Mystery of Roger Davenant on Genesee Valley Road
A 19th century Genesee Valley tale recounts Roger Davenant a Yale graduate whose mind collapses after Christmas 1825 while visiting his fiancée Gertrude Carruth. Despite years of wandering mute and unaware he dies with his memory briefly returning at last, leaving the mystery of his fate unsolved and debated by locals and physicians.
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Dauphin
Louis XVI
France
Junius
Connecticut
Genesee Valley
Roger Davenant
Roger
Wallingford
Isaiah
New York
Isaiah Davenant
Yale
Genesee
Corruth
Gertrude
Carruth
Davenant House
Ruth
Dovenant
Carruth’s
Gertrude Carruth
Mysterious herring shoals reappear on Norwegian coast
Perplexed zoologists note enormous shoals of herring returning to a northwest Norway point where they vanished twenty five years ago. The San Francisco Examiner quotes opinions on widow inheritance laws and remarriage.
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Zoo Oeists
Norway
San Francisco Examiner
Reminiscences of Public Men and Draft Frauds
The piece recounts 1864 draught evasions via uncredited veterans and con men profiting from paper credits in Washington. It notes Lincoln’s call for 500,000 and Stan ton’s order to accept only actual volunteers. It also chronicles Charles Sumner’s later years, political trials, and a humorous anecdote about a New York senator’s mischievous nose incident.
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Abraham Lincoln
Washington
Congress
Straightway
Union
Alexandria
Quartermaster’s Department
Chase
Gov. Seward
Stanton
Charles Sumner
Republican Party
Gen. Grant
Senate
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Massachusetts
Sumner
Earth
Lincoln
Seward
Fessenden
Stevens
Hale
Freedom
Thurlow Weed
New York
Albany
Bouck
Defiance County
Chas
Charles E. Bronson
Quico
N. W. Cer
Clinton
Rigorous cavalry enlistment tests for one in thirty
A new recruit explains that army entry is selective with only about one in thirty applicants passing. He details mental and physical exams, including eyesight and hearing tests, and stress that long service yields savings, extra pay, and post discharge benefits. Many enlistees are educated and later invest in land.
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United States Army
New York Mail and Express
Impurities Make Gold Copper Alloy Brittle in Experiments
An experiment shows minute lead additions to gold copper alloy cause orange brown color change and strength drop from eighteen to five tons per square inch. A tin bar rubbed with quicksilver becomes soft and breaks, its fracture surface turning white like silver, as discussed in Youth's Companion.
Why Uncle Mose Got Fat
A Texas Siblings cartoon features Rev. Baxter chastising Mose for spiritual leanness while Mose explains his weight gain. He says he leans on the Lord only to squirrel away fat, joking that the preacher provides religion and he fattens himself.
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Mose
Whangdoodle Baxter
Job
Turkey
Texas
The Sunday School Lesson on Exodus Commandments
Rev J M Coon leads a Chicago Standard lesson from Exodus 20 12 21. He argues grace under law and outlines duties to God and to man through the Ten Commandments, stressing heart intent, love, and the gospel replacing ritual in guiding conduct.
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Chicago Standard
J. M. Coon
Place
Mount Sinai
Cowles
Sinai
Moses
Jesus Christ
Christ
Jesus
Prof
Harper
God
Isa
A Philosopher by Moses Joke in Court
Riley Watkins sued Bull McGammon for alienation of affection after catching McGammon kissing Mrs. Watkins in his kitchen. When asked what he did, Watkins said he was so full of laugh he could not do a darned thing. The judge dismissed the case with a quip about a philosopher by Moses.
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Riley Watkins
Bull McGammon
Mr. Gammon
Moses
Lewisville
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Chile
Indianapolis Journal
Mystery BY the Genesee
James Franklin Filts
Ben. Perley Poore
Uncle Sams Cavalry
Philosopher
L.E. Beardsley
Deatrick
L. E. Beardsley
Mays
Defiance, Ohio
Baltimore Bakery
R. Brown
Baker and
Corner Forth
Clinton Sts
Corwin &Kiser
Eureka
Corwin & Kiser
Perry Street
Bet
Defiance
T. Sutphen
J. H. Bevington
M. B. Cameron
John W. Winn
Henry Wonderly
W.T. Hill
John Dowe
Wight
F. J. Cleammer
David Miller
J. Sheets
Fred Schultz
Albert Gerry
B. W. Slagle
W.F. Coughanour
C. E. Bereaw
Common Pleas
Kate Hoover
Tiedeman Block
S. D. Potters
D.D.S Dental
Post Omece
H. DR. Harris
J. P
Cameron, Harris & Cameron
Stone Front
Defiance National Bank
W. D. Hill
W. H. Hubbard
HILL
H. G. Baker
Preisendorfer’s
Henry Hardy
Ttorney
Councellor
Wolseffer
Milton Beb Orcutt
Wertheimer
Court House
Ohio
W. C. Travis
Morse’s
First Streets
Defianece
LAW
Kittners
Deflance
Frank W. Knapp
Atos
Buffington
J.I. Hale
Ohto
Word
Karst & Tenzen
Wabash Depot
The
Farmers of Defiance Co
Fancy Steam Dye Works
Peter Dickman
Burgland & Shead
North
Dickman
Mackinac
Palace
Detroit
Mackinac Island
Ignace
Ctrebo
Alpena
Clarvieville
Oscoda
Sanach
Port Huron
St. Clair
Oakland House
Marine City
Cleveland
E. B. Whitcomb
Detroit & Cleveland
Moeny
Beagrave & Brother
Madison Street
Toledo, O
J. L. Scott
VrraLize
Jno.f. Deatrick& Son
Clinton and
Third Sts
Rt Bameace A
General Neval Fire
LL Mosses
TE Oldfst Insurance Agency
Hoffman Bros
Undertakers
Opera House
Travis
I.jorse’sry
City of
Defiane
Kuhn Bros
Elias Bates
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