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Newspaper
Concord Enterprise
Location
Concord, Massachusetts, United States of America
Date
Nov 01, 1894
Page
7
A fragment describes a duel where both men removed coats, swords drawn, and after brief posturing, chose a restrained exchange over killing. The scene ends with a suggestion to pause fighting and seek separation, reflecting a tense but controlled confrontation.
Dr. J. M. Rice discusses the school excursion as a learning method gaining popularity in Germany since the 19th century. He notes Salzmann’s early long trips in Schnepfenthal and argues that excursions offer direct contact with nature, geography, history, and the natural sciences, aiding the child’s broad education.
A reflection from a Chicago writer recounts a misprint mixup in a Texas editor’s office. The author tries to clarify Bret Harte as the poet-author, but the editor confuses the name and admits he has never heard of Bret Harte. The anecdote highlights editorial unfamiliarity and daily newsroom pressure.
A brief inspection notes a curious crowd outside a hotel. One figure holds a gas jet under a flame while another urges turning it off, warning not to blow out the gas as the scene unfolds in New York.
Incomplete OCR reads a garbled note referencing Minneapolis and a person named Denson. The text mentions hours and a carol and does not provide a clear event date or concrete details. Further legible text is needed to identify the subject and outcome.
A sermon on social expectations for a groom to endure a wife’s family, endure quarrels, and balance devotion with freedom. It advises listening to abuse with sympathy, liking her friends, and avoiding overt admiration, while navigating public attention and private detachment.
James Payn recalls Hepworth Dixon of The Atheneum and the feared, archly humorous editor’s grip on literary careers. He notes editors’ influence over criticism, Thackeray’s concerns for his daughter, and a dinner mishap that shows Dixon’s formidable presence in Victorian literary circles.
A marauding hawk ripped a chicken’s craw from its body in Lakeland Florida. The craw was cut open, and after the owner’s family performed a surgical operation the craw was sewn up and the bird soaked to restore elasticity. The chicken is described as now one of the healthiest in the yard.
The clipping cites a New York Herald line about a daughter and a footman, mentions the Saracens burning the Alexandrian and Matthew Coryinas libraries, notes Cardinal Ximenes destruction of Koranic and Moorish books, and describes the electric torpedo fish delivering up to 100 shocks in two minutes, with higher power out of water.
Delaware has no state prison and sends state convicts to three county facilities or to the Maryland penitentiary in Baltimore.
The San Jose de Titicaca monoliths include a block carved with a human figure and two others with sun-related designs. Likely deposited by glaciers rather than erected. locals call them wandering stones and date their origin to before contact with Europeans. The engraver remains unknown. In London a dinner party tale follows a man sending a note asking a woman to marry him, but the waiter lacks the pencil to relay the message. The woman secretly answers yes, as the note is delivered.
An American from New Jersey was duped by two Virginians in Holborn who posed as countrymen and held a bundle of spurious notes. After a drink, he handed over all he had and the pair fled with jewels cash and plate. London detectives and New York cable promises follow. A commentary on credulity and fraud notes Monte Carlo scale of swindles. Also a quip about absentmindedness and a brief on coffee to cacao export shift in Ceylon.
A fragment recalls beliefs about paying the dead for the afterlife and origins of the phrase money to burn. It also notes Hussite leader John Ziska who ordered his skin to be tanned into a drum to scare enemies as a final act in his will.
A young man estranged by rich parents seeks marriage to Mary Ann. As doctors fear imminent death, he vows to die unless wed. The father consents, a minister is summoned, and after the ceremony the patient recovers fully. The bride appears unsurprised by the cure.
A fragment from the San Francisco Argonaut recounts Porte Crayon arguing that oysters eight inches across imply mouths eight inches wide. He reasons from known facts that oysters must be eaten whole and that there are eight inch oysters, concluding the universe’s harmony would break without such mouths.
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