Hobson's Choice at Delmonico's in Old New York
A Western gentleman in Delmonico's asks for various foods and finally requests champagne and terrapin with the usual trimming. The scene unfolds with humorous exchanges and culinary misfires reflecting period dining chatter. The Pigmy Cattle of Samoa describes dwarf cattle from Samoa, noting their small size, color, build, and elongated horns in both sexes.
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Hobson's Choice
Far West
Delmonico’s Hashery
New York
Garcon
Land of the Big Apples prospectus invites Nome seekers
An advertisement describes a railroad connected region from Kansas City through Joplin to Arkansas with rich coal and mineral districts, abundant timber and water, a favorable climate, and rising farm land values. It urges buyers to act now for later price gains and provides contact at M Kat Trust Building and Ames Donohue Geological Office in Kansas City. Also includes a humorous dialogue about a piano song.
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Kansas
Mexico
United States
Sas City
Pittsburg
Oplin
Joplin
Arkansas
Illinois
Iowa
Nebraska
M. Kat
Trust Building
7Th and
Wyandotte Streets
Kansas City
Ames Donohue, Geol. F. & P. Rct
Various Advertisements and Notices from a Historic Paper
A collage of advertisements and snippets notes travel health tonics and remedies including Syrup of Figs from the California Fig Syrup Company and Parker's Ginger Tonic. Also mentions a Augusta post office clerk stamping 4 000 postal cards, teething remedies for babies, social notes about Lent, and mentions of iron pennies in Birmingham and quick Atlantic cable messages.
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California Fig Syrup Company
Augusta
Pillow Wrinkles and Facial Effects of Wooden Headrests
A historical excerpt explains how pillow use and facial massage influence facial features. It describes wooden headrests used by Chinese and Japanese sleepers and the impact of pillows on cheekbones, eyes, noses, and mouths, noting potential changes from early life to adulthood and the role of repeated massage.
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New York Herald
The Visiting Barber
A six foot upper west side barber operates as a visiting barber calling on homebound, well to do clients at fixed hours for extra pay. He counts bankers lawyers physicians theater managers and a steamship line agent among his customers and says he serves about twenty five clients daily with weekly charges from two dollars. He cites convenience cleanliness and satisfaction as the benefits of his mobile service.
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Upper West Side
Wac
New Street
West Indies
New York Mail and Express
Transformation of Ugly Ducklings Through Early Care
The passage notes that young children’s bodies are more pliable and receptive to change, suggesting that attentive mothers can nurture their children, guiding early development so that rough traits may become refined as they grow.
Spare the Adjectives Excerpt Teaches Word Limits
A gentleman cautions his niece Alice about using superlatives as she describes toothaches cake rests flies heat and racket. He warns that one day she will face a situation requiring stronger words and that adjectives will run out.
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Alice
Dead to Remorse in Italy’s Retired Organ Grinders
An Exchange note describes villagers who have ceased tormenting themselves with music and now live in peace. Some ex‑performers reportedly keep their instruments and grind on them for amusement, illustrating the extinction of remorse in the human breast.
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Italy
Woman of Weles dies at 94 famed Welsh patron
A Welsh patroness known as Gwenyen Gwent died aged 94. She funded Welsh literature and wore the Welsh beaver hat. Her husband, later raised to the peerage as Benjamin Hall, gave his name to Big Ben and served as commissioner of public works.
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Llanover
Gwenyen Gwent
Monmouthshire
Benjamin Hall
Big Ben
House of Parliament
Grimsby Town Elects Mayor by Hay Filled Calf Test
In Grimsby the burgesses chose three candidates for mayor. Each was led to the common pound with a hay bundle on his back and blindfolded beside a calf. The mayor was the man whose hay was first eaten by the calf, for the coming year.
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Grimsby
Living skeleton comments on Kansas women franchise talk
In a humorous exchange a living skeleton notes discussions of granting women the franchise in Kansas. The bearded lady shows sudden interest and says she would move to Kansas to run for Congress if the change happens.
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Kansas
Congress
Indianapolis Journal
Idle Scavenger and Potent Bits in An Old Column
An old column extols the bowel as a scavenger and urges active duty of the intestines with Hostetter’s Bitters for digestion and malaria relief. It promotes Cor’s Cough Balsam to break up colds and mentions A. J. Mulhall listing real estate in Waukegan, Illinois. It ends with a quip on wisdom and ignorance.
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Cor
England
America
CHICAGO FLOWER SEED offer for 1896 varieties
Enticing inducement for our choice flower seeds at a reduced price. Send a money order or stamps for ten packages at Sb or five for $1.00. This special offer aims to place varieties in every home and mentions 7% home rate. Respond to 7% Homroe St Chicago.
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Chicago
Homroe St
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Samoa
Samoan
The
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad
Undertaker
Mr. D
Man Wixston
Parker
Birmingham
Atlantic
Kennedy
Donald Kennedy
Roxbury
Mass
Boston
J. Mulhall
Waukegan
Balsam Fles
ST. Jacobs Oil
Walter Baker & Co
Walter Baker & Co., Ltd
Dorchester, Mass
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