Canary Case To The Supreme Court In Savannah Tale
Two Savannah women, Mrs Manning and Mrs Mitcherson, fight over ownership of a canary named Tommy and another named Timmy. A justice’s ruling favored Mrs Mitcherson, with appeals swelling costs past $500 as the bird saga moves toward higher tribunals.
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New York Times
Io State
Manning
Mitcherson
Doboy
Savannah
Canary Bird
Tommy
Timmy
Ork
Mitchelson Piazza
Isle of Doboy
Oea Portan Peppers
Re. Itcoes
Mannin
Manni
O Mitcherson
Supreme Court
Apa
Hic
Non
Mannerson
Mitching
Mammy
Tommering
Timmering
Peers
Tommerson
Timmerton
Mannington
Tomming
Timmington
Timmyton
Quaint Adams Paraphrase Surfaces in New YorkTribune
A Tribune reader shares excerpts tracing John Adams as a dearest former president. The fragment mentions Adams critiquing slaveholding lords and southern reluctance to reform. It includes a 1776 letter to Gen Horatio Gates and a note on Adams fearing the office’s burdens.
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Gath
New York Tribune
Tribune
John
Horatio Gates
Gates
Middle States
Kittle
Mrs A TF Stewarts Lonely Monster
Mrs. A T F Stewarts New York house stands empty amid visitors, courier carriers, and shopkeepers. she trusts Judge Hilton, two doors away, with mail and guests, as her grand mansion hides behind dark curtains and a litter of sculpture and clocks.
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A. TF. Stewart
Mra . T. Stewart
New York
Bie
Livi
Judge Hilton
Thirty-fourth Street
Hon
Mee
Bing
A Texas Wild Bull and a Frontier Prank
An army officer recalls a wild Texas bull that once hunted hunters and sparked a risky joke at a frontier fort. A young officer and a green doctor exchange improbable tales about elephants and a planned elephant hunt on the plains.
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Texas
Ser
Broadway Lounger recollections of Adams and sermons
The New York Tribune recounts Mr. Adams as a devout churchman who despised sectarian narrowness and favored broad charity. He shared a tale of clergy feuding over pulpits and pondered mortality with Cicero and Franklin, noting serenity in old age and a wish to avoid a millennium life.
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Broadway
New York Tribune
Adams
Wno
Death
Cicero
Franklin
Admiral Bailey's Dinner Sketch on Forts Capture
The late Admiral Bailey humorously recounts how Farragut signaled him to seize the forts below New Orleans. He describes lying downriver, following orders, and engineers steering, with the crews firing upon arrival and taking the forts as commanded. The tale ends amid loud applause.
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Admiral Bailey
New Orleans
Farraguthe
Thinning Out the Middle Class in New York
Gath notes a rising number of girls from moderately prosperous families leaving public schools to enroll in New York pay schools. He cites improved quality, larger enrollments, and stable tuition as factors, signaling a shift from a middle class to independent and poorer residents, with seminaries drawing elites from across the country.
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New York Tribune
Times
New York
Chicago
The Ruling Passion in A Childs Hilarious Reply
A little girl, asked what God made her for, answered with a comic misstatement that she was made to wear red feathers in her hat. The quip captures a playful childhood view and the newspaper tone preserves the era’s charm.
The Reserved Force For Emergencies In Health
Bertha Von Hillern urges women to walk even when exhausted to draw on a hidden reserve of strength. This reserved force lets a healthy person endure extra work and stress for emergencies, without harming health, if used sparingly and followed by rest.
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Bertha von Hillern
One of Them and a Poor Couple’s Night Talk
One Cincinnati couple discusses poverty and failed ambition in a handwritten domestic reflection. The wife urges practical talk to change their fortunes, noting decades of striving without success and a need for steadier navigation through hardship.
A Brave Little Woman Faces The World With Resolve
A reflective voice urges self reform and shared burden within marriage. It argues education without practicality harms families, calls for burying the past, building new plans, and relying on wives for support to lift households and society. It condemns blaming the world and stresses interdependence and service.
Dyspeptic's Diet Dilemma Ends in Recovery
A Cincinnati Enquirer piece humorously traces a man who avoids every food and drink proclaimed harmful by doctors and dreams of safety. After fearing alcohol and oat meal, he learns that overthinking health warnings harms more than the diet, then recovers after choosing balanced eating.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Acre
Old-Timed Dialect Anecdotes From A Rural Voice
A humorous rural monologue recounts sayings about value of one in the hand versus two in the bush, youth versus age appetites, fights with a copperhead, and a pious woman who loses temper during a prayer scene. The speaker reflects on superstition, regret, and rustic wisdom with colorful dialect.
