The Alcotts Concord Home and Orchard House Description
Edward W. Emerson in The Ladies' Home Journal describes the Alcotts adaptive restoration of their land and farmhouse east of Concord. They improved the decaying property, added features, and named it Orchard House with a pine backed hill view, fruit trees, a rustic gate, and a wood path leading to the house.
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Alcotts
Concord
Boston
Edward W. Emerson
Ladies’ Home Journal
Orchard House
Walden
Remarkable Coincidence Between Whittier and Holmes
The New York Times notes a strikingly similar pair of lines from Whittier and Oliver W. Holmes found in The Atlantic Monthly January 1870. It argues no plagiarism by the eminent figures, calling the resemblance extraordinary yet coincidental and unproven.
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Oliver Werdell Holmes
Whittier
The Murphy Letter That Touched a Recruiter’s Wits
An army officer recalls a Cuban campaign recruit who daily sought letters. A man named Joseph Murphy learns his real designation, as the office refuses the grand Italian name and assigns him a simple gunfighter identity. The tale ends with Murphy accepting the practical title Joseph Murphy.
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Joseph Murphy
Emerald Isle
Murphy
Giovanni* Paladini Castellazzia
Giovanni Paladini Castellazzia
Helladam
Washington Post
Leader of Scottish psalmody and the precentor's role
Notes and Queries describes the precentor as the letter gae who starts each line from the desk and chants in a slow mono tone. His desk, the letteron, sets the pace for congregational singing with drawn out notes and sudden breaks that could be more curious than edifying.
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Church of Scotland
Scotland
Glove Cutters Earn High Wages in Brussels and Paris
The article notes glove cutters in Brussels and France command higher wages than tailors in London and New York. The craft is so difficult that leading cutters are personally renowned in the trade and wield heirloom knives passed down through generations, as reported by the New York Telegram.
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Brussels
France
London
New York
New York Telegram
It Was Too Much Your Honor in Publicity Horror
The Kansas City Star quotes Boston Fete complaining about newspaper publicity. He fears being admonished or imprisoned while lamenting his notoriety and lack of work. The piece notes a national denture industry fact: about 4,000,000 false teeth are made yearly in the United States using a ton of gold and three tons of silver and platinum valued at $100,000.
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Boston Fete
Durance
Kansas City Star
United States
A Great French Etcher Charles Meryon and the Navy
A biographical sketch of Charles Meryon born in 1821 who joined the navy in Brest in 1887, sailed the world as a youth, and after early struggles with color vision chose engraving. He studied under Blery, admired Zeeman, and became a noted French etcher, expressing devotion to art over naval life.
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Charles Meryon
Navy
Naval Scoo
Brest
Athens
Savage
New Zealand
M. Barty
Meryon
M, Blery
Zeeman
Blery
Zeeman, Peintre Des Matelots
Pall Mall Gazette
Room in which Napoleon was born relic of great destiny
Pall Mall Gazette recalls Napoleons childhood home in Ajaccio. The bed, sedan chair, and Marie-Louise’s writing desk are preserved as sacred artifacts. The piece contrasts humble origins with the future emperor's vast fame and lonely stature.
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Napoleon
Madarine
Montbolon
Ajaccio
Pall Mall Gazette
Gray Matter and Mind Beyond the Brain
The writer surveys brains of various people and animals to argue against mind residing solely in brain gray matter. He notes thicker gray matter in murderers and the intellectually inferior, yet finds gray matter also in spinal cord and body centers. Dr Joseph Simmé’s Popular Science Monthly reference is cited.
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Daniel Webster
Joseph Simme
Popular
Suienoa Monthly
A Sillkworm of the Sea Silk From Pinna Shellfish
The New York Herald describes silk spun by the Mediterranean pinna shellfish. The creature uses viscid filaments to attach to rocks, guides and glues them in place, and can reproduce them if cut away. Harvested at low tide, the material is washed, dried, carded, and yields about a third its weight in fine thread with a burnished golden brown color.
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Mediterranean
Sicily
New York Herald
Memory and reverence interrupt a public prayer
Dean Pigou recalls clergy struggle to repeat liturgy from memory. He recounts Archdeacon Sinclair reacting to Pigou’s placement behind him at a meeting. The archdeacon’s hat bore the message Prevent us, Lord in large type, revealing his humility during prayer.
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Dean Pigou
Sinclair
Confuted by an Axiom in Brooklyn Life
A Brooklyn Life quip recalls a parent telling children that James Watt discovered the steam engine by watching a boiling pot, prompting a child to question the logic with a pun about pots boiling. The joke hinges on wordplay around observation and invention.
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James Watt
Ima
Brooklyn
Census in Korea Records 6,198,248 Population
The Seoul Independent reports a recent Korean census showing a total population of 6,198,248 with 2,869,767 males and 2,828,481 females.
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Seoul Independent
Korea
Representative Hepburn Uses Special Delivery Stamp
A Washington correspondent reports Representative Hepburn, frustrated that government documents sent under his frank often vanish, began affixing special delivery stamps to ensure safe delivery. Officials note losses are common, with about half of valuable publications at risk unless precautions are taken.
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Hepburn
Frank
Bureau of Publication
Pub
Washington Cor
Chicago Times- Herald
Fame Bell of Schaffhausen Silenced at Last
The famous bell of Schaffhausen, cast four centuries ago, has fallen silent due to metal fatigue. It will no longer ring and rests in the town museum, its inscription a motto echoed in literature. The piece notes bells in literature and recalls Antwerp during the Spanish Fury as a striking contrast to public peace.
