Tobacco and Liquors Across Europe by Frank George Carpenter
A travelogue from Paris to Munich describes tobacco quality, government revenues, and smoking habits in France England Ireland and Ireland Scotland Ireland. It notes cigars pipes and cigarettes preferences prices in various cities and reveals public drinking rooms hotel customs and famed beer halls with historical vignettes of Luther Luther Burns Mozart and Haydn.
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Paris
France
Imty
Tobaven
Parisa Tig
England
Scotland
Ireland
America
Europe
Richmond
London
Mime
Antwerp
Great Britain
Atel
Civilionaires
Dublin
Guinness
Anil Ous
Glasgow
Pars
Germany
Italy
Treland
Abeithe
New York
Aly
Egypt
Cairo
Alexandria
Vienna
Munich
Hofbrauhaus
Tennyson
Auerbach
Keller
Leipsic
Goethe
Mart Luther
Dohanneum Ovaseum
Dresden
Luther
Tsaw
Luthers
Wartburg Castle
Saltzburg
Bavana
Mogart
Haydn
Mozart
Tam O'Shanter's
Ayr
Robert Burns
Tam
Souter Johnny
Alloway Kirk
Burns
Frank George Carpenter
Moments from a mixed page on fashion and home life
A collage of anecdotes and tips on dress habits, manners, and domestic science. Read about English fashion on fjord travels, Del Sarte grace training, child brain nutrition, Vienna girls housework schooling, Mrs. Frank Leslie’s business success, and practical household hints from cleaning brushes to laundry recipes.
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America
Broadway
Taornings
St Louis
Globe Democrat
Good Grease Eradicator and Inventions Spotlighted
A Boston Budget note touts a grease eradicator recipe comprising ammonia water saltpetre and soap, claiming it has made millionaires from proprietary rights. Also featured is Ellen Dillon of Sioux City Iowa with a patented flatiron heater using perforated sheet metal and a conical slotted cover to trap heat.
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Boston Transcript
Boston
Ellen Dillon
Sioux City
Demorest
Healthful Womanhood and Child Health Notes
Excerpts discuss physical vigor as a natural beauty in women and the duty to foster health for future contribution to humanity. Emphasizes early development, strength, and character, then moves to child health with cautions on regular routines, nutrition, sleep, and care to prevent illness. Also includes home hygiene tips on preventing paint marks from matches and bran water for matting cleaning.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Egg Cosy and Household Tips From Old Times
A varied slice of domestic miscellany describes an egg cosy used to keep boiled eggs warm, with silk and wool decoration, silk tassels and ribbons. It also covers practical tips on lamp wicks, drying water soaked shoes with paper, removing ink stains using oxalic acid, cleaning brass with safe methods, and anecdotal notes on fabrics and a Nevada fungus nicknamed Lily of the Mine.
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Philadelphia
Pacific Coast
Nevada
Agaricus Tridens
Ben C. Truman
New York Times
A Dutch Landscape. Broad Meadows and Windmills
The Dutch landscape unfolds with broad meadows filled with cattle and canals, windmills on towers, farmhouses by canals, and distant villages. Clouds drift pale blue skies while spring flowers bloom late. a chill, autumnal mood settles as mists creep along canals. The scene contrasts tranquil beauty with a sense of coming winter, noted by the San Francisco Chronicle’s Holland Cor.
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Belgium
Amsterdam
Huiland
Canais
Norrow
Holland
Europe
San Francisco Chronicle
Checkers Debate Reveals Former Lawyer’s Claim
A Chicago Tribune excerpt shows a tense checkers exchange where one player questions the other’s knowledge and the reply notes a fifteen year career as a country town lawyer. The dialogue underscores rival egos and streetwise wit in a game context.
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Chicago Tribune
The Capital by Moonlight in Washington
Washington by moonlight is wonderfully beautiful. The moon tints the marble of public buildings and brings life to the statues. The White House appears a fairy palace under moonlit trees, as described in the Washington Letter.
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Capital
Washington
White House
Cracked Earthquake Tale From Charlestown Insight
An Indiana resident in the fertile valley of the Way bosh describes feeling an earthquake in Charlestown last year. He reports he scrambled to secure grains and took shelter as tremors subsided, reflecting on the odd quake's impact.
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Indiana
Charlestown
New York Sun
Ex Governor Pinchbeck Becomes English Book-Maker
The Chicago Herald notes ex Louisiana governor Pinchbeck has turned professional book-maker in England and advertises at races. The Winchester Leader forecasts early winter as migratory birds depart a month earlier. Umatilla Indians cultivate eighteen thousand acres of wheat this season.
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England
Pinchbeck
Louisiana
Chicago Herald
Winchester
Umatilla Indians
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Prett
Faust
Robert Burnt
la Rochefoucauld
Dickens
Butterkin
Chicago Journal
Archives de Pediatrics
Warner
Buffalo Courier
Frank Leslie
Florence Leslie
New York Graphic
Dolly
Paul
Mand
Adirondacks
Baltimore Sun
Brattleboro
Scientific American
Atlanta Constitution
Iran
Schuyler Colfax
Harriet
Michigan City
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