George William Curtis Dies Noted American Writer
George William Curtis born February 24 1824 in Providence. He grew up near Boston and moved to New York at fifteen to work in a mercantile firm before turning to journalism. Curtis gained fame as author lecturer and essayist and was allied with the Harpers. He was known also as an abolitionist Mugwump and civil service reformer.
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George William Curtis
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Jamaica Plain
Boston
New York City
Harpers
Supreme Court aging as shifts bring ninth seat
The article notes eight justices under Harrison before George Shiras Jr. was named to the ninth. It highlights the court's aging membership with Field at 75 Blatchford 72 and Miller dying at 74, while Cush ing Duval and others served into their 80s, and Marshall and Taney dying at 80 and 87.
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Fuller
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Brown
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Gray
Supreme Court
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George Shiras, Jr
Pennsylvania
Miller
William Cushing
Gabriel Duval
Marshall
Taney
Widow Sara Lynch Edits Leavenworth Daily Standard
Mrs. Sara Blair Lynch, a refined widow of thirty and mother of two, edits and manages the Leavenworth Daily Standard. native to Leavenworth, educated at the Sacred Heart Seminary in Cincinnati and a Utica finishing school. married Frank T. Lynch in 1885, who died recently, after which she took charge of the paper and has run it successfully.
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Sara Blair Lynch
Leavenworth
Kan
Daily Standard
Seminary of the Sacred Heart
Cincinnati
Utica
N. Y
Frank T. Lynch
Dr. D. K. Pearsons Cherrystones of Chicago Real Estate
Ver monter Daniel K. Pearsons, born in Bradford Vermont, built wealth in Chicago real estate after leaving Massachusetts in 1857. He has given from fifty thousand to four hundred thousand dollars to colleges and other institutions, has a wife but no children, and plans to be his own administrator.
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Daniel K. Pearsons
Chicago
Bradford
Massachusetts
D. K. Pearsons
Two Taylors in race for Ohio secretary of state
The Democratic candidate is William A. Taylor and the Republican is Samuel M. Taylor. William A. Taylor was born fifty years ago in Perry county Ohio. He taught school from age sixteen, studied law between teaching, and at twenty one was admitted to the bar. He later became a journalist.
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Taylors
Ohio
William A. Taylor
Samuel M. Taylor
William A
Perry County
W. A
Liverpool Docks Expansion Proposal Draws Shipbuilder Support
Proposed spending of 900000 to enlarge the Liverpool docks as eminent shipbuilders urge planning for the future. They forecast vessels could reach seventy five feet in length and argue docks should be widened to one hundred feet.
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Liverpool
Emnent Shipbuilders
Bargain Day Shirt Debate Highlights Sewing Labor
A Brooklyn Eagle item recounts a shopper at a Fulton Street dry goods store testing a 39 cent shirt and the clerk explaining the extensive labor and stitching involved. The piece argues why homemade shirts declined amid mass production.
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Brooklyn Eagle
The Vegetable Fly of the West Indies and Cordyceps Chinensis
A description contrasts Cordyceps Chinensis the Chinese vegetable worm with the West Indian vegetable fly. The worm’s winter cocooning, parasitic fungus transformation, and spring extraction by herb hunters are detailed. Cordyceps market bundles show worm body as the root and a gray fungus spur. The account notes medical esteem and comparison to ginseng. Source: St. Louis Republic.
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St. Louis Republic
Sawfish Hauled In With Six Pilot Fish On Its Back
A Gulf catch reports a large sawfish weighing 650 pounds and measuring 134 feet long with a 414 foot breadth. Six pilot fish clung to its back until four were freed, their suction-cup attachment explained as a long debated behavior. The Galveston News notes the creature’s size and the mystery of pilot fish duties.
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Gulf
Galveston News
Welsh railway climbs steep inclines and sharp curves
Cor gives a vivid impression of a Welsh railway in strenuous operation as it negotiates steep climbs and dramatic declines. The line darts around curves so tight that it becomes a running joke about the guard lighting his pipe from the engine as it rounds a bend.
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London
Anodyne Necklaces and Charms Across Cultures
The Detroit Free Press notes that infants wore root bead neck laces called anodyne laces to prevent convulsions. It mentions the Chinese using pearls as fire charms and agate amulets believed to ward off disease across various countries.
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Detroit Free Press
Young Lovers Engage But Age Gaps Spark Caution
In Philadelphia a sixteen year old boy named Harry Hamilton and a fifteen year old girl named Annie Mead from the same school grew close and became engaged about a year ago. The article notes their youth and impending engagement.
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Harry Hamilton
Annie Mead
Philadelphia
Secret marriage sparks risky mountain trade tale
A secret engagement ends in elopement to Camden and Wilkes Barre, with a ten dollar note funding a brief honeymoon. The report shifts to a North Carolina Smoky Mountains tale of wife trading, where locals swap spouses over moonshine, trapping the reader in a vivid wry chronicle of mountain customs.
US breadstuffs export value climbs near threefold
The value of breadstuffs exports from the United States for the year ending June 30 is expected to reach about 100 million dollars or more, nearly three times last year’s total. Farmers appear prosperous and are better off than a year ago despite low wheat prices.
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Honduras
Europe
United States
California World’s Fair Jelly Palace Display Planned
The jelly palace for the World's fair will measure 16 by 2 1 2 feet and 25 feet high with two doors reached by three marble steps. A wire framework will hold thousands of jelly glasses filled with colored jelly in artistic designs. Electricity will illuminate the interior. Framework and glasses are estimated to cost 2700 dollars.
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California
Ice Water Danger Warned by New York Press
The New York Press cautions that excessive consumption of ice water while overheated or after hard labor can be deadly. It says true ice water is unsafe for some and suggests cold drinks not directly from ice are safer and just as satisfying for cooling.
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Reading matter on furnace subjects from local supplier
A note invites readers to request a catalogue and lists patrons. It mentions a visit address at 105 West Locust Street in Des Moines and quotes a furnace man with fifteen years in the business praising the new material for quality and variety and the apparatus that inspired it.
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West Locust Street
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