Perfume Peddlers And The Cinnamon Bean Craze
A satirical take on street vendors promoting dried lavender substitutes and cinnamon bean blends. It describes fake fragrances using clover blossoms from Egypt and lavender oil, outlines a penny business plan, and notes the theatrical Spanish princesses and a flamboyant Seine poet as contemporary color.
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State Street
Surrey
Midland
Old England
Chicago
Egypt
Illinois
Ima
Georza Elne
Sadam Uele
Chicago News
Will Hang On to Journalism and Its Rigidity
A New York Journalist laments editors clinging to journalism despite better paths, arguing pride and fear keep them at the desk while evolution should favor bold change. Separately, a note reports a domestic servant shortage in Winnipeg, Manitoba, highlighting cross country labor scarcity.
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New York
New York Sun
Disappointment at the Alhambra Palace In Granada
A traveler criticizes the Alhambra for its cramped rooms and lack of homey comforts, contrasting it with legendary lavishness and noting plaster walls instead of precious materials. The piece blends travel commentary with later notes on rhinoplastic art and urban oddities from American papers.
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Alhambra
Zuleika
Fatima
Col
Detroit Free Press
Fragmented OCR text on trains and people in early notice
Fragmentary OCR passage mentions Taunton Lowell trains Pittsburg Dunkirk Jamestown Bradford and Lake Hagwars connections. Includes names and scattered phrases about trust, faith, and a sale notice from W. Morek & Co. The text is garbled with era-specific train details and personal bits amid an apparent classified sale item.
Fragments from a 1883 Tide era column and notes
The readable scraps include verse about seashore longing and tides, a brief comic sketch about a jealous tutor, a joke about a sick congressman and whisky, a Washington Critic quip on illness, plus stray lines from an old love letter reflection and a character note about a daughter.
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W Washington
From a Fraying Mouth to the River of Laughs
A wholesale jumble of gossip and quips from San Francisco to Lewiston sketches a mosaic of wry humor and social snapshots. The column notes swearing contrasts with wit about trout weighs, women’s rights, and odd labors, painting a slice of daily paper life with quick takes and small jests.
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Toranta Isabel
Infanta Kalaina
Infanta
Prince Antonio of Montypensisi
Castillana
Seine
Winnipeg
Manitoba
Helen OF Troy
Helen
Troy
Aphrodite
Lam Helen
Florence Peacock
London Spectator
Europe
Duke of Cumberland
King of
Hanover
Berlin
Professor Konig
Barlin
Alan Arthur
Arthur
San Francisco
Argonaut
Bridgeport News
P. T. Barnum
Stockton
Cal
Sierra County
California
Brandy City
Howking Flat
Atkins
Tve
A.W
David Kennedy
Rondaut
NIA & Ghid
Colorado
Kansas
Texas
Northwest
Wurreat and
F.H. Garfield
Traver Jamestown, N
J.M. Pereis
A. E. Crais
Cleveland Ohio
Ronda Fara
Uns
Taunton
Lowell
Tsoon
N.Y
Enmnac
Ty Ali
Emeh
Usite
Stump
Tame Iis
Leches
Pittst
Pittsbure & Bet
Pittsbu
Lake & E Hagwars
Dunkirk
Jamestown
Wnd
Bradford
Nadie
W. Morek & Co
Pfaelzer Bros. & CO
Market Street
Philadelphia
New Bedford
Pacific
U. Ik
Ayers
Mass
Thomas
Chas. F. Medier
Schenectady
N. Y. Thomas
Horace Brentzer
Clinton
Iowa
Ediec Thomas
John N. Greggs
Railjon
Niagara Paris
Thomas Adams
Lig Sandy, Ky Dere
Jae
Carl Purena Hotel
Wis
Clarendon
Vhis Hotel
Aecommerdati
Carl Pudexz
Ann
Andrew
Hilda
Dearest
Willam
Harry m3
Martha
Luke
Amanda Rightful
Hoe
Mary
Israel Sweet
Ira Peters
Hiram Main
Jane
Phoese
Hugo
Mabel Eva
Ida Clare
Mark
Marion
Cresar
Larry
Rma
Hugh
Widder
Dodge
Seashore
Aresi
Juse
Ocean's Shore
Dumley
Statesman
Yonkers
Somerville Journal
Washington
Lewiston
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