Whistling Life and a Poisonous Lizard Tale
A Detroit era column recalls a man who whistled through a play’s intermission, inspiring memory and emotion among audience and police interruption. The piece shifts to the Gila monster, detailing its venomous bite effects, teeth, and scattered cases, noting rare fatal outcomes for humans versus harm to small animals, with Smithsonian notes on Dr. Schubert’s bite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia College of Physicians
Arizona
Shufe Dt
Smithsonian Institution
N. V. Star
To Preach or Die Tale From Northern Connecticut
An editor's drawer recalls Uncle James and his vow to become a minister or die after seeking examination by Father P- a famed Baptist preacher. The piece notes humor in a stern frontier community and contrasts faith with a dramatic vow. A Philadelphia woman’s death by choking on a string of false ties is also mentioned in a brief aside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
James
Harper's Magazine
Szevelnstian
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Packet
France
Henry the Third
Lowoten
Massachusetts Centenet
Young Jack rises from yard waif to skilled machinist
In a Detroit iron works tale a ragged nine or eleven year old named Jack is taken in by a compassionate foreman. Jack earns trust by learning the trade, defeats the older apprentice, and becomes a machinist apprentice, with hopes to rise to foreman. The piece reflects on opportunity gaps for other urban youths contrasted with Jack’s unlikely ascent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dro Jack
Jack
Canest
Oly Ace
Detroit
Letroit
Free Press
Play Your Hand for All It's Worth
A fragment argues that a man’s failure to align with wise peers condemns him to mockery. It laments fools who try to appear grave, warning deceitful efforts to seem serious. The piece notes how fools attract pity and hinder progress for themselves and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clagners
Blackstone
Galen
Astor
Vanderbilt
Nature
Jacque Stros
Robert Macaires
Jim
Fashion Notes on Spring Dress Trends and Trimmings
Fashion writer surveys spring dress trends including light mourning dress, Newmarket jackets, pelerines, shoulder capes, redingotes, and polonaises. trims feature braid work on paniers and panels, with ribbons, silk, plush, and velvets in terra cotta hues. Long silk scarves with antique brooches conceal a goitre fears, while house jackets show square embroidery blocks and ribbed textures in plush and vigogne.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newmarket
America
Tanic
Kenety Scheidterhas
Temperance Facts and Proposals From Joseph Cook Lecture
Joseph Cook discussed temperance with data from English life insurance showing higher bonuses for temperance lives and lower death rates among total abstainers. He cited the United Kingdom Temperance and General Provident Institution and suggested Western states may adopt constitutional prohibition, viewing it as a national future policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Cook
England
Mr Cook
Flere
London
Nord
Erientors
Life Assurance Society
Life Assurance
United Kingdom
General Provident
Republic
Atlantic Ocean
Don
Missisippi
Towa
Kansas
Temperance Talk Reflects on Liquor Dangers and Abstinence
A fragmentary report cites temperance figures and statements from a public Exeter Hall meeting. It notes thousands of deaths linked to intemperance and praises total abstainers in England, while condemning liquor as a social evil and urging restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Morgue
England
Eatteet
Ove
Mexnoe
Exeter Hall
Coasell
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Parmens
the Whistler
Rome
Boston
Senda Toy
Shere
Opern
Prom
Detroit Post and Tribune
Tiel
Iil
New York
Chicago
Baygate
Smok Ag
Kingdom of Bliss
Drake
Travelers’ Magazine
Sarah Bernhardt
Komtind
United
Ira C. Tyron
Londonderry
N. H
Newland
Willian K. Dodge
Dr. Jaehos
Dodge
N. J
Herman
Ferench Otter
Haga
Martin Luther
Germany
Ady Ces
Nivement
Lang Oi Savini
Signor Mucio
Sawyer
Verdi
B.D. Shillaber
Partington
Maximilian Join de Oehemont
Portemacth
New Hampshire
Louisiana
Louisiana Territory
United States
N. Y
Hamilton Fish
Horatio Seymour
Myron H. Clark
Neuben FE
Fenton
John T. Hoffman
Samuel J. den
Lucius Robinson
Alonzo B. Corner
Clintons
John Jay
Tompkins
Marcy
Seward
Morgan
Seymour
Hoffman
Land of the Living
Syracure Journal
Onde
Sedger
Bright
Darky
Percy
Ana
Pallecy
Philadeloita Press
Wala Mbereis
Temperance
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