Good Manners at Theatres
A New York Herald anecdote recalls western theatergoers and manners quotients. A man in Ohio refused an office, another speaker narrates opera house etiquette, a Gainsborough hat prompts a blush, and a young lady apologizes by discarding her hat with a serene smile.
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New York Herald
Far West
Ohio
Opera House
Gainsborough
Uncle John Robinson Admonishes a Hungry Monkey
Uncle John recounts a tale of a sick old monkey confined with healthy youths. When feed time came the youngsters hogged the fruit, leaving the toothless primate hungry. He treks a stout hickory club, swings it at any who touched the food, and soon eats a full week’s rations.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
John Robinson
John
Alice’s Early Poetic Temperament and Literary Rise
The text traces Alice’s inherited temperaments from her parents, her decade of publishing with perseverance, early criticisms of her poems as grave laden, and her first works in The Sentinel and The National Era. It notes her move to New York with Phoebe, the Clovernook series, and wide sales in the U S and Britain.
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Alice
the Sentinel
Star of the West
Cincinnati
Washington
Phoebe
West
New York
Cof Onan
Great Britain
Love and the dragon fly over the river
A poetic meditation on love as a dragonfly over a silver river. The verse describes riverbank imagery with willows lilies and stars while warning that grasping love breaks its wings. The mood shifts from beauty to sorrow as darkness settles and the waters chill.
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Joaquin Miller
Population decline shocks 19th century France in Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune cites a French interior ministry census showing France’s population grew only 5.1 million from 1831 to 1881, far slower than Great Britain and Germany. The piece, quoting The London Times, warns France could fall behind as the United States, Russia, and others grow, predicting shifts by 1900.
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Chicago Tribune
France
Republic
Great Britain
Germany
United States of America
United States
London Times
Great Earf
Europe
Russia
Austria-Hungary
Italy
Description of New York tenements and double decker housing
The piece explains the third class of city housing as tenements for laborers with rents from 13 to 154 dollars monthly. It contrasts old dark houses lacking baths with modern double deckers offering three rooms plus a bathroom per suite, air through side courts, and half floor configurations.
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New York Tribune
Board of Health
Montreal Carnival Impressions from Clara Belle
Clara Belle of Cincinnati Enquirer describes Canadian men and women at the Montreal carnival. She notes fur coats and athletic behavior, contrasts Canadian women with New York visitors, and comments on the vigorous winter sports and perceived lack of ladylike grace among Montreal women while admiring the athletic men.
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Clara Belle
Cincinnati Enquirer
New York
Montreal
Mary Anderson in Galatea costume a marble statue on stage
Mary Anderson wore Frank Miller designed Galatea with a Greek tunic and metal-weighted fabric to mimic marble. The costume enhanced statuesque poses both still and moving, with whitened face and stonelike wig, creating a remarkable stage likeness.
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Clara Belle
Cincinnati Enquirer
Mary Anderson
Frank Miller
Miss Anderson
Josh Billings as a Pencil Peddler
Josh Billings notes charity as a conundrum and recounts a snowy afternoon encounter at an elevated railway station. A starving man tries selling pencils. seven pass by before Billings, the eighth, offers no aid until a turn in the tale.
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Josh Billings
New York Tribune
Josh
Amateur pencil-seller con man fools men at Gilsey House
A man posing as a penniless vendor of two panel pencils moves through New York streets and hotels selling items for a pittance. At each stop he is rebuffed or scorned until he reaches the Gilsey House bar where a patron gives him only a quarter and exposes the ruse.
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Fifth Avenue
Gilsey
Fta
Twenty-fourth Street
Josh
Monkeys Force Tigers From Lair In Woodland Display
A curious scene shows monkeys gathering high in trees to shake branches and shower dry sticks on a lurking tiger or leopard. The display provokes an angry growl and the big cat exits, seeking other quarters but cannot find peace while near the monkeys.
New Clubs Form To Test Total Abstinence In Training
The Medical Times and Gazette notes that English athletic clubs increasingly restrict beer in training to study physiological benefits. New organizations arise to test total abstinence and its impact on performance and endurance.
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Medical Times and Gazette
Hawthorne versus German officers on Dresden sidewalks
The account recalls Julian Hawthorne clashing with a German officer on a Dresden bridge after both refused to yield space. Hawthorne broke the officer’s sword and tossed it into the Elbe, avoiding punishment, while a separate Dusseldorf episode describes a similar sidewalk friction involving his wife and German pedestrians.
