Fossil negatives roof and vast US petroleum export record
The Register notes a photographer in Daventry Conn with a greenhouse roof of old negatives, while reporting the prior year's petroleum export total of 612,000,000 gallons valued at 49,420,817 dollars. It also mentions a San Francisco jeweler selling diamonds, the National Bank Note Company printing stamps, and various brief items on New York politics, poverty, schools in Alaska, and other eclectic notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tur National Bank Note Company
New York
United States
Bradford Life Guards Hero Michael Bradford Third Brother
NEpD is the sole surviving Bradford brother of Atlantic City. The four Bradford brothers formed the Bradford Life Guards and their lifesaving efforts saved hundreds of bathers at Atlantic City. Michael, the third brother, was the most heroic.
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Nepd
Bradford
Remarkable Survivalist Tales and Rat Snipper Anecdote
The piece recounts a series of eccentric lives and stubborn hardships. Zebulon Hancox of Stonington is described as a hermit who lives in a hut and crafts every item he uses while living on two dollars a year. A miller in Griffin, Georgia, is noted for eating rats as a preferred delicacy and boasting that they rival square meals. A vivid rat episode near a mill shows a man skinning and salting a large rat, imagining it as squirrel meat.
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Zebulon Hancox
Stonington
Conn
Mirerson
Griffin
Joe
Gosh
Prisoners escape in Lake City jig during horse race
Sumer Barry of Missankee County Michigan reports two prisoners used a bent wire hook to lift jail keys from their cells. They freed themselves during a plug horse race, returned after the event, and amused onlookers at Lake City before sheriff restored custody. Bamboo holds vast use for the Chinaman, from houses to hats to pipes and even food in his culture.
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Sumer Barry
Missankee
Michigan
Hey
Jim
Lake City
Golden Teeth Spark Tartar Glee In Laughing Parade
An artist traveling with CGearze Kennan in Russia recounts a curious encounter with a caravan of Tartars who coaxed him to laugh by marveling at his gold teeth. As he smiled, the group mirrored his joy, then toppled and tumbled on the ground to reveal the gleaming gold from his smile.
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Ropert G. Ixorrseun
New York
Cgearze Kennan
Russia
Flint
Where They Are Slow and Sure
Norris town Herald notes that railroading in the North suffers three accidents to every one in the South. It laments the high risk and cites a strange habit where Southern engineers, upon spotting an obstacle a mile ahead, jump off, clear the obstruction, and return to let the engine catch up, delaying the train briefly.
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Norristown Herald
Bill Gibbs
Arkansas
Hte
Boston
Tuntsville
Gibbs
Muntsville
Cabbs
Jie
Ombc
Hnnytsville
Pinotsville
Tle
Mars Gibbs
Cheontian
My Heart Needs Mending Much A Tailor's Task
A bachelor confesses his heart needs mending as a gentleman blushes after a button flies from his overcoat. A woman, with tact, offers to help and jokes about the tailor’s skill while she threads the needle. The scene unfolds in a shop labeled Ladies' Wear Trevieu.
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Trevieu
Outlaw Hunts and Captures in Mountain Predicaments
A detective narrates two adventures chasing Arkansas outlaw Bill Gibbs and Doaksville half breed John Flint. Gibbs is lured with a spring gun near Muntsville, Gibbs is killed, and the narrator recalls Flint, a feared Doaksville resident pursued through rugged Indian Territory mountains over weeks, surviving treacherous terrain and hidden snares while tracking the elusive target.
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Gibbs
John Flint
Doaksville
Indian Territory
Ife
Ot Agency
Butt
Pitt
Dorksville
Hugh
Nohody
Lin Ik
Outlaw's Capture After Mountain Confrontation Ends in Hanging
A confrontation on a mountainside ends with the outlaw stunned and missing, then disarmed and captured. The assailant is delivered to U.S. authorities, arraigned on multiple murder counts, and hanged after conviction. The condemned vows vengeance in his final speech.
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Nan
United States
Coroner Juries and Noted Odd Inquests Across States
Curio-filled excerpts recount coroner practices in New England and other states. Juries misdate and await deaths in saloons while drownings and sudden appoplexy verdicts surface. Irish, Kentucky, Minnesota cases reveal antiquated procedures and bizarre verdicts from 1853 to later reports.
Old Man at Dinning Table and Drummers Clash Over Soup
An timid country gentleman sits among a rowdy group of drummers as a dining room girl rapidly lists a long menu in a comic miscue. He struggles to order and finally requests a plain supper while the storm outside gathers, locals snicker, and he watches clouds move in.
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Seem
Itl
Odd Typographical Error Sparks Historic Boston Anecdote
A Crocker and Brewster publication recalls a famed slip in Nathaniel Emmons sermon where scripture was printed as Cut him down like 2 cucumber to the ground. The tale surfaces amid Mrs Brewster's death and seaside egg cautionary humor.
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Boston
Crocker & Brewster
Fiery Ruthven Well Rescuer Wins $1000 Amid Blaze
William Nf. Marvin of Ruthven risked a furnace blaze to stop a gas leak at a well. Dressed in improvised asbestos gear, he used a T shaped chisel and hammer to sever the pipe cap, battling flames as crowds watched. After two arduous attempts he succeeded, earning $1000 and ending weeks of dangerous gas flow.
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William Nf. Miarvin
Ruthven
Ontaris
Marvin
Shuavin
Hyeff
Tle
Linthven
Sfirvin
Thurlow Weed and the Journal Sale Saga
The piece recounts a 19th century Albany newspaper sale involving Thurlow Weed, Charles A. Dana, Lucius Robinson, and George W. Demers. Dana offered 37500 less than the set price, Robinson resisted, and Demers joined as editor, writing the first editorial against Robinson, shifting him toward the Democratic side. The episode connected to Turner era Republican politics and ownership battles.
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Charles A. Dana
Albany
Ownica
New York Times
Thurlow Weed
City
Imeiis Robinson
Journey
Dana
Journal
Sin Dana
Thucias Robinson
George W. Demers
Robinson
Demers
Lucius Robinson
Misfit Photographs for Sale at Michigan Avenue Gallery
A Detroit Free Press feature describes a Michigan Avenue photography shop where owner explains how buyers anonymously purchase portraits to send to friends or distant relatives. He notes men often buy for themselves, brides’ pictures sell well, and mothers buy children’s portraits to share. He jokes that many images resemble their subjects, saving time for sitters.
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Michigan Avenue
Germany
Detroit Free Press
Rare Courtesy to a Colby Professor
A Colby College professor was hosted for dinner when a young man arrived to stay, sharing the meal with the rural family. At the end, the hostess told her husband, You might as well kill that heifer, underscoring a cutting insult amid a polite episode.
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Colby College
John
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