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Schaffhausen
Prior of
Basel
Minster
Schiller
Waterloo
Motley
Antwerp
St. James Gazette
Lovers Curfew Set by Cleveland Judge for Evening Calls
Cleveland judge defines 11 o'clock as the proper end time for courting visits in standard time. The opinion, cited from the bench, supports a curfew on sparking from 8 to 11, arguing it preserves feminine looks and tidies up routines in well regulated households.
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Cleveland
Fiedler
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Star delegate Dr John Hall Dominates Springfield Meeting
The Scotch Irish Congress in Springfield Ohio featured Dr John Hall as its brightest star. At a hotel reception delegates crowded around him, but he diverted attention to introduce them to association officers, winning admiration with cordial, gracious leadership.
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Springfeld
John Hall
Association
Christian Endeavor World
Breakfast Skippers Society Forms in gin Mississippi City
The St Louis Republic reports a new antibreakfast society in gin Mississippi City with editors clergy physicians and teachers joining. Inspired by a Pennsylvania doctor the group practices two meals daily claiming better health vigor and sharper study for both adults and children as the stomach rests.
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Gin, Ms
Pennsylvania
sSt
Louis Republic
The Promised End Amid a Salvation Army Funeral
In a rain drenched street a Salvation Army funeral winds through gutter slime and veggie refuse. A strident band plays Shall We Gather at the River as a ragged crowd shuffles past in mud. The narrator recalls tears welling up as the procession fades from view.
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Salvationist
Academy
Jim Wood’s Bell Engine Remains Railroad Legend
Hundreds along New York Central lines recall Engineer Jim Wood as his engine with a sweet ringing bell became a legend. The bell from engine 110, reused on engine 928, still chimes as it runs between Buffalo and Syracuse, drawing wistful memories from Wood and fellow railroad men.
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Jim Wood
New York Central
Jim
Engineer Wood
Central Station
Buffalo
Syracuse
Wood
Mr. Wood
Rochester Herald
Senator Ketcham and a Deaf Constituent Lend a Lesson
In a marble room encounter Senator Ketcham is asked for five dollars by a constituent. The deaf rep. mishears and the man clarifies the request, leading to a humorous exchange about lending ten dollars instead of five. The tale originates from the Washington Times.
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T. UC. Platt
John H. Ketcham
New York
Senate
Ketcham
Washington Times
Senator Mason and the Illinois ham honor pledge
The story recalls Senator Mason of Illinois pursuing a resolution on Germany's discrimination against American pork. A Chicago pork packer praises the measure as well worded and timely, promising recognition upon Mason's return. He notes his firm will name a ham after Mason.
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Mason
Tlinois
Germany
Chicago
Japan shifts toward wealth and education reform
The text notes Japan’s merchants gaining social standing and even peerage as economic growth shapes policy. Fuikuzawa emphasizes earning money to empower the nation, while Okura’s $500,000 donation funds a commercial college to aid the poor, marking a landmark private public gift.
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Japan
Fuikuzawa
Okura
Marquis Ito
Near-hero Tan Ssu-t’ung Seized and Beheaded
The China Gazette reports Tan Ssu-t’ung and five reform leaders were seized and headed. He chose not to flee, declaring a willingness to die for reform, saying blood has flowed for reform in the West and his blood should be first in China’s cause.
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Tan Ssu-t’ung
Reform Party
China
China Gazette
Train schedules for Freeport and Madison lines 1896
A dense schedule listing arrivals and departures for west east and south routes, with trains to Madison Dodgeville Dodgeville line Freeport Chicago and Rock Island connections. Includes freight trains that carry passengers on select services and notes Sunday restrictions and through coaches. Date Jan 13 1896.
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Madison
Passenoer
Freeport
Chicago
Bm Inc
tNo
Rock Island
Racine
Janesville
Rockford
Clinton
Dubuque
St. Pant
Cedar Rapida Omaha
Council Bluffs
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Savanna
Chicago Great Western RY
Minneapolis
Paul
Des Moines
St. Josep
Kanana
South Erdewort
Paateg
Chicago Express
St. P. & K. C. Limited
Aim Nod
South Frasport
Denen Toms Brewster House
A. G. Fitz
Avent
F. H. Lord
Gen. Pass
Tkt. Agt
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Breakfast Skippers
People's Column
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Todwin
Mra. O. Hi
Upper Stephenson Street
Wasa
A. O. Best
North Galoena Ave
Journal Offica
Thor Sale
Whistler St
Douglas Avenue
A. M. Hoover
Benton St. Terras
John W. Barnes
Pleasant St
Peason and
Whistler Sts
R. M. Griffith
REN’ ‘T
Brag Bk
R. Dirksen
Carroll St
Lincoln Avenue
H. C. Burchard
Galena Ave
Algo Road
S. 3
Jourden
West Streat
Bongye & Schwarz
Galena St
Douglas Ava
Court House
Fiva Schofeld
Baraboo Towel Mills
Baraboo
Wisconsin
Opera House
Hu Moogk's
Journal
R. R
Illinois Central
Lena
Ren and
Galen
Dodgeville
Pasamors
Eveee
Mo Iley
Chicago & Northwestern
Holder
RaeEnr
J.B. Sweratt, Aaunr
Forreston
Doperts
Weekly Journal
the Daily Journal
Freeport Journal
Illinois
Stephenson County
Market
Associated Press
Chicago Street
Journal Printing Co
Freeport, Illinois
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