Rail pay reforms and exotic fruit hopes in era notes
The Wisconsin Central pays porters fifty dollars monthly and bans tips, surpassing the Pullman line's ten dollars. Reports recount rival rubber ideas in eastern Nicaragua claiming a tree yields gum like rubber, with Fermat milk producing fattsa percha. Various anecdotes cover colonial relics, fashion in New York, Oregon monuments, and colorful editorials on politics and science.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin Central Railroad
Pullman Company
Expo
Nicaragua
Tropics
Rest in the Next World for a Bootblack
A Sunday school tale from the Yonkee Statesman recounts Tommy, a new scholar, preferring rest after death to shine in heaven. He explains he is content resting because he, a bootblack, already shines enough on earth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tommy
Yonkere
The waiter questions social snubs in Boston era tale
Arthur Lowell writes in the Century about the social divide faced by a waiter from the Gobble catering firm. He recalls polite ducal circles and quiet hostility in parks and streets as he reflects on class and courtesy. The piece probes manners among upper class hosts, matrons, and men of the Knickerbocker set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gobble & Co
Arthur Lowell
The Unsolved Mystery of Jasper McCrea's Death
A tangled Victorian tale centers on Jasper McCrea coal dealer found dead after a supposed suicide. Suspicions fall on his wife Belle and admirer Sir Vervain Clare as alibis, motives, and a hidden locket drive a courtroom free-for-all. In the end McCrea’s death is revealed as murder by a different hand, and Clare is freed to marry Belle in a hushed finale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LapoucusEre
London Truth
Europe
America
David R. Arcurson
United States
Missouri
King
Senate
Platte City
Mr. Atchison
Lawrence
Free State
Senator Atchison
West Lawrence
State Historical Society
Montruelto Plaza Ranch
New Mexico
John Brophy
William Johnson
Thomas Harris
Harris
Brophy
Johnson
Mr. Dubois
Leipsic
C. B. Wright
Mississippi
Dubois
Wright
West
Heardstone
Jasper McCrea
West End
McCrea
Vervain Clare
Sir Vervain
MeuCrea
Barrow
Tom Henningham
Pride
Miss Pride
Tom
Belle Barrow
Father McCrea
Byron
Esquire
Miss McCrea
Bell McCrea
Mercury Club
Mercury
Dynevor Terrace
Greenwich
Queen’s Counsel
Aesculapius
Father Time
Hal
Vervain
Marian McCrea
Marian
Belle McCrea
Price
Jasper
Marion McCrea
Beth
Vervainy Clare
England
Law
Helle McCrea
Vervain Cilure
Thames
Clare
Judge Lyuch
Indies
London
Dover
Hastings
Bosworth
Belle
Henningham
Hutshe
Jasper McCrapa
Lord Tone
France
Calais
Boy's Definition of Demagogue Turns Up in Exchange
A boy in a public school defined the word demagogue as a vessel that holds beer wine gin whiskey or any intoxicating liquor in a late Exchange item. The remark reflects a schoolyard definition and the period’s informal tone in the discussion of language.
Also Mentioned on This Page
the Register
NEW Harmony
Ind
Taapy Ranpolph Churchill
Boston Courier
Burnett-Contis
Bartlett
Sienor Farr
Kalahari Desert
Africa
Pasteux
Pall Mall Gazette
Walter Raleigh
Walter Raleich
Elizabeth
Edward Fitzgerald
Nelligan
Mr. Lapouchene
Alfonso
Madrid
Guardian
Charles V
New York
Oregon
Washington Monument
Washington
Frank Wood
Albany
Porn
Hooker
Collins Alston
Milly Reynolds
Thomasville
Clits
Jason
Linekeon
Jones
Knickerbocker
WM. B. Chisholm
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!