Safety Couplings Put on Freight Cars in New Year
The Interstate Commerce Law mandates air brakes and automatic couplings on locomotives and cars. The move aims to protect railway workers, reduce fatal accidents, and standardize equipment, with penalties of 100 dollars per violation and a five year extension requested by some roads for slow adoption.
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Bigfoot Wallace Adventurous Career of the Texas Fighter
The text chronicles William Anderson Wallace known as Bigfoot Wallace. Born near Lexington Virginia, he moved to Texas to avenge his brother’s death, fought on the Texas frontier, joined Hal’s Rangers, and survived Perote prison. He later joined the Mier expedition, earned the nickname Big Foot, and spent his later years in Texas before dying on his Texas ranch near Devine at an advanced age.
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Rockbridge County
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Texington
W. A. Wallace
Ol. Wm. S. Wallace
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Win A. Wallace
John W. Haughananurt
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Rockbridge
Army of Texas
Hal’s Rangers
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Hiay’s Creek
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Reomeh Hever
Lone Star State
Mier
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Mme. de Brinvilliers
Ste. Croix
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England
Dear Viel
Jamies Lo Hy Buckingham
Thomas Overbury
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Mithridatea
Pontus
North
Alexander the Great
Aristotle
Alexander
Styria
Tomb of Esther and Mordecai Found in Hamadan Persia
The New York Herald reports a tomb and sarcophagi in Hamadan, Persia, allegedly tied to Esther and Mordecai. Inscriptions translated describe a monument about sixty feet high and a leftward approach, sparking renewed interest in the biblical tale and related festivals.
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Ancient Persian tombs and a telegraph pipe tale
The article describes a Persian tomb with lions of ancient times, carved sarcophagi, and a corridor between Esther and Mordecai’s tombs. It also recounts a London telegraph office anecdote where a pipe was returned via a multi country relay using the cable network.
Getting Even in a Cornish Village Sailor Prank
A London paper recounts a aboard ship crew on shore leave in a Cornish village. A boatswain’s mate orders discipline and the sailors calmly restrain a misbehaving coachman and repair the damage with no violence. The tale ends with a quick wry exchange about recognition and vanity.
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London
Poisoners Through History and a Colorful Sea Tale
A column discusses historic poisoners from sixteenth and seventeenth centuries in Europe and England, noting notorious figures in France and England, ill effects of arsenic, and myths of kings and heroes. It ends with a sea colorings guide describing how water hues signal bottom types and underwater features.
Egyptian Tattooing on a Dynastic Priestess
An Austrian scientist studied marks on a eleventh dynasty priestess purportedly tattooed for medical reasons. He concludes the lines are from vigorous remedies rather than ornament, with marks below and above the elbows and on the legs. The procedure may have aimed to relieve pelvic ailments and pain, possibly headache or neuralgia, with similar practices seen in other ages.
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Egypt
Fragmented 19th century column on manners and business chatter
A garbled page segment mixes anecdotes of contracts in Minnesota and Chicago with credit stopping practices in New Orleans. It weaves sketches of a young contractor winning a bid, retail diplomacy with households, and parable style vignettes about clergy and a model girl in a ballad setting.
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