Washerwoman’s Daughter Margaret Evtinge Nymph Of Harper’s Weekly
A lyric portrait in Harper’s Weekly extols a earth-born washerwoman’s daughter named Margaret Evtinge as a water nymph. The piece describes sea-green eyes, sunlit hair, and graceful motion as she dances among waves and bubbles with a playful, musical presence. The narrator declares deep affection for the girl amid bucolic imagery.
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Andi
Elity Maid
Margaret Evtinge
Harper's Weekly
Death in Benares Haunts and Funeral Fire on the Ganges
A visitor recalls the Burning Ghat in Benares where Jogi corpses are cremated, the two stone coffins for self-prophesied deaths, and a charnel scene as flames rise and bystanders watch. He chats with two native students about Hindu theology, observes Aurangzeb’s mosque, and ends at Man Singh’s Observatory, amid vivid cultural contrasts.
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Solomon
Haidarabad
Deccan
India
Ghats
Srishti
Christopher Columbus
America
Henry VIII
Suvarna
Golden Land
Kunneleut
Bhutta
Olcott
Vishnu
Babus
Ganges
Ghat
Substituting Pine Shavings for Horse Hair in Upholstery
The New York Sun reports that in Pesth Hungary a large factory produces pine shavings refined by machinery to resemble tow. The shavings are touted as superior for upholstery due to elasticity softness and durability. They also deter vermin because of resin content, with tested suitability for hospitals and barracks by the German Government. After five to six years the shavings can be renewed by sun or heat exposure.
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Pesth
Hungary
N.Y Sun
Indian Decorum and the Virtue of Native Girls
A Ledger letter argues that an Indian girl embodies strict tribal decorum, never travels alone, averts her gaze from men, and hides her face around outsiders. It contends deviation endangers her tribe’s protection, asserting no safe place exists for a girl who ignores tribal law.
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Ledger
Excellent Customs of Japan in Social Habits
A verbose essay contrasts Japanese politeness with American hurry. It cites elaborate phrases for greeting and inviting, critiques American haste, and suggests adopting Japanese courtesy in daily life. The piece includes a playful description of a shadow theater demonstration from Puck.
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Japan
United States
America
Treasury Department
Scott Way
Puck
Parlor Magic Show Reveals Cigars Hidden Stand Trick
A magician performs with a hat and a cigar, claiming to balance the cigar upright on the crown. The secret uses a hidden ebony rod with a needle point pushing through the hat crown to lift the cigar. Spectators can inspect the cigar, while the rod is smuggled away during a hat brush and the illusion ends with the cigar falling.
A Celebrated City Venice and Its Wonders
The writer extols Venice as a waterborne marvel with canals replacing roads. St Marks, begun 800 finished 1071, features 42 000 feet of mosaics and 500 columns. The Doge’s palace Rialto bridge and Shylock’s iron barred house are noted along with the Bridge of Sighs and famed galleries.
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St. Marks
Constantinople
Nero
Rome
Venice
Rialto
Shylock
Bridge of Sighs
Lintoretti
Italy
Venice Cor
Sacramento Bee
Practical Philosophy On Everyday Dilemmas From A Detroit Paper
An 1800s style meditation lists practical solutions to petty moral conflicts. The narrator weighs deterring a swill cart, guarding garden hoses, handling a suspected thief servant, and dealing with a neighbor’s dog via cautious, self preserving actions. The piece ends with a sly jab from the Detroit Free Press.
Rich and Beautiful Lace at Edinburgh Exhibition
A large point de Venise counterpane over two yards square, among the finest lace pieces in England, shown at the Edinburgh Exhibition. Made about a century ago for the reigning Pope, it required two or three lifetimes of work. It later returned to the Royal Lace Factory at Venice and joined Mr. Stuart Samuel's London collection. Timothy Dwight elected Yale College president, regarded as capable though new to sporting circles.
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England
Edinburgh
Venice
Stuart Samuel
London
Colonial Relics Bring War-Era Writs To Light
A Times correspondent shares two 18th century legal writs found with relics from Oscar F. Richards of Akron. One dated March 1745 commands a sheriff to seize Elizabeth Mallory for debt, while a May 1774 execution targets Thomas Lovesay Jr. Aged and well-preserved, the documents illuminate Virginia’s colonial era.
