Easter festival customs with heaving chairs and games
The article details historic Easter customs lasting 15 days including a lifting ritual where chairs were decorated and participants kissed occupants after three lifts. It notes heavy Easter days, then describes pastimes like handball, water tilting games, and a Swiss egg challenge. It also mentions Moscow and St Petersburg fairs with swings and merry go rounds during the festival.
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Switzerland
Moscow
St. Petersburg
New Patented Novelties Highlight Household and Industry Aids
A sickroom spoon with a dial tracks medicine doses, a typewriter for the blind uses raised letters and provides dot or letter punctuation, and a wire spring pin secures scarf pins. Other highlights include bank safety checks with detachable coupons, newspaper wrapping with breakable slits, a faucet with a recording device, interlocking barbed wire, and a foldable trolley-line repair wagon with adjustable platform.
Chopin dies in Paris on October 17 1849
The obituary notes Frederic Chopin the pianist died in Paris on October 17 1849. It also mentions Mozart loving Constance Weber and a remark about her shoewearing propriety. The passage cites early American political labels federalists and anti federalists. It details 18th century nail and tack making machines from Ezekiel Reed of Bridgewater and his son’s 1807 invention.
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Frederic Chopin
Paris
Mozart
Constance Weber
Ezekiel Reed
Bridgewater
Mass
Fashions of 1891 Hat Trends and Easter Flora
The article traces 1891 fashion toward large hats and flower heavy trims, noting stringless bonnets, massed floral decorations, and a shift toward youthful hats. It predicts further color and silhouette changes for 1897 while reflecting on evolving necklines and sleeves.
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Chip
Clare Bunce
A Bermuda Quest Leads to an Island Naturalist
Stranded narrator finds solace in Bermuda's sunlit vale and a welcoming 80 year old naturalist. The elderly man, famed for shells birds and plants, hosts a visitor in a straw thatched dwelling and shares calm, benign wisdom amid a fragile journey back to health.
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Bermuda
St. Georges
Hamilton
Tennyson
Old Country
Islands
Uses of Water in Home Remedies
A Pharmological Journal note explains hot water applications for common ailments. Soothing effects arise from hot water on feet and neck for headaches and congestion, with towels aiding toothache neuralgia. A hot-water drink aids constipation and stomach comfort, while neck wrap helps croup in children.
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Pharmological Journal
Half Dozen Sheep Boost Farm Weeds and Clover Fertility
Farmers see value in small flocks to control weeds while crimson clover left from last fall supplies fertilization. No nitrogen fertilizer needed where crimson clover grows, though phosphates and potash aid the soil. The piece urges support for progressive farming and communal approval of experiments to drive improvement.
Notable figures and events cited in royal and academic news
Lord Rosebery’s income reportedly reaches one million dollars annually. Ambassador Hay, Brown University class of 1858 graduate. Siam’s king to visit Queen Victoria aboard the Maha Chakri, a 2500 ton steam yacht built in Scotland. John Tweed of Chelsea and Glasgow origin commissioned to sculpt Cecil Rhodes statue for Bulawayo. Ex-Postmaster-General Wilson to become president of Washington and Lee University on September 14. Henry Doel, the oldest actor, will turn 93. he began acting 65 years ago and as a child recalls Napoleon aboard the Bellerophon.
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Ambassador Hay
Brown University
Siam
Queen Victoria
Maha Chakri
Scotland
John Tweed
Chelsea
Glasgow
Cecil Rhodes
Bulawayo
Wilson
Washington and Lee University
Lexington
Henry Doel
Plymouth Sound
Napoleon
Ice Field If Lake Michigan Freezes For A Century Of Ice
The Chicago Tribune suggests if Lake Michigan froze solid a foot thick the vast ice field could supply Chicago for generations. It calculates 836 trillion cubic feet of ice weighing 5.36e12 pounds, enough for billions of days for thousands of families.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Chicago Tribune
Michigan
Explosion in Kent Hall Shocks University of Chicago
A glass bottle containing a chemical liquid near a flame exploded in a Kent hall laboratory at the University of Chicago, rattling the building and alarming students and professors. Few injuries occurred, mainly to apparatus and woodwork, as the room was nearly empty except for C. V. Bachelee.
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University of Chicago
Kent Hall
C. V. Bachelee
Pellmell
Kansas Lawmaker Proposes Ten Commandments Act
Democrat C. B. Watters of Labette County introduces a Kansas House bill to give statutory force to the ten commandments. The act sets fines and penalties for each section including severe punishments such as hanging for section 6 and life imprisonment for section 7, with varying penalties for other sections.
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Kansas
C. BR. Watters
Labette County
Kan
House
Mount Sinai
State of
Library in Washington completed within time and cost
The new congressional Library in Washington finished on schedule at 63 cents per cubic foot including decorations, compared with Philadelphia's vast municipal building begun in 1872 and now nearing completion at 1.69 dollars per cubic foot.
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Washington
Municipal
Philadelphia
Jewelry trends and practical cases from the Jewelers Circular
Abroad women wear cloth of gold bodices with jewel embroidery and seek peridot for a rich olive green pairing with diamonds. Silver boxes hold twine, stamps, pens, pins. pocket cases combine silver handled scissors and knife. Antique morocco glove boxes gain silver design enrichments. golden weddings favor gold tableware or gold plated silver. Popular items include bonbon spoons and loving cups.
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Morocco
Siegfried Holiday China Bargains Highlighted
The store notes strong Christmastime demand with record China sales and invites shoppers to preview two special bargains. It promises daily stock, fair treatment, and competitive pricing, stressing wide availability and reliable service.
Banquet Lamp Offered as Bargain Buy Now
An ornate reading lamp with decorated globe center draft burner and removable fount is advertised at 2.98 dollars. The ad urges quick purchase, claiming it is the ideal lamp and a deal that won’t last.
English 100 piece dinner set with brown underglaze gilding
A 100 piece English semi porcelain dinner set sold at 9.98 with gold lines and brown underglaze. The dealer claims the best English never craze and offers a two dollar present reduction. The store touts wide stock and new top selections in Warren county crockery.
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Warren County
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