Wantagh Cow War Ends In Lone Hunter Kill
A wild Wantagh cow terrorized residents for months, defying Landlord Smith’s efforts to tame her. Norris Cleeks tracked, killed the animal with a double barreled shotgun, and claimed a $10 reward. The town then resumed normal life with children safely in school.
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Wantagh
N. Y
Smith
S. Smith
Wantagh Village
Norris Creeks
Cleeks
Jones
New York World
Missing Word Contest Sparks Guessing Frenzy
Young Snooks on the way to visit his beloved loses a new hat under a cab wheel. Our office boy offers £1,000,000 to anyone who can guess the exact words he is saying. Nuggets.
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Snooks
A Strange Case at the Doctor’s Visit
A Young Doctor visits a patient’s brother and finds him no better despite a yesterday prescription with over 40 different things. The exchange comes from the New York Weekly.
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New York Weekly
Doing Good Exhorter and Man With Horrible Tie
A brief Cincinnati Enquirer excerpt shows two men debating charity with the exhorter urging others to do good deeds and one man adding a blunt, perhaps shocking remark. The tone hints at public concern and local social commentary.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Fog and Muse in a Punch Verse Fragment
A humorous note on writer’s block and artistic dullness. The speaker confesses a foggy brain and waning mirth, admitting a dislike for the mist that dulls inspiration and leaves him inclined to weep, amid Punch style wit.
Old Lady In City Taxi Confusion
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a hack driver who ferried an elderly country woman around the city. He waited two hours outside the station and later learned she boarded a late train, prompting police contact and reflections on his lost fare.
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Hackman
Detroit Free Press
Florence Nightingale Opens Door to Care at Scutari
In the Cornhill Magazine account Nightingale arrives at ScutariHospital and inspires swift reforms. Women organize a great kitchen and laundry, provide well cooked food and cleanliness, and outrun slow officials to supply stores to sick men, breaking red tape with decisive action.
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Florence Nightingale
Scutari Hospital
Inkerman
Sevastopol
Commissariat
England
Cornhill Magazine
A Practice That Made Perfect With Six Dried Peas
The piece describes Leschetizky’s teaching anecdote shared by Cleveland Moffett in The Ladies' Home Journal. He had a pupil place six dried peas on the piano rack and move them to his pocket after each flawless run, resetting to six if a single mistake occurred.
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Leschetizky
Cleveland Moffett
Ladies’ Home Journal
Lord Kelburne’s Witty Comeback in Scottish Campaign
In 1840s Scotland Lord Kelburne faced heckling at meetings from a member of the black squad. After a sharp taunt about his future duties if elected, he quipped Soap, you airty rascal, turning the moment with a crisp comeback that showcased parliamentary grit.
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Scotland
Lord Glasgow
Buteshire
Lord Kelburne
Greenock
Black Squad
Heckler
London Chronicle
Royal navy colors chosen by accidental meeting in 1748
In 1748 George II met the Duchess of Bedford on horseback wearing a blue riding habit with white trim. He praised the look and ordered adoption of blue and white for the royal navy. No gazette or admiralty record confirms the regulation, though a 1757 entry hints at it.
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George II
Duchess of Bedford
Royal Navy
Admiralty
Journal of Archaological Association
English breach of promise cases mock women in courts
Judges and juries in English courts of law laugh at actions for breach of promise of marriage brought against women. Ver dicts have been had against such promise breakers, but the damages, as a rule, were a farthing, and so did not carry cost, each side paying its own.
Commodore John W. Philip to Lead Brooklyn Navy Yard
Commodore John W. Philip is expected to take charge of the Brooklyn Navy Yard, succeeding Rear Admiral Bunce. A veteran of the Civil War era, Philip earned promotion for gallant service off Santiago and commanded the battleship Texas in 1897.
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Navy Department
John W. Philip
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Bunce
Philip
Santiago
Cervera
Navy
Smallest Man In House John L Burnett of Alabama
Representative elect John L Burnett of Gadsden Alabama, who will succeed Milford W Howard the Populist, is described as the smallest man in the next house yet a capable lawyer known as the Jack of Spades. A tale from Alabama judges recounts him shrinking behind a high bench during a state supreme court argument.
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John L. Burnett
Gadsden
Ala
Milford W. Howard
Alabama
Supreme Court of
Burnett
High Beach
Washington Post
Virginia Fair to Wed William K Vanderbilt Jr
Miss Virginia Fair about 26 to marry William K Vanderbilt Jr 19, Harvard class of 1901. He is son of William K Vanderbilt Sr and Mrs HL Belmont formerly Mrs Vanderbilt. the match would add to the wealth concentration as Miss Fair possesses several millions and Vanderbilt Sr is among the nation’s richest men. Virginia Fair has been a favorite in New York society since joining her sister Mrs Herman Oelrichs’s circle of Newport fashionables.
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Virginia Fair
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
William K. Vanderbilt, Sr
HL P. Belmont
William K. Vanderbilt
Miss Fair
Vanderbilt
Herman Oelrichs
New York
Newport
The Best Educated Queen of Europe
The article lauds Queen Marguerite of Italy as Europe’s most educated monarch. It notes her fluency in German French English Spanish and Italian and her scholarship in Latin Greek theology geology and botany. It adds she authored a personal booklet on Shakespeare’s heroines and is versed in Ruskin Darwin and broader European literature.
