Mark Twain declines lecture season in playful letter
The Register reports Mark Twain will not lecture next season preferring home life and humor. He jokes about enjoying storms from home and chiding an agent for trying to pull him onstage. Also noted is a Connecticut firm enjoining a Normal Illinois man over corset sales and Johnson's life insurance ties after his death.
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Notable Massachusetts Villa Dwellers Near Cohasset
Lawrence Barrett resides with his wife and three daughters at a seaside villa in Cohasset, Mass. Nearby neighbor Stuart Robson occupies a cottage with his family, while Bret Harte plans a coastal trip to write a play centering on Robson as the central character.
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Richard Grant White on writing plainly not bombast
The discussion notes White argues that writing finely for its own sake yields bombast. He says the method is to fix ideas first and then express in simplest language, letting them flow. The quote about letting 'em rip is not his words.
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Richard Grant White
Richard
Deaths of presidents prompt witty church joke
The Chicago Times notes the death of Andy Johnson leaving no living ex President or ex Vice President. The Des Moines Register recalls Colfax and Hamlin, and a clergyman jokes at a wedding with a pun about Benjamin and Ann.
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Andy Johnson
Des Moines Register
Colfax
Credit Mobilier
Hamlin
Register
Andrew Johnson
New arrival family in Rockport window scene
A newly arrived family gazes at a shop window in Rockport. A little girl asks if a display is “a'en” and is told it is a howl. The father corrects saying it is a heagle, a symbol of the blarsted country.
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Rockport
Madrid bullfight raises funds for widows and orphans
Reported bull fight in Madrid ends with eight bulls twelve horses and two men killed. The event allegedly supported a society aiding widows and orphans. An Illinois farmer's crop news reply mocks typical rural sayings with a satirical flourish.
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Madrid
Illinois
Bennett’s $1.7 Million Herald Income Highlights Wealth
The New York Herald reports last year revenue of 1 700 000 dollars with nett profits of 606 000 dollars, all accruing to Geo Gordon Bennett. This indicates a substantial personal income for one man.
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N. Y. Herald
Geo
Gordon Bennett
East Coast Letter from Louisa EK Fretaccor August 75
A long letter from Louisa EK Fretaccor in Athol Massachusetts chronicles daily outings with family, lake trips, a hermit at Ewing Castle, Monticello observations, and church visits. She details transport, picnics, boating, hiking, and a dramatic ascent and descent of a rain soaked cliff near the hermit.
Crop ruin and economic worry sweep four states
The piece reports massive damage from recent rains across Ohio Indiana Illinois and Missouri. It details destroyed crops including wheat corn grass oats and potatoes, with insects adding harm. It warns of shortages and calls for urgent economic change amid social strain. It ends with unrelated fashion notes about Turkish trousers and a speculative balloon line to Central Africa.
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Union
Ohio
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Illinois
Missouri
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Central Africa
Treasury clerk models bold charge against Russian gunner
A Treasury Department clerk, one of Tennyson's six hundred, longs to strike another bold, resistless blow but the Treasury chief does not yield. The line contrasts old martial bravado with current restraint.
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Treasury Department
New
Colonel Baker and railway carriage irregularity in England
English papers frame Colonel Baker's irregularity in a railroad carriage as the logical outcome of reading reports about the nation scandal.
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Baker
England
Too Slow to Fall Fast Enough
A bystander quipped that a lazy man who fell fifty feet escaped with only scratches, saying he was too slow to hurt himself. The remark captures the incident’s light note amid the fall.
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