Missouri Legislature debates circus bill and capital move
The Register notes a Missouri bill to regulate circuses as too strict and jokes it aims to curb advance agents. It also reports Craik and Bullock completing a first winter ascent of King's Ravine New Hampshire in zero wind and high drifts. Sedalia and Jefferson City fight over moving the state capital with Sedalia as a growth center and Jefferson City as government seat.
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Missouri
W. B. Craik
R. A. Bullock
King’s Ravine
New Hampshire
Jefferson City
Sedalia
Commonwealth
Cincinnati Youth Embarks on Bold Oriental Explorations
A 26 year old Cincinnati man named Will Doherty spent six years roaming Asia. He crossed Bulgaria and Greece on foot, camel through the Libyan desert, rode Persia from Teheran to Bushire on an Arab horse, and traveled India on an elephant. He was guest of Rajahs and hosted by Bedouins, and he writes vividly of his adventures.
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Cincinnati
Will Doherty
Burnaby
Khiva
Stanley
Bulgaria
Greece
Libyan Desert
Persia
Teheran
Bushire
India
Remarkable mirages across Dakota lure northern horizon
The Darlington News reports atmospheric wonders seen in the town and Wesington Hills over sixty miles away with clear views of York town Kimball and Missouri River hills on a horizon that dazzles observers. A Belfast Maine youth frozen to inaction after a rainy night is thawed by hot water from his partner. Music influences work pace as a tailor’s crew moves faster with lively tunes. Moody defends skating for God's glory while recalling a Scottish liquor debate. Washington has 103 colored men worth over 25 000 each and many paying taxes on 5 000. George W Williams, ex-mem
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Dakota
Darlington
D. T
Wesington
Yorktown
Kimball
Missouri River
Pen
Mr. Moody
Evangelist
First Presbyterian Church
Newark
Scotland
Tarnr
Washington
George W. Williams
Wealthy Colored Americans Across the Nation
A Cincinnati paper notes wealth and status among African American individuals, listing figures from $40,000 for a state assembly member’s history work to $1,000,000 for Dr. Gloster and $300,000 for Frederick Douglass. It recalls slave origins, political roles, and aging families, interwoven with a comic Cincinnati tale of two English sparrows sparring on a street.
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Ber
Ohio Assembly
Frederick Douglass
John F. Cooke
District of Columbia
John M. Langston
United States
Hayti
John Lynch
Mississippi
Congressman Smalls
Dr. Gloster
New York
John X. Lewis
Boston
Beacon Hill
Sherman
Cincinnati
Robert Gordon
How Women Should Dress in Modern Attire
A Paris Figaro quote argues women should wear flowing skirts not tight clothing. It says androgynous dress erodes sex identity, overemphasizes visible charms, and diminishes the allure of suggestion and subtlety in love.
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Paris
Cause of Light and Heat in the Sun
Professor Richard A. Wroctor, astronomer, dismisses sun heat from combustion or chemical changes. He argues current knowledge points to internal contraction of the solar globe as the true source of most heat and light, effectively making gravity the driver of solar energy.
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Richard A. Wroctor
Solar Globe
Colors Large and Small The Huxley Color Size Theory
A humorous 19th century TV-like treatise claiming colors alter physical size. It cites Prof Huxley experiments with stockings and garments showing white as largest and black smallest, affecting perceived and actual weight and volume. It links color to clothing, ships, cars, and soldiers, ending with a quip about a legal tale on button legality.
Boarmingham Buttons Trade Once Tied to Law
The piece recalls Birmingham's button trade once famed as the "toyshop of Europe" bolstered by an act of Parliament. It banned metal buttons and enforced legality with a 40 shillings per dozen fine for garments bearing prohibited buttons, noting the period's strict measures.
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Doran
Shirley
King
Birmingham
Europe
Burke
Towit
Alea
The Naughty Sister-in-Law
Fred Haynes, a twenty eight year old grocery traveler, enjoys flirtations while married to a Fargo woman. On a Northern Pacific trip he dallies with his sister in law whom he meets in Fargo, only to be revealed by his wife at Bismarck. The encounter ends with family discipline and a comic moral.
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Fred Haynes
California
Fred
Helena
Montana
Dakota
Red
Bismarck
Northern Pacific
Fargo
Portland
Oregon
I'red
Sleaya
J'red
Tred
Eal Herald
Dr Findlater's Self Help Lesson From a Self Made Scholar
The late Dr. Andrew Windlater exemplified how energy and ability overcome obstacles. From a farmyard start and village schooling he earned an LL D and edited the Incyclopedia associated with Chambers. He rose by self denial, sacrificing personal comforts to educate himself, offering a lesson to young men lacking friends or means.
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Andrew Windlater
Findlater
Incyclopedia
Chambers
London
Reformer Seeks Office by Finding the Man
A Vine Street lawyer tells his clerk that the office should seek the man, not the man the office, illustrating reformist thinking. Statistics cited claim Maine leads Michigan and many Western states in pauperism and crime per capita, per the Saginaw Courier.
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Briers
Vine Street
Willamsport
Maine
Michigan
New Jersey
Saginaw Courier
Getting Tattooed A Process More Painful than Picturesque
Two men stripped to the waist are tattooed in a third story South street studio by Prof Thomas and assistants using needles, vermilion and India ink. They describe designs ranging from liberty and faith to sailor motifs with per week demand and prices from ten cents to five dollars.
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South Street
Prof
Thomas
Jim
Colorado
India
Philadelphia
The Gunpowder Plot Described in 1605 Conspiracy
A fanatical group of Roman Catholics plotted to destroy Parliament on November 5 1605 led by Robert Catesby with Guy Fawkes as a key conspirator. They rented a House of Lords cellar, mined the area, stored 36 barrels of gunpowder and planned to trigger it during the session. Lord Mounteagle received a warning letter October 26 signaling the danger.
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Ter
James
Fawkes
Hight
England
New England
Guy Fawkes
Commons
Robert Catesby
Guy Tfawkes
Johnson
D’awkes
House of Lords
Parliament
Parliament House
Lord Mounteagle
Izamal Fair and Bull Fight Traditions in Yucatan
Harper's Magazine recounts the Izamal festival on December 8 honoring Our Lady Izamal. Merchants visit, dolls are revered in private rooms, and a solemn procession precedes a bullfight. Indians enter the ring to gamble with danger, while rejon owners strike the bull in the nape. Rockets, bands, and spectators amplify the spectacle as fearsome fighting ends with lassoing and removal of the bull.
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Izamal
Yucatan
Mercury
Spain
Alice D. le Plongeon
Harper's Magazine
Prayer Barrels on Himalayan Borders
The traveler describes prayer barrels seen among Thibet border traders, detailing the six syllable sacred inscription, the rotating cylinder, and the ritual of turning clockwise to honor the sun. He notes a global pattern of sunwise sacred circumambulation and the persistence of ancient homage.
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Thibet
Himalaya
Lanuds
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Sarah Drew
Halifax
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Middleton
Thomas Foran
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