Boarmen on the Seine Reward for dead bodies provokes river control
A French department offers 15 francs per corpse found in the Seine with no reward in neighboring departments. Investigations reveal bodies are towed to exploit the payout. Separately, American youths travel by special car through multiple states assessing geography with a tutor.
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Seine
Department of the
Harrison W. Garrett
Robert Garrett, Jr
John W. Garrett
Robert Garrett
Baltimore
Mexico
Texas
Colorado
Utah
California
Burglar Knocked Awake by Portuano on Congress Street
A Portuano in Oregon burglarized a residence on Congress street waking a young woman. He silenced her with a hand over the mouth and kissed her, declaring he would not hurt her and only wanted trinkets. She raised the alarm and the house was roused as the intruder fled with a partial description.
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Mich
Oregon
Congress Street
Jimmy
Aia
The Uses of a Friend in Teras Sifting
Thackeray asks why a friend is useful if he cannot hear of all troubles. The piece argues a friend is expected to listen to petty worries, often at personal cost, and to share in others’ miseries. A mutual burden forms the core of lasting friendship.
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Thackeray
Teras
A Russian Prison Narrative of a Woman's Harsh Journey
Madam C- nee Koutouzoff recounts a harsh transfer from St. Petersburg to Prussia, detailing crowds, filth, hunger, and abuse by jailers and guards. She portrays misery in transit through Wilno, Koyne, Mariam pol, Wolkowsk, and Eydtkunen, aided by kind fellow prisoners and a sympathetic soldier. The account notes a swift clearance of her papers and release to Prussia.
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Mme. C
Koutouzoff
Ministry of Public Instructions
Prince Kropotkine
Gen. Gourke
St. Petersburg
Prussia
Wilno
Koyne
Koyno
Mariampol
Wolkowsk
Eydtkunen
The Economic Statistics of Paris 1886 Reveals Food and Living Trends
The Seine prefecture’s annual Paris statistics for 1886 show food supplies including 261,377 live oxen and 304 donkeys, 152,605 tons of meat, 24,143 tons of poultry, and vast fish and dairy totals. It cites 87.56 million gallons of wine and 60,636 births with 57,092 deaths, over 10,000 from pulmonary causes, and broad utility data such as gas and water consumption and 66,000 water-rate subscribers.
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Seine
Paris
A Lawyer's Wild Western Trial Ends With Dusty Fee
A Chicago attorney who settled in a Oregon frontier town defends a notorious horse thief in a shanty courtroom. The judge and jury are miners and ranchers, the sentence hangs by a thread, and after a drunken adjournment the defendant is hanged. The young lawyer’s speech earns his first and only fee, amid a dusty farewell.
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Chicago
Oregon
Chicago Tribune
Rendering Fabrics Incombustible From La Nature
La Nature outlines several chemical mixtures to render fabrics incombustible ideal for ball gowns and light textures. A staple solution uses ammonia salts and borates with starch or gela tine, dipped at about 84 degrees and dried for ironing. A second mixture for painted canvases and woodwork combines sal ammoniac boric acid glue and gelatin with water, heated 122 to 140 degrees, then applied by dipping or painting. A heavier varnish for carpentry uses boric acid borax and water heated to 212 degrees, with a 15 to 20 minute immersion followed by airing and drying.
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la Nature
Dirt Always Flown On Paper In Dakota Rail Lore
A city editor reminds a young reporter to include the customary dirt in railroad coverage. He warns that bypassing this tradition could anger the editor, rattle the newsroom doors, and jeopardize the reporter’s job. The piece recalls a decade of such “dirt” being printed before new rail lines were built in Dakota.
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Howard Crosby
University of the City of New York
New York
Young Men’s Christian Association
Boston
Providence
Association
Dakota
Train Robbery On Texas Run Ends In Silence
A traveler recalls a San Antonio to El Paso trip where a roll of greenbacks is dropped and recovered by a fellow passenger. As night falls armed robbers seize a coach and demand boots be removed, while the narrator and his wealthy friend await arrival in El Paso with quiet fear.
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San Antonio
el Paso
Texas
Missouri
Il Paso
Detroit Free Press
Workingwomen in London and their wages
The piece notes a rise in women earning living in London across post offices insurers and shops. It highlights low pay for dressmakers and milliner assistants, often eight shillings a week or less, with irregular hours and costly living off shared rooms. It contrasts those with homes who earn enough to cover rent, food, and modest clothing, versus those lodging with others who struggle to survive on meager wages.
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London
Brooklyn Magazine
Courtroom clash at Dakota Court House overheard
In a Dakota Court House scene attorneys clash over questions about the evening of January 12. The judge sustains objections, then a heated exchange ends with the court restoring harmony. The report notes dramatic courtroom verbatim remarks and mentions Curiaco's Auditorium with 8 000 capacity.
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Council
Pluckem
Shuoter
Dakota Bell
Bits of Science On Poles Oranges Telephony And Crabs
A collection of curiosities notes rubber bonding with shellac ammonia, a theory of earth destruction via polar ice, frozen soil excavation with quicklime, browning oranges to imitate Florida fruit, moon influence on magnetized needles, heredity in professionals showing clergy as least eminent, sub marine telephony trials, and a British museum crab with oysters and a hairy crab carrying a large sponge.
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West Indies
Mexico
Florida
M. Liener
GasTon
London
Medical
TRowsrip@r
Edison
Cras
British Museum
Fremonts Wooly Horse Hoax Foiled by Senator Benton
A Philadelphia showman advertised Lieut. Freemont s wooly horse captured in the West. Senator Benton, Fremont s father in law, confronted the hoax in Washington, demanded the fraud be removed, and the exhibitor fled that evening after Benton s stern reproach and a dollar admission.
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Philadelphia Record
Fremont
Great West
Philadelphia
Washington
Lieut
Freemont
Rocky Mountains
Benton
Lieut. Fremont
Senator Benton
Senate Chamber
200-Year-Old Nail Sent From Philadelphia
A Chicagoan received a nail sent by a Philadelphia friend that was driven into a house nearly 200 years ago. The hand-forged nail measures four and one-eighth inches long with a head about half an inch long and three-eights of an inch thick. No nail machines existed in 1698.
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Philadelphia
Brooklyn Eagle
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Saxe-Coburg-Gotha
England
America
James P. Scott
Quaker City
Prince of Wales
Tacoma
Higgins
Sis
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Brown County
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de Pere
C. Rowan
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Bar Harbor
New England
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Liss
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Dakota Court House
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