Misdelivered Mail Rules Expanded and Explained
A detailed overview defends and critiques postmaster general Key's misdirected letters orders. It explains the legal basis from sections 467 and 442, describes postal workers' challenges in locating addressees, and cites examples of misrouting due to identical town names. The piece notes the push for sender accuracy, the burden on clerks, and the Rail Mail Service's role in enforcing proper directions.
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Key
John Staith
Newport
Conn
R. I
N. H
Newports
TurnLone
Centreville
Providence
Rhode Island
North Cohasses
Nantasket
North Cohasset
Nantucket
Feston
A. Holmes
Boston Ofice
Boston
Daysville
Department
Extraordinary disclosures on a female disguise in Melbourne
A woman who passed as Edward De Lacy Evans for twenty years married three women while working as a miller in Sandhurst and Ballarat mines. She was admitted as a lunatic after insanity symptoms appeared, with hospital records noting her gender as male. Notes say she may be Ellen Germanic from the Ocean Monarch voyage, and questions linger on birthplace and earlier marriages.
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Melbourne Evening Express
Edward de Lacy Evans
Sandhurst
Evans
Kilkenny
Ireland
Paris
Jersey
Charles de Lacy Evans
Poland
Bendigo Hospital
Sheerself
Melbourne
Ellen Germanic
Ion
Edward de Lacy
Victoria
Sarah Moore
Ballarat
W. Henderson
Presbyterian Church
Edward J. de Lacy Evans
Ann Dora Vauch
Julia
Vans
Mysterious Cave Discovery Near Nueces River
A Texan discovers a cave near a mountain headwaters of the Nueces with a man-made road to its mouth. After eighteen months of clearing debris he stops by lung bleeding, finding ancient masonry and a tablet with hieroglyphs resembling a ladder. Nearby hills show two more caves and possible ruins, sparking debate over Spanish mines or prehistoric ruins.
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Galveston News
San Antonio
Nueces River
Ferry dock gag ends with governor candidacy joke
Detroit Free Press reports a playful political spoof at the ferry dock where men announce their nominee for governor to a calm, unamused stranger. He coolly accepts but warns he has no money for campaigning, leaving the organizers to fund his high qualifications.
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Detroit Free Press
Mrs Perkins's Wedding A Humorous GLOBE Report
The Globe recounts Abigail Perkins's second marriage to Deacon Doak with satirical detail. It notes her lavender banded wedding attire, artificial flower wreath, and gold jewelry, plus the clergyman’s reserve and the bride’s wit. The reception followed at a house gathering with a hearty feast, and the couple departed for a bridal tour to Providence before returning to manage subscriptions for the wild men of Borneo.
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Abigail Perkins
Globe Office
Mr. Tilden
Doak
Mr. Perkins
Father
Doak II
Dea
Eliza Dodd
Weddin' hints and a press crowd in a bygone note
Abigail Perkins writes a lengthy, odd demand filled invitation to a church wedding. The reporter attends to describe dress, guests, and the comical insistence on fame. The piece contrasts wedding vanity with the seriousness of Civil War heroics in later material.
Local Serial to Appear in The Globe Columns
Before her second romance entanglement Mrs Perkins-Doak began a serial story of local interest that will soon appear in The Globe columns. Ed
Indians and settlers clash over justice and citizenship
An interview with Miss La Flesche of the Omahas reveals tension between white settlers and Native people. A Omaha chief’s daughter speaks on fairness, citizenship, and the desire to live as equals while farmers in the state. She describes abuses during conflicts and calls for honesty and legal rights.
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White Page
Miss la Flesche
Omabas
Watkins’ Glen Mountain House
New York News
Reforms and Abuses in Massachusetts Mental Hospitals
A critical piece arguing Massachusetts must reform insane asylums. It denounces the asylum ring, wasted public funds, and costly new buildings. Proposes a paid commission in lunacy, cottage and non asylum plans, expanded patient rights, and stricter oversight, including a visiting physician board and unrestricted correspondence. It cites Danvers and Worcester costs and criticizes superintendents’ conduct. It urges immediate action before legislature considers new palatial prisons.
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Danvers
Worcester
Gheel
Belgium
Scotland
Wilbur
Baker
Cleveland
America
Board of Health
Charity
Meer
Jelly
Holm
Captain Holm
McLean Asylum
Herald
Boston
Board of Trustees
Seaiagelyce
Massachusetts
Congo Square as Seen in the City’s Gone Past Recalled
An aged glimpse of Congo Square recalls 1816 gatherings of Congo Mandringa and other tribes. The piece describes drums, bone instruments, and exotic dances with crowds and trade around the square, ending as the original celebrations faded after 1810 and later imitators arose.
A Detective's Story How a Forger Escaped Then Outwitted
A master forger in Massachusetts was pardoned after three months and freed. He forged a governor's signature and fled, but was caught. He hired a New York lawyer to obtain another pardon for 1600 dollars. After liberty, he planned to return west, claiming a Kansas farm and a letter from his father. He forged a 2000 dollar draft, the lawyer cashed 1000, but the draft bounced when the maker was found dead eight years prior.
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Massachusetts
New York
Isamiliar
Kansas
bank for _collection
Burlesque Verses and Oddities From the Late Pages
A mash of verse and brief comic vignettes describes a sly maiden knitting by lamplight, dreaming of a vanished love, plus short humorous scenes from Des Moines and New York. The miscellany mixes poetry with storefront banter, a centennial yarn rebuff, stockings lore, and courtroom quips about fat men and mail boxes.
Persian origin tale links Austrian minister to Potocki line
A Dziennik Poznanski story claims Dr Ziemialkowski the Austrian agriculture minister is of Persian extraction. It narrates Count Potocki adopting a foundling in Persia, who became Ziemialkowski, and says he is the great grandson of Potocki, ancestor of Austria's Alfred Potocki.
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Dziennik Poznanski
Ziemialkowski
Vienna
Juan de Potocki
Pacific Ocean
Central Asia
Vamberg
Potock
Europe
Galicia
Zie
Mia
Ben
Fitz
Alfred Potocki
Persia
Silk sewing silks can self ignite on ships says Detroit note
The Detroit Free Press explains that lustrous silk goods and corde nette sewing silk from Germany and France can spontaneously combust when containing roughly one fifth silk. Oxide of iron oils and dyes fuel the heat with tannic acid triggering the reaction. Five hours aboard the Moses Lane steamer were needed to douse the blaze.
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Detroit Free Press
Moses Lans
Germany
France
Grand Union Hotel Ad Promises Deluxe Rooms and Transport
A New York notice advertises the Grand Union Hotel opposite Grand Central depot with 350 elegant rooms offered at 1 per day. It highlights an elevator, restaurant, and easy access via horse cars stages and elevated railroad to all depots.
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New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
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