A Patchwork of World Happenings from An Early Chronicle
The clipping surveys diverse notes from distant places including Australia, Britain and Canada. It mentions taxation reforms in South Australia, rising crime to gain money, the Duke of Buckingham and John Bright’s deaths, Monte Carlo prosperity, a vast British timber purchase, and deeds of forgers and thieves across borders. It surveys naval debates, Balkan intrigues, and royalty’s Paris dining misadventure as political tides ripple through empires and nations.
Detectives Tale of a Mother's Murder and Hidden Truths
A Rhode Island detective recounts a 1860s case in which Mrs Brush and her son James are found murdered. The investigator uncovers a missing back door key, staged clues, and blood evidence pointing to James Brush, who is ultimately acquitted amid hostile defense claims the detective hid clues. Six months later Brush drowns himself, leaving a note claiming guilt.
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Providence
James
Blank Street
Mattie Davis
John Carew
Young Brush
Night Watch
Brush
Will
New Fork Sun
The Law of Party Walls Explained
The article defines a party wall as a shared structure between neighboring lands. It explains ownership, use rights, and the division of costs when walls are built, repaired, or improved, including easements and potential prescriptive rights. It notes decay, legal statutes, and how dead or contingency terms affect obligations.
A Country of Small Things in Japan
Mr. Frank G. Carpenter describes Japan as a land of tiny people and scaled architecture. He notes five foot to five foot five inch men, smaller women, and wooden sandals that keep him looking down. He observes bantam chickens, bobtail cats, ponies horses, one story houses, and scenes that favor pretty over grand with tea served in shell-like cups.
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Japan
Frank G. Carpenter
Babylonian Glory and Astronomer Kings Described
The ancient city Babylon far surpassed London in size with towering walls and Nebuchadnezzar’s seven mile circumference palace. Euphrates beds paved with bricks and libraries of history and science filled the palaces. Babylonians excelled in astronomy, tracking lunar changes and recording calendars with precision as the father of the sun.
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Babylon
London
Nebuchadnezzar
Jerusalem
Euphrates
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Bucket Pails Demand Sparks Flood of Goods
Two St. Louis businessmen lament the surge in bucket pail packing for varied items from candy to tobacco. They note the flood of pails has crushed prices from 15 to 23 cents to near nothing, with demand dwindling as supply overwhelms the market.
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St. Louis
Seasons in Love: May Weds August in Jest
A brief quip shows Miss Jones revealing her name is May and her partner Smith, now called August, with playful dialogue about marriage between the seasons. The exchange ends with a light joke contrasting months and names.
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Miss Jones
May
Four Ways to Test Seeds in Home Gardens
Instructs a small seed testing method from American Agriculturist. Use a vessel sized to the seed, add earth, level, place the seed on top, cover with a cloth and a thin earth layer, keep warm and moist. Lift cloth to view results. Plant one hundred seeds. ninety five germination is satisfactory.
Breeding and handling oxen for yearly profit
A Prairie Farmer writer details a method to produce four year old oxen for sale each autumn by sequentially breaking a yoke of three year olds, using them with older teams for heavy work, then pasturing them for light tasks. It also explains gear choices and notes heart pulse ranges in horses, cattle, sheep, and pigs as health indicators.
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Prairie Farmer
New York
Raw bone for poultry feeds hens well
A New York Tribune correspondent argues that burned bones are wasteful for fowls. If the nutritious matter in bone is assimilated, cracked bones fed to chickens are efficiently ground and absorbed. Fowls, especially Leghorns, prefer fresh bones and do well on them.
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New York Tribune
The Clover Crop Misbeliefs Explained and Hog Breeding Tips
An article debunks the idea that clover enriches exhausted soil and shows it removes nutrients needing large manure input. It contrasts clover’s actual extractive effect with manure needs, then shifts to advice on hog breeding, emphasizing quality over quantity and long-term herd value.
Vast Alaska Range Size Compared With World Peaks
The article notes Mt. St. Elias as visually dominant from the sea despite likely not the highest. It compares northern snow lines and climbing scale to Mt Wrangel, Mt. Cook, and Vancouver, then mentions 1248 YMCA groups in America and counts in Europe, Asia and beyond, highlighting Nazareth and Jerusalem as locations with YM associations.
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Mt. St. Ellis
Himalayas
Mt. Wrangle
America
England
Ireland
Scotland
Germany
Holland
Switzerland
Japan
Nazareth
Christ
Jeruealem
Married Rich and Heiress Match in New York
Report from New York Weekly notes George married an heiress and now enjoys wealth, while his partner works on paying for lodging at a $40 a week hotel with her father funding her lifestyle. The contrast highlights social standings and financial support.
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Gus
George
Clover
New York Weekly
Married Twenty Five Times and Enigmatic Dutch Widow
Excerpts from Evelyn's Diary describe a seventeenth century Dutch woman in Haarlem once married to her twenty fifth husband, now a widow barred from further marriage though no proof of foul play exists. A Fifth Avenue fashion moment features a young aristocratic woman with a striking black plume on a Gainsborough hat, drawing stares from passersby. Iowa and Indiana notes tout a sensational bustle trend, including Mrs Harrison and a secretary’s acknowledgments for a steel spring bustle in satin with gold fittings.
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Evelyn
Haarlem
Fifth Avenue
Belle
New York Mall
Express
Iowa
Madagascar Queen Captivates Onlookers In Dais Scene
A slender 23 year old Madagascar queen, popular yet sad, smiles at two children on her dais while rumors tie her to a former husband’s memory. She reigns with dignity, wears Paris-made garments, and may face succession if childless. Nellie Gould, Gould heir, enjoys wealth and influence with stocks, charities, and a quiet high society life. Fashion notes highlight Etrusque, hexal coiffures, and Persian bordered cashmere in current dress trends.
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Madagascar
London Een
Paris
Nellie Gould
America
Nellie
Gould
Patty
Miss Gould
Presbyterian Church
Age and Youth in Quiet Enduring Love
A reflective poem on aging and enduring affection. The speaker contrasts youth and later years, noting youthful blooms give way to winter yet expressing steadfast devotion and growing closeness over time. The sentiment centers on faithful love surpassing aging.
Humorous Verses on Cramped Wits and Wordplay
A collection of quips about writers, real estate men, dentists and death. It mocks puns and fortunes with lines on heirs, potatoes, kings, and the copyright system. The jokes pivot on language misreads and wordplay, ending with a peanut stocky remark.
Deadly Port-au-Prince and naval duty abroad
AUS Navy commander defends brave officers facing deadly postings. Port-au-Prince is described as a living hell of epidemics and filth with no sewer system and harsh tropical disease risk. The piece contrasts courage with grim local conditions and notes harsh local hazards in Ceylon.
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Rockwell
United States
Vanticton New York Stary Reporter
Port-au-Prince
Hayti
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Colony
South Australia
Chicago
Duke of Buckingham
John Bright
Duke
Monte Carlo
Satan
West Varginia
Florida
The
New Mexico
Mississippi
Atlanta Constitution
Missouri
Union
Canada
Eno
San Francisco Chronicle
Russia
Balkans
Milan
Servis
Bulgaria
Ferdinand
Roumania
Resson
Geye
Florida Times-Union
Trezsury Department
Prince of Wales
General Boulanger
Forign
Boulanger
Lord Lytton
E. Burton
John Capen
Boston
Ancient
OXEN
New York Times
W. A. Hi. Sheldon
American Agriculturist
Rich
Jay Gould
Fashion Sotes
Fonds
Barber
Deadly Port-au-Prince
Ceylon
Texes Tempecanen
Mobi
Fragiveress
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