William the Wanderer and the Porters of America
A rambling, humorous essay contrasts porters with reporters in American travel life. It follows Jerry the conductor turned bank president, a Minneapolis Cleveland visit, and a baggage man’s coded chalk marks between trunks. It shifts to a morgue vignette in New York, then to salon gossip on hair fashion and adornments.
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America
Kwaukee
St. Paul
Jerry
Union Pacife Railroad
Bank
United States
Leeture Committee
Ouray
Colorado
Spaces Monthly
Baggate Bursters
Last Stop on the Road The Mort Gruesome Place in America
A grim portrait of the morgue near New York City, called the Dead House, where unknown dead are kept before burial. Bellevue Hospital morgue walls rise above the East River pier, the drip of water among silent faces and the keeper’s sleepy routine underscore a stark, somber scene.
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Long Laland
Potter’s
Ning
Weil
New York
America
East River
Twenty Sixth Street
Eternity
Atlantic Ocean
New York City
Batter's Field
Bellevue Hospital
Wigs and fashion in Paris society during the directory era
The piece surveys Mme Tallien's lavish wigs and jeweled fashion, noting a Parisian noble marrying after Robespierre's fall. It discusses twelve blonde wigs with caps, values per piece, and compares wigs to bleaching hair, highlighting social trends and hair as a changing fashion accessory in the era.
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Mme. Tallien
Mile. Lepelletier de St. Fargeau
Robespierre
Trousseau
Mrs. A
Jay Gould Early Author and a Lost Delaware County Book
A historical note on Jay Gould as a young surveyor and author. He mapped Delaware County New York and wrote a county history titled A Narrative of Delaware County and Border Wars of New York. The octavo volume, published in Roxbury, sold poorly, leading Gould to suppress copies as he rose to prominence.
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Wall Street
Jay Gould
Diniess
Delaware County
N. Y
New York
Delaware
Roxbury
Keeny
George
Mytrogld
The Fourth Dimension and the Curious Theory
A discussion on higher dimensions outlines how a four dimensional space could alter perception of up down and depth. It explains how beings limited to two or three dimensions would experience movement, containment, and interaction with objects in a four dimensional continuum. The piece references a Saturday Review discussion as a further read.
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Ieee
Nature
Perrson
Theoretica
Albany Doctor Records Unusual Case Without Medicine
An Albany physician recounts the most curious presentation he ever saw, a patient in a dire condition who recovered after being treated with unconventional care. The narrative describes a strange sequence of symptoms, a tense journey through a crumbling basement, and a remarkable improvement within a year, leaving the doctor astonished by the revival of the invalid.
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Albany
Osinp Wallelag
Trosteview
Fragmentary OCR Describes Coffin Scene in Winniperoman
In a garbled report a coffin was opened to reveal a petrified figure with a mouth open, suggesting a reveal or ritual. The text is largely unreadable and inconsistent, but hints at a dramatic moment tied to a Winniperoman setting or event.
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William the Wanderer
Cleveland
Greene
Daily Struggle
Minneapolis
Flour City
Grover
St.Paul
Washington
Washburn
Doc. Ames
Ole Forgerson
West Hotel
Carling
N. B. Nyether
Moog Space 2
Orrick
Morgir
Boley
Mile
Conlent
Potser
Pogver Hewitt
Ares
Gould
Tan
Batile Nin
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