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Newspaper
Denton Journal
Location
Denton, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Jul 27, 1889
Page
4
Peculiar Mountaineers of Kentucky and a Royal Theatre Show
A vivid fragment describes a Kentucky creek town visit with old Mr and Mrs Barger and a tense talk about violence against women. It shifts to a curious Paris origin watch and ends with a detailed account of royal theater treatment for the Prince of Wales, noting the lavish expense and arrangements.
The Daring Cardinal and the Italian Prince
In 1590 Pope Sixtus attempted to have a condemned prince hanged for possessing a pistol. Ferdinand of Tuscany intercepted the execution by altering Rome’s clocks one hour, freeing his kinsman at the Vatican. He then robed as a cardinal to confront the pope, revealing armor beneath the cardinal’s habit and declaring it the difference between a cardinal and an Italian prince. The tale, cited by Napier in the National Review, illustrates Ferdinand’s resolve to safeguard his state and allies.
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I. E. Isaacs
Smithfield Street
Pittsburg
St. Paul
United States
Paris
Ferdinand
Tuscany
Florence
Napier
Sixtus
Prince Farnese
Rome
Vatican
St. Angelo
National Review
Pete
Charleston Enterprise
Glass Beads and Imitation Pearls From Murano
The article describes Murano glass bead making from drawing tubes to shaping globules, sieving by size, and stringing by children for export. It notes France’s pearl beads imitation, Jaquin’s 1656 invention, and that expert workers can blow thousands daily with beads lined by fish scale wax. It mentions ongoing heirs and that imitation gems once attracted top glass art.
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Muranoa
Murino
France
M. Jauin
Jaquin
Harper’s Magazine
Gloves of Human Skin Exposed by Doctor
Dr. Mark L. Nardyz of 716 Pine Street warns that gloves sold as kid may be made from human skin. He cites tanning in France and Switzerland and says some gloves contain skin from a child, shown by a newly made pair as example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mark L. Nardyz
Pine Street
France
Switzerland
Philadelphia
Master Architect Builds His House One Arm
A Malden, Alyss. man, C. C. Bolmerth, built his own house single handedly. Despite losing an arm, he designed and laid every stone and beam, completing a stone exterior with a wooden framed interior in four years. He suffered a thirty foot fall injuring him during construction.
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C. C. Bolmerth
Malden
Alyss
Harper’s Buzar
Delays of justice and a lavish Francis I banqueting hall
A reflection on the long legal appeals in a St Louis murder case from May 1883 where Dierberger sees law delays as life saving. The article also describes Vanderbilt’s dining room known as the Francis I banqueting hall with two stone stories oak paneling and a famed Oudinot window depicting Francis I and Henry VII at the Field of the Cloth of Gold.
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St. Louis
Dierberger
Supreme Court
Boston Transcript
Francis I
W. K. Vanderbilt
Oudinot
Henry VII
Authors Compelled to Write the King of Stories That Will Sell
Readers are reminded of a Fortnightly Review piece critiquing authors trapped by market forces. The author laments selling to public taste, notes editors and publishers profit, and acknowledges the tension between artistic aims and mass demand. A later anecdote contrasts real baseball with a staged croquet display.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
Iron production growth from charcoal to modern furnaces
A Boston Budget note contrasts 18th century charcoal iron output with today’s scale, noting Britain produced 69,300 tons in 1778 and that modern furnaces in the U S exceed that, with railroads buying more iron annually than both nations a century ago. The piece then cites Jewish publishers and reviews Kenilworth manuscripts, plus anecdotes on Sir Walter Scott’s dictation and pain while writing The Bride of Lammermoor.
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Great Britain
Boston
Kenilworth
British Museum
Amy Robsart
Scott
Montrose
Faust
Tam
Macmillan's Magazine
The Unresuming Toad and Early Bible Editions
A whimsical piece contrasts a modest toad as spring harbinger with birds and weather lore. It notes the toad’s plain plumage yet solid horse sense. It also recalls 1782 Robert Aitken’s first American English Bible in quarto and 1791 Isaiah Thomas’s folio edition in Worcester as the second English Bible printed in America.
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Robert Aitken
Philadelphia
Isaiah Thoma
Worcester
Mass
America
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