Kitchen Girl Becomes Center of a Happy Family
A newly married couple move to a cottage near the city and hire a refined kitchen girl Mary from a sewing job. Mary bonds with the wife, overcomes sorrow, teaches cooking and piano, and gains a place in their home until a surgeon friend reveals a past romance with Mary. The tale ends with a solitary bride after the kitchen girl departs.
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Uarry
Marty
Ned
Harry
Sam
Harry Wilde
Mary
Revesug Tax Clarifies Dealer Special Tax Rule
The Revenue Bureau rules that liability for the special tax as a dealer attaches to selling, not buying. Casual or incidental sales by non‑producers such as sheriffs, executors, or debt collectors are not deemed business sales and avoid the tax, except for liquors which carry the tax on any sale.
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the Revenue Bureau
Revenue Bureau
Montana paper jokes about Mormon question and floods
A Montana paper boasts that nature will settle the Mormon question as Salt Lake rises due to river inflows. It notes the valley is twenty feet higher than at Mormon settlement and rises daily. It quips that Brigham Young might build an ark before he dies if the water continues to advance.
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Montana
Nature
Salt Lake
Brigham Young
Danbury News Oddities and Circus Errands
In Danbury a prudent shopper pursues a delinquent customer at the circus door. A deaf visitor tenses against boys on Main Street. A Pine Street gentleman tours a house with a large pot plant display and jokes about drinks. A couple from Slawson attends the show with an unlucky check theft. A Vermont tale recalls a pot of paint and a cat stuck in sticky floor coating, ending with the clerk shaving his mustache and hiding pomade in the woods.
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Danbury
Main Street
Hector
Pine Street
Nelson Street
Slawson
Ile
Queshy
Stauira
Count de Chambord as Bourbon claimant to throne
The Count de Chambord is presented as the recognized Bourbon heir in exile. His father the Duke de Berry was murdered before his son was born, and the Duchess endured dishonor. At 53 he is seen as lacking vigor, while Orleanists who killed his father back his royal claim.
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Count de Chambord
France
Duke de Berry
Orleanists
Approach to Specie Payments and U S Debt Reduction
A New York Times analysis traces the push to restore specie payments after the Civil War, detailing debt reductions from 1865 to 1879, the contraction of the currency under McCulloch, and the shift toward gold bonds. It credits Republican leadership with steering toward eventual specie resumption and outlines future steps including possible legal conversion to a single paper standard.
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New York Times
McCulloch
United States
Richardson
Board of Trade
Boston
Atlantic Review
Trade
Financial Exchange
Treasury
Gen. Grant
Boutwell
Congress
Knickerbocker
English Chief Justice Cockburn Fines Cheltenham Editor
The Chief Justice has imposed a $750 fine on a Cheltenham editor for strictures on the lichbourne case. The Times faces similar accusations but faces no toll, while English papers condemn the uneven rule. The Cheltenham journalist may choose prison over payment for contempt.
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Cockburn
Caleb Cushing
Cheltenham
Lichbourne
London ‘Times
Additional Facts of the Ian Sination of Ex Senator by Ex Congressman Conway
Washington October 10 14 ex Congressman Conway fired three pistol shots at Pomeroy of that state in a pub this morning. Pomeroy says Conway had threatened him days earlier over money and a dispute about wages at the Treasury. Conway, a Kansas native and printer by trade, had political clashes in Kansas and was briefly consul at Marseille. He was held then released on bail after a physician certified the wound as slight and he was declared to be in extreme mental excitement.
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Texsson
Mary
Harry
Charlie
Wilde
McCulloch
Congress
Treasury
United States
Eesernee
Washtoton
Conway
Pomeroy
Pomery
Con
Sumner Zot
yAbry
Croy
Treasur
Battin
Hoyt
Kansas
Bent Johnson
Marseille
Grant Goon
Stillson
Alexander Adamson
Ray
Food and Child Treatment Across England and Scotland
In 1868 England saw about one in thirty four infant deaths from convulsions before age one, while Scotland reported one in 870. The Scottish approach favored exclusive maternal care with minimal interference, contrasted with English methods. The piece discusses infant mortality rates, feeding practices, opium use, and the need for natural feeding, noting regional and societal differences in child rearing and health outcomes.
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Scotland
England
Durin
Popular Science Monthly
United States
India
America
Lion trapping device aims to curb depredations in Algeria
In Algeria depredations cause annual life and property losses, estimated at about $50,000. M Cheret has devised a lion trap of ten by six and a half feet, with folding doors and movable wheels. The contraption is baited and placed in ground frequented by wild beasts, then transferred to a prepared site after capture.
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Algeria
M. Cheret der
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