Moosehead dairyman milks wild cow moose for breakfast
In a Moosehead tale, Daisyman Annance slips from camp at dusk to milk a cow moose at a lakeside, filling a pail with rich milk kept in the water overnight. The feat earns him the nickname "the dairyman" among locals and sportsmen in the Ton Lewis ton Journal account.
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Aake
Tory
Sham
Isaic da
Annance
Amance
Moosehead
Charles Annance
Lewiston
Wind winds a clock and perpetual timekeeper by draft
A Belgian inventor, described by the St. Louis Republic, builds a perpetual timekeeper where a wind driven fan winds a running weight. The device uses natural updraft through a chimney, with a brake system on the winding wheel and a pawl to prevent reverse motion.
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Belgium
St. Louis Republic
Sailor recalls near whale encounter like Jonah tale
An old sailor compares a close call with a whale to the Jonah story. He says two years ago his crew struck, the whale sank briefly, then surfaced with jaws on opposite sides of their boat. He escaped by leaping to another vessel.
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Pve
Jonah
N& Man
San Francisco Examiner
Upper Story Rooms for Let Noted in Odd Exchange
Fragment from a gossip exchange mentions Mrs. Fangle and Mr. Goslin discussing securing a room for the second floor. A ceiling line about looking for a shed or binder hints at lodging and occupancy. The dialogue style reflects a domestic curiosity about upper story space and tenants.
Not So Much Spare Money Mining Stocks Comment
A financial remark notes reduced speculation in mining stocks on Wall Street not due to less gold and silver but because less cash is available on the east side of the Mississippi River. The speaker attributes liquidity shifts to regional money movement rather than mining output.
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Wall Street
Mississippi
The Marriage Tie Expounded by Marion Harland
A Harper's Bazar essay argues a self chosen marriage can fail when personal happiness governs decisions. The speaker cites marrying at eighteen to a fifty year old model husband to avoid wasting youth as sinful and concludes a divorce was justified on incompatible feelings and aims.
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Marion Harland
Harper’s Bazar
Tapers At The Old Boar Create Animal Voice Contest
In the Old Boar tavern a group of tapers offered ten bottles of wine to the man who could best imitate animal sounds. After a round of neighs croaks grunts quacks and howls one man stays silent and then proclaims that he mimicked a fish. The room erupts in laughter as Kalender records the event.
Prosperous Negroes in Creek Nation After War
The Creek Indians owned about 600 enslaved people when the war ended. Freed, they faced expulsion but the government made them citizens with full rights. They endured mistreatment, then gained pro rata land shares as lands were divided. Population grew to about 2,000 with stable families. Source: New York Advertiser.
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New York Advertiser
Origin of an Expression Traced by Mr McElroy
Mr McElroy recounts defining a Mugwump as a person educated beyond his intellect. He cites a New York World note and a line from Matthew Arnold on translating Homer. The anecdote links the term to a quip about a duke remarking a peer’s education outpaced his abilities.
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McElroy
Burt
Matthew Arnold
Duke of Wellington
New York World
Searching for the chicken’s gold feeding grounds
Mr R T Limbrie of Washington county Oregon found a pea sized piece of pure gold in a chicken’s gizzard. He is hunting the chicken’s feeding grounds and contemplates assaying the entire barnyard company.
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R. T. Lmbrie
Washington County
New York Sun
It Wouldn't Pay Foolish Shootings Mentioned
A Buffalo Express clipping notes a North Carolina boy who used a makeshift gun of a brass tube to shoot at birds and killed himself. The piece expresses no sympathy for the boy's parents.
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North Carolina
Buffalo Express
Dust Destructor Converts London rubbish to clinker
The Dust Destructor process in London converts daily rubbish into clinker with simple machinery. Cinder is ground into foundation material for roads, pavement, mortar, and imitation stone. In Battersea parish homes and shops now use this clinker. deaths fell from eighteen to eleven, improving sanitation.
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London
Battersea
New York Commercial Advertiser
A Rugby School Routine as Told by a Lower Middle Student
A Wilmington News excerpt quotes a Lower Middle pupil detailing a day at Rugby. The schedule runs from 6:15 wake bell to 9:00 lights out with chapel, lessons, meals, and limited leisure. He notes strict discipline and the threat of punishments for laziness or misbehavior.
