Oddities and anecdotes from The Register miscellany
A compendium of quirky notes and curious facts from Georgia to New Jersey. Items include Georgia’s colonial start, a Baltimore bath costing $6,000, Hungary’s millennium plans, Post Office energy savings, a Kansas widow’s daily bouquet, and fading ink. Also featured are horse quality claims, St Louis fur trade, New York riches, a Missouri elderly tale, a Connecticut whisky tale, Cape of Good Hope lore, and various quips on Indians, painters, and a mispelled letter prank.
Vienna hotel tests elevator idea with officials
Visitors at a Vienna hotel walked four flights, drank beer, and concluded an elevator is premature. The piece contrasts officials’ reactions with a light local scene amid a roundup of brief items on rich letters, movable banks, cement ventures, a Bar Harbor scold case, and a Berlin medical lymph injection case.
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Vienna
Berlin
Prof
Sonneburg
Mysterious Death Valley Icon Attracts Sealed Inquiries
The Death Valley in Southern California is described as five hundred feet below sea level in parts, with extreme heat that supposedly mummifies bodies quickly. It is said to hold gold deposits, yet no one is known to have returned alive, and the region appears devoid of animal life.
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Timm
California
Valley of Death
Dense London fogs and a highwayman tale emerge in a curious clipping
A Michigan farmer foils a highwayman who tries to ride away with a revolver stashed in a muff. The article also describes a historic dense London fog, its disorienting effects, and a playful exchange about dancing in a windy world.
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Afannee
Ann Arbor
Mich
Origin of Scandal A Gossip Sketch
A comic verse tracing a social web of confidants in a village told through Mrs A Mrs J Mrs K and Mrs B. The tale hints at gossip about Mrs B s alleged drinking with accusations traced back and forth culminating in a denial that sugar intake changed her.
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Mrs. A
Mrs. J
Frontier Scout Sparks Rescue on Ohio River Sand Bar
In 1779 Samuel Worth guides two Virginia planter families down the Ohio River toward Kentucky. A begging stranger unveils a decoy ploy by Indians, but Worth and Ada Wright are saved by Simon Kenton and fellow scouts as Indians attack. After a fierce river battle, Worth and Ada wed and settle on their Kentucky claim.
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Boonesborough
Ohio River
Virginia
Samuel Worth
Brady, Wetzel
Kenton
Ada Wright
Young Worth
Mr. Wright
Lhcse
Mer Wright
Ab. Cannon
Ada
Sam
Simon Kenton
Didian
Bunt Worth
Worth
Bret
Savage
Darling
Skenton
Wright
Sam Worth
Ohio
New York's oldest House at 122 William Street
The oldest house in New York stands at 122 William Street built in 1692. The site marked the opening of streets formerly called Wail and Fair now Fulton. The house, built with Dutch brick from Holland, hosted figures like George Washington and Lafayette and witnessed bloodshed at Golden Hill in the Revolution.
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New York
William Street
Golden Hill
Boston
Sixteenth Regiment of Oar
William
John
Frithn
Gold Streets
Sons of Liberty
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