Farragut widow receives pension and global trade notes
The Register reports Mrs. Vinnerma L Farragut as the admiral's widow drawing a $2,000 yearly pension. It notes a Dutch firm with thirty steamers on the Upper Congo and $1.5 million in ivory purchases. Other items include a Vienna University dean photos rule and a Brussels stamp dealer’s empire. A Florida owl, slave auction humor, and robberies in India appear in brief paragraphs, along with reflections on life’s contrasts and a tale of a long-lived Pennsylvania family.
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Stanley
Upper
Congo
Public schooling urged to improve American handwriting
The author laments poor American penmanship born of bad instruction and mechanical writing. He calls for handwriting to become a formal, carefully taught department in public schools, noting the English, Irish, and German hands as examples of superior penmanship and insisting Americans can achieve similar skill with proper training.
A Deep Nature Letter From Winnie Davis in Paris
Miss Winnie Davis daughter of the late Jefferson Davis writes from Paris to her mother sharing thoughts on society and the decay of values. She contrasts luxury with spiritual life and questions political expediency and the modern inner world. She muses on Puritanism false values, heroic sacrifice, and the need for higher thinking amidst social change. A Paris letter ends with a sleep tip from the digaison Globe.
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Winnie Davis
Jefferson Davis
Paris
Daniel
St. John
Jerusalem
To My Love by Francis 8 Smith
Poem from New York Weekly describing longing as a torrent and tide, with imagery of ivy, roses, and the south wind. The speaker compares the beloved to the ivy and the heart to a spring, expressing yearning during separation. Verse emphasizes nature motifs and romantic yearning.
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New York Weekly
Narrow Escape. My Narrow Brush with Highwaymen
In October 1884 I walked from Pratt Missouri to deliver nursery stock and rode with a rough looking man who turned out to steal a team. Pursued by horsemen, I proved my innocence with papers, while the thief confessed before execution. The crowd hanged the thief. I continued on grateful for survival and warned to choose better company.
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Missouri
Janes Pratt
Thad
Pratt
James Pratt
Beneath the grooming a lesson on inner character
The piece cites Yom Marshall’s tale urging readers to judge by character, not appearance, warning that clothes and grooming mask real traits. It notes how teachers and family bias mirror superficial judgments and cites Carlyle on inner substance behind outer status. It then discusses library disease transmission and disinfection practices.
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Yom Marshall
Kentucky
Lair
Carlyle
Madam de Prevere
Lancel
A Light in the Window and Other Tales
A sentimental tale from Sylt about a mother who lights a candle each night for her seafaring son. The candle guides hope through years of absence until the ship returns or the mother passes beyond. Then follows brief notes on the sublime versus ridiculous, a harvest prayer, and a comic business quip.
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Sylt
Learmings
Napoleon
Richard Lil
Shakspeare
Richard Croskback
Theo
Zeras
Cat Attache Thomas Disrupts Judge Murray Court
A large black cat named Thomas roams Judge Murray's civil court on Eighth Avenue and often sits on the rail near counselors. He slipped to the desk before the judge, was excluded briefly, then allowed back in. The New York World notes the feline is treated as court staff.
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Murray
Eighth Avenue
Thomas
Justice Murray
New York World
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Oconee County
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MY Love
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Smith
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Cincinnati
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