Home of Payne Sees Payne’s Boyhood Home in East Hampton
Lucy Cleveland writes in New York Home Journal about John Howard Payne’s boyhood home in East Hampton. The feature tour describes a modest two story frame house on Main Street with an old kitchen and Revolutionary-era details, contrasting the nostalgic scene with Payne’s later lack of a true home.
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Lacy Cleveland
John Howard Payne
Old East Hampton
East Hampton
John Howard Rayne
Old
New England
Bank of Hast Hampton
Shinar
Mother Goose
Mother Wise
Egypt
Cinderella
John Howat Payne
Old Sweet Home
Lucy Cleveland
New York Home Journal
Eltham's Strong Room Exceeds Expectations
At Eltham the late Colonel North’s seat houses a fortress like strong room. It stores gold and silverware and even safeguards jewels of visiting ladies during their stays. Cement flooring and granite walls create a formidable vault.
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Eltham
Colonel North
Simple Weighing Trick at Aquarium Shows Hidden Mass
A visitor notes a basic method used to weigh a live fish. The fish is weighed in a pail of water, then weighed again in water without the fish, revealing the fish’s mass by difference.
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Aquarium
Walt
Jumping beans intrigue with cocoon gymnastics
The piece reports on South African cocoons described as jumping athletes by Dr. D Sharp. The pupae, encased in hard cocoons, emerge by carving through the shell using a front head chisel and back hooks, a process ending in the insect’s freeing jump. The insect’s exact order is uncertain but may be an anonymous lepidopterous form related to trichoptera.
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D. Sharp
South Africa
Sharp
Adela
Puritan Thanksgiving Tableware and Dishes Described
A historical note details Puritan dining during Thanksgiving with knives instead of forks, benches and chests as seating, pewter platters, and a board table. The menu lists a first course of pike roast with pudding, venison patty, giblet pie, boiled pudding, Scotch collops, veal croquettes, roast beef, and pickles, followed by a second course of turkey roast with oyster pudding, tansy, hare, woodcocks, pumpkin pie, and orange garnish.
Municipal Time in Glasgow Standardizing City Clocks
The Glasgow plan aims to set a citywide standard time via electrically controlled clocks linked to the observatory. A regulating clock in the city chambers will drive three clock circuits across the town, with only about a dozen clocks currently installed. If successful, 200 to 300 clocks over 61 miles of wire will time private homes and public spaces.
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Glasgow
Westminster Gazette
Morley and Dogs in Human Fidelity
John Morley beloved dogs especially a small fox terrier seen with him on the Thames embankment and in Battersea park. He once countered a rival who called him a dog by saying dogs show fidelity and affection often superior to some humans.
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John Morley
Thames Embankment
Battersea Park
Morley
Notable Figures in Europe and America Highlighted in Briefs
The Countess of Annersley is famed as a botanist while James Wood of Portsmouth NH marks his 100th birthday. Cardinal Ledochowski presides in Rome. Felix de Fontaine dies in Columbia at 64. Lord Roberts writes a two volume India memoir. Leopold of Belgium eyes Kongo visit with Stanley.
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James Wood
Portsmouth
N. H
Cardinal Ledochowski
Cardinal Hohenlohe
Rome
Felix de Fontaine
Columbia
D. C
Lord Roberts
Kipling
Little Bobs
India
Leopold
Belgium
Stanley
Dan Howard
Jeffersonville
Ind
Philip Hines
Rebekah
Delaware
Oxford University
Rajah
Sir Sourindrya Mohun Tagore
Calcutta
Paris
M. Brisson
Brunner
University of Berlin
Sala
Fraulein Helene Lange
Felix Faure
Societe Des Gens de Lettres
Horses and Riders Auction and Breeding News
Directum likely to be sold at auction while Hickok plans California wintering for his stock. Fleetwood could host a two week meeting next fall. Sixty six sires have 26 or more standard performers. last season's meets distributed 456,695 dollars. Elloree and Pleasanton Ranch highlighted in transfer talk. Star Pointer praised by Jack Curry as unbeatable like a steam engine. Several foaled and raced horses named with recent sales and wintering plans across the United States.
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Directum
Hickok
California
Fleetwood
Strathmore
John Splan
Elloree
Monroe Salisbury
Pleasanton
Cal
Rubber production change and burial law notes
The item mentions French burial law requiring interment within 48 hours unless embalmed. It compares national mile lengths for Dutch Danes and Prussians at 18 440 feet. It also reports a new less destructive rubber method using leaves, sparing trees.
