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Newspaper
Defiance County Express
Location
Defiance, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Jul 29, 1886
Page
3
After Many Years and a Fatal Fire
A New England editor recalls a hidden romance with Janet the author. A crash of fire exposes a selfless savior, Janet, who dies saving a child, while editor Charles Harris confronts decades of love, loss, and the truth of Janet's life. Rosamond Clyde remains his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlie
Janet
Louie
New England
Lily-bud
Ned
Lily
India
Charles Harris
Rosamond Clyde
Rosamond
Chicago Ledger
Yucca Plant Becomes Global Newspaper Paper
In deserts of New Mexico and Arizona a goblin tree called Yucca yields fiber for paper. The London Telegraph bought an Arizona plantation to cultivate Yucca for papermaking, turning the plant into a world industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Mexico
Arizona
London Telegraph
Telegraph
St. Nicholas
Boston Women Club Scene Sparks Talk of Change
The Boston club landscape for women grows diverse with Radical Club focusing on intellect, Women's Club on suffrage, and the Meta physical Club pursuing culture of the spirit, influenced by theosophy and ethics, while reviewers note many marriages and divorces among Boston women in a single year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Deepest Prussian Coal Shaft Reported at Schladebach
A Booline made by the Prussian Government at Schladebach in search of coal is said to be the deepest in the world. Its depth is 4,560 feet and its breadth at the bottom two inches and at the top eleven inches. The temperature at the bottom is 118 degrees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schladebach
Capuchin Burial Crypts Awe and Intrigue in Rome
The New York Star details a Rome visit to the Capuchin burial sites under a church. Monks lie in niche alcoves built from their bones, with bone chandeliers and grotesque yet decorative décor. A rotating system moves oldest into new niches as others decay, in a sacred earth crypt said to be holy ground from Jerusalem.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rome
St. Michael
Guido
Cemetery of the Brethren
Capuchins
Jerusalem
New York Potter's Field Hart's Island Cemetery History
Hart's Island has become a populated burial ground for New York City's poor and war dead. The site evolved from a Civil War camping ground with barracks and a soldiers' cemetery to a major morgue linked by the Fidelity steamer route from Twenty-sixth Street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brand Lunatic Asylum
Hart’s Island
New York Star
New York
Washington Square
Ward's Island
City Insane Asylum
Homeopathic Hospital
Potter's Field
Fidelity
Twenty-sixth Street
East River
Hart's Island
Spontaneous Combustion Lesson in a Saloon
In a saloon Jack Wiegand and Charley Jones wager about spontaneous combustion. A traveling tramp demonstrates by blowing on a damp handkerchief to ignite and burn it, then repeats with a match head, earning four silver dollars and provoking astonished agreement on the science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jack Wiegand
Charley Jones
Charley
Jack
Jones
Wiegand
Real estate deal inducers warn against quick oil gas scams
A Dakota settler recounts a son’s plan to dig a 50-foot well and chase oil and gas profits. The tale mocks get rich quick schemes, warning that honest dealing beats flashy speculation as the father disapproves of risky, rapid profits and scathing schemes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dakota
Territory
William
Iowa
Wisconsin
New York
Bill
Estelline Bell
Mock No Man for His Snub Nose Proverb
A terse aphorism warns against mocking someone’s snub nose as fortune can flip unexpectedly. It reflects caution in social behavior and humility in dealing with others.
Fleecing Americans a tale of vanity and graft abroad
The piece recalls European schemes to swindle wealthy Americans and a Naples oculist who overcharges a visitor, followed by a Mackay portrait anecdote and Cherryvale praise, then describes how Indigenous peoples made sugar in Canada by tapping maples with tomahawks and boiling sap in birch bark vessels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meissonier
Mlle
Thomas Conant
Canada
Toronto Globe
Chess and Life Parable in a Newspaper Note
A Noah's Times essay uses chess as a metaphor for life with death as the final checkmate. The author maps pieces to fate, accidents, epidemics, and diseases, urging protection of health and virtue to delay demise and preserve happiness and strength.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Death
E. C
Kansas Girls Of Cherry Vale Proclaimed In Pleasant Prose
A Minneapolis Tribune correspondent lauds Cherry Vale Kansas for its fertile cornfields and happy people. The piece extols Kansas women as plump coy healthy and independent and hints at a region where female loveliness seems crystallized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cherry Vale
Kansas
Minneapolis Tribune
Bunyan and Bunhill Fields a Seemingly Simple Grave Tale
The piece recalls Catherine Cole a noted Southern literary figure recounting a Jumbo Zoo fright and a stroll through Bunhill Fields Cemetery in London. It notes Bunhill as the nonconformist burial ground near City Road, the bone-filled origin of its name, 124000 sleepers, and John Bunyan as its famed grave site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Catherine Cole
South
New York Mail
Express
England
Zoological Gardens
London
City Road
Wesley
Bunhill Fields
Southey
Campo Santo
St. Paul’s
Bonehill
Church of England
John Bunyan
Monument to John Bunyan Erected by Public Subscription
Troy Times notes a 1862 monument to John Bunyan in sarcophagus form with a recumbent statue and scenes of Christian's journey. It honors the Bedford Jail dreamer, his Pilgrim's Progress, and Bunyan’s legacy across languages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earl of Shaftesbury
Bunyan
Christian
John Bunyan
Pilgrim’s Progress
Bedford
Celestial City
Troy Times
Fare Dispute Reveals Time Warp Passenger Tale
In a New Haven News vignette a Westville car conductor asks an elderly man for fare. The man claims payment at Fair Haven earlier, but the conductor disputes the timing. The man confesses he was the little boy who boarded at Fair Haven, prompting a humorous, surreal exchange.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Westville
Fair Haven
New Haven
When an Extravagant Friend Borrows Money Consider Loss
A quip advising prudence in lending to a spendthrift friend. It contrasts two loss scenarios and urges choosing the smaller risk. The line reads like a moral aphorism from a social column and reflects caution in financial dealings among acquaintances.
Scorpions Terrify Durango as Stings Prove Fatal
The Boston Courier notes scorpions are widespread in Durango and in walls and clothing. The bites can be fatal to children and severe for adults, with some cases ending in convulsions and dropsy-like swelling. Remedies include brandy and ammonia. rewards exist for tail collection. Betsy traps them with thread lassos and sends samples to northern researchers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Durango
Betsy
Boston Courier
A Schoolgirl’s Direct Essay Sparked by Aestheticism
A Boston Record note mocks writers with empty pretensions as a high school girl writes on aestheticism saying she has nothing to say yet proceeds to say it. The aside questions the value of essays with little knowledge.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston Record
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Abbie C. M. Keever
Europe
Naples
John W. Mackay
Cabanel
Elysium
Cherryvale
Scorpions
Mexico
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