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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Mar 07, 1895
Page
6
Red Rube overpowers the governor with a knife demanding a pardon and $100. The governor reluctantly signs a pardon form and agrees not to reveal the deal, enabling the robber to escape toward the west. The tale ends with Rube’s disappearance and the governor haunted by what happened.
The Boston Globe imagines a future where Berthelot's synthetic chemistry enables foods and drinks to be manufactured in tablet form. Meals could be carried as compact dinners from oysters to crackers with wine and tobacco included, yet such a world would strip taste, wit, and imagination from life.
A clipping quotes London Judy lampooning modern newspapers for trivial and odd sensational items. It lists claims about coal, herrings, Japan, Water, Lord Rosebery, Waterloo date, Alexander the Great and Xerxes to critique public education and editors.
A London Globe quotation reveals a young woman giving up on a relationship after discovering she would be with a spelling reformer who signed as Jory. The friend asks if he proved unworthy, and the tale notes the name romance being removed by the reform.
A passage quotes Sir B. W. Richardson urging moderation in eating, preferring small, evenly spaced meals and slow chewing. The text contrasts Elizabethan table manners with modern abundance, noting fruit availability and cleaner dining habits as improvements.
The article explains that Chinese medicine values deer horns for their supposed virtue, higher in young horns and rarer with age. It details deer biology, horn growth, velvet shedding, and the stages from tender young horns to aged osseous horns, noting shedding and early collection by foresters and hunters.
A historical overview of Birmingham tramways from 1861 to 1891 detailing municipal authority, land annexation, and the shift from private to city ownership. It explains lease terms, capital recovery, profit for the city, and strict regulatory controls on fares, service standards, and staff duties.
A taxidermist warns that pin quality matters for insect displays. Ordinary brass pins tend to oxidize and damage specimens, while black varnished pins crack and expose metal. Even nickel plated pins are flawed, though newer solid silver pins bronze pins and a nickel aluminium alloy show potential advantages.
Whispered in Paris that a noted poet’s granddaughter and a literary man, son of a famous author, are close to a divorce. The young wife has returned with her baby to her mother, and the incompatibility of temper is cited as the sole cause.
The account recalls Faure as a leading adviser in Havre and a brave firefighter during the 1871 Paris fires. He raised volunteers, led them to Paris, fought the flames for three days without rest, and never faltered. His actions earned him praise and later elected office.
The article explains methods to reveal plant growth visually and audibly. A platinum wire attached to the growing tip traces growth on paper via a clockwork drum, and a variation uses platinum foils and a galvanic circuit to make a bell ring as the plant grows.
In a Detroit Tribune piece a sword swallower and a glass eater debate foreign dishes in a vivid tavern scene. A human salamander drinks imported red fire with gasoline, while remarks about global religious observances hint at early church orders.
Readable notes say some small bronze images of Chinese deities are believed to date back about two millennia before Christ. The claim emphasizes ancient origin and scholarly debate over exact dating.
In Cornhill Magazine a lively anecdote portrays Mme Malibran at rehearsals for Romeo and Juliet, her indecision about where to die provoking laughter as footmen carry off a pair. John Templeton endures her mischief while she teases him about acting and tickles him during Somnambula.
A New Orleans Picayune item recalls a teacher who defined civilization as food clothing and shelter. When asked the third necessity a child replied a wife, leaving whether punishment followed unspecified.
Mrs. Nichols of Prospect reports that Adelaide in South Australia has granted adult suffrage giving women equal voting rights and no barrier to parliamentary seats. The bill awaits the queen's consent, described as a grand victory after seven years of struggle.
A fragmentary verse sequence evokes nightfall camp shadows and a knightly reverie. Names Delphine Lisette Annette appear in a dreamy refrain as the narrator contemplates sleep and a lady’s approach. The piece ends with the attribution Thomas Bailey Aldrich.
The article recounts Kirkstall Abbey in Leeds as a unified set of Norman era buildings, likely by one workshop and die, with its abbey mausoleum for the founder and his son. It traces ownership through Henry VIII to Cranmer, Edward VI, Elizabeth I, private hands, Howley Hall, Cardigans, and ultimately Colonel J. T. North who gifted it to Leeds in 1889.
The Pikeman wore iron armor with headpiece back and breast plates and iron tasset protecting from waist to knee. He bore a 16 foot pike with ash shaft iron head and butt spike and carried a rapier. The long pike demanded deft handling and showed off in parade. instructions for its use are minute and precise.
A Washington Star note recalls beliefs about centipeds as omens. A friend staying in Buenos Aires found eight large centipeds in his room. After killing them, the landlady mourned, saying their destruction would remove all good luck for eight years.
A passage from the Chicago Record contrasts a traveler's impatience with a cabman's profit motive. The cabman estimates two miles to the Northwestern stations while the man with the valise laments missing a train and prefers a streetcar for the next departure.
The article explains that gold shipped across the Atlantic is packed in stout kegs and tightly pressed. Despite careful packing a regular allowance for loss by attrition exists, and over years this loss to the commercial world amounts to a substantial sum.
The article explains that stones once claimed as gems in the toad heads are actually fossil teeth from the sea wolf, clarifying a longstanding misidentification.
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