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G. G. Smith
Dairymen’s Association
Germany
Dresden
Julian Hawthorne
Elbe
Hawthorne
Dusseldorf
Bayless Hanna Memoir Relives Harpers Ferry Echoes
The text portrays Bayless Hanna, Indiana former attorney general, famed as a storyteller of pioneer tales. It recounts his mission with John Brown era figures, witnessing executions, carrying Cook's coffin, and a tense Charlestown military arrest framed by Civil War era lines and an offhand encounter with a tainted military officer.
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New York Tribune
Bayless Hanna
Indiana
Mississippi
Abraham Lincoln
Willard
Cook
Ashby
Sah
Hanna
Northernah
Majah
Mir
Toliyah
Han
The Lad Who Had the Stuff in Him
A well known American editor visits a former school and recalls two pupils on composition day. One boy spoke grandly of Rome and Liberty while another lad, quiet and practical, described his poultry yard with clear observations and dry humor.
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Opie P. Read
Chile
Oman
Rome
America
Dominie
Likeness of Animalis and Men
The article compares human types to animals and dogs, noting that the miser resembles rodents with gnawing teeth and that strong men resemble lions or mastiffs. It cites figures like Longfellow and Christopher North and describes a range of traits from terrier-like jest to Bengal tiger, concluding that many human features reflect animal types.
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Longfellow
Christopher North
Victoria
Bill Sykes
Let the dead man have a hearing speech remembered
A reminiscence recalls Charles Sumner's old battle flags speech and a classroom misquote. A student once shouted Let the man have a herring, provoking the horror of a teacher during a public reading.
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Charles Sumner
London Population Figure Misleading Says New York Sun
The New York Sun argues that London's metropolitan area within fifteen miles of Charing Cross contains nearly 5,000,000 people, but the true urban region likely numbers around 3,000,000. The paper warns that citing 5,000,000 as London’s population is deceptive.
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New York Sun
London
Charing Cross
Andes Craters Show Sudden Elevation Drops Across Centuries
A compilation of early measurements shows Quito rising from sea level by about 0.595 feet in 1745, then slowly falling to around 9,566 feet by 1970. Pichincha and Antisana also display significant declines, with the crater at Quito sinking roughly 2 feet in the last 26 years and Antisana down 165 feet in 64 years.
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Andes
Quito
la Condamine
Humboldt
Boussingault
Orton
Ransas
Stubel
Pichincha
Ths Crater
Antisana
The Whispering Winds and Moonlit Lovers
A twilight meeting in wet grass becomes a private, intimate moment. The narrator recalls a forbidden walk along an orchard path as a lover speaks softly beneath clover and leaves. The night winds, stars, and moon frame a secret shared with no witness.
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Rover
Montreal Girls Shine at Winter Carnival Fashion and Fun
A Montreal correspondent lauds Canadian belles at the winter carnival, contrasting Montreal and Canadian city styles with American visitors. He describes vibrant dress, heavy flannel layering, and extreme warmth for cold rides such as tobogganing and snowshoeing.
Potter Jokes and Puns Parade in Burl Hawkeye Rand
A playful piece in the Burlington Hawkeye riffs on pottery and potters with a string of pun laden lines. It casts a potter as artist philosopher and philanthropist, mixing humor about kilns clay bowls plates and social commentary.
Prince of Wales visits Paris to honor Gambetta tomb
The prince of Wales, famed for Parisian pleasures, seeks to mend relations after a London tribute to young Prince Imperial. Paris papers denounced the gesture, and he plans to place a wreath on Gambetta's tomb to soothe French republicanism and improve welcome in Paris.
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Chicago Times
Prince of Wales
Paris
London
Prince Imperial
Gambetta
A. E
Waste of Walnut Timber
Speaking to a young man from the west yesterday Col. New York Tribune notes a veteran remark on postwar timber prices. He recalls lands once rich with walnut trees priced far below a single tree now worth millions as lumber for fuel and heat.
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New York Tribune
West
What Nations Say of Each Other
An English traveler mocks German table manners while praising their intellect and beauty. A German savant critiques English clubs as vulgar and patronizing. An American in Paris notes French untidiness and leering at women. The piece argues strangers judge individuals by small childhood habits, not true worth, and well bred manners open doors to a polished life.
