December Night Express Train Theft Twist Ends In Escape
A London night express at Rugby carries a trio of skilled thieves using a deaf old lady as a cover to stop the train for a fake lunch basket. The gang slips away in the blackout after delaying the train and evading detection, leaving police convinced the ruse was masterful and unsolved.
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Ten Rules for Church Sinners From a Humorous List
A humorous fragment lists amusing church etiquette contraventions. Items mock parish customs such as gawking at strangers, watching the watch, slamming hymnals, dressing flamboyantly, rushing the doors, greeting friends loudly, treading on dresses, blocking exits, and finally lighting a cigar before leaving.
Heaven Gained by Ladder Not Leap
An aphorism notes progress comes by gradual steps rather than sudden leaps, urging steady effort to reach lofty aims.
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Heaven
If Men Lived Two Hundred Years Would Vices Endure
A reflective meditation on life spans and virtue. Prosperity may hinder self scrutiny while adversity prompts honest assessment. Learning, like money, risks becoming useless without prudent use to yield real sense and happiness.
Coatings cut steam heat loss at Mulhouse experiments
Experiments at Mulhouse tested coatings for steam pipes. Straw reduced radiant heat loss by 66 percent, a pottery pipe with earth and straw lowered loss by 61 percent, cotton waste by 51 percent, waste felt by 48 percent, and cow hair plaster by 45 percent. White paint added 7 percent extra saving. Details published by La Society Industrielle de Mulhouse via Chamber's Journal. The Power of National Feeling Over Young May discusses choosing professions, journalism, and the value of a solid national grounding for writers in history and polity.
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Young
Adams
Amherst
Derby
Buying On Credit and Its Economic Toll
The essay argues that purchasing on credit harms households and tradesmen. Cash payment prevents interest and premiums, deterring unsafe debtors and overconsumption. Credit tempts unnecessary purchases and erodes disciplined spending.
Getting Up Wrong on First Wake
A humorous social note on morning mood and breakfast battles. It suggests that waking with a temper ruins the day, causes quarrels with friends and patrons, and even leads to imagined duels. The author advises returning to the pillow until mood improves.
Japanese Women and Their Aging Beauty Standards
A late 19th century article extols Japanese women’s physiques from childhood to old age, noting gradual changes through dress and labor. It claims young girls develop hips and gait under garment practices, with burdens on the back pressing the chest, and praises dignified older women as embodying noble demeanor and ancestral refinement.
Old Lady befriends traveling novelty sellers on Eastbound Train
An elderly passenger on a eastbound train encounters a peanut vendor a book agent and a prize package clerk. She accepts a book sample and a pin then pays twenty five cents after confirming with the conductor. The scene ends with a quiet confession of regret and wish to have stayed home.
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Reyand
Old Proba bilities on New England weather lore
Maxims from Old Proba bilities outline rules for rain and storms in New England. They emphasize northeast or east winds signaling rain after two to three days, smoke or haze indicating changing weather, fog and dew before rain, and wind shifts or halos and auroras as precursors. Barometer shifts and atmospheric influx also forecast rain, with southwest winds bringing brief showers and southeastern hazy cloud banks signaling rain.
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New England
Penitentes Religion and Historic Book Values
A Chicago Tribune excerpt describes the penitentes, a southern Colorado and New Mexico sect led by Taos high priest Romero Miguel, who reportedly commands one third of his followers’ yields and excommunication or death for defiance, alongside a separate note on the high value placed on books in the dark ages, with kings and nobles trading land, sheep, and gold for volumes and biblical texts.
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Taos
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Montezuma
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Chicago Tribune
Northumberland
Anjou
London Bridge
Reform Lament on Public Morality Across History
The Hartford Courant argues that bad men and corrupt practices have always existed. It notes public lives were worse fifty years ago and questions whether stronger public sentiment and press scrutiny then would have exposed revered statesmen and patriots to disgrace.
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Ownership Shifts and Decline of Self Reliance
A historical column laments rising urban population and rental dependence, arguing ownership fosters self respect, citizenship, and public spirit. It warns that migration to cities weakens individuality and real influence, risking a detachment from local life and duties. A Portsmouth anecdote recounts Mr Sheaf catching a thief, who then repays dishonesty with honest weight and a skim milk cheese if overpaid.
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Equine setter tale tests horse and traveler in Kentucky
A Yankee traveler with a fine horse tries to sell it by claiming the animal can lie down and behave like a setter near game. After a rabbit display, he agrees to accompany a hunter. The horse later sinks in a stream, prompting the quip that the animal is good for fish as well as rabbits. The scene ends with nautical and planning maxims about purposeful effort.
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Kentucky
Pate
Ead
Ae Yankee
Rates of Advertising in the Next Issue
Rates listed for advertisements: $1.00 per square for one week, 25 cents per square for each additional insertion. Twelve lines or less equal half a square. Notices for marriages and deaths cost double. Transient ads payable in advance. Yearly contracts offered at reasonable terms. Yearly advertisers limited to their immediate business. Ads must be handed in by Thursday noon. Religious obituary and political notices charged as advertisements.
Man seeks advice after marriage pressure scene
A naive young man faces a pushy mother who offers marriage on her terms. She reveals plans to marry Sarah quickly, with boarding-house profits and a birthday wedding. The suitor fears the match and ponders drastic options as the mother boasts a ruthless past.
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Sarah
Tilly
The Farmer Outsmarts the Landlord with Two Hundreds
Curran’s Incenvity tells of a country farmer who left a hundred pounds with a landlord and, after failed appeals, follows legal counsel’s plan. With a friend present, he deposits a second hundred and later retrieves both sums from the landlord, who discovers he has been outwitted.
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Curran
Rustic
Bardolph
Heal Thyself Medical Adviser Promoted by World’s Dispensary
A 900 page medical guide by R Y Pierce M D of Buffalo New York promises remedies for catarrh liver complaints dyspepsia headaches scrofula bronchial throat and lung diseases and other disorders. Priced at $1 50 with engravings and colored plates it is sold by agents or sent by mail postpaid.
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Buffalo
Little Boys Urged Against Stealing Rides
A brief moral note warns that taking a ride without permission is sinful and cannot be returned once taken. It emphasizes the inability to repay such an act and reinforces the ethical lesson for young readers.
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