Good Highway Law Changes Road Taxes and Oversight
The Indiana legislature enacts a new highway law to replace paid road work. It creates two township taxes for road repair and highway improvement, limits compensation for the highway commissioner and inspectors, and ends in kind payment of taxes. A township overseer of highways is elected annually to supervise under the commissioner. Tax amounts are set by voters or the township board.
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Indiana
Motor News
Sensible Roadmaking Under Kansas Law Date
Kansas adopts a new road law requiring road work to finish by July 15 each year. Enforcement may be slow but is needed to improve poor rural routes. The piece criticizes delays and calls for faster fixing of bad sections and better drainage and grading.
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Kansas
Goulay
Useful Association formation in Pennsylvania law
A misread notice describes the formation of a useful association in Pennsylvania. It notes that provisions of the general and local laws must be carried out by officials to ensure funds are kept for public interest and that the association complies with duties prescribed by law.
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Imercate Goud Uude
Pennsylvania
Uae
Good Roads In Arkansas Progress In Turbulent Times
In Sebistlin County Arkansas road improvements advance as twenty miles of well-graded streets are in use and ten more miles are planned yearly. Officials discuss planks for better transport while rural areas benefit from improved vehicular routes in the region.
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Arkansas
Pers
Sebistlin County
Ark
Booth
Accomplished Thieves and the Art of Stealing
An old London Telegraph anecdote describes thieves training youths to imitate animals and perform feats of stealth. A cavalry sentinel spots a trick, hides behind a tree stump to spy, and a thief, laughing at the ruse, trips the guard and escapes with the helmet.
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Tie
Geck
London Telegraph
The Devil In the Gown and a Clerks Sleepy Sermon
A London Strand anecdote recalls a clerk who slept through a sermon misreading the pause as the end of the service. The irate squire tips him for timing. A Caistor curate known for smoking jokes with the gown prompts the clerk to quip about the psalm choice. The phrase The devil’s in the gown appears.
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Thomas
Caistor
Holton
Clixby
Rothwell
London Strand
Saved by His Wit in Dublin Barracks
A Dublin noncommissioned officer entered a barrack gate and was saluted by a junior officer. He returned the salute, unaware the colonel was behind him. In quarter, an order to see the colonel awaited. When asked why he returned the salute, he replied, I always return everything I am not entitled to. The colonel laughed and dismissed him.
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Dublin
London Express
England
A Bit of Kindness and the Worth of Good Fatherly Love
A fragment reflecting on kindness as the greatest duty a man can show to his earthly father and all his children. The writer marvels at how easily and instantly kindness can be shown and hopes the world embraces more benevolence through simple acts.
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Jy W
Fragmentary Quotation Reflects Circular Street Attention
A scrambled excerpt discusses persistent street attention and a rhetorical exchange about saving and counting votes. The text mentions a person named Frank Admiczion and Lt who inquire about a third vote. It reads as a fragmented historical note likely from a Lowell or Gust reference, with no clear event or date.
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Frank
The Tale of a Feather Duster Vintage New York Romance
A lonely election night observer in New York drifts through a crowd with a feather duster, loses his way, and wakes in a nurse's room beside Margery Metcalf. He learns her identity, bonds through shared care, and marries her after a joyful, corrective afternoon, ending with a moth-eaten feather duster as a keepsake.
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New York
Tierald Square
Thirty-seventh Street
Rod Broadway
Soa
Longacre Square
M. M
Times
Journal
Herald
Thirty-first Street
New Grand
Tie
Fathers
Tam Marjory Metcalf
Marjory
Mr. Metcalf
Ton
Persian Ideas and humorous misperceptions from travel notes
An American traveler in Persia reports soldiers who think English funeral salutes drive away devils and recounts tales of dog worshipers in Tehran. A Bushire rider quip and a Dublin antiquarian joke illustrate language slips and local humor in historical travel anecdotes.
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Persia
Tie
Teheran
Bushire
Tham
The Three Fates and their thread of life
The article recounts the Greek fates Clotho Lachesis and Atropos binding human life with a golden silver or wool thread. Clotho spins the thread Lachesis measures it and Atropos cuts it signaling death. The youngest Clotho wraps the thread around the bundle as the others proceed with their fates.
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Clotho
Lachests
Atropas
Love and a Stolen Plates Mix at Pine Falls
In a forest camp two photographers Temple and Storms clash with a guard dog. Bigger jeopardizes a human caper by delaying the girl Mildred Storms, who is mistaken for her brother. Temple later shares hints and the pair plan to marry, marked by a dog collar engagement.
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Temple
Bigger
Dick Temple
Regey
Reg
Reggie
Richard Temple
Mr. Storms
Storma
Mildred Storms
Beechman Farm
Falls
Storms
Mildred
Blueger
Lincoln's Quiet Dismissal of Confederate Agent
Port land Maine reported that Henry Jameson, a Confederate secret service operative, was enroute to New York to sail for England. President Lincoln advised delaying arrest, comparing the agent to a white elephant and Jameson was ultimately not pursued.
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Lincoln
War Department
Portland
Henry Jameson
Secret Service
New York
England
Charles A. Dana
Stanton
Ladies’Home Journal
Dana
White House
Jameson
Six Hundred Ruffians in the House of Commons
On February 23, 1838 Lord Maidstone called attention to Daniel O’Connell’s London dinner speech accusing the Dory election committee of foul perjury to help friends keep seats. A censure vote passed by nine. O’Connell was reproved by Speaker James Abercromby for impugning members’ honor, but he refused to retract and later described the house as six thousand ruffians.
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Lord Maidstone
O'Connell
London
Dory
James Abercromby
House of Commons
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Lowell
M. M. Cunningham
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