Weexesday Notes on Garibaldi Tombs and Global News
November 6, 1689 itemizing garbled excerpts from international notices. It cites Italy’s Garibaldi tomb visit, Cuba cable plans, Miss Ballie Bull in Federal service, Iowa sharpers, poet Any Levy’s death, Japan revenue figures, German taxation, pigeons as messengers, strongmen in New York, Mexican tramp crackdown, Antwerp explosion link, Australian fence against rabbits, Paris school tours, English American engineer exchange, and cross-Atlantic influence on cantilever design.
Deacon Jabez Dickinson and the Store Non-Resistance Tale
A village merchant famed as Deacon Jabe embodies non-resistance amid insults from Bilas Maxwell and bravely restrains himself. His granddaughter Katie and other townsfolk, including the belligerent Maxwell, witness a moment when violence looms, sparking a turning point in the deacon’s life.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jabez Dickinson
Jabe
Deacon
Jake
Misa Alvira Smith
Bilas Maxwell
Silas
Jabez
Katie Wheeler
Halle
Katie
Silas Maxwell
Brute
Maxwel
Granther
Bilas
Ellie
Jaryz
Deacon Jabez's Fight and the Nonresistant Turnabout
An altercation in a village store explodes into a brutal fight in which Jabez Dickinson, once a bully, uses trained self defense to subdue Silas Maxwell and then converts to nonresistance. The tale follows Almira Smith's counter, Miss Smith’s rebuke, and Jabez's eventual shift to defending himself and others, ending with his self declared virtue and the aftermath.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silas Maxwell
Deacons
Bilal Mazwell
Jabez
Silas
Satan
Jabez Dickinson
Katie
Deacon
Miss Smith
Hao
Almira Binith
Almira
Collecting Mania and Fi ction in Collectibles
The piece notes fad shifts in collectibles from coins and stamps to portrait collecting of prominent figures. It highlights fictitious values, common counterfeits, and rising interest among youth, with illustrated media used to form a pictorial dictionary of celebrities. It also mentions the Eiffel Tower’s electric light visible from New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Numismatic
Philatella
Times
St. Louis
Eiffel Tower
Paris
Orleans
Counterfeiting Railroad Tickets and Whiskers in America
An old conductor discusses railroad ticket counterfeits noting that though some tickets are valuable printing a facsimile is easy, they are detected by ticket numbering and sorting. The piece then asks who defines whiskers, explaining whiskers are facial hair on the cheeks while beards are full.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore Sun
America
Home Style Dishes and Pickling Notes From A Busy Kitchen
A long stitching of recipes covers dumplings peaches pickles and preserved fruit with steps for boiled steamed and baked dumplings plus sauces and lemon pie. It includes a pickle method for peaches with spiced vinegar and guidance on handling jars and preventing spoilage. It ends with amateur science on heart electricity experiments by Dr. Augustus Walker showing electrical currents at each heart beat.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Augustus Walker
Also Mentioned on This Page
Indiana Progress
Italy
Garibaldi
Cuidne
Ballie Bull
Misske
Conite
Iowa
Tows
Any Levy
Reuben Sucks
London
Entiziantes
William
San Francisco
New York City
Mexico
Montezuma
Diaz
Greater Republic
M. Carviland
Antwerp
Belgium
New South Wales
Australia
Rouen
Havre
Mont
F. Michael
Vergail
Fountainebleau
Paria
Eoglish
United States
New York Telegram
Acura
City of the Holy
Harriet Mabel Spalding
Cat Almiry
Deacon Jabez Dickingon
Sho
Almiry Smith
New York Journal of Commerce
Farn and Garden
New York World
Pcesiaras
Ita
Receipes
Pittsburg
Newmarkets Ali Sises
Millinery Department
Rosenbaumyg
Market St
Fifth Ave
Jee
Holland & Vilas
Merchant Tailorine
Federal ST
Allegheny, PA
Basto
Market Street
Pitpeburg, PA
Riber & Raston
Thomas Elliott
Whifflete
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