Booth Burial and Booth Brain Exhibition Revealed
Washington Letter recounts the fate of John Wilkes Booth after Lincoln's assassination. Booth died in a Maryland barn from Boston Corbett’s musket shot, his body dissected by the Surgeon General, and his brain and heart preserved in alcohol and shown in the medical museum. The Ford Theatre building was confiscated and later used by the army medical corps. Booth’s remains were secretly moved to Baltimore, then reburied by order of President Johnson at Christ Church cemetery.
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Booth
Maryland
Boston
Corbett
Washington
Army
Medical Museum
Surgeon General's Office
Ford
Medical Corps of
Arsenal
Edwin Booth
Mr. Weaver
Christ’s Church
Baltimore
Johnson
Weaver
Stanton
Patent Dust Proof Watch Case Claims Strength and Dust Proof Seal
The ad proclaims a new open face watch with a dust and moisture proof case. It features a strong bezel sealed with special cement and a screw-on attachment creating an airtight body. A testimonial from July 20, 1882, recounts a rusty stem after submersion and endorses the case for railroad workers and miners.
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VatposTa
Geonaia
Nie
W. Bently
Watch Tested Under Water Proves Durability
An 1881 Cunpon Iowa ad describes a William Ellery Watch recovered after three months under snow and water with minimal damage. It promotes gold and silver watches with a dust proof stem winding case and challenges rivals to match. Sold by first class jewelers across the region.
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Cunpon
Iowa
Ellery
Co. S. Raymond
Herbert Dexter's Ordeal Shows Truth Wins Over Denial
Herbert Dexter loses his job after truthful warning about fabric not washing. His uncle rebukes him, leaving him and his mother in hardship. A kind benefactor's wife helps him, and he gains a better post at Fairbanks & Co., rising to head clerk. Smith & Co. later fails.
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Herbert
Exter
Smith & Co.’s
Fairbanks & Co
Smith
Mother Swan's Word Syrur Infallible Remedy
Customer note promotes a medicine labeled Mother Swan's Word Syrur as infallible tasteless harmless cathartic for feverishness restlessness worms constipation priced at 25c with claim of universal effect.
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Mother Swan
Ely's Cream Balm Tackles Long Standing Catarrh
Ely's Cream Balm offers a non liquid, non snuff remedy for stubborn catarrh cases. It is easy to apply and priced at 50 cents, claimed to reach obstinate ailments where other treatments fail.
Two Borritos and a Cure for Catarrh at Fort Huachuca
Philadelphia wholesale druggists report a man sent a dollar to dispatch Ely's Cream Balm to two army officers in Arizona. He later said the officers and the wife of Gen. John C. Fremont had been cured of catarrh by two bottles of the remedy.
Sulphur Bitters Praised by Winthester Postmaster
The Postmaster of Winchester Massachusetts endorses Sulphur Bitters citing the cure of a local family’s son and noting wide sales from honest medicine. He asserts personal acquaintance with Mr and Mrs Carleton and praises its efficacy.
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Winchester
Mass
Carleton
Geo. P. Brown
P. M
Wheat Bitters praised by patrons for cures
The passage notes Ben Johnson's remark on speaking well and claims Wheat Bitters patrons uniformly praise their cures. It asks readers if they have tried them, implying broad endorsement of the tonic.
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Ben Johnson
Carter's Liver Bitters Cure Claims and Spring Opening
The ad promotes Carter's Liver Bitters for dyspepsia liver complaints and malaria related illnesses, made by Carter's Little Liver Pills makers, guaranteed. Sold by J. H. Young & Co. Announces a spring opening with the slogan Buena-Parpa and a kidney bladder urinary diseases claim priced at $1. Druggists.
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Gaxgor
Carter Medicine Coqo
Carter
Park Place
New York City
J.H. Young &Co
J. H. Young & Co
Buena-Parpa
Quotations on Ambition Honor and Self Reliance
A miscellany of proverbs and reflections on ambition honesty and self sufficiency. The text contrasts sane ambition with insanity of men of honor and notes nature and Montaigne on entertainment and social duty.
Nature’s mysteries fade as knowledge grows in youth
A quotation from Rev. O. L. Guild on growth through experience. It asserts that nature remains a mystery to children while growth, study, and the sciences turn knowledge into personal property, elevating the scholar above those who do not seek learning.
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Rev
O. L. Guild
A Practical Lesson for Rufus at Johnson’s Store
A fifteen year old worker Rufus learns that daily reflection and attentive observation can substitute for formal study. His uncle Edward urges forming a habit of thinking over events, emulating better methods, and learning from conversations and reading to turn store work into a practical education.
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Rufus
Joe
Education That Inflates a Fad or Fad
The London Spectator argues that humble virtue and imagination surpass book learning for practical political sense. It warns that even small university education can inflate pride, create caste mindsets, and provoke contempt for the ignorant while offering limited life guidance.
