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Newspaper
Hull Index
Location
Hull, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 29, 1895
Page
6
A man in a dream receives a visit from a woman who outlines domestic worries and financial needs. She mentions a drunken cook, medical bills, a knee injury, plumbing concerns, and looming expenses, urging him to save and plan. The scene ends with the narrator waking as a lonely bachelor.
A solicitor narrator recalls foiling a conspiracy to extort £500 from Charley Graydon by two men posing as a lawyer and clerk. He overhears their scheme, engineers a swap of notes for safe await, and arranges a risky sting that ends with the mailers fleeing and the forged letters recovered.
A passenger recounts trying to teach a boy to offer his seat to a girl on a Sixth Avenue elevated train. A stout mother objects, while a sick crimsoned girl with a bundle secures a seat. The writer cites a broader remark that mothers shape behavior and respect.
The famed Napoleon carriage used on the Moscow retreat and the Waterloo campaign arrives in London among Duke of Wellington's effects. The vehicle features a wheeled iron top, a lowering front curtain, heavy wheels, side steps, and a rear Napoleon seat. Cushions, blankets, spoons, knives, lamps, and a cupboard-like front seat hold relics of the emperor.
A Scotch minister recounts humorous marriage experiences with couples joining hands all around and awkward responses when asked if they take each other. He recalls a bride signing her maiden name for the last time and other witty exchanges, colorfully noted by Westminster Capzette.
A relic from Mesopotamia dated 605 BC is on display at the Bush Museum. The weight bears an Assyrian inscription marking it as a legal weight from the era of Nebuchadnezzar II. The piece is four inches high and carved in green dorite with a conical form and gad tantam decoration.
A report describes Thatiniin drawn into a smooth wire so fine it cannot be seen by the naked eye when stretched across a pane of white cardboard, illustrating extraordinary invisibility of the filament.
The White Star Line builds the Heroic at Belfast by Harlan and Wolff to outpace Canard and Cunard records. At 680 feet, powered by the era’s strongest engines, Captain Cameron will command the crew as Heroic aims to debut in 1895 and redefine ocean travel between New York and Liverpool.
The piece details immense crown jewel values across Europe and Asia, listing the Portuguese king, Czar, Queen Victoria, Sultan of Lahore, and the Maharajah of Baroda with multi million dollar gem sets. It notes the Baroda necklace valued near a million, plus other royal regalia worth over twenty million, and mentions era travel by stagecoaches with fares and routes like Talimer to Wheeling.
Retelling from the Baltimore Sun, John F. B. Reeside recalls traveling by stagecoach, including the last mail run from Baltimore to Wheeling on New Year’s Day 1835. He notes his family’s early involvement, the rise of stage lines west to the Pacific, and the National Road era linking Cumberland to the Ohio River before railroads shifted travel.
Catharine Conklin, 87, widowed three years, chopped cordwood in the Hueytenok mountains to feed her child. She averaged a cord and a half per half day and sought relief after snow blocked her winter work. She walked six miles home after obtaining supplies.
The Birmingham police, disguised as funeral party coaches, entered a suspected betting tavern to collect evidence. The Westminster Gazette notes the ruse involved hearse and mourning coachmen, desks, and refreshments as they probed for illicit gambling activity.
A New York Weekly snippet cites an eccentric view classifying women into two types by thumb size. It asserts differences in intelligence and feeling, with remarks on ancient cities and neighbors, reflecting dated gender ideas and garbled phrasing.
Esther Morris known as Mother Morris aided Wyoming’s 1869 suffrage effort alongside Col William H Bright. Bright supported a bill granting voting rights to women 18 and over, later amended to 21, becoming law in 1870. Morris served as South Pass justice and aided miners’ families during hardship.
Advice for letter writing to Queen Victoria warns readers not to fold pages or crease communications as folded papers are unread. It recommends using thick white paper placed in a properly sized envelope and notes that envelopes may be opened by the mistress of the robes. It also cautions against loafing near workers.
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