Holman Ends Long Public Career Returns To Farm Life
The fifty third congress retirement signals the end of W S Holman of Indiana after fifteen terms. At nearly 73 he moves from public life to rural quiet, reflecting on a career marked by fame and protest rather than wealth.
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Half Century of Wedded Life for Nev and Mrs Kelso
Nev and Mrs J C Kelso marked fifty years of marriage on March 15. Both aged 73, they wed in Knox County Illinois on March 11, 1845. Friends offer congratulations and wish them many more years of happiness. a recent bereavement prevents a public celebration.
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Gleanings on Food and Frugality From Sir B. W. Richardson
The piece cites Sir B. W. Richardson urging frugal, balanced eating to improve life value. It contrasts modern abundance with Elizabethan scarcity, and advocates small meals, slow eating, minimal animal foods, and fruit. The advice stresses not overeating and using clean utensils.
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Deer Horns as Medicine in Chinese Custom
Chinese medicine uses deer horns valued by their developmental stage from tender velvet growth to osseous final form. The horns come from a female-less deer species whose horns are shed and replaced by new ones. Value declines as horns age and shed, with young horns more prized.
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Parisian Divorce Rumor Ends in Questionable Compatibility
The Paris Herald reports a prominent divorce rumor involving a granddaughter of a famed poet and a literary man, son of a celebrated author. The young wife has returned with her baby to her mother, and compatibility of temper is cited as the sole cause, casting doubt on whether a divorce can be obtained.
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Meeting of Joe Jefferson and Richard Mansfield Sparks Twelfth Night Revelry
In a staged introduction at the Empire theater benefit, Richard Mansfield initially proclaimed he would not appear, prompting Beatrice Cameron to urge Jefferson to meet Mansfield. Mansfield then performed briefly, wowing the audience and Tudor the Twelfth Night club, as reported by the New York Herald.
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New York Herald
Kitchen Odors Stir Gotham Society Boundaries
Cholly Knickerbocker reports in New York Recorder that a celebrated ex commodore of the New York Yacht Club allowed his cook and her staff to occupy family boxes at an Italian opera, provoking indignation among ladies in neighboring boxes and prompting talk of impertinence and affront amid the city’s social scene.
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Cholly Knickerbocker
New York Recorder
Leap Year Rule Linked to Fourfold Divisibility
The text explains leap years occur every four years and that century years are leap years only when divisible by 400, noting 2000 and 2400 as examples. It provides the rule and its relation to the Gregorian calendar.
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