Automatic life size Turk reads pages and lifts heavy weights
A Nottingham inventor built an electric life size Turk that reads a Koran, turns pages, and moves eyes and head. It astonishingly lifts a hundred weight, writes on slate, plays an instrument, and performs sword exercises. Also included are humorous verses by Phosbe Cary found in old papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Lacy
Nottingham
England
Ali
Phosbe Cary
F. Cary
Hoyle
Rav. Dr. Witt Tatmace Visitor Attracts Admiring Benefactor
Rav. Dr. Ds Witt Tatmace of Brook Synagogue welcomed a wealthy elderly lady, a staunch friend and admirer, during a courtesy visit. He escorted her to the door as she departed.
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Ds Witt Tatmace
Brook‘Syn
Doctor and Mrs Talmage Fall Down Stairs in Comic Slippage
A slipping stair incident ends with Dr. Talmage and an elderly lady tumbling down the steps. Both rise unharmed. the doctor laughs at the sight while the lady remains unamused. A servant notes the lady’s inquiry about injury, and the doctor confirms no harm done beyond dignity.
Last Hemlock Forest Log Ends Mills Era in Wayne County
A Orange County New York paper notes the final hemlock log for Dyberry Creek mills, recounts Bill Kimble driving the last log and first log in 1860, and describes the decline of Wayne County tanneries as hemlock forests vanish. It links shale waterways drying, economic shifts to Elk Forrest Warren counties, and hints capital punishment debate after a Jersey murder trial misperception.
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Orange County
New York
Dyberry Creek
Bill” Kimble
Great Forest
Wayne County
Union
Elk, Forrest
Warren
It Occasionally Happens Betel line Bell anecdote
Two Territory residents discuss a young friend from the States and whether to title him as a doctor lawyer or newspaper man. They joke that court will be in session when he arrives and he might get admitted to the bar on the way from the depot. A separate note mentions a young man with painted suspenders finding rooms too warm with a coat on.
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Frankfort
Louisville
Kentucky
Miss Journeaux
Jersey
Farne
St. Malo
St. George’s Bay
Newfoundland
St. Johns
France
Cain
Betelline Bell
Reminiscences of Public Men by Ben Perley Poore
The article recalls speeches by Alexander Boteler praising past Revolutionary volunteers from Virginia and recounts Washington meeting Virginia leaders. It discusses Grant Blaine politics, a proposed American ship canal through Central America, and Lincoln and Everett at Gettysburg, ending with a note on a physicist's meteorite theory about iron composition and Earth's magnetism.
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Alexander R. Boteler
Virginia
House of Representatives
Charles Frances Adams
Massachusetts
Jefferson County
Boston
Boteler
Washington
Capt. Stevenson
Potomac
Mr. Boteler
John Brown
Gen. Grant
Blaine
Grant
Mr. Blaine
Isthmus
Daniel Ammen
Gen Grant
Congress
United States
de Lesseps
Darien Canal
A. N. Menocal
Sam Cox
Austria
Johnson
Senate
Sumner
Cox
Lincoln
Gettysburg
Edward Everett
Everett
Abraham Lincoln
Mr. Everett
The Graces of Good Speech in an Age of Slang
A Cincinnati Commercial piece discusses how language evolves from harsh slang to refined expression. It notes Webster additions like Dude and boycott, cites Swift and Spectator on monosyllables, and urges teachers to guide pupils in choosing precise words while avoiding overblown adjectives and redundancies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wendell Phillips
F. R. Stockton
Rudder Grange
Null
Porter
Yale College
London Times
Earl of Dufferin
Dean Swift
Spectator
Locke
Connecticut
Whitefield
Mesopotamia
Cincinnati
Age of the Hell and City Sewer Reform Reflected
The text argues hell is a universal belief across ancient religions and uses Liverpool sewerage advances as a moral measure, noting mortality drop from 32.5 per thousand before 1870 to 28.4 between 1870 and 1880 and 23.5 in 1885, linking sanitation to public health improvements.
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Liverpool
Brook Farm and the Fourierist Phalanx Decline in America
The Brook Farm venture in West Roxbury began with George Ripley and William H. Channing as a religious literary community. It evolved into a Fourierist Phalanx, producing the Dial and Harbinger, but a 1846 fire halted the project, ending Brook Farm and largely ending organized Fourierism in the United States.
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Brook Farm
George Ripley
Boston
William H. Channing
Theodore Parker
George William Curtis
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Charles A. Dana
Elizabeth P. Peabody
Margaret Fuller
West Roxbury
The
Dial
Brook Farm Association
Minot
Massachusetts
Brook Farm Phalanx
American Union of Associationists
United States
Roxbury
Theosophy in Boston and the Boston Book Club Class
Joseph Cook comments on Bostonosophy as a topic in Boston society noting the three literary classes and the ridicule of outsiders claiming occult interests. He ridicules the city for needing authorship and mocks the pretensions of Boston readers while describing local engagement with theosophy and Buddhism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Madam Blatzky
Tam
Jay Gould
Vanderbilt
Joseph Cook
Onaha
Mr Gladstone’s Aberration Reported by St Stephen’s Review
The article notes signs of mental aberration in Mr Gladstone causing grave concern among friends. He has talked to himself and created a distressing scene at a gathering, eventually shouting power repeatedly before a wife intervened to lead him away.
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Ruyopa BroncuTon
Onida
Europe
England
Prince of Wales
Set
Miss Broughton
Mr. Gladstone
Mrs. Gladstone
St. Stephen’s Review
Deep Sea Fishing Aboard The J B Schuyler With Fishermen
An exciting account from Detroit Free Press describes a deep sea trip to the Cholera Banks aboard the J B Schuyler guided by the Foster Brothers. The voyage features sea bass, fluke, dog fish, conger eels, porgies, lobsters, and vivid ocean scenery, with dangers, rescues, and rival boats adding drama.
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H. C. Dodge
New York
Cholera Banks
Long Island
J. B. Schuyler
Foster Brothers
Magnificent Bay
Atlantic
Coney Island
Rockaway Inlet
al. Foster
Foster
Newport
Commodore Hancoxe
Detroit Free Press
Oliver Twist Compared By Mr Featherly In Hall Conversation
Bobby asks who Oliver Twist is and Mr Featherly gently explains the Dickens character. Clara notes the remark about Featherly always wanting more, and the siblings discuss likeness to Oliver Twist in a light dialogue.
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Mr. Featherly
Bobby
Oliver Twist
Featherly
Clara
Mr.Featherly
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Deuce
Gabriel
Novrumsa
Randolph Tucker
Ben. Perley Poore
Signor Bombiiei
Earth
Hell
Popular Science Monthly
Theosophy
Mr.Gladstone
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