Beauty in profile confounds critics at Washington posts
A Washington correspondent recalls how beauty shifts with posture and setting. A post office clerk’s profile is praised one day and dismissed another, revealing beauty as a flexible, situational perception rather than a fixed science. The piece winds into Drawbaugh’s micophone experiments and early sound recording anecdotes.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Venus
Postaflice
Washington Post
Dishonest Clerk Smelled Money Through Envelopes
Veteran Sam Bowne recalls a long-ago NY delivery clerk who sniffed letters before pocketing those stored in a worn shoe. The suspect was caught when Bowne opened the slipper and found the letters. The man, known as Bob, later confessed his trick after conviction.
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Sam Bowne
New York
Bob
Wealthy cottager repays fare with nickel seed on electric cars
A rich cottager, ducked by a large surf wave, rode an electric car opposed by cottagers. He could not pay the fare, the conductor paid for him and sought repayment. The passenger later learned the conductor’s home. At breakfast, he found a bulky envelope with only a single nickel inside, addressed to the benefactor, from the Prozdidwace Journal.
Disraeli and the primrose memory from Highbury
A London anecdote recalls Disraeli living in Highbury where he grew fond of primroses. At a gentleman’s gathering a bet on whether the flowers were real was settled when the young lady’s primroses proved genuine. Disraeli kept several of them in his buttonhole and cherished the token thereafter.
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Disraeli
Highbury
London
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Causes of insanity linked to systemic diseases and female health
The piece notes year by year evidence that many disorders can trigger insanity, including abdominal, ear, and optical diseases, especially in women. It suggests replacing the superintendent/assistant system in insane hospitals with a specialist staff similar to other hospitals, like Boston City Hospital.
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Boston City Hospital
Boston Herald
The Tiny Otis Field Man Jesse Dunham Story
In Otis field lived Jess Dunham a diminutive man whose height drew comments from strangers. He and his wife raised many daughters famed for beauty and spirit, with descendants across the country known for business and professional success. a townsman quipped that he was the last person created, a tiny man who fit the day into a small bit and exclaimed, There, jes done im.
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Otisfield
Jesse Dunham
Jess Dunham
Dunham
Lewiston Journal
Careless postage sparks mistaken identity concerns
An exchange in the Brooklyn Eagle features a reader who sent three stamps for a poem return but received nothing, while a journalist recalls the stamps yet cannot recall the middle name, warning of another man with the same name in town. The anecdote reflects print era mail mix ups and local humor.
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Burdette
Brooklyn Eagle
Get Your Monkey Now in Market Glut
Detroit Free Press notes a market glut drives marker prices down for all varieties of monkeys from ring tails to old dads roosting on cages. It suggests buying a bow to save money amid the cheaper prices.
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Detroit
Queen Victoria Keeps Rooms of Deceased Kin Locked
London notes that Queen Victoria preserves rooms of departed relatives in a private fashion. Claremont houses Charlotte’s death site sealed for over seventy years, while Albert’s suites at Windsor Osbourne and Balmoral stay as when he lived. A brass tablet marks Osbourne rooms, John Brown’s Windsor rooms closed after his death with commemorative inscription.
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Claremont
Charlotte
Prince Albert
Windsor
Osborne
Balmoral
John Brown
London
Nicaragua Canal Project Details and Passage Time
The canal is described as 170 miles ocean to ocean with 10 miles of east side excavation and 11 miles on the west plus 3 miles for six locks totaling 280 miles. Navigation would run 644 miles on the San Juan river and 56 miles in Lake Nicaragua. No passing space except in rock cuttings, with an estimated transit time of 98 hours.
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Ocean
Aree
San Juan River
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Romance from a Cigarette Picture in Theatre Life
A Boston theatre figure recalls a true story of a New York couple who separated amid marital strain. A manager buys a cigarette brand showing his wife's photo, recalls love, reconciles, and the divorce is halted. The tale concludes that romance can spring from a single cigarette picture.
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New York
Itife
Irise
Chemorel
Grand Central
Hoston Globe
Winter of 1881 in Idaho and meat storage on wood piles
A visitor recalls arriving in Custer City on August 4 1881. That winter saw heavy snow with eighteen inches on the first night and a grand total fall of thirty feet. Custer City butchers stacked dressed cattle like cord wood behind stalls. No paper wrapping was used. patrons carried meat home on wooden skewers pushed through roasts. Miners bought beef by the quarter and kept it atop the wood pile, even slicing steaks from the pile when chopping wood.
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Yankee Fork
Idaho
Custer City
Virginia City Chronicle
Italian Passage Sparks Lynch Threat On Dearborn
Two young girls flee a dark Italian pursuer on Dearborn avenue last week. They reach jail exhausted as a crowd mobs the Italian, who is escorted toward Kinzie street. The younger girl pleads for payment for grapes stolen, and the crowd disperses after the suspect is freed.
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