Tuberculosis and medical notes in the register
Coprisu progress under an iceberg leads to feeding grounds. Mrs. Mary Doncauve is discharged cured from the Pennsylvania Hospital Philadelphia after spinal fracture. San Remo and Mentone natives, once wintering for health, now face tuberculous infection. twenty top district doctors act to protect against spread.
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Mary Doncauve
Pennsylvania Hospital
Philadelphia
San Remo
Mentone
Stewart William bearer of Gardner title claim debated in England
Stewart William died in 1882 in India after marrying a Begum's daughter and changing faith. His widow and son claim the Gardner peerage in England and the London World expects an upcoming suit to settle the succession, though the title is deemed not worth a shilling.
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Stewart William
India
Gardner
England
London
Eye tests reveal uneven sight and color blindness
When people first require glasses, studies show seven of ten have stronger sight in one eye. In two of five cases one eye is under fine. About half are color blind to some degree, and only one pair of eyes in fifteen are perfect.
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Wen
Sensation of Slave Trade Exposed in Madras under Government Eyes
The article reports that an active slave trade in Madras thrives with government watchers, involving girls and alleged high English officials. It also notes curiosities market slumps, John Burns offered £20 for his dock strike hat, and a tale of an Illinois man who chained himself to die from hydrophobia amid critic’s jokes.
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England
Madras
India
Constantinople
London
John Burns
Mr. Burns
Burns
Illinois
Bank bookkeeper’s defalcation prompts salary caution in banks
A trusted Albany bookkeeper, son of a wealthy citizen, becomes a routine gambler using depositor funds. Defalcation totals range from eighty to one hundred thousand dollars. The tale warns banks to pay living salaries and monitor outside business activity. Also notes Allegheny mirror making advances and a Maine farmer born in 1819 with a regional border shift.
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Albany
Franklin County Formed and Its Boundary Shifts Noted
Charles Graham of Farmington Franklin County Maine aged 71 this month has lived where born yet also resided in Massachusetts Industry New Vineyard and Kennebec counties reflecting annexations and boundary changes since Franklin County's formation.
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Franklin County
Maine
New Vineland
Kennebec County
Massachusetts
New Vineyard
Somerset County
Farmington
Charles . Graham
Industry
Kennebec
Will You Love Me When I’m Bald Poem Questioning Love
A speaker probes a lover about enduring affection after baldness. The poem images aging hair loss, ironical fear, and devotion tested as time erodes physical charm, imagining a future without hair and the partner’s loyalty enduring beyond youth.
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van Bald
Electric storms and ocean depths in ancient notes
Readings on Pixe's Prax describe moist air and light snow producing sparks from fingertips and firelit anemometer cups. Other extracts discuss world ocean depths, plus a Vienna professor’s forgetfulness and wedding superstitions tied to May.
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Prax
Romance Across Racial Lines in Kansas City Marriage
A Kansas City Kansas probate judge issued a marriage license to John Peter Breck and Josie Brown, a white man and a dark-skinned woman. Breck, 29, and Brown, 18, from Kansas City Missouri, cited Brown nursing him through illness as the reason. The judge did not perform the ceremony and they sought another officiant.
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Monahan
Kansas City
Kan
John Peter Breck
Josie Brown
Breck
Forgiven Lovers Reunite at Brookside Cottage
Mrs Field and her companion Cecil travel to Brookside Hampshire seeking rest after a painful past. Blind Mr Penfield, seeking forgiveness for a long ago wrong, reunites with his wife Mabel Field who sings their shared song Bonnie Charlie. Cecil mediates and aids the reconciliation amid a village summer.
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Cecil
Mrs. Field
Brookside
Bonnie Charlie
Mabel
Field
Penfield
Mabel Vield
Merry Cecil
Mr. Penfield
Coyote Frenzy Prank Ends With Honest Admission
In Lincoln Nebraska a boastful dog owner is tricked into a staged fight with a coyote. The coyote wins quickly, exposing the hoax and prompting the prankster to concede the bet. The incident, recounted by the New York Sun, ends with a correction: the grizzly bear is the skulker, not the coyote.
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Lincoln
Neb
Donel
New York Sun
Forgiveness Brings Happy Reunion of Penfield Couple
A blind husband pleads forgiveness to his wife who returns his love after her tenderness. She comforts him, they reconcile and resume a bright life with family around them. Cecil hints the lovers may later share their story. The tale closes with a sentimental farewell as Charlie returns to Oxford.
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Cecil
Mr. Penfield
Charlton
Charles Penfield
Charlie Penfield
Oxford
Polly the parrot dies after heat exposure anecdote
A Michigan University professor visiting the Sandwich Islands owned a parrot that spoke many English words. The bird was housed near a boiler by a boy caretaker and overheated. The parrot recovered briefly to utter a final solemn line, I’d sell myself for a cent, before dying.
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Michigan University
Sandwich Islands
Polly
Philadelphia Times
Time Is Moneyquotation exchange at six instead of five
In a humorous exchange a clerk asks for a small raise. The merchant refuses but offers an alternative by proposing longer hours, suggesting the value of time equals money. The exchange appears in Harpers Bazaar style.
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Harper’s Bazar
Humble follower son earns $4500 a year
A Terre Haute Expreen item notes Mr Simmons expressing pride in his son by following the ministry. Mr Willets says the son now makes $4,500 annually with prospects of a raise next season.
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Mr. Simmons
Willets
Terre Haute
Odd Curious Bits Highlight 19th Century Trifles
A collage of eccentric facts and curiosities covers topics from goat milk butter and Yale dorms to a London hair lace display and a 1752 Yale dorm erection. Realities include a Kansas strawberry count, a Harrisburg egg drive yielding 5000 eggs, and a Jupiter Florida robbery of whisky and nails. The list notes a 3333 wives king of Ashantee, a Constantinople photographer defying Koran prohibitions, a fossil frog found in coal, a baby in Georgia with a silver-dollar face, a proposed presidential portrait year coins, and a Rome beauty contest with 2000 and 1000 dollar prizes.
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London
Kansas Agricultural College
Harrisburg
Burg Lars
Jupiter
Fla
Uncle Sam
Ashantee
Coomassie
GeorMan
Constantinople
John N. la Due
Fishkill Hook
United States
England
Germany
France
Sweden
Italy
Bulgaria
Mexico
Iron Mountain Road
Corporation
Pearson County
North Carolina
Roxboro
Pally
Rome
Curious census return from England miner with odd numbers
An enumerator records a verbatim and faulty census schedule from a South Argshire miner. The entry mixes Ireland and England places, ages, and relationships, with odd numerals and line breaks. The miner jokes there are many mouths in the household and ends with a quip about barking shins.
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England
South Arkshire
Thomas Moran Boren
Ireland
Armaugh
Cage
Mary Conelly
County Armough
County
Dereay
Hur
Elen M’gee
Elen Moran
Scotland
Coll Pitt
Rosey Moran
Ireland Is Marred and Hur
Misses Cross
Hur Cage
Tomas Cross
Eage
Armough
Mary Cross
County of
Elsie Cross
Newcastle
Pitt
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the Register
New Harmony, Indiana
Allegheny
Nevermore
Tristan de’ Acunha
Rio de la Plata
North Atlantic Ocean
Newfoundland
Bermuda Islands
Pacific Ocean
Japan
California
Chili
New Zealand
Derr
Vienna
Austria
Julius Cresar
Tiber
Alexander the Great
Asia Minor
Caesar
Pompey
Edwin Robinson
Hampshire
Cecil Brand
Bessie
Charlton Penfield
Mabel Penfield
Mays
Stryker
Manchester
Liverpool
Yale
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