The gorgeous Japanese party and a moral hesitation
An observer recalls a lavish gathering with a prominent diplomat and invited guests. A famed performer astonishes with butterfly effect silk tricks while young dancers entertain as wine flows. The host offers a costly gift to a minister’s guest girl, who kneels to him, then refuses it. the narrator reflects on restraint and the era’s strict codes.
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Yokota
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Hon
Job Lowery
George Unin
Booth
McKean
Buelapan
Hughes
Yakonin
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Heavenly gates bar editors in strange afterlife tale
An eccentric pastiche recounts a quixotic journey of a newspaper editor to the Golden City. A gatekeeper bans editors unless their work justified admission, leading the narrator through celestial realms, a dramatic critique of press culture, and humorous cameos by famed figures and unreal scenarios.
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Golden city
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guardian of the
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The Constitutionalist Digest on Federal Officials and California Politics
A critical column rails at congressional extravagance and postoffice misdeeds, noting Norton of the Money Order Department and a Major Houses defaulter. It surveys California Governor Haight’s defeat, railroad subsidies, and predicts a possible Massachusetts Governor race with Butler and Adams figures shaping a Democratic outcome.
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Norton
New York Postoffice
Conkling
Waymaster
General Butler
Massachusetts
Old Bay State
John Quincy Adams
Marcus Mor+ fan
George S$. Uuutwell
Alerton
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Miscellaneous items survey from a late era paper
A collection of oddities and anecdotes describes a wide range of incidents. Tales include a man, wife, and seven children walking twenty-five miles, a rolling pin used in a domestic dispute, and a Montreal youth jailed for refusing to disclose ages of his daughters. Separate notes mention long stock holdings, a Welsh quarryman, a balloon flight misadventure, an Oswego druggist accident, and a German calling himself St Louis chief of police. Also: an expansive government print run for San Domingos report, and Donneuregard recounting a cannon used at Fort Sumter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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Aculzen
Montreal
Obituary Notes and Local Tales From Charleston Stabbed by Gossip
A column discusses the excesses of obituary writing in country papers, contrasts with biblical grief, and recounts varied local anecdotes. It mentions a Charleston item about a boy named Charlie, a South Ohio heir with $15,000 missing, a baby beauty contest with a biased judge, and a mother rebuked by a daughter’s witty hair remark.
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David
Niobe
Charleston
Charlie
lille
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