Street Peddlers and the Varied Trade of New York
The New York Sun describes milkwomen and street peddlers in four classes, from horse-drawn to hand-cart and basket vendors. It details early-morning rounds, markets, and the wide range of perishable goods, including fish, vegetables, fruit, and oddities. The piece notes how peddlers serve working people with lower prices, the seasonal variety of offerings, and the hardships of weather, carts, and competition on busy streets. It also highlights gadgets like five-cent microscopes, cheap wares on Park Row, and kerosene-lit stands, ending with a somber reflection on vendors' struggles to support families.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Murray Hill
New York
Broadway
Fourteenth Street
Grand Street
Bowery
Fark Row
Chatham Street
John
New York Sun
Zuleikha The Tender Rose Of Mirza Schaffy
A fragmentary poem in archaic diction extols Zuleikha as a flawless emblem of beauty and love. The speaker, citing Barone ss Swift from Mirza Schaffy, asserts no other rose or divine being matches her tenderness and radiance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Zuleika
Baroness Swift
Mirza Schaffy
Repairing and Remodeling Moses In Berlin Surgeon Opens Nose Clinic
A Berlin surgeon markets a bold nose repair craft, promising to transform noses of all shapes and ages. He advertises taking even disfigured noses and turning them into classic snouts, inviting the grotesque and offering premium pay, including those with no nose at all.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moses
Berlin
Chicago Herald
Names of Fairies Across Nations and Dress Suit Notes
A survey of fairy names from various cultures including elves dwarfs kobolds nixies and goblins with notes on their roles in folklore and a long description of fairy attire. It also includes commentary on dress suits praising their practicality uniformity and economic value with anecdotes about M Worth and a stylistic assessment by Brander Matthews.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Germany
Scotland
Norway
Europe
Philadelphia News
Late Studies on the Oyster From Professor Moebius
The Boston Cultivator notes Moebius findings from 140 shells showing most left valves host sponges and hydroids while right valves remain comparatively clean. Oyster beds form on old shells with young oysters fixed obliquely, and sometimes right valves protect growth allowing attachment of organisms. A fragment from the Arkansas Traveler adds a dialect remark about distant labor and quality of sense.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moebius
Boston
Bill Nye’s Res: July Celebration Planning Confession
A humorous 1877 letter from James W Braley declines a Fourth of July speaking role citing voice and extempore limits. He recounts cattle metaphors, memories of the Civil War, and asserts patriotism while offering to support the observance in spirit. The piece ends with a Boston Globe light joke about shirt bosom polish.
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Texas
Phallas
Col. Braley
Sage Hen Ranch
Col Braley
Lace Hey Rasey
Old
Buffalo Waller
No. 1
Omaha
Sean
Canada
New Jerusalem
America
James W. Braley
Bill Nye
Boston Globe
Uncle Bill the colored factotum on a westbound train
A San Francisco Post item describes Uncle Bill, a sleepy colored factotum of a Trukee hotel, who serves as train porter and barroom dealer. He claims to be bound for Sacramento to sleep after four years without rest, speaking politely to a traveler on a westbound train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bull
Bill
Truckee
William
Uncle Bill
Sacramento
San Francisco Post
Fragmented Verse About Night and Beauty Waiting
Fragmented OCR text hints at a song about night and beauty awaiting someone. Readable lines suggest a mood of longing and a night setting with a likely devotional or poetic frame referencing a figure awaiting. No clear event, names, or places emerge.
Indian Wedding Observed by a Dakota Bride
A Dakota woman in a pink marriage robe describes an Indian wedding witnessed by a tourist at a large tented event. Chiefs, dancers in bright feathers, and a feast with meat, bread, and corn filled the center while women and men sat apart. The bride removed her robe, revealing a blue dress, then left the tent in a pink calico gown, barefoot and frightened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota Lette
Dakota
Boston Traveler
Why Quinine Went from Scarce to Cheap Across the World
A New Fork Tribune interview traces quinine from Peruvian cinchona bark to its global cultivation. It explains colonial pruning of native trees, plantings in India and Jamaica, and how mass production lowered prices as supply expanded worldwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ecuador
India
Clement R. Markham
Spruce
Neilgherry
Java
Jamaica
New Fork Tribune
Also Mentioned on This Page
Zuleikha
Zulei
New York Post
M. Worth
Mr. Worth
Louvre
Brander Matthews
Courier-Journal
Eberyborly
Austin
Epstorr
Serayon
Lim
Capitol
Ington
Heston Traveler
Don Cameron
Len C Cameron
O. H. Hunter & Son
Yokohama
Japan
G. L
Young Hyson
Copihres
Chase & Sanborn
Maracaibo
Wrater Street
Warren, Penu'a
City Crockery Store
N. B
Water St
Warren
Ani
D. Shear
Diamond Block
Water Street
Pal
United States
Flint
Boston Shoe Store
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