Sightless Eyes Learn to Write At New York Blind School
A Herald reporter visits the New York State School for the Blind detailing instruction in reading writing and mathematics by raised print and tactile maps. Pupils learn by dictation finger reading and musical training progressing through geometry geography and piano with a focus on independence after graduation. Many students have no homes and are placed on farms for outdoor activity and health.
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Herald
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Britt
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Armond
Anton
Thames
Gusto
White House silver weddings and presidential anniversaries
The article traces early presidential marriages noting silver and golden anniversaries among U S leaders. It recalls Lucy Webb and Rutherford B Hayes wedding in 1853, a Sunday 1877 celebration, and clergy Rev L D McCabe officiating. It lists longest marriages ending with Adams, Harrison, Johnson, Madison, Monroe, Taylor and Pierce.
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Harrison
Andrew Johnson
Madison
Monroe
Taylor
Pierce
Ee York Herald
An Ugly City San Francisco Moralizing Essay
A vivid 19th or early 20th century critique paints San Francisco as the ugliest city in the Union. The author laments deforming marks of man upon beauty, ridicules wooden horrors and iron railings, and contrasts with flawless boulevards in Chicago Cincinnati Detroit or Boston. The piece dwells on architecture and fences as symbols of urban decay.
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Union
Tate
Chicago
Cincinnati
Detroit
Boston
Ponioan
Underground Life In A French Mountain Village
In La Cevennes central France a village sits high in a pass where villagers live mostly underground for much of the year. Snow piles into the lower cottages and doors become blocked while the only interior access is via a chimney. Families stock bread cheese and salt for themselves and store hay and straw outside for their cow and horse. The article notes extreme isolation and cold when winds drive snow into the hamlet.
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Cevennes
France
Fragmented Local Notice From Fieri Page
Fragmentary OCR text mentions eee ms and Tha talsie en Fier ie gat mle Sa Tp mete Te wear ab eee, unclear details. The readable words hint at a ceremonial event or notice but no clear entity actions or dates emerge.
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Talsie
An Important Game and a Joke on a Senator
A chaotic scene unfolds in a Second Street store as a boy narrates a tense checkers match and a man in the kitchen jokes about an ill man in a well. Elsewhere, a social scene shows a daughter teased by a bashful suitor while a Senator Beck joke turns to aging health matters.
The Great National Library Described As World Brain
A Cleveland Leader letter extols the Great National Library as a brain reservoir for past and present knowledge. It estimates six hundred thousand books and nearly two hundred thousand pamphlets, with a projected one million volumes and vast underground storerooms containing maps, prints, and music. The piece notes rapid American literary growth and cites annual additions of around twenty thousand volumes plus over three hundred fifty thousand musical pieces.
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Great National Library
Cleveland Leader
Smithmeyer
France
St. Petersburg
Munich
Royal Library
Berlin
United States
Apcieens
Beara Milled by Mosquitoes in Alaska Tale
Lieutenant Scawatka recounts an Alaska tale of a summer traveler on the Lower Yukon who notes mosquitoes are scarce there and that brown bears known as grizzlies may endure swarms. He describes how mosquito bites inflame an animal’s eyes and ears, driving it into confusion until it starves or succumbs in mud.
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Yukon
Pepe
Brain
Arene
Preserve Eyesight Against Sudden Light Changes
A fragmented health note warns against abrupt exposure to darkness and bright light. It suggests pausing after entering dim areas, avoiding reading in strong glare, and hints at eye strain from rapid shifts in illumination.
Fragmentary Note On Warnings And Authority In Medical Discourse
A garbled passage warns readers to distrust easy assurances about danger and pain from illness. It cites a skeptical editor and urges caution against those who dismiss serious symptoms or claim medical certainty without examination.
Language of Preceius Stones and their virtues
The text outlines stones and their symbolic meanings. The topaz represents fidelity and friendship, the amethyst guards courage and steadiness, moonstone embodies industry for merchants, sapphire links to charity and magic, emerald stands for truth and honesty fitting judges or lawyers. It hints at poetic, historical associations and a worn spelling style.
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