The Noctambule tale of Ninon de Lenclos ends in tragedy
A London style legend recounts Ninon de Lenclos meeting a mysterious old man named Noctambule who offers eternal beauty in exchange for signing a tablet. He vows she will be the fifth among famed beauties, then reveals a doom three days later ending in her death by strangulation.
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Ninon de Lenclos
Ninon
Mademoiselle Palone
Mlle. de Leuclos
Mademoiselle
Fai
Semiramis
Helen
Cleopatra
Diana de Poitiers
Noctambule
Mlle. de Lenlos
Lucifer
Ninae
Onry I
New York
Keokuk Woman Persuades General Schofield to Subscribe
In a Keokuk scene Mrs. Kilbourne delays a wedding to present Major General Schofield to Joe Klein. Klein pleads to have the general join The Gate City subscription, securing weekly and wine. Schofield accepts the $1.50 weekly, changing local news reach. The piece also notes English nonconformist views on Lord Rosebery and horse racing amid Derby talk.
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Keokuk
Gate City
Iowa
Klein
General Schofield
Chicago Times
Lord Rosebery
Cromwell
Lord Protector
Rosebery
Liberal Party
The
Times
Telegraph
New York
San
London Letter
America. She Was Dazzied. Col Moore in Uniform Tale
A humorous anecdote recalls Col Moore of the Everett Piano company, once a Crimean War veteran in Governor Grant’s staff, who inspired a child’s astonished remark upon seeing him in uniform. Separate items discuss gas industry stimulation by electric light and a list of short moral and practical notes from various papers.
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Col. Moore
Everett Piano Company
Colorado
Grant
Boston
New York Commercial Advertiser
Puzzling weight and time riddles from a Pittsburgh Dispatch
A reader discusses simple brain teasers such as a goose weighing 10 pounds plus half its weight needing 20 pounds total. It cites arithmetic and geometry puzzles including a snail climbing a 20 foot pole and a window enlarged without increasing height, noting the trick answers 49 days and 16 days respectively.
Encroachment dispute over brick wall and inch claim
The article details Evans disputing an encroachment by the Law family on Evans property with an inch and a half of brick facade removed. Negotiations failed with a demand of 350 per inch sought by Evans, while the Laws offered 100 per inch. The dispute escalates as workers chip away at the wall and eviction threats arise, with neighbors watching the boiler-yard encroachment.
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van New ‘Avenue
Evans
Law
Man bets $10 he can’t catch moving train at Utica station
A man with long legs chased an eastbound and then a westbound train near Utica, dropping two grips. He finally stopped short of the moving train, then flashed a roll of $10 and issued a boast that nobody could catch it, leaving the crowd unmoved.
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Utica
Boiling Trout From Yellowstone Lake Hot Springs
An expert angler can catch trout in Yellowstone Lake and boil them without removing the fish from the hook. The lake hosts small boiling springs. a fisherman can hook a trout on a rocky ledge and transfer it to a hot spring to boil within half an hour. The claim is supported by about 100 reliable affidavits from local citizens.
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Yellowstone Lake
St. Louis
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Bangor
Samuel J. Randall
Brooklyn Institute
Institute
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England
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United States
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W. A. Haynes & CO
Haynes % Tourtellet
Nason and
Summer Streets
Maynard
Walter A. Wood
the Tighr
Rakes
Goddard
Corning
Waldo Littlefield
West Acton
Cordovan
Douglas
Brockton
Mass
W. Lewe
Patdolenia
Creichton Maztin Arid Tuttle, Jones and Wetherbee
South Acton
C. H. Mead & CO
Weset Acton
Thomas Be. Parker
Parker & Morse
Maynard, Mass
Marlboro Lye
Liberty Street
R. W. Geddes
W. D. Cross & CO
Concord
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Augustus Pletcher
Marlboro Laundry
James Devane
Acton
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