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Newspaper
The Abilene Reflector
Location
Abilene, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1887
Page
3
The interview with Jerry Raymond and his brother, early rollerskating pioneers, notes the market collapse. Prices plummeted from 5 86 to 1 25 1 50, with vast inventories and stores left with thousands of pairs.
An article extols heat as a purifier and cautions against eating raw foods, noting 212 degrees Fahrenheit as the safe cooking threshold for meat. It warns boiled water, decaying produce, and untreated water to prevent diseases and malarial illnesses, while praising scientific advances.
A San Francisco Chronicle reprint arguing that British rule brought superior progress to Africa, detailing Cape dispossession from the Dutch, Boer emigration, Transvaal annexation, and mining booms. It cites explorers, mining bubbles, and forecasts vast gold shipments, with skepticism about the Times letter’s facts and noting Capetown as a key capital.
A Chicago Journal comment questions tipping as a system causing subservience among domestic workers. It cites a grocer, butcher, and baker, and suggests a servant could ruin a butcher’s trade by withholding favors or spoiling meat. A Life snippet notes Mrs Featherleigh’s earnings from pen and a Facsimile Parian Powder endorsement.
Excerpted lines from the Chicago Tribuna critique a pass system that limits movement and transport. The poem laments weeds and flowers being trampled by people without passes, while noting that hotels in New York employ about a thousand chambermaids.
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