CHHAP STATUETTES From Tuscany Figures Rule Street Peddler Market
The article outlines the global bust and statuette trade led by Tuscan workers, with Italian sculptors supplying most models for schools and shops. It contrasts large factory methods using plaster casts and baked finishes with cheaper street peddler productions, noting color processes, quality differences, and shifting demand toward draped figures and modern portrayals.
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Ptalinma
Tuscany
Germany
France
New York City
Wen
Plaster of Paris
Italy
Wagner
New York Post
Increasing Resembilance and Old Sayings Across Papers
A garbled collage from Indianapolis News and Atchison Globe cites dialect humor about boys and hats, with a remark on Hindu habits. The text suggests cross-paper snippets rather than a single cohesive story, including regional quips and commentary on temperance among Hindoos.
Upjohn Hurts After Streetcar Crash in Boston
A small boy recounts Mr. Jobo U Upjohn of the Boston bank district sustaining four broken ribs one leg sprain and a broken nose after a streetcar collision. He is in hospital receiving care and is expected to recover enough to return home in about a month with a doctor’s letter detailing the condition.
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Upjohn
Jobo U Upjohn
Boston Traveler
Hourglasses Seen To Rise In Popularity Again
A New York Sun report quotes a Twenty-third Street clerk noting renewed demand for hourglasses. Three minute glasses lead in sales for boiling eggs, with five, ten, and fifteen minute varieties popular for piano practice and lodge use. Finest sand from Italy, prices from ten dollars to two dollars depending on frame, with carved decorations boosting costs.
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Lous
Twenty-third Street
Perukea
Kace
Bourglieses
Muvcinos
Italy
New York
The Cookbook Measure Guide and Cooking Tips
A recipe style note explains butter in cups versus tablespoons and packing. It suggests boiling delicate items, stirring with a wooden spoon, cooling meat in cooking liquid, and using oil sparingly to prevent sticking. It covers tongue, corned beef, and sardines baked in a chafing dish with lemon juice.
Proportions lecture ends with Hyde Park quip
A boastful lecturer on human figure proportions is ridiculed by an audience member who jokes that twice around the waist would reach Hyde Park. The remark halts the talk, and the speaker moves on to another topic.
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Chbrill
Hyde Park
London
Poultry Yard Care and Fowl Health Tips
Guidelines on feeding, cleanliness, and housing for poultry including chickens and peafowls. Emphasizes daily feeding, keeping birds clean, dust baths, and monitoring comb color to gauge health. Describes bone content in eggs and the importance of health indicators like a bright scarlet comb.
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Veroio
How Old Spiders Live and Rule Their Webs
Old spiders without webs roam to raid the webs of younger rivals. The invader drives out the owner, who then clings to scraps of prey until a stronger spider takes over. Obsessive attacks cease after dispossession and the loser starves.
Pillow Devoted Man's Life Long Attachment
A Philadelphia Record note describes Moe, a man who has slept on a one foot square four inch thick pillow since age seven. He has carried the pancake like pillow through school at St Pauls New Hampshire Cambridge and on travels abroad. Now twenty five, he remains inseparable and plans to bring it on short or overnight trips.
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Moe
St Paul's School
New Hampshire
Orward
Cambridge
New York
Philadelphia
The Blind Leading the Blind in Harpers Magazine
A short, reflective piece recalls Ina’s move from rural life to a training school run by the State Normal Company. She notes affection for her regular teacher but critiques the methods of the senior training class, describing them as “false teachers.”
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Ina
State Normal Co
Harpers Magazine
Sadness on the Cunard Quay Turns To Gentle Help
A sentimental Liverpool woman meets a distressed traveler boarding a trunk aboard a Cunard ship quay. The young girl, pale with sorrow, reveals she is “crossed in the service” and endures a rough journey, prompting sympathy and conversation.
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Liverpool
Cunard
Too Late For Regrets And A Narrow Rescue
A man, despondent over life and daily toil, attempted suicide with carbolic acid. Doctors revived him, sparing his life. His wife lamented the act and quipped that laudanum might have been easier, as reported by the Chicago Tribune.
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Horace
Chicago Tribune
The Dead One and a Mourning Moment
An old colored woman mourns a baby’s death while walking from church to the cemetery. A passing white woman asks which child is dead, Aunt Eliza. The grieving woman responds in pathos, saying the child in the hearse is the one who died.
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Eliza
Ironmaking in Pennsylvania in 1692 poem note
A metrical description titled A Short Description of Pennsylvania by Richard Frame, printed by William Bradford in Philadelphia in 1692, first mentions ironmaking in the colony. Frame notes the presence of iron bedded at a place described as about forty pounds in weight.
