Priest Tour of Tenement Life Reveals Struggles
A priest visits a densely crowded five story tenement near the East River, where families share cramped rooms and laundry lines. He notes beguiling chaos of ragged clothing, a baby in a market basket, and a mix of poverty and temperance as households live on modest wages while caring for elderly relatives and ill children. The day includes visits to several homes, highlighting different incomes, work patterns, and worries about housing costs and future opportunities.
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Anailley
Komm
Gorman
Hs Work
Halloa
An Interesting Map of Telegraphic Lines and Cables
A London style reflection on telegraphic routes and submarine cables. The piece describes a hydrographic office chart showing global cable connections, coast stations, and international rates. It explains how messages travel beneath oceans from the United States to Europe, Asia, and Australia, with example routes from California to New Zealand via Suez and the Indian Ocean.
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Hydrographic Office
United States Navy
United States
Atlantic
Pacific
Gulf
Mexico
West Indies
South America
Patagonia
Braz
Lisbon
Potugal
St. Pierre
Brest
France
New York
Europe
St. Petersburg
Siberia
Old Gentleman's Head
Russia
China
Africa
British America
Alaska
Greenland
Iceland
Aushaha
British India
Tasmania
California
New Zealand
Continent
Mediterranean Sea
Suez Canal
India
Bay of Bengal
Java Sea
Indian Ocean
Palmerston
Australa
Sydney
Pacific Ocean
Preller
Maxwell
St. Louis
Observer
Philadelphia
Curfew Not Ring To-Night and a Young Student’s Dilemma
Rose Hartwick Thorpe’s piece is retold as a memory of a schoolboy struggling with a poem amid a math exercise. A historical note references 1865 tales and a miscued line, while the narrator battles duty and impulse as his mother visits during the distraction.
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Peterson
Bessie
Jessors
England
Rose Hartwick Thorpe
Courier-Journal
Watch Care and Longevity Across Regions
A New York Mail and Express article quotes a famed watchmaker stressing a well cared for watch lasts a century. Proper cleaning and oiling every eighteen months prevents wear, while carrying in outer pockets or jarring defeats the mechanism. He ranks English watches first, American second, Swiss third, notes eight day models fail popular demand, and cites typical single-wind life as thirty to thirty six hours.
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Billiad
England
Switzerland
New York Mail and Express
Way with Some Women in Washington Street Window Scene
A Boston Post item recounts a doorway encounter on Washington Street where two women discuss clothing in a shop window. One woman notes the other’s supposed need for it, prompting a brief exchange about wants and possessions.
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Washngton Street
Boston Post
Why the Revised Bible Failed to Supplant the King James Version
The Chicago Times surveys why the revised New Testament, six years after its release, failed to replace the King James Bible. It cites excessive changes, piercing poetry lost to literalism, and broad religious conservatism toward tradition and familiar phrasing as key factors. The piece notes the old version’s deep cultural embedment in households, literature, hymns, and tombstone inscriptions, predicting it will endure unless the language itself ceases to be spoken.
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Itm
Church of England
John Fulton
Chicago Times
A Tale of George Sand and a Monastic Impostor
Chicago Herald recounts George Sand disguising as a man to enter La Grande Chartreuse monastery to meet a former lover turned monk. The pair acknowledge their past, plan escape, but she leaves, declaring the monks beyond her reach. The monk dies of heartbreak soon after hearing of her death.
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George Sand
Liszt
Mme. Dudevant
Laszt
Anthony
la Grande Chartreuse
Aiman
Lis
Chicago Herald
Water filters found useless for safe home use
Rhode Island Medical Society reviewed Dr Swarts of Providence experiments on faucet mouth water filters. He found all tested devices fail after a few hours, becoming germs’ harbor and spreading disease in kitchens. He urges using known pure water or boiled and cooled water with pure ice.
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Rhode Island Medical Society
Swarts
Providence
Boston ‘Transcript
Three Kinds of Capital in Baseball
The New York Tribune says that to be a first rate baseball player one must possess alertness strength and courage. These qualities define the genuine American and elevate the admired player. When these traits meet in one person he earns esteem and attention for his performance on the diamond.
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New York Tribune
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World's Dispensary Medical Association
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Buffalo
N.Y
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Lacs of
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Hesselroth
Bob Hesselroth
Lawrence Hessebrotil
Chicago Ave
Chicago
Pratt
Geneva
Pratt’s
Bright
Beepee
James E. Morris
Chambers ST
Johnson & Siegried
Warren
G & E Bartsch
Water St
Diamond Block
W W. J. Henderson
Simmons
LM Hinrox
Washington, Ark
JH. Zeilin & Co
Ene
Weell-wat
Chicaco
Western Railway CO
Illion Agres
Gharles E
C & NW
Ralwey
Swayne
Aswaynekson Itching
Warren Carriage Works
Kies
G. Koebley
Second St
Philad
CS &J.B. Hobensack
Cartor
Nehrs Comauy
Uant
Pfaelzer Bros
Market Street
Bale Nanak Bair
Caucus
Jobuso
Siegined
K-Magbeta Wettssurg
Saleex Dealers ii
Paris
West Broadway
Tor
Minnesota
North Dakota
Montana
Idaho
Washington
Oregon
Northern Pacific
Chas B. Lamborn
Land Com. NP
St. Paul
Minn
Kline
Carl Pudenz
Maintreet
North Clarendon
Acker
Bucklen
W Merck
L. G. Noyes
Warten
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