Auction Gossip and Hidden Histories at a 19th Century Sale
A crowded Indianapolis sale reveals how low prices On cheap items drive bidding while a sharp auctioneer orchestrates the crowd. Tales from bidders include a Davis dish and wax fruit centerpiece as women trade quips and memories amid a wide array of household goods.
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Yucatan
William Shakspeare
Avon
Mercy
Bill Shakepeare
The
Powers
Bill
Davis
Indianapolis
Ohio
Investors Begin Buying As Stocks Decline
The Pittsburg Chronicle Telegraph notes a stock market dip from last autumn’s highs offers buying chances for investors who trust the country’s future. It highlights United States Steel Corpora tion’s committee purchasing preferred shares to grant employees partnership terms akin to those offered to 23,000 workers, aiming to align capital and labor for better overall results.
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Pittsburg
United States Steel Corporaion
Cor
Leon
Insurance Ad Claims Fire Tornado Explosion Coverage
An advertisement notes German Fire Insurance Company based on South Delaware Street offering coverage for fire tornado and explosion risks.
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Delaware Street
Johnson's Faulty Dictionary Project and Unverified Quotations
Pope supported the scheme while Johnson led its execution at great cost. The new features included quotations collected by Johnson and copied by six assistants. They were printed without verification and proofs were poorly checked, resulting in numerous curious errors.
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Pope
Johnson
Masterful reader and audience in diverse critiques
Excerpt discusses types of readers from omnivorous to selective and the master reader who elevates all, then shifts to a Philadelphia Press–sourced critique about criticism in print and family reactions to an author, ending with a publisher requests biographical sketch for Who's Who in America.
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Bernard G. Richards
Philadelphia
Tom
Who's Who In America
Descriptive Titles and Short Story Value in Literature
A discussion on book titles and their relation to content. The piece argues titles should convey the book’s soul or keynote, favoring descriptive hints over simply naming characters. It covers Austen, Miss Johnston, and classic works, and notes the short story’s importance and stylistic compression.
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Eens T. Munger
Booklovers
Rob Roy
Jane Austen
Emma
Miss Johnston
Audrey
Hester Prynne
Heves
New York Tribune
Thomas Hardy
The
Athenaeum
Country Journal
Hardy
England
America
Literary Notes and Portraits in 19th Century Press
A collection of literary commentary mentions portraits of young writers, Ruskin's favorite adverb entirely, and looming demolition of 6 Wine Office Court. It notes Miss Marietta Holly of Bonnie View, Isobel from The Mettle of the Pasture, and Joseph Conrad's semi autobiographical tales including Youth and Heart of Darkness, tied to his early voyage.
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Ruskin
Slidoer
London
Wine Office Court
Oliver Goldsmith
Wakefield
Marietta Holly
Josiah Allen
Lippincott's
Bonnie View
Adams County
New York
Miss Holly
Newark
Isobel
James Lane Allen
Joseph Conrad
Conrad
Australia
The End of the Tether Hero and The Heart of Darkness
The excerpt highlights Conrad’s rise with The End of the Tether and The Heart of Darkness. It notes a new publisher practice in literary criticism, offering $100 to editors who judge which of two reviews is nearer the truth, urging prompt response.
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New York Letter
Washington Star
Sofala
Conrad
Congo Free State
England
Cryst
Lake Region
Why Farmers Rarely Bald Says a Barber in New York Sun
A New York Sun disquisition features a suburban barber arguing that farmers rarely go bald due to limited washing and physical labor. He contrasts farm life with city life, noting frequent shampooing strips scalp oils and weakens hair roots, while farm workers wash lightly and stay cooler.
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New York Sun
Union
Ike
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Edwin P. Whipple
Boston
Charlotte Hastings Whipple
Pinckney Street
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Whipple
Hawthorne
Whittler
Emerson
Boyle O'Reilly
Charles Sumner
Whipples
Longfellow
Holmes
Whittier
Concord
Earth
Newdigate
Oxford
Charles I
Academy and Literature
Little Old New York
New York Evening Post
Murray
Nathaniel Bailey
Anne
Bryan
North Carolinas
W. J. Bryans
Clark
Pearson
Angelus
Pennsylvania Street
Hoo
Les
Sunset Magazine
France
Maupassant
Springfield
Pennsylvania Railway Company
Western Union Telegraph Company
Cassatt
Pennsylvania
Clowry
Western Union
United States Supreme Court
the Bobbs-Merrill Company
Washbington Street
George Hyde Preston
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