John Bigelow 90 Year Old Diplomat Tours Hudson Tunnel
John Bigelow former minister to France and friend of Tilden, at ninety, rode the Hudson tunnel opening train to Hoboken with his daughter Grace. He published The Panama Canal and the Daughters of Danaus, a satirical critique of Panama Canal efforts, and remains active in letters and public affairs.
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New Jersey
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Hoboken
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The Boomerang Its Odd War Use Across Cultures
A historical note explains the boomerang as a two foot hardwood weapon used by Australian aborigines for hunting and war. It describes the curved shape the throwing method and the peculiar flight path that rises then returns to the thrower, with an English officer praising its unusual mechanics and steering.
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Australia
Old Joe Hires Worker With Thrifty Meals Twist
A farmer nicknamed Old Joe hires a country boy and schemes to save by eating breakfast dinner and supper together. The boy agrees but refuses to work after supper, saying a man’s time is his own then. The tale, attributed to the London Times, highlights frugality and boundaries.
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Old Joe
Joe
London Times
Socks Surprise Confederate Soldier at Richmond Hospital
Dave Saddler, a brave Confederate soldier in a Richmond hospital, cheerfully accepts homemade socks from a visiting minister but vows never to wear them again. The minister learns the socks were made by the nurse’s sister, who reveals both his legs were shot off.
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Dave Saddler
Richmond
David
Tomato Toast Recipe Note from Harper's Bazar
Recipe fragment instructs cooking tomato sauce until thick with Senalley cloves salt cayenne onion and parsley. Serve over buttered toast without crust for a simple snack as seen in Harper's Bazar.
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Harper's Bazar
Fragmentary 1904 Virginia Evansville Kidney Trouble Note
Fragmented OCR notes from Up to Die by B Spiegel mention over five years and kidney troubles. Source lacks clear events, dates, or full context. reads as an unfinished personal note from Evansville Indiana.
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B. Spiegel
Virginia
Evansville
Ind
Humor a Philosophy By Duncan Mn Smith
A playful verse warns against premature hope for spring. The poem notes optimistic days may mislead, as lingering winter returns, and warns readers to wait for genuine signs before declaring spring has arrived.
Subscriptions Push Turn Comedic Misfire Into Mayhem
A committee asks how much for subscriptions to a worthy cause. The victim opens a wallet as a prisoner of war quips about an elephant stepping on it. A repairman’s joke ends with an automobile running over the wallet in a chaotic misread scene.
Thoughtful of Him Poem Clip
A brief exchange reads like a clipped dramatic moment. A speaker asks about work and life options while mentioning a brother living in Japan, conveying a restrained, terse mood.
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Japan
Modern Miss and Western Entertainments in Sight
A pair of short sketches contrasts a modern girl who shuns chores and seeks what she lacks with a tale of western nostalgia. Maud and Charley study science while a skeptical tone questions the ethics of ambition. The monologue laments family strain and lost chances.
Eye Contact With Wild Animals Affects A Mother in Law?
A humorous dialogue ponders whether staring into a wild animal’s eyes can tame it and jokingly suggests the effect is on a mother in law. The exchange highlights a playful misdirection about power dynamics and kinship.
Off Map Notions and Money in Moral Quandaries
A fragmented verse of social commentary questions virtue and wealth, noting how ambition and gentility shift with time. It warns that worry and gossip breed misfortune while suggesting friendliness is best repaid with reciprocity. The piece reflects on hypocrisy and self interest across generations.
Sacred Chinese Writing Burners In Chinatown Mystery
The Mon War Sher lodge in Chinatown funds a sacred furnace where waste papers are burned to honor Confucius. Sacks of ashes are shipped to sea aboard a Mon War boat, in a ritual tied to preserving ancestral writings. The New York Tribune notes prominent Chinatown residents back the club with voluntary contributions.
