Nominations and party reform in Indiana discussed
The Indiana Republican convention advances two reform steps to regulate delegate selection and require laws protecting voters rights. It urges safeguards for ballots, limits on corruption, and a system where a majority vote reflects true majority will across primaries and conventions. The aim is a plain fair system of nominations aligning with election standards.
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Indiana
State Central Committee
Republican Party
State Board of Election Commissioners
Wholesome laws on nominations urged across parties
The call for clear wholesome nomination laws is nonpartisan and cross locality, though not in the latest Democratic state platform. The speaker says the public will voice this wish plainly and it will become another step toward good government.
Coffee and the heart risk tied to excess use
The Detroit Free Press notes coffee dominates global consumption and warns life insurance doctors and medical examiners classify coffee heart as a health risk. Physicians advise limiting coffee to two cups daily, likening its toll to whisky taper.
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United States
Detroit Free Press
Advance Prayers Lifts Subdued Nighttime Alarm
A Germantown mother recalls her five year old son Warren climbing under the covers without praying. He explains that he and Grace said their prayers for four nights during a rainy spell when they could not play. They would have finished the week if the nurse had not come to dress them.
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Warren
Grace
Wis Queer Way and Synnex Exchange A Brief Quip
A fragmentary exchange notes Dumleigh and Gargan debating a queer chap Syn nex. Tyson is cited as a mind reader unable to read minds, while Synnex quips that even the best reader cannot read without a book. The dialogue wanders from the sub.
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Dumleigh
Synnex
Gargan
Tyson
Curious Korean New Year Battle of Stones Celebrated?
The New Year custom in Seoul features mass stone battles on a mile from the city walls. Thousands form rival armies, hurl stones, clash with knives and clubs, and crowds may be trampled. The bell signals return home. Police keep order as fighting is a yearly civic rite praised by some and mocked by others.
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Korea
Seoul
Han River
New York Tribune
Quotations on virtue and human character from classic authors
A collection of maxims and reflections from Bacon Hawthorne Shakespeare Plautus Ruskin Franklin Metcalf Goldsmith Hameleton Longfellow on misfortune generosity friendship ignorance pride modesty virtue and truth. The passages offer concise moral observations from diverse authors.
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Bacon
Hawthorne
Shakespeare
Plautus
Ruskin
Franklin
Florence Nightingale Real Name Revealed
The Nightingale family surname was Shore at birth. Florence and her sister Parthenosse were born to Mr Shore, a Sheffield banker, who later adopted the Nightingale name after inheriting his mother’s fortune. The elder sister was named Parthenosse for Athens and Florence for the city’s birthplace.
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Florence Nightingale
Nightingale
Shore
Sheffield
Derby
York
Parthenosse
Athens
Florence
Retort Judicial on the Bench in Poughkeepsie
A courtroom anecdote recalls Judge Barnard in Poughkeepsie where a lawyer mocked a stray one cent coin. The judge retorted that if the coin were larger the court might not have noticed it, highlighting wit in the old bench.
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Barnard
Poughkeepsie
New York Times
Stockson Bonds Buys Secondhand Seat at Stocks Exchange
Mrs Gaussip and Mrs Malaprop discuss Mr Stockson Bonds at the upholsterer's. They speculate he will marry and furnish a home. One woman claims he bought a seat at the Stocks Exchange last week and will have it fixed up. Philadelphia.
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Gaussip
Stockson
Malaprop
Stocks Exchange
Philadelphia Press
How They Grew First Year and Tenth Year Trout Tales
The passage recounts two humorous anecdotes from New York Weekly about trout growth. The first year notes a foot and a half long fish with a fishhook in its stomach, while the tenth year recalls a trout over a yard long with an anchor in its stomach.
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New York Weekly
Fifty Years Ad Cambridge City News Excerpt 1853 54
A compact snapshot from the Cambridge City News issue of December 1853 to January 1854. The column mocks exhibition behavior at a local event, notes rapid progress on a new depot, mentions Henry Winters’ return from California, and hints at Christmas preparations and charitable sentiment. It records a wallet loss, schoolbook lists, a fire origin, hog sales, a delinquent tax list, local marriages, an administrator appointment, and social entertainments including the Peak Family performance and German Terpsichorean event.
Heart’s daily power and a cure from Dr Pierce
The piece extols the human heart’s small size and its six ton daily blood movement, then promotes Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery as a cure for digestive diseases and a heart tonic. It includes a testimonial from W D Merchant of Tylersburg, praise for the product and notes free confidential medical opinions by mail from Buffalo NY.
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Pierce
Golden Medical Discovery
Br. R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
W. D. Merchant
Tylersburg
Clarion Co
Magnificent cake centerpiece at Odd Fellows event
An Odd Fellows gathering showcased a remarkably large cake bedecked in official robes and emblems of Friendship, Love and Truth. The display drew attention as perhaps the city's most magnificent cake of its kind.
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Anna P. Cannon
Impromptu Whirl on Great Western Railcar
Pat, an assistant cook on a Great Western dining car to St Paul, is obstinate and ill tempered, clashing with the chef. While making ice cream the two quarrel, Pat sits in the doorway as the train climbs, and a sudden lurch sends him and the freezer rolling off. He miraculously returns on foot with the freezer, declaring it a miraculous escape with a puzzled remark about the jar.
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Pat
St. Paul
M. Conductaire
Lippincott’s
One Divided by a Half Confuses the Man in the Street
A Kansas City Independent explainer distinguishes two meanings of division by two. One meaning splits a whole into two parts, each a half, while the other expresses how many times two fits into one. The piece notes public confusion and clarifies why the answer is two in the division sense.
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Kansas City Independent
Chipmunks At Work Or Rest In Bad Weather
Chipmunks are described as industrious creatures reacting to rain by quitting work and nesting, and to wind by becoming nervous. They eat while perched, drink by lapping, and groom fur with precise pawing motions, washing their face by rapid fore pawl rubbing.
First Boy I Am Eleven But Sick Held Back
The brief item notes a boy stating he is eleven and should have been twelve, explaining his delay due to illness and school placement. This compact report captures a child’s caretaker perspective and a local education matter.
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