Global wine trade and dairy exports in nineteenth century markets
The piece notes wine production exceeding 3 billion dollars with France, Italy, and Spain leading, and California supplying about 19.9 million gallons. It highlights rising English egg imports from 4 million dollars in 1864 to 15 million in 1888, Moorish exports of bird seed, Holland's rich butter and cheese exports, and a shift to artificial butter. It also discusses European demand for American fruit, new spraying tech, and the spread of butter substitutes due to limited real butter supply, affecting prices and markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Jaly
Spain
California
England
Laraiche
Holland
Hamburg
United States
Italy
America
Germany
Netherlands
Europe
South America
Australia
India
Japan
China
Time in the Season of Oddities and Whims
A collage of quirky verse and dialect sketches laments seasonal worries and everyday disappointments. It moves from a fearsome time of discontent to comic snippets about pipes, finances, and office life, then shifts to rustic rural celebration of corn and flirtatious doggerel in mixed languages.
Magnificent gem collectors and costly necklaces of the era
Reports describe LacyGuinness ordering a $125,000 diamond necklace soon to be made due to stone scarcity. Mrs Cornelius Vanderbilt wears a Tam diamond and pearl necklace admired for its center pierced diamonds. Mrs Leland Stanford holds the world’s most valuable diamond collection aside from royal jewels, with a necklace worth $600,000 and total value $2,000,000. Other owners include Mrs Robert Johnson with a snake‑shaped necklace, and Mrs Mackay with gems like a $185,000 sapphire, a famed emerald, coral jewelry, and $400,000 diamond solitaires.
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Lacy Guinness
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Leland Stanford
Russia
Great Britain
Isabella
Spain
Stanford
Robert Johnson
San Francisco
The Old Scientist Seeks Sea Monsters in the Deep
A cautious scientist, warned of sea monsters, rows far from shore to fish differently using a bottle of bait. He waits under a green moon, peering into the deep, yet finds no creature and returns disappointed.
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Sven
Doctor Endorses Ayer's Cherry Pectoral for Whooping Cough
Dr Bart lett of Concord Massachusetts recommends Ayer's Cherry Pectoral in cases of Whooping Cough among children. He claims it is more certain to relieve the troublesome disease than any other medicine he knows.
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Ayer
Dr. Bartlett
Concord
Mass
Gobelin Tapestries Shine At Paris Exhibition Display
The Paris Exhibition features a Gobelin tapestry gallery with grand landscapes historic scenes portraits and animal studies. Pieces include Letters Science and Art in Antiquity and lifelike birds. The factory near Jardin des Plantes dates to the 15th century and is state supported with about 150 hand weaving artists.
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Paris
Gobelin
Jardin Des Plantes
Louis XIV
Jean Gobelin
la Folie Gobelin
Completely Routed: Barbarian Attack Ends in Defeat for Aggressive Party
A Bar Harbor couple walks by the ocean as a witty dialogue unfolds. A clever seduction by a stylish Bar Harbor girl is rejected by the man who reveals he has been married for a year, prompting his solitary return to the bar.
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Bar Harbor
New York
Cacun
Astley Cooper
Carpenter
Wales
Valley of the Shadows
Gothe
Eckerman
Steinbeck
Linnaeus
Sir Walter Scott
Lockhart
Pritchard
Pensacola
Fla
Kingston widow to share estate after life interest
A Kingston man's will grants his widow a life interest in a $2,090 estate with twelve heirs to divide the principal after her death. A mortgage foreclosed, and with costs and fees the judgment totals $1,999. The widow's life interest lasts, then two heirs receive twenty cents each, five heirs four cents each, four heirs five cents each, and one heir gets the annual interest on twenty cents.
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Kingston
N. Y
Porpoises Provoking Shoreline Nuisance Baffles Authorities
South of France reports highlight Mediterranean porpoises as clever, disruptive pests harming fishing. Despite commissions and gunboat attempts in 1883 1884 the depredations persist, nets fail, and fish flee with the porpoises. The railway of failed measures ends with hints of organized hunts or insurance, while the department offers limited indemnity to net owners.
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France
St. Nazaire
la Physiologie Des Missouins
E. Perrier
Council of
Department of Marine
Mediterranean
Marseilles
Narbonne
Port Vendres
Saturday Review
Cheetah Hunt With Tame Leopards At Dhar Central India
Colonel Ward Bennett reports a cheetah hunt with tame cheetahs near Dhar in Central India. The party with the Maharajah watches two cheetahs stalk a herd of black bucks, culminating in a high spring and a kill, while one cheetah fails to capitalize.
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Dhar
Central
India
Ward Bennett
London Illustrated News
Origin of Idaho name and memory tales from the era
A long composite text traces the origin of the word Idaho from a Nez Perce linguistic misattribution and a 1860 steamer name. It notes Captain Craig and Joaquin Miller stories, then recounts memory loss cases from Sir Astley Cooper to Scott and Pritchard, illustrating how memory can fade and reappear.
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Joaquin Miller
Idaho
Miller
Colonel Craig
Nez Perce
Craig
Sierras
Upper Cascades
Columbia River
Oregon Steam Navigation Company
Columbia
Territory
Salacius Garfield
Idaho Statesman
Adopt a course with deliberation and persevere
A collection of quotes on choosing a path and sticking to it. Contrast between calm power and steadfast commitment with reflections from Scott, Talleyrand, Spurgeon, and others. Includes remarks on humility trust and the idea that fortune rewards skill.
