Deacon’s Wife Uses Sewing to Earn Her Own Way
Katie, a deacon’s wife, endures neglect and financial control. She excels at sewing, secretly funds needed clothing, confronts unequal power, and proposes a shared allowance of 200 dollars yearly to avoid begging. The tale urges gentler, just treatment and shows how prudent income can empower a wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casey
Katie
Chris
Andery
Balthtoy
Deacon
May
Ehad
Belass
Katia
Ats
Indian Wheat vs American Protection pamphlet critique
An anonymous Calcutta pamphlet argues British cotton and iron interests should back Indian wheat development to meet English demand. It notes India’s potential wheat output and questions English economists on who will lose as India expands production and trade under protective measures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calcutta Central Press Company
Calcutta
India
Aety
Fragmentary Inter Ocean Note on Sugar and Time
A garbled Inter Ocean fragment notes that a few years may be essential to sugar and mentions a sense of change in a distant period. The readable bits imply commentary on trade or price planning without concrete details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jong Rungur
Repeal of Pre-emption and Timber-Culture Laws Discussed
The article analyzes proposals around repealing the pre-emption and timber-culture acts. It notes Interior Department praise of repeal and suggests ways a settler could gain title swiftly, including cash payment for 160 acres and later claiming remaining land under timber or other laws. It also argues the laws invite dishonesty due to fraudulent entries detected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Secretary of the Interior
Peperagi
Boot-Black's Profit and the Labor Behind Shoes
A New York Sun excerpt depicts a boot-black boy explaining the value of his trade. He notes a five cent box of blacking yields many shoes and describes the daily labor behind polished footwear and the modest earnings from customers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
River Ferry
Joe
New York Sun
Thanksgiving Turkey Quality and Clean Farming Advice
An agricultural note stresses four weeks before Thanksgiving and urges clean preparation of turkeys and poultry. It warns against feeding birds before market with impure or flavored matter, urging clean enclosures and pure water, rich food, and careful cooking for better flavor and safety.
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Baltimore
Washington
Agricultural Case Agricu
A Mathematical Wonder From Danielson Ville
Pardon Tillinghast, a completely blind man from Danielson ville, astonishes with feats in mental arithmetic. His attention was called to several rapid results in reference Maas eae 4 5, indicating remarkable calculation skill.
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Pardon Tillinghast
Danielsonville
Mental calculations of repeating decimals astonish Hartford Courant
The passage describes a blind man who, without aids, studies repeating decimals and fractions. He deduces that 1 7 decimally equals a repeating decimal with reperend 42 and extends to powers producing reperends of 249. He performs these feats mentally, recalling results for long periods.
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Hez
Hartford Courant
Lieutenant Schwatka's Yukon Raft Expedition Described
The excerpt details Lieutenant Schwatka's Arctic fame and his 2,800 mile overland trek to the Yukon headwaters. A raft of logs carried six Indians downriver to Fort Chileat. mutiny led to three deaths and the rapids were run. Schwatka claims to be the farthest upstream white man on the Yukon. Signal Service Officer Leavitt notes Yukon reach Fort Selkirk 2,000 miles from its mouth and describes the river as one of the world’s largest, discharging 50 percent more than the Mississippi.
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Alas
Schiyatka
Schwatka
Artic Fame
Ray Regently
Yukon
Alaska
Fort Vancouver
W. T
Miles
Départment of the Columbia
St. Michaels
Signal Service
Leavitt
Fort Selkirk
Mississippi
Boy on Crutch Mourns Dead Dog Bowser
A sidewalk scene shows a thin boy on a crutch kneeling by a dead dog while bystanders express sympathy. A courier offers to shelter the boy and his pet's burial, calling the act a worthy memory amid shared grief.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowser
Cat
Storing Dry Earth For Farm Use
Farmers advised to store dry earth before autumn use in pens and houses. Scrape and dry surface soil, lay boards as a rudimentary floor, and spread dry soil in layers to dry fully. Barrels or boxes store the dry earth. sifted coal ash and dry road earth serve as substitutes when needed.
Black Walnut Growth and Timber Values in the North
The passage explains black walnut can be grown from seed to a butt fourteen inches in diameter in about fourteen years in Massachusetts and compares it with maples beeches birches hickory and cherry. It suggests black walnut cultivation could become a profit source if pursued more widely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Legal Ad Rates and Printing Services Notice
Legal advertisements at legal rates offer special notices ten cents per nan. Paper prints job work neatly and promptly including blank forms. We handle book work and print lawyer briefs in approved legal style.
Windbreaks Boost Growth and Agriculture Say Scientists
A Scientific American note argues windbreaks and similar practices could aid agricultural growth. The discussion highlights how strategic use of shelter belts protects crops and conserves soil, potentially improving yields and farming resilience.
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Scientific American
Fads in Weddings Echo English and American Styles
The article notes shifts in wedding customs, from English style with a best man and ushers to hybrid forms. It mentions bridal aisles strewn with autumn leaves, a bride with a best girl escort, and attendees in Kate Greenaway costumes, reflecting evolving traditions.
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New Jersey
Sing Sing
Kate Greenaway
Lnter-Ocean
Honest Girl’s Honest Pay Turns Heiress in Paris Tale
In 1869 Paris a wealthy old bachelor tests honesty by paying bus fare with a larger coin and watches for excessive change. After sixteen wrongfully kept changes, a poor seamstress on the seventeenth ride returns the excess, proving her honesty. He then learns she is the heiress of half a million francs.
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Paris
Irl
How to Obtain a Farm
The Bridgewater Times suggests eastern renters can gain ownership in the United States by buying 160 acres for 500 to 1000 dollars with small down payments and fair interest. Farmers may also rent to save and start payments toward a farm, leveraging effort and self reliance to prosper.
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Bridgewater Times
The Old Rush Light and its Brightness in London Society
The piece recalls pre modern lighting with tinder and flint, the ragged rush light tenets, and the hardships of servants kindling fires on damp mornings. It notes the rush light as a long fifteen inch wick in a large shade used in poor homes and garrets for emergencies and needlework.
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London Society
Stock breeding and its value to farming
Stock breeding is essential to successful farming and improves yields and stock quality. The text notes that improved stock brings better returns and adds charm and dignity to the farm, emphasizing the importance of good breeding practices.
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Imp
Wester
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Hi. M. Jewest
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Chicago
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R. Bower
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Bank Huron
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Dakota Ave
Huron, D.T
Fftoe. T
Duncan
South
Clark
Odindases
Agin Schmidt
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Jantniey
H. C. Hinckley
Wisconsin Stree
George Raines
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Hyde Co
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van Horn
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Pioneer Hardware Store
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J. A. Kemp
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Office-in- Times
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Huron, D. T
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Bell House
Auron
James
Chas. H. Huntington
G Huntington
Huntington Bros
United States Land Omer
J. R. Smith
Troquois- Dakota
J. M. Ssephar
H. Davis
Snedigar & Davis
Hind and
Wisconsin Streets
Sauer
Key West
McGill
Coplin & McCilul
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Pioneer Blacksmith Shop
Grove & Wilkinson
E. M. Chase
W. S. Brockman
Forestry
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Daxora
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United States Land Office
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Alexandria
the City Bank
Incorporated
Mouser
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Beadle CO. Bank
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