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Oscar F. Richards
Akron
Erie County
N. Y
New York Volunteers
Fair Oaks
Times
Old
Virginia
Prince George
Petersburg
George the
Britain
France
Ireland
Ereeting
Mallory
Thomas Hyam
Elizabeth Mallory
William Samlin
Thomas Lovesay, Jr
Benjamin Franklin
George Washington
Culloden
George II
Stuart
Napoleon
Prince George's County
Tood Old Colony
Lockport
Cor
Decline of English Needlework Through Monopolies and Reform
The piece traces how religious houses fostered embroidery in Tudor and Stuart England and how royal monopolies, notably Villiers and the Mompesson patent, degraded craft by forcing pricey French goods on wearers. It notes Elizabethan progress, later decline, and the East India Company’s early role in shaping Indian embroidery limits, ending with a lament for lost patterns and techniques.
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Gifford
Cromwell
Woolsthorpe
Lincolnshire
Catharine
Mary
Philip
Elizabeth
Mompesson
Villiers
Duke of Buckingham
India
East India Company
Right and Ennobling Aims in Education
A passage urges using education to foster self knowledge and self respect in youth. It cautions against chasing fame and leaders, advocating instead for developing each person’s capabil ity with earnestness and loyalty in home and school. The piece cites M. Ledger on ennobling aims and happiness through doing well what one can do.
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M. ¥. Ledger
Preservation of Wood by Gutta Percha Infiltration
A Scientific American note describes preserving wood by exhausting air from pores and filling them with a gutta percha solution. The mix of two thirds gutta percha to one third paraffine is heated to liquefy the gutta percha and inject into the wood pores, where it hardens on cooling to protect against moisture and sun.
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Scientific American
Home and Farm Tips From Early American Newspapers
A collage of household and agricultural advice includes glue in milk to restore old crape, experiments toward a wheat rye cross for bread, carpet ravelings for darning, potato baking tips, rust removal with acid caution, cow milking improvements with quiet feeding, a boiled cheese recipe with eggs and cayenne, a flax seed cough syrup with lemons and gum arabic, and a chocolate custard recipe with chocolate, vanilla, eggs, and warm milk.
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Boston
Boston Globe
Proper method for taking off hides and preserving skins
Instructions from the Chicago Shoe and Leather Review outline careful hide removal from cattle skins, including slit patterns, avoiding cuts to legs and head, and methods for finishing. It advises windlass or horse methods, salting, drying, stacking, and ongoing vigilance against moths and worms to protect skins until sale or shipment.
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Chicago Shoe and Leather Review
Chicken Cholera Remedy Warns Against Filth in Yards
An 19th century Farm Field Stackman note explains cholera in poultry stems from filthy coops and yards. It urges thorough cleaning, disinfection with carbolic acid and whitewash, and applying Douglas mixture to premises. Signs include very thirsty birds, nervous look, and green watery droppings.
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Field Stackman
Jumbo Ohio baby Elmer Heeter weighs sixty eight pounds
Elmer Heeter, sixteen months old from near Trenton, Ohio, is hailed as the Jumbo baby of the state. He weighs sixty eight pounds and measures twenty eight inches around the chest thirty three inches at the waist and twenty around the thigh. He has light blue eyes rosy cheeks and ringlets of hair. He is healthy good natured and perfectly formed. Parents are of ordinary size and crowds come from miles to view the child.
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New
Philadelphia
Elmer Heeter
F. Heeter
Trenton
Ohio
Elmer
Tiny Sharon baby weighs two pounds three ounces
A Sharon Pennsylvania report notes the smallest baby in the area staying with Mr and Mrs Steve Boyer on East Hill. The infant was weighed yesterday and registered at two pounds three ounces, wrapped in a pound of cotton for safety.
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Sharon
Steve Boyer
East Hill
Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute Ad in Buffalo
An extended promotional piece touts the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute in Buffalo New York as a leading medical center with eighteen physicians for chronic diseases. It claims cure rates across nasal throat lung liver kidney digestive and other ailments and offers an Invalids Guide Book for ten cents.
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Buffalo
N. Y
America
World's Dispensary Medical Association
Buffalo, N
Southern Bivouac for Sale and Subscriptions Open
An old periodical advertisement notes for sale and subscription options for The Southern Bivouac with sample copy offers. It lists pricing at one year two dollars and six months one dollar, plus mentions of credited editors and contributing names. The notice invites newsdealers to stock the magazine.
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Allan Hawthorne
Edgar Fawcett
Junius Henrt Browne
Wiliam Ef, Ridetng
James Sterbert Yierse
Uelen Campbell
Mary Lowe Dickinson
Abby Sage Richardtet North
Florence Hethewell
SI Plete
Ashign Publishing Co
P. O
L& Jacob
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