Anecdote of Bret Harte and The Luck of Roaring Camp
A Denton Journal account retells Bret Harte's early fame with The Luck of Roaring Camp. Readers protested the story, the editor urged publication, and the tale sparked furious editor-reader dynamics, boosting the magazine’s fortunes and Harte’s standing. A second anecdote follows Thurston’s Nebraska campaign and a dramatic post office dispute in Sidney. Jim White boasts of enforcing his rights, threatening violence to secure mail access and a federal position.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diet Harte
Bret Llierte
Talang
Iinds
Reading Spanish to Learn a New Language
A reader describes self experiment with a Spanish education text for the deaf. By avoiding a dictionary initially, frequent words become anchors that unlock further pages. Re-reading reveals much meaning as context and repetition build understanding, proving immersion and persistence key to learning.
Increase Your Wages Through Extra Work
A historical note argues that higher pay follows extra effort, detailing a ladder of work value from $3 to $75 salaries and suggesting labor’s market value rises with effort. It adds anecdotes on agerelated work expectations and a Kittery burial ground inscription with maritime death imagery.
Boston Cat Rides 126 Miles In Style To New Home
One of Boston's handsomest Maltese cats arrived in this city this noon on the 12 24 express via Springfield. The cat boarded in a drawing room car under it and rode clinging to the truck break beam through sand and gravel. After arrival she refused to leave the truck and settled into her new home on Barber street, purring and pulling at the upholstery as Hackman Bannine carried her to the seat.
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Boston
Springfield
Boston and Albany
Hackman Bannine
Barber Street
Hartford Post
Facsimile and pantelegraph methods in early telegraphy discussed
The article critiques Lenoir and Buckingham facsimile ideas, noting spiral ink marks on a rotating drum, synchronized reception, and limited utility. It also mentions the pantelegraph as a moving pen facsimile, then shifts to a children’s anecdotal piece about wasps, mischief, and a farm setting.
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Lenoir
Charles L. Buckingham
Scribner's
Good Out of Lull. Johnny Dumpsey-Oh seeks home made trousers daily
In a Burlington Free Press item a child named Johnny Dumpsey jokes that he desires homemade trousers every day after the class teased him. His mother Mrs Dumpsey expresses gratitude as the boy explains the scholars laughed at him and the teacher excused him while Pye had a bully time fishing with Bill Peck.
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Ike
Johnny Dumpsey
Mrs. Dumpsey
Pye
Bill Peck
Burlington Free Press
Love and Music Across Masters From Haydn to Leonardo
From Gentleman's Magazine a survey of romance in music history cites Haydn loving Milo and a portrait of Cecilia by Reynolds, Beethoven’s letters, Chopin and George Sand, Dussek with a Polish princess, Musicians entangled with lovers, poets, and noblewomen, showing passion shaping art through ages.
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Haydn
Milo
Boselli
Beethoven
Lindedower
Kreutzer
Bridgetower
Chopin
George Sand
Dusiek
Stuadella
Lorleusia
Marcello
Leonora Manfretti
Mark Smeaton
Tower Hill
Anne Boleyn
Bellini
Leonardo da Vinci
Gentleman’s Magazine
Benedick’s farewell dinner ends with a country life plan
A rowdy sendoff for Benedick ends with his declaration that the old life is dead and buried as he moves to Jersey to live as a country gentleman. He distributes small bequests to cronies via a will and hints at a new, chastened existence with a future wife in the metropolis.
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Shate
Benedick
Jersey
Metropolis
City
New
Odd Water Snake Found Near Griffin Georgia
An unusual water snake was found by O F P Williams of Portillo Ga and sent to Dr Ellis Drewery of Griffin. The snake’s body is tiny about the size of a knitting needle yet it measures fifteen inches long. It spends most time underwater and coils around plants in search of water suggesting a water serpent variety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
O. F P. Williams
Portillo
Ellis Drewery
Griffin
Pittsburg
Indian Railways Pay and Roles Compared to America
In India the railways hire section men for three to five cents a day and guards earn seven to twenty dollars monthly on smaller lines. Engineers are among the highest paid, about seventy dollars a month with extra runs increasing this, while conductors are absent as tickets are handled at stations. Most guards are natives, many engineers are English, and the American engineer is more conversant with engine specifics. Frank G. Carpenter notes the contrast in wages and expertise.
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Didi
India
Indian Railways
Frank G. Carpenter
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