Farm sale figures and Garfield price contrast
The Register notes Mrs Garririo sold a Prestonbure Kentucky farm to speculators for 7000 dollars, while General Garfield bought it early in the war for under 700 dollars. A Japan traveler says personal cleanliness is prominent. Italians had 2759 duels in ten years, Naples leading, Venice fewest, with fifty fatalities. A relic hunter removed a window sill fragment from Union College Schenectady engraved by ex President Arthur.
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Garririo
Prestonbure
Garfield
Union College
Schenectady
N. Y
Arthur
Reading habits of notable readers in Ireland and America
Cuartes Stewart PARNELL is a keen reader of American newspapers and literature, and Bal four, Ireland's Chief Secretary, also avidly reads American press. Geologists foresee a future seismic event. an English expert predicts New Zealand could sink fifty feet due to a major convulsion within fifty years.
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Cuartes Stewart Parnell
Balfour
Ireland
Pacific Ocean
New Zealand
Miscellany of oddities and anecdotes from an era
A NJ husband boasts he ran away with Miss Pelham and leaves $10 in his coat urging his wife to run a boarding house. Other items report a rapid firing test in Sweden, a found abandoned shotgun in Grass Valley, Italian military duty laws, Moscow police dress rules, a restaurant sign flip leading to brisk business, Andrew Jackson the baggage porter defeating a rail injunction, a frugal photographer scene, and a quip about razor strops.
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New Jersey
Odd Edge Techniques and Wyoming’s First Woman Judge
A scattered column discusses palm stropping for razors and comparing Iranian and Italian houses with long-building traditions. It then recalls Wyoming statehood and Hester Norris as the United States first woman Justice of the Peace, notable for firm, motherly rulings and a reputation as a feared guardian of order among abusers.
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Wyoming
Hester Norris
United States
Morris
Best of All At Eaton Hall Electric lights light up duchess halls
Visitors touring Eaton Hall the seat of the Duke of Westminster marvel at modern electric lighting integrated with historic treasures Gobelin tapestry Rubens and stained glass are shown under full illumination while guides note the lighting dates and its effect on display and dress
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Eaton Hall
Duke of Westminster
England
Prison Chit Chat and Execution Scene Descriptions
In a grim exchange a condemned murderer taunts his captors and hints at a hanging. The report notes a later execution by scaffold with a fatal thud. The text also mentions a lighter colored Chinese person from Tao Hue, describing a mixed Mongolian and Caucasian population as two hues.
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Tao Hue
Black Magnet of Tennessee Delivers Odd World Origins
A Detroit Free Press piece recounts Brother Gardner introducing the famed Black Magnet of Tennessee, Sculpilusas John son, who speaks on how the world began and evolved through mock ethnographic, humorous caveats. The talk blends tall tale and philosophy, provoking uproar and critical amusement among the audience.
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Gardner
Sculpilusas Johnson
Black Magnet
Tennessee
Mons
Toots
Antimony Johnson
Brother Johnson
Waterbury
Take a Chair Tale and Other Language Blunders
A Providence Journal note explains how a boy literally took a note’s instruction to “take a chair” and fetched a chair to his teacher after misinterpreting the phrase. The piece then jokes about typists misreading bar inventories and imagines women dentists easing tooth pain with a smile.
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Providence Journal
Lion Fight Tale and Reflections on Judgment
A rugged Nevada mining camp tale recalls a lion versus dog fight setup with bets and a shrinking crowd as the lion unexpectedly turns coward. The piece shifts to a moral meditation on how people misjudge others, urging that perception is faulty and kindness can influence judgments more than harsh quick conclusions.
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Texas
Nevada
Partners and the Liver Invigorator Scam Saves a Small Paper
An editor and apprentice survive a failing weekly by partnering with a sly peddler selling a fake liver tonic. The fake tonic, made cheaply, sells across villages, netting 2,900 bottles in seventeen days and restoring the paper’s fortunes with $1,450 in cash and a back salary.
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Banner
Home Journal
Fakin
Pittsburgh
Ohio
Man weds Connecticut bride in Wisconsin saloon tale
Osceola News recounts a farcical romance at Heinson and Dow’s saloon where a widower advertised for a wife from Connecticut. He meets his bride near Kissimmee, rents an ox cart for transport, and elopes to Green Pond after a mock wedding performed by Judge Johnson. The tale ends with the crowd’s cheers and the groom’s drunken celebration.
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Heinson & Dow’s
Mr. Dow
Florida
Connecticut
Kissimmee
Wisconsin
Johnson
Kent
Green Pond
Polk County
Osceola
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Japan
Italy
Naples
Venice
Threusen
Vinspong
Sweden
Mr. Murray
Grass Valley
Waldoboro
Moscow
Andrew Jackson
Grand Central
New York City
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company
Jackson
Court of Appeals
Pennsylvania
Brother Gardner
Detroit Free Press
the Dinklemans
Jakey
Old Dinkleman
Dot
Ludlow Street
Vadder
George
New York Mercury
He Took
Burns
Hudson
New York Ledger
Atlas
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