Editorial Notes and Tragic Parallels in a Letter and a Killing
A foreign post marked letter to the Washington post office is translated by a Russian legation attache revealing a claimed unfailing remedy for rheumatism intended for the U.S. government. The note recounts a Greek bishop connected to Alaska and a mention of the Pocasset tragedy and Truman Phinney, who killed his son during a Methodist revival and died years later in the Cleveland Insane Asylum.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Post
United States
Russia
Alaska
New York
Aleutian Islands
San Francisco
America
Pocasset
Chicago Times
Truman Phinney
Geauga County
Ohio
Phinney
Cleveland Insane Asylum
A. P. Davis
Freeman
Knickerbocker & Co
Athens
N. Y
Leonard Chamberlain
East Berne
John Frederick
Methodist
Overton
Texas
Col
Jared Kirby
John Steele
Kirby
Kossuth's Unshaken Oratory Survives a Church Disruption
Edward Eggleston recounts a Scribner's Magazine anecdote of Kossuth in Madison Indiana. A German crowd roared as a child screamed causing a pause. Kossuth quickly recovered, declaring in German that the child will laugh when old, restoring the audience to white heat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kossuth
Scribner’s Magazine
Parsons
Father Taylor
Edward Eggleston
Emerson
Taylor
Madison
Indiana
Germany
Cream Cake and Cream Filling Recipe Notes
Recipe describes making two loaves of cake with sugar butter eggs milk cream tartar soda and flour. Cream layer uses milk sugar eggs corn starch citrus flavor and orange rind and juice, cooked over water until thick, then layered between six cake layers.
Look Out For Opiate Free Baby Syrup Warnings
A warning advises caregivers to avoid laudanum paregoric and similar soothing remedies for children. It promotes Dr Buils Baby Syrup as an innocent option guaranteed not to contain opiates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Buil
Miners Strike Settlement Moves Forward As Wage Dispute Eases
Masters' Association of Durham forms a committee to meet a Miners' Association panel to settle the issue. A miners' committee may be appointed and the strike likely ends. Iron workers resume after Masters' demand for wage cuts was withdrawn. The Prince of Wales visits the Australian International Exhibition. A Paisley cotton mill fire on May 5 causes £60,000 loss and 400 layoffs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Masters’ Association
Durham
Prince of Wales
Paisley
House of Lords
Norfolk
Lord Houghton
Lord Crancrook
Duke of Edinburgh
Ripon
House of Commons
Farrar Herschell
George F. Hamilton
Council
Philadelphia
United States
Sunday Plans Highlight Simple pleasures
A Sunday morning note describes a man in town spending sixty cents at a barber shop and another dollar on billiards and boot blacking for two, then buying cigars for himself and a friend. He buys a twenty five cent box of strawberries to share at home, illustrating a small, affectionate gesture toward his wife.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. T. Bartlett
H. F. Haines
Clinton
Lancaster
Wis
Mr. Meyers
Adel
Arthur Lozier
Nashville
Jackson County
Charles Seward
Dubuque
Logan
United States
Charles Pappee
Popple
Sioux City
Burlington
August Miller
John Miller
Mt. Pleasant
Nicholas Theisinger
Gray
Edwin Booth
Chicago
Booth
Wiley
Jacobs
Sherman
Texas
Cohasset
Mass
Charles Brown
Davis
Cox-Alston
Atlanta
Georgia
Cox
Samuel Pavey
Taylor Pavey
Leesburg
Ohio
John Link
Pavey
Link
C. Harding
Indianapolis Herald
Calvin A. Light
The
Democrat
Light
Harding
Lizins
Richard Walters
New Readings on Mary Stuart Murder in Cotton Manuscripts
The Cottonian Library yields new details on Mary Stuart and Rizzio’s murder. Stevenson cites a manuscript possibly dictated by Mary or her secretary Nan, describing post murder plots, Darnley’s plea, and the queen’s escape plan to Dunbar via a staged illness and midwife ruse. The revelations appear in The Month.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Academy
Mary Stuart
Cottonian Library
Joseph Stevenson
Rizzio
British Museum
Nan
Chartley
Darnley
Mary
Arnley
Morton
Moray
Dunbar
Mr. Stevenson
Lightning rods and fossils spark scientific talk in period notes
The World of Science notes dispel myths about lightning conductors and describe a fossil rich limestone slab from Lake Champlain with Trinucleus and Lingula remains. It discusses evolution's moral implications and features on koalas and a Housekeeper column on women’s exhausting domestic routines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beinington
R. M. Luther
Addison
Silunan
Trenton
St. Lawrence River
Great Lakes
Adirondacks
Atlantic Coast Line
Doctor’s Hop Bitters Joke Reforms Patient Health
A Pittsburg physician told a lady patient to try Hop Bitters for her ongoing illness. She used the Bitters and regained permanent health. She laughs at the doctor’s joke, but he regrets losing a good patient.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Lovers In The Cottage Gaze Upon a Distant Land Of Faith
An elderly couple sits in a cottage doorway gazing with enduring love. Their gray hair marks the passage of time yet their bond remains strong as they lift voices in song and prayer, the sounds of Mear Bangor and China rising to heaven. Their faith anchors them in a twilight world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Australia
Chambers’ Journal
China
Springfield Republican
Subscription terms and ad rates page notice
The Tribune lists subscription rates and payment terms stating advance or arranged payments. delinquent subs will be charged $2 per year. Advertising rates available on application. The notice promises work of all description done neatly and promptly at reasonable prices.
