Old Times in Robin Hood's Bay Smuggling Echoes
A Spectator piece recalls Robin Hood's Bay in early 19th century as a haven for merchant adventurers and smugglers. It recounts hidden hides for contraband, fear of press gangs, and women delivering spirits to Whitby while excisemen surveil routes along hedges. The tale contrasts wild coastal smuggling with later enforcement and notes Choctaw Nation law in a separate column excerpt.
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Robin Hood
The
Spectator
Greenland
Elly
Whitby
Old Town
Molly
Tushkahommia
Senate
House of Representatives
Maine
Kansas
United States
Indianapolis Journal
Values of the Teaching Profession Highlighted by Theodore Parker
The Cincinnati Advertiser argues teachers wield unparalleled influence, insisting teaching is a divine calling and the noblest vocation. It condemns viewing education as mere craft or charity and praises the teacher's power to shape future citizens and society.
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Hts
Theodore Parker
America
Cincinnati
Ay Wirer
United States
Hamlin
Ice
Wizard Oil Company
Chicago
Choctaw Language Described By Walter Lowry
Walter Lowry, a former U.S. Senator, lauds the Choctaw tongue as the finest for oratory and notes its complexity. He explains it uses a modified Roman alphabet of twenty-two letters and features a large lexicon of about ten thousand words with long-standing public publications over fifty years and a formal representative government.
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Walter Lowry
United States
Green & Sons
HH. H. Green & Sons
M. Ca
Jones Avenue
Atlanta
Bry Orme
Union
W. J. Horne
Ab Edwar Street
Uuva
N.Y
Mule Concert and War Mules Braying Echoes From Chickamauga
A column fondly recalls mule life and a wartime mule concert at Chickamauga. The piece notes mules are hardworking yet unreliable, likening their stubbornness to a stubborn habit, and recounts a visit where army mules brayed loudly as a regimental surgeon intervened. Dyersburg (Lenn.) Gazelle.
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Judas Iscariot
Chickamauga
Cleburne
Thomas
New York Exchange
Dyersburg
Lenn
Gazelle
Tale of a Turkish Bridge and a Sultan’s Child whim
A London letter recounts a Constantinople anecdote in which a bridge contract overruns cost about £100000 after the Sultan’s son laments not having a ship hoisted on nursery windows. A favored admiral’s dream spawns an ironclad and months of disruption, with the Sultan paying little towards the waste.
Severe Judge Rules Heavy Fine For Missed summons
Judge Bickleton governs a strict court and fines or jails those who miss summons. Bill Nixon missed his appearance and, after a harsh rebuke, faced a fifty dollar fine. Nixon then admits he was drunk yesterday, prompting the judge to cancel the fine. Arkan saw Traveler.
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Bickleton
Bill Nixon
Nixon
Clerk
Arkansaw Traveler
Eye injury risk far higher than body wounds, study finds
Two physiologists compare eye injuries to other injuries and discover that while wounds to the eye should be about 1 in 600 if all body parts were equally exposed, actual data show the eye sustains injuries at a rate over twenty times higher, about 36 in 1000.
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Grrvan
Washington Peas and Niagara Falls Inquiries In 1887
A collage of notes from 1887 covers a Tel el Kebir night panic due to a sentry’s call, a myth about George Washington eating peas with a knife, Niagara Falls recession rates, coal dust ignition studies, and a pitch for Hostetter’s Almanac. The items span history, science, and medical publishing with multiple named figures and places.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Buffalo
KR. S. Woodward
Washington
Niagara Falls
Horseshoe Falls
Grand Union Hotel Promises Citywide Comfort and Value
Important notice claims the Grand Union Hotel near Grand Central Depot offers 613 rooms fitted at a million dollars, with carriage hire free for travelers leaving New York. It touts European law standards, an elevator, a restaurant, and convenient horse cars, stages, and elevated rail depots. Families are urged that they can live better for less money than any other first class hotel in the city.
