The Thompsons Stay Home While Neighbors Roam This Summer
A reminiscence on summer travel patterns shows the Thompsons preferring home life while many families like the Jonses in Newport and the Hopkinses in Maine, with others vacationing at the coast mountains or seas. The piece notes shifts in social life as summer ends and households return, leaving the Thompsons content with local neighbors.
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Bishops
Spain
Hoskinses
Williamses
Perkinses
Ranmars
Smiths
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Corn King Position Vacant Again At City Fair
The St. Louis Globe-Democrat notes the corn king post has fallen vacant once more. The role is viewed as precarious and a tough, luckless assignment for whoever fills it next.
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St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Embroideries and Laces Set Fashion Trends This Summer
New York Tribune notes midsummer interest in embroideries for shirtwaist fronts and collars, with beaded lace and ecru threads. Velvet ribbons, passementeries, pompadour effects, and lace revisions shape early fall wear, including gowns, veils, and petticoats in white, royal blue, and scarlet.
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New York Tribune
Ecru
The Wild Beast Tamer in The August St Nicholas
A summary of Cleveland Moffett's August St Nicholas essay The Wild Beast Tamer. It argues that lion taming rests on habit and kindness rather than fear, detailing a trainer's patient bond, gradual trust-building, and careful use of non-lethal tools. It notes danger remains, but fondness toward animals aids mastery and safety.
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St. Nicholas
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Lon
Ivy Poisoning and Home Remedies in Good Housekeeping
A note on ivy and other poisonous plants mentions that cures vary by patient. Traditional country remedies include carbonate of soda in hot water and salt in hot water, used at the earliest sign of poisoning for possible immediate relief.
Remedies for Poison Ivy and Urgent Itch Relief
The piece lists folk cures and remedies for poison ivy including lye from wood ashes sassafras tea lime water and a doctor’s mix of sugar or lead with opium. It notes hot water helps itching and explains how to recognize poison ivy by its triple leaf and warns against sharing towels after exposure to avoid spreading the irritant.
Savage Battle of Ants at the White House Grounds
Spectators watched a three hour ant battle at the northwest grounds of the executive mansion as red and black ants clashed. Red ants secured a signal victory with two black casualties per red. Witnesses made bets on outcomes amid a lively morning scene.
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Washington Times
White House
Executive Mansion
Red Ants
American Kindness in the Civil War Era
An International Monthly piece argues the Ameri can embody kindness and mercy toward noncombatants in the rebellion era. It notes wartime brutality yet highlights humane treatment of subjugated leaders and women and children, sharing a few incidents from inquiries among over one hundred ex-soldiers.
Enduring Kentucky War’s Internal Strife and Cleansing Pledges
The 1862 Buell Bragg campaigns in Kentucky tore communities and split families as brothers faced brothers. Despite brutal clashes by irregular home guards and rare cruelty among disciplined troops, civilians suffered little harm. When truces allowed, both sides sought to “keep the fighting clean” and deter atrocities.
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Buell
Bragg
Kentucky
Vacationitis In Philadelphia Records From A Spruce Street Doctor
A Philadelphia doctor warns of Vacationitis, describing two types of sufferers. One group are rich workers who need rest but refuse it without a physician's order. The other group includes their employers who never grant vacations unless illness forces it, prompting clerks to seek medical excuses while the doctor treats many cases.
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New York
Philadelphia
Puck Dialogue on Indemnity Basis for China Killings
In a satirical exchange, Warwick asks how the powers decide China indemnities. Wickwire responds that they roughly charge about five hundred dollars for every Chinese person killed, illustrating wartime reparations logic with a grim arithmetic.
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Puck. Warwick
China
Fifteen to two per cent reduction on photographs
The Kit at Tin Libbio offers a March sale with a 15 to 2 percent price cut on all photographs. John Nicholson, manager, invites customers to visit 1136 North Pennsylvania Street for the discount event this month.
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Atin LiUbio
John Nicholson
Mgr
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