Smuggling Watches and Corsets Hidden in Mail Parcels
A Tribune record outlines how smugglers used the US mail to dodge duties. Customs officers describe tricks including baking a watch into cake and sending one glove at a time or half a corset, then matching pieces later, with readers warned that clever disguises keep appearing in parcels and packages.
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Uncle Sam
United States
Custom House
Ofice
England
Germany
Fritz
America
Europe
Pic Tribune
Grant Signature Attributed To Day Of Judgment Tale
A Youth's Companion story recalls General Grant signing a protection for Miss C.'s estate until the day of judgment. Grant, famed as an affable, generous foe, reportedly quipped about Lincoln and Lee as he added the fateful phrase to the parchment.
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Grant
Fort Donelson
United States
Miss C
Buell
Rosecrans
Schofield
Sheridan
Grainger
General Grant
Genéral Lee
Ulysses S. Grant
Autumn Leaves Color Change Explained by Substances
Professor W. F. Ganong explains in St Nicholas that autumn colors arise from xanthophyl red erythrophyl and browning substances as chlorophyll fades. Light, temperature, and leaf vitality influence color intensity, with vivid hues brightest in strong sunshine.
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W. F. Ganong
St. Nicholas
Slow horse at Lincoln convention joke
A young Tincoln hires a slow livery horse for a political convention. The horse is so slow the nomination passes, and the stable keeper quips the horse is only good for drawing funerals. Lincoln warns against using it for funerals, lest judgment day arrive first.
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Tincoln
Lincoln
Test geese location debate stirs editor’s guesswork
A Washington Herald note questions where the test geese are located across the country. Suggestions range from California and Georgia to Tennessee, Massachusetts, New York, and even the District of Columbia, with some remarks on especially mean specimens.
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Georgia
California
Tennessee
Massachusetts
New York
District of Columbia
Washington Herald
Unclear courtroom exchange noted in stray phrases
Fragments show a lawyer and judge in a terse dialogue with phrases about a prisoner and a retort. The text appears garbled with misspellings and incomplete sentences, hindering clear identification of people, places, or outcomes.
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Pinner
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