Skeletons for sale reveal a global trade in bones
A New York Sun excerpt describes a wholesale circular on surgical skeletons, noting 60 million Americans depend on foreign stock and prices range from 30 to 150 dollars. It discusses mounting quality, whitening effects, and markets for deformities, veterinary skeletons, and imported racks, with emphasis on distributors in New York and competition from Chicago and Boston houses.
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América
Chicago
Boston
Custom House
New York
New York Sun
Patti Puts On Paste Diamonds In La Traviata
The New York Journal describes Mme Patti wearing a wealth of paste diamonds during Violetta in La Traviata. Her husband Signor Nicolini guards a $500,000 box of stones, with guards and carriages, while Patti travels with only a few trinkets back in Europe.
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Mme
Patti
Violetta
Signor Nicolini
Lincoln Bank
Forty-second Street
Nicolini
Europe
New York Journal
Queer Use for the Darlings
A California man near Garvanso uses a family swing linked to a well pump to irrigate land. August Pirch, father of twelve, teaches his children to pump water by riding a swing, creating a continuous stream for irrigation.
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August Pirch
Garvanso
Pirch
Los Angeles
Cal
Four Rare Experience of Stephen A. Douglas Jr Face to Father
Stephen A. Douglas Jr, popular campaign speaker, recalls a remarkable moment from 1860 when workmen opened the sarcophagus of his father, Senator Stephen A. Douglas. He stood for an hour gazing at his father’s impeccably preserved face, noting the lifelike appearance despite decades since death.
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Stephen A. Douglas, Jr
Mr. Douglas
Lake Shore
Thirty-fifth Street
Stephen A
Chicago Herald
A Victim of Intemperance and Von Moltke Toasts
A descriptive vignette portrays a worn man ruined by dyspepsia and neglect, contrasted with a report from an Inter Ocean telegraphic note on Von Moltke’s appearance at a student celebration. The piece cites Brookly Hazte and Sutin Cor as sources, noting New York’s vast wire network and Albany’s telegraphic prominence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brookly Hazte
von Moltke
Inter-Ocean
Inside the Interstate Commerce Commission Hearings
Washington correspondent describes the daily ICC sessions in a Sun building room with two elevators, witnesses sworn by Judge Cooley, and commissioners Morrison Walker Schoonmaker and Brags. Twenty to thirty railroad managers and merchants attend each session, with a focus on business before the commission.
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Interstate Commerce Commision
Sun Building
Mt. Pleasant
Columbia Heights
Judge Cooley
Walker
Judge Schoonmaker
Mr. Brags
Commission
Schoonmaker
New York Sun
Taking His Own Medicine Teacher of Globe-Democrat
A Globe-Democrat attributed opinion explains why doctors rarely treat themselves or their families. physicians admit bias when self diagnosing, overestimate illness, and seek external medical help.
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Globe-Democrat
Desperate office seeker earns $900 clerkship
A young woman, denied a post, offers to shine Secretary John Sherman's boots as a desperate ploy. Impressed by her resolve, he grants her a department clerkship worth $900. She later marries and prospers.
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John Sherman
Secretary of the Treasury
Sherman
New Orleans Times-Democrat
From the Well of English and Odd Social Snips
The excerpt mocks word use in English and cites a Farnborough May function to relocate royal family members. It contrasts two Omaha views on education, noting a college-leaning son and a public school graduate with differing outcomes. It also tallies a Paris ball’s lavish drinks and bites, and jokes that Japan’s three-week marriage ceremony makes it unsuitable for runaway couples.
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Chiselhurst
Buckingham Palace
Jink
Wink
Omaha
Japan
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