Diverse Notes and Vignettes from Public Life and Abroad
A collage of brief items: Vice Register notes and military staff links. large gifts to Michigan donors. ex Confederate General Jupat Barty in Lynchburg. Japan Davis salary split between Treasury and Senate. sharp Senate critique by Senator Williams. Mexican immigrant premiums. Mrs. Stewart's diamond hair ornament. a mail order scare with nested boxes. Massachusetts property valuation and tax levy. Memphis sheet iron for cotton bale covers. Peabody Trust growth and London lodging houses. global crisis reports on suicide and longevity. Boston on rail fares. Cleveland astronomer reports on heat and tropical shift. alluding to weather, insects, and crops across the United States.
Don’t Do These Health Do’s From Foote’s Monthly List
A long cautionary list advises daily health habits from proper ventilation and warm clothing to balanced meals and adequate sleep. It warns against sleeping in drafts, overeating, drinking ice water, skipping meals, skipping sleep, delaying bowels, and sharing medicines. It stresses gentle lighting and avoiding overworking eyes and voice.
It Is Easy To Attract A Husband But Hard To Keep Him
A Boomerang excerpt notes that winning a husband is simple for an attractive woman with charm, but keeping him requires drawing out his true nobility at home. It emphasizes the rarity of genuine noble behavior within married life.
I Want a Man to Marry for Love in Old Verse
A widow speaks in dialect about suitors, cash, and independence. She recalls Zerubabel Lee and Deacon Brezee, rejects advances, and notes Isaac Beers’ sneers. She longs for companionship after David’s death, urging any suitable suitor to come forward. Her children are grown, and she seeks love rather than money.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isaac Beers
Jane
David
A Mexican on the River Run Hunted by Vigilantes
In a mining camp a Mexican is seized by a vigilante panel for horse theft. A jury finds him guilty after a coercive trial and his execution is attempted. He escapes by leaping into the river and vanishes amid a deadly rapid as the storm rages and the camp debates the justice of the act.
Mexican hero crossing the Small Snake river tale
In a chaotic scene at Intecomers bar Soft Smith is mocked while a battered Mexican survivor arrives. The judge contemplates hanging him, but the man slips away across Cataract Rapid and a treasure of gold dust enriches Loft Smith. Ogden Smith is ridiculed, and the Mexican is hailed as a hero before the camp disperses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ogden Smith
Ogden
Bill
Smith
Baldanodes
Loft Smith
Snake River
Whims of Authors and their Odd Writing Habits
A survey of literary figures from Dryden to Coleridge and Wordsworth notes peculiar writing rituals. From opium and wine to walking trails and candles, authors preferred bribes of environment and sensation to spark creativity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carneades
Hellebore
Schylus
Eupolis
Cratinus
Ennius
Dryden
Fuseli
Shadwell
de Quincey
Psalmannazar
Dean Milner
Coleridge
Bishop Horsley
de Musset
Gray
Corneille
Blackstone
Schiller
Montaigne
Boxborne
Hobbes
Dr. Parr
Johnson
William Prynne
Buffon
Graham
Hoge
Horace Walpole
Lord Orrery
Isaak Vossius
John Philipps
Hazlitt
Wordsworth
Lord Bacon
A Foolish Girl and the Mapleson Baritone Note Threat
A seventeen year old girl in New York wrote gushing notes and sent a photo to a mellow voiced baritone tied to the Mapleson Company under an assumed name. The singer learned her real identity and demanded $200 in cash or public exposure. She paid what she could, then sent jewelry as well, amid fear of scandal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mapleson Company
Police Gazette
New York
Also Mentioned on This Page
Vice Register
C. W. Slater, PusitisHer
Gen. Hancock
James B. Eans
Michigan
Jupat Barty
Lynchburg
Rip van Winkle
Phannon
Thebes
Japan
Davis
United States
Treasury
Senate
Williams
Kentucky
Senor Rizzo
Mexico
Navy
Judge Hilton
Saratoga
A. T. Stewart
Senator Burnside
Massachusetts
Memphis
Tar Peabody
London
Calabria
Norway
Ireland
England
America
Europe
Geneva
Paris
Saxony
Baden
Prussia
Austro-Hungarian
France
Boston
Chicago
Switzerland
Germany
Tennessee
Ohio
Indiana
Wisconsin
THE
Widder Budd
BY Eugene J.’ Hala
O’ Zerubabel Lee
Deacon Philander Brezee
Bez
Widder
Dorothy Day
Temple Bar
Bai
J. M W. Harris , Co., Proprietors
Cincinnati
Holman
Dr. Holman
Holman Pad CO
Lydia E. Pimeram
Lyre, Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Ite
Lydia EK. Pinknham
Western Avenue
Lynn
Mas
Lydia E. Pinkhaws
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