Slang, Spites, and Courtship: Newport Dispatches
A Western correspondent expresses impatience with Newport flunkies overheard at the races, mocking their loud slang and repeated phrases. The piece contrasts this with a humorous vignette of The Force or Hasti a husband who, after church, politely asks his wife to walk home, only to be rebuked for his century-old manners.
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I. Hallett & Co
Portland
Newport
John Jay
Jay
New York
Farmer Builds Noted Telescope in Missouri
The Columbia Jerald reports that Profs Bryant Ficklin Lowery and Newland visited farmer B Gans who invented and manufactured a telescope. They tested it and called it one of the best for its size with a superior 6 inch object glass, rivaling university instruments and noting admirable workmanship.
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Mares
Columbia
Jerald
Bryant
Ficklin
Gans
Bedtime Wisdom Over A Debt Distress
A distressed man pacing above cannot sleep due to owing his friend Brown $500. A compassionate visitor offers practical counsel instead of aid, advising the debtor to go to bed and let Brown walk awhile, easing the burden through time and rest.
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Brown
Provocation Defense in English Jury Case Report
A Sheffield furnaceman returning late drank home. his wife asleep at the door faced prolonged delay. He knocked her down, dumped a bucket of water on her, dragged her, kicked her mouth, and finally dragged her into the yarn and leaped upon her. He was found guilty but recommended on provocation grounds.
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England
Sheffield
Hawkeye remarks on a sundry scene at Capitol meeting
A chaotic exchange at a Capitol gathering unfolds as a young speaker proclaims he is running, intermingled with humorous confusion over coffee and coffee beans. An amused visitor observes. A husband oils door hinges while his wife accuses him of planning to stay out late.
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Capitol
Inpowrer
Women slaves choose husbands in Egyptian market shows
A Turkish slave ship seized by an English vessel freed seventy slaves, ten men and seventy women. Men join Egyptian army. women must marry if chosen, paying six thalers dowry. Pasha allows marriages from volunteers. women shy then pick partners. five initial rejections but all get husbands.
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Khedive
Egypt
London
Baltimore Bulletin
Sharp Lawyer Tries to Twist Witness in Courtroom Banter
A shrewd lawyer provokes a candid witness with barbed questions until the latter recalls a twenty year old memory. The witness remembers his opponent’s father borrowing thirty dollars for a suit and not repaying it, prompting the lawyer to dismiss the case.
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Bar
Hadly Paternal Blunder Sparks Amusing Departure
A portly gentleman escorts his stylish daughter down Vine Street and ignores her introduced escort. The girl repeats the name of the man, prompting the father to declare he does not wish to know Mr. and the young man exits in a comically abrupt fashion.
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Vienna
Vine Street
Cincinnati
Arsenic Beauty Blowback Ends In Stockton Imprisonment
A Sacramento Bee report describes a twenty year old girl who overused arsenic in bleaching her hair and facial skin. Once rosy and healthy looking she suffered migraines insomnia and rapid mental decline. Now she is confined as a living dead in Stockton.
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Living Dead
Stockton
Manila
Sacramento
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