Endowment News and Oddities From Around 1881
The Register reports Coxaxenn University’s endowment of 1700000 dollars. A Louisville girl nearly smothered in a closet during hide and seek rescue. Stanuzy Brows joins a Washington brokerage. Burglaries in Madison leave 11 cents found in a safe. Brooklyn elects Seth Low as mayor amid youth and wealth contrasts. A 13 year old actor in St Louis rises, while railways report long mileage and passenger use. A Pennsylvania libel case sets press-liberty precedents. Veteran politician Taurton Weed celebrates 84th birthday with memories of abstinence and tobacco. Quirky wedding tales include escapes by lovers, telegram proposals, and a governor-wedding at the Ohio capital.
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Taurton Weed
Mr. Will
Weymouth
Mass
Mr. Weed
Catskill
Weed
Cures by Prayer Bring Cuba Woman Nearer Health
Mrs D B Sinz of Cuba New York was bedridden for eight years. After hearing of Miss Judd of Buffalo and prayer, medicines were discarded and she began to improve. The piece blends a local vignette with a general historical note on the New York Central Railroad's 1880 car and locomotive production, concluding with data on its rolling stock and engine houses.
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D. B. Sinz
Cuba
N. Y
Miss Judd
Buffalo
Sill
New York Central Railroad
Amass Glory Not Money In Posthumous Cassagnac Memoir
London Daily News notes a curious anecdote about Marshal Canrobert criticising a deferred pay plan for soldiers. He scolds Zouaves as wasting money on drink to seek glory, arguing their duty is to amass glory while the emperor provides sustenance as needed.
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Granier de Cassagnac
Camrpbert
Corps Lesislauf
Canrobert
Zouaves
Sevil
Kimperor
M. Granier de Cassagnac
London Daily Newa
Dentist Offers Teeth Procedures At Reduced Honest Prices
An Omanurston dentist announces affordable dental work with claims of no pain and transparent pricing. The message emphasizes comfortable treatment and lower costs, inviting patients to inquire about services and scheduling.
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Reconabel Price
The Auctioneer's Story of a Cedar Cabinet Mystery
A pawnbroker narrator recalls a pivotal day at the city auction where a shabby cedar cabinet becomes central to a tale of empathy. Amid loud sales and a desperate yet dignified woman seeking help, the incident shifts the trader toward compassion for those driven by want and sorrow.
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Clutchem & Keep
Jady
Tim
The Hidden Cabinet of a French Heiress
A desolate shop at dusk holds a cedar cabinet tied to a widow’s plea. She seeks the cabinet to prove marriage and baptism certificates for her children, key to an French estate. The narrator vows to recover it, sensing a life torn by loss and honor. The cabinet had been sent to a Western firm for sale and is returned to the widow.
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Clutchem & Keep
France
Chinchem & Keep
The moment she found the precious papers
In the lawyer and I present, the little fingers searched and then held up the papers. Her face lit with a soft halo as she whispered a grateful thanks. The scene recalls how misery flows from selfishness and thoughtlessness.
Home Tips and Recipes From Older Domestic Columns
Practical kitchen and household notes include sweet potatoes baked to brown edges, safe fruit jar tops, homemade soap from a four pound bar, hand cleansing with mustard and flaxseed meal, earache relief by gentle nose blowing, meat prep methods for roasts and fowls, lemony apple dessert, succotash preparation, rib roast cooking guidance, brass cleaning formula from arsenals, and rusted steel cleaning using cyanide pastes.
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American Medical Association
Jacoby
It Was the Cat in a Luncheon Shop Rival Plot
A historical tale recounts a rival hiring a boy to unleash a dead cat in a crowded Tendon luncheon shop. Diners flee in a stampede. the incident ends in embarrassment for the shop’s president. The piece shifts to a political meeting analogy about social charity and collective aid.
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Coxaxenn University
Louisville
Stanuzy Brows
Garfield
Washington
Bourouais
Madison
Wis
Grover P. Mansa
United States
Italy
David Grant
Orangemen of
Quebec
Beaudry
Montreal
Court of Queen's Bench
Orange Society
Ilegal
Grant
West
Mississippi
Missouri
James Morris
Ogdensburg
Morris
Brooklyn
Seth Low
Low
Massachusetts
New York City
Young Low
St. Louis
Will J. Cartin
Keene
Congress
Pennsylvania
Scranton
Coulersville
N.C
Reeder
Ohio
Texas
Laramie City
Pruecre
James Russell Lowell
Phoebe
Ovid
Phebe
Life
Century Magazine
Home Matters
J. N. Harris & Co., Proprietors
Cincinnati, C
Holman
Kolman
Express
Holman Pad Company
Oregon
Washington Territory
Pacific Slope
Portland
Chicago
Br, &N. Co
Columbia River
Railro
A. L. Stokes
Gewl Eastern Praw’r
Clark St
Sen
Land
Brawer
Housekeepee'sa
Tntil
Lie
Thomes & Talbot
Mawiley Street
Boston
Wanner
Patty
Hong Anne
van Schaack
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