Notable New England Figures Highlight 19th Century News
The Register notes Thomas Nickerson of Boston, head of the Mexican Central Railroad, as a self-made Cape Cod fisherman’s son. Syracuse University Prov. Loriros scales Pike's Peak fastest in years, six hours up and five down. Stilson Hutchins plans to gift Horace Greeley’s birthplace to New Hampshire and to erect a Franklin statue on Washington Avenue, with Congressional endorsement.
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Thomas Nickerson
Boston
Mexican Central Railroad
Loriros
Syracuse
CN. ¥.) University
Pike's Peak
Col
New Hampshire
Horace Greeley
Stilson Hutchins
Washington
Greeley
Pennsylvania Avenue
Tenth Street
Benjamin Franklin
Congress
Royal Meteorological Society Seeks Lightning Photos
The Tuesday council of the Royal Meteorological Society issued a circular inviting photographs of lightning. After a similar appeal last year about sixty lightning photos came from Europe and America. The council reminds both amateur and professional photographers that capturing lightning presents no particular difficulty.
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Tue Council
The
Royal Medrological Society
Europe
America
Turtle with 1810 marking found in Berks County field
In 1810 Henry Mogel of Center Township Berks County Pennsylvania marked a land turtle with his name and the year on its shell. His son, then Berks County treasurer, lived nearby. A few days ago the same turtle was found again in the same field bearing the name and date, about seventy eight years later.
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Henry Mogel
Center Township
Berks County
Pennsylvania
Blacksmith of Long Branch Dies After Tooth Extraction
A Long Branch blacksmith died from a fatal hemorrhage following tooth extraction by a New York dentist. A physician halted the bleeding briefly but the patient died at the hospital despite efforts. New York papers cite the hemorrhage as a common metropolis hazard with about thirty similar cases yearly at the Coroner’s office. Explanations note Williams displays strong energy and restless conduct with daily regiment reviews and active ministerial service amid constant correspondence and orders.
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Long Branch
New York
Expenon Williams
Berlin
Witch Beheading Glints In Peruvian Valley Tale
In the Ama zon valley near Pataz Peru a woman was killed as villagers believed she was a witch. The town sits on a well-traveled route with a railroad visible from the surrounding mountains while remnants of ancient beliefs persist in parts of the world.
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Amazon
Pataz
Les
Poe’s Raven House Faces Demolition on New York Street
The Edgar Allan Poe cottage on what is now Thirty fourth Street and Tenth Avenue in New York City is set for destruction as nearby rock quarrying progresses. Dynamite shudders its foundations hourly while miners approach from both sides. amateur photographers document the cottage before it falls. The article also notes phonograph novelty from London including Gladstone speeches and Patti songs, hinting at a future industry of recorded voices.
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Edgar Poe
London
Mr. Gladstone
Adelina Patti
S Phonogiet
Patti
Phonograph Aims to Record War Voices and Deathbeds
The article discusses uses for the phonograph including capturing Gladstone and Bismarck speeches, battlefield sounds, and death-bed wishes. It suggests broad potential applications in study, map reading, and future experiments with this new device.
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Gladstone
Bismarck
Costly Telegraph Networks Drive US Newspaper News Costs
A writer reports US journals spend about 820,655,000 annually on telegraph cost to collect news. Associated Press and United Press total 1,250,000 and 450,000 yearly, excluding salaried correspondents. Local gathering costs in big cities run 400 to 2,200 weekly, totaling about 15,000,000 yearly. News needs money to assemble the daily history.
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America
United States
Associated Press
United Press
No Man's Land urged to join Kansas for justice
The Congress is urged to attach No Man's Land to Kansas for judicial purposes. Gov. Martin argues the ungoverned tract lies south of Kansas and borders New Mexico and Indian Territory, allowing criminals to escape law. Descriptions of murders, thefts, and outlaws illustrate the danger and call for U.S. court jurisdiction.
