Big pay for authors across literature and journalism
A New York Mail report surveys high payments to writers from Tennyson to Twain and Gladstone. It notes $5,000 for a 20 line poem by Tennyson, $250 a line for a Grant memoir, and $75,000 for Mark Twain’s Huckleberry Finn, with many other historic sums for essays, sketches, and books from Bonner, Scribners, and leading publishers.
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Tennyson
Mark Twain
Gen. Logan
Mr. Cox
New York Mail
America
Gladstone
Gen. Grant
Mr. Gladstone
New York Ledger
Robert Bonner
Bonner
England
Charles Dickens
Edward Everett
Mr. Stephens
William H. Rawat
Bob Toombs
Joe Johnston
Gen. Sherman
Regress
Thomas Jefferson
Dolly Madison
Madison
Washington Irving
Prescott
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Huckleberry Finn
Josh Billings
W. D. Howells
Scribners
Bret Harte
Gabriel Conroy
J.G. Holland
Kathrina
Where Misery Abounds Life in New York
A Boston Globe reporter describes the cloakmakers strike against middlemen in New York. In grim Hester Street rooms six women and four sewing machines work under foul conditions to make cloaks worth up to 75 dollars, earning roughly 50 cents each after 16 hour days as contractors profit. The piece links worker misery to reduced imports and criticizes aldermen as well.
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Joe Howard
Boston Globe
Hester Street
Berlin
Staations
Elegant Aprons Return To Fashion In Furnishing Stores
The article describes dressy aprons for morning wear featuring lace insertion, crinkled seersuckers, and ecru batiste with intricate plaits and embroidery. It also includes a sentimental vignette of a Christian family prayers scene, highlighting mother child bonds and moral training.
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Ecru Batiste
The Poor in Germany Housing Crisis in Berlin
A Philadelphia Times correspondent notes the 1867 survey showing 290000 Berlin residents in one room homes and 69000 in unheated dwellings. In 19 years Berlin’s population surged, likely making those figures too small, with many living in cellars below ground in 1875.
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Germany
Philadelphia Times
Berlin
Tell Your Wife to Solve Troubles With Insight
The college- style article urges men to confide in their wives or female relatives about troubles. It argues women possess quick instincts and intuition that can illuminate problems and save homes and fortunes.
Tomatoes as Food Health Claim for Digestive Liver
Hall's Journal of Health notes tomatoes contain substances that act on the liver and aid digestion. It mentions figs and white mustard seed as laxatives and asserts tomato seeds pass unchanged through the stomach, supporting bowel action and constipation relief.
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Hall
Journal of Health
A Beautiful Sight from a Rural Home Scene
A former teacher recalls a village family of ten, six scholars aged between four and twelve, with parents described as striking and delicate. The mother, small and pretty, helps each child to bed as the brood gathers around her in a quiet, tender domestic moment.
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Nathas
Iever
Hot Corn for Fowls Recipe Advice
A correspondent suggests feeding fowls hot dry corn for supper. Test temperature by holding a handful—warm and pleasant is right. Heat corn in an iron pan, stir occasionally, and avoid adding water. Scorched kernels are said to benefit hens.
Hot Pilates at Table Keeps Plates Clean for Meals
Housekeepers are urged to avoid warming plates on ranges or ovens to prevent glaze cracking and stains. Keep boiling water ready from a teakettle, preheat plates in a tub, then wipe and stack hot plates just before serving to ensure clean dishes without soap residue.
Pumpkins as a Valuable Crop for Cattle and Swine
The article promotes pumpkins as a versatile feed for cows and swine, noting healthful, fattening properties and nitrogen in seeds. It cautions against excessive seed consumption, estimates yields of 20 to 40 tons per acre, and advises 6 to 7 feet between hills with 516 pound pumpkins common per hill. The common field pumpkin is preferred for its soft rind over the cheese pumpkin.
The Farmer's Paradise and the Freedom of Self Reliance
A detailed portrait of a self sufficient farmer living on his well kept land with modern dwellings and barns. The piece extols independence from labor constraints and external pressures, trusting in heaven's bounty and a stable living, while contrasting with ambitions for wealth.
Farmers would be the richest men on earth
The speaker believes if people understood true abundance they would feel rich, escaping a life of parsimony and constant labor. He suggests daily tasks would become easier and even delightful, freeing him from a tyrannical need to hoard money that traps him until death.
Earliest and Best Potatoes
The season asks for top early potatoes with varieties such as Beauty of Hebron and Early Gem. An Ohio Experimental Station test found Lee's Favorite most productive at 423 bushels per acre, with the first ten varieties averaging over 300 bushels. Leading yields included Lee's Favorite Clark No 1 Pearl of Savoy and Early Durham.
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Hebron
Durham
Ohio
Lee
Savoy
Thorburn
Chas. Downing
Watson
First Class Dairy Butter by Daniel Hale of Rowley
Daniel Hale of Rowley Massachusetts describes his process for first premium dairy butter from grade Jersey milk. He details milk handling cooling straining chilling skimming cream churning washing salting and aging to prints before market.
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Daniel H. Hale
Rowley
Mass
Essex County
The Farmer’s Quiet Life a Career of Modern Science
The article argues farming is a dignified, modern science not drudgery. It praises deliberate choice of farming as a life calling, noting hard work balanced by joy, contentment, and lasting fulfillment beyond money. It stresses preparation and a hopeful future for young farmers.
How to Cure a Ham With Sugar Rub and Pickle
The text describes a sugar curing method for hams and bacon. It covers a salt rub, then add saltpetre, brown sugar, and black pepper for fourteen to fifteen pounds of meat. A second rub uses remaining mix and extra coarse salt. After four days a molasses or sorghum syrup rub is added, then the meat rests in pickle for about a month. Optional vinegar and berries may be added for flavor.
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Amily
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