Mother's Apron Strings Poem Reflection
Poem passage recalls youth wanting independence from a mother's guiding influence. It contrasts the comfort of home with the lure of a broader world while ultimately praising the mother’s path as safest. The narrator laments missed experiences yet affirms maternal guidance, noting peaceful paths and cherished memories.
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Tosyother
Nixon Waterman
L. A. W. Bulletin
Man’s sleep broken by false summons from subconscious mind
A man plans to wake for a child’s sake and falls into a deep sleep. He dreams of hearing the town clock strike six, but no bell rings. His subconscious rapidly orders a premature sense of time to wake him and force action. The incident prompts wonder at mind’s machinery.
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Niight
Alco In Wonderland
Boston Transcript
Napoleon in a boarding house and other quick quips
A composite column of humorous vignettes and antiquated curiosities. The narrator recounts a Napoleonic boarder quarreling over dates and prunes, a cabinet of local politics, Greek death omens from parsley, a meteor’s burn path, and a brief Royal Chronicle note about Harold I.
World on wheels and racing notes from a European tour
The American Cyclist reports on cycling history and figures. The mile record stands at 1 minute 57 seconds. Bishop Ellicott at 78 takes up cycling. In crime news Caldwell from Maryland is sentenced to four years. Dutch champion Jaap Eden is comfortably well off and Jacquelin is claimed the top European pro.
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Germany
Philadelphia
Fairmount Park
Bishop Ellicott
Bristol
Gloucester
England
Caldwell
Crook
Maryland
Jaap Eden
Paris Cycling Agency Provides Companions For Hire
A Paris agency offers wheel companions for a franc a month in advance. Customers may choose age and ability, male or female, with potential incognito. References are required, yet complications have arisen. A clerk and a young dressmaker recently married after meeting through the service.
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Cycling Agency
Paris
Dregsmaker
Immer
DREADED CONSUMPTION CURE CLAIMS AUTHENTIC TESTIMONY
Advert appears offering three free bottles of T A Slocum M D remedy for consumption and bronchial lung diseases. He promises to mail three bottles free to any afflicted reader who sends address and mentions the paper, with proof of cure and request to cite the publication. The note cites 98 Pine Street New York and asks to mention the paper when writing.
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Bprtor
T. A. Slocum
M. D
Pini Street
New York
Tires gain demand as roughened tread rises popularity
There will be more corrugated and roughened tires sold next year than ever before. Tires of the class do not slip or glide about in the wet as easily as smooth tires but demand has never been general. They remain staple goods for a certain class of riders.
Notice of Delinquent Taxes Beaverhead County 1896
Delinquent tax list for Beaverhead County Montana 1896. names and property descriptions with amounts due, costs, and penalties. Public sale of real property scheduled January 18, 1897 at 10 a.m. in treasurer’s office. Includes numerous parcels in Beaverhead and Big Hole Basin with listed owners and acreage.
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Beaverhead County
Montana
Zea Ito
Rudd
Avery
E'S
Hougse
Allison
Mrs M J
Big Hole Basin
Allen
Mageie
Eotate
Fouset
Limr
Arbour
Joseph
Argenta
Hecla
Mont
Bain, John
Baaverhead County
Beaverhead
Bailey
Catherine
Jota Centennial Brewing Co
Glendale
Ite
Teodee Chapman J W
Yap Gaages
Eerie Cochrane
Frank W
Christiansen
A Lotain Lima
Davis Sam
Housa
Doyle & Sweeney
Lima
Eae Nees Sudeed Adeveret
Peecee Eee Brenner
Heb
Ford LC
Lima Mont
Gleed
Garland
Garr
Milton
Gaseer
Otto
Harby
Helen & Snyder
C. Cumberland
Hirt
Edward
Hammon
Annie
Jaggers
Mra James
Bannack
Jones
Frank B
Jessen, Balzer
Kent Mining Co
Lung
Sam
Lewis, Wm
Big Hole Lee, Gee
Dillon
Lima Improvement Co
Powers Mary E
Rena M & 8 Co
Shaft House
Ruthby Martin
Solvent Credite
Ana
St Louis & Argent agMin’g Co
Smead
Bec
Snyder C
Smaill Wm
Cabin
Deweys
Stuart H
Williams
John
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Billings, Mont
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