Eli Perkins Ride Through Iowa in Freezing Night
The essay recalls Eli Perkins braving a 30 mile prairie trek in 13 below zero weather to reach a 3 AM train to Grinnell Iowa. He credits two jolting sleigh crashes, a missing winter train, and a log hotel nap before telegraphing Grinnell’s president for transport. Perkins confesses that the tale damaged his veracity but framed his later public stance.
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Grinnell
J. B. Grinnell
Iowa Central
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Ackley
Marshalltown
West Station
Young Men’s Christian Association
Congress
Ma Aia
Lalla
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In the Slums Toy Where Do You Live
A fragmented item describing tenements and squalid living conditions. It notes a base where people store dishes for possible future cooking and hints at hardship in a slum environment. The text contains garbled dialogue and unclear attribution.
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Toy
TOLD OF PRESIDENT FAURE IN DAYS OF THE COMMUNE
A New Orleans observer recalls M. Faure a magnetic brave leader. From Havre commission merchant to Havre mayoral adviser and fire captain, he led Paris fire brigades for three days during 1871. His courage earned fame and political rise, with later service as private secretary and deputy.
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M. Faure
New Orleans
Faure
Havre
Paris
Chamber of Deputies
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Capricious Malibran Delights and Disrupts Romeos Rehearsals
In a Cornhill Magazine piece, the famed Mme. Malibran is depicted as whimsically indecisive during Romeo and Juliet rehearsals, choosing where to die nightly and provoking audience amusement with footmen carrying her and her companion after curtain falls. She mocks tenor John Templeton, urging better acting and eliciting a married reply, then tickles him on stage to provoke laughter during Somnambula.
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Mme. Malibran
Romeo
John Templeton
Malloran
Templeton
Elvina
Cornhill Magazine
Three Essentials for Civilization Recalled in Lesson
The New Orleans Picayune reports a teacher explaining civilization to pupils as food clothing and shelter. In a review the next day she asked the class to name the three needs, and while food and clothing were recalled, the third eluded memory until a boy raised his hand after repeated questioning.
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The
New Orleans Picayune
Women win adult suffrage in Adelaide battle ends
Woon Win Kapouti reports from South Australia that Adelaide has carried adult suffrage granting women voting rights on equal terms with men and that the bill awaits the queen's consent. Mrs Nichols calls it a grand victory after seven years of effort.
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Tas
Sirs. Nichols
Prospect
Adelaide
South Australia
Street Railways In England and Birmingham’s Growth
A summary of Birmingham tramway history from 1860 to 1891 explaining municipal ownership, leased lines, and fair valuations under the general tramways act. Details of rental terms, investor returns, and fare regulations emphasize ratepayer protection and traveler safeguards. Additional note on experiments making plant growth audible and visible using clockwork, platinum, and galvanic circuits.
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Birmingham
George Francis Train
Albert Shaw
Great Britain
Train
Birmingham Corporation
St. Louis Republic
Two Savory Supper Dishes From Cheese Puffs to Bread Crumbs
Instructions from Elizabeth Robinson Scovil in The Ladies' Home Journal describe cheese puffs made by mixing equal parts grated cheese and bread crumbs soaked with milk, adding two eggs per pint of crumbs, seasoning with salt, layering cheese and crumbs in a dish, and baking about 14 minutes. A second method uses bread slices topped with grated cheese and baked quickly. The excerpt ends with garbled monologue phrases and stray letters.
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Elizabeth Robinson Scovil
Ladies’ Home Journal
Fragmentary Quote From Chicago Tir Tahar
A fragmented newspaper snippet records dialogue about remedies and advice amid unclear attributions. The readable wording includes the lines Are you dou cola and Tum taking the advice of every blamed fool that comes along with a remedy What s yours The source cites Chicago Tir zit Tahar.
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Chicago
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