Among the Boers. People Who Seldom Wash and Their Customs
A South African overview traces Dutch and Boer settlement from Good Hope to Transvaal, detailing hard rule by Boers, harsh treatment of Kaafirs, English conquest and Boer War, and contemporary manners and hospitality toward foreigners.
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Vasco da Gama
South Africa
Columbus
America
Atlanta Constitution
Dutch East India Company
Holland
Ience
Cape Colony
Natal
Orange Free State
Vortrekkers
Natal Colony
Vaal River
South Africa Republic
Pretorius
Transvaal
Cape
Erasmus
Pretoria
How Some Men Propose and Win the Yes
A New York Tribune reader recounts varied marriage proposals, noting persistence and timing as keys to success. Stories include seven refusals before a western retreat, a salary raise prompting a next week wedding, and a $5,000 banked savings leading to marriage.
Heart of Africa describes a starving expedition
A tattered band of Europeans and Zanzibar porters camps on a sandy African spit. Fires glow as starvation and sickness erode strength. they face a dark forest, roaring river, and looming cataracts with little hope of food or escape. Scribner narrator conveys despair and isolation.
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Africa
Scribner
Uncle Sam's Big Farm Size Compared of Nations
The article compares U S land area across breadth and length. It notes 1 6114 miles from Texas to North Dakota and 2768 miles Atlantic to Pacific at 42 degrees. It gives total areas 3 602 990 square miles for United States incl Alaska and 3 510 592 for British North America. Alaska covers 577 399 square miles.
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United States
Point Isabel
Texas
Pembina
North Dakota
Atlantic
Pacific
Canada
Gulf of Mexico
Alaska
British North America
Dominion of Canada
Newfoundland
United States and Territories
Lakes
Territories
The Opium Poppy Cultivation Described Across Regions
The article explains opium poppy cultivation from sowing to harvest, noting maturity within ninety days and profitability only in the South due to frost. It details soil preferences, planting timing, garden crop cultivation, and the harvesting method with incisions to extract opium. It also mentions European cultivation for seed and seed oil used in soap and as olive oil substitute.
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Connecticut
California
Europe
Woollen for Wear and Weight of Cloth in Iowa
Iowa citizens spin and weave their wool into yarn and cloth at mills, paying per pound for carding spinning and weaving. They claim clothing costs half the price of village stores, with wool weighed pound for pound except for burrs and dirt. Dyeing is said to be lighter than Eastern finished goods, and weight matters as cloth is sold by weight not yard. The piece also critiques reliance on weight over yardage and promotes local wool products and a medicine advertisement segment from Farmers' Review.
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Iowa
Women and Pennies in Urban Commerce
A New York Herald man asks a street car conductor why women seem to carry more coppers. The conductor replies that women love shopping and bargain hunting, causing prices to be marked in odd cents, and their purchases force them to trade coppers with conductors, who then pass them on.
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New York Herald
Health Process Co offers hygienic treatment for the family
Money is a medium of exchange but vigorous health is wealth. A remarkable but rational hygienic treatment can radically cure ailments that burden life and may become fatal. Costs for the whole family only if the purchaser is satisfied. Health Process Co. 3 Nassau St. New York.
Petticoats of Medici Laces and Ese-Water Claim
An odd antique dressing item references Medici lace petticoats as dress worthy and cites Ese-water by Dr Isaac Thompson. The note mentions drug lists sold at Joc per bottle.
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Isaac Thompson
Women as Inventors and Patents From 1790 to 1888
The New England Magazine notes a steady rise in patents granted to women since 1790 with counts totaling 2300 by July 1 1888. After 1809 1815 only one patent issued. by 1870 womeninventors numbered 60 and by 1887 179.
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United States
New England Magazine
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Brigham Young
Tam
Mollie
Nell
Brown
Joe
Sam
Charley
New York Tribune
Uncle Sam
Tibet
Ch'ung-ch'ing
Han-kou
Shanghai
Pierce
Woharis
Scott
Beecham
J. H. Dye
Ely
Bestores
ELY Bros
Warren
Sapolio
Raiger
Binghamton N. Y
Wondersul
UBURG
Invali
Luburg Mfe
Gratef
Rsa
Reat Leda. Pa
Thomazh
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