St Bernard Monks Hospitable Life on Mount St Bernard
A New York Sun correspondent visits Mount St Bernard hospice in the Alps. Pere Luisier and the Augustine monks welcome about 600 guests, aided by their St Bernard dogs. The tour covers the monastery, chapel, dog kennels, and the snowbound morgue containing human remains found in the ice.
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Doge de Charne
Mount St. Bernard
Brotherhood
St. Bernard
le Pera
Joseph Luisier
Belv
France
Pere Luisier
Italy
Switzerland
Tach
New York Sun
Echo of Vapa Thoughts on Kittens and Triplets
A Boston child distressed by drowning a litter of kittens asks his father how many will drown two days after a household gains triplets. The incident reflects a sudden, vivid moral conflict felt by a young observer in a domestic setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vapa
Boston
Habit of Early Rising and Insanity Risks
Dr. Selden argues early rising invades childhood rights and can trigger insanity. He cites Puritan influence in New England and harsh wakeups as a source of anger and mental strain. The piece warns against waking abruptly and advocates gradual, gentle mental activity after waking.
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Dr. Selden
New England
Loy
Srain
Herald of Health
Journey of the Human Jaw In a Philadelphia News column
A dyspeptic patron at Sansom Street outlines a tongue in cheek calculation of a man’s jaw mileage through life. He estimates daily inches chewed and talked, totals them by life stage, and concludes a maxillary journey of about 107 miles. A woman’s jaw, he says, is shorter.
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Sansom Street
Lita
Philadelphia News
The Lucky Piece and Town Pocketbook Tale
A report recalls a pocketbook spill on Woodward avenue where a woman with a lucky sixpence and a man with a keepsake coin discuss luck. The piece surveys superstitions across classes from bones and sixpences to lucky pennies and charms, noting aims to avert harm and aid fortune as part of popular belief.
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Woodward Avenue
UNKIRK ALLEGHENY VALLEY ARó PITTSSURGH RAILWAY
Trains run north and south from Warren through stations including Jamestown and Cassadaga with connections to Lakeshore and Erie Railways at Dunkirk Junction. Local mentions include the Tuusvale line and service toward Bradford and Low.
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Unkirk
Allegheny Valley
Pittssurgh
Kredonig
Laon
Mali
Made a Big Hit by Frank Leslie in Illustrated Journalism
In a chat with Stephen J. Horgan, the rise of illustrated journalism is traced from Frank Leslie’s 1855 start to his rapid production of images for The Illustrated Newspaper. The Burdell murder case aided the format’s popularity, with Leslie racing to print 200,000 copies and expanding illustrated coverage weekly. Leslie’s innovations, clashes with Chief Matsell over image rights, and the paper’s lasting influence on illustrated press are noted as pivotal.
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Tory
Bardell Sturder
Frank Leslie
Stephen J. Horgan
Mrr. Horgan
Graphic
Dr. Burdell
Burdell
Mr. Horgan
P. T. Barnum
New York News
Carter
Frank Carter
Leslie
Bom Street
Berghaus
Cass
Matsell
Police Gazette
Mateell
MacDonald
Buffalo Shopresa
Ameer Finishes Alaminist in Cabul Folktale
Strange tale from Homeward Mail recounts a durbar interaction where a young courtier is sent up a high tree to spy on Muscovy’s movements. After days of looking out, he grows weary, falls, and dies, leaving Cabul hushed and silent.
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Durbar
Exist
Gran
Muscovice
Cabul
A Double Baseball Curve Aims To Demonstrate A Snake Twist
Experts discuss the unlikely yet plausibly real double curve or snake twist in baseball pitching. The phenomenon appears sporadically, witnessed by multiple observers, though no pitcher admits understanding how to reproduce it. Ren e Bache notes from the Kansas City Times questions its future controllable production.
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Alwa
Tinay
Rene Bache
Kansas City Times
Lend Assistance to the Thinkers and Social Ironies
A fragment from the Magazine of American History argues that well funded donors should aid thinkers privately rather than public charities and cathedral displays. It notes that thinkers benefit the public more when helped discreetly and suggests bachelors’ joys conflict with old maids’ views.
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Vaonjamin
Magazine of American Mistry
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ST. Bernard's Monks
F. Kersey
Warren
N. K. Wendelboe
Liberty St
Warren, Pa
E. Bartsch
Water St
Diamond Block
Cusvan i
Fithy
New York Star
Illinois
Iowa
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Dakota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Ipen
Chicago
Milwaukee
ST. Paul
Minneapolis
Curcil Bluffs
Omaha
Thi
Michigan
Lack Hills
Lifornia
Mewiantay
Treveting Agt
Lencaster
Paghitt
Mason & Damlin
Mason & Hamlin
Mason & Lamlin
Jano
Free, Mason & Hamlin Organ and Piano CO
East 14Th &1
Union Square
New York
Warren and
Corpen
Kield
E.R. R
Oil City
Tikeville
Rifi
Eithel Et Lunlunu
Learfelt
Ion A
Wood
Gene
Ike
Mal M
Anager
Broadway
N.Y
The
American Commercial College
Nicht School
the Illustrated Newspaper
Boston Journal of Education
Bredisine
James M. Rollins
Bastor
Church
Fairfield
Ahv
Sammons
Simmons
Price, Bl.co
Psiladelsuia
Charles A. Peterson
Brown & Stone
T. Neill
New Exchange Block
Leonhart Bros
J. A. Schofield
Second Street
Flat National Bank
B. Brown
H. E. Brown
W. Stone
Ball & Thompson
Beatty Block
A. A. Davis & Co
D. I. Ball
I. Ball
A. C. Thompson
Dinsmoor & Cable
Atreet
Scotiand Block
Hunter & Son
Chas
Dinsmoor
JAS. Cable
Wetmore, Noyes & Hinckley
Second
Johnson's Exchange
L.D. Wetmore
Noyes
W.D. Hinckley
Freeman & Trunkey
Judge Scofield
Liberty Street
I. BR
Freeman
W. G. Truskey
W. E. Rice
Office Beatty
A. A. Davia & Co
Geo. C. Cornelius
Scofield Block
Front Street
W.Y
J. R. Baines
Baptist Church
Melpine
Merck’s Drug Store
Carver House
J. Danforth
W. Corner
John Sager
Wise’s
Exchange Hotel
G. H. Leonhart
Revére House
Frank Metzgar
Lew Meyer
Suspension Bridge
Fus
Palace Barber Shop
W. 4. Greaves
Episcopal Church
C. Smith
National Bank
Kling
Harthed
Louis
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