San Marino tale of a long forgotten love and barking dogs
A lawyer named Pills recalls a country trip to San Marino where he met Miss Tootie Tusby and watched another suitor charm her. Bangs confesses a lifelong antipathy to dogs and reveals a jealous heartbreak triggered by a music filled seaside soiree and a rival dancing with his beloved girl.
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Trai
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Laguna la Luritas
Tootie Tusby
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Eve Aiko
Desperate maneuvers end in comic lake incident
A narrator recounts a moonlit swim gone awry after losing his clothes to a rival dog. He hides in a tree as companions discuss rescuing or alarming the hotel, followed by an awkward reveal and a later stage to the city. The tale closes with a bewildering office interruption about marriage.
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Jerusalem
Private soldiers cards in church spark magistrate tale
A Glasgow magistrate hears a tale of a sergeant punishing a soldier who used a deck of cards in church as a lesson on minding one’s own business. The soldier argues the pack a Bible and almanac in one, while a baile counters with a moral on propriety and temperance.
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Bristol
R. L
Richard Lee
Trates
Glasgow
Richard
Weil
Ann Smith
Maria
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Matthew
Mark
Luke
John
Asa
Squire Hill’s
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Moses
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Sheba
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Knave
Satan
Miscellany obscure proverb and satirical verse
A compact miscellany quotes a line about a man making foes and contrasts ambition with genuine wealth. It notes an extended empire and life enlarged by gold, then cites BisHor of Lonsdale offering a mock Heaven path: turn right and go straight ahead.
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Lonsdale
Heaven
Day By Day to Build Knowledge and Habits
Daily small gains accumulate to big results over a year. Small steady steps in learning and planning turn plans into progress. Each day, aim for one useful improvement and end with a sense of accomplishment.
Way Lay Up Riches For Your Boys
A Missouri penitentiary inmate is said to have inherited fifty thousand dollars from his parents. The piece argues parents err by leaving fortunes and suggests instead a grim hypothetical that would push a son toward a moral path, contrasting toil with costly legacies. It laments inheritance leading to vice and idleness and questions the value of such wealth after death.
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Missouri Penitentiary
Bucharest Dwellings and Dilemmas in Central Wallachia
Bucharest, home to about seventy thousand, blends two story clay and wood houses with narrow streets and mixed wealth. The city, more Oriental than European, faces a dog plague and a habit of motorized travel, with vivid notes on street life and a French observer’s footnote on walking in the town.
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Bucharest
M. de Giradin
George M.towle
Harpers Magazine
Sewargo’s Bold Legislation Debut in the House
The speaker recounts a failed, then bold, first legislative speech. He faced fear, drafted a resolution to boost the salt business, sought counsel, and nearly postponed before finally rising to offer it. The regency faction and anti regency foes reacted as the press tracked his move.
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Tracy
Maynard
Rest and reflection as daily life for a better hereafter
The passage urges balancing business with charity and personal growth. It argues against neglecting rest and future-oriented thoughts, advocating a daily mix of industry, kindness, perseverance and religion to ease life and improve existence beyond this world.
Curious Memento From War Battlefield Found in City
A local man found a rare relic on the crater battlefield consisting of two minie balls, one federal and one Confederate, fused together after crossing paths. The balls remained embedded back to back forming a ring of lead with each ball protruding, revealing their respective sides.
Pencil chewing risks health and even causes death
The article warns that biting or placing pencils in the mouth while writing risks serious poisoning. It notes cases where people suffered paralysis or death from this habit and urges readers to avoid touching pencils to the tongue to protect health.
Charge to the jury in a grocery partnership dispute
The jury must decide if the plaintiff and defendant were partners and if the plaintiff bought out the defendant with a note. The note was paid by delivering a cow that was warranted sound, but breached. The defendant rejected the return of the cow, she died after a heavy yoke was placed on her to keep her from jumping fences, and the jury must determine the verdict if the partner’s interest is worth anything and the note is worthless. The court does not dictate the decision.
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Blake Crusher
Daniel Deronda
Virginia Chronicle
Where the shoe pegs come from Dayville Mass
Huntington Massachusetts hosts a Dayville mill where shoe pegs are produced from peeled church wood logs. The process yields 20 to 30 thousand pegs per log segment, dried, cleaned, and split into individual pegs. Four to five workers in the factory fill 25 to 30 bushels daily depending on peg size.
