Lenticular Bi-focal Spectacle Lens Invented in 1887
A brief note highlights August Morek Jr of Warren PA patenting a lenticular bi focal spectacle lens in 1887. It also mentions a spring fashion scene with Jacob Keller offering hundreds of pants patterns and fabrics, promoting his Warren shop and spring sales.
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Italy
Texas
Central Asia
Germany
United States
Nile
Niger
Africa
August Morek, Jr
Warren, Pa
Jacob Keller
Warren
Keller
For Sale Trustee land in Warren county Pa 450 acres
Trustee estate sale in Warren county Pennsylvania offers about 450 acres of land. About 190 acres in lot 160 Pittsfield township and about 260 acres in Deerfield township lot 331 on easy terms. Details from R Brown Warren Pa. 38-4t
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Warren County
Pittsfield Township
Deerfield Township
R. Brown
Warren
Tale of a Chinese thief and his brutal punishment
A San Francisco correspondent recounts a Chinese crime tale with a hen theft and a dramatic arrest. Lou Foo captures a thief by hair suspension, reveals his watch-stealing habit, and leads to a magistrate who orders thirty lashes and banishment. The narrator notes the harsh Chinese judicial method and the day’s surreal sequence.
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San Pracisco
China
Lou Foo
Foo
Absalom
Imus
Jamen
Pennsylvania
B. N. Ton
Fourteenth Street in Brief by Prentice Mulford
Special correspondence from New Work on June 4 portrays Fourteenth Street between Fifth and Sixth avenues as a bustling scene of commerce driven by women shoppers. A vivid, noisy, masculine voice documents the crush of crowds, ribbons, hats, and bargains, ending with a ribboned sale and the remark that prices spark a dramatic auction atmosphere.
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Prentice Mulford Boes
Fourteenth Street
Fifth
Sixth Avenues
P. B
Astomer
Gimcrack
Job
Creesus
Dives
Midas
Lazarus
Bnd
Stone
Prentice Mulvord
Dakota's Fertility Tale Sparks Needle Crop Claim
Two western men recount a tale from Youth's Companion about a Norwegian and a German woman dropping needles in fields. They claim next season the soils produced knitting needles and hand knit stockings, illustrating surprising crop rumors about fertility and yield in distant lands.
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Dakota
Washington Territory
Aims to Sell Picture After Gate Visit
A man on Second avenue questioned a small boy about his family then rang the bell to push a $7 family Bible after probing about home help cleaning and parental mood. The Detroit Free Press notes the encounter as a curious street sales attempt by a sensible agent.
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Second Avenue
Detroit Free Press
Good Form of Today Against the Past in Etiquette
A London Daily News summary contrasts 19th century dining and wedding customs with modern practice. It notes bridesmaids and groomsmen roles, the shift from crying at weddings to a restrained pace, reliance on professional music, and the move to pass dishes rather than host urging guests to eat.
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John Leech
Edward Bulwer Lytton
Rosina Wheeler
Ebiquette
London Daily News
Tea Drinking and Nervousness in Tea Cultures
The Boston Herald essay argues that tea consumption shapes nervous traits across nations. It traces four stages from England’s pre tea era to China, linking nerves to tea habits, with Russia showing intermediate effects and a grim note on rising brutality and selfishness in tea afflicted societies.
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England
Russia
Flere
China
Boston Herald
Carry Your Down Soap and Skin Diseases
A Kansas City Journal item quotes a traveling physician warning that hotel soap spreads skin diseases. He notes most guests use the shared soap from hotel washstands, often in unclean dishes or stuck to covers, and urges travelers to carry their own soap to avoid distressing infections.
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Kansas City Journal
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Liz
Ed. Clemons
A. Rubiman
Glade
Charles P. Peterson
Warren Pa
Geo. Ball's
Merck Drug Store
Morris & Mullen
Charley Sullivan
Washington Street
A. P. Ordway & Co
Weekly World
Frank M. Knapp
Willem A. Rakin
Ezra T. Hazeltine
Alexander H
Samuel T. Neill
Act of Assembly
Warren Homestead Loan and Trust Company
Samuel T. Netl
Pleasant Fp
William Yasegie
Pleasant Township
Treasury
J.P. Meyers
Lesser
Lane
Abbott
Stinson & Co
Portland
Maine
Cairymen
Procter & Gamble
HOP Plaster.co
nopnieTors
Boston
Rywee
N. Greenlund
Berehay & Gay Furniture
Grand Rapids
Nelson Greenland
Exchange Block
Wm. Spinner
Diamond
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