Notable figures and odd facts from The Register
The Register lists a late Dowager Empress of Germany with a 7,000,000 mark fortune, Tuomas Fitzsimmons finishing a four year clock, a Gilroy California debating society exonerating Lady Macbeth, Senator Stanford's wealth and charity plans, General Sherman’s maps, a Lawrence Kansas moonlight photometer test, and Lady Alice Sotaxley reporting a captive white child among the Blackfeet with a plea to rescue her.
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Alice Sotaxley
Lord Stanley
Lady Alice
United States Army
Royalists, lectures, lawsuits in scattered centuries
Snippets cover royalist waning amid Spain’s throne talk, Richard Trewis’s 97 years and a revolution era bullet hole, Henry M Stanley offered $1 000 a lecture series, a pesth lawsuit makes heirs rich in name only, a goose watchdog in Elberton, and a hygiene note on church ventilation urging full window opening after occupancy.
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New York
Henry M. Stanley
America
Remarkable Marshfield Storm Finds And A Bottle Curiosity
A damaged report notes storm debris and a remarkable black quart bottle bent into an elliptic circle without cracks. The bottle, found after the Marshfield cyclone, shows the force of electricity in the storm cloud and remains intact when filled with water.
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Wisox
Ozarl
Marshfield
Wilson
Tice
Phosphate belief prank and a globe trotter Colonel
A Gainesville Florida Advocate item humorously recounts a man discussing a rock as phosphate and lime testing. It also notes the death of Saint Gall's Colonel Martignoni at eighty, detailing a life spanning law, war, police work, mining, and public service before requesting an unattended funeral.
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Tur
Widder
Saint Gall
Switzerland
Martignoni
New York
California
England
Argentine Republic
Europe
Vaccination Leg Best Site in Large Series
In 177 cases the leg yielded fewer failures than the arm. The French practitioner notes a 45.45 percent failure rate on the leg versus 53.84 percent on the arm, based on medical circular observations of revaccination outcomes.
You’re Bound to Find It A Way to Get Around It
A light verse from Lawrence sings of patience when plans go awry. It counsels resilience amid clashes with rivals and familial tensions, urging calm, humor, and persistence as a path to navigate obstacles and social friction.
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Elberton
Kaap
Lawrence American
How I Became a Hero in a Family Ghost Tale
A boy recalls a Christmas misadventure at his grandfather's Nest. After rehearsing a melodrama, two burglars threaten the house. The narrator uses phosphorus and a staged ghost to scare them off, saving his grandfather and earning approval for the staged drama. The tale ends with the villains punished and the boy's heroic self-image.
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Dinah
Ote Iaving
Ote
Ike
Tam
Scafield
Waiting for a Cue from a Cold Hotel Guest
A hotel guest shivers for warmth as requests for a fire escalate. The porter rattles off attempts to improve the room temperature, suggesting windows on draughts and coal as possible fixes, while the guest recalls harsher winters in Dakota and Montana. The scene ends with the porter promising a big blaze in a minute.
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Dakota
Montana
Decembah
New York Weekly
Oddities Parade in Curious Century News
A collage of improbable tales includes a Wisconsin autopsy revealing five jack-knives in a man's stomach, a 300 year old Scottish farm tradition, a 300 yard diameter Honey Lake folklore find, and a Virginia woman who can write two love letters at once. Also includes quirky feats, odd loves, and accidents.
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Wisconsin
Macduff
Scotland
Honey Lake
Idaho
Virginia
Ohio
Cape Colony
South Carolina
Carro
Tyler
Florida
Guernville
Cal
Carlisle
Penn
Frank Gippons
Hibernia
Joan Miller
Iowa
John
Man’s Arm Noted During Opera Singers Solo
Smyth attends California Opera Company rendition of Donna Juanita at New Windsor. A talkative stranger sits beside him and asks how the baritone John McWade lost his arm. Smyth retorts with a jocular tale, and the audience member leaves. Chicago Herald.
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Smyth
New Windsor
California Opera Company
John McWade
North Side
McWade
Chicago Herald
Vermont Abandoned Farms Proposed as Sheep Ranches
An Iowa farmer endorses turning Vermont’s abandoned farms into sheep ranches praising the state’s ideal land for sheep raising near Eastern markets. Vermont’s Merino rams are renowned and bred worldwide, suggesting profitable potential for high and lower grades of wool and mutton alike.
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Vermont
Iowa
An Unexpected Phenomenon In The Wilkins Household
Corinna scolds Freddy for staying up as he insists on seeing Mr Wilkins explode. The child repeats that Corinna told mamma you were about ready to pop. The scene unfolds with comic tension as bedtime rumors swirl.
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Corinna
Mr. Wilkins
Freddy
Mamma
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