West Point’s influence and labor debates in Townsend’s essay
George Alfred Townsend surveys West Point’s social power and a labor crisis shaping America. He argues the academy molds officers who shape national life, critiques naval naming and Roach’s shipyards, and condemns eight hour law resistance while noting labor capital tension and looming reform. He blends history, politics, and economic critique with personal observations from New York.
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New York City
Europe
Jeremy Diddler
Republic
Engishman
George Alfred Townsend
Woman's Hour Knits Quilt Pattern and Home Arts Notes
The column presents a Triangle Redquilt knitting pattern using No 10 Dexter cotton with a detailed, step by step guide and notes on a matching border. It also reports on New Orleans Exposition funding for women’s work and Good Housekeeping prize papers offering $8500 in awards for essays on housekeeping and domestic topics.
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New Orleans Exposition
Beon
The
Hour
Jain
Kuit
Good Housekeeping
Pensacola Policing Umbrellas In Rainy Duty Report
A Florida item notes Pensacola policemen continuing on duty with umbrellas. Other snippets report Palatka ice at thirty five cents per hundred pounds, Orange City century plant spire near forty feet, a shark with found boot coat sail bits and cans in Pensacola, and a seven foot rattlesnake specimen.
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Pensacola
Palatka
Orangelly
Practical Linen Bag From Calico and Curtain-Stick
A sewing project outlines making a two part clothes bag from three yard lengths of calico with a slit edged by braid, stitched edges, and a curtain-stick inserted between top sections. It notes tying and hanging loops, mentions cretonne options, and suggests kitchen curtain fabrics like dimity chintz or striped cambric for decorative versions.
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Cretonne
Doreas Magazine
Remarkable Tobacco Cured Baby Of Franklin County
A two year old near Franklin County began craving tobacco at eight months. After the father gave it tobacco, the child chewed eagerly and fattened, with medical aid abandoned. Once cured the child no longer craves the weed, now healthy and chubby, and likely never to use tobacco again.
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Franklin
Gia
Z. B. Claxton
Mr. Claxton
Lucy Ann Slater A 50 Year Old Death In New York Insane Asylum
Lucy Ann Slater died in a New York State insane asylum at age 50. Her life intertwined with famed Delaware river counties as the female hunter Long Eddy, noted for rifle feats at age 10 and a panther kill at 12. Born Lobdell she married raftman Geo Slater, faced desertion, and led a fugitive life with disguise as a man and singing teacher in Bethany. Her troubled history included abduction of Mary Slater, custody battles, and repeated insanity episodes ending in an asylum.
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Stroudsburg
Penn
LucyAnn Slater
New York State
Delaware River
Long
Lobdell
Raftman
Geo Slater
Bethany
Joseph L Lobdell
Lucy Ann
Marie Louise Perry
Massachusetts
Boston
James Wilson
Jersey City
Wilson
Landiay
Joseph Israel Lobdell
Monroe
Mary Slater
Lacey Ann Lobdell
Damascus
George Kent
Miss Slater
Sullivan County
Kent
Joseph Israel Lobnell
Lucy Ann Slater
Delaare
Wayne County
Honesdale
Joseph
Damascus Township
Julius Caesar at Hull claims historic landing at Nantasket Beach
The Hull Society for the Diffusion of Antiquarian Knowledge hosts a private meeting to argue that Julius Caesar landed at Nantasket Beach, challenging Plymouth's long held honor. Zephaniah Golding leads a push to promote Hull as the historic site, presenting relics and a seance testimony as proof and prompting strong campus style applause.
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Plymouth
Hull
Deacon Golding
Lymouth
Boston
Trull
Ler
Hull Society
Iit
Cape District
Columbus
Yli
Leif the Norgeman
Revere Beach
Robinson Crusoe
Julius Caesar
Omsar
Cesar
The Roman Occupation of Hull as Told by a Medium
An 19th century style piece recounts a staged invocation in heroic verse about Julius Caesar in Hull, mixed with humorous rhymes and local landmarks. It narrates two relic discoveries by a curator: a Roman style model pillar fragment and a conical white clay vessel with a perforated tube, found near the Rockland House area.
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Hull
Lord Byron
Cesar
Land of Mystery
Julius Casan
Julius Cesar
Shan van Vocht
Vava Arenaria
Alto-Relieve
The Roman Urn and Inscriptions Unearthed at Gaul's Camp
Ancient remains include a cinerary urn with a perforated cone and a long handle, bearing two outside letters T D for Tiberius Dentatus and a relief inscription on the connecting tube. The find sparked wild enthusiasm and a call to print papers for learned societies, marking a notable Archaeological Knowledge meeting.
