Meerschaum Mine Myth and Kaolin Test in America
A New York Sun piece explains how some claim a kaolin bed could be a meerschaum mine, describes tests to distinguish genuine meerschaum from clay, and notes potential American sources. It discusses Eskischia in Asia Minor, Turkish mining, and explains how meerschaum trading and carving work in the United States.
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Oregon
Mexico
Columbia College Museum
Pliny
Eskischia
Asia Minor
United States
Vermont
Trancy
New York Sun
The Grasshopper and the Ant Fable Recapped
A blithesome Grasshopper ignores his Uncle the Ants warnings about labor and saving. Winter comes, the Ant dies from overwork, and the Grasshopper inherits wealth. The moral warns against despising patient industry in elders and advises not to mind slander until it dries.
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Simpson & Co
Puck
London
Only a Magdalen in the River
A somber river scene describes a Magdalen found in the water and a city skyline lit by gas lamps. Strains of waltz music drift, harbor lights gleam, and boatmen drift as a shivering figure sinks, drowned in the river’s cold mystery and unanswered questions.
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Magdalen
Battle Scenes in Vogue in Cheap Picture Trade
A New York Mail and Express interview notes a dealer who says war pictures sell best to uncultured buyers. He cites popular engravings of Napoleon at Elba, the Battle of Waterloo, Gettysburg, and Union parades, priced from 3 to 20 dollars. Also mentions Fight of Honor and Fortuny’s Choosing the Model as admired contrasts.
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Napoleon
Island
Elba
Old Guard
Waterloo
Washington
Gettysburg
Fortuny
New York Mail and Express
Sonner
United States
Albany Gazette 1785 Window Display Highlights Vintage Paper
A shop window showcased a copy of The Albany Gazette dated Sept 22 1785 to mark Albany’s 200th anniversary. The item featured European news, court notices, runaway slave ads, and political documents in the era’s characteristic varied type and layout.
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Albany
Albany Gazette
Chicago Herald
Cultivating the Lava Beds Near Oroville Cal
The lava beds around Oroville California are being repurposed for farming with rapid conversion into orchards vineyards and gardens. Homes are being built as the area develops into a small agricultural community per the Chicago Times.
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Oroville
Cal
Chicago Times
Charge and Action at Cold Harbor by Mindreds Retreat
A vivid veteran account from Frank Wilkeson in the Chicago Times describes dawn at Cold Harbor on June 3 as artillerymen and infantry brace for a brutal assault. Confederate gunners find range, the two Union lines clash, and a fierce repulse follows amid smoke, cheers, and heavy losses for the Blue.
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Caron
Barlow
Jay
Marke
Frank Wilkeson
Chicago Times
Senator Sherman and the pocketbook hoax
A stranger accuses Senator Sherman of stealing a conductor’s pocketbook worth $200 on a tram. The senator exposes the ruse when the bag is opened and the missing wallet is found in his own linen bag. Edison plans to test earth currents in Florida to advance telegraphy.
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Sherman
John Sherman
Senator
Columbus Dispatch
Thomas Edison
Florida
Inter-Ocean
Morphine Fiend Pleads at City Drugstore on William Street
A frail man pleads for morphine outside a William Street drugstore, is refused by the keeper, and is dragged toward the station house by police after repeated returns. He suffers a fall with bleeding, yet returns again, illustrating opiate addiction's grip as the officer enforces the refusal.
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William Street
New York Journal
Prolific Peculiar People in California and Odds Speak
A satirical note critiques California as a land of peculiar cranks and lavish swearing. The excerpt contrasts harsh language with social habits, remarking on trends in speech and manners across the state. It closes with a joke about a fire escape and a bulldog, and a line about Transcaspian railroad progress to Merv.
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California
Earth
Amin
Chad Ahoub
San Francisco
New York World
Talks of Stage Craft by Richard Mansfield in Society
Richard Mansfield shares views on dramatic training and audience reactions after the play Prince Karl. He contrasts German French and English stages, notes audience volatility, magnetism and hard work as keys, and cites personal method of shaping roles from real people. The discussion includes hotel summer culture and youth influence on venue choices.
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Prince Karl
Myr
Richard Mansfield
Carleton Club
Billingsgate
Coquelin
Marlow
Mme. Bernhardt
Esquimaux
Ol Baron
Thad
Germany
Imo
Florida Herald
A Shady Newspaper at Sea Girl Nursery Weekly
A unique weekly baby newspaper published at Sea Girl New York prints nursery news of children at a summer resort. Terrapin are abundant in California but cooks are blamed for spoiling them in cooking.
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Sea Girl
N. Y
California
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Meerschaum Mine
Kate Saxon
Detroit Free Press
Dr. Golden
Globe-Democrat
Cor
Cold Harbor
Annie
Ned Brown
Ec Dahl
Goml
Rss Aueet
Mose
Wismet
Qwaids
Merv
Saber Rubber Clothi
The
Ledger
Setony
Western World Guide Book
the Ledger
Sinby
S Pneludle
Woods
Wwe
Expres
Srattleburo
Sek & Thompson
Water St
Thamond Block
Warren, Pa
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