The Newport Coach Parade of a Social Season
George William Curtis captures Newport summers where money and display mingle with tradition. He notes the coach parade, the open social stage, and the contrast between old seaside gentility and modern summer splendor, where spectators applaud in quiet reverence as the pageant glides by along the ocean drive.
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Tryde Park
Bois
Cascine
Prater
Newport
Creasus
Midas
Candour
Malaprop
Sir Benjamin Backbite
Sir Benjamin
Croesus
Fort Road
Graybeard
Heliogahalus
Neoshere
George William Curtis
Harper's Magazine
That's Just Like a Woman Says Ice Wagon Driver
A Detroit Free Press brief quotes a woman demanding an arrest after an ice wagon driver allegedly insulted her by remarking that behavior is “just like a woman” as she drove up to a curbstone and summoned a policeman for the incident.
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Detroit Free Press
Mark Twain Boshood Portrait From Hannibal Era
St Joseph Globe News quotes painter R E Morris at 520 South Fourth Street recalling Mark Twain as a boy in Hannibal. He describes Twain as dull, full of pranks, and a homely lad who left school to learn printing, later becoming a millionaire.
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Mark Twain
Boshood
R. E. Morris
South Fourth Street
Hannibal
Meredith
Mark
Linself
St. Joseph Glo. News
Booths Reminisce on Calum Light and Stage Friendship
A Philadelphia Times excerpt recalls Edwin Booth during rehearsals with Ben DeBar in St. Louis. The elder Booth never used a calcium light for Hamlet, yet Edwin requested one for a grave digger scene, arguing sentiment over tradition in a tale of their early theater days.
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Booth
Ben de- Bar
Vin Calia
Ben
DeBar
Shestre
St Louis
Edwin Booth
New York City
St. Louis
Philadelphia Times
John Gilbert and the Messenger in a Marvellous Stage Gaffe
The old time performer John Gilbert, famed for originality, recalls a rehearsalless night at Marbeth where he played Duncan opposite a star as Lady Macbeth. A missing messenger scene led him to improvise the line We are short handed and weve cut out the messenger, earning his place in theater lore. A German note adds that thunderstorm frequencies vary globally with notable regional counts and limits.
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the Messenger
John Gilbert
John
Marcbeth
Duncan
Lady Macbeth
Jobin
Messenger
Chicago Herald
Pop Went the Weasel in a Dalton Wood Chase
A Bailey Hollow hunter near Dalton watched a weasel chase a rabbit through a wood. The animal sought burrows, paused in multiple holes, then reappeared and was shot while heading for another burrow. Its stomach held blood from prior kills.
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Bailey Hollow
Dalton
Ben Franklin and the gospel of savings
A Boston Transcript critique claims Poor Richard and Ben Franklin created a fixed idea of success in America by repetitively hammering savings as the path to security. It argues the constant rain cloud of thrift drains optimism from ordinary days. Franklin’s maxim save for a rainy day reshaped public values and economic mood.
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Richard
Ben Franklin
Frankin
Franklin
Boston Transcript
Must Draw the Line Somewhere in Texas Sittings
Barber proclaims the shop now serves merchants not working laborers while a laboring man argues the charcoal seller is also a merchant. The exchange reveals a territorial line between labor and commerce in a transformed barber shop scene in Texas Sittings.
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Texas
The Maid and the Fish in a Sea of Change
A poetic tale of a maid who fishes by a brook with a persistent faith in sea fish. The fish court her, she teases them with bait, then they depart as fate shifts, leaving the maid with a sobering lesson about accepting limits. The passage contrasts with opera consumers discussing candy trends and memory of marshmallows, reflecting changing tastes.
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Washington Post
Chicago Tribune
Akka dwarfs and Jigoku hells described in ancient sources
The report recaps claims of a pygmy Akka nation in Africa living between 2 and 1 degree north, with adults under 4 feet 10 inches, then shifts to Japan where Jigoku describes 136 hot and cold hells plus 272 additional underworld chambers and twenty dark hells for wayward children, per St. Louis Republic.
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Africa
Schweinfurth
Akka
Europe
New York Journal
Hell
Japan
Dai Butsa
Great Buddha
St. Louis Republic
Dauadet on the Danger of Irony and Daudet’s Advice
Paris Temps quotes Hughes Le Roux recalling Alphonse Daudet advising against irony to avoid alienating readers and family. Le Roux notes Daudet faced criticism when Tartarin de Tarascon was serialized, with some readers treating the caricature as truth and accusing him of injustice and defamation.
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Dauadet
Hughes le Roux
Paris Temps
Alphonse Daudet
Transatlantic
Geese Invasion Paralyzes Skowhegan Village
An immense flock of wild geese numbering several hundred swarmed Skowhegan at night drawn by electric lights. They scattered over streets for almost two hours causing confusion and mess. Some birds tangled in wires. none were found dead next morning. Desion Traveller report.
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Skowhegan
Gesser
Desion
Advertising in Paris sparks odd street reading stunt
The Chicago Times reports Pari ad art using a large corps of sandwich men to tout a book by walking the Soulevarés and reading aloud. An inquisitive reader approached a man and noted he was reading the book upside down, prompting curiosity about the educational impact.
