Ivory and other materials fuel global scale cutting trade
The article surveys materials for knife handles used worldwide, led by ivory from Africa and the East. It explains scale cutting, supply routes via Zanzibar and the Cape, quality differences between green and white ivory, byproducts like pearls and horn, and notable tusk sizes such as a nine-foot African tusk weighing 160 pounds valued at $650.
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Sheffield
Egypt
Africa
British East Indies
Great Britain
Malta
England
Tripoli
Holland
France
Bombay
Siam
Zanzibar
Cape
United States
Cape of Good Hope
Siberia
Cameroon
Angola
Gaboon
Joseph Rogers & Son
Webster
Use of Time Encourages Daily Progressive Learning
The piece argues for deliberate time management to advance knowledge and virtue. It contrasts outward duties with inner growth, urging systematic daily study, embracing both worldly tasks and celestial contemplation, and citing the maxim Nulla dies sine linea. Covington, Kentucky notes a citizen famed for seventy years without pain.
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N. Y. Tribune
Oscar Wilde's Return Met with Harsh London Commentary
London papers harshly welcomed Oscar Wilde back from America. The Pall Mall Gazette and St James Gazette mocked his mission and appearance. Daily News portrayed him as a despondent, disgraced figure while others urged women’s sympathy and warned of continued mockery at home.
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London
Oscar Wilde
America
Pall Mall Gazette
United States
Nilsson
Sicland
Wilde
Pall Mall
Little Street Boys
Mr. Wilde
St. James Gazette
Mme. Nilsson
Daily News
England
Atlantic Ocean
Niagara Falls
Goft
Artemus Ward
Chicago Tribune
Weather Bets Stir Detroit Street Test
On Woodward Avenue a citizen known for weather accuracy wagers with an old man over December warmth. The man makes escalating bets about snow rain and temperatures while the weather remains unsettled, ending with the predictor retreating as the forecast holds.
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Woodward Avenue
China Railroads Face Labor Surplus Roadblock
The piece notes that Chinese scholars see a major hurdle to rail construction in the country’s vast labor surplus. Building lines would displace thousands of workers, raising questions about employment for coolies and others. Internal trade remains canal and waterway driven, with few horses or vehicles.
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China
Miscellaneous items span marriages to mountain altitudes
A potpourri of brief items covers Mayor Edson officiating a wedding, odd notions about kissing, a Georgia divorce anecdote, Mrs. Stowe and Uncle Tom's Cabin chatter, Montana elevations versus Colorado, Upton’s oil bid, mule pulling contests, duel-age Pensacola shots, a Cincinnati suit for 75000, a buggy marriage, caution on early rising, Missouri streetcar hours, Louisiana creole dialect origins, and Colonel Bennett gifting land for the Philadelphia Methodist Orphanage.
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Boston
Providence Press
Colorado
Utah
Montana
Plains
Cheyenne
Wyoming
Chicago Times
Upton
Rochester
N. Y
Chicago Herald
Prescott
Arizona Territory
Pensacola
Fla
Field of Honor
Cincinnati
WV. O. Picayune
London Lancet
Governor Crittenden
Missouri
Louisiana
Journal of Philology
Joseph M. Bennett
Chestnut Street
Philadelphia
Simpson
Colonel Bennett
Methodist Episcopal Orphanage
Suicides by self harm in autumn 1882 United States report
Detroit Free Press publishes a statistical study showing 424 suicides in September to November 1882. It details ages from ten to ninety, leading causes such as family trouble and sickness, and demographics by gender, occupation, and nationality with regional totals.
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United States
Durin
England
Ohio
New York
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Indiana
Kentucky
Town
Michigan
Detroit Free Press
A Sister's Love and a Suitor at the Longcoftin Mansion
In Austin Avenue, Hostetter McGinnis visits the Longcoftin mansion where Miss Esmeralda and Miss Birdie Longecoftin, rivals for the guest’s affection, react differently to a humorous anecdote. Birdie, wearing a new set of false teeth, sits solemnly while Esmeralda laughs loudly and teases her sister about humor and relocation to Virginia.
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Hostetter McGinnis
Longcoftin
Austin Avenue
Esmeralda
Birdie Longecoftin
Hostetter
Birdie
Virginia
Texas
A Brother's Signature Ends With Repayment
A Maine bank faced a forged endorsement case when a man’s brother allegedly signed for him. The director agreed to cash the note if endorsed by the brother. The next day the signer claimed the signature was not his and refused liability, but the signer paid the debt after questioning.
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Lewiston
Ostrich at Cape Town Breaks Ribs and Legs
A Cape Town ostrich delivers powerful kicks injuring a man and two others with injuries described as broken ribs and leg fractures. The scene is recounted with a grim humor implying the bird could be a strong asset as a mule in military service.
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Cape Town
Detroit Free Press
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West Coast of Africa
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South Africa
Covington
Oscar
Edson
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