Invention of a Perfect Fit Coat by an Italian Tailor
A gathering of Illinois tailors and garment designers heard Bisceglia present adjustable garment patterns that promised a perfect fit with minimal fittings. Tests with James Veale and others showed mixed results, but Bisceglia claimed his block patterns could be graded from twenty to forty and eliminate returns for alterations.
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Illinois State Merchant Tailors and Garment Designers’ Association
Biscepita
Chicago
James Veale
Decatur
Bisceglia
John Lorenz
Charles J. Stone
Veale
C. J. Stone
Ochicago Herald
Findlay Gas Boom and the Great 1886 Well
Howe's Historical Collections of Ohio recount Findlay's dramatic gas discovery starting in 1886 with the Karg well drilled to 111 feet. It yielded 15 million cubic feet daily, flames 20 to 80 feet high, and a pressure of 400 psi. The roaring gas disrupted nights for miles, shadowing the town's rise as a gas center.
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Ohio
Findlay
Niagara
Howe
Why Southerners Excel in Horsemanship
A Philadelphia Press summary notes that harsh roads and rural life force Southerners to ride, shaping a saddle habit across generations. It compares roads, climate, and population density to the North and East, linking mobility to horsemanship. The piece then shifts to copper currency customs and dueling practices among Indian traders and Africans, describing copper trophies, banks, and heavy coins used in conflict.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Eastern
Middle States
Philadelphia Press
The Windmill Scarecrow Tower Ignites Local Debate
In Maine a farmer yearly builds a towering windmill scarecrow that soars above fields and stirs neighbors as it creaks and groans in the wind. Crows and locals weigh the spectacle, imagining the farmer’s bold feat and its noisy presence in the landscape.
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Maine
Lewinston Journal
The Street Encounter With a Bustling Crowd
A crowded city street episode follows a young man trying unsuccessfully to pass three women on a sidewalk and nearly gets stopped by a police officer for making the ladies uncomfortable. The scene shifts to a ferry crowd where a prankster uses a weight machine joke to fool a fat man, ending with amusement for onlookers.
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George
Jeddies
Leddies
Triffin
Werowd
Chicago Tribune
Chambers Street
Jersey
New York Commercial Advertiser
Atrocious Interpretation From a Graying Preacher Tale
A St Louis Republic anecdote recounts Dr. Glass of Poplar Bluff describing a Granby church incident. An elderly brother preacher, famous for a mispronounced cadence and a holy grunt, quips about living "on the Lord's side" with "one foot in the grave" and "the other all butter" provoking unintended laughter among listeners.
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Glass
Poplar Bluff
Methodist Conference
Missouri
Granby
St. Louis Republic
Royal Teacher
A Royal tale recounts Crown Prince Frederick of Germany known as Unser Fritz guiding a village school after a telegram announced his mother’s illness He instructed the schoolmaster to depart and continued teaching the students until a clergyman arrived to relieve him.
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Frederick
Germany
Fritz
Ada
Unser Fritz
Gornstedt
An Ideal Desert Del Muerto described as perfect horror
The Washington Star praises a desert of Del Muerto as an ideal desolate realm with mirage like a temptress and endlessly shifting phantoms. It extols the region as picturesque for the aesthetic viewer while noting hopeless misery and sparse habitation nearby.
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Tfe
Washington Star
Public Life Ends for Frederick Douglass the Orator
Frederick Douglass, the Colored Orator and Politician, retires from public life as minister to Haiti. He cites advancing age and desires to live quietly with family while praising Haiti and warning of possible renewed conflict. His career spans abolition, journalism, and public service with roles in Washington and as a noted lecturer.
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Frederick Douglass
Harti
Hayti
Negro Republic
Hippolyte
Douglass
Jamaica
Port Au Prince
Haiti
United States
St. Nicholas
Talbot County
Baltimore
Massachusetts
Europe
Rochester
N. Y
Fred Douglass
The
North Star
New National Era
Washington
United States Marshal
District of Columbia
Widowhood Ends for Mrs Polk after Fifty Years
The life of Sarah Childress Polk, wife of James K. Polk, spans Tennessee through birth in 1803 to widowhood after her husband’s death in 1849. She shaped White House society, joined the Presbyterian church, and endured wartime losses before Congress granted widows a pension of 5000 dollars per year.
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Polk
James EK. Polk
Tennessee
Washington
North Carolina
Sarah Childress Polk
Joel and
Elizabeth Childress
Murfreesboro
Moravian Institute
Salem
N. C
James Knox Polk
Congress
Presbyterian Church
Taxes Turned Into Trousers Prince Albert Fashion Note
The article notes Prince Albert of Thurn and Taxis in Germany as the best dressed man in Europe, turning the realm’s taxes into trousers through lavish wardrobes. It mentions poet Whittier pausing walks due to age and declining hearing, and reports a Vienna car driver identified posthumously as Baron Erwin Schonstein, last of a distinguished family.
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Prince Albert of
Thurn and Taxis
Germany
Europe
Whittier
Vienna
Erwin Schonstein
Che
Buckeye Mowers and Hardware Store Ad
Sewer pipe lime and cement, wind stills with feed grinders, plows, fine razors, nails, builders hardware. We stock lawn flowers, screen doors, paints, white lead, brushes, axes, and plumbing and tin work. All work done promptly, carefully, and at low prices.
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Oneida Valley
Paige of Ol
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Audies
A. P. Onowar & Coy
Boston
Mass
Kendall
Belverson
B. J. Kewpart Co
WM. A. Curl
Germantown
Deb. J. Kendall Co
Enosburgh Falls
Eugene Dewitt
B. J. Kendall
Wm. Spinner
Diamond Black
PENN
Mullen
N.K. Wendelboe
N. K. Wendelboe’s
Liberty Street
N. K. Wendelboe
Warren
Wendelboe
Boston Shoe Store
Diamond Block
Penn’a
Everybody’s Business
the Diamond Furniture CO
N. Greenlund
Berckey
Grand Rapids
Nelson Greenland Undertaker
381 Exchange Block
Warren, Pa
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