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London Spectator
Marriage customs and courtship in Lapland described by The Christian
An excerpt discusses Lapland marriage ideas where parents and suitors arrange matches. A formal ceremony precedes a running courtship where the bride may flee or invite the suitor, ensuring consent without shame. The piece notes Lapps are not moral or honest, but marriage relations tend to be happy and peaceful.
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Lapland
Lulea
Glen
Lapp-Alten
Honor and dueling in a depot mob scene
An African American vendor defends a slur on race and honor after a white man strikes him in a Macon depot. The exchange preserves a tense claim that dueling would be proper, while condemning the attack as a public insult and a demeaning injury to the race.
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Macon
Honah
Pusson
Detroit
Dog imitates limping friend in musical evening anecdote
An English terrier copied a lame guest’s walk as he descended stairs during a drawing room gathering. The dog’s staged limp drew smiles from observers, including the narrator and his family, while the friend remained unaware of the imitation. The incident was recounted with brevity and amusement.
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Jnearly
London Spectator
Mrs PanTINGTON Reaches Out With Bright Health Update
Mrs PanTINGTON called this morning to say she is feeling well and compares her recovery to replacing old windows in a renovated house. She notes the old panes are gone and the pneumatics of the past are behind her.
Fat Man on the Streetcar and a Houseful of Questions
Mrs Mulkittle and her son ride a suburban streetcar when the boy bursts into a flurry of questions about horses pistols and reading. A red nosed passenger scowls from across the car as the boy prods for facts provoking a stern outburst. The mother warns the boy she will tell his father and hushes him as the passenger mutters he would crucify such a boy if he were his own.
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Willie
Mrs. Mulkittle
Detroit Mayor Bid Refused in Prohibition Era Prank
A Detroit tale recounts a voter prank where a saloon owner offers a famed resident a mayoral run. The would-be candidate, playing a dry joke, pours water for a mock toast and declines the office, saying he prefers a higher post and wishes supporters well.
Winter Composition by a Schoolboy
A boy’s humorous composition on winter asserts it is the coldest season and notes nations where winter occurs in summer. He envisions skating barefoot and snowballing, laments weather in his country, and claims more snow due to song cutters and sleighs.
Unclear New Yorker sketch sparks odd wedding remark
A New Yorker spellbound by a peculiar caption recounts a man asked about fears in contests with the unruly. He cites stones and rocks from half grown loafers. A doctor advises a patient to exercise health, and she agrees to jump at the first offer, with marriage following shortly after.
Beethoven's
A descriptive note on Beethoven's creative process, long walks during incubation, late nights at the piano, and his sketches and final manuscripts. The piece recounts incidents of humming or howling scales, deferential quiet, and the difficulties faced by copyists and engravers. It cites a Home Journal quote about his stamping and swearing while finishing proofs.
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Beethoven
Hanks
Costrosine
Cipriani Potter
Vienna
Baden
Ferdinand Rieg
Rieshail
Seeing a Governor and a miner novice tale
A Hartford Courant piece recalls a tiny girl who met Governor-elect Bigelow and Governor Waller before the inauguration, receiving special attention and treats. A frontier-style mining notice from Gunpison, Colorado, shows an illiterate prospector’s bold claim, warning trespassers and asserting legal rights.
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Gunpison
Col
Jett
Ipost
Lhis Notias
John Searle
A Keen Student of Human Nature Quotation
A keen observer notes a midnight scene of a young man with a mashed collar walking down a street and a nearby young girl ascending stairs with shoes in hand and an extinguished lamp, suggesting a concealed encounter.
Offense Against Property Bill Defines False Statements Penalty
Chapter 352 adds to Chapter 242 penalties for hiring a horse or carriage with intent to cheat the owner. The act imposes a fine up to twenty dollars or up to thirty days imprisonment for false statements regarding use or distance driven, excluding larceny possession cases.
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General “Assembly
Chapter 353 of Intelligence Offices Enacted
The 1883 act allows town councils to license intelligence office keepers who gather or provide information on domestic labor and employment. Licenses set by councils. can be revoked. Unlicensed operation incurs a ten dollar daily fine.
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General Assembly
Salaries Act Sets General Treasurer Pay at 2500
The act amends Chapter 256 to fix the General Treasurer's annual salary at twenty five hundred dollars payable quarterly. It takes effect upon passage and repeals conflicting prior provisions.
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General Assembly
Amendment to marriage statute tightens license certificate rules
Chapter 361 amends section 9 of chapter 163 of the public statutes governing marriage. It requires ministers or magistrates to verify by certified certificates the names ages birthplaces and prior marriages of both parties and imposes a fifty cent clerk fee with specific provisions for residents and nonresidents and for guardians consent. A false information penalty is set at up to twenty dollars.
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General Assembly
Providence
Miguel
United States
JosHua M. Addeman
Secretary of State
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