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Congress
United States
Kansas
Martin
District of
No Man’s Land
New Mexico
No Man's Land
United States Court
Torpid Liver Myth Debunked In Medical Note
A brief medical note dismisses the widely held belief in the torpid liver causing most vices and ailments. It explains the liver’s role in digestion, the large daily bile production, and the uncertainty of benefits from artificially stimulating bile secretion. The piece emphasizes the liver’s limited impact on overall health.
Moll Pitcher and Captain Molly in History and Verse
A Lynn based Moll Pitcher, famed New England fortune teller of Marblehead origin, died 1813 at 75 and inspired Whittier's poem. The piece also recalls Mary the revolutionary War heroine known as Captain Molly for serving as a gun operator at Monmouth, later titled Sergeant. It closes with a note on happiness through simple pleasures.
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Moll Pitcher
New England
Marblehead
Lynn
Robert Pitcher
Whittier
Moll” Pitcher
Monmouth
Mary
Washington
Molly
Enormous sea constrictor and pig sticking in tropics
Travelers recount a vivid encounter with a supine sea constrictor found beneath a ledge. They describe a mountain sheep inside the snake, the carcass boiled and dried boa flesh for camp, and a brutal but skillful hunting of boars. A local massage ritual restores the narrator’s health after a harsh trek. The piece also details ivory carving practices and the value of time in Orientals’ craft.
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Shekarry
Earth
Absent-mindedness Pranks and a Pittsburgh Post Office
A humorous piece recounts forgetfulness causing delays and mishaps. A deacon returns home after church forgetting his wife, while a Pittsburgh trip preserves a vital letter in a man’s breast pocket. A merchant's memory mix ups with names ends in a bemused correction by his clerk, highlighting absent mindedness.
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Deacon Forquette
Martha
Deacon
Pittsburgh
Pittshorel
John Jackson
John
Charles
Found in a Ton of Coal by a Broadway Chemist
A careful estimate of a ton of ordinary gas coal shows it yields 1,500 pounds of coke, twenty gallons of ammonia water, and 140 pounds of coal tar. Destructive distillation of coal tar gives pitch, creosote, naphtha varieties, naphthalene, alizaline, and naphtaline quantities.
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Broadway
New Product Saccharine Claims Extreme Sweetness
A report notes a chemical blend including one and one-fifth pounds of aniline seventy-nine hundredths of a pound of toludine forty-six hundredths of a pound of anthracine and nine tenths of a pound of toludines. From the last named substance a new product saccharine is obtained said to be 830 times as sweet as cane sugar per the New York Mail and Ledger.
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New York Mail
Laeprese
Royal Gold Room at Windsor Has Plates Worth 812000000
In Windsor Castle the Gold Room houses royal plate valued at 812 million, much of it silver gilt yet some solid gold, with a five foot diameter salver from George IV era. The heavy candelabrum requires two men to lift, and a dinner service once owned by William IV commemorates Liverpool merchants role in slave trade opposition. The collection can serve 250 guests with 140 dozen table spoons and various golden plates.
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Windsor Castle
George IV
Lim
Victoria
William Iy
Duke of Clarence
Liverpool
Windsor
Rich Men of the Work and Notable Millionaires Listed
A historical compendium lists vast fortunes of European nobles and American financiers. It enumerates Rothschilds and Barings as incalculably wealthy, names dukes and counts with rent rolls, and details American magnates such as Astors Vanderbilt and Huntington, with fortunes ranging from millions to tens of millions. The piece notes numerous other wealthy families in New York and nationwide.
