Caudle Will Bequests A Feast Of Odd Conditions
The celebrated Caudie will discloses a £500000 fortune and whimsical bequests. Conditions enforce obedience, like shirts kept buttoned, funds for Bleak Street Orphanage, Tishbinham Theological Seminary chairs, a Candle Free Public Library with Amusement Hall, and stern penalties for any will breach. The text mocks pious self interest yet frames charity and reform, ending with the king of Ashanti joke and a brisk moral tone.
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Job
Ezekiel Caudie
Mary
Bleak Street
Brquest
Sewing Society
Tishbinham Theological Seminary
A Great Race Across Plains and Rivers in 1860
In 1860 a plan proposed a Sacramento to St Joseph mail line in ten days. A. B. Miller bought 300 horses and hired 125 riders, with eightythere post riders. The run included snow, floods, and a final sprint by Syph to reach the finish with minutes to spare.
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St. Joseph
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Slope
Wall Street
Washington
New York
San Francisco
William H. Russell
Floyd
Sacramento
Russell
Plains
A. B. Miller
Leaver
Miller
Billy Baker
Sierra Nevadas
Salt Lake Valley
Platte
Julesburg
Johnny Fry
A Plain Man Of Strength And Quiet Virtue
An orotund portrait extols a plain man unshaken by popular praise, who walks his own path with uncommon virtues. The speaker urges readers to value simple integrity over flashy self-promotion and ends with a calm note of future quiet.
Peculiar finger grafting attempt by resident physician
The Cleveland Herald reports Dr Banton performed an experimental graft on August Fuer and Frank Fuer by amputating their little fingers and transplanting tissue between them. A towel mishap heated a third finger, later recovered. both patients left in rain, but later observed to show partial healing and sensation.
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Cleveland Herald
Herald
Banton
Frank
August Fuer
Vail
Color Music and the Color Organ in a New York Studio
A New York Herald piece surveys Bainbridge Bishop’s color organ experiments in a dim studio at 14th street. It describes colorfully lit performances of Home Sweet Home and Faust Waltz, explores color as mood, and contemplates future fusion of sound and sight including a scented odorophone, a projected rainbow on a screen, and chromatic color scales tied to musical notes. The author imagines audiences hearing Beethoven in color, notes potential electric enhancements, and ends with a whimsical riff on a chromatic clambake symphony.
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Fourteenth Street
New York Herald
Bainbridge Bishop
Adirondack
London
Nilsson
Lucca
Dlind Wan
Herald
New Russia
Mr. Bishop
Vikas
Sam
Hazlitt
Boston
Hale
New York
Romantic and tragic tale of two Lunatic Murderers
Glasgow Herald reports Sheriff Barclay in Perth held a prison inquiry into a man who died in the lunatic ward of the general prison for Scotland. Once declared insane after murder charges, he was released on probation, later married another insane prisoner from Coldstream, both returning to confinement, with the husband dying of stomach cancer and the wife remaining in the lunatic ward.
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Glasgow Herald
Barclay
Perth
Scotland
Jedbury
Coldstream
Snoller Country
Lunsey
Porth
Ryan
Mills
C. J
Shillito
Parsons
Chalmers
Compressed Steel Wedding in Cabaceiras Brazil
In Cabaceiras City Brazil Joaquin Marretto and his wife Juanita aged 103 and 97 plan their eightieth wedding anniversary. They have twenty three children fourteen survive along with 233 relatives including grandchildren and great grandchildren. The occasion is nicknamed the compressed steel wedding.
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Cabaceiras City
Brazil
Joaquin Marretto
Juanita
Joaquin Marreiro
Johnny Skae's Big Chance Ends in a Yellowed Dream
Carson City Appeal recalls Johnny Skae once hailed as a future fortune holder after amassing headlines for Sierra Nevada and Union stock at $250 to $300 a share. A spectacular crash left him broke, settling $250,000 on his wife before markets tumbled and his lavish boasts faded, now wandering in Arizona in search of a bonanza that may never come.
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Carson City
Johnny Skae
Carson
Bonanza
Sierra Nevada and
Union
Shae
Sierra Nevada
Union Consolidated
California and Consolidated
Virginia
Johnny
San Francisco
Gold Hill
Prince John
Nevada
Johnny Shae
Arizona
Fortune
Italian peanut vendor case ends with peanuts held
In Mulberry street, Abbatucci Tambourini sues for redress after Poindexter Ryan steals his peanuts worth 322 dollars. The humorous courtroom drama features quips on old statutes, dubious precedents, and a judge adjourning until August while Ryan keeps the nuts.
