Caste and Intermarriage in France as Reflected by Nobles
The piece argues that enduring caste in France hinges on marriage patterns with rare intermarriage between nobles and commoners. It notes noble landowners’ role in agriculture, mixed virtues and prejudices, and the tension between noble aversion to common trades and speculative finance. It cites Mill’s praise of Legitimists and critiques self isolation via stock trading and fashion for profit.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
J. 5. Mill
Pall Mak Gazette
American Sinbad Peter Hevener and the guano claims
A profile of Peter Hevener, famed traveler and claimant in Peru, detailing his ventures from San Francisco to Australia and Peru, his dealings with Cochet and Landreau, an illfated guano claim, and efforts to build railways and a South American saw mill as he chased riches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Hevener
Landreau
Cochet
Sinbad
San Francisco
Australia
Peru
France
Hevener
Philadelphia Times
New York
South America
Sanford
Calisens Silt Ver
Soa Bebcandien
Notable American Adventurer Hevener’s Oil and Rail Schemes in Peru
The Detrow Free Press profiles Hevener, an American entrepreneur who pursued oil lamp monopolies in Lima, bribery schemes with chandeliers, and a dramatic rise to control Peru’s coal oil business. He fueled lamp trade, secured privileges, and built projects from an elevated wire railroad to a nitre pipeline, facing assassinations, betrayals, and sensational losses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sud
Sanford
Lima
Hevener
New
Peru
Cochet
Landreau
Guiteau
Detrow Free Press
Flogging An Indian and a Frontier Tale in Oregon
A tale from early Oregon mentions a Cornwallis Benton County settler circa 1845 with scarce white families nearby. A tense incident unfolds when Indians visit the cabin, the white wife using a small assault to defend her family while the chief retreats in a rush, then stories of frontier bravado and a brutal whipping are recalled. In another item, James Edward Hawrup of North Adams suffers a neck injury after a train strike. surgeons relocate the dislocated neck in a dangerous operation, and Hawrup recovers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oregon
Cornwallis
Benton County
Klickitats
Calapooyas
Oregon City
James Edward Hawrup
Greylock
North Adams
Stafford
Hawrap
Roy
Death by His Own Hand Linked to Friendship
The Chicago Times notes considerable evidence that Nathan D. Marshall of Camden died by suicide influenced by his extraordinary friendship with Horace Hammen, the defaulting secretary of the No Building Association. The two men shared lifelong close ties. testifying against his lifelong friend at a trial was seen as a possible mind unbalancing factor. No known cause for the act is given.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan D. Marshall
Camden
Horace Hamme
No Building Association
Mr. Shall
Chicago Times
Religious and Educational Milestones Across Faiths
The article notes mergers between the Teo San Princtine Yon and YMCA, Forsyth Street Methodist Church’s 32nd anniversary, and various faith and education items. It cites Baptists at 2,336,2 social and tax exemptions for Protestant Chinamen in China, bequests to Episcopal missions, Trinity parish in New York with seven churches, Dartmouth College longevity class, a Scottish clergy rent quip, and Union Theological Seminary project plans with James, Morgan, Adams, Jesup benefactors and needed funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Forsyth Street
New York City
Baptists of
United States
Shamiltan
Ont
University of Vermont
Connecticut
China
Robert Prout
Charles County
Maryland
Protestant Episcopal Missionary Society
Virginia Theological Seminary
Chicago Tribune
Trinity Parish
Trinity
St. Paul's
J. John’s
St. Chrysostom’s
St. Augustin’s
St. Cornelius
Dartmouth College
Utah
Scotland
Union Theological Seminary
James
Willis James
Morgan
Adams
Jesup
Morris K. Jesup
Y. Examiner
Pungent Paragraphs Show Wit in Old Newspapers
A collage of humorous clippings from several papers. It quotes a Philadelphia man famed for mesmerizing drinkers, jokes about a dog warning and a landlord’s boltless boarding house, and recalls witty lines from the Elmira Free Press and Burlington Hawk-Eye.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Boston
Boston Post
Thomas Hood
Hood
the Moanhouse
Cleveland Press
Anna Dickinson
Little Eva
Elmira Free Press
Jones
Rome Sentinel
Longfellow
Burlington Hawk-Eye
Diamond Dyes Promise More Than They Claim
A garbled ad sheet mentions the Diamond Dyes promising extra color power and claims the product will look like new for ten cents. The rest of the text notes a wealthy Arizona mining company building a steam er at Victoria planning four years of coast prospecting akin to Alaska, plus various medicinal and dictionary ad snippets and a druggist alert.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arizona Territory
Victoria
Perth
Alaska
Also Mentioned on This Page
Teo San Princtine Yon Men's Christian Association
New Hampshire
Cesar
Judas
George
Tunker
Hannibal
Cresar
Somerville Journal
Taketall
Hawk- Ye
Washington Irving
Fanny
Omaha
Columbus & Hocking Valley
R. R
Pittsburgh
Arrisburg
Baltimore
Washington
Dayton
Indianapolis
Chicago
St. Louis
Kansas City
Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraka
California
The
Territories
Pullman Palace Cars
Columbus
Cincinnati
Louisville
Boreman
Ohio Depot
D. Park & Sons
A. Frame, M. D
Athens
Ubiv
Court Street
Washington and
College Streets
G. A. Dille
Ono
Phoenix Block
J.E. Edmundson
Main Street
Athens, Ohio
E. R. Lash
Phoenix
Lydia E. Pinkhar
Lynh, Hass
Hotels
Elmer Golden
TOK Delle
Ohio
Court House
F.M. Koons
Pealer
Es Tyson
Guysville
Athens County
Lydia E. Pinkham
Western Avenue
Lynn
Mass
J. Dorr
Joan D. Park & Son
CIN
Innati, O
J. H. Schenck
C. E
N. Dela. Ave
Phila
Hocking Valley
Toledo
ORT
Nelsonville
Pomeroy
Gallipolis
Vinton
McArthur Logan
Lancaster
Zanesville
Winchester
Via
P. C
St. L.r’y, L. M. Div
Delaware
Marion
Uper Sandusky Carey
Fostoria
Detroit
R’y
Seeaee
Ini
Can
Fostoria Carey
Delawar
Logan
McArthur
Gallipolis Pomeroy
Parkersburg
Marietta
Lilo
A.m
D. the
I Aa
P.m
A. Jn
Ohio Div
Circleville
New Lexington
Muskingum Valley
Union Depot
W.H. Harrison
G. R. Carr
Ohio & Mississippi
Ohio & Mississippi Railway
Texas
Great West
Mississippi
E.swee Rt
Cimeinnatt
Pri
Geo. W. Woods & Co
Cambridgeport, Mass
Incramaum &U
Beeten
A. Form
Ohio & Mississippi R
St. Louits
Arkansas
Nebraska
Colorado, New Mexico
Arizona
M.& C. Railway
W. Paris
Christopher
Chillicothe
Cincinnate
Walner St
Grand Hotel
Mill Street
Sap
Cine
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