Curious miscellany from The Register travel through time
A collage of items notes that Blaine and Randall never studied law, a New York sues over engagement jewelry, a Baltimore society widow’s loss, pigeon egg sex traits, a New York Central conscience fund gift, Groves W Camps adds clocks, Napoleanic veterans dwindling, Gabrielle Greeley at Chappaqua, Mormon Conference statistics, Maryland blue laws still in force, Henry M Stanley hair as crown of a busy life, Alamo bones found near San Antonio, and a New York institute offering $200 for insect breeding plans.
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Henry M. Stanley
Ruwenzari
Stanley
Mosquito control sponge yields limited results in climate view
The article argues humane efforts to reduce mosquitoes may fail due to natural ecological balance, predicting the pest will persist despite attempts to diversify insect populations. It also notes a London cable about Parnell misattributing quotes to Stonewall Jackson and Henry Grattan, correcting the historical mix up.
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Parneto
London
O’shea
Stonewall Jackson
Parnell
Henry Grattan
Trish
Avan Forreraven and the Forepatel show empire
Avan Forreraven knew circus details and supervised payroll, buying crews and groceries, approving bills, and punishing insubordination. Forepaugh could size canvas, calculate seating and costs, and kept his securities, deeming much paper valuable. He read newspapers avidly and critiqued agents, remaining excitable and unforgiving when angered.
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Avan Forreraven
Barnum
Iis
Partners Who Never Spoke of a Split in Trade
A note on silent partnerships where two businessmen avoided conversation, using slips of paper to conduct deals while their firms swindled the public. The tale, cited by James Payne in the Independent, highlights how discord can replace dialogue even in commerce.
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James Payne
The
Independent
I Just Analyzed Her Love Story Goes Hilarious
A man visits a lawyer to file for divorce. The lawyer asks about grounds and notices the claimant crying. When asked if he loved his wife the man replies I just analyzed her. The lawyer laughs, and the man leaves to take his case elsewhere.
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Mr. E
Avorous on the Sand Evening Verse Fragment
A New York Weekly verse depicts a twilight walk on a pebbly shore. A lover’s vow is written in sand, then washed away by the wave, leaving the speaker bereaved and wondering why sunlit promises vanish like footprints. The fragment ends with reflection on changing devotion.
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Strand
Sun
New York Weekly
Irish Bailiffs Outwitted By Local Magistrate And Mob
In Bally O Daly a cunning plan unfolds as bailiffs Nedmund and Peery Costigan chase writs. A fake warrant targets the magistrate Redmund O Daly, who suspects a ruse. A market day swindle ends with the brothers captured by villagers led by Matt Coogan, then spirited away on a wild horseback chase before fleeing to new lands.
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Peery Costigan
Ned
Ireland
Dublin Castle
Nedmund O'Daly
Bally- O'Daly
O’daly
Strand
O'Daly
Matt Coogan
Matt
Tam
Bally
Coogan
Mick Brannigan
O‘ogly
Jooly Sarved
Mounteback
Redmund O'Daly
Mulligan
Brian
Costigan
Glen
Rocky Pass
House boats gain favor as English style lands here
A St. Lawrence boat builder notes English house boats become popular in the area. He recalls orders since five years ago and points to lakes and islands like Penn Yan Watkins Geneva and the Thousand Islands where boats serve picnics and solitary retreats. He warns local tides and pests could limit adoption here but English practice uses a launch for excursions.
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St. Lawrence
Thames
England
Penn Yan
Watkins
Geneva
Thousand Islands
One Fighting Man Taken Care Of
A rural man accompanied by his son to Portsmouth Navy Yard sought a job through military preference. When asked for a claim, the father claimed the son was a veteran who fought and defeated rebels and copperheads, and even beat his own family. He was ultimately hired.
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Portsmouth Navy Yard
Onion Appetite Haunts Deland Society Lady
A Deland Florida young woman known for charm and good manners succumbs briefly to an onion craving. She eats large quantities of onions, retreats to her room for days, and reemerges when her breath is acceptable for society. The note, from the Deland News, labels the behavior as a social duty avoidance.
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Deland
Fla
Deland News
Odd and curious happenings from the era
A column of odd items from around the country includes a man who swallowed a brass pin as a child and has recovered it, a dare that led to a wedding, gold rings found in fowl, a girl saving for a watch by trapping wildlife, a merchant losing and reclaiming a pocketbook, a grouse yielding a gold nugget, roosters fending off a fox, a somnambulist swimming asleep across a river, a costly baby outfit, a ploughman discovering gold but losing it to honesty, and notes on ancient coin findings and primitive Spanish farming practices.
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J. W. Keith
Cuarranoogs
Shelbyville
Zanesville& Merchant
Main Street
Sampson’s Mills
Ore
Holmes County
Ohio
Charleston
W. Va
George Coulter
JanGoon Gorp
Trench
J. G
Galt
Cal
Henry Brady
Henderson
Charles F. Kleiderer
Spain
Expensive February 1881 White House Entertainment
The Hayes era hosted an extraordinary diplomatic corps event with 7 000 attendees, 1 500 bread loaves and 150 hams turned into sandwiches, 1 000 quarts of cream, 400 chickens in salads, 150 gallons of coffee, and 2 500 clean plates. Cost reached 6 000 dollars, surpassing all prior state dinners. no wines served, but hospitality abused by guests bringing many ladies on the card.
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Executive
Diplomatic Corps
Hayes
W. T. Crump
Washington Star
Not a Journalist. A newspaper man courts a daughter
In a witty exchange from New York Weekly a wealthy father, doubting the suitor’s claim to journalism, is told by the suitor that he is a newspaper man not a journalist, and the dialogue ends with a joke about a profitable news-stand venture as approval.
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Tam
New York Weekly
We Knew What That Involved in the Office
A humorous cartoon caption from the Boston Times about office life in New York Sunward pages. The managing editor questions waste-basket duties as an eight page expansion for Sunday in the city newsroom is teased.
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New York
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