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London Spectator
London
Paris
New York
New Yorker
Orlando
Rand
Polo Grounds
Besuli
Rosalind
George
Mir
Tatas
Genny
York
Young Boy Visits Chicago Store Teases Salesman
Five year old Leon H visited a Chicago dry goods store with his mother for purchases. A salesman named Mr Lons is fond of the boy who called him Mr Brown and joked about knowing a man on Twenty second street who shares his well known surname.
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Leon H
Chicago
Lons
Brown
Wenty-Second Street
Prosaic Courtship and a Dash of Door Knob Lore
In a playful tale Martin Ellerslie fears proposing to Fanny Clen but endears himself through a charity fair where a big wax doll prize lands in his arms. He finally declares love and they become engaged amid light romance and social humor, with a side note on 19th century door knob materials and pressings.
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Martin Ellerslie
Martin Ellerstie
Guy Barnes
Clen
Barnes
Fanny
Ellerslie
Fanny Clen
Mr. Ellerslie
Martin
Sibyl Percy
Sibyl
Shem
Laura Barrington
Fanny Clea
Dora
Hero
Mr. Ellerstie
Elerslie
Guy Barne
Hiello
Guy
Eleistie
Door Knobs and a Yale York Exchange in a Car
A fragment touches on door knob design from porcelain to mineral types and notes on 19th century manufacturing. It shifts to a Brooklyn Eagle observation of today’s young men, recounting a Yale student’s quip and a New Yorker’s witty reply amid a car ride with social satire.
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Brooklyn Eagle
West Side
Yale
Gladstone's Vigor and Frailties in London Sunday
The article details Gladstone's remarkable stamina and frequent medical scrutiny. It notes his sleep patterns, the care from Dr. Andrew Clark, and his stubborn outdoor habits. It also recalls the finger loss from a shooting accident and his enduring, wiry frame.
How Italian Ragpickers Live and Get Rich
An Italian ragpicker can live on twenty five cents a day with bread cheese and occasional bacon. They house six or seven per room paying a dollar monthly and save money to send home. They hoard or bank funds under false names and can accumulate sizable sums in five years. They lend to countrymen at high interest and use exchanges in the city for all banking.
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New York Herald
Hiad
Italy
New Patent Safe Uses Light and Photo Evidence
Peck's Sun reports a new burglar proof safe with spring locks that trigger room lighting and a photograph of the intruder. An Illinois thief attempted a break in but used a dummy bookkeeper to dodge the camera, leaving the victim challenging the alibi and calling the device a fraud.
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Peck
Illinois
Nellie Sings Along in Sunday School
A child named Nellie proudly says she kept time with the group singing Want to Be an Angel in Sunday school this morning while her mother questions her accuracy.
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Nellie
Mamma
Robbies Pants Patches Prompt Clever Reply
A child remarks that larger patches on his first pants would give him new pants. His mother notes the humor in the simple improvement and the boy’s practical view on wear and repair.
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Mamma
Robbie
Burglarproof Safe Invention Sparks Noticeable Fear
A new safe design lights a burglar’s face when touched and shows a photo from inside the door, threatening to deter crime. Reports say burglars face heightened danger, including a case where a burglar was restrained by a resident and faced a costly demand, highlighting rising risks in the profession.
Kansas teaching dream ends in comic missteps
The Detroit Free Press recounts a young man in Kansas who hoped to teach school but mixed up basic terms. When asked about circular he described a fur-lined cloak and confused horizontal with perpendicular, suggesting a humorous miseducation.
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New York
Detroit Free Press
Kansas
Dean Stanley praised for charity in London slums
A fragment notes Dean Stanley as founder of a London charity aiding the poor with quiet acts of kindness. It contrasts flowers for the poor with bread and other essential needs, criticizing elites for neglecting basic hunger in favor of ceremonial gifts.
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Dean Stanley
London
Pack's Luck and Pluck Builds Puck into Prosperity
Six years after leaving Frank Leslie to launch Pack with Schwarzmann they raised 1500 dollars on a shoestring. They faced lack of proper plant but used contrivances to begin. Keppler and Schwarzmann’s bold cartoons attracted patronage and turned their enterprise into substantial wealth, inspiring others with their early frugality and later success.
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Pack
New York Tribune
Messra
Keppler and Schwartzmann
Frank Leslie
Keppler
Mr. Schwarzmann
Panonne
Puck
So Much for Advertising in Boston Journal
A reader's OCR fragment shows a teacher asking girls to read about George Washington and mentions his birth and his wife, with a missing period of text. The piece hints at a classroom scene and a child’s interruption, reflecting period style.
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Boston Journal
George Washington
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