Scotch Schoolmaster Beats Pupils With Castor Oil
A gossip filled paragraph reports various religious notes. Mills Seminary in San Francisco receives 4000 dollars for a library building from an East donor who wishes to remain unnamed. The American Bible Society Board of Missions in New York grants 109640 dollars for foreign work. The Nashville Advocate urges Sabbath spending reform. The Methodist Episcopal Church spends over five million on religious publications in four years and supplies three and a half million in literature. Kentucky towns lack a church building in fourteen counties. The Methodist Episcopal Church South shows 544132 members and increases in preachers. Downey California receives 8500 dollars for a new school house with an inscription about order. A minister humorously defers singing duties to the choir in Chicago. Women architects in Paris noted and a lady craftsman in Passy is praised. The Congregational Club of New York discusses The Pulpit as seen from the Pews and stresses businesslike sermon expectations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mills Seminary
San Francisco
Board of Missions of the American Bible Society
New York
Nashville
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Concern
New Orleans
Court House
Kentucky
Methodism Episcopal Church South
Dow‘nes
California
Turnish & New School
Downey
Chicago Herald
Laura Kite
Iar
Paris
Passy
Congregationaal Club of
Austin Abbott
S Man O
Pungent Paragraphs From A Patchwork Page
A collage of quips and anecdotes from era newspapers. Snippets include a chastened playwright, a trove of droll quotes, and a cautionary moral about shaping children’s minds through home life and beauty.
Fashions for the Season From the Brooklyn Eagle
Fashions for the season feature jet trimmings and lace on cheap mantles and dresses, with jetted lace selling for low prices and crepe de chine fabrics used to showcase bold embroidery. Parisians favor black attire for labor and business classes, while pale tints and delicate laces appear in high society ensembles, including Chantilly silk and new straw bonnets with distinctive crowns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
London
Hyde Park
Bois de Bourlogne
Mpriade
Crapple
Chantilly
Brooklyn Eagle
Miscellaneous notes from a nineteenth century paper
A digest of scattered items includes Rev Parkhurst on parental love, Alabama’s county size rules, St. Petersburg press in Russian and German, Connecticut geese tax talk, Cleveland signs oleomargarine ban, a Niagara tragedy tied to 1850s tale, pulse changes from smoking, a two headed Chicago cow exhibit, Hindu ear piercing custom, a Massachusetts Yankee joining Piutes and becoming a chief. The collage paints era attitudes, curiosities, and local law chatter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Parkhurst
New York
Alabama
St. Petersburg
Messenger
Journal de
Connecticut
Harrison
Chicago Herata
Cleveland
Cresta
N.Y. Herald
Weidder-Pearson
Luna Island
Niagara Falls
Addington
Chiago Tribune
Chicago
Durham
Soho
Massachusetts
Ite
Walker Lake
Bown Herald
The Mysterious Language of the Lunch Counter
A New York Dispatch piece describes diners using a coded kitchen slang to order meals. Waiters interpret phrases like sleeve buttons and quail fat as specific dishes, while the proprietor notes a system that many customers understand and use regularly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Cincinnati
Wood Family's Old Warhorse Passes In Washington Ga
The Wood family of Washington Georgia mourns the death of their aging horse once a family mainstay. It carried Mr Wood's father through campaigns from Ohio to Savannah and was surrendered to Sherman at Greenville before being returned to the Wood home. A large crowd gathered for the funeral notices amid memories of its many virtues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Wood
Washington
Mr. Wood
Ohio
Savannah
Johnston
Sherman
Greenville
Wood
Atlanta Constitution
Eye on Conductors Report Reveals Private Rail Detectors
A San Francisco Chronicle account quotes a California railway conductor discussing how private surveillance aboard trains deters misconduct and raises the risk of detection. The piece notes higher salaries might reduce temptations to skim company funds and describes occasional misfires by spotters and detectives on steam runs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Southern Pacific Railway
Consolidated Virginia
Aost
Seach
Ceekly
Sas
Sam men in Pennsylvania Dutch tale of silver pine mine
Sammy Domgarten, a Pennsylvania Dutch farmer from Snyder County, builds a legend after his family discovers silver in a white pine on a mountain. He buys 1000 acres of rocky ground, writes to Wall Street for mines, and awaits millions from a rumored ridge mineral.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sammy Bomgarter
Middleburg
Snyder County
Pennsylvania
Sammy Antic
Sammy
Wheelands
Bessem
New York
Wall Street
Middlesa AG
A. D
Middlebaum & Co
Wall Forks
Wall
Evening Post
How to Keep Your Husband Home Nights
Detroit readers recount a sensational tale from the Detroit Free Press about a Troy wife who allegedly trapped her husband at home with a set of bottling and cleaver tricks. The piece humorously details a chaotic scene in the couple’s library, with spilled beer and a mounting riot among neighbors over a menacing domestic spectacle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Troy
Ecea
Micesz
D'troit
Detroit Fest Press
Uncertain Freight Car Tale and Patent Medicine Ads
An 19th century mixed-page clipping recounts a traveler describing a bizarre freight car used as a movable house with offices and rooms at Saton station on the Burling ter Road extension. The piece blends this anecdote with a sequence of medical cures and patent medicines, including Atscoce plaster and Brasperta pills, touting relief from rheumatism and sciatica, and a worm syrup for fevers. The ads claim cures for kidney and urinary diseases and a cough syrup, reflecting period medical marketing.
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Freigh
Nebraska
Saton
Burliegter Road
Soch
Mentin
Aan
Bae Ceilrondezent
Csr
Ter
Chicago
Harald
Prekskict
Peekskif
New York
Atscoce
Cocr
Ospory
Blood and Skin Diseases Seek Free Treatise
A long reading offers remedies for blood and skin diseases, praising Dr Chuyssot’s Yellow Dock and Sarsaparilla. It mentions mercury poisoning fears, cautions against tonic quacks, and advertises Pills, tonics, and salves for ailments from catarrh to toothache, with local testimonials and product names.
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Moore
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United States
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Billings
Haat
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Ata Columbis
Troy Times
Byron
Athens
Plesse
Indianapolis Journal
Madame
Toledo Blade
Wood Family
Sammy Domgarten
Jin Newity
N. Y. Times
Kansas City
Shippi
Jelfers
Kansas
Missouri
ST. Louis
Brasperta
E. Cuast
Croton Landitz
Alleark
N. O. Picayune
Kates
Boston Post
Hales
Cluysot
Axx Taco
Ely
Cuantorre Parker
Waverly
Lydia E
Beeson
Ttc
Oli Ona
Ladelphia Chroniclediferald
Wasp
Union Stove and Machine Works
Eleavenworth
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E. E. Menges & CO
West Fifth Street
Swift
Spartaveres, & C
THE
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
N.Y
W. T St
Na Anakesis
Arauso
Elia, Richardson & Co
Burlington
Beeson's
Draggtets
Dreydopp
North Front Street
Philade
Dreydoppel
Middlesex
Middlesex Company
Reading Clothiers
Selina Saint
Guoda, Wendell, Fay & Coning
Franklin St. Botton
Chescnut St. Philadefonts
WG CO
Brooklyn
Sattabie
Truss CO
Ve Ae Burnham
Dibgler
C. Moffean
Jefferson, Wiscorsie
Ferre Stes Art Co
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