Oregon and Nicaragua Canal Talk in Barre News
The Barre Evening Enterprise notes Teddy’s withdrawal from Washington and a looming clash, while praising Capt. Clark’s Pacific progress. It questions nations’ moves near our coast and urges building more schoolhouses, citing a Brook and Seminary Streets site as wise for the city’s schools and calling for two additional districts.
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Oregon
Capt. Clark
Golden Gate
Nicaragua Canal
Brook
Seminary Streets
Thel
Bogg's Secret of Success Aims at Life's Lesson
A western man named Boggs is praised for fortune and curiosity. His father leaves a Bible and a sealed note claiming success comes from asking for what you want. The note reads that many good things are lost by not asking, a moral tied to his life and choices.
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Bogg
Bogs
Mr. Voges
Johnn Boggs
Boggs
Boyes
Doges
Chicago
Boston
Boston Transcript
Willie
Bob
Chicago Post
New England
Litchfield
Sie St
Mass
Suzy Om Aso
Hong
L State Medical Co
Omaha
Neb
Idealism and Realism at the Go Dolphin Whatnot Visit
A New Orleans Times-Democrat note depicts Mr Brownjones and Mrs Brownjones debating whether the visiting novelist Go dolphin Whatnot is an idealist or realist. The couple weighs impact on their house cleaning as dust and a hidden hairpin hint at recent female presence.
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Mr. Brownjones
Federation of Authors
Godolphin Whatnot
Mrs. Brownjones
Barrington
Whatnot
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Fragmented Tales of Everyday People in 19th Century Fragments
A mosaic of brief vignettes from a bygone era. A pub scene shows class tension as a landlord denies ale to a grief-stricken youth. A Kentuckian reflects on riding styles and rural values. A mother chastises Willie over mischief. Rosy McShane is reproved for a dirty room. A graduation essay topic provokes a light exchange. Suburban travel notes mention beggars at stations.
Achilles Fight at Troy Mystery in Classroom Dialogue
In a London Fun item a humorous exchange questions who fought Achilles at Troy. A pupil wrongly guesses Nero before finally settling on Hector. The piece shifts to a prison labor note describing French convict wages and saving rules.
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Achilles
Troy
Pluto
Nero
Hector
London
Through the Shawl Carried by a Clever Conjurer
A World staff item recounts Carl Hertz the conjurer thrilling guests at a friend's house by proving he could see through a thick shawl to identify a three figure number. The maid, astonished, cried that her clothes were to blame and fled. The piece also covers brief humorous anecdotes and curiosities from other columns.
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Carl Hertz
Herta
Hertz
Argonaut
Humor and Anecdotes From 19th Century Rail and Life
A collection of short vignettes and quotations from various periodicals. A New York traveler recalls a railcar duo whose comic drinking spree on a Pullman car amuses witnesses and confounds staff. Other items joke about shaving time, immigrant life, and everyday wisdom from multiple outlets.
The Clever Burglar
A Troy Times report on methodical burglars noting skilled thieves study residents, use varied entry points from cellars to trapdoors, and learn store habits to avoid detection. Details describe a past jewelry theft with detectives identifying the crew and a boy who observed two thieves.
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Milan
Troy & Jaw
Tae
Trey
Troy
Disgusted Hero and a Fort Clash from 1747
A London sketch recalls Serpeant Walker’s six week captivity by the Afridis and a 1747 Indian tale of Strahan, a man of war’s son, who captured a Hoogly fort, breached its walls during midday, held off natives with cutlass and pistol, then was punished by the admiral yet vows never to take another fort.
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Serpeant Walker
Leyte
Strahan
Hoogly
Strachan
Horsepower Origin and Definition from Steam Engine History
Watt coined horsepower by comparing engine power to the lifting force of London brewers horses. He found the strongest horses could raise 33,000 pounds one foot in a minute, creating a standard for steam engine power.
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Watt
London
New York Ledger
Legend of the Tea Plant Origins and a London Candle Joke
A meditation on Dhanua the Indian prince becoming the tea plant legend in Asia and Japan with eyelid self-punishment. Then a comic aside from Time and the Hour about English 50 cent a box night lights and a burglar scare on a terrace with Mr Nicefellow.
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Sweet Girl
Howe Wizt
Mr. Nicefellow
Pearson’s Weekly
Quotation Confusion on Marital Craziness in Chicago Post
In the morning laper a remark about a man being married and going crazy is debated. A reply suggests the statement may have been reversed and emphasizes the odd phrasing of the exchange.
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Chicago Post
Suburban Train Timing Sparks Exchange At Station
A humorous exchange during a New York Weekly item shows the railroad president objecting to a suburban train leaving the station exactly on the hour. The superintendent defends punctual schedules provoking disbelief at such precision.
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New York Weekly
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