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Nobes Brothers
Russia
Moses Smith
Buccleuch
Devonshire
Bute
Duke of Westminster
Rothschilds and
Barings
Astors
Cornelius Vanderbilt
W. SK. Vian Tilt
Jan Gould
W. H. Vanderbilt
C. P. Huntington
Charles Stanford
Mark Hopkins
Alexander Mitchell
Hettie Green
Mars. All. Stewart
B.D. Meegan
Moses Taylor
David Dows
Torssell Sage
Fred Vanderbilt
George Vanderbilt
Mackay Tair
Sharons
California
Crockers
New York
The Lady's Reticule and Waterloo Relic Mystery
Dr Alfred Gatty recalls a relic at Alnwick Castle a Lady's reticule once used as a pocket. On the Brussels ball night before Waterloo Maj Percy exchanged it for a keepsake with a lady, who later vanished aimlessly haunting pursuit. The next day Percy carried the Duke of Wellington's dispatch dated June 19 1815 to Lord Bathurst, while the owner was never found.
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Alfred Gatty
London
Alnwick Castle
Monty
Waterloo
Duke of Wellington
Brussels
Duchess of Richmond
Maj
Percy
Maj. Percy
Lord Bathurst
New York Women Who Drink hotel clerk exposes habit
A hotel clerk discusses women's drinking patterns in New York, noting a hotel guest who orders a daily quart of whisky paid via the bell boy to avoid her husband’s bill, and a wealthy wife averaging ten brandy and whisky sour drinks daily, with room drinking boosting bar profits.
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Vin
Nee York Suv
Lie Out Somewhere
A florid man in Texas tells a temperance lecturer he has not drunk for years. The lecturer questions his credibility and the man asserts a lie somewhere, noting the discrepancy between features and lips or nose.
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Texas
The Climate of Siberia overview and contrasts
A sweeping account argues Siberia spans from Italian latitudes to central Greenland, featuring vast climate diversity. It notes subzero winters in Yakutsk, hot summers in western regions, and agricultural richness in Tobolsk, warning against treating Siberia as uniformly cold and barren.
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Greenland
Cuba
Arctic
Siberia
Nice
Venice
Milan
Siberian
Semirechinsk
Naples
Italy
Yakutsk
Fantary
Tahr
Sendpalatins
Taimyr Peninsula
Hudson Bay
Kentucky
Lena
William Lund
North Americ
Urals
Kama
Iberia
Tobolsk
California
Wholesome Stimulants and the Beer Myth
The piece argues heated milk loses sweetness and density, offering it as a superior revival to alcohol. It attacks overworked people relying on beer, cites physicians praising bread for strength, and notes women in cities may prefer beverages. It contrasts endurance between drinkers and nondrinkers, and includes anecdotes about a physician author and a Burgettstown man dreaming of his son’s horse.
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California
Arson Rates and Guatemalan Craftsmen Traditions
A New York Times summary describes Guatemalan towns where arson once spurred rebuilding, now curbed by investigative committees. It notes Mayan weaving and pottery skills, Semana Santa practices, bread markets in Quezaltenango, and banana cultivation lore including roots, transplants, and superstition about steel ruining banana fruit flavor.
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Guatemala
New York ]Times
Bidian Gil
Quesaltenango
Ratabhalen
Quezaltenance
Man
Suspicion Fixes on Maid After Missing Purse
In Europe a wife suspects her husband’s flirtations with a hotel maid. She hides a purse, returns to find it missing, accuses the maid, then discovers the purse in the husband’s bureau with two dollars extra and an American half dollar. The husband stops flirting after the reveal.
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Europe
John
Lim
San Francisco Chronicle
Newly Built Houses In Bahe Switzerland Prohibited Occupancy
The Medical Press and Crradar reports a town decree in Bahe Switzerland prohibiting occupying newly completed houses for four months. Earlier in northern England the custom required a year before tenancy. A modern brick home needs about 10,000 gallons of water during construction, much remains. Ventilation dries moisture better than heat and lighting gas to dry rooms converts hydrogen to water vapor.
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Crradar
Bahe
Switzerland
England
Where He Would Go Joke Quips on Testimony
A Washington Critic quip records a judge questioning a boy on the stand who replies that if he lies he will go to the Legislature, a line reflecting a parent’s example and political milieu. The exchange satirizes truth and accountability in public life.
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Washington
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