Sailors and Uniforms Rise in Neptune Court Gossip
A Tribune interview recalls six odd seafaring outfits from past voyages. Tales span Bill Rice the nautical duck with a velvet coat and oversized stovepipe hat to a landsman with umbrella and rubber coat. Other snippets include a quartermaster chasing Flyaway light and a muttered shipboard discipline tale from Rio.
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Neptume
Tribune
Colby
Bill’ Rice
Liverpool
Rio
All Saints
Landsman
Bahai
Donkey Cruelty Incident Sparks Moral Lesson
In Austin a cartoonish cruelty scene unfolds as boys torment a donkey tied to a cart. A good boy named Smith, who aided the animal, is struck by the driver when the donkey’s owner emerges from a saloon, prompting a clash of justice and retribution.
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Texas
Austin
Key
Smith
Padres Seales
Maki Eir Esca
Publishers and Booksellers Fight Folded Prices
The Cincinnati Times-Star notes a conspiracy between publishers and retailers to set fictitious book prices, especially on juvenile titles sold at $1.25 while publishers charge 40 cents. It argues such practices create book bazars in departments and threaten honest, educational book stores.
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Wanamaker
Philadelphia
Publishers’ Weekly
Cincinnati Times-Star
Desolate Russia Described By Temps Correspondent
The Temps correspondent in St Petersburg paints a bleak view of Russia with Count Tolstoi, Interior Minister, enforcing old despotism, suppressing local councils, and banning internal press discussion while seeking Nihilist foes. The Emperor stays at Gatschina, relies on reactionaries, fears assassination, and has not progressed in governance. Military officers’ views remain unknown.
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St. Petersburg
Russia
Count Tolstoi
Interior
Gatschina
Real estate market in New York shows halted activity
A Grosvenor at Fifth Avenue and Tenth Street sold to Mutual Life Insurance for 100000, mortgagees to take back 150000 at 5 percent. 9 East Sixty fourth Street sold to John P Duncan for 125000. The Johnson estate brownstone earlier sold in 1876 for 230000, Grant Jr had contracted in 1884 for about 150000 but not completed.
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New York City
Grosvenor
Fifth Avenue
Tenth Street
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Sixty-fourth Street
Johnson
John P. Duncan
A.S. Johnson
U. S. Grant, Jr
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Experimental Shaft Yields Oil in Wyoming Territory
An experimental shaft dug in a new oil region of Wyoming Territory yields six barrels of oil in twenty four hours after sinking only fifteen feet. The find signals potential for promising production and may attract prospectors to the area.
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Wyoming Territory
The Guardian Angel and the Rise of London Cabs
The piece recalls the Guardian Angel hackney driver and Parisian cabmen, noting shifts in London transport from late Georgian night errands to modern hansom cabs. It cites Walker’s Original and Sydney Smith, contrasts cab scarcity in 1823 with 14 000 cabs today, and praises speed and comfort of contemporary public conveyances.
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Walker
Metropole
London Telegraph
Paris
L'Ange Gardien
London
Jarvey
George III
George IV
Jesus
Strand
Kensal Green
Hackney
George LV
Sydney Smith
Beaconsfield
Honore de Balzac
Lord Rosebery
Time Tinkering and the Clockmaker’s Rejuvenation
A Texas humorist recalls hiring a tramp to tinker with a clock and freeing the device from slow service. He spends seven dollars on tools, disassembles the clock, then reassembles it with chaotic results. The clock runs backward briefly before he stops the reversal and reflects on Edenic themes and time’s passage.
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Rand
Garden of Eden
Eve
Adam
Texas
Sacramental wine demand rises amid prohibition reforms
A wholesale wine dealer told The Mail and Express sacramental wine use in the United States exceeds fifty thousand gallons annually. He notes priests seek pure grape juice and dry wine with about 11 percent alcohol, while sweet wine with higher alcohol is common but often deemed unsuitable. Foreigners crave American wine, and prohibition boosts sacramental sales with drugstores stocking supplies. The dealer predicts sacramental wine could reach 150,000 gallons as malt liquors are barred.
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United States
Mail and Express
New York Mail and Express
A Ramb le in Spain Naturalist and Sportsman Tour
A travel sketch celebrates Spain’s wild pristine landscapes and abundant wildlife. It highlights bustards and quail on plains, kites and harriers in the skies, diverse small birds, and the Spanish bull in open country. Sierras host goats, oaks, and rugged scenery. the serrano cowboy appears leathered and armed as he moves through the hills.
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John Hooker
Spain
Prag
Nature
Tropics
Sierras
Pyrenees
Gallicia
Austrias
Notable Described Outlaw Advances Despite Appearance
A fragment notes an outlaw nicknamed the Devil Desperado described as hospitable and helpful despite his fearsome appearance. The Pall Mall Gazette quote hints at a paradoxical public view of the figure in a historical context.
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Brn Hee
Fashion Versus Common Sense in the Age of Tight Fashions
A London Standard opinion piece argues fashion dominates public taste over common sense, criticizing tight sleeves for women and tight continuations for men. It laments fashion’s universal influence, inconsistent priorities, and the impracticality of long trains and crinolines in everyday life.
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London Standard
Barmah Rice Crop Prospects Report from Calcutta 1884
The official December report estimates total rice area in ten districts at 4 180 835 acres with another 332 000 acres in nine districts and 129 000 acres in taungya, totaling about 3 640 000 acres. November rain aided higher lands. October rains damaged flowers and light ears. Estimated exportable cargo rice ranges near 988 000 tons, but cautious forecast suggests not more than 975 000 tons, pending thrashing results.
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Barmah
Calcutta
Boys Will Be Buoys Tale From the St John River
Florida boys who swam near the St John river lured a large alligator with a buoy crafted to resemble a boy. The gator bit the buoy, which exploded from nitro glycerine and sent the creature tumbling tail first upstream three miles. Moral stated as boys will be buoys.
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Florida
St. John River
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Real Estate
New York
Fablic Conveyances
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