Butler's Investment Advice for Young Men in Real Estate
General Butler counsels that improvements real estate offers a safe path for young men to build wealth. Buy small rented property at auction with cash and mortgage the balance, use income to pay notes, avoid speculation, and save. He cites Boston merchant failures versus real estate gains, warns against imitation of Jay Gould, and shares a personal Lowell bank anecdote on prudent investing.
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Jay Gould
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Lowell Bank
Jaynes G. Varney
Lowell
Benjamin ¥. Butler
New York Sun
Always Shave Yourself Centenary Party Quip Posts Pro Tem
Senator Ingal s traveling to Philadelphia for the centennial celebration offers a humorous lecture on shaving. He argues every man should shave himself, avoid barbers, and save fifteen cents, linking frugality to conduct in public life. The dialogue references Pope Leo, Vatican hints, and a broader European context.
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Philadelphia
United States Senate
Happy Ng
New York Bening Post Inter
Pope Leo
Rome
Vatican
The Tall Silk Hat Origin and Craft Process
A New York Evening Sun feature explains how the fashionable chimney pot hat is made, from muslin and shellac to plush covering, with stages like drying, bodied crown work, and hand finishing. It notes Florence and 19th century France as early hat centers and mentions England’s St Clement festival.
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Radd
Florence
Italy
France
England
St. Clement
New York Evening Sun
Saratoga Chips Factory Details From a City Bakery
An innocent reporter learns Saratoga chips are locally processed with a near monopoly in this city. Potatoes are peeled and sliced by machine, washed, and dried to remove starch before frying to produce white, crisp chips. The firm uses seventy five barrels weekly, seven bakers, and three wagons for delivery to restaurants and private homes, with some supply going to England.
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Saratoga
England
Jacksonville
San
Dilapidated cabbie picks up a clubman then deserts him
A shabby cab stops near the Brunswick as a drowsy club member negotiates a fare dispute. The cabby aids the passenger to Seventy sixth Street, accepts $3, then the passenger escapes after the door remains open. The clubman returns to the Brunswick and rooms at Sixty-sixth Street.
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Brunswick
Hutsh
Seventy Sixth Street
Fifth Avenue
Sixty-sixth Street
New York
Rain and climate notes from British observations
The piece discusses humidity and atmospheric cleansing by certain processes, noting the harmful effects of decomposing matter and combustion. It mentions air purification, acid exhalations, and large crowds reacting to a gospel wagon in Washington, as reported by the Chicago Herald.
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Washington
Chicago Herald
Call to Preach Turns Stingy: Detroit Club Exposes Hypocrisy
In a fiery Detroit Free Press scene Brother Gardner lambastes a fellow member, accusing him of hypocrisy and urging immediate reform. The speaker derides religious pretensions while detailing debt, poverty, and neglect within the club, warning expulsion if sermons replace labor.
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West End de Hoyer
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Egypt
Eve
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Bradder de Hoyer
Kentry
de Troyer
Detroit
Education of a Mexican Gentleman in Sunlight and Society
The piece traces a wealthy Mexican boy’s early life from riding a burro at age five to mastering a pony, then horse by twelve with silver adornments signaling caballero status. Education shifts from parish tutors to formal schools in Mexico City or abroad, ending childhood by 16 to 18 as he enters business, law, medicine, or estate management.
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Military Academy
Chapultepec
School of Mines
Mexico
Europe
United States
Wind powered mills of Tabbas described in detail
Mills at Tabbas use a wind driven upper shaft with four blades and surrounding mud walls to funnel wind. Forty mills operate, their loud motion drawing crowds as they grind grain. Nearby Seistan region hosts similar primitive mills while observations note Americans abroad and language use. This is drawn from Thomas Stevens and Mrs. Frank Leslie's observations.
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Tabbas
Seistan Lake
Thomas Stevens
Outang
Frank Leslie
Ecanilivnis
Paris
Ars Pi
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