Friendship in marble enmities in dust between Gaston and Clay
Charles Yanman recounts how William Gaston and Henry Clay clashed in congress in a heated debate. Forty years later they met at Mr Seaton's table and, recalling the old feud, were advised that friendship in marble leaves enmities in dust. The remark rekindled their bond until death parted them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Yanman
New York Star
William Gaston
Henry Clay
Congress
Mr. Seaton
Kentucky
Gaston
Clay
Pancakes Recipe and Sheep Marketing Oddities
A home style pancake method uses sour milk eggs salt soda flour and buttered currant jelly rolled into thin cakes with sugar. A quirky note says the latest sheep marketing attaches numbered ear tags and suggests Marys lamb would wear earrings today.
Also Mentioned on This Page
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
Gunterman
Jefferson County
Sheldon
O’brien County
Grundy Center
W. P. Wright
Muscatine County
Lawrence Heer
Ft. Madison
C. A. Danforth
Blenco
Keokuk
Odebolt
C. C. Walden
James Taylor
Ida Grove
Hugh Edwards
Iowa City
Remson
Rock Creek
L. H. Washington
Malcom
Frederick Winters
Export
Mississippi River
Kate Engle
Council Bluffs
Gov
Gear
Thomas Hamilton
Sabula
Monticello
Stephen D. Richards
Nebraska
Gov. Gue
Des Moines
Treasury
News OF the
E. G. Parrott
California
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Page & Coftin
New Market
New Hampshire
Baptist Church
North Adams
Portsmouth
N. H
Salt Lake
Berks County
Lowell
Palmer & Fuller
Wm. B. Holmes
Beverly
Boston Atheneum
Indian Bureau
Washington
Indian Territory
Sailors’ Union
Whitteman, Peet, Post & Co
Columbus
Ind
Baldwin
Victor
Minnesota
Pembina
Canadian
Ezra Rose
Palmyra
Sylvester Canfield
Canfield
National Woman Suffrage Association
St. Louis
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
8. A. Spencer
J. C. Bpofford
Canadian Pacific
Winnipeg
Wilkesbarre
Saint Louis
Caruthers & Co
Yocum’s
Henry Lightner
Peoria
Ill
Tremont House
Lightner
Clay County
Grand Trunk
Shadford
Ontario
Elbert County
New Preston Hill
Conn
Egbert Cogswell
J. Q. Young
John Riley
Galveston
Richmond
Alexander Cohen
Milwaukee
Richard Lee
Fayetteville
N. C
Lewis Coons
Hudson
Frank Carter
Bogota
New Jersey Midland Railroad
Carter
Sam Jones
Satter White
Henry McLeod
Apling
White
McLeod
Columbia County
McDuff County
Francis E. Hayden
Fitchburg
Sarah
Young Hayden
Hayden
Boston University
Brazil
Terre Haute
J. W. Risher
Wm. Elder
Stringtown
Elher
Niblock
Sarah W. Underwood
Harvey 8. Hayden
A. G. Underwood
Albert G. Underwood
Alvan G. Underwood
Milford
Edith Freeman
Alden P. Davis
England
George Hamilton
France
Lierard
Fernando Wood
House of Representatives
Minister of the Interior
Martin
Committee of the
Franco- American Union
Spain
Cortez
Madrid
Havana
Cuba
the Orient
Constantinople
Reichstag
Tasker
Bismarck
Rollverein
Fackenbeck
Chamber
Egypt
Upper
Vidin
Kuldja
St. Petersburg Journal
Berlin
Ministry of Public Communications
St. Petersburg
the Land of Liberty
du Croyin
Fort Petropaloveki
Kazar
Afghanistan
India
Yakoob Khan
Roberts
Candahar
Cabul
Cherat
Balkh
Sellabad
Lahore
Ameer
Simla
Brown
Cavanaugh
Roumelia
Austria
Rizzios
the World OF Science
St. Louis Academy of Sciences
Nipher
Morality
Youmimos
Popular Science Monthly
Ruth
the Tribune
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!