Various World News Bits From The Register
The Register reports diverse items including Texas census estimates of 2,025,000 in January 1887, a note on the Tiggin & Carr ranch in California, and remarks on ministers, medical salaries, and legal figures. It mentions Westminster Abbey interments, Maine logging rules, and a Crimean Medal survivor in Toronto, with a profile of German Minister Van Ance Vanry in Washington.
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Texas Census Bureau
Texas
Tiggin & Carr Ranch
California
Harrisburg Town Forms After Wagon Post Office Feat
A Banner Nebraska tale tells of Harrisburg rising in the same county as Banner after a citizen loaded and moved the Banner post office to Harrisburg in a carriage. Banner recovered the office after a scuffle. Mrs Benjamin Bipple of San Diego is noted as a bold woman. Her injured toe after an accident in a printing office was refused treatment at $125, prompting self-help with home remedies toward recovery.
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Banner
Neb
Harrisburg
Benjamin Bipple
San Diego
Biddle
Scattered Notes on Nations People and Historic Figures
An assortment of short items covers Scotch-Irish congresses in Columbia Tennessee on May 15, remarks on Panama era French papers, a near-miraculous escape of Princess Steven of St. Petersburg, theories on Homer by Mr Grapstoin, and early telephone claims by Ab m Pease. It also notes Labrador waterfalls discussions and a portrait of the late Duke of Galliera’s son, plus a Virginia will of King Robert Carter and a 1730 land survey in Lancaster County for Carter family heirs.
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Columbia, Tenn
Andrew Jackson
A. T. Stewart
Robert Fulton
Horace Greeley
Robert Bonner
Nathaniel Benwenn
Clarke County
Virginia
King
Robert Carter
Carotoman Creek
Lancaster County
Brooke
Shenandoah
Landon Carter
George Carter
King” Carter
Carter Burwell
Robert Burwell
Robin Page
Benjamin Harrison
Do Women Live Longer Than Men Questioned
An exchange asks whether women outlive men, noting widows often survive the men whose wives they were, implying female longevity advantage.
Treading the wine press in a satirical cry from Justice Puller
A distorted verse attributed to Chief Justice Puller mocks justice and social vanity, layering wine press imagery with a plea for sympathy and attention. It laments loneliness, invites readers to witness the speaker's plight, and hints at corruption and public gaze without graphic detail.
A Bald Mountain wedding on Turkey Creek
In Western Pennsylvania a celebrated wedding at Widow Downs home unites Alida Downs and Curtis Nash as floodwaters threaten the ceremony. Nash crosses a swaying Turkey Creek bridge to marry, aided by Fly Shorter, with a improvised crossing by the minister. The event ends with a full celebration and a vow to await safer passage for the couple's future.
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Widow Downs
Pennsylvania
Alida Downs
Turkey
Bald Mountain
Saida
Curtis Nash
Philadelphia
Chance
Davis
Curtis
Lida
Turkey Creek
Ali Daly
Alicia
Nash
Valid Mountain
Cuvler’s
Von
Cuyler
Aunt Judith
Costas
Tudith
Outwater
Jonas
Fly Shorter
Mr. Nash
Curtis Nish
Bala Mountain
Eli
Ame
Jony
Tomorrew
The Dangers of Fasting and Alcohol Abuse
A Boston Journal of Health warning warns against extreme dieting and long abstinence causing dyspepsia and nervous strain. It notes how overworked digestion scars the stomach heart and brain and explains how stimulants like alcohol may seem helpful but ultimately worsen breakdown and prostration.
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Boston Journal of Health
Love, Light, and Economy in a Frugal Night Tale
A comical dialogue captures a family’s frugal quarrel about gas use and warmth. Repecca reports Ikestein’s late-night visit, the father’s concern over gas waste, and a lantern brought to hang on the door knob. The tone shows old world humor and thrift.
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Ikestein
Sentimental talk and secret slang in a Chicago Ledger fragment
A fragment shows Miss Slimmons and a confidant discussing flirtatious remarks. The dialogue includes terms like lity and Tsigh, with playful references to a lover named Henry and a comparison to a sigh. The tone echoes gossip from a Chicago Ledger item.
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Miss Slimmons
Charlie
Henry
Chicago Ledger
Curious accounts of suicide through the ages
A historical overview traces self destruction as a philosophical option in ancient times and through legal codes. It cites Seneca, Pliny, Justinian, and various figures who chose death by their own hand, including methods attributed to Japan and several named individuals, noting social fascination with suicide at bridges and monuments in Paris and the modern era.
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Seneca
Pliny
Dewosthenes
Homer
Cate
Verrence
Himelf
Portia
Cato
Catulus Luctatius
Nero
Democles
Zeno
New York
Sain Patel
Nineara
Paterson
N.T
Genessee Falls
Paris
Giant 160 Ton Sand Wheel Under Construction in Scranton
The Dickson Manufacturing Company in South Scranton is building a record sized sand wheel for the Calumet and Hecla Copper Company. It will measure fifty three feet in diameter and weigh 150 to 160 tons, powered by a twenty inch hollow shaft, with fifty buckets per side to lift washings into a sluice. Each piece is numbered for reassembly and shipping will require eight to ten cars.
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Dickson Manufacturing Company
Scranton
Calumet and Hecla Copper Company
Lake Superior
Canonization drive for Joan of Arc gains momentum
Devout Lorrainers bought an authentic standard of Joan of Arc to place on the Notre Dame de Lourdes shrine and asked Bishop of Nancy to bless the relic. The bishop noted Joan’s mission to unite a fractured nation and predicted papal reverence would elevate her to martyr and guardian, inspiring France from Pyrenees to Alps.
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Joan of Arc
Notre Dame de Lourdes
Nancy
Joan
France
Pyrenees
Lorraine
Brittany
Alps
Joan of
In the Same Boat and a Debts Joke in Dialogue
A traveling man notes it is hard luck to be human because debts weigh on people while birds keep notes and bills. The exchange includes a quip about debt worries and a Detroit Free Press remark on temperance laws. Edna is told not to follow a musical score or leave her seat during a performance.
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Tue
Corea
Edna
Detroit Free Press
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Department of Agriculture
North Carolina
Westminster Abbey
Talmage
Dominion
Africa
Missatany Poomnen
Prdfer
Berlin
Maine
Orneville
Western Lake Marine
Staan
Nebraska
Sia. Buirz
Corst Vox Ance Van.ry
Washington
M. von Alvensleben
Steven
St. Petersburg
Charkoff
Grapstoin
Eneland
Chadstone
Mdi. Prast
Des Moines
Abr
Pease
TuEne
Labrador
Niawarn
Yosemite
Columbia
Labrador Falls
Polachikopou
Germany
America
Jeunesse Doree
M. Ferrari
Puller
Justice
Atoue
James Franklin Fitts
Part I
Lidy
Regal
Downs House
Lida Downs
Alva Clench
Far Wests
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