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Puck
Dolly
Mrs. Dalrymple
Fertiel
Tillie
Dahlgreen
Mulberry Street
Poindexter Ryan
Ryan
Mr. Dalrymple
Administration of Justice
Timothy Campbell
Patrick C. Duffy
Talley
Morey
Tom Collins
Tambourini
Haec Olim
Sam Yong
Wah Lee
Rising
Magroon
Abbatucci
Mr. Dawrympie
The
Hails of Justice
Denver Moon-Dogs Awe denizens with lunar halo display
The Denver Tribune reports a vivid moonlit sky show on Monday night with a halo encircling the moon, a rainbow-colored center, and two bright moon-dogs, explained by ice crystals and parhelic circles observed by Professors Howe and Super of Denver University. The phenomenon faded as the ice crystals aligned with the horizon, with Sirius and Betelgeuse noted during the display.
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the Tribune
H. A. Howe
C. B. Super
Denver University
Sirius
Orion
Kibbee
Spectacle of Ages and Whiskey Dreams at Dawn
An eclectic Victorian miscellany features celestial apostrophes to fossils and epoch relics, a Dakota homesick tale, comic grocery delays, a Chicago barbed liquor craving, racial clergy tension, cat anecdotes, and urban diaries on religious novelty, elocution praise, and weary life. The piece blends trivia, humor, and faux grandeur with dated slang and local flavor.
Eccentric Berlin recluse dies at 82 in secluded home
The so called eccentric old lady of Strathear Strasse Berlin died recently after nearly 50 years of seclusion. A solitary servant was her only regular contact for over thirty years. She wore a dressing gown at all times, slept by day and cooked overnight, leaving vast dust layers and a fortune to a grandniece with funds to an animal asylum.
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Brooklyn
Eagle
Dakota
San Francisco Post
Little Nell
Western Addition
Will Waffles
Dickens
Europe
Strathear Strasse
Berlin
Singular tale of a woman seeking arrest for her masquerading daughter
A Albany Journal report describes a respectable woman asking Justice Clute for a warrant to arrest her daughter after an inquiry revealed the daughter and a female friend who dresses in male attire act as chaperones for dances and theater. The court noted no crime yet, advising custody if the behavior continues when the young woman appears in male attire.
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Albany
Clute
Cattle herd plunges down icy Oxford hill
A sleet storm at Oxford Indiana sent a herd of 100 cattle sliding fifty yards or more down a steep hill. Herdsman John Moore tried to halt them but they toppled and rolled with many adopting bizarre high speed poses. He fell but none were seriously injured.
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Oxford
Ind
John Moore
Mrs Hayes Grip Sparks Handshake Mania at White House
A Washington correspondent notes that when Mrs. Hayes first arrived at the White House she encouraged widespread handshakes until her fingers grew tired, reflecting the era's social etiquette and public reception.
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Mrs. Hayes
Winter receptions and the bold hand shake trick
A party scene describes a woman with a bruised arm after two hours as her gloves wear thin. She masters a clever grip by pinching the approaching hand between thumb and knuckles to prevent a return shake, leaving onlookers impressed by her sturdy, friendly greeting.
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Everone
Godiva in the Dairy and the Old Butter Price
A Portland Argus correspondent recalls a Osage Iowa farmer whose wife sought dirtless butter by bathing and entering the dairy in only cleanliness. She slips in wet butter, declares the product must go at the old price, and a buyer from Scarboro confirms the tale.
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New York
The
Portland Argus
Osage
Joshua
Godiva
Jay Gould
L. W
Scarboro
Haunted by the Presence of His Crime in Politics
A St. Louis Republican profile portrays ex Secretary Belknap living at the Arlington and pursuing claims, surrounded by old associates from the district ring. He appears diminished yet restless, clinging to a former leadership aura while hiding a concealed past during the Grant era.
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St. Louis
Old Guard
Chicago
Grant
Belnap
Infant sues brewer over family tragedy in Canandaigua
Harvey Padelford as guardian of Jacob New files a civil damages suit against J and A McKe hioie for the death and injury surrounding a July nineteenth seventeenth century tragedy. The infant son of Jacob New seeks redress claiming lager beer from the Canandaigua brewers caused his father's intoxication and the subsequent murders. The case draws strong interest in the community.
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Troy Times
Harvey Padelford
Jacob New
J. & A. McKechioie
Canandaigua Brewers
Jacob
Barbara New
Barbara
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Candle Free Public Library
Board of Direction
Pete
Ebenezer Bensom
D. K
Old Bleak Street
Shay
Segatee
Job Caudie
Fry
America
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Tick
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Arthur
Caudle
Color Music
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Menlo Park
Pelite
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Blake
Union Ferry Company
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Gedney
O’reardon
Muldoon
Denver
Denver Tribune
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Ing
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Detroit Free Press
Jim Grace
Uncle Mose
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Geller
Miss Fitzroy
Jane
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