Reform Ruined Him Gambler to Pauper on Blackwell's Island
Joseph Jewell once famed as Gambling Joe and connected to the Jewell family once rich, now 65 and in striped clothes on Blackwell's Island. He left gambling fifteen years ago after family pressure, opened a butcher shop that failed, and fell to public charity. He laments reform but offers no warning to youths against gambling.
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New York
Blackwell's Island
Joseph Jewell
Jewell
Marshall Jewell
Grant
Russia
Pliny Jewell
Harriet Beecher Stowe
Preparing Diamonds Polishing Them The Key Process
Amsterdam hosts a thriving diamond industry with sixty two registered firms. Diamonds arrive in rough form and pass through three stages: splitting cutting and polishing. Splitting uses targeted pressure to yield two stones while cutting shapes the stone into a round form. Polishing adds facets and finalizes the gem for setting.
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Amsterdam
B. W. How
London
Marriage talk stirs sympathy for Meeker betrothed
Mrs Enpeck expresses sympathy as she notes the bride elect speaks three or four languages. Mr Meeker comments he does not deserve such a fate, revealing light gossip of a forthcoming marriage.
Power Is Stealing From Many to a Few
Quote from Wendell Phillips on power centralization condemning wealth and influence concentrating control away from the many toward a privileged minority.
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Wendell Phillips
Cats for Company at Coast Life-Saving Stations
Long Island life-saving stations along the Atlantic host numerous cats. Capt John Edwards at Short Beach station near Freeport notes about fifty cats, kept to fight rats and brighten crews. The crew feeds, mobilizes, and displays the cats to visitors, who witness the cats gathering when signaled and forming circles at mealtime.
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Toney
Atlantic
Long Island
Uncle Sam
John Edwards
Saving Station
Freeport
New York Journal
A GREAT NATURALIST Alexander Agassiz
Alexander Agassiz born in 1835 in Switzerland rose to lead American marine science. He studied at Harvard graduating in 1855 and worked at the coast survey in 1859 and Cambridge museum in 1860. He became a leading authority on marine life and wrote on bryology and the Natural History of the United States. His work earned European societies’ recognition as an American correspondent.
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Alexander Agassiz
Switzerland
United States
Harvard
California
Coast Survey
Museum of Zoology
Cambriae
Lawrence Scientific School
Million Dollar Fee Earned By Carnegie Frick Mediator
James B. Dill, famed for settling the Carnegie Frick suit, drew the largest known legal fee of about one million dollars. The Yale graduate, former reporter, now a prominent New York corporate counsel, enjoys sailing and horses and owns a Huntington estate and Adirondack camp.
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James B. Dill
Carnegie-Frick
United States
Dill
Wall Street
New York City
Yale
Emma H
Huntington
L. L
Adirondacks
the Police
Awakened Conscience and the Marble Game Lesson
A children’s poem recalls Tommy winning marbles in a summer game. As the joy fades, he loses Crockeries and bibs, laments the cost, and hears his mother warn that playing for keeps is wicked, teaching a moral about honesty.
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Tom
Tommy
Mamma
Early Birds and Birds of Spring in a Cornell Leaflet
Louis Agassiz Fouries writes in the Cornell Nature Leaflet about migratory cowbirds and meadowlarks signaling spring, describing their behaviors, calls, and plumage. He also recalls a kingfisher's imposing presence and the charm of juvenile reading from a child's paper long ago.
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Louis Agassiz Fouries
Cornell Nature
Florida childhood reading and St Augustine curiosities
A letter from Josephine Holloway of Kirkland School Chicago notes how parental read alouds foster love of literature in children. It then shares a Florida city sketch describing coquina houses Anastasia Island Ponce de Leon barber pole a three hotel market and palms as read aloud material inspires education at home.
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St. Augustine
Florida
Anastasia
Ponce de Leon
Cordova
Alcazar
Josephine Holloway
Kirkland School
Chicago
Spelling Test Calls for Prized Word Mastery
A playful verse challenges spellers to master tricky terms from science geography and history. It lists words like synchronism ethnics and pachyderm and names several rivers seas and places to highlight the difficulty of spelling in English.
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Tennessee
Kamchatka
Behring Straits
Michaelmas
Dneiper
Seine
Guadalquivir
Dorothy fund charity idea sparks UK children’s coins
A Dublin girl named Dorothy proposes that every child in the United Kingdom with her name donate one shilling to fund a child’s bed in a hospital. The plan wins enthusiasm, inspiring related efforts for Mary and Marjorie collections, with hope for substantial future aid.
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Dublin
United Kingdom
Dorothy
Mary
Marjorie
Grade Hogs and Pure Blood Preference in Breeding
A horticultural expert argues that grade hogs are less valuable for breeding than pure-blood line hogs. Native stock provides vigor while pure-blood sows and boars improve fattening and traits. gradual crosses raise quality but cannot yield fully pure bloods. Purchases of pure-blood stock are advised, with annual replacement boars. Breeders with reputations for exceptional animals can fetch higher prices, while production-focused breeders may value pigs by pork yield. S. M. Tracy.
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S. M. Tracy
Popcorn farming notes from Indiana Farmer excerpts
Growing popcorn demand rises but supply lags. Details soil, fertilizer blends, planting spacing, irrigation limits, and uses of poor ears for feed. Includes observations on Boer farmers, land sales to cattle companies, nursery stock caution, and historical notes on Cochins and the early poultry craze.
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Joel Shumaker
Indiana
America
Omaha
Colorado
Wyoming
Utah
Nebraska
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