town tale mocks pervasive nosiness as a pumping machine that feeds gossip. A mother fears strangers quizzing her child, while others lament intrusive questions about clothing, families, and private affairs. The piece warns idle curiosity breeds rudeness and vulgar minds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clara
Henry
Mother
Caroline
Papa
Mamma
Frances
Repose of manner and a curious North Carolina family
Charles Corson learns restraint after spilling ice cream at a formal gathering, while a sensational Hot Springs tale describes the Brooks family of twenty eight in a single log cabin. The article also notes an advance in photophone based sound reproduction and ends with a wry Zinc joke.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Carolina
Hot Springs
Brooks
Women of wit and influence shape society in London and New York
A retrospective column surveys influential women from Gladstone’s wife to Susie Spurgeon and Lady Randolph Churchill, noting their behind the scenes power, social wit, and charitable work. It contrasts domestic roles with public influence and highlights their steadfast support of husbands, church, and empire.
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Mrs. Gladstone
Susie Spurgeon
Tabernacle
Newington
Stockwell
Lady Randolph Churchill
Lord Randolph
London
Wall Street
Lord Randolph Churchill
Thady Churchill
Leonard Jerome
Foster Coates
New York Mail and Express
Life in the country vs city clerks at work
A dialogue excerpt contrasts city youth dreaming of farming with a farmer and his hired hands. The farmer explains stone fence building as rest while the city youth questions why laborers idle. The piece, quoted from the New York Weekly via Troy Preys, notes servants and dress dominate feminine conversation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hayseed
New York Weekly
Troy
Centenarian Miser Lady Lewson of Cirkenwell
A centenarian miser named Lady Lewson, born 171 and widow young, kept a frugal, dirty Cirkenwell mansion for decades. She fired staff except a half‑paying butler and a few cats, forbade cleaning, and wore patched clothes. Her house became a curiosité museum after her 1816 death. John Hopkins, known as The Built tre, was a wealthy London merchant who foresaw the South Sea crash and profited, yet remained obsessed with frugality.
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Lewson
Cirkenwell
Half Waters
Ier Indyship
John Hopkins
London
South Sea Company
Remarkable cure claim for Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup in Michigan
Enwerp Baker of Jackson, Michigan, a master mechanic and blacksmith, writes of over twenty years with a diseased stomach and three years of business failure. He says a year after trying Hibbard's Rheumatic Syrup his health improved, after water cures and other climates failed, and he credits thirteen battles as proof of being a well man.
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Hibbard
Rheumate Syrup Co
Jackson, Mich
Enwerp
Merlanic
Clacksmith
Jackson
Legislative mishmash and sudden death shock lawmakers
A chaotic scene unfolds as a Jos lin County member dies mid session provoking surprise and adjournment. The speaker seeks cause while a heckler’s loud outburst echoes, revealing tense politics amid a reformist mood.
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Joslin County
Arexa
Patrick Henry
Rosenohl
New York Sun
A Shopper Delays Dapper Duffer With Umbrella Jab
A Portland street scene recounts a young woman beside dummies in front of a merchant’s store being mistaken for a dummy by a gaudy “exaggerated dud e.” An umbrella strikes the culprit, driving his device over his ears as spectators laugh and the woman resumes her pose.
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Wortland Oregonian
Syrup of Figs touted for kidney and bowel health
A dated 1837 advertisement extols Syrup of Figs as pleasant for kidneys liver and bowels and preventing fevers and headaches. It notes 50c and 1 dollar bottle pricing and lists Cheney Co as manufacturers with druggist sales. Also a New York socialist Theodore Cady Johnson faced bigamy charges after a fortune teller scam led to marriage and a $3000 theft.
Favorite Prescription Offers Nervine Tonic for Women’s Ailments
An advertorial text promotes Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription as an energizing tonic for overworked women including teachers milliners dressmakers seamstresses shop-girls housekeepers and nursing mothers. It claims to boost appetite aid digestion calm nervous excitability and improve sleep while noting it contains no alcohol or sugar. A 160 page book Woman and Her Diseases is offered for ten cents plus address detail for the Buffalo 663 Main Street Worth Dispensary Medical Association.
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Dri Ss
Worth
Disrersary Medical Association
Main Street
Buffalo
N.Y
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Ponchar Science Monthly
Haine Journal
Gainsborough
Queens
New York Morning Journal
B.ok-Making
Japan
Ward Pictures
Arparmeius
Mer
Washington Terriory
Canadian Pacific
California
George T. Pratnen
Hood River
Oregon
Anglesay
England
Suez Canal
Our
Hood's
Hood & CO
Lowell
Maas
Ninian Nature
Yellowly
Brownly
Ruston Courier
TauEne, Wie
Merara
Cheney & Co
Centlemen
Hall
L. L. Gorushe
M. K
Summit Street
Props
Toledo
Toc
Theodore Cady Jounpon
New York
Iostess
Laews
Aen
Addrewa
Oregon Immigration Board
Portland
Pieece
Arms’ Palace and Stock Car Co
Ohio
St. Jacobs Olan
US Arms & CO
Neponset
Lisa
Jacobs Ol
L. D. Gardner
Deracrutes
Dralerr
Charles A. Vogeler CO
Baltimore
Scott's
Scott
Albertvan School of Telegraphy
Mawlison
Wis
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Sureuranes
THA
Cvu
Sigs
Caton'serengh
Manly Viger
Amd
Ate Specifia
Perual Daniliry
Vitalie
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Pacific
Free & Acres
Minnesota
North Diekota
Puphan
Milbelle Town
Wall
Addres
T. Popham
Prilavetris Paw
W. Fk Jnu
Harnes UD
Addnas
H. Shumway Lockford
Loomis & Ayman Tiffin
Pee * Smith &Co
St. Louis
Atlanta
ALL Drugeists
Radway
Gdc
AL Druggists
Padway's
BEYAN2
Bosinksa College
Promba New
Grangan
Grasnan
Ll. Guaskas
Bubkal
Piso
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Henry W. Longfellow
Sir Walter Scott
Kip van Winkle
Washington Irving
Poor Richard
Benj. Frankl
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Richard H. Daga
Ruskin
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Alex
Sea Kab
John Hawthorne
Enoch Arden
Alfred Tenn
Cotter
Max M
Sir Thomas More
Heaty Wari
Parkins
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Edgar A. Pwo
John B. Alden
Pearl St
Wabash Ave
Catcaco
Whitehall St
ALDEN
Thaixter
Ralph Walao Emerson
Jay
Goldsmith
Charlea Sumner
Jota Brikdt
Wallington
Hamlin
Browning
Wiipin
Cowper
O.oo
Sleepy Hollow
Bridge of Stzhs
Jaemas Hood
Tennyson
Bacon
Sir John Lubbuck
Wakefeld
Oliver Goldsmith
Palner
S Hnce
DE. Palmer
Chicago
KE. A. Gavise
General Western Agent
Franklin St
Geruire
Manuel
Alaska
Stone
P.O
Reed & Anson
Lasalle St
Chicano
Smitie & Wesson
Smith & Wesson
Qwith & Wesson
Springfield
Mies
Chichester
Toko
Heller Medics
Vane
G. Haingraham
M. Dy
Amsterdam
D. R. Dyche & CO
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