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Pennsylvania
Richard Frame
William Bradford
Philadelphia
Frame
Meath
Oxygen and Carbon as World Foundations
Oxygen makes up about one fifth of the air and eight-ninths of water while comprising half of known globe materials. Carbon forms the basis of all organic substances. Oxygen, supporter of life and combustion, embodies vital energy.
Hard Road Test by Thorns and Blood
A harsh line describes the difficulty of smiling on a path littered with rose thorns leaving blood on each step. Facial expressions falter as weariness and pain draw lines of strain. The image conveys resilience amid adversity and the toll of struggle.
Warts Transferred In a Peculiar Tale From Chicago
In a humorous Chicago Record-Herald note a traveling man narrates a superstition that warts vanish when not thought of but can transfer. A father tests the idea after his son boasts about a wart purchase. The boy’s hands soon show warts, yet the seller, Carrotty Mike, has none, having transferred them to the boy.
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Teddie Stearns
Chicago Record-Herald
Callings From Fiction: A Summer Hymnal and More
A compact collection of quotations on relationships, marriage, and gender from fiction and aphoristic voices. The excerpts mix reflections on knowing a partner, the limits of wedded life, and the impact of imagination on viewing the other sex.
The Ideal Proofreader for a Small Printshop
An anonymous American Printer writer argues the ideal proofreader should be an accomplished printer and a grammarian who understands punctuation and literature. He stresses accurate spelling, broad knowledge of English, local familiarity, and moral humor to uncover errors and reveal truth.
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American Printer of
New York
Merry Ward Beecher Wit Elicits Laughing Roar
During a heated speech Beecher was interrupted by a crowing sound. He paused, checked his watch, and joked that morning had come. He claimed instinct of lower animals is infallible, triggering laughter from the gallery and a return to his discourse.
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Merry Ward Beecher
Mr Beecher
Mr. Beecher
Amanda Franks
Fredericksburg
E. B. Childs
Don’t Drink During Meals Says Expert Guidance
A health note warns against drinking during meals to aid digestion. It advises limiting fluids, especially ice water, and suggests four glasses of hot water 15 to 30 minutes before meals, highlighting morning use to cleanse the stomach.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Revival meetings in Warsaw and local news wrap
Notices report Mrs Vila Neill dying at 50 in West Salem on November 8 and several local events. Announcements cover church revival attendance in Warsaw, pension grants for Mrs Elizabeth Adama, a Lutheran appointment in Readsburg, and various obituaries and local sales including a Bloomington sale and Ashland court ruling on expert fees. Additionally, railroad timetable changes from Mansfield to Pittsburg Toledo route and a December factory start in Ashland area are noted.
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Vila Neill
Weat Salem
John Emmons
Redhaw
Vila
Warsaw
Ind
Ueda
M &, Church Evangelista Cornell
Mario
Pennsylvania
Mansfield
Toledo
Pittsburg
Elizabeth Adama
Doylestown
W. Thomas
Mt Morris, Ill
Court Proceedings in Probate Court
Proceedings held before Judge KE LAdsir. Michael Bauer appointed administrator of Eva Bauer with bond $500. Josiah P Fouche named guardian of Nancy Ann Meese with bond $500. Reno H Critchfield administrator of Ann P Allison filed petition to sell real estate at private sale, order granted. Samuel D Bucher administrator of Barbara May filed petition to sell real estate at public sale, order granted.
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KE. Ladsir
Michael Bauer
Eva Bauer
Josiah P Fouche
Nancy Ann Meese
Reno H. Critchfield
Ann P Allison
Samuel D Bucher
Barbara May
Trains Between Cleveland Cincinnati via Panhandle Route
Train service notes list sleeping car between Cleveland and Cincinnati with connections to Columbus Fort Wayne and Pittsburgh. Several schedule times and departures are given for routes to Canton Alliance Xenia Newark and Indianapolis with weekday operations and terminal at Columbus Union Station.
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Cleveland
Cincinnatl
Cainimbua
Colonies
Cinenoc
Columbus
Columbus Union Station
Wim
Canton
Alluance
Columbia
Xenia
Cincinnati
Taginsport
Chicago
Reehmond
Indianapols
Newark
Pittsburgh
Tennison
Sandsyeor
Staten EA
Ford
General Paenger Pee
Cao Pittsnuergi
Pexata
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Isle of
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John Bowman
Marshallville
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W O. Penngelly
C.M Vorce
B. Courtney
Milwaukee
Lamartine Greenawald
Thomas Keeney
Bloomington
Jersey
J. Bryant
Anoct
Wooster Markets
Barre
Tedda
The
Herald Printing Office
Pittsb’gh
Fwayne & Chicago Bir
Fennsylvanier Snes
ieSu
Creare
Tony
Mitsburgh
Maectin Lavon
Tminfort Teveland
Eye
Mananedd
Tama
Nilessad
Youngstown
Vevera
Pitt
Juntins
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