General Interest Notes From… Diverse Clippings
A collage of brief items from various papers notes coroner case averages in New York City, rising Chattanooga postal receipts, bicycle rights in traffic, a convict carved sleeve-button in Virginia, aging in a Texas family, a California peach plum blossom oddity, New York Brooklyn charity counts, powder mill dangers, shipwreck and survival tales, a Hartford man’s Desolation Island castaway, a shock in New Hampshire from lightning, an Alabama child with three tongues, a Coxsackie widow’s night terror, and odd medical views from London Lancet.
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New York City
M. FY
Chattanooga
Tenn
Snell
Washington
Warrenton
Virginia Penitentiary
Switzerland
Rusk County
Henderson
Tex
Frank Brown
Chicago Times
California Exchange
William Overfield
Auburn
New York
Brooklyn
Brooklyn Eagle
Chicago News
Tim Riordan
Dutch Point
Hartford
Yurie
New Haven Register
Milton Bunker
Northfield
N. H
Boston Post
Alabama
N. Y. Sun
Thatcher
Coxsackie
N. Y
Mary Welsh
Lroy
London Lancet
Danbury
Mass
Loston Post
That's Me and the Bogus Bond in Detroit Tale
A Detroit Free Press piece recounts a gullible man who tries to scam a bond from a street con artist. The duped man boastingly proclaims that he is the fool Josepheus Basswood, while the swindler escapes to Canada with plans to vanish. The tale ends with the mark cursing his misjudgment and insisting, that's me.
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Woodbridge Street
Randolsh Street
Bea
Bunko
Josepheuse Basswood
Ionia County
Canada
Josepheus Basswood
Detroit Free Press
The Art of Chiromancy in Historic Perspective
The piece outlines chiromancy as a superstition linked to astrology, detailing hand shapes and finger/thumb traits associated with character and fate. It notes nails, spots under nails, and contrasts with other fortune-telling forms, ending with a brief weather-like moonlit observation from Oswego.
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Baltimore News
Government fails to protect life and punishing crime
Iowa State Register argues police weakness endangers public safety citing three hundred unsolved murders in twenty years and the Elkhorn Grove tragedy. It urges a centralized force with regular soldiers to deter crime and prevent lynching, claiming courts and police lack capability.
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England
Elkhorn Grove
Elkhorn
Clingman
Iowa State Register
Fremont and the Sawatch range in Colorado history
In the interval now occupied by the Sawatch range, vast granite masses were removed leaving high elevations of 12,000 to 14,000 feet. Fremont, then a lieutenant, traced routes from Arkansas River over Tennessee Pass to White River and Green River, aiding knowledge of Colorado geography. The Arkansas River, Colorado’s major Mississippi tributary after the Missouri, runs 2100 miles and is navigable by steamboats 800 miles from its mouth for part of each year.
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Sawatch Range
Fremont
Corps of Topographical Engineers
Arkansas River
Tennessee Pass
Eagle River
White River
Green River
Salt Lake City
Missouri
Mississippi
Colorado
Scientific American
First Class in Chewing Gum
A Chicago Herald report recounts a farcical tale about gum causing near sightedness in public school children. A West Side teacher hints gum linked to myopia while denying it, and a principal jokes about becoming nearsighted herself as the tale escalates into a humorous hoax.
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Chicago
Herald
Toru
Board of Education
Chicago Herald
Fire Spree at Schroeder House Stirs Town Justice
A string of nine fires struck Herman Schroeder’s house at the corner of California and Pierce streets around the Fourth of July. The blazes started in the barn, kitchen closet, parlor, and cellar, with the servant girl Annie Hoffmann confessing to starting them for revenge after being starved by the family. Authorities report her testimony and note she hid house keys, was twelve, and will be referred to a judge as her case proceeds.
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Herman Schroeder
California
Pierce Streets
Schroeders
Central Station
Fields
Howani
Annie Hoffmann
Annie
San Francisco Chronicle
Tea and Coffee Trade and Consumption Through Time
The Bureau of Statistics reports on tea and coffee trade and per capita use in the United States. From tea’s early high price and scarce supply to today’s lower costs and rising coffee per capita consumption, the piece traces global production by China Japan and India and US imports. It notes coffee’s greater growth and its evolution from a popular, democratic drink to a staple in modern life.
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England
Charles II
George
Boston Harbor
Netherlands
William of Orange
Dutch Republic
Spain
Duke of Alva
Philip II
Switzerland
United States
America
Bureau of
Ceylon
China
Iss
Chicago Tribune
Bureau of Statistics
East India Company
Europe
Japan
India
Arabia
Headwaters of the Arkansas River Description
The Arkansas rises near Tennessee Pass west of Mount Lincoln at 39°21′, 106°19′, flowing southeast about eighty miles. It carves deep canyons through granite, then enters plains near Canyon City. The valley width, Gorge courses, and drift deposits show erosion shaping the West. sediments once spanned from South Park across unknown terrains.
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Tennessee Pass
Mount Lincoln
Canyon City
Arkansas
Lake Creek
South Park
Amateur breeders hatch five chicks in improvised care
A collage of anecdotes shows hobbyists and amateurs successfully incubating and rearing young birds. Examples include a cousin who hatched five quail eggs under constant temperature, a man hatching silver pheasants eyes, and a Georgia boy famed for strength. Also noted is a gifted nine year old pianist from Rome, Georgia.
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Wickud Dey
Algiers
Rheims
Monsieur C
Monsieur Leroy
London Society
Athens
Georgia
Chicago Times
Whist loving Major C recounts risky luck tale
In Harper s Magazine a Major C fond of whist jokes about ill luck. He recalls a season at White Sulphur Springs with no fee won, a misdeal after a trump, and dice misfortune leading him to swallow dice then fearfully reconsider, ending with the ace and deuce reappearing in the yard.
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White Sulphur Springs
Deuce
Harper's Magazine
Nightingale exposes Indian rule and tax burdens
Florence Nightingale denounces British rule in India, detailing burdens on ryots under Bengal zemindars including marriage fees, bracelets for families, and fruit provision. In Orissa ryots face eleven annual taxes and seventeen occasional levies, plus three rupees water tax. A Bowlina Green circus billboard collapse in Kentucky killed a man, with damage awarded at 10,000.
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India
Florence Nightingale
Bengal
Zemindar
Orissa
Bowlina Green
Also Mentioned on This Page
Edwin C. Woodbury
Long Island House
Bowery
Houston County
Saul of
Tarsus
Tuscarora (Ney
Times-Review
Bannock
Jim
Columbia
Chiromancy
Oswego
Oswege
Rome
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