Caudles Soliloquies on Secrets in Married Life
A 1880 prose piece analyzes how confidence between spouses evolves from courtship to marriage, praising mutual trust yet warning against intrusive disclosure. Mr Caudle jokes about secrets while Mrs Caudle and a sermon by Dr Bensom influence his view, leading to a formal anti transparency agreement among the Caudle family.
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Tne
Candle
Mrs. Caudle
Mr. Caudle
Bensom
Charley
Dr. Bensom
Bleak Street
Caudle's Marriage Agreement Blank Sold Widely
A Victorian letter from Mr Caudle urges his children to use a pre婚 pact before marriage, warning ignorance is bliss and claiming such a contract could prevent jealousy and mortification. The piece notes several thousand blanks were printed and distributed by brokers and stationers.
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Caudle
Maryland senator backed by terrapin farm grows wealth
An Atlanta Constitution item notes Senator Dennis of Maryland reportedly runs a large terrapin pond fed by salt water, claiming the world’s largest terrapin operation. It sells 12 000 counts a year at 10 to 14 a dozen, with market prices around 20 a dozen and high priced restaurant servings at 150 a plate. Smaller terrapins sell for lower figures under the diamondback label. Maryland hosts several terrapin ponds as Maryland style terrapin stew rises in popularity among the affluent.
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Atlanta Constitution
United States
Dennis
Maryland
We Practised Falling Down
A man collapsed in the snow before a East Orange resident’s house and was revived. He reported living at Sixteenth Avenue and Seventeenth Street in Newark with a wife and four children. He said he was a tailor who preferred charity and would collapse at wealthy houses, being carried home in sleighs or carriages.
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East Orange
Sixteenth Avnue
Seventeenth Street
Newark
Iying
Water scandal shows water as threat not drink
A satirical piece traces a ghostly water scare in Boston after a temperance stylized episode. Reporters interview milkmen, brokers, preachers, bar keepers, and a chemist, all riffing on impure Cochituate river water and the mania it sparks about drinking water versus gin.
Water and Death A Satirical Rant on Thirst and Virtue
A quixotic provincial piece derides water as a ruinous temptation in Sabbath fishing and daily life. It riffs on thirst driving explorers and presidents to folly, calling water a soul destroying force and a symbol of grief, while lampooning public figures and moral lessons.
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Sir John Franklin
Jeannette
Sir John
White House
Mr. Hayes
Annabel Lee
HARDSHIPS ON THE PRAIRIE EXCHANGE LETTER HOME
A Salt Lake correspondent prints a long letter from W H Bassett in Montana January 22 1881 detailing a brutal winter mail run. He recounts being snowed in at Fire Hole crossing mountains with horses and snowshoes, a trek to River Side Station, a grueling 18 mile haul for supplies, frozen feet and near loss of toes, and a dramatic dash across a lake and rocky prairie to reach safety.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Charles H. Bassett
W. H. Bassett
Montana
Vicginia City
Farner
Fire Hole
River Side Station
Marshall
Henry Lake
A Shrewd Trick How Rothschild Was Duped by a Jewish Trickster
European correspondence recounts Baron James Rothschild being duped by a feeble aged Jew who offered a porcelain service in exchange for a lifelong income. The con man feigned old age, posed as 80, then revealed he was 30 after receiving initial payments. Rothschild continued monthly disbursements for years, believing the claim.
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Baron Rothschild
Dayton
James Rothschild
Prince of Financiers
Rothechild
Funeral Procession Stranded by Lake Erie Ice
The Buffalo Express reports a funeral procession of six or seven carriages on Thursday was driven along a lake shore road by heavy snow. They found they were a mile from land on the ice, which was thin and treacherous. After freezing fear and a near tragedy they returned to the shore with their dead to postpone the burial.
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The
Buffalo Express
Lake Shore
Lake Erie
Thrifty farmer loses bonds to rats nest
An Utica Herald note tells of a farmer who hid a bundle of United States bonds in a paper box at the center of his wood-pile to deter thieves. Rats built a nest there, and he later had to replace the bonds at a cost of about $30.
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Utica Herald
United States
A Link With The Past A Venerable Essex Oysterman
A Globe interview reveals Andrew W. Burnham of Essex recounts his 95 years of life from birth in 1785 to clam digging in later years. He details Boston business ventures, war experiences, family ties, Rufus Choate and Daniel Webster acquaintances, and reflections on aging and faith.
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Essex
Andrew W. Burnham
GLOBE
Burnham
Point Lane
Gronr
Rufus Choate
Rufus
David
Hog Island
England
Nova Scotia
Choate
David Choate
Daniel Webster
Parallel Case or Bogus Self-Inflicted Robbery in Berlin
The Berlin case from Das Kleine Journal reports Henry Becker, a slipper maker, staging a burglary with three masked assailants to steal money and goods, wounding himself to simulate a violent robbery. The plot collapses when police uncover the ruse and Becker confesses to theft of savings from Sehmalfus, hiding evidence in his room and garden.
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Whittaker
Das Kleine Journal
Berlin
Henry Becker
Das Kieine Journal
Wortherstrasse
Becker
Decker
Lin
Beeker
Iecker
Secker
Sehmalfus
Annabel Lee and scattered comic vignettes from the era
A collage of humorous and odd anecdotes from the era, including a mock patriotic poem about Annabel Lee, dialect humor from Little Rock, San Francisco society quirks, a Detroit prison tale, and a Galveston joke about marriage and telegrams. The clipping blends verse, caricature, and local color with pointed social wit.
Mystery surrounds Fillmore coffin exhumation in Riggin case
Maryville dispatch reports Fillmore residents were shocked by exhuming a coffin thought to hold James Riggin remains. Investigators found only Nebraska soil sand. theory suggests remains were removed for life insurance fraud. Many suspect Riggin faked death to claim policy.
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New York Herald
Maryville
Fillmore
Andrew County
James Riggin
Collin
Riggin
Far West
Pacific Coast
North Platte
Union Pacific
St. Joseph
Nebraska
Twice Married to the Same Man in Oakland Shake
In Oakland last Saturday Mrs. A W Pearson and J W Leffwich of Sacramento wed again after prior marriages. The bride had separated from Leffwich amid alleged flirtation with Pearson, then attempted suicide with laudanum alongside Pearson who died. She later returned to Pearson’s former offer to rejoin as wife and mother at his home.
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Essex
L Miy
Salem
Boston
Deacons Waite and Bryant
Virginia
Sullivan Wendrick
Bunton
San Francisco
Lang
Chance
Lung
Oakland
A. W. Pearson
That Place
J. W. Leffwich
Sacramento
Spreckie
Pearson
Leffwich
Landanum
Styx
Bartlett House
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Toney
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