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A Doctor's Story on a Summer Railway Journey
A physician recounts a holiday ride to Portsmouth where a calm, proper passenger in a smoking car becomes a dangerous lunatic. The doctor narrates fear and strain as the woman, displayed in a troubling mood, attacks the car and attempts to escape the carriage at speed.
German Widow Rescued After Desperate Train Struggle
A medical man recounts restraining a mentally ill German family member on a Southwestern line train. The woman wandered from home during an apparent attack, boarded the early Portsmouth mail, and nearly endangered lives. She was recovered, identified, and her cure pursued. the narrator hints at a personal, final admission.
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England
Lotta
Portsmouth
The
Express
Wonderful House Cat Nurses Rat Preserved by Its Care
San Francisco alarmed by a cat tale in Fairburn Georgia where a cat reportedly nursed a caught rat, sparking curiosity about the animal’s unusual maternal behavior. Also noted are a dog learned to ride a horse, birds returning after a snowstorm, and a one legged sparrow nesting on Norwich city hall column.
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San Francisco
John Jones
Fairburn
New York
Norwich
Conn
Pencil Pushers and Newspaper Personalities
A lightning strike on an Illinois reporter inspires a vivid own experience. Carrie J. Bartlett, former Minneapolis journalist, now pastor of a Unitarian church in Sioux Falls, sees growing parish. A South Carolina editor bets a trio of college professors can meet in a November plowing match at Columbia fairgrounds. A Mormon hierarchy salary rumor places A. M. Gibson in Washington. Maine journalist Kate Tyron plans a lecture tour after earning praise for a forceful defense of reporters at a Methodist conference in Portland.
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Illinois
Carrie J. Bartlett
Minneapolis
Sioux Falls
Columbia
A. M. Gibson
Zion
Washington
Kate Tyron
Maine
Maine Press
Portland
Remarkable fruit tales and a vast Florida plantation
A South Carolina apple tree bears fruit resembling apples yet tastes pineapple like. Miss Mary Lambert of Island Lake Florida grew a radish weighing four pounds, six inches wide at the top, and twenty six inches long overall. A North Stonington farmer yields about 25 pounds of butter weekly from one cow aided by oleomargarine firkins. Maj. B W Bellamy’s 8000 acre Florida plantation employs over 1500 named workers across extensive cultivation.
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Rockingham County
South Carolina
Mary Lambert
Island Lake
Fla
Norwich (Conn
Stonington
B. W. Bellamy
Jefferson
Florida
Oddities From Far and Near Storied News Briefs
A collage of curious items from 19th century life covers superstition among surgeons, a deadly youth encounter in Sunday school, bald Indian school pupils, a Swiss chef altering Turin bread, and boxing bans in Pittsburgh. Burglars in Monticello steal $12, a Lincoln-era land deed in Windsor connected to Gen Grant, mass baptisms in St. Louis, a labor strike to avoid work in Santa Clara, a Jersey City burial mystery, and a 100 pound catfish catch near Toomsboro. The Kilburn fight skeleton near Walpole is revealed, a Hartford seaman rises in rank at sea, a Wyoming rider seeks a back bill for stolen travel, a lightning death in Savannah, a Dartmouth prank on Western Union, Texas capitol land-for-contract deal, Corsican arrest at a wedding, the Oregon beauty mare with mile-long mane, and a Buffalo Valley discovery of $3,000 in gold coins.
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Oregon
Genoa
Pittsburg
Monticello, Port Jervis & New York
Monticello
N. Y
Glasgow
United Kingdom
Windsor
Conn
Matthew Grant
Grant
St. Louis
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Baptist Church
J. C. Clough
Thomas Costrove
Santa Clara
Cal
John Elvinsman
Jersey City
Elvinsman
Oconee River
Toomsboro
Michael P. Barr
Washington
Naval Service of the United States
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Wyoming Territory
Savannah
Dartmouth
Western Union Telegraph Company
State Capitol
Texas
Ajaccio
Corsica
Camille Nicolat
Louisville
Lee Mackey
Maxwell
Buffalo Village
Mackey
Greene County
Robert Duyden
The Sweet Springtime Poem Fragment
Fragmented verse describes a spring meadow with blossoms bees and butterflies. It mentions Medora sprinkling Persian powder on draperies and a hyphenated rustic scene with cows and horseflies amid clover seas, conveying a playful pastoral mood.
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Medora
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