Rare Twin Diamonds Draw Nineteenth Century Chase
A pair of eight and a half carat pale blue Indian mine diamonds, recut in Amsterdam, are traced from royal treasure to modern reunification. The stones, once linked to Hastings and European nobility, were reunited after a long chase involving Paris dealers, a Moscow buyer, a Dutch jeweler, and a New York broker, with Paris merchants eager to claim them but likely to keep them in the United States.
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Maiden Lane
Hope
India
Warren Hastings
Europe
Amsterdaa
Russia
Empire
Monaco
M. Blanc
Note
Roland Bonaparte
Paris
Duke of Brunswick
Blane
Mme. Blane
New York
Chicago
Dur
England
London
N.Y
Oil Mysteries and a New Forest County Well
A Philadelphia Times correspondent reports oil fortunes surge and fall as a large new well in Forest County owned by Anchor Oil Company triggered early claims of 1000 barrels daily but later estimates settle around 300 barrels. The piece notes wildcat drilling practices and market reactions amid speculation.
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Cherry Grove Township
Warren County
Sir Hughes
Hughes
Anchor Oil Company
New Forest County
Oil Region
Philadelphia Times
Forest County
Exactness in Language Prompts Humorous Tobacco Note
An excerpt from the Newburyport Herald jokes about precise wording in the admonition Gentlemen are not to use tobacco or spit on the floor. It lists five possible readings, ranging from: avoid tobacco and spit not, to choose tobacco or spitting, to abandon both.
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U. Tob
New Yorkers elect bankers journalists and a plumber to legislature
The Philadelphia News notes New Yorkers show wealth influence by voting two bankers five journalists and one plumber into the state legislature.
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Philadelphia News
Susan B. Anthony Inherits Thirty Thousand Dollars
A report states Susan B. Anthony has fallen heir to $30,000 in a will. The article notes the sum as a substantial legacy arising from family or estate proceedings.
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Susan B. Anthony
The Parents Influence On School Life
A School Teacher argues that parental interest and home support shape a child's school success. By visiting classrooms, praising good work, and avoiding public criticism of teachers, parents reinforce discipline and respect, while negative comments undermine authority and harm outcomes.
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Pos
Lind
Apology From Local Paper For Missed Issue
The confession states the paper apologizes to subscribers for last week’s missing issue. It cites a “weakness” described as an appetite for the world’s greatest curse and pledges to use best efforts to prevent any repetition in the future.
Education and religion figures highlight 19th century reform
Buffalo has 8 501 more pupils than public schools can accommodate. Harvard should admit women on equal terms with Oxford. Indiana attorney general Baldwin reports 101 000 dollars added to common schools in two years. Evangelist Von Schluembach expands in Germany. Presbyterian and Methodist workunderscored with church builds and Sunday schools. Chicago Homoeopathic College faces gender bias claims. A candidating episode shows a minister twin brothers plan for joint pulpit service under one salary.
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Buffalo
N. Y
New York Tribune
Harvard University
Oxford
Baldwin
Indiana
von Schluembach
New York
Germany
Presbyterian Board of Church
Robert L. and
Alexander Stuart
Methodist Episcopal Church
National
Sunday-School Union and Tract Society
Chicago Hommopathic College
Chicago News
A School Girl Interview About Study and Ambition
A fourteen year old girl, carrying a heavy bundle of books, speaks with a reporter about her studies from trigonometry to languages, and aims for organic chemistry and painting. She jokes about later plans to study stage, own a yacht, and live in Chicago, while deflecting adult scrutiny.
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Thunder and Mars
Czerney
Tristan
Isole
Chicago
WNY
Morning Journal
Chained to the Wall in Elba Prison
Passanante, a Neapolitan, lies chained to a wall at Porto Ferraio Elba where four years ago he attempted to assassinate King Humbert. He reads the Bible between two infamous prisoners Cipriano la Gala and Rossignol, living in a grim, four foot chain and seeking a universal republic.
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Porto Ferraio
Elba
Naples
Humbert
Cipriano la Gala
Cipriano
Pontifical States
Napoleon III
Rossignol
Turin
The
M. Rossignol
Passanante
God
Bible
Brothers
People
Universal Republic
Unlucky Hunter Aims at Fox and Misses in Shoot
A rural hunter boasting a dry spell meets a storekeeper who offers a tame fox for points. The Nimrod shoots the fox on a string, but the fox slips through a hole in the fence and vanishes, leaving the hunter in despair.
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Reynard
Nimrod
Mobile Register
Adversity Tests One Man While Others Falter
A maxim quoted from Carlyle notes that while one man can endure hardship with steadiness, many others buckle under pressure. The saying contrasts resilience with fragility in facing trials.
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Carlyle
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