Reciprocity Bill Clears House As Senate Action Awaits
The reciprocity bill passed the House by a large majority and has not yet reached the Senate. Reports from Mexico indicate an armistice and efforts to prevent further bloodshed and property destruction. The Cowan case continues in Bismarck with the Senate adjourning to summon rebuttal witnesses. Trial costs run about fifty thousand dollars, with implied personal costs to senators kept away from home for over a month.
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House of Representatives
Senate
Mexico
Cowan
Bismack
Pheliix
Burton Ghost Tale of a Haunted London House
Sir Richard Burton visits a London house reputed haunted and is locked inside by a friend. After a tense wait the bell rings and Burton returns, saying only that his dog is dead and that the place is accursed. The three tenants later die, and the house is torn down. The tale remains unexplained.
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Richard Burton
Burton
London
London Tatler
Ancient Church Custom in Glasgow Kirks
Mr. W. B. Paterson spoke to the Old Glasgow club on how ancient kirks were built by airies and had no pews before Charles I. Parishioners carried stools or sat on the floor, and brought candles for evening services. He noted a remaining city will upholding sex separation rules.
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Glasgow
W. B. Paterson
Old
Paterson
London Globe
Early Opinions of the Potato in England and Scotland
The potato, introduced to English soil in 1564, saw slow cultivation and value. It sold for 2 shillings per pound in James I’s era and became common only by the late 1700s. Mortimer's Gardener's Kalendar (1708) likened it to Jerusalem artichokes and doubted its worth, while Scottish religious writers urged avoidance for not being Biblical.
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Walter Raleigh
Jamce I
Mortimers
Ewine
Scotland
Londoni Chronicle
Little Willie Asked About Close and Dear Friends
A Chicago News quip notes a close friend will not lend you money while a dear friend borrows all you will stand for, reflecting a humorous view on friendship and finance.
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Willie
Chicagop News
Tragic Farmhouse Fire After Brother Killed Wife and Self
Sylvester Sikel, living with his brother Frank near Linton, shot his sister in law during a blaze he started in the house and stable. The fire killed Mrs. Sikel and left Frank with total losses estimated at 2500 to 3000 dollars, with no insurance. Neighbors raised about 250 dollars for support as the case unfolded.
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Linton
Frank Sikel
Dr. Hogue
Sylvester Sikel
Hi Law
Leonard du Heaume
Sylvester Sikes
Sylvester
Hornses
Hames
Bismarck
Smith & Irvine
Fedora
South Dakota
Clara Kieffer
Emmons County
Howver
Wm. L. McCormick
Steffan Anderson
Mr. Sikel
Bargain Seafaring Pass Used for Free Travel and Grift
A Panama to Valparaiso steamship line granted a widow of a sea captain a free passage for herself and a maid after she compelled the sale of coastal property. She then used the benefit to travel aboard multiple ships, bring passengers aboard, and attempt to profit from the arrangement, collecting fares from others onboard.
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England
Panama
Valparaiso
Pany
Old Dame and Casey’s Alleyway Sign Tale
A fragment recalls an elderly woman nicknamed Scalping who lived aboard Pacife steamers until her death. Casey chose a business path buying a livery stable and had a sign painted of him astride a mule. A friend Finnigan admired the image and questioned its likeness.
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New York Press
Casey
Finnigan
Pardonable Pun on Lord Kelvin and Wire Endorsement
Prof Silvanus P argues in Life of William Thomson that Kelvin urged hemp rope replacement with steel wire. A tale recalls Joule visiting White's shop and finding Kelvin amid coils of wire for sounding. When asked the note, Kelvin replied the deep C.
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Deep Sea
Silvanus P On
William Thomson
Lord Kelvin
Dientist
Joule
White
Sir William
Curious Path to Peerage Shows Political Games
A West country lord explains how a failed candidate was elevated to the upper house to remove him from national contests. He notes the peerage served to neutralize a figure who consistently harmed the party by losing elections. The remark is attributed to Lord Besconsfeld via "Under Five" signs.
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Lord Besconsfeld
The Ironclad Vessel and the Hampton Roads Battle
The Hampton Roads encounter tested the ironclad's power marking the doom of wooden warships. It showed ironclads like the Monster and Merrimac render wooden vessels obsolete, revolutionizing navies worldwide since 1862.
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Inampton Roads
Hampton Roads
New York American
Dr Johnson’s 1750 electioneering in Southwark noted
The text recalls Dr Johnson canvassing for Ralph Thrale in 1750 in Southwark. Johnson wrote Thrale’s electors address and helped with campaigning alongside Mrs Thrale. Boswell notes one night an excited burgess grabbed Johnson’s hat and teased him about his focus on hate.
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Southwark
Hat Toss Protest Echoes in Westminster Gazette
Quote shows Johnson and the speaker debating use of hats for a dramatic gesture. The Westminster Gazette records the scene as hats are lifted and waved in a symbolic protest, with Johnson urging restraint and caution.
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Johnson
Westminster Gazette
A Changed Man Becomes a Bailiff in Scotland
A Scottish man reaches the magisterial bench and, while walking along a road, accidentally collides with a farmer’s car. The farmer protests to mind his cop, but the officer replies in kin of a bailiff tone, highlighting the clash of pride and duty.
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Scotland
Mother of Pearl Across Regions and Uses
The article surveys how mother-of-pearl is employed differently worldwide. Russia uses it to ornament church vestments, Austria for jewelry, Italy for high relief cameos, Turkey for engraved shells known as Jerusalem shells, tropical island natives craft ornaments, and the south Pacific makes bright mother-of-pearl fishhooks.
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Russia
Austria
Italy
Turkey
Jerusalem
South Pacific
His Compliments to the Judge Bonaventure de Fourcroy
A seventeenth century society poet and friend of Moliere, noted as a splendid orator and eminent advocate, tells a magistrate he will train his son to be a barrister if able, otherwise a judge.
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Bonaventure de Fourcroy
Moliere
The President's Pardon Delayed as Smoker Guards Fate
A French soldier on a hilltop watches a garrison town while his official envelope hints at a pending execution. A comrade jokes about a pardon, but the smoker insists on preserving the drama of his friend's fate until the platoon forms and the moment unfolds.
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Flichmann
Memory and reunion among ants astonish naturalists
A physiologist notes ants’ memory as they recognize each other after long separations. Sir John Lubbock kept an ant away for a year, and on return the nest welcomed the familiar member while an outsider was met with hostility and killed.
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John Lubbock
Lost mares near Larvik North Dakota need location tips
From my premises Sunday afternoon April 23 two mares missing about ten miles east of Larvik North Dakota. One chestnut sorrel six years old slim build weighs about pounds the other iron gray six years old both with indistinct left shoulder brand foretops trimmed six weeks ago. Contact W F Dodd by Farmers Line or write to Larvik North Dakota.
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Tvo
Larvik
N. D
W. F. Dodd
Wanted to trade farm in Indiana for Emmons county land
A fifty acre fruit farm in Washington county Indiana is offered for trade for a good quarter section in Emmons county. Contact N D W R Green Sioux Falls South Dakota.
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Washington County
Indiana
Emmons County
N. D
W. R. Green
Sioux Falls
S. D
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