Statewide criminal prosecutions cost exceeds half a million
Secretary of state reports total criminal proceeding costs across counties at 504 040.45 dollars, excluding county attorney salaries of 82 356.26. Woodbury shows 66 086.74 in court costs plus 3 300 for the attorney, Polk county handles 99 sentences versus 37 in Woodbury, suggesting wide variation and potential savings. Other notes mention visiting cards in Corea and Dahomey and a Monogram China fashion trend.
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Precocious child amid elite Chicago boarding house life
A mother in an affluent Chicago boarding house laments that her daughter Dorothy is absorbing adult gossip from morning gatherings of women. She fears the child will miss a true childhood filled with home joys like baking, candy pulls, and cozy family moments.
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Princess Victoria of Capua Dies After Wild-Horse Habit
Princess Victoria of Capua, daughter of the Naples king’s brother, died after a life lived largely in seclusion at a Lucca area château. Known as Diana by locals, she broke in wild horses and drove a four-in-hand through rugged passes with noted resolve. Her mother, an Irish beauty, wed the Naples heir but declined court life. Victoria’s brother suffered madness toward women, leading to high castle walls.
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The Silk Hat and the Twin News in Alexandria
A moneyed Alexandria man clings to a cherished silk hat and resists expense. He alternates hats, wearing the aged silk on Sundays while a rough weekday cap marks economy. The couple’s visit brings twins, a boy and a girl, prompting the father to declare, with humor, that he will wear the hat daily now.
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Woman and Marriage in It: Changing Bachelor Tide
The Saturday Review notes women with daughters face difficulty finding husbands unless well endowed with beauty or money. Eligible bachelors delay marriage, seeking landed wealth or freedom. Women, empowered by education and work, increasingly seek self choice, often rejecting suitors to gain more from marriage.
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Great Want of Ireland the Crying Need
Washington Post quotes Hugh Carrington of Boston who visited Ireland describing the need for modern tourist hotels in Ireland. He notes scenic beauty and suggests railroads could profit from investments in public inns and hotel infrastructure to attract yearly travel, drawing a contrast with Scotland’s well developed hostels.
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Polka origins traced to Haniczka Selezka in Prague
The Etude cites Haniczka Selezka, a Bohemian peasant girl from Cos telec on the Elbe, as the inventor of the polka. In 1830 she danced a solo at a farmhouse, naming it pulku then polka, spreading to Prague by 1830, Vienna by 1839, and Paris a year later, with she and her descendants noted.
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Spade Evidence Shifts on Queen of Sheba and Indiana Ship
Prof Sayce declares beyond doubt there was a Queen of Sheba and a plausible origin region, aided by a fragmentary crockery test. The Indiana battleship is praised as the steadies vessel in rough seas, signaling renewed American naval leadership after past doubts about U S shipyards. A Washington Star quote recalls a town incident involving a counterfeit $36 pill for a gold brick.
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Silas Caibin
Washington Star
Parson Scolds Wife Over Surprise In Bloomers
The parson bent over his desk preparing a Sunday sermon when his wife entered wearing bloomers for the first time. She asked if they were on straight and how they looked. He replied with a blunt moral rebuke about deeds left undone and things done that should not have been. The humorous anecdote ends with a Truth quotation.
Who writes the Owensboro Messenger editorials today
The Louisville Courier Journal questions the identity of Owensboro Messenger editors and cites rumors about who is Josephus Ares Orangeblossom Woodson, presenting a puzzle about editorial authorship and local journalism.
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Thirteen Kisses Echoed in Midnight Doorway
A brief scene unfolds as a man named George and a woman share a late night moment at eleven in the doorway. She muses that thirteen is unlucky while he remarks on their kiss count, hinting at a lingering tension or romance.
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Nothing to Be Ashamed Of Gotham Girl
A dialogue contrasts Boston and New England views on ancestral belief in witches with a playful term ayonotism referenced by the Boston speaker. The exchange highlights regional attitudes toward heritage and superstition without endorsing or condemning past beliefs.
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