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Paris
Pari
Chicago Times
British and American Freight Train Weights Compared
On British rails it is unusual for goods trains to exceed fifty tons and mineral trains rarely reach two hundred tons. In the United States trains of nearly one thousand tons are run regularly with wagons carrying twenty to twenty five tons each, about three times the English capacity.
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United States
Found Their Plate From Saved Public Documents Sale
In Massachusetts a paper mill stock includes 100 tons of public documents bought at two cents per pound. The collection is well bound and rare, a curious mix of government material that rarely reaches the public, even in thrilling tales.
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Massachusetts
Uncle Sam
Detroit
Poor But Honest Irish Lad Returns Found Wallet
An Irish lad named Charley Sullivan, while walking Washnglo street, returned a wallet found containing several dollars to its owners Messin A. J. Ghdney & Co proprietors of Sulphur bitters. He received a liberal reward and six bottles of Sulphur Bitters for his mother who has suffered from dyspepsia. The item notes his honesty and the boost to local health remedies. It includes a second segment praising Van Wert's Cough Balsam from Dakota readers and local shop Johnson & Sieghied.
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Charley Sullivan
Lnd
Washnglo Street
Messin A. J. Ghdney & Co
Sulphur Bitters
Van Wert's Balsam Demand Sparks Kingston Trade
Cooper and Hardenburgh of Kingston bought 18 dozen of Van Wert's Balsam for the Lungs on a Sunday in November 1448 and on the 20th urged the proprietors to send one gross, saying they cannot account for the demand. Johnson and Siegfried offer trial sizes in the area.
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Cooper & Hardenburgh
Kingston
van Wert
Johnson & Siegfried
Van Wert Balsam for the lungs praised by farmers
Farmers are urged to rely on Van Wert's Balsam for the lungs for throat and lung troubles including croup and whooping cough. Trial sizes are free, with Johnson & Siegfried selling it. A testimonial from Rev HA Smith of Clinton Wis supports Ely's Dream Balm for hay fever. Sulphur bitters are promoted as a remedy for chronic weakness and despair, praised by an editor.
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Johnson & Siegfried
van Wert
Ely
HA. Smith
Clinton, Wis
Weekly American
Kemp's Balsam Remedy Ad Shows Guarantees and Price
An advertisement urges readers not to ignore lingering coughs, touting Kemp's Balsam as a positively guaranteed cure. It claims rapid effect after the first dose, notes trial sizes free, and lists prices of 50 cents and one dollar with availability at all druggists.
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Warren
WAS Cash and One Price Buffalo New Year Message 1890
Buffalo January 1 1890 greeting urges equal privilege with letter carriers and newsmen. The piece lauds 1889 for growth and enterprise, pledges 1890 will surpass all predecessors in merchandise service and prices, and commits to better deals and ambitious aims while thanking the public.
Cloaks and Wrap Bargains From 400 Samples
Having purchased 400 manufacturers samples we offer cloaks and wraps at strong discounts. Ladies polo cloaks in Newmarkets and Directoires priced at 6.50 to 10.50, with values up to 20.00. Seal plush jackets 8.00, sacsques 14.00, Newmarkets 27.00. Special bargains for Misses and children’s cloaks and wraps.
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Newmarkets
Bargain Holiday Dress Goods Sale at Half Price
Cash purchase of 1 500 pieces triggers bargains for holiday presents. 800 yards of Serges Diagonals and Henriettas at 44 per pattern, 42 inch French Cashmere at 139 per yard, 1500 warp Henriettas at 68 cents, 50 ladies combi nation robes at 7.50, plus black silks and silk wool dress goods with extraordinary inducements.
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Rome
Ocean Drive
Greece
Rhode
New England
Java
Bumatra
Hindoostan
Borneo
Gold Coast
Rio de Janeiro
Italy
West Indies
South Guinea
Buenos Ayres
Canada
Austria
Baden
Wurtemberg
Hungary
Silesia
Bavaria
Belgium
Holland
Saxony
Brandenburg
France
Russia
Spain
Portugal
Sweden
Finland
England
Swiss Mountains
Norway
Cairo
East
Turkestan
Cape Ogie
North America
Iceland
Navajo
Semelji
Siberian Ice Sea
A. A. Davis & Co
Wim Spisner
Pam
C. B. Dale
Allston Street
Boston
Rev. A. Freild
New York
Dal
Lars
Dakota
A. BK. Robinson
Gladstone
Johnson & Sieghied
W. H. Carleton
Ogrieton
First Baptist Church
Wiments Ler
Buffalo
Barnes, Hengerer & CO
Warren Bindery
Warren Book Bindery
Warren, PA
Nesmith and
Knupp
P. J. Bayer
Grocers
Liberty Street
Humpurely & Spinnoylr
Ugh Door Liege
Pitcher’s Castoria
Loisette
A. Loisette
Fifth Avenue
Samuels’ Brothers
Jouvine
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