Irreverent miscellany from The Register in Germany toys and land deals
The Register reports Germany produces over £2 million yearly in children’s toys and notes a 81 mile Cutxa railroad costing $9,000 per mile using American locomotives. It mentions Wag Yin Wan a San Francisco Chinaman buying 15 million acres in Tehuantepec for a Chinese city and other assorted items including schooling of Negro children in Meansville Georgia and portraits by Joan Sanac Est.
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Milgwioxaire
San Francisco
Wag Yin Wan
Tehuantepec
German physicians urge knapsacks for young girls' schooling
German physicians advise parents to provide girls aged 11 to 14 with knapsacks for schoolbooks to prevent distorted figures from under arm or bag carrying. In many regions the knapsack is already common, and to outsiders groups of girls marching home with sacks look comical.
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Germany
From Olden Times to-day a World of Inventors and News
John Pendleton notes how seventeenth century journalist Nathaniel Butler described wonders such as a mermaid ashore near Greenwich and a safe lion tamer using electricity. He argues that patient labor underpins major inventions from Watt to Morse, and that intelligent effort leads to success in any occupation.
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John Pendleton
England
Nathaniel Butler
Greenwich
Watt
Arkwright
Jacquard
Morse
Palissy
Hoe
Eidison
Dinner with Tennyson Turns To Dinner Soon
Scudder recalls a dinner party where a host hinted at meeting Tennyson. The speaker realizes the host’s words implied simply that dinner was approaching, not that the poet would attend. The anecdote captures a playful misinterpretation about meeting the famed English writer.
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Scudder
Tennyson
Unusual field notes mix science and odd lore
The article blends Dr. Derrox's cautionary views on sea sickness with a description of curious burial-ground bones found while laying sewer pipe in Anniston Alabama. It also reports a German invention: gas powered carriages from Munich, claiming ten year future decline of urban horses and a car with benzine gas propulsion, rear motor, and three wheels.
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Anniston
Ala
D. Lb. Lacy
A Story of Gold Fever and a Spurs-Mounted Bill
A white haired narrator recalls early Western days at South Pass before it faded from a bustling mining town to a few shanties. He had a $1000 bill that vanished from a bar, only to be found snagged in a spur tower, torn but redeemed as payment for drinks.
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South Pass
Williams Identity Challenge in Courtroom Dialogue
A defense attorney questions a witness about his real name Williams and potential fraud. The witness asserts recognition, recounting a scar from a peach orchard theft twenty five years prior. A brief, clipped exchange follows as the scene opens with a morning walk.
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Williams
Dreaming Mammy Seeks Redress For Hanging Son
A poor elderly Black woman visits a lawyer to press a suit against Sheriff Jim Barnes for her son’s execution. Her story recalls her chamber-lady past and a vow to hold the state to account, aided by a Colonel and the lawyer who defended the boy. A dying confession from a fellow felon spurs a fundraising effort.
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Oman
Ginny
Generman
Jim Barnes
Chile
Insulter of Trade Over Rotten Fish Dispute
An Arkansas Traveler item describes a sidewalk fish seller arguing with a white man who accuses the vendor of selling rotten fish. The exchange includes sniffs, insults, and a threatened arrest for deception. The man ultimately declares he will arrest the seller for selling spoiled fish.
Millionaire Watt brothers farm valued at three million
A vast New York estate between Sixth and Seventh avenues and Forty- first to Forty-fifth streets is owned by Thomas Jr. and Archibald Watt. The farm, one of the world’s finest, combines poultry, pigeon loft, cattle, sheep, collie kennels, Shetland ponies, racing stud, terrapin farm, orchards, and a vineyard. It began with Archibald’s early poultry work and grew to 18,000 fowls, 23 incubators, and weekly chick output, now reduced but still among the nation’s best yards with about 1,000 pigeons and Jerseys in cattle stock.
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United States
Sixth
Seventh Avenues
Fortieth
Mr. Watt
Watt Brothers
James Watt
Thomas L
Shetland
Hawking Church Night Hawk Disrupts Sermon at Rochester Church
Rev. Prof. J. E. Whittecker lecturing on modern life at the German Lutheran Church in George Street faced a baffling intruder when a night hawk entered through a lowered window. The bird darted around for fifteen minutes, weaving unpredictable arcs, upsetting the audience of about 300 before finally escaping through a window. New Haven Palladium reports.
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J. EB. Whittecker
Rochester
N. Y
German Lutheran Church
George Street
Aean
New Haven
Tragedy of Dates Reflected in a Family Bible record
A diaristic tale drawn from entries in a family Bible reveals marriages births and deaths across 1730 to 1780. Adrian Bloss Kathrine Kathrina Adriana and their descendants appear in varied handwriting, ending with Kathrina's widowhood and long widow's life.
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Adrian Bloss
Kathrine
John Wagner
Adriana
Adrian
Kathrina Bloss
Adriana Bloss
Kathrina
Adrian Sloss
The King of Dahomey and His Amazon Guard
A recounting of the Dahomey king who, educated in Paris, abandoned civilization to lead a barbarian reign. He formed a female bodyguard of agile Amazons who ride, shoot, and fight with bows spears and axes, believing they outfight and outlast men.
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Dahomey
Paris
Newspaper Subscriptions Prompt Rural Reproof
An exchange from the New York Weekly features a newspaper agent pressed to sell the Intelligencer to a farmer, who retorts that reading papers could endanger a farmer’s standing and jury eligibility in hard times. The mock dialogue satirizes suspicion of journalism among rural workers.
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The
Intelligencer
Hayseed
New York Weekly
Costly Merchandise
A humorous exchange in New York I Weekly notes that every pound of ivory in market costs a human life. Mrs De Lace asks if whale fishing is dangerous. Mr Del responds that the risk lies not in whaling but in the women whalebones kill.
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de Lace
Del
Divorce in Prospect at a cattle show
A dialog from the New York Press features a wife jeering a husband about a prize, boasting at a cattle show. The exchange centers on a divorce and social competition, with sharp banter implying tensions and ambitions amid livestock display.
New England Moonshiners and Maple Rum Secrets
An analysis of illicit distilling in the New England and southern mountain regions describes moonshine methods. Farmers conceal stills in cellars along streams, often using maple molasses to produce maple rum, with profits high but risks severe including farm seizure and informer rewards.
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New England
Miss Murfree
Tennessee
North Carolina
Green and White
New England States
United States
United States Revenue
Uncle Sam
Medford
Maine
How He Lost a Title in the Queen’s Visit
A reminiscence recounts Louis Napoleon praising the royal yacht and a nickname the Queen liked. Victorian custom requires she knight the mayor before departure from each town. A nervous mayor, asked his name, said Mr Thomas Hopkins, prompting the Queen to rebuke the breach of custom and depart in indignation.
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Louis Napoleon
Andrew Jones
Thomas Hopkins
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Cutxa
Meansville
Joan Sanac Est
London
Paris Academy of Sciences
India
Magellan
Nauseator
Joseph Alfred Frinnp
Chicago
New York
South
R. J. Burdette
P.s.—Ti
James White
Riley
King of Beasts
Horace E. Soupper
the Atlantic
Munich
Mr. Brown
Foster
Calhoun County
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