Wealthy banker, divorce suit, and local mines in Missouri
The Register notes a boastful estimate of John D. Rockefeller’s wealth at 129 million dollars and a projection of him becoming the richest man in ten years. A Missouri man seeks divorce after 38 years, alleging his wife forced heavy housework. Warren County hosts the largest graphite mine with garnet ore nearby worth forty dollars a ton. A Kansas City figure receives a cigar named for him, Our Bob, with his portrait on the box lid.
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John D. Rockefeller
Warren County
Largest brick chimney rises near St. Louis brewery
A St. Louis brewery built a 235 foot brick chimney, the tallest west of Boston, with four foot base walls tapering to thirteen inches at the top. The structure spans 1,681 feet at its base and dwarfs a nearby water tower, signaling industrial progress.
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St. Louis
Boston
St. Louisian Creates Rapid New Adding Machine
Winstau 8 Burnoreys, a young St. Louisan, has devised a compact adding machine of 2 165 pieces that serves as an adjunct to counting houses. Now in use in fifty banks, it is said to operate faster and more accurately than experienced accountants.
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Winstau
Burnoreys
St. Louisan
Prowipirion Plans Big East Tennessee Settlement
A new land company led by Clinton B. Fisk buys 300000 acres in East Tennessee for a diversified development including two manufacturing valley cities and an uplands health resort with an absolute prohibition clause in every title and deed. The Ton Hangtown Observer hails El Dorado County as wondrous and lush.
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Prowipirion
East Tennessee
Great Land Company
Clinton B. Fisk
Manufacturing Valley City
Uplands
Harmonites in Beaver County and other oddities
A fragment from a 19th century issue discusses the dwindling Harmonites in Economy Beaver County Pennsylvania where celibacy keeps recruits away. It recalls naval academy leave cases and shares a Notes and Queries explanation of kissing under the mistletoe. It ends with denouncing a Bracison Wisconsin diphtheria corpse dispatch as ghoulish journalism.
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Bracison
Wis
A Railroad on Tree Tops in Sonoma County Cal
A Sonoma County California report details an unusual engineering feat unseen in books. Between Clipper Mills and Stuart Point a track bed lies on tree tops with logs and ties resting on stumps and two redwood trunks forming a central support. The elevated rail is said to rival modern bridges in safety.
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Sonoma County
Cal
Clipper Mills
Stuart Point
Golden State
St. Lois
Economy Advice From A Young Couple
A Philadelphia Inquirer quote shows a wife praising thrift and self restraint while a husband agrees to change like stopping smoking resigning from clubs and stopping social extravagances. The Somerville Journal adds a reflection that perfection rests on trifles though not a trifling matter to achieve it.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
Somerville Journal
Growing Old Together Poem Fragment
A poem fragment portrays a speaker addressing a aging beloved. The speaker notes loss of affection and physical changes while expressing that aging does not warrant blame. The speaker cheekily claims loving the partner more when they were not wholly bald and ends with playful self awareness.
Myra's Victim in a Sierra Mine Romance
A party of twenty-two explores Altaville's mines for natural wonders and wealth. Marion Lester grows jealous of Thorne Reckless as Myra Doone schemes, a girl falls unconscious in a gallery, and Marion is rescued after a perilous descent and a bear mistaken for trouble. Thorne's jealousy yields confession, Marion forgives, and engagement with Major Denby awaits.
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Great Wild West
Marion Lester
Thorne Ned- Jess
Myra Doone
Thorne Reckless
Major Denby
Calaveras
Angel’s
Murphy
Altayille
Margaret
Bald Mountain
Marica
Marion
Mr. Shattuck
Myra
Thorne
Throne
Denby
Mrs. Shattuck
Murphy’s
Ossified Man Seeks 50 Cents From Chicago Trader
John W. Haglin, a Chicago Board of Trade figure, sits in his Dearborn Avenue parlor when a beggar claims to be an ossified man and asks for capital to become rich. He cites a trick in play and insists Haglin fund him with 50 cents, promising immediate profit if allowed to leave.
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John W. Haglin
Chicago Board of Trade
Dearborn Avenue
Lake-Front
Mr. Haglin
Arhan
Tobacco as a Medicine Revolutionary Claim from Rushville
Peter Coulter of Rushville Indiana says tobacco kept him alive for seventy years though he is 14 and began smoking and chewing at 14. A fever illness left a large sore on his left side. Doctors prescribed tobacco to survive. Smoking made him ill but reduced the sore and pain. When he stops chewing the sore returns and grows, risking his life.
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Peter Coulter
Rushville
Ind
St. Louis
Very Musical Misa Griggs and the B Flat House
A playful note from the Chicago Herald cites Miss High Tone Misa Griggs as notably musical, joking that she lives in a musical atmosphere described as a B Flat. The piece sits amid late 19th century chatter about Tar autumn of 1889, known historically as the great rain fall.
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Misa Griggs
Miss Hightone
Mr. Perkins
Chicago Herald
Odd and Curious Happenings Across Cities
A carnival of oddities spans continents with forgotten slippers reclaimed by a Columbus sealers sign reading Old slippers to throw at brides. Tales include a Bangor pupil with the world’s longest voice, a Melbourne law taxing couples living with mothers-in-law, and a Kingston relic collector presenting 1686 1694 and 1715 seeds signed by royal representatives.
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Columbus
Penn
Dora Wiley
Miss Todd
Bangor
Inlaay
S. Coryxevius Huse
Kingston
Missouri
Egypt
Cleveland
William Craig
Pulaski County
Ransom
Lackawanna County
Sam Gardner
W. Va
Brooklyn
Joan W. Parsxnam
Colored Methodist Church
Charlotte
N. C
Farnham
New Britain
Conn
Benjamin Winchester
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
New York
The German Servant Girl in a Familiar Lot
A sharp portrait of a German servant girl, describing her as strong but unpolished, her peasant origins, and the harsh path from rural chores to urban domestic service. The piece notes the lack of wages during apprenticeship and contrasts rural duties with unfamiliar urban household life in Indianapolis News.
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Hans
Fritz
Indianapolis
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