Bigamist lives stir Europe and polar venture notes
The Myrtle Point Enterprise reports on a string of European royal weddings and peculiar headlines including a bigamist tale from Yonkers. It notes Captain Amundsen’s planned pole expedition with a seven year supply and discusses durable paper for legal records and books. Interest in the Darien Canal rises in Columbia with an engineer seeking a government concession.
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Darien Canal
Columbia
Camas
Darien and other Isthmus routes shape canal debate
The article surveys possible routes across the isthmus, noting the Darien path and four alternatives including Tehuantepec, Chiriqui Lagoon-Dulce Gulf, San Blas Bay-Bayano River, and Caledonia-San Miguel Bay. It discusses U.S. interests, potential tunnels, and the Nicaragua option as a rival, with reference to the Panama negotiations and French rights. It also analyzes secret divorce records and the public morality issue in New York cases, criticizing concealed records for wealthy defendants and urging openness.
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London
Bogota
Darien
Atrato
Hanna
Nicaragua
Panama
Tehuantepec
Mex
Feo
Chiri
United States
New York City
Roosevelt
New York
Astor
John Smith
The Fighting Parson in a Norfolk Election Tale
In Balily's Magazine a tale recalls the Duke of Norfolk's great-grandfather, noted as an athletic campaigner who earned the nickname The Fighting Parson. A lawyer questioned a witness, who affirmed the sobriquet and offered to prove it in court with his own hand, ending the matter.
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Duke of Norfolk
Dauncey
Balily
Idle Sophomore Wit From Harvard Teacher
Psychology students at Harvard repeat a witty remark attributed to Prof. William James about a young idle New York millionaire. The quip notes that the exposed time he has for self adornment he uses to neglect his duties.
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Soph
Harvard
William James
James
New York
Where Thrift Fails and Fashion Obscures Value
A brief quip notes thrift failing in a fashion context. The item suggests some people dress better than others, implying thrift does not always equate to taste or judgment. The New York Sun tone reflects witty social commentary on material display.
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New York
Richard
New- York Sun
Towers of Siloam and the question of marriage
This piece reflects on fate and morality using the Tower of Siloam as a metaphor for disaster. It questions whether medicine, politics, and social norms can shield us from risk and asks who benefits most from marriage, men or women, within the broader duty of preserving the institution.
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Swedenborg
Who Gains Most by Marriage by Harold Owen
An essay examines the burdens of married life from a male perspective. It questions whether husbands sacrifice personal freedom for a wife’s needs and whether the idea of henpecking reflects modern marriage dynamics.
Pole motion shakes polar conquest claims
Scientists report the north pole does not stay still but moves in small sways, up to sixty feet, troubling calculations for explorers like Cook and Peary. The International Geodetic Association notes irregular, looping movements from 1895 to 1899, with the axis end tracing nested curves.
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Cook
Peary
North Pole
International Geodetic Association
Movements of the Earth's Axis and Pole Explainable
The article surveys explanations for pole movements. Frost of Yerkes argues ice water and air shift the pole toward the equator and back, with Honolulu and Berlin observations showing latitude shifts. Kimura offers a gravity-center oscillation of five to six feet yearly, though Frost cautions against firm acceptance.
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Edwin B.,frost
Yerkes Observatory
World Today
Equator
Honolulu
Berlin
Kimura
Frost
Fmet
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Superstition in Early Art by Dr Paul Caras
Physiologists note six fingers occur as a hereditary malformation and do not prove superiority. The piece cites biblical giants and six fingered Pope Sixtus IV and St Joseph in art, arguing dreams as a sixth sense and six digits as symbolic, not superior.
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Paul Caras
Palestine
Sixtus IV
Raphael
St. Joseph
Government Blue Book Emerges as Voluminous Official Register
The Washington Post notes the biennial Blue Book, an official register started in 1817, now over 4 000 pages in two volumes. Earlier efforts dated back twenty years with lists of clerks sent to Congress by secretaries of state treasury and war.
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Victoria
Australia
South Australia
Roosevel
United States Official Register
Washington Post
Congress
Washington
State
Treasury
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Henry Knox
First United States Blue Book Begins Government Staff Register
In 1793 Secretary Hamilton sent to Congress a general list of clerks and agents on government rolls. Printed as the first blue book, the register showed under 150 names across three departments in Philadelphia, two-thirds in the Treasury.
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Congress
Hamilton
Philadelphia
Treasury
Self-importance and American identity cited by Hale
The text notes Carlyle’s remark on Americans taking themselves seriously. Margaret Fuller is mentioned for taking it most to heart, claiming she would accept the universe, to which Carlyle countered that she had better not.
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America
Edward Everett Hale
Thomas Carlyle
Margaret Fuller
Carlyle
Maude’s Ever-Present Humor in Transcript
The transcript records Maude’s continual giggling and a noted joke about an ever-present consciousness of dimples. The dialogue contrasts her playful mood with a pointed remark from Boeton on Maude’s behavior.
Vices of New York in Election Echoes
A brief note cites the vices of New York as numerous and terrible yet largely unspoken except during elections, reflecting political sensitivity and public interest in moral concerns.
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New York
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