Tur talk on Mr Manning shows 225 pound frame
The piece notes Mr Manning weighed 225 pounds at the time of his attack and had gained over twenty five pounds since taking his Treasury post. It compares him with the President in height and build and mentions Secretary Lamar living in the Portland Flats with a shiplike view and great ventilation.
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Tur
Manning
Treasury
Lamar
Portland Flats
Dakota
Prairie States
Blake
Kansas
Divorce Enters Life of Charles Sumner and Wife
The text preserves a dated reminiscence of Charles Sumner’s marriage and divorce. It notes a late hour wedding, social parties led by his wife, and Sumner’s pain from personal misplacement and lost books. It mentions an agreeable yet troubled union, a divorce, and Sumner’s early death with a claim of happiness in life.
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Charles Sumner
Sumner
Fashionable Miss Boots and Catholic Legal Pioneers
A New York writer notes Miss Mary L. Boots in shabby sealskin fashion near Franklin Square. The piece cites English legal history with Catholic figures like Mr Cuarnes Russert and Judge Shea, and mentions Pasteur debates in Paris. It also highlights wealth and habits of Mary and Lotta Broadway actresses, plus cautions about paregoric abuse and a Chicago glassware theft exhibit.
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Mary L. Boots
New York
Harper's Bazar
Franklin Square
Cuarnes Russert
Winckney
Dundalla
England
Newry
Trinity College
Shea
Kilkenney
James Mathew
Chancery
Marquis of
Ripon
Admiralty
Harpy Hunting by Dutch Planters in Java
Dutch planters in Java fight fruit-eating kalongs that raid local groves each night. Villagers alarmed, collect stones, deploy slings and marksmen, and drive off the bats with coordinated attacks as harpies burst from caves to plunder crops.
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Java
Clara Should Marry for Money, Says Wife in Joke
In a quip from Drake's Travelers' Magazine, a husband asks if their daughter Clara should marry for money alone. The wife agrees, noting she married for love and thus thinks Clara should marry for money.
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Clara
Drake
Travelers’ Magazine
Widow Hancock Receives Largest Soldier Pension
Mrs. Hancock is noted as receiving the largest pension of 2000 dollars per year, the highest annual pension paid to the widow of any soldier mentioned. The item highlights her qualification and compares to other pensions.
A Canary at the Farm. By James Whitcomb Riley
A humorous verse piece about Sarry Fetched her home a pet canary and the singer’s preference for music free of cost. The poem contrasts paying for song with the meadow’s birds and ends with playful reflections on love and time.
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Sarry
Aggervatin
Mad Horse Terror Strikes Illinois Prairie Family
In rural central Illinois about 25 years ago two Cross brothers and kin faced a mad dog scare that spread fear as hydrophobia struck a prized horse. After a night of frantic barricades and near ruin, John Cross shot the horse dead to save his family and property. The incident left lingering family rifts despite survival.
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Illinois
Prass
John
George Cross
Lone
Sam
George
Colonel
John Cross
Jennie
Mrs. Cross
Cross
Mr. Cross
Bill Ridly Called a Wolf in Local Theft Case
An old judge recounts a swindle where a roughly dressed man with red whiskers sold a horse to a resident for 20 dollars. The horse fattened and later the real owner, Bill Ridly, appeared to claim it, exposing the thief’s ruse. The speaker labels Ridly a wolf in the narrative.
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Bill Ridly
Ridly
Bill
Irkan
Ingenious Prairie Dog Trap Uses Sand and Barrel
A Prairie Dog trap uses a headless barrel placed over a burrow hole and partially filled with sand. The prairie dog digs upward, but sand falls into the hole, filling it and preventing further digging or climbing.
Fothergill’s Bill of Fare for a Dyspeptic Patients
A historical dietary guide criticizes heavy beef teas for stomachs and offers a digestible plan. It prescribes breakfast of porridge with milk, light lunches with potatoes and milk, modest dinners with fish or game, light desserts, and cautious wine. Supper is milk and biscuit, with optional early-morning milk and alcohol mix for some.
Common Sense the Missing Endowment in Society
A Baltimorean essay extols common sense as undervalued yet essential beyond schooling. It argues definitions vary, noting instinctive reason over habit, and laments scholars' lacking practical insight despite deep specialization.
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Baltimorean
Like a Ton of Coal In Ireland Thorn Style Tale
Captain Kennedy recently returned from Ireland shows a heavy blackthorn cane to friends. He explains two thorn trees in Ireland with one heavy and black like the cane and the other light in color and weight. He jokes you could carry a ton of the light one.
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Kennedy
Ireland
St. Paul
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Christian Brothers’ School
Washington
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West Virginia
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St. Louis
Baxter
Michigan
Tennessee
American Bar Association
Bar Association
Supreme
Circuit
Paris
Faculty of Medicine
M. Pasteur
Helm
London News
Association of Medical Students
Mary Anderson
America
Mary
Letta
Tex
Kentucky
Chicago Museum
Rau
Harpy
Experentia Docet
James Whitcomb Riley
Sairy
Syea
Aunt Lizzie
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