Social Terrors and Oddities In Early 1900s News
The Register recounts social curiosities and misfortunes from London to Boston and Dublin. It notes Isaac Wyatt injured by a bear at Bosherville Gardens, Wyatt awarded $2,000, and profiles of preacher Pamilis Brooks. It mentions Dad Freeman’s burial at 122, relic claims of a 127-year-old man, petrified wood with a worm, and Mrs. Magdalen Miller of Greenville at 90 with over $100,000 in burial insurance. Also covered are Ans Extrapeta Triton moving to Chicago, Theodore Tilton’s separations, a play titled Only a Woman's Heart, and a Long Island Railway toe verdict of $4,000. The Royal Zoological Society in Dublin reports $6,000 in receipts, 12 lion cubs reared, six sold for £500, a total lion cub sale near $14,000, and a Thibetan mastiff tied to ancient griffin lore.
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New York
Henrietta Redkin
Long Island Railway
Royal Zoological Society
Dublin
Haughton
Tax overcharge fines vs railroad in New York district
The New York Central Railroad faced lawsuits for charging 26 cents fare from Syracuse to Memphis, 2 cents above the legal rate. Courts ruled against the railroad, forcing repayment of 2 cents plus $80 fine and $30 costs. About 300 similar suits are now pending. Polish novelist Michael Czajkowski, also known as Badyk Pasha, noted for his romantic career, participated in the 1830 uprising in Warsaw and later lived in England and France.
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New York Central Railroad
Syracuse
Memphis
Michael Czajkowski
Badyk Pasha
Warsaw
Sove
England
France
Secret Agent Turned Poet and a Berlin Indian Incident
The article recounts a French secret agent in the Ottoman Empire who later lived in Constantinople until 1873, a sermon on pew renting by Rev. Sam Jones, Hugh Conway’s posthumous fame and misattributed works, and a Berlin performance where Indian dancers nearly executed a member for a stumble until a European intervened. The rescuer’s warning hinted the dancer might one day pay with death.
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Berlin
Pook-Pook
Jim
Europe
A Lapse Into Americanese on Fifth Avenue Stage
A Utica Observer New York correspondent reports a fashionable young woman briefly adopting American speech on Fifth Avenue. She ends with a fall from a stage wagon, exclaiming in a sharp American accent. The piece notes broader cultural ridiculing of Anglo-mania and mockery of Yankeedom.
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Fifth Avenue
Chappie
New York
Utica Observer
The Beautiful Dude Pace In Boston Folio Verse
A humorous verse lampoons the attractive idler called the dude. It ridicules his pose lounging near hotel doors and theaters, flirting and winking at matinee ladies, while lauding the harmless charm of the brainless idler and the farce of daily life.
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Boston Folio
One Thing Needful by Bram Stoker
Fragmentary verse retelling the biblical scene of Mary and Martha with the Master teaching. The poem highlights spiritual hunger over earthly cares and the chosen “one thing needful” that Mary selected from the heart. The passage closes with a meditation on blessedness and lasting inner joy.
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Martha
Mary
Walter Somers Escape Sparks Sacramento Quiet Rescue
In a Western canyon Sacramento, a farm girl, shelters horse thief Walter Somers from pursuers. She feeds him, aids his escape with careful guidance through woods to a road toward safety. The plan buys him time, funds his flight, and later earns him gratitude as he seeks schooling in San Francisco.
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Sacramento
Santa Barbara
Ty LT
San Francisco
Pete Larrabee
Hahneman
Walter Somers
Maxwell
Somers
Pete
Bacra
Sha
Pacific
Dennis
Premmysis
Sacramente
Buto
Bueno
Dean
New York
Basis of civilization joke ties Eliot to Price at Cambridge
A humorous quip circulates about Harvard President Eliot and Oxford professor Bonamy Price during a Cambridge dinner. Price declares the only one who solved the question of civilization was a young Cambridge girl with the answer “Progressive desire.” Eliot later asks Price for the answer, who replies to find it yourself.
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Eliot
Harvard College
Gen. Grant
Oliver Twist
Bonamy Price
Oxford
Cambridge
Price
Bonamy
England
Boston
Close Shave Tales From the Barber Chair
A Chicago News column recounts customers trading close shave stories in a barber shop. Each tale features near-disasters, from a dull razor and a mad barber to a near-lynching on the plains and a train catastrophe barely avoided, ending with the barber closing for the day.
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Blixen
Smarty
Society of Gentlemen
Rother
Chicago News
Fraudulent Booth Impersonator Leaves Dollar For Sub Sale
An editor recalls a visitor posing as John Wilkes Booth, who left a dollar for a six months subscription. The editor notes Booth’s claim is fraudulent, while a fact about a Yokosuka submarine boat is mentioned, capable of 120 yards per minute submerged at four feet depth.
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John Wilkes Booth
Office
Yokosuka
Japan
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the Register
NEW Harmony
Ind
Enphott
Washington
Isaac Wyatt
Bosherville Gardens
London
Wyatt
Pamilis Brooks
Boston Standard
Dad” Freeman
Windsor
Canada
Dad
Freeman
Dalles
Oregon
Greenville
Pennsylvania
Magdalen Miller
Ans
Extrapeta Triton
Theodore Tilton
Morse
Brooklyn
Chicago
Alice
Mr. Tilton
Paris
Turkey
Porte
Dobrudscha
Constantinople
Sam Jones
Georgia
Darky
White House
Hugh Conway
Boston Herald
Stonway
Conway
Tuavt
Hammor
Beautiful Dude
Eaul Marble
Nature
Bram Stoker
Red
Kelly Gulch
Sac
Stovepipe Pass
President Eliot
Puck
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