Mixed News Bits From The Register And Beyond
The Register notes Lizz Moore of Fremont Ohio has become totally blind after rubbing her eyes following contact with a vaccinated arm. It also highlights New York society's fascination with the Bonner daughter’s wedding costume, a prairie-dog dig yields an odd find near Raton New Mexico, and plans for a grand Portland Oregon depot costing 1 500 000 dollars. Also mentions glass shingles patent in Pittsburgh, Indian Territory displacement aside, and Royal family chatter about Beatrice and William of Hesse. It profiles long-lived Henry Johnson of Oberlin Ohio at 109, details Princess Beatrice delays, and lists annual incomes of New York’s wealthy elites led by Vanderbilt and Gould.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lizz Moore
Fremont
Ohio
Red Bluff Woman Dies After Embarrassing Bet Escort
A Red Bluff California youth dressed as an esthete for a wager invited Miss Emma Voller to an entertainment. She felt mortified when learning he planned the bet and deteriorated mentally, refusing sustenance and dying from intense distress. The piece also notes cheap ocean travel for emigrants and parochial fares on English Cape routes.
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Red Bluff
Cal
Emma Voller
Tom
Chicago
Glasgow
Scotland
England
Cape of Good Hope
County boast by Franklin man Mr Cootes
Mr Cootes of Franklin county Pennsylvania asserts that his county has notable qualities and characteristics worth reporting, presenting a civic or personal defense of the region. The statement signals local pride and a belief in county advantages, though details remain sparse in the fragment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. Cootes
Franklin County
The Roll Of Honor And The Courtroom Drollery
A lengthy critique mocks a notable political and civic line of office holding across states, highlighting Ohio and Franklin county as strong examples and lamenting corruption among readers. The piece then shifts to a lavish portrait of Dr Lebliemann in Athens and a court tale about jury tampering involving peanuts and a young couple.
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United States
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Franklin County
Balzac Dreams of a Boulevard Grocer Venture
Balzac, famed for big schemes and misfires, convince Henri Monnier that he will become a millionaire by opening a shop on the Boulevard des Italiens with Balzac painted in gold as a grocer. He imagines daily profits from each customer, dreaming of 500,000s a year as his fortune grows.
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Balzac
Henri Monnier
Boulevard Des Italiens
Honore de Balzac
Monnier
New Way to Get a Treat On C Street
Two men who had been drinking met on C street and fought briefly in a drunken street quarrel. After a brief exchange and a mock challenge the victor was declared and the men amicably touched schooners. Time one minute. Virginia Chronicle.
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Baltimore
C Street
Virginia Chronicle
Noah’s
Sharon
Oyd, Mackey & Co
Moses
Gen. Jubal
New Orleans Picayune
Louisville Courier- Journal
United States
New Haven Register
Elmira Free Press
P. Williamson
Madison
Austin
Sam
Texas Siftings
Buried secrets and sins across the crowded street
A reflective verse panorama follows a universal drama of sin and virtue as life unfolds along the street. It contrasts guarded inner guilt with outward dreams of riches, love, and fame, while all passersby enact their private dramas.
The Little Mormon Maid Servant Adventure in Utah
A Gentile family in Utah struggles to hire servants amid Mormon distrust of outsiders. My wife visits various Mormon homes, encountering stark interiors, clever space saving furniture, and restrictive social rules for girls. After days of fruitless search, they finally meet their sought servant at their own doorstep through the local bishop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Utah
A Swedish Maid Julie Joins Mormon Household
In a rambling red granite house next door a bishop’s family rivalry forces a second wife on the first, prompting a Gentile family to hire Julie the Mormon maid. Julie endears herself to children, narrates Sweden and Salt Lake stories, and argues for plural wives as higher eternal glory.
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Julie
Paul
God
Sweden
Omaha
Salt Lake
Salt Lake Valley
Mormon Tabernacle
Babes
Little Paul
Earth
Fourth Wife of Bishop Cited in Youths' Companion
A fragment quotes K. D. Forgeron in Youths' Companion describing a woman who left a family to become the fourth wife of an elderly bishop already married to a widow and her twin daughters.
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K. D. Forgeron
Notes on Nobility and Historical Vignettes
A compact survey of antiquarian assertions. It discusses that Earls are the sole noble title from Anglo Saxon roots, heraldic lions once called leopards, and French knighthood traditions. It notes Restoration attitudes toward Quakers, Norman introduction of archery, and origins of cards and chess. It covers suppression of gladiatorial shows, Puritan era nudges to stone masons, 1707 Scotch coinage, Greek gifts at temples, and Gothic Bible translations avoiding kings.
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France
England
India
Rome
Alphilas
The Arizona Cowboy and His Ferocious Frontier Image
A portrait of the untamed cowboy, armed and formidable, roaming from Texas to the border towns. He is quick, bold, and often feared, a symbol of the frontier spirit and danger on the plains, with shifting identities and a dramatic, legendary presence.
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Sui Generis
Texas
Texas Ranger
Tucson
Santa Fe
Bodie
If Not At Leisure To Hear Pleas Then Not A King
A tale of Philip of Macedon shows a king who learns that being not at leisure to hear a poor woman's plea means he is not at leisure to be a king. He changes his approach, hearing her case and ordering restitution for wrongs. The lesson: duties to others must take precedence over self indulgence.
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Philip of
Macedon
Ancient Chinese Burial Practices Revealed in Old Records
A Celestial Empire account describes a wealthy Chinese man buying a coffin at forty, painting it thrice yearly with a porcelain mixed varnish resembling enamel. Coffin coatings hardened into a sarcophagus thickness, with quicksilver in the body, jade in the ears and hand, bare silver in the other hand, and a mercury seal. Centuries later opened sarcophagi showed preserved bodies that crumbled on air exposure.
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Celestial Empire
PITH AND POINT Jokes From A Wandering Column
A collection of wry quips and snippets on life, education, manners, and science from various writers. Humorous reflections on youth age grammar and common sense mingle with anecdotes about editors merchants and doctors. The piece traps light irony across a string of brief, punchy items.
Agriculture for Girls in France at Darnetel School
The Darnetel agricultural school near Rouen trains 300 girls from eight to eighteen in farm work on over 400 acres. Twenty five sisters teach a curriculum that has earned multiple medals from the French Agricultural Society, sending graduates as stewards, gardeners, managers, dairy workers, and laundresses. Each girl saves a small sum earned in spare hours and can return to Darnetel for a home if needed.
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France
Rouen
French Agricultural Society
Darnetel
Ormandy Fon
Herald of Health
World of Good Hop Bitters Endorsed by Advertiser
An advertisement praises Hop Bitters as a popular remedy now before the American public. It claims the tonic builds up users and is effective, noting it is less pleasant in taste than whisky drinks and likened to boneset remedies. The passage cites a writer Nanda Newe and mentions Charles Dickens in context.
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Wales
Alexandra
Europe
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Andrew Jackson
New Orleans
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King and Queen County
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Col
Dick Taylor
Gen. Jackson
Gen. Washington
Beatrice
Prince William of
Hesse
Mamma
Victoria
William
William H. Vanderbilt
Jay Gould
Gov. Morgan
Russell Sage
R. L. Stewart
Robert and
Ogden Goelet
James Gordon Bennett
A. T. Stewart
W. K
Cornelius Vanderbilt
O. D. Mills
New York Mercantile Library
Dr. Schummann
Athens
Lium
Lebliemann
Troy
Mycenis
Priam
Bellerophon
Hecuba
Polyxena
Satan
The
Arizona Cowboy
Golden Shore
Boston Advertiser
Experimental School of Medicine
Dickens
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