Promises to marry valid says Supreme Guard of PA
The Hegister reports a ruling that a Sunday promise to marry is binding. It notes various curiosities from the Klickitat Sentinel about a salmon run blocking a ford, a baggage-smashers tale, and then shifts to broader topics including declining British sheep stocks, debates on cremation vs burial for disease, petroleum production in 1859 and 1881, wool clips by state in 1880, and immigration patterns showing Germany, Ireland, and other nations sending many to America.
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Tur Supreme Guard of
Pennsylvania
Oil Creek
Ireland
Europe
England
Scotland
Wales
Scandinavia
Italy
America
France
Switzerland
Bohemia
Belgium
Hungary
Austria
Germany
United States
Sweim
Modiste
Milner
Beecher
Mery
New York Evening Post
Well dressed stranger delays train for candy
A well dressed young man asked a Norwich train conductor to delay the Shore Line railcar for a package in a palace car. The package turned out to be a pound of French candy. The train moved on as inquiries followed, delaying thirteen letters and many passengers.
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Norwich
New London
Shore Line Road
Providence
Revolutionary boroglyceride promise shocks markets
The Prof Bariff discovery of boroglyceride enables food to stay sound and sweet for months. Vast Victoria docks refrigerating vaults storing 4300 muttons could become useless. Cheap fresh fish, lower rents, and shifts in agricultural power threaten the British landholding system per Pail Mall Gazette.
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Bariff
Victoria Docks
London
New South Wales
Texas
Zanzibar
Great Britain
Pail Mall Gazette
Sanitary Commissioner Reports No Pork Poisoning Case
Mississippi sanitary commissioner notes a 50 year practice among swine eaters with no poisoning from tainted pork. He cites hogs fed on corn as more prone to trichinosis due to corn infested with pests.
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Tru Sanitary Commissioner
Mississippi
Atlantic
Gulf States
King of the Plow Anthem of agrarian triumph for a humble ruler
Poem praising a simple peasant leader as a divine King of the Plow. It describes war ending, fields renewed, and harvests as signs of godlike power. The speaker crowns the plowman with corn and wheat leaves, exalted above monarchs, as many lands and ages acknowledge his harvest creed.
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Earth
Cerea
Rescue at sea as Wellesley burns and child is saved
In a fierce gale off the Downs the Wellesley catches fire, forcing a fleet of boats to evacuate troops from a burning transport. A daring rescue follows as a navy launch, a young officer Hunter, and a volunteer crew reach the wreck, save a mother and child, and reunite with grateful officers, while Col. Ross acknowledges Hunter’s bravery.
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Coffin
Collingwood
Downs
East Indies
Wellesley
Bo’sen
Wilmer
Edward
Mrs. Clifford
Hunter
Clifford
Susan
Delmar Transport
Lucy
Delmar
Col. Ross
Col. Rosy
Deimar
Untimed explosive caution in daily business tone
An unfinished musing notes that explosives cannot be used for playful feats with friends and emphasizes the need to know what ought to be done in business. The fragment hints at practical caution and timing as essential qualities in work.
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Tau
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the Hegister
C. W. Slater, Pusutsner
Klicktitat
W. T.) Sentinel
Big Klick
Wakiakus Ford
Utica
N. Y
United Kingdom
Koch
Ohio
California
Michigan
Missouri
The
Railway Age
Union Railway
Miles
New York
Nebraska
New Jersey
Kangas
Colorado
Maryland
D. C
Wyoming Territory
Idaho Territory
Middle States
Utah Territory
Montana Territory
Virginia
North Carolina
Northwert
South Carolina
Georgia
Tees
Florida
Indian Territory
Alabama
Louisiana
New Mexico
Tennessee
Arizona Territory
Southwest
Nevada
Caifornia Eee
Indiana
Wisconsin
Pacific States
Minnesota
Dakota Territory
King OF
Fallow
Hayne
Hades
Thule
Bill Hunter
Capt. Clifford
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