A Russian Village. Inhabitants Speak Of German French Settlers
A Dakota Cor. Pioneer Press dispatch describes a Russian village with Mennonite refugees from Peter the Great era. The account details women wearing head shawls, mud walls two feet thick, back-entry houses, cigarette smoking by men, and a visit with Dr W to observe meals and living conditions. The kitchen dining room setup includes a large soup, rye bread, coffee in glass tumblers, and a modest supper amid pungent odors from compost fuel.
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Europe
Dakota Cor
Pioneer Press
Sealed Eggs in Scotland
A humorous note from the Chicago Herald remarks that in Scotland inns may serve eggs filled with whisky due to an act of parliament. The eggs are blown out and refilled, then hermetically sealed for guests who cannot call for a drink. A Scotchman never tires of eggs.
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Scotland
Chicago Herald
Female Cowboy Becomes Deadwood Novelty
In Deadwood a female cowboy has become a local novelty while in Colorado rabbits are described as a growing nuisance, prompting concerns about garden damage and land use.
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Colorado
Silent Mother Weeps Over Sleeping Child
A fragment from The Independent describes a mother bending over her sleeping baby, watching the child with soft smiles and quiet tears. The scene captures a tender, intimate farewell as a kiss is pressed to the infant, the mother fearing any movement might wake the dreamer.
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R. BE. Munk
Independent
Mrs Cleveland At Church Anxious Attention At Service
Washington Cor Memphis Avalanche notes Mrs Cleveland attends church with quiet piety. She prays silently, follows hymns, and sits attentive through the sermon while being watched by congregants. After services, attention centers on her as the moment’s focal point.
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Washington Cor
Memphis Avalanche
Chicago’s Sewage System Plan Aims to End Local Nuisance
Chicago’s engineering department surveys a distant sandy area plan to canalize town waste. Water-heavy effluent would percolate through deep sand, leaving solids to be collected and processed, reducing odor and nuisance. Estimates of cost are under study.
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Chicago
Europe
Paris
Bessen
Chicago Cor
Cleveland
Soup From Horse Meat Spurs City Poverty
In Paris the poor gather at shabby cookshops for thin broth made from horse bones and scraps, priced a cent or two a quart. The broth, boiling long to extract marrow, nourishes laborers with few vegetables and bread. Beef is too dear here to compare.
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Paris
Belleville
Montmartre
Batignolies
Boulevards
America
Alfred Trumble
New York News
Mind at Rest and Work Never Done for Country Editor
The article extols the country editor as always alert, bearing the burdens of gathering local news, soliciting ads, building subscriptions, and collecting payments. It argues the editor wields unique influence, guiding hospitals, libraries, churches, and charities, and rallying towns to collective projects.
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Mabbett
North Adams
Glass Express
The Artist Theodore K Davis Returns From Minneapolis
Theodore K. Davis the Artist returns from Minneapolis where he prepared the panorama of the Atlanta fight. He recalls adding real cotton to painted bales to simulate bursting cotton and laughs at critics who found it rough and exaggerated while noting a tale about Steve Fiske and a taxidermist owl in ante bellum days.
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Theodore K. Davis
Minneapolis
Atlanta
Steve Fiske
The
Herald
New Brunswick
Fiske
Scott
Chicago News
Regard for the Proprieties in a Marble Shop Hall
A well dressed woman waits near a marble shop as a patrolman chats she says she waits for her husband who is in the shop figuring on a tombstone for his first wife dead three years. The officer jokes about proprieties and threatens to raise lumps on any intruders.
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Tronchis
Detroit Free Press
Intoxicated on Conversation in Temperance Circles
A drama member known as a strict temperance man shows no wine intake yet often appears exhilarated. In social gatherings, he drinks only water while others indulge, yet his conversations become animated and incoherent, resembling his companions.
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Han
Whitmere
Boston
Sayer
Cruelty to Animals and a Rome Bohemian Interlude
The piece argues that cruelty to horses stems from fear and ignorance in drivers, praising humane handling and noting horses’ endurance under kind care. It also recounts Virgil Williams and a humorous Rome anecdote about a rich American patron of the arts, with a painter’s canvas adapted to fit a round top preference.
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Virgil Williams
Rome
Cowd
Virgil
Croesus
Bohemana
Bna
Bun
Ello
Virgul
Mary
Pric Francisco Chronicle
Vermont Farmers Demoralized by Fast Horses Saga
A Vermont anecdote from a New York Tribune reprinting describes farm land prices collapsing from 70 dollars per acre to 15 to 30 as young workers leave, old men fail, and interest shifts to fast horses. The tale cites Black Hawk’s sale in Addison County as a $1,000,000 farm-value loss and warns the state was demoralized by riding culture.
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Vermont
Deacon Burnham
Hinesburg
Nather
St. Paul
New York
Cor
Detroit Free Press
David Hill
Black Hawk
Addison County
Lowell
Mass
New York Tribune
Stranger Scots Missionary Meets Band Outside North Gate
A Burmah Cor report in the London Times recalls a Scots missionary who crossed from China after two months travel, largely as a prisoner. He encountered the Twenty-sixth Punjab infantry band at the north gate, asked if they were English, and cried with emotion. He is described as a fine, well-set Scotsman from Isla, awaiting further reunions with the writer.
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China
Twenty-sixth Regiment
Punjab Infantry
North Gate
Isla
Bhama
Burmah Cor
London Times
Sheridan as a Farmer Brings Simple Pleasures to General
Gen Sheridan enjoys a new rural life renting a thirty acre farm near Washington. He farms himself picking peas and potatoes, driving to town each day, and cherishes a quiet retreat away from crowded seaside resorts while watching his children grow to love Mother Earth.
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Gen. Sheridan
Washington
Earth
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