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E. L. Wakeman
Wilmington News
The Sargossa Sea A Curious Atlantic Weed Field
The Sargossa Sea lies in the Atlantic midway between Europe and America from 21 to 23 N and 9 to 45 W. It is named for grape shaped air cells in its floating seaweeds which have no roots and reproduce by division. The eddying region hosts vast weed masses once noticed by Columbus and seen along the Gull Stream.
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Sargossa Sea
Atlantic
Europe
America
Columbus
St. Louis
Globe-Deiocrit
Expensive Laugh Over Sandusky Request Told by Railroad Man
An Indianapolis News account recalls Senator Brice pressing two Vanderbilts in Sandusky, enraged by their laughter. Brice warned that their father had paid dearly and, within a month, secured the desired arrangements.
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Senator Brice
Brice
Sandusky
Indianapolis News
Overshoe Troubles Reflect Women's Subtle Struggles
A Boston Commonwealth note humorously observes that a young woman bearing a muddy overshoe shows relief at removing it despite frustration from ruined glove and boot. The piece hints at unspoken thoughts women hold as misfitting footwear complicates daily tasks.
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Boston Commonwealth
Nineteen New York Babies Named After Columbus Week
Framing a patriotic tribute, nineteen New York infants were christened with Columbus related names in the week after the holiday celebration. The names reflect a civic sentiment and local customs honoring the explorer during the observed period.
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New York
Columbus
California Beauty Compared to New York Standards in 19th Century Study
San Francisco Argonaut reports on a comparison of female proportions across California and New York, citing measurements of bust, waist, hips, neck, and shoulders. It discusses head-based height rules, corset use, and fashion ideals, contrasting Bal low, Venus de Medici, Venus of Milo, and Venus Callipuge. The piece includes notes on feet and shoewear, plus a digression from Mark Twain about social precedence at an CIA nor Party.
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Praxiteles
Sargent
Ballow
Call
New Balfornia
York
Law’s
Idea
Ft.In
Ft. In
Flonu Cauadeetes Umanes
New York
Polycletos
Sicyon
Licyon
California
New Yorker
Knights of St. Crispin
San Francisco
CIA
Adam
Mark Twain
Century
The Worthy Novel Declared a Worthy Goal
Donahoe's Magazine praises a worthy novel as one that addresses life’s problems, offers exemplary manly and womanly characters, and provides a natural concrete story of many lives that inspires emulation beyond financial gain.
Depew’s Political Stories End with a Woodchuck
A New York World anecdote recounts a Peekskill teacher testing three pupils on party loyalty. Tom defends Republicans for war gains and reforms, the Prohibitionist cites prisons and poorhouses to argue for prohibition, and Sam simply says he is a Democrat to get the woodchuck.
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Depew
Chauncey M. Depew
Peekskill
Tom
Jim
Sam
New York World
Meral in Doubt As Cape Is Set Ablaze On Park Row
A young woman wearing a velvet double deck cape on Park Row on Friday was grabbed by two men who panicked her as they tugged at the cape thinking it was being stolen. They warned her, then explained the garment bore a burn hole from a stray cigar embers. The incident ended with her continuing on, the damaged cape hidden.
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Meral
Park Row
New York Times
Millennium plate sparks laughter from antique collector
A New York Times item quotes a fervent antique collector who found a millennium plate over a hundred years old in the Connecticut valley. The ware features a mulberry hue eye of God on the rim, a lamb and lion with a child, and a comical lion grin, illustrating evolving ceramic art.
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Connecticut Valley
New York Times
Eternal Sacred Fire of Abeheron Persisting for Millenniums
A description from the Philadelphia Press notes a perpetual sacred fire on the Abeheron peninsula, formerly Persian and now Russian, burning for over 2,000 years. The fire vents from a 12-foot-deep, 120-foot-square opening, with flames 6 to 8 feet high and no smoke or odor, dancing with the wind like ripe grain.
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Abeheron
Persia
Russia
Philadelphia Press
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Hoosac Tunnel
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Rochester
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Hamilton
Toronto
Clevelan
Detroit
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Points West
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Canada
Rutlan
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Burlin
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St. Johns
Ogdensburg
Otto Montreal
Quebec
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Fitchburg Railroad
Washington Street
J. R. Watson
R. A. Guernsey
Houghton
E. F. Worcester
Hudson
W. W. Wilder
Wilder
Green Street
CUNEO
Vanety of
Town Hall
Main Street
T. J. Fuyat
T. J Fuyat
Mass
Houvsgon
Henry Skinner
T. J. Fugat
Henry Bkinner
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