The Night Car And Its Nocturnal Boston Journey
An observer tours Boston by night car, detailing riders from Old South to City Point. It notes social types, bands of Scandinavians, Antivarian gatherings, and late-shift workers from newspapers, markets, and hotels. The piece mixes humor with city life and nightly transit functions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Old South
City Points
Lords of Creation
Father Trask
Chain
Essex Streets
Ole Bull
E Street
Federal Street
Poston
South Cove
Broadway
Aay
Rankin
South
K Street
Abigail Perkins Plans a Swift Wedding in 1879
Abigail Perkins writes from Boston to reveal she will marry Jacob next Tuesday despite sisters fussing after their father’s death. She resolves to let Jacob support her and vows to keep details tight, while hinting at a lively wedding with press coverage. Roger Campbell’s quest to find Madeline Harnden unfolds across oceans and wrecks, ending in a dramatic reunion and a farm wedding.
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Tvan
Jacob
Reuben
Abigail Perkins
Father
Narrow Escape for Obituary Poem Founder
Detroit Free Press notes a near misnaming of poet George William Childs of the Philadelphia Ledger. A Telegram interview clarified his correct name, correcting misnamings and preserving his place in American poetry.
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Detroit Free Press
G. W. Childs
Philadelphia Ledger
George Washington Childs
G. Washington Childs
G. Wash
Childs
New York Telegram
George William Childs
Sweet Singer
Georgie Washie Childs
William
Alligator Hatchlings From Hen in Cow Island Field
A Meridional report from Abbeville, Louisiana recounts a hen in Cow Island that hatched seventeen eggs and produced four small alligators. The young alligators reportedly followed the mother hen around the premises. The piece also notes a Wetumpka Alabama tale of a dancing rooster that performs a “double shuffle” when urged by its owner, drawing amused crowds.
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Abbeville
Colorado
Wetumpka
Ala
T. B. Whitby
Samuel Spigener
Buyckville
The Aurora of Cham and the Fatal Skate
A New York Herald tale recounts Charles Monselet, famed journalist, dining on a skate bought by Mme de Noe. After dinner a night of strange lights erupts as the glowing skate, heated by age and thrift, transforms into blue electrical glow, alarming Monselet in his Rue Richelieu room.
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New York Herald
Charles Monselet
Gourmand
Cham
Monlet
Mme. de Noe
Anna
Monselet
Renee
Rue Richelieu
Arkansas Romance Brings Elopement Plot to Failure
In Waldron country a young Indian named Wambo and Lulu, daughter of an elderly couple, plotted elopement. After two clandestine meetings and a planned night escape, the old man foiled the scheme with a club. Lulu was returned home, while Wambo fled, warning of possible future trouble.
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Waldron
Wayne
Lulu
Wambo
Gunpowder Making and Explosive History Exposed
A detailed panorama of gunpowder, its origins, safety, and evolving processes. The piece traces powder mill dangers, notable explosions, and lessons in handling. It describes ingredients, grinding, pressing, and aging, plus comparisons with blasting powders and dynamite. It cites the Acton mill blast and a Berlin siege anecdote, ending with 1870 production value.
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General Rodman
United States Ordnance Seperencey
United States
Europe
The Strangest Tale Mrs Williams Recalls at Central Station
Mrs Williams of Mount Carmel Illinois reports a young woman resembling her buried daughter. After weeks of watching, they form an uneasy bond, sparking suspicion from residents and police. The case ends with three women and Williams sent home under guard as investigators consider a possible illusion or mental distress.
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Central Station
Williams
Mount Carmel
Illinois Street
Yvenne
Carmi
ONE OF GENERAL JACKSON'S MEN
Abraham Johnson, 106, lives near Scranton in Salem. He was born in Vermont in 1778 and served as a captain of Oneida Indians under General Jacomb at Plattsburg. Wounded twice, he survived, married his Oneida wife, and raised a daughter Martha. Now single, he lives in Salem and receives no pension.
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Moosie River
Scranton
Salem
Abraham Johnson
Hale
Vermont
Lake Champlain
Burgoyne
Jacomb
Plattsburg
Izard
Oneida
United States
Great Britain
Sussex County
N. J
Martha
Ellsworth
Madison Township
Lackawanna County
Oneidas
Brown
Plantagenets
General Jackson
Salem Penaup
Pennsylvania
New York Herald
Mount Dennis
Washington
Ohio
Stoker
Mr. Chinch
Baby King and the Autocrat of Night and Day
A miscellany of humorous vignettes and travel anecdotes from a 19th century journal. Tales range from a pampered baby’s royal tantrums and a courtroom farce to a boastful “singular man” in Detroit and a comic railway sleeping car scene, all voiced in a lively period tone.
What a Spider Eats
A writer on spiders records a spider catching earwigs and flies at dawn, then eating green midges, the web and its contents, and finally a steady day of meals including an alligator, a lamb, a camelopard, a sheep, and 120 larks if scaled to human appetite, illustrating extraordinary digestion and web-spinning capacity.
Flying clothes spark a Baltimore inventor’s bold claim
A Baltimore man patents flying clothes promising to electrify science within months. He envisions personal flight as an alternative to rail and ferry travel, offering safety concerns yet praising benefits for daily life and social interactions.
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Baltimore
Perenter
Centrit
Rolling stones in Nevada resemble Australia curiosities
Virginia City readers note recent Nevada finds described as almost perfectly round stones, from pea to six inches, lying in basins on bare rock. When stones are near they roll toward a common centre, forming a huddle like eggs. released stones move briskly to rejoin fellows, suggesting a magnetic iron ore basis.
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Virginia City Enterprise
Australia
Nevada
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City Owl
Mr. Featherbrain
Boston Daily Papers
Cambridge
Charlestown Neck
Pha
Rac Od
Pope
Tremont Street
Washington Street
Metropolitan
City
Middlesex
Harvard Square
Union
Metropolitan Railroad
Conradtor Rankin
South Boston
Middlesex and
Dorchester Street
Essex Street
Dll
Nestor
Mark Twain
Panorama
Red Sea
Dick Deadeye
Byglge
Old Colony
Georgia
Atlanta
City Point
Abigail
Drar Melvina
Liza
Jane
David
Hiere
Roger Campbell
Madeline Harnden
San Francisco
Carter
Roger
Madeline
New York
Howard Fawcett
Mr. Carter
Mrs. Fawcett
Ogee
Chamber of Horrors
Eit
Rock Gazette
Acton
Prussia
Berlin
Tottleben
John Gotskowsky
Elizabeth
Russia
Evansville
Ind
Courier
King Baby
Baby
Maria Watson
John
Brust
Detroit Free Fress
Hackman
Toledo
Ewing
Chinch
Baltimore and Ohio
Cele
Eae Aiceics
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