Remarkable Jena Glassworks and Wagner's Dresden Jibe
A vivid report describes the Jena glassworks where Abbe and Schott built a renowned industry. A boy worker forms a glass blob into a long red tube nearly 300 feet, as master blowers extend the corridor. Wagner once quipped that Zurich players now outplayed the Dresden orchestra.
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Jena
Abbe
Schott
Fie
Richard Wagner
Royal Opera
Dresden
Germany
Wagner
Zurich
Bishop Whipple Becomes Dentist on Frontier
An early trip west leads Bishop Whipple to assist an ailing Indian by learning tooth extraction. After Chicago contact, he uses improvised forceps at Whitefish Lake to pull a large upper molar without flinching, a bungling yet triumphant start to his unregistered dental career.
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Bishop Whipple
Chicago
Whitefish Lake
Boston Transcript
Silver Teapots and Kettles Through the Georges Era
The article traces silver tableware from 17th and 18th century Europe noting onset of tea and coffee in the 1600s, early teapots and coffeepots, and the rise of silver urns tea strainers and caddies by the mid 1700s. It highlights medallions festoons and drapery in early pieces and mentions Paul Lamerie wares and fashionable cut silver trays and salvers.
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Europe
Charles II
Paul Lamerie
Harper’s Bazar
Swiss girls taught humility and equality in schooling
The passage notes Swiss girls learn humbly and practically from age four through eighteen, attending coeducational schools with equal subjects, teachers, and discipline. It mentions social classes mixing, and a Swiss girl unashamed of humble work, contrasting with magical lineage claims of the Lavernor family in Picardy.
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St. Hubert
Lavernors
Pcardy
Picardy
Pasteur Institute
Proverbial Advice and Optical Service Ad
A vintage classified snippet offers proverbs about wealth, effort, and governance. It also advertises eye care by Dr. H A Schell, optician, promising glasses to cure weak eyes and headaches and a “Satisfaction guaranteed or money refunded” policy from Consultation Tree. The Citizen's Classified Acts are promoted as a way to find the person you want.
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H. A. Schell
Optician
Copper Queen Company plans three wells near Douglas
The Copper Queen Company has set contracts to sink three artesian wells near Douglas to a depth of one thousand feet with water flow not yet developed. The company owns major Arizona properties and aims to secure water to attract a new large smelter at Douglas.
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Copper Queen Company
Douglas
Great
Copper Company
Nacozari
Morenci
Bisbee
Bsbee Review
Prospectors B T Cruikshank and J M Folks Reach Mesa After Harrowing Trip
Messrs Cruikshank of Philadelphia and Folks of San Francisco arrived in Mesa after a rough journey from El Paso Texas. They outfitted for a prospecting trip, bought four burros saddles and a horse, and faced dangerous terrain with broken canteens. They endured wandering near Lordsburg the Gila Valley San Carlos and the Box Canyon before survival.
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B. T. Cruikshank
Philadelphia
J. M
Sanrancisco
Cal
Mesa
el Paso
Texas
Lordsburg
Gila Valley
San Carlos
Bisbee Incorporates. J. J. Muirhead Installed As Mayor
Bisbee becomes an incorporated town and J. J. Muirhead is named the first mayor by the Board of Supervisors. Council members include I. W. Wallace as Town Clerk Day ton Graham as Town Marshal and J. M. O Connell as City Attorney. A three person committee will draft ordinances for a Wednesday meeting. Muirhead is a Bisbee pioneer who came twenty two years ago and has spent the last eight as boss at Copper Queen mines.
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Bisbee
J. J. Muirhead
Board of Supervisors
I. W. Wallace
J. M. O'Connell
Copper Queen Mines
Muirhead
Hisbee
English Language Quirks Highlight British Speech Barriers
A nostalgic aside contrasts American and British English usages. The piece notes confusion over terms like Bromley for a car and calls sugar icing or caster, while beef becomes beet root and napkins are serviettes.
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London
England
Charing Cross
Bromley
Julian Ralph
Elarper’s Magazine
Montenegrin Prince Intervenes to Save Last Family Body
A Montenegrin prince confronts a dying family line dilemma as a boy begs to rejoin his battalion after being ordered home. The prince insists on protecting the family line, offering a choice between flogging or returning home, and the boy ultimately returns home though vowing to avenge his father and brothers.
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Hie
Oreabuk
Reading Brings No Mercy to Forgery Conviction
A Confederate era remark quotes Brother Dickey reacting to a race member sentenced to prison for forgery. He says education failed him, claiming he could not read or write and never will, with the quote from the Atlanta Constitution reflecting on literacy and justice.
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Brother Dickey
Atlanta Constitution
Kaffa region gives coffee its name in Abyssinia
The text explains coffee plants grow wild in Abyssinia and derive their name from Kaffa, a district there. It notes a well behaved old man aiding his errant son, illustrating social concern in the region.
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Abyssinia
Kaffa
Atechison Gloie
Timing Your Train and Chinese Notions in Fact and Folly
A Washington Star excerpt discusses train speed estimation by window post counts and wheel clicks, noting varying rail lengths and pole spacing. It contrasts methods of speed guessing with practical limits, then shifts to a vignette on China showing shop signs, measures, bargaining, and a proverb about honesty and piety.
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Washington Star
China
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