Review of a profitable quarter century's traffic on the Missouri
Bronx City Iowa reports a Missouri River Navigation congress revival of river traffic. The piece details fur company pioneer work on the upper Missouri and the 1831 Yellowstone venture, the Assinnaboine fire at Hart River with a $400000 cargo loss, and later government transport use. It notes peak traffic 1871 to 1879 at Sioux City and Yankton, then decline as railroads expanded and calls for revival similar to the Mississippi corridor resurgence.
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Bronx City
Missouri Rver Navigation Congress
Missouri River
Congress
Northwest
Fur Company
Pioneer
Big Sioux
Towa
South Dakota
American Fur Company
Hart River
Mandan
N. Y
St. Louis
Yellowstone
Old Fort Pierre
Bennett
Yellowstone River
Old Fort Miner
Fort Buford
Fort Union
Poplar River
Yelp
Stone
Fort Peck
Mssouri River
Assinnaboine
American Tur Company
John C. Fremont
Fort Pierre
Uncle Sam
Montana
Sioux City
Yankton
Northern Pacific
Bismarck
Pierre
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Nell's Halloween spells bring Captain Kit to her
Nell, bored at home on Halloween, uses old magic to summon love. She tests apple peels and nuts to reveal lovers Kit Stevens and Bob Lister, ends with Captain Kit appearing in the looking glass and confessing his arrival. The bedside tale blends romance, superstition, and a shy kiss.
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Nell
Hallowe’en
Bob Lister
Kit
Bob
Kit Stevens
H. M. S. Agile
Old Maidhood
Vanity too laughs ay icksmiths vanity too
Paolo Lombroso writes a striking Revue piece on feminine coquetry drawing on Signor Cadasso Milan prison accounts. Tales of painted faces and self fashioned corsets emerge as inmates mimic beauty rituals while governors regulate garb. The piece argues coquetry fuels art and life, not merely vanity.
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Berlin
Paolo Lombroso
Drgst
Signor Cadasso
Milan
Chinese Justice From The Cleveland Leader
A taotai orders two gold ingots sent to his treasury then sells them at half price to himself and keeps one ingot, claiming the shopmen owe nothing. When rebuked, he asserts the arrangement and warns against lictors. A wry closer note jokes about funeral costs and coffee.
Exquisite white felt hat with blue velvet plume
A feminine hat features white felt with a border of uncut pearl white velvet and light blue velvet trim. The crown is encircled by embroidery with a grosgrain ribbon bow at the back and a top adorned by large ostrich plumes in light blue and white.
Self Defense. Lorimer Defends Corporal Punishment
Washington Star notes Professor Ogden Chalmers Lorimer of Toledo, a veteran educator, insists on corporal punishment as necessary for strong boys. He cites a friend who raises six with moral suasion alone, claiming he has only whipped children in self defense. The piece ends with a reflection that some troubles are easier to hear than told.
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Washington Star
Ogden Chalmers Lorimer
Toledo
Lorimer
Real Wild Man Found in Ireland
Report from Ireland describes a mysterious wild man living in woods eating berries and small animals. He wears torn clothing, has silver hair and a white beard, never had a home, and may speak only a few words. Local peasants still leave him clothes and food, though he avoids contact. He uses a spear to fish and hunt and was once said to have frightened a peasant girl by howling.
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The
Kansas City Star
Ireland
Emerald Isle
London Lord Mayor Customs Tie Venison and Fruit to Office
The piece traces historic practices for London’s lord mayor and sheriffs including biannual venison warrants from royal parks, and the Fruiterers company gift of twelve bushels of apples to the mayor and lady mayoress. It also notes Wycombe's weigh in ritual, Plymouth’s Lake Burrator water ceremony, and Drake’s water-to-wine remembrance.
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London
Royal Parks
Mansion House
Fruiterers Company
Guild Hall
Farringdon Market
High Wycombe
Edward I
Plymouth
Burrator
Corporation
Sir Francis Drake
Standing of Baptists from a church revival
An exchange recounts a revival where a preacher asks for those in the army of the Lord to stand. A woman in the rear identifies as Baptist and is told she belongs to the navy, prompting a pointed quip about church membership.
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Army of the Lord
Army of the
S Lord
Navy
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Navigation Congress
Hart River Landing
Svterwcoats
Loruin
Ant Yamnineuin
Fin
Porteton
Key West
Lower
Mississippi
Coulson
Ibey
Perella
W.r.hearst
the Lover
Icksmiths
Signorina Lombroso
Sig
Cad
Signor Na Lombroso
Cleveland Leader
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