Endowed Theater Idea Draws from European Model
The New York Tribune surveys Europe’s government supported theaters and argues for an American endowed theater. It cites Berlin Vienna Dresden and Munich subsidies, staff, and pensions, asserting such a venture would educate and elevate American drama and opera while keeping prices affordable for the public.
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New York Tribune
National Academy of Dramatic and
Heinrich Conried
Metropolitan Opera House
America
Europe
Conried
Atlantic
New World
Berlin
Royal Opera
Empire
Herlin Royal
Munich
Paris Grand Opera
Wiesbaden
Frankfort
Berlin Royal Opera
Germany
London
Paris
New York
Vienna
Court
Austria
Dresden
Germ
Not a Starved Profession Scholarly Life Harper's Weekly
The article argues scholarship is now safe for devoted students with provisions for maintenance, dispelling fears of want. It notes those pursuing teaching professions can continue without fear, emphasizing a shift in support for scholarly work.
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Lanse
Rhodes
Germany
Rome
Harvard
Yale
Harper's Weekly
Parasite of Smallpox Proposed as Protozoan
Dr Councilman and assistants study smallpox parasite development in two stages, describing extranuclear and intranuclear phases and spores. They note vaccination virus and Guarnieri bodies as related findings, raise questions on entry, hosts, toxins, and bacterial roles, and anticipate broader parasite research across diseases.
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Councilman
Magrath
Brinkerhoeff
Dr. Councilman
van d. Loeff
R. Pfeiffer
Guarnieri
Pfeiffer
Hugenin
The Weight of Gold in Subtreasury Curiosities
An employee at the subtreasury explains how weight misleads money value. He recounts a man and a woman whose combined weight would be worth about $28,647 in gold. He notes the weight discrepancy between coins and paper money and gives examples of coin and bill weights and totals across denominations.
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New York Mail and Express
Treasury
Humor Through the Ages A New York World Collection
A New York World piece catalogs ancient and classical quips from Plutarch Cicero and a Greek storyteller. It references jokes about mothers-in-law aging Fabia and hair dye, hinting at social satire across eras.
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New York World
Plutarch
Cicero
Fabia
Old Greek Jokes On Doctors And Fools
A fragment discusses ancient and later quips about doctors and marriage. It recalls Socrates about marrying or not, Pausanias on speaking ill of a doctor, and Hierocles and a twin joke, tracing a line from Greek writers to later echoes.
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Socrates
Xanti
Cervantes
Pausanias
The Blind Chaplain Milburn and His Congress Years
William Henry Milburn, known as the Blind Chaplain, began as a preacher among circuit riders. At twenty two, aboard a steamer with Congress en route to Washington, he denounced profane and drunken behavior, earning a purse from lawmakers and later securing his election as chaplain. He served fifty eight years.
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Everybody's Magazine
William Henry Milburn
Congress
Milburn
Ohio
Cincinnati
Eeling
W. Va
Washington
Congress of the United States
The Early Morning Air in The Lancet
The piece argues that morning air feels fresher due to dew saturated with oxygen and possible ozone or peroxide of hydrogen formation. It posits chemical changes between night and day affect freshness, and suggests the dew’s vitalizing role supports plant and animal well-being, linking to the prayerful phrase about continual dew.
Amputated Hand Told By Veteran In New Orleans
An elderly Civil War veteran in New Orleans recounts lingering pain in a missing arm and claims a “nervous sympathy” keeps feeling in the lost hand. He describes visiting doctors for forty years for an aching, unseen hand and offers a personal theory linking brain and limb sensation to his battlefield injury.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Manassas
Old-Time Telegraphing Recalled By Retired Rope Dealer
Aged cordage dealer, eighty four, recalls how telegraph use grew from rare necessity in 1862 to modern high cablegram costs. He recounts a Maine rope walk telegram effort requiring multiple tries and help from his son to convey the message clearly.
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New York
Maine
Fashion Notes on Fabrics and 1830s Style Revivals
The article extols fabrics like Muslins dimities chiffons nets and organ dies with floral fidelity to nature. It surveys gowns for dress and demi dress in linen with varied fashioning trims and matinees in sheer fabrics with lace and lingerie work. It notes crepe albatross silk voiles and wool voiles and offers sewing tips to prevent thread kinks. It highlights the throad collar as a bright sartorial star and mentions lace linen batiste swiss lawn and revived 1830s styles for accessories.
Telegram Costs and Longhand Copy Delays at Maine Firm
A group discusses a ten word limit telegram and the extra cost to clarify it. They copied the final version in longhand, filed the copy, and doubted if the Maine firm would interpret it correctly. They lament the idea of adding six words at four cents each as extravagant.
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Maine
Men Who Seek Snake Bites Describe A Curious Addiction
A scientific minded speaker cites men who seek snake bites as a stimulant akin to morphine or cocaine. He notes repeated bites to avoid withdrawal, claiming the venom acts like an opiate and briefly lifts energy and mood before dangerous consequences.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Lincoln's Taint of Superstition From Curtis's Book
A fragment discusses Abraham Lincoln's supposed taint of superstition and melancholy, attributed to his ancestry. It ties these traits to sensitive minds on the Western frontier and to life in solitary forest and mountain settings.
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William Eleroy Curtis
Foresta
Lincoln's Sensitive Mind and Humorous Cure
The passage describes Abraham Lincoln as highly empathetic with vivid imagination and keen observation. It notes his reticence about personal matters and how early life hardships and bleak surroundings fostered morbid tendencies. To counter anxiety he chose humor and humor-tinged reading as a self-devised remedy.
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Lincoln
Uses of asbestos spark debate over fireproof mineral
The insurance board orders insulation for New York subway wires and asbestos mill board for car roofs and floors. Canada supplies most asbestos, with mills in Erie, Chicago, Cincinnati, Boston, Philadelphia, and a new plant in Dover C. The piece notes asbestos’ fireproof nature, varied uses from paints to tiling, and a Philadelphia jewelers bid for skilled engravers to craft heraldic devices.
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Insurance Commissioners
New York
Canada
Ontario
Quebec
United States
Erie
Chicago
Cincinnati
Boston
Philadelphia
Cana! Dover
Treasury
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