Mysterious Disappearance of Pryce Blair Jr in Utah to Idaho
Longunsuccessful search for Pryce Blair Jr a Cartondale Penn native who left for Colorado twelve years ago. Family learned no word after a Marysvale Utah missive and a Salt Lake City tip led to a false lead in Lander Wyoming.
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Pryce R. Blair, Jr
Cartondale
Penn
Colorado
Marysvale
Utah
Idaho
Salt Lake
Salt Lake City
Bryce KR
Blair
Carbondale
Lander, Wy
Young Blair
Bryce Blair
Lander
James Blair
Nebraska
Reliable Recipes From a Colonial Kitchen Loose in Ink
A fragmented recipe page offers directions for Creau Pre and Ricu Axoen Cakes, plus detailed broiling tips for beef and mutton. It includes a beef tea stock method using a calf foot, simmered slowly for hours, clarified and strained into a jelly for serving.
Advertisement for hangman position in Vienna Official Gazette
An official notice advertises a hangman job in Vienna with pay of 22 dollars yearly plus 59 dollars lodging and 100 dollars for two assistants. Candidates must show certificate of ability experience and good character. A written hireling from near Springfield Ohio has begun for western Indiana with a cart rebuilt from old wheels and shafts.
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Vienna
Hirmit
Springfield
Ohio
Indiana
Desert Hotel Near the Pyramids Draws Health Seekers
The New York Sun reports 6,000 foreign visitors sought health in Cairo last winter with several hundred acres bought in 1884 by a wealthy Englishman. He built a desert sanitarium for invalids and a hotel now serves guests who wish to linger for pyramid viewing, away from city haste.
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Cairo
Pyramids
New York Sun
Cranberry Culture Centers on Cape Cod Bogs
The New York Sun notes Cape Cod Massachusetts as the heart of cranberry cultivation in New England. Carver Plymouth Wareham Bourne and Sandwich host bogs where growers devote about one hundred acres to cranberries. Yields per acre range from one to three codcal bushels depending on season pests and conditions.
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Cape Cod
Mss
New England
Carver
Plymouth
Wareham
Bourne
Sandwich
New York Sun
Paleolithic finds at Mentone quarry yield giant skeletons
A seven foot human skeleton was dug up during tunnelling at Mentone quarry. A grotto entrance was revealed in the cliff and three skeletons lay beneath the soil, the largest of enormous size and all three abnormal.
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Tuer Real
Mentone
Liama Cloth Promises All Wool Look at Low Price
The Liama cloth is described as extremely hard to distinguish from fine all wool challes with an all wool finish in cream and light shades. Printed designs are dainty and Frenchy with savy small towers as popular motifs. It is thirty one inches wide and offered as cheaply as ordinary cotton chanie of previous years.
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Maxy
Creede
Col
Creede Electric Light and Power Company
Denver
Tai New Zealand Herald
Manukau Harbor
Henry Jacobson
North Manukau Heads
Jacobson
New York Press
Flowers for Evening Wear in Pale Yellow Gown
The St Louis Republic notes evening fashion with flowers as trims for a chiffon dress in pale yellow. Yellow roses adorn the gown from waist to hem, with a yellow ribbon belt and sash, a low bodice, and a rose cap over the shoulder as a sleeve substitute.
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St. Louis Republic
Ribbon and hat trims highlight fashion notes of the era
The article surveys hat decorations with ribbon bows, large daisies, rose stems, gauze bows, and lace trimming. It notes new materials like monsseline de svie, feathers, and lilac blossoms, plus baby and children’s ribbon uses, string styles, and color trends such as pink, black, and silver.
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Monsseline de Svie
New York Herald
Specimen of 19th Century Hair Fashion Ad Fallacy
The New York Advertiser describes green fashion for the waata with stylized hair drawn high from the neck and ears and arranged in a shell like spiral. It notes that while ornate and beautiful styles can be striking, they can verge on grotesque in certain facial types, and it discusses Greek influence and aesthetic harmony with features.
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New York Advertiser
Beading Neckwear Beckons as Practical Style
A reader notes beading as a durable neckwear option. Rows of beads on cord stay clean longer than ruching and refresh with a dab of soupsads on a nair-brush. Warns to secure each bead with silk thread to prevent loss when heavy items fall.
Fashion Notes on Domestic Style and Accessories
Toilet sets become more handsome. columnar cut glass vases are new. Italian garden faience appears. speckled tweeds and black silk wraps rise in fashion. Tall slender cut-glass pitchers and yellow vases for palms gain popularity. powder blue electric shade emerges. Gilded furniture in cornflower and carnation paint. pale green and blue hats trimmed in jet with black velvet. Flower glove fasteners appear. white enamel daisies on silver base seen. Baby ribbons noted as fashionable.
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Paris
A Silent Banquet in Madrid
A couple of dozen officers in the Madrid garrison planned a banquet to celebrate a major military event but were forbidden political talk or discussion of reforms and budget cuts by their commander. They followed the rule, and the gathering produced no speeches or drunken toasts.
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Madrid
Spain
Reunion
Mars
Chicago Herald
Cheerfulness and Health for a Long Life
A Detroit Free Press excerpt advises that health hinges on a happy heart. It contrasts two responses to hardship: resisting and exhausting the spirit, or accepting circumstances with cheerful endurance, which preserves youth and happiness into old age.
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Detroit Free Press
Fragmentary Year Riddle Prompts Leap Year Guess
A truncated dialogue speculates on who will be ahead before the leap year ends. The speakers Diane and another figure exchange rough lines about the future.
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Diane
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Japan
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de Long
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Isaac Rakestraw
Ireneva
Catherine Raines
Silver Creek
Bay of
San Francisco
University At Berkeley
Howey C. Hart
Monmouth
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New Boston
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Carson
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