Dramatic tale of murder and remorse on Rhine voyage
A German actor recounts a past love betrayal and a planned murder. He describes love, jealousy, and a double suicide triggered by Lena the actress and a cavalry officer. The narrative follows his disguise and pursuit from Hanau to Cologne, ending with arrest and a confession of crime and money theft. The tale blends theatre life, romance, and tragedy aboard a Rhine river setting.
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Heinrich
Silene
Royal Theatre
Hanau
Rhine
Juliet
Romeo
Goethe
Margaret
Faust
Cologne
Lena
Coblentz
Stadt Theatre
Fraulein Lenn
Baronne
Graft von Huber
Lehall
Augustia Strauss
Bierhalle
Dragoons
Schwarz Adler
Royal Platz
Veress
Inside the Mint How coins are made and stored
A Philadelphia Times account explains minting from molten metal to stamped coins. Workers, including about 100 women, weigh and adjust each piece for correct weight, roll ingots into form, and stamp 80 to 110 coins per minute. The article notes sewing bags for coin storage and large bag sizes for gold, silver, half dollars, and pennies.
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Officer Brown
Mint
Philadelphia
Man Confesses Murder Plot and Theft in Police Files
In a police record a man threatens violence against a woman, rants of murder and poisoning, and recently stole from a deputy’s desk. He was once deemed rational and given light duties, but now is described as driven by fear and deception, with authorities claiming they have the suspect.
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Allan Fiction
Come Gotliebb
Electricity in Gardening by Electric Light
W. W. Rawson of Arlington Massachusetts reports a five day gain on each of three lettuce crops, totaling two extra weeks per season, with one crop covering electric lighting costs and profits on the other two. Cornell's Dr Bailey notes glass roofs modify light effects, five hours nightly at twelve feet speeds maturity by a week or ten days but harms young plants and new transplants.
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W. W. Rawson
Arlington
Mass
Bailey
Cornell University
Elf-man encounter in a lilies field tale
The speaker recalls meeting a tiny elf in a lilies filled setting. The elf explains his small size, saying he is as big for him as the speaker is for himself, highlighting perspective and a childlike vision. The verse echoes St. Nicholas era playful moralizing about size and viewpoint.
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St. Nicholas
A VONY'S TRICKS
A ten month old pony trained by a Henderson County North Carolina farmer's son performs many feats. The animal shakes hands and kisses designated people, finds buried items with a blindfold, feigns illness, counts items, selects preferred articles, fires a pistol, and more according to the Chicago Herald.
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Henderson
N.C
Chicago Herald
The Fox the Badger and Rabbits
In Blackwood's Magazine the fox noses rabbits out and scratches them. the badger digs for young rabbits to satisfy a long winter fast. Both hunt by day where quiet, secluded spots lure them, contradicting expectations about their habits as woodland creatures.
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Blackwood’s Magazine
Peepsy’s Moon Dream For Her Baby Brother
A sleeping-brother tale where Peepsy seeks the moon to calm him. She braves hillside dangers, hears encouraging creatures, and falters before realizing it was all a dream from Child's Garden. The moon grants a yearly dozen new moons to rock the baby, then Peepsy awakes.
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Peepsy
Tam
Birds Eggs Collection Inspires Nativity of Two South American Boys
A narrator recalls seeing over 200 bird eggs gathered by two boys who spent much of their lives in South America. The eggs, found by the boys themselves, are housed in oak cases crafted by the elder, with colors ranging from violet to azure. They plan to start a Northern birds eggs collection after moving to New York, while the narrator urges avoiding nest robbery and shares a story of robins nesting near a window.
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South America
New York
Heartbroken birds mourn nest loss in sorrowful diary
A New York Recorder note tells how a bird couple’s home was robbed of its contents and broken, leaving the parents desolate. The mother bird lay dead on the ground near the bushes, while the father never returned, their grief mirrored by the surviving chick and the community’s pity.
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New York Recorder
Facts About Insects and Their World
Insects display vast diversity from parasitic spiders to gnat lancets and cupping air draws. Moths may eat never after reaching perfection while ladybirds eat thousands of aphids. Wasps kill many flies. termites cluster tall in South Africa. bees and ants show complex nests. Human uses include dental tartar biology and vinegar killing insects. estimates show US farmers lose large sums to insects.
Beard worship and the Battles of the Beard in France
In historic France the beard was sacred and central to male identity. After Tolbiac Clovis victory, ambassadors claimed to touch the conqueror's board, provoking Alaric who seized their beards and forced acknowledgment. Historians cite later battles as the Battles of the Beard in reference to these events.
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France
Clovis
Tolbiac
Alaric
St. Louis Republic
Increase of Whites and Negro Population in the South
The New Orleans Picayune reports statistics from 1890 census figures showing white population growth nearly doubles that of negroes. Mortality among freed Negroes in cities was high, especially in Washington and Baltimore, with New Orleans faring better. The data suggest the negro population grew faster after twenty years of freedom despite slavery's evils.
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New Orleans Picayune
South
J. S. Billings
United States Army
Department of Vital Statistics
Washington
Baltimore
New Orleans
Washion
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Gana
Loor
Araig
Yatchnd
Mary Aingo de Vere
W. J. Florence
Lolognt
Oberamstein
Stolzenels
Ems
Nuassia
Rone
Rucker
America
Chiwire
Milinstein
Capellun
Inorhal
Hawker
Lereyman
Yny
Amuchua
Nika
Bose
Heinrich Ink
Schwartz Alder
Graf von Huber
Frankfort
Lahnstein
Capelien
Gotliebb
Little Elf
Vony
Peepsy and the Moon
Beaumur
South Africa
Afric
Leuwenhovek
United States
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