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Huntington
Mass
Dayville
Boston and Albany
Artistic Horse Pose Draws The Drayman’s Justification
A Detroit drayman explains he trained his horse to strike an artistic street pose after a harsh cut with his whip. He claims the horse adopts a dramatic stance with one hind leg raised and head lowered to create a harmonious display for loading grindstones at the freight house.
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Jefferson Avenue
Griswold Street
Detroit Free Press
Urgent Home Remedies for Poisons and Bites
A historical notice advises immediate action in poisoning cases. It recommends ground mustard in water to induce vomiting, followed by generous amounts of sweet oil or similar fats to coat the stomach and hinder absorption. It notes that oil has aided recovery in snake bites and urges contacting a physician.
Fitzpatrick and the invulnerable hunter in the prairie
A hunter Fitzpatrick purposely extracted a bullet before a pursuing war party of Indians. He lured the attackers, was captured and tied to a tree, then a warrior fired at his chest after a mock approach. The hunter revealed the bullet from his pocket, stopping it in flight, stunning the tribe into releasing him at once.
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Rocky Mountains
Fitzpatrick
Illlock
Fritzpatrick
The Names of Nails and Their Weights
An explanation of nail size terms from four-penny to ten-penny and how pounds per thousand nails determine weight. It notes degeneration from old currency and that light tacks are measured by ounces per thousand, with examples like 8-07 and 12-02 on tack papers.
De Quincey Described As Scrounger For Laudanum
A revelatory sketch paints De Quincey as a petty collector of coins, turning to others for small sums to fund his laudanum habit. The image contrasts genius with disreputable hunger and a casual intake of the drug.
Rates of Advertising in Local Paper
Advertising rates listed: $1.00 per inch for one week, 2 cents weekly for each additional insertion. Twelve lines equal one inch, Nonpareil type, special notices before marriage and deaths 15 cents per line. Prepay transient ads, yearly contracts on terms, yearly advertisers limited to their own business, ads due Thursday noon for next issue. religious obituary and political notices treated as advertisements.
Public Laws Passed at January Session of 1877
A brief record notes laws enacted during the January 1877 session, detailing statutory changes approved by the legislature and entering into effect under the state’s public law framework.
Town Treasurer-Taxes Bond Provision Act of 1877
Chapter 6594 changes to town officer elections adds that when a town elects its Town Treasurer as collector of taxes the tax warrant is issued to the Treasurer by the Town Clerk. The bond under Section 20 of the amended statute runs to the town and is kept by the Town Council, with breach actionable in the town’s name.
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General Assembly
Act Amending 1877 Law On Insane Detention
A 1877 act amends Chapter 494 of the Public Laws to empower judges to examine detainees awaiting trial if insanity is alleged. The change applies to every county except Providence and takes effect June 5, 1877.
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Public Laws
State Charities and Corrections
Supreme Court
Court of Common Pleas
Providence
Skc
Inland Fisheries exemption on Sneac Pond Cumberland
Chapter 698 amends inland fisheries laws and exempts Sneac Pond in Cumberland from Chapter 539. Passed March 22, 1877. Act takes effect upon passage.
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General Assembly
Sollne
Sneac Pond
Cumberland
Amendment to State Auditor Returns Reporting Four Times a Year
The act amends Chapter 30 to require trial justices and clerks of justice courts to four times yearly report fines and penalties to the Auditor. Reports due by May, August, November, and February include fines, docket abstracts, costs, and civil or criminal penalties in the state. Effective upon passage and certified by Secretary of State Joshua M. Addeman.
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General Assembly
Joshua M. Addeman
Secretary of
Age of Reason Sparks Condemnation of Dr Pierce Medicines
The piece argues against blanket denials of Dr Pierce's Family Medicines. It praises Golden Medical Discovery as a leading liver and blood remedy, claiming worldwide use, many testimonials, and success against coughs throat and lung ailments ulcer tumors and skin diseases. It invites readers to obtain Pierce's Memorandum Book from druggists.
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Dr. Pierce
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