Plot to kill the czar thwarted at Peterhof palace
In St. Petersburg on September 29 authorities arrested two armed terrorists, a man and a woman, in a palace servant’s quarters at Peterhof. The plot to ambush Emperor Nicholas while he walked or played with his children was organized with help from servants and a lackey named Kelpnikoff. A wider crackdown followed, with arrests, searches, and seizures of arms and ammunition linked to the Peterhof scheme, as well as related actions against Polish Socialist organizers in the capital and other cities.
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Tennyson
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Fenimore Cooper
Uccelss
Thore
Horace Greeley
Greeley
Harmans
Agreement ReachedOn Hillron Ore Transfer To Steel
United States Steel and Hill iron ore interests held talks in New York on Sept 28 and a transfer agreement is reportedly finalized. Minor details remain, with forms of the deal withheld. Market activity showed Great Northern stock gains and Hill interests strong, while steel shares rallied after prior weakness.
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New York
United States Steel Corporation
Hill
Northwest
Steal Corporation
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
Little for the Depositors Ohio Bank Closes Doors
The Middleport bank in Ohio failed to reopen, leaving $116,000 in deposits unreconciled. Depositors are largely poor, with savings vanished as the bank’s president J. G. Fox is away and no official statement issued. Great excitement follows the closure amid missing funds and uncertainty.
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Ita
Pomeroy
Middle Port Bank
Middleport
J. G. Fox
State Lotteries and Odd Historical Notions Across Europe
A compact survey traces European state lotteries from ancient Rome to 19th century Britain, noting urban uses from harbor repairs to government revenue and bans for morals. It weaves in legends of Rambout Van Dam along the Hudson and quirky excerpts on pharmacists, worm parasites, and a strange then-modern curiosity about diplozoon fish parasites.
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Europe
Rome
St. Paul's
Hagland
London Saturday Review
Italy
Saya
Chicago Inter Ocean
Mirbotti
Victor Emmanuel
Coliseum
Vesuvius
Lucky superstitions and churchgoing quips from old papers
A collage of quips from historic papers: a sporting gentleman jokes that a horseshoe sign is lucky if it crosses the wire first, while Saunders the slater contends he spends the bale on the top of the church roof, sparking a comic exchange about attendance and superstition.
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Philiphia Press
Saunders
Slater
Glasgow Times
Salt and epilepsy quip in a New York Sun column
A New York Sun item notes an ambulance surgeon at Bellevue quipping about salt as a cure for epilepsy. He says neck and tree areas of patients are salted on calls, calling salt’s efficacy a relic of old superstition with no clear explanation.
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Galt
Bellevue
New York Sun
Start and Flush Boldly Defend Free Choice in Marriage
A Pittsburg Post paraphrase records a flamboyant citizen declaring all men are created free and marriage is voluntary. A second speaker, the Sour citizen, agrees that marriage is not forced and that one enters into splicing on personal responsibility.
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Citzen
Pittsburg
New Dish to Her at Gottawadds Dinner Party
Mrs Oldcastle teases about a kitchen mishap at Gottawadds as the hostess notes the faux pas. The faux pas involved the chafla dish and a Welsh rabbit misperception, highlighting social dinner table humor.
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Mrs. Oldcastle
Chicago Record-Herald
Resacu and Bil He Change Roles in Odd Exchange
A cryptic dialogue references Resacu once a Jawbreaker now changed, Jill staying within the Jaw, and Bill confirming continued fall. The Yorker Btatesman notes a vague mental escape from past to present, blending names and phrases without clear context.
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Jill
Bill
Yonkera
Mobile storm toll mounts with massive property losses
The Mobile cyclone caused widespread devastation with 75 to 100 lives lost and millions in damage across Mobile and nearby Gulfport Biloxi areas. Winds peaked near 48 mph on Wednesday then 57 mph early Thursday. rainfall reached 0.80 inches. Flooding filled basements and stores, with water several feet deep in the city core and at Commerce Street. Casualty tallies were incomplete, and officials feared further losses beyond Mobile within a fifty mile radius.
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Ala
Gulf of Mexico
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Biloxi
Jocal Municipal Oiferals
Mabile
Here
Weather Bureau
Jamaica
Cuba
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Arut
Royal Street
Dickens and Jerrold over Punch and Lemon tale
An anecdote recounts Jerrold, editor Mark Lemon, and Dickens at Punch. Lemon's attachment to Dickens provoked a reaction from the satirist. As they walked, Lemon drifted behind and Dickens was asked about Punch. The quip: Dickens pays the dog tax for Lemon.
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Douglas Jerrold
Mark Lemon
Punch
Lemon
Dickens
Jerrold
Picking Partners by Toys in New York Dances
The New York Press notes a novel social trend where mechanical toys dinner favors determine seating and partners at dances. As guests set the toys in motion, the devices pick partners by gender, causing light hearted confusion and occasional heart burnings but offering an amusing deviation from routine interactions.
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New York
Moon
Charcoal Making For Gunpowder Involves Special Wood And Retorts
The process uses young Elder and Willow wood cut in spring, piled under sheds to dry for years. Wood is loaded into iron retorts with controlled fire, gas venting, and cooling steps, producing jet black charcoal with velvety fracture surfaces.
Blood color mystery and a corn loving thought exercise
A vivid old column explores why blood appears red in large clumps yet yellow or straw colored in small samples. It cites physiologists and experiments on corn with a hypnotic, self instructive chant and a dramatic assertion of cosmic possession. An additional brief anecdote from Atlanta humor contrasts a sharp tongued wife with a drunken husband, ending with a witty quip.
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St Louis Republic
Clams eggs carried by mother clams on gills
The clam eggs are carried on the mother's gills and released when fish are present, allowing fry to hatch and seek fish to attach to. If no fish are nearby the mother retains eggs until they decay, a semiparasitic life cycle likely a relic of ancient ancestors.
Wisdom of songs shape a nation in Chinese News
A quip contrasts law and music, noting that while laws may be evaded, songs endure. The dialogue references Brown and Green as speakers, with Brown praising songs’ power over law and Green asking why such songs persist once popular. The piece comments on cultural influence and censorship themes.
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Green
Brown
Chicese
The Price of Vanity and the Jifa Guard’s Fate
A Minneapolis Journal item recounts a boastful guard with forty one medals who perished after falling from a launch. The weight of medals sank him, turning vanity into tragedy.
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Minneapolis
Land of Surprises and Heat in the Australian Lands
The article notes Australia and New Zealand are distant, with 1700 miles between them. It describes contrary weather, stating northern Australia reaches over 100 degrees in the shade and Queensland heat is extreme. It mentions Lignum vitae and boots in Australian waters as curiosities.
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New Zealand
Australia
Queensland
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