Queen Victoria's Windsor Suite Visited by An American Guest
An American traveler recalls a Windsor visit to the queen's private apartments. Highlights include Gordon's Bible in a glass casket, the long sunny avenue view from the state drawing room, and a life size sculpture of the queen and the prince consort showing wifely devotion. She notes the grand corridors and lack of homely touches, lamenting no familiar items like a workbasket, writing desk, or rocking chair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highlands
Scotland
Sumner
Windsor
Windsor Castle
General Gordon
Elizabeth B. Custer
New York Sun
Prayer customs and traveling commercial women in early reporting
The piece compares Indigenous prayer practices with Christian ritual, noting how Native American traditions use emblems and sunlight to seek blessings without spoken words. It discusses optimism and persistence even if crops fail, then shifts to a report on commercial women traveling with their husbands selling goods across the country, highlighting the rise in such ventures and public attitudes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago Herald
Chicago
Boston
New York Tribune
Carter
Xeb Carter Medicine CO
Cope Feace
Eruptions and Odd Facts Stir 18th Century Sicily
A remark about a 1781 Sicily shower traces gray water deposits to Mount Etna, noting global dust from ancient Sunda eruptions and red sunsets. The piece mentions French bread laws, Halloween nut superstitions, prison euphemisms, and the first electric telegraph frame by Mosers Coole and Wheatstone in 1887.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Straits of Sunda
Washington Star
Mosers
Coole
Wheatstone
London and Blackwell
Wonderfully successful in Chronic Diseases and Sensory Ailments
Advertises a medical practice claiming wide success across chronic diseases and ailments of the eye ear nose throat lungs and nasal catarrh with effective treatments.
Trusted Doctors Heal Wide Range of Ailments
Testimonials praise treatment by Drs. McClelan and Salm for eye pain ear tumors catarrh deafness and lung trouble. Patients from Indiana Pa to Warren Pa report rapid relief and restored sight and health after concise, painless procedures and ongoing follow ups at multiple towns with home physicians citing strong results and gratitude.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Eoland
France
Austria
Corree
Peetman
Ce Epestian
Joan Hono
Indiana
Marcel
Welley Dutian
Armstrong CO
Eputi
McClelan
Kalador
Uyself
McClelan & Salm
Esol Blanco
Armstrong Co. Pa
Feu
Mackillon & Salm
Alice Work
Rochester Mills
Indiana Co
Brinton
Lineaville
Clarion
Oi City
Mus
I. Vo McNauunten
Kingsville, Clarion Co
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Victoria
New York Weekly
Uncle William
William
Jess
Mebby
Lide
James Whitcomb Riley
John
Tillie
New York Herald
Florida
Acme
N. Worr
Wolff
Philadelphis
Sheridan
Johnson & CO
Custom House
Mast
Carters
Acker
H Hooker & CO
J. K. Ronne
Merchant Tailoring
Hickory Street
Lal
Larry
Allegheny
F. C. Fowler
Podis, CouNe “'ShhotGunsdelvers
Ssys Rifles
Shell
Cape
Walt
Tools
Suva Westen
Guy Woons
Shel St
Hes
Nba
Bull
Allen
Augusta
Maine
Armx Pape
Austin Teras
Bonn
Toledo
Finneys
Palinre
Sckly
Bashy
Dairy Free
Once & Oe
Portland
Jaime
TE McClelland
M. D
Moritzsalm
Alan Gane
Po Goldls
Party
Columbus
Manuatrt Kenny
Ashley, Delaware Co
Ohio
Carver House
Warren
Dee Suhama
Et Warick
Sepe
Boston Shoes
W. H. Zuern
M’gr
Diamond Block
Warren, Penn’a
Mons
New York
The
Home Journal
W. E Skinner
Omre
Skinner
Relia
Mary Eng
Jumoia
Washington St
David Shear
Main Street
Warren, Pa
D. Shhar
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