Comets Return Timelines Forecast for 19th Century
The article outlines expected returns of several periodic comets including Encke Olbers Hailey and Tempel with perihelion dates and discovery years. It notes Tempel's and Tuttle's varying periods and remarks on a suspected new visitor later delayed by planetary gravity.
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Wanderer
Encke
Ocke
Olbers
Hailey
Tempel
Gautler
Geneva
Swift
Naet
Tuttle
Mechbain
Walking Typhoid Circles a Wandering Husband Case
A married man, abroad on business, vanished for five days then returned ill with typhoid fever. Doctors labeled it walking typhoid as he describes a delusion driven wanderings including a night on the Niagara Falls bridgeside. The case suggests such half rational wandering can end differently.
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Sammond
Pacific Coast
Ilsusion Bridge
Niagara Falls
New York Graphic
Whiskers on the Moor Becomes Boston Song Pick
A Boston maiden seeks a popular song at a music store and is guided to Whiskers on the Moor by the clerk. The exchange reflects local tastes and humor as the clerk notes the line refers to facial hair on the Moon.
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Boston
Boston Courier
Faith Healing a Fact and Its Boundaries
A London Lancet excerpt argues faith heals by the mind's power rather than a supernatural agent. It stresses the brain as the nervous system’s center, the motor role of belief, and the body's self-healing drive, while warning against zealotry and decrying reliance on external miraculous sources.
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London Lancet
Chase and Greeley want to avoid trying Jeff Davis
Ben Perley Poore recounts how Chase and Greeley resisted prosecuting Jefferson Davis for treason. They delayed trials citing heat and cholera and urged bail funds, arguing the South might go free and questioning a jury verdict.
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Chase
Greeley
Richmond
Davis
Mr. Underwood
Jeff Davis
Ohio
Jefferson Davis
Supreme Court
Ir. Greeley
Underwood
New York Tribune
Stars and Stripes
Gen. Banks
Brown
Virginia
South
Virinians
Ben
Perley Poore
Gripsack Grabs
A string of aphorisms on honesty poverty religion gender and love from the Merchant Traveler column argues about morality social roles and human behavior with sharp wry contrasts and paradoxical statements.
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Fortune
Wax Figures and Wonders of New York's Chamber of Horrors
A New York visit to wax figures and the Chamber of Horrors is described with sardonic humor. The writer notes the beguiling price, the lifelike curios, and the comic dangers of mistaking wax for truth, ending with reflections on perception and fraud.
Reformer jailed for second offense faces three years
A slim man with a cunning face was found guilty in a New York court of petty theft. The judge sentenced him to three years in the penitentiary, saying he deserves a chance to reform. The offender protested delaying his sentence as Bartholdi circus arrives.
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New York
Bartholdi
Treasury Circular Governs U S Currency and Silver Coin Rules
The Treasury issues a circular detailing new rules for issuing and redeeming currency and coins. It covers standard silver dollars and fractional silver, deposit procedures, and note redemption by the treasurer and assistants. The changes affect shipments of silver and mutilated notes and set dollar amounts for various redeems.
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United States Treasury
United States
National Bank Depository
New York
Nationa
Leprosy Spread and Controversy Mentioned Across Regions
The article notes leprosy remains in various regions including India Europe New Orleans Bay of Chaleurs Minnesota and California. It cites a century long presence in Louisiana with an 1785 leper hospital in New Orleans and discusses contagion uncertainty and the disease being incurable by known treatments. Medical authorities debate contagion and emphasize its rarity.
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India
China
Europe
Sandwich Islands
West Indies
Louisiana
New Orleans
Bay of Chaleurs
New Brunswick
Minnesota
California
Ballim Ve Trmes
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Bill Nye
Gotham
Winter Garden
Chamber of Horrors
New Jersey
Jersey
Jesse James
Missouri
Emeline
New York Mercury
Treasury
J. F. Smith & CO
St. Louis
Re. Harris
Dessted
Omumnions
Harris
Our
Turkey
U.S
Bass Bros
Terrell
Texas
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