Errors Cost Much in Official Printing Across Nations
A New York Herald summary notes how governments wasted vast sums over misspelled words and misprinted notes. It cites 4,000,000 US telegraph blanks destroyed for a single misspelling, canceled greenbacks in 1883, and Austrian, Italian, Spanish, British, and French cases of typographical mistakes leading to burned or invalid currency and notes.
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United States
Savoy
British General Post Office
France
New York Herald
Kind Man from the Country Hotel Mischief
A South Jersey farmer visits a city hotel with his son and repeatedly asks the night clerk if the boy has returned. Each time the clerk says the boy is out. At 8:30 the man sighs and quits waiting, remarking that the boy “put in yet.” The anecdote, cited from the Philadelphia Times, highlights the farmer’s city-ignorant humor.
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South
Jersey
Philadelphia Times
Courtship Progress Report From a Local Exchange
A small dialogue depicts a couple’s courtship progress and a humorous note about moving closer to family. The exchange contrasts closer involvement since fall with practical shifts in living spaces, reflecting family dynamics in a quaint domestic scene.
Strike of Hungarian Cigar Factory Workers Near New York
A wild strike by about 100 Hungarian women at a cigar factory across the river from New York has paralyzed operations. They are described as fierce and silent about their demands, patrolling the factory and keeping vigil with bonfires while police struggle to respond.
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New York
San Francisco
Cincinnati Times-Star
I. c
New Brunswick
O’connell
Farming in Egypt on a Rhode Island voyage
A sailor aboard the Rhode Island describes Egypt’s farming land and irrigation near Rameses tombs. He notes corn from the United States, wheat, clover, cabbages, lettuce, and most vegetables grown there. Plowing methods vary with bulls camels and even hand labor, contrasting with the ridered gang plow at home.
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Egypt
Rhode Island
Rameses the Great
Tombs
United States
Nerve Timing and Impulse Speed in Tall and Short People
A Royal Society paper discussed nerve impulse velocity in different body lengths. Observations show nerve length does not alter speed, but longer paths require more time, meaning a short person would sense a step slightly sooner, though the difference is minimal.
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Royal Society
London
Sunday Magazine
Pictures of Presidents and First Ladies in White House Corridors
In every department and bureau the pictures of former heads hang, and many presidents’ portraits reside at the White House though not all. The wives, the first ladies, are fewer in number and mainly placed in the lower corridors or basement region, where big White House functions attract more attention to their portraits.
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White House
The
Land
Morning chores and a city boarder’s clash with Jedediah Hubbard
An early morning scene shows farmer Jedediah Hubbard quarrelling with a new border, challenging city folk’s ways as he tends his garden and woodpile. The piece also recalls Missouri journalism history, a newspaper dean’s cranky rush, and contrasts in luck and wit through short anecdotes and quotes from sources like Lippincott’s Success and Sidney Smith.
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Jedediah
Jedediah Hubbard
Dream Vision of Hellfire Told by Georgia Preacher
A Georgia preacher is regaled by a church member with a dream about Satan’s realm. The storyteller notes many white men present, all holding a colored person between them and the fire, in a Harper's Weekly dated anecdote.
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Georgia
Pahson
Harper's Weekly
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