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Oman
T. D
Tiberius Dentatus
Cesar
Gaul
Hull Society For the Diffusion of Archeological
Amenities of War Walking Into a Friendly Enemy's Camp and Out Again
A Civil War vignette from the Chattanooga area recalls picket exchanges of papers and a misleading coffee incident. Union and Confederate lines briefly met by flag of truce, despite orders prohibiting exchanges. A German veteran among the Union soldiers helps brew coffee for the Confederate picket, easing the moment before retreat back to Union lines.
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Chicago Inter-Ocean
Chattanooga
Germany
Science and Religion in a 19th Century Exchange
A London Truth note supports the archbishop of Canterbury's call for clergy to study modern science before discussing it. A Welsh curate’s phonetically rendered astronomy observations mock the idea of celestial unity, imagining stars forming planets and constellations into a milk whey-like fabric.
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London
Canterbury
Diverse Local Figures and Odd Facts From New England
Connecticut reports 229908 cattle valued at 7040418 while Hartford uses 22000 quarts of milk daily. Bridgeport man owns a 1699 London Bible. Chester NH woman turns 100. A Westfield drummer travels 16000 miles. Fair Haven man hoards 200000 bushels oyster shells. Vermont Marble orders 100 monuments from Australia. A Downeast contract calls for 10000 dozen eggs daily and 125 lb butter. A 95-year-old Lancaster NH planter plants and sows. A South Abington cat cures a toothache by dentist work. Sedgwick ME man 106 walks briskly. Greene ME horse hauls wood. Ramsdell MA saved 7000 cords wool in 40 years. A Norwich Town mute couple has seven sons twins born recently all hearing and fluent in sign and speech.
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Connecticut
Hartford
W. H. Ribbons
Bridgeport
Conn
London
Sophronia Pierce
Chesterfield
N. H
Westfield
Drumuier
H. C. Rowe
Fair Haven
Comn
Vermont Marble Company
Australia
Foxcroft
Abiatha Twitchell
Lancaster
South Abington
Philip Puryear
Sedgwick
Charles Foss
Greene
J.L. Ramsdell
South Hanover
Mass
Norwich Town
Tramps in the West Bend Union Pacific Tracks
Tramps swarm the Union Pacific line attracting persistent efforts by conductors and brakemen to remove them. Tales describe stowaways hiding under seats and climbing onto moving cars, with deputies and city marshals in Western towns aggressively policing and sometimes offering immunity if tramps leave on foot. The report portrays risk, resilience, and the human side of wanderers seeking passage to the coast or to a wedding.
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Crrvenye
Union Pacific
Chicago
Roserar
Omaha
San Francisco
Ogden
Missouri
Rawlins West
Ohio
Bean
Visibe
Barker's American Checker Player feature listing
Barker presents a 179 page cloth bound checker book with twenty two openings and 524 variations of best analyzed play plus thirty five critical positions. Wardwell and Lyman contributed twenty two positions. Price one dollar postpaid. Address Charles F Barker Cambridge Mass. Three orders receive one free American Checker-Play book.
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Charles . Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgep
Mass
Better than 17 Se e-Janvier plays 2.7 here
Game No 1986 Double Corner appears in the record with sparse data. The line notes a performance by a player named Se e-Janvier and a scoring figure around 2.7 but lacks full context or date.
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Janvier
G. W. Brown
Warren
William Forsyth
Halifax
Canada
Brown
Correspondence Chess and English Championship Results
The record shows a seaside set of chess games and results. R. We Estill versus E. Tt. Stroud of Wilmington yielded a series of moves and mismatched outcomes. The friendly match between H. Z. Wright and C. F. Barker ended Wright four Barker twenty one with a draw noted. James Smith of Spennymoor won the English championship prize with Beattie and Jackson sharing second and third, Jewett fourth, and Dunne and Stowe taking consolation. The English national tournament game in Manchester will be published in RemRace to book form.
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H. Z. Wright
C. F. Barker
Wright
Barker
James Smith
Spennymoor
Eng
Itanchester
Epee Post
Manchester
Unclear 1884 Cotton Bale Note Emerges in Prescott
A bale of cotton opened in Prescott reveals a fragmentary paper dated December 5, 1884. The illegible note mentions a woman and a request to sell the bale, with scattered words suggesting a plea or inquiry. The text is fragmentary and hard to interpret.
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Lowell Mail
Prescott
Calloosa
Countey
Alabama
Tsenter
Oman
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