Mixed Farce of News Snippets from 19th Century Press
A collage of brief items from various papers notes canal work on the Erie Canal with trips between New York and Buffalo, a coroner’s inquiry into twenty NYC deaths, and odd anecdotes. It recounts a Georgia congressman’s iron and coal venture, gender roles in Nebraska, a Pougkeepsie butcher and a stock certificate found in a cow, and satirical remarks on York newspapers and social mores. The collection also mentions a bridge opening’s claimed circulation, Lydia Pinkham ads, Mormon voting practices in Utah, a Polkton marriage via Baltimore, and a rescue by Henry Farish that cost him his life.
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Erie Canal
New York
Buffalo
New York City
Congressman Brown
Georgia
Iron and Coal Works
Brazil
Detroit Free Press
Chicago Times
Nebraska
Pougkeepsie
Poughkeepsie Bridge
Poughkeepsie
N. Y
the Sun
Detroit
Detroit Post
Milton News
Brooklyn
Eagle
Harper's Weekly
Victoria
Lydia Pinkham
Holloway
London
Globe
Indianapolis
Utah
Tabernacle
Chicago News
C. J. Carraway
Polkton
N. C
Baltimore Sun
Caveraway
Baltimore
Charlotte Journal
The
Humane Society
Henry Farish
Bowling Green
Henry
Hearidge
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Fraud in Shoes Warns Pittsburg Shoppers
A Pittsburg Commercial Gazette feature warns buyers about common shoe frauds. It describes thin sole leather, muslin insoles filled with shavings or straw board, split cowhide uppers, and scrap leather heels. It notes cheap women’s footwear fakes like pebble goat and plaited hash and urges durability over cheapness for lasting value.
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Commercial Travelers
Commercial Gazette
Pittsburg
Pittsbury Commercial Gazette
Scramble for Consuls Reveals Harsh Realities
A statesman laments the chaotic rush for consular posts with many poor applicants earning little from the offices. Tales speak of consuls in hardship resorting to odd jobs, exiled lives abroad, or relying on friends to survive. The piece notes few posts are truly desirable, wrapping with the obituary of Nathaniel President of Brooklyn, aged ninety four.
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Consular Service
Neighbors Dispute Over Borrowed Lawn Mower For Summer
A summer dispute centers on borrowing a neighbor’s lawn mower. The issue highlights neighborly tensions and expectations for sharing tools during the season.
Fashion Notes On Bon nets Gowns And Wedding Dress Styles
Fashion Notes from the Evening Post describe bonnet trends with flowered silk and beaded gilets, new kerchiefs, and pale yellow silks. It details wedding party outfits, garden party dresses in olive satin, and a Parisian dress with velvet and mauve satin, plus advice on plaid dress making and silhouette trends.
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Sarah
Newport
Elance
Evening Post
Paid in His Own Coin On a New Jersey stock farm
A New York millionaire who owns a large stock farm in New Jersey enforces strict gate rules for visitors. A neighbor farmer, entering through an open gate, is challenged about his purpose and told to leave. The owner later encounters the farmer again and repeats the demand to depart, while insisting he was only trying to sell timber. The incident reflects the farm’s hard line on intruders.
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New York
New Jersey
Soand
N. Y. Tribune
Fighting a serpent in the shaft at Socorro mine
Two prospectors near La Joya report a deadly encounter with a rattlesnake in a shaft. Ed Bennett descended a 40 foot mine shaft and wrestled the 12 foot serpent for about a quarter hour, finally killing it after the snake struck his boot and coiled around him. He was rescued exhausted and still limping. The incident occurred May 17 at 3 p.m. in Socorro.
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New ‘Mexico
Socorro
la Joya
Ed Bennett
Sucorro
N. AL
Sun
Slavery in the Soudan: Berberine servants and life
The author describes Berberine slaves in the Soudan region near the White and Blue Niles. He notes apparent happiness among slaves, their long labor, and social ties with masters who provide shelter, clothes, and money for markets. Interviewed Durka captives say they are treated as family, wear fine ornaments, and form attachments to their masters’ country and people.
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Berber
Porver
Hon
Durka
Sennar
Blue Niles
Spain
Slavery Curse In Sudan Draws Moral Campaign
London News reports on the fight against slavery in the Sudan under the Khedive. It highlights amulets worn by enslaved people, calls for abolition as English officers aid reform, and argues the true harm lies in family destruction and brutal capture rather than ownership itself.
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Soudan
White
Blue Niles
Khedive
Vilages
London News
Noses as Fate Determiners in Great Men and Sages
A Cincinnati Enquirer piece surveys noses of famous figures from Socrates to Dante, linking shapes to character traits. It notes pug, snub, aquiline and other noses as indicators of temperament, will, and talent, with humorous digressions on Sancho Panza and Pomphagus praising practical uses of a prominent nose.
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Socrates
Boerhaave
Lairesse
Dean Swift
Crvsar Borvia
Paul Sarpe
Titian
Chaucer
Dante
Ohio River
Mato
Sancho Panza
Don Quixote
Erasmus
Cocles
Pomphagus
Cincinnati Enquirer
Tramp Declines Tea After Tongue in House Encounter
A tramp in Lowell is described with a pitiable expression after saying he has not tasted food for twenty four hours. A servant girl quips that he looks as if he had not bathed for twenty four years. He glances at her steaming tea kettle and exits, claiming he made a mistake in the house.
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Lowell
Ear bite scores a man thirty dollars in Vermont dispute
In Alburgh Springs two young men clashed over a girl, Henry Lewis biting off most of the rival’s ear. Lewis paid a thirty dollar fine after an arrest. A New York justice sent a woman to Blackwell’s Island for six months for shaking her fist at him.
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Alburgh Springs
Sullivan
Henry Lewis
Lewis
New York
Island
Justice’ of the Peace
Chicago
Inter Ocean
Doctor Dio Lewis plans a health magazine in New York
A veteran benefactor Dr Dio Lewis, famed for years of public health work, discusses moving to New York to launch Dio Lewis's Monthly a sanitary and social science periodical. He cites prevention over treatment, outlines past efforts at Lexington and Boston institutions, and notes the magazine’s aim to educate the public on hygiene with clear, illustrated content.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Times
Dio Lewis
Dio
Lewis
Metropolis
New York
Boston
Harvers
Warner
New England
Ladies’ Seminary
Lexington
Mass
Biy
North American Review
Normal Institute For
Walter Channing
Thomas Hoskins
Leonard
Diewis
Live-Stock Indicator Ad Prefers Brown's Iron Bitters
A Kansas City market paper touts reliability and live-stock news. It advertises Brown's Iron Bitters with testimonials from Coporus Pennsylvania and Owexrox Kentucky, claiming cures and tonics. Also promotes Wells' Rough on Coins and Wise's Axle Grease with short endorsements.
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Kansas City
Owexrox
J. N. Beck
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Sunny Side Shoes
Ell
the Lyn
Brdoklyn’' Pnr
Bay City
Canada Shore
Willian
Minnie
Fashion ‘Notes
Coporus
J. D. Zehring
Rooklyn
Iso
Wise
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