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Texas
N. Y. Ledger
Walter Scott
Spurgeon
United Presbyterian
San Francisco Chronicle
Mystery Crowd at City Excavation Explained
A bystander, watching a nine story construction, questions workers and is told he waits to check a doorway width. The tale notes idle onlookers surround digs for weeks. The story also reports a large flawless Paris exhibit glass bubble over five feet wide weighing forty eight and a half pounds.
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Detroit Free Press
The Mail Job Office Advertises Printing Services
The Mail Job Office offers first class job printing and low prices. Blank forms of all kinds are kept on hand and printed on order. The paper notes second class circulation in Warren, requests brief newsy communications, and requires writers sign their names.
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Warren P.O
Scrap of Paper Saves Her Life
A woman near death from consumption reads an ad on a wrapping paper for Dr. King’s New Discovery. She uses a sample then a full bottle, recovers rapidly, gains to 140 pounds, and urges others to send a stamp for fuller particulars from W. H. Cole, Fort Smith, with trial bottles at Morck Drug Store.
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Dr. King
W. H. Cole
Fort Smith
Morck Drug Store
Bucklen Arnica Salve Ad Claims and Prices
The ad promotes Bucklen Arnica Salve as the best cure for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin ailments with a 25 cent price at Moprek Drug Store. A verse condemns wealth inequality noting rich and poor workers and a line about a front foot value attributed to Verity, referenced from the Binghamton Republican.
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Bucklen
Moprek
Binghamton Republican
Kemp's Balsam Sold by druggists in 50c and 1
A customer letter from Victor New York dated February 1 1887 requests four gross Kemp s Balsam 50c size and samples. The writer praises Kemp s Balsam as the best selling cough cure noting it outsells fifteen other remedies ten to one and signs F E Cass. A sample bottle is offered free.
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CarTer
Carter Medicine CO
New York
Victor
N. Y
O. F. Woodward
F.E. Cass
Mormon men innocent yet urged by women myth
A satirical quote collection notes that Mormon men are innocent and would limit polygamy if not for women. It contrasts a Philadelphia vignette claiming Brazil has shed imperial pretensions with a Boston Herald remark.
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New Orleans
Philadelphia
Brazil
Boston Herald
Photographer of babies and carpets in a witty scene
In a humorous vignette from St Peter, a photographer admits specializing in baby pictures while a salesman extols fine carpets. The customer laments last year’s purchases failing under heavy use and seeks something durable, delivering a wry social joke.
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Harper’s Bazar
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E. Cowan
W.cowan
D. Cowan
Warren
Warren County
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Liberty St
Ilbur & Schnor
Oftices
Hazeltine
W. Wilbur
Wm. Scchwurr
Cable & Peterson
Attorneys AT Law
Water Street
Scofield
Warren Pe ¢. Dinsmoor
IAS, Cable, cC
Arren Hutel
Thos. W. Arird
Corper of
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Ay Os
H. Allen
Aviorney
LAW
Allen & Higgins
Allen's Block
Second
Liberty
M . J. Walkerman
Oneida
News
Liberty Street
LL. Agnew
Oseph A. Schofield
Exchange Block
Warren, Pa
J. A. Love
Warren, Penna
Qver Mirror
Shortstreeta
Los P.m
Tarren
Ofice
Third St
M EK
Charech
W. Dunklee, J
Uolice
F. K. Scott
W G. Trunkey
Attorney AT Law
Reeman
Hazelline
Suly
Brown, Spane & Rice
First National Bank
H. RH. Brown
Notary Public
Kr, Brown
K. B. Brown
W. Stone
W. BE. Rick
F. Bole, A
Wright Block
Centre Street
Corry, Pa
Bowman & Bole
Youn F. McPherson
Water and
Hickory
Ane Db. Clark
Verback Block
W V.N . Yates
L. G. Noyes’ Drug Store
Warren Savings Bank
W. A. Greaves
Amuel T. Neill
Offee
Exchane
Porest and
Venango Mhintves
J. Muse
Fwarren, Pa
Jotoson’s Exchange
Eel Epmoref
Noyes & Hinckley
3Eather& Thompson, B
Beaty Block
GALL
Johnson’s Exchange
Story
P. Johnson
W. M. Lindley
T. O. Parmler
Arren
A.J. Hzeltine
O. W. Beaty
Geo. B. Ensworth
Cashier
M.B. Dunham
A.J. Hazeltine
L. R. Freeman
Jas. Clark
L. B. Wood
W. Beaty
H. S. Thomas
Wood & Thomas
Third Street
Warren, la
J. Daatrisi
Ariaty Hal. Warren, Ps
Shear’s
Shear
Pitcher
The
Diamond Furniture
Diamond Block
the Diamond Furniture CO
Diamond
Mason Emery
Yours Truly
Morce
N. K. Wendlebof
Commercial Notes
Giee
George Horton
Chicago Herald
Gretchen
Dot
Sphynx
N. Y. Herald
E. R. Collins
Texas Siftings
Nou G
Royal Aking Powder Co
Wall St
P. Greenland
Episcopal Church
Mammoth Furniturese Store
P. Greenlund
Carters
Grace
Heaven
Ella J. H. Sellingham
Troy Times
Earth
StraisOil
Rélie
Lum
Ems
Strong
Origin OF
Castoria
St. Peter
Morris & Mullen
N.C. Allen
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