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Italy
Europe
Marguerite
Ruskin
Darwin
Mrs Ingersoll Fund Aids the Needy in Home Room
Ingersoll household runs a room where the poor receive medicines and bandages. The New York correspondent notes Colonel Professor Ingersoll’s enduring public profile and his wife Mrs Ingersoll presides over the aid space, highlighting a charitable example amid his agnostic stance.
Mrs. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone Remembered In Michigan Clubs
Mrs. Lucinda Hinsdale Stone aged 84, hailed as The Mother of Clubs In Michigan and honorary president of the Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs, remains intellectually bright and active.
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Lucinda Hinsdale Stone
Michigan
Michigan State Federation of Women's Clubs
Apples as Medicine and Health Facts From The Family Doctor
The excerpt extols apples as nutritious containing phosphorus and various acids that aid brain and liver function. It cites remedies for sedentary lifestyles and digestive ease, notes malic acid neutralizes chalky matter from meat, and claims ripe apples aid digestion in about 85 minutes. It ends with anecdotal remedies for eye discomfort and a curious old pairing ritual.
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Gerard
Ink Recipe From 1658 Sells Through Time Tested Quality
A New York librarian recalls a 1658 ink recipe found in old manuscripts. Rainwater, bruised galls, copperas, gum arabic mix into a durable ink with sun exposure and daily shaking. The writer notes adding carbolic acid prevents mold without harming the ink’s quality.
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New York
Washington Star
Far Western Colleges and Pacific Academic Aspirations
Mabie comments in The Atlantic framing The Far Western Colleges as a type of established institution. He notes Colorado College’s solid foundation and growing endowment while highlighting the University of California Stanford Whitman College and other Pacific coast schools as expressions of communities’ spiritual educational aspirations amid material challenges.
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Colorado College
Far Western College
Hamton W. Mabie
Atlantic
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
University of California
Leland Stanford University
Whitman College
Diamond Willow Described By Forester Expert
A writer notes a willow along the Missouri River from the Great Namaha mouth to Yellowstone north, known as diamond willow. Professor Sargent names it Salix cordata vestita. It is durable for underground uses like posts, similar to red cedar, and was known to Northern Indians who call it twat meaning durable. It grows from cuttings in its natural habitat or on prairie uplands.
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The
Forester
Missouri River
Great Namaha
Yellowstone
Sargent
Misfortune Myths and Early Immunology Notes
A passage notes a New Year sneeze superstition in Chinese culture advising seeking cakes from three clans with different surnames to avert misfortune. It then reports M. Richet’s finding that gradual blood exposure can vaccinate animals against poison, enabling them to resist lethal doses. It also outlines France's territorial structure from cantons to arrondissements and departments.
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M. Richet
West Point Chain Sold Piece by Piece by New York Junk Dealer
A New York junk dealer buys pieces of the historic West Point chain that stretched across the Hudson to bar British ships. Abram Hewitt bought 18 links for use as lawn decorations at his Greenwood Lake home, while other links have been exhibited or sold to groups such as Libby Prison association in Chicago.
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New York
Hudson
Abram
Hewitt
Greenwood Lake
New Jersey
Libby Prison Association
Chicago
Westminster Abbey
Abbey
Brooklyn Navy Yard
West Point
Steamboat Landing
Constitution Landing
Islar
Thatcher
Lossing
Sterling
Long
Orange County
Peter Townsend
Chester
Sterling Ironworks
Benedict Arnold
Andre
O. J. Bowpen
Traveling Prince Shoa-u-Sultanah Malik Mirza Visits Europe
The 20 year old Persian prince, son of Muzafied-din-Shah, travels through Berlin Brussels and Paris with plans toward England. He has held army ranks up to colonel and serves as adjutant to his father. He speaks French well and plays piano and violin. He and his physician Dr Khalil Khan, who accompanies him, seek a full cure for a nervous disease. The German emperor awarded him the Red Eagle first class.
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Shah of
Persia
Europe
England
America
Shoa-u-Sultanah Malik Mirza
Tabriz
Tabali-Shah
Shoa-U-Sultanah
Kajar
Shah Naser-ed-Din
Muzafied-din-Shah
Khalil Khan
Berlin
Brussels
Paris
London
Prussia
Actions Versus Words in a Chicago Tribune Snippet
Dialogue contrasts Jimmy’s sister’s affections for two suitors. Hankinson wins with sweet talk while Spoonamore brings candy. she ultimately plans to marry Pedancle after a theater outing in a horse-drawn carriage.
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Johnny
Mr. Hankinson
Mr. Spoonamore
Spoonamore
Pedancle
Kerridge
Chicago Tribune
Sailor's Daughter Captures Washington Society Attention
Miss Ethel Sigsbee youngest daughter of Captain Charles D. Sigsbee, who commanded the Maine at Havana, attracts attention in Washington society this winter with several brilliant receptions for her coming out. She is described as tall, blonde, graceful with refined bearing, of Maryland descent through her mother, and possesses a fine musical voice to be cultivated.
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Washington
Ethel Sigsbee
Charles D. Sigsbee
Maine
Havana Harbor
Sigsbee
Miss Sigsbee
Maryland
General Lockwood
Sigebee
Tobacco Under Cover Experiment in Tampa
The Baltimore Sun reports success in growing tobacco under cover in Tampa Florida. An acre plus per patch is sheltered by a framework and cheese cloth. Nine acres under cultivation protect from heavy rains and winds, yielding beautiful wrapper leaves and a fine filler.
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Tampa
Fla
Baltimore Sun
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