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New York City
Grand Union Hotel
Grand Central Depot
Albany Poker Tale Leaves Legend in Steamship Plot
The Philadelphia Record recounts a prewar poker night aboard a steamship with Commodore Vanderbilt and George Law. Law loses $15,000 while Vanderbilt wins big, and Law later claims netted $855,000 from the game by selling his steamers for $900,000.
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Egypt
Albany
Commodore Vanderbilt
Dean Richmond
George Law
Vanderbilt
Law
New York
Philadelphia
A Clean Beat and a Literary Fortune
A friend recalls a tale of a man who made a fortune through literary work though mocked as illiterate. He supposedly gained wealth after writing about a army skirmish, demonstrating enterprise by providing a magazine article that no papers had covered. The note ends with a testimonial for Red Star Cough Cure from Mr. L. D. Vinson and D. & J. R. K.
Well Meaning Purchases and Comic Misreads in Old Diary
A fragmentary comic exchange shows a wife boasting cheap purchases to her husband Charlie on Hoyne Avenue. He jokes with guesses from the stars while reading a paper. The scene cites a Chicago Herald ad and ends with cautionary notes for necks and nerves, concluding with a satire on aging and gout.
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Hoyne Avenue
Charlie
Charley
Chicago Herald
How to Save Money from Home Work Offer
The ad from Hallett & Co. of Portland Maine promotes home based work with claimed daily profits from 85 to 24 dollars and up, noting no capital needed and all details free. It urges readers of all ages to send their address to prove the offer.
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Hallett & Co
Portland
Maine
Tia
Montgomery Ward & CO
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Ill
Warning Signals and Consumption of the Lungs
The text describes signs of a coming storm and warns of a fatal disease,Consumption of the Lungs, indicated by pimples blotches eruptions ulcers and glandular swellings. It endorses Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for diseases arising from bad blood claiming it improves appetite digestion nutrition and the wasting system.
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Pierce
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Robin Hood’s Bay
Brown
Fogg
Boston Transcript
South Africa
Isandlhwana
Tel-el-Kebir
Commissariat
G. P. Quackenbos
Gen. Washington
Brooklyn
C. Hitt
Merne Des Mines
R. von Helmholtz
Berlin
Royal Society
Tyndall
Sterling Medical Annual
Hostetter
Mexico
Western Hemisphere
Propricetors
Mesers
Hostetter & Co
Pittsburgh
Arthur Shurtueff
Parker, Dakota
WorkUs Dispensary Medical Association
Yale
Wales
Meximan
Caswell, Hazard & Co
Proprietors
Toracco
Asoud
Hood & Co
Apothecaries
Lowell
Mass
B. Case
St Denis
DSA
Owego
Busin Buffalo
Althe Ason CO
Muncie
Indiana
Urea
Pia
Hemedy Co
LaFasette
Ind
Chicago AS. Ledger
Brewster's Safety
Holly, Mich
J. Stephens
Lebanon
Ohio
No Fe
New Jaws
Flenner & CO
Attys
Washington, D.C
Marsh
Quincy
Mich
Valentine Bros
Wis
A.W. McCormick & Son
American Woods
Tihayens
Pine St
Jersey City
A.P. Lacey
J. Rexverer
Pera, Ind
Ifso
Chicago Ledger
Wellia
Willems
Drpelets
MS Meu. CO
Cleveland
Ieee
Ste Rollef Kioden
Harlestown
Z. A. Sheeman
Enenadway Ork
Randolph
J.B. Mayer
Arch St. Phila
Standish House
Detroit
Commercial Hotel
Fitzgerald & Powell
U.S
Indianavolis
M. RK. Mint.s
H. A. Sarvs
Tulton Ave
Davenport
Town
Mung
Jaxe Andrews
St. Helens
Reown Chemical
Paltimolre
Anit
Aimee Slar Terns
Mason & Hamlin Organ
Boston
Our Little Ones
Prince of Magazines
Russell Publishing Co
Bromfield St
James River
Claremont Colony
Mancha
Claremont, Va
Scenergetic
Wormnun
Standard Silverware CO
Ellwwood
DE Kalb
Omaha Div
Murray Mill Pub
Ruggiste
GON. U
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