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Confucius
Chinatown
United States
Society of Mon War Sher
Club of the Beautiful Writing
New York Tribune
Law and Literature: Poets Who Practiced Law
The piece notes Sir Lewis Morris as a notable poet who also worked as a conveyancer in Lincoln's Inn. It cites R D Blackmore and Sir Walter Scott on law and poetry, and mentions Cowper Thurlow Denham Gray and Barry Cornwall as examples of legal ties to literature. It remarks that many poets trained in law did not pursue legal careers.
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Sir Lewis Morris
Lincoln's Law
Parnassus
R. D. Blackmore
Lorna Doone
Sir Walter Scott
Cowper
Lord Thurlow
Middle Temple
Denhlam
Lincoln’s Son
Thomas Gray
Barry Cornwall
Law Journal
The Changing Meaning of Merchant From Ocean Trade to Everyday Seller
The piece traces how the term merchant once signified a wholesaler in foreign commerce with ships, citing Chaucer and Bible usage, and De Quincey. It notes a modern shift where any seller of goods like eggs or fabric is labeled a merchant, eroding the old exclusive sense.
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Chaucer
Marchaunt
Orenella
Venice
London
England’s Marvelous Gun Sells Abroad Amid Apathy
A historical note recalls a gun of great potential invented in England facing export hurdles amid government indifference. Whitworth declined Napoleon III’s bid for life-long manufacture rights in Paris. A hill fighting gun sent to India proved its mettle yet the war office later dropped it after severe testing and an accident.
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England
Whitworth
Napoleon Iit
Paris
War Office
India
Butte
Hats Trimmed While Now and There for Evening Wraps
Readers learn about powered cretonne as a substitute for brocade in evening wraps, and see a hat trimmed while you wait concept with child French dress patterns for ages one, three, and five. Detailed notes describe wings plumes and wire trims for hats and a French dress pattern from Judic Chollet.
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Mall
Testing Drugs on Animals and Humans by a Chemist
A chemist describes using chickens dogs and frogs to test ergotine hash eesh and digttails in a black yard of a chemical plant. He claims animals earn their board and that human self testing has caused deaths and insanity among chemists.
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Los Angeles Times
Kingfish Off English Coasts Dazzles With Colorful Shape
A description of the opahle or kingfish found off England’s gray cold waters. The fish weighs from thirty to a hundred pounds and resembles a sunfish in shape. Bright scarlet iridescent eyes, green gill covers, and red and green body with purple and gold sheens are noted. Large red fins and a translucent surface add to its vivid appearance.
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England
Atlantic Ocean
American
Impossible travel talk between Dukes in playful exchange
The passage records a humorous exchange where one Duke proposes travel to Cognito while the other cites his wife’s accompaniment and his marriage to an American. The dialogue hints at personal constraints and cross cultural humor.
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Cognito
Science and Art in Storm Language
Gustav Ekobbe cites Edmund Clarence Stedman contrasting poetic storm imagery with Weather Bureau forecasts. The passage notes the Bureau’s precise terms “area of extreme low pressure” and storm center, predicting impact from Charleston to New York and the St Lawrence banks.
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Weather Bureau
Gustav Ekobbe
Edmund Clarence Stedman
Mr. Stedman
Atlantic
Labrador
Cape
Newfoundland
Charleston
New York
Banks
Bay of St. Lawrence
North Atlantic
Duncan estate letters testamentary issued in Floyd County
Carrie V. Duncan has been appointed executrix of the last will of George T. Duncan, late of Floyd County, Indiana, and Letters Testamentary have been issued by the Floyd Circuit Court. The estate is described as solvent.
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State of
Indiana
Floyd
Carrie V. Duncan
George T. Duncan
Floyd County
Floyd Circuit Court
Seid County
Notice of Estate Settlement in Floyd County Indiana
Administrator William H. Whitson announces the final settlement of the Elizabeth Whitson estate. The Floyd circuit court will hear the account at the March term 1908 on April 1. Creditors heirs and other interested parties must appear to show cause or prove heirship or claims. Cardwill MelIntyre Bullett James attorneys. March 7
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Elizabeth Whitson
Floyd Circuit Court
Floyd County
Indiana
William H. Whitson
Cardwill
MelIntyre
Bullett & James
Marci
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