Official Paper of Allen County
District Judge Hon J R Goons presides with Probate Judge Jons Paxses and County officers including Treasurer Wa Timasaxe County Clerk A Nexham Register G M Knows and County Attorney JC Munkay. Other officials include Clerk District Court CM Sparson Superintendent G DeWin and Sheriff JL Woon with Deputy Woovis and Surveyor AN Aitoavee. Commissioners BP BEUITED and BOSERHERE named in the document.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J R Goons
Jons Paxses
Wa Timasaxe
A Nexham
G M Knows
Register of Dees
JC Munkay
CM Sparson
G DeWin
JL Woon
Sherif Woovis
Sherif
AN Aitoavee
Courtroom farce at Eldridge bank building sparks chaotic quarrel
A two day case ended with Dunnet and Scudder trading insults in Commissioner's Court. Amid book wares and ink and a glassy glare, Judge Scudder and Dunnet tangled over laws and citations while U.S. Marshal Armstrong restored order. The episode drew scorn from locals who called for police action and a full inquiry into the misconduct.
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Coffeyville Courier
Commissioner's Court
Eldridge’s Bank
Dunnet
Scudder
Scadder
Col. Beardsley
Stewart
Ed. Eldridge
Judge Scudder
Dunnett
Kansas
Sickafoose
Greenleaf
Chitty
Swan
U.S. Marshall Armstrong
Chronicle
Origin of the printers' devil term and tales
The article traces the printers' devil phrase to various legends. It notes the boy who fetches copy for editors is often called the devil and outlines origins linked to superstition, Aldus Manutius, a 1561 monk’s anatomy text, and a French noble family, concluding the simplest tale may be correct.
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Aldus Manutius
Venice
Aldus
William
Deccant
de Ville
Deville
Devil
Young and Fair Lovers Scramble Hair and Hearts
A playful verse portraits a young beau who fiddles and sings with charm yet flaws marked by vanity and mischief. A parallel belle chewing wax captures crowds, tongues wagging as both endure fickle romance and social scrutiny. The verses mingle flirtation with self aware mischief.
The Perfect Man and the Illusion of Perfection
H. W. Beecher critiques self declared perfection as illusion. He defines a truly perfect man as strong, energetic, passionate, and ruled by love that harmonizes with the will of God, a figure never seen on earth.
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Earth
H. W. Beecher
Future Inventions imaginations by The New York Herald
The New York Herald envisions a century ahead with inventions never seen. It foretells households powered by river pumped fuel and ice light, magnetised iron weasels flying, and rapid trips to distant ranges. It even imagines grain being shipped globally via undersea teafor pipes.
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New York Herald
Rocky Mountains
Liverpool
Calcutta
Hon Marshall Jewell's career and early life timeline
The obituary overview traces Hon Marshall Jewell of Winchester New Hampshire born October 24 1825 through youth in tanning and currier trades in Hartford and Boston, his telegraph career in Rochester Ohio Nashville and Jackson Mississippi, three Connecticut governorships, a ministry to Russia appointment, and notes on political stance and later life. It includes anecdotes about temperance and moral maxims.
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Hon
Marshall Jewell
Winchester
N. H
Pliny Jewell
Hartford
P. Jewell & Sons
Tanners and Curriers
Marshall
Boston
Rochester
N. Y
Ohio
Columbia
Tenn
Taylor
Jewell
Jackson
Miss
Nashville
New Orleans
New York
Europe
Egypt
Holy Land
Republican Party
Connecticut
Gov
James L. Orr
Russia
Liberal homestead exemptions described in old law note
A historical notice outlines broad homestead protections exempting up to 160 acres of farm land or one city acre, plus personal property limits and family necessities, including livestock, tools, and household items. It emphasizes that exemptions apply to household heads and require spousal consent where applicable, with a Monitor brief ending about a rural district mother and a tale of a boy and a hen.
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D. P. Lowe
Senate House of Representatives
United States of America
Congress
United States
Kansas
Interior Department
Lowe
A New Advertising Dodge at a Washington Execution
An anecdote from Harper's Magazine notes a real estate agent intruding on a scaffold at a Washington Territory execution. He claimed a few remarks about cheap homestead lots at Dobeon's Hole before the sheriff resumed duties and the criminal was dropped. The tale highlights frontier commerce meeting public death in a vivid, ironic moment.
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Washington Territory
Dobeon’s Hole
Harper's, Magazine
Exaggeration Rebuked by Scottish Minister Joke
A quaint Scotch minister in the pulpit tends to exaggeration. His clerk signals with coughs as he claims Samson’s foxes had tails twenty feet long. The preacher adjusts to fifteen, then ten, while the clerk coughs again, urging restraint.
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Dieppe
Madame
Abe
Sampson
Deak
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