Chinese Etiquette Buttons Denote Rank In Imperial System
The Washington Post recounts a complex Chinese etiquette system where hat buttons mark rank. Nine ranks use colored buttons from light coral red to silver, with red signaling high status. Insignias and embroidered robes, with birds for civil and beasts for military, add to the confusion, as wealth enables purchase of higher honors.
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Edward Bedloe
Amoy
Debrett
Burke
Formosa
Shanghai
Smith
China
Ganges
Canton
Hindoostan
Haakow
Tamsui
Powers That Be
Washington Post
Astute Policeman and late-nightStreet Scene
A Chicago official disputes a policeman's claim of neglecting a street encounter. The officer testifies he followed a man who entered a house, then heard a shrill female voice praising him for being out late, labeling him a respectable citizen in a New York Weekly item.
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Chicago
Columbia
New
York
General Lee Christmas Dinner Forks a Telling Tale
A Louisville Courier Journal piece recounts General Lee hosting a Christmas 1864 meal for Generals Longstreet Gordon and Kershaw. The simple spread featured cabbage potatoes and a tiny slice of bacon, sparking humor over borrowed meat and Lee’s parole honor. A later New Year joke with General Grant underscored wartime appetites and courtesy.
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Ephraim
Lee
Longstreet
Gordon
Kershaw
Knightly
Mass Bob
Richmon
Grant
Louisville Courier-Journal
Bouquet dispute over cost and flowers in Konitz
A Konitz schoolteacher ordered a bridal bouquet for under 4 marks but did not specify flowers. White dahlias were used in autumn but were deemed unsuitable by the bride and family, who refused payment. The florist sued. courts supported the teacher, awarding costs of 300 marks.
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Konitz
Furious artesian well in Chamberlain draws attention
A furious artesian well in Chamberlain 8 D was struck a few months ago. It initially discharged 3000 gallons per minute and later more than doubled. The eight inch stream shoots over 14 feet high, rivaling the famous St. Augustine well for force and quantity, per the New York Ledger.
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Chamberlain
8. D
St. Augustine
Fla
New York Ledger
Principal Restricts Driving With Unengaged Lady
Dialogue shows Miss Dodge seeking to drive with Mr Nassau while at a Young Ladies Seminary. Principal Miss Dodge refuses, citing that no young lady may drive with a man unless engaged. Miss Dodge hopes to be engaged before returning.
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Young Ladies’ Seminary
Miss Dodge
Nassau
Princetoh’Tiger
Neat and Discreet Spring Garments and Adornments
New York dispatch on stylish outdoor spring garments including a black velvet coat with jet galloon corselet and a redingote polonaise in tabac brown draped fabric. Notes fashioning details from bustles to lace, fur cuffed capes, and princess shapes. Also covers jewelry trends, lacepins, slippers, and hair accessories.
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New York
Gowxs
Petunia
Sarah
Legion
Kid
Olive Harper
Reincarnation Theory Explained Through Transmigration Tale
A Pottsville Pa Republican excerpt recounts a Washington paper anecdote about transmigration of the soul. Dr Edward Bedloe explains metempsychosis in plain language using a canary, a flower, and a donkey as successive embodiments to illustrate the doctrine.
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Allan
Washington
John Chamberlin
Edward Bedloe
Philadelphia
Far East
Pennsylvania
Pottsville
Cagerness
Strauss
Todor
China
Bedloe
Dot
Theosophical Society
Republican
Hungry pigeons beg breakfast at Rialto office window
Pigeons gather daily at 11 o clock outside Henry W. Williams’s Rialto office window to receive cracked grain, tapping on glass if delayed. The birds crowd the sill, push, and fight for the meal, then eat from hands once fed.
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Henry W. Williams
Rialto
Boston Transcript
Pumice Stone Uses and Origin from Lipari Islands
Pumice stone, a porous feldspathic scoria, is mainly silica with minor soda and potash. It forms in Campo Bianco on the Lipari islands, where a hill nearly 1000 feet high provides the source. Used as a polishing agent for ivory, wood, glass, marble, and leather, and in paper preparation, as well as in soaps, grinding, and smoothing metal surfaces.
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Campo Bianco
Lipari Islands
Brooklyn Eagle
So He Ought. Barber Negotiates Price With Customer
An exchange from the Boston Traveller shows a patient with a lacerated face in the mirror arguing with a barber about paying full price. The barber retorts asking why not and the patient replies he ought to get a discount for the cut.
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Boston
Tionesta Valley Railroad Time Table May 11 1691
The Tionesta Valley Railroad announces southward and northward train schedules with stops at Garfield Tiona Sheffield Barnes Brookston and Wolf Run. Times show departures from Sheffield and arrivals at final junctions, with connections to P R and P W services. Jerry Crary, Superintendent.
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Lunuirk
Allegheny Valley
Pittsburgh
A. Iky. Co
Efter
Lovulork
A. m
Prams South
Fredoui
Laeha
Falconer
Rand -Valle
Selkirk
East Titusville
AB. Titusville
Pem
Laurel
Fourth Streets
C. H. Ketcham
William Sear
Arren and
Farnswort
Garfield
Vandergrift
Dunham’s Mills
North
Mit P. Ma
Clarendon
Ood’s
I Calmon
Wood's Mill
East Branch
Amnes H
P. & Rom
Sheffield
Barnes
Brookston
Sheffield Junction
Wolf Run
Sheiield Junction
Tiona
Brookaton
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Humphrey & Nemoyer
Water Street
Bpiscopal
Carters
Carter
Carter Medicine CO
F. B. Brown & Co
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Catarre Ream Brin Paw
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West Virginia
Wes Virginia
New York Sun
DR. Hoxsie
Croup
Hoxsie C. C. C. Co
Buffalo, N. Y
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Philadelphi
Ginclman
St. Louis
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Jamestown
J. A. Brarry
Cluty
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Kinzna
Bradford
Salamanca
Olean
Olean Express
Warren
Irvinton
Tidioute
Tionesta
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