Bret Harte serials offered by Gazette readers notice
The Gazette announces two Bret Harte romances from Houghton Mifflin with Boston copyright, to begin after Jess. the Democratic County Convention for Douglas County Lawrence is set for October 15 with primaries October 11 and 14, plus notices of science meetings and land reform efforts, praising the Democratic administration and critiquing Republican land policies.
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Bret Harte
New Jersey
California
Democratic Party
Douglas County
Court House
Lawrence
Register of Deeds
Borreyor
A. Ricas
Fagitious Drift and Oddball Observations From a Bygone Era
A fragmentary column notes satirical thoughts on gender attire, grocer bills, cat music aversion to violins, and a young boarding school girl’s exclamation about a goose. It then belts out feeble jokes on Texas parsons, a butter ball resurfacing after fourteen years, a humorous Elmira dialect story, and a Russian emir’s trigamy case ending in suicide.
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Texas
Elmira
Nicholas
Household Remedies and Health Tips From The Week
A collection of home cures and cautions including lemon juice for headaches, borax for freckles, peach leaves for wounds, sweet oil for burns, saline nasal cleansing, lime antidote for poison ivy, and iodine for early boils. It notes woolen smoke for felons, a back strain liniment, nail care with wool yarn, and a gun club shoot where Holloway won gold and Bromelaick silver.
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Holloway
Hotel Detectives Explain Shadowing Methods in Big Hotels
A feature on New York hotel detectives led by David J. Larkins outlines the craft of following guests without detection. It details shadowing rules, attacker profiles, and common crime patterns, including thieves who casing rooms for valuables and how detectives distinguish innocuous visitors from potential suspects.
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New York
David J. Larkins
Mr. Larkins
Ving
Watson
Baltimore
Grand Central Hotel
Bowery
New York Commercial
Teaching Londoners English and the Cockney Trouble
A New York reporter recounts a sergeant teaching Cockney Londoners to pronounce English correctly in Whitechapel. The lesson focuses on aspirates and long a sounds, with one man improving faster than the other. The piece also notes thefts of coffee beans on Fulton Street and a ferry ride incident.
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Whitechapel
Neil the
Mae Geant
New York Mail
Expres
Fulton Street
Ric Aday
New York Evening Run
Fall Speed Tales From Honest John and Willian
A fragment recalls Honest John Blank, historical governor of a New England state, with brother William a noted sportsman. During a shooting trip, their horse failed to meet their high speed notions, prompting exclamations about “shoot imagining shoot.” The text blends caricature and editorial wit, reflecting period political satire.
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John Blank
New England
John
William
Willian
Harper’s Magazine
Anglomania in Japan at a Tokyo ball noted by a world bicycle tourist
A traveler recounts an invitation to a Rokumi Kwan ball in Yokohama Tokyo where Western fashions clashed with Japanese formality. He observes English dress, drawl, bored hosts, and mixed reactions from officers and society in a vivid portrait of Anglo-American influence in Japanese high society.
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Guyematen
Japan
Tokio
Suyematau
M. Stevens
Buyematen
America
Sagemates
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