Remarkable mix of curiosities in The Register column
A scan of notes from The Register reveals varied items from porcelain makers in Linocets France using petroleum in firing to cheaper production. dramatic sea wrecks at Gibraltar. a London newspaper advert seeking a Protestant baby for a lady with intemperate habits. German aging and invalidity calculations. a Kansas farmer’s tax record restoration after river erosion. a centenarian family in Salem, Massachusetts with prolific offspring. notes on rare metals and their uses. a fatal lightning strike case in Kansas. a secretive vessel wreck trader along the Atlantic. and Florida’s A. Thomas said to father thirty-two children in fifteen years at Glenmont, Lewallyn Park.
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A. ©. Thomas
Gadsden County
Florida
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Glassy halls and Edison lights dazzle in city sighting
The article notes a night view of Mr Edison’s house glowing with countless electric lights. It then reports a Klukiang China forgery case where a bank was forced to honor near-duplicate notes causing the bank to suspend payments and the culprit to evade punishment. A bunko scam described shows a well-dressed stranger using a hotel guest role to divert letters and packages, ending with the landlord bearing the loss.
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Mr. Edison
Klukiang
China
Panis
Commonwealth government outlined with English and American features
The article states Australia’s seven states form a federation with a Senate and House of Representatives, eight senators per state, three year terms for representatives, and a Governor General as chief executive. It notes a Federal Supreme Court with a Chief Justice and four associates and predicts a bright future for the federation. It also reviews a novel exercise machine tied to electricity and a Harvard decision allowing a Japanese student to substitute Chinese and Japanese for Latin and Greek on entrance exams.
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New Commonwealth of Australia
New South Wales
Victoria
Queensland
South Australia
Tasmania
Western Australia
New Zealand
House of Representatives
British Empire
Federal
Supreme Court
England
Garvard
Harvard
Charles Francis Adams
Boston Herald
Building a 2500 ton steamship links 600 workers
The Southern Lumberman notes that over 300 industries contribute to ocean steamship construction. A 2500 ton ship needs 600 men in steady work earning about 500 dollars each, distributing roughly 300000 dollars among trades.
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Southern Lumberman
Birthday Wish by Lilian Whiting
A May birthday tribute to a friend praising wealth in deeds not gold. It asks for land strength, high thought, honesty, and true purpose guided by heavenly vision. The verse seeks power to aid others, and a path of righteous, transfiguring influence in May.
Sylvia Seton and the Prince of Roxand Roxanfels tale
In the Sarcophagus club smoking room Sir John Protocol recounts a vanished Paris gossip tale from 1856 about Sylvia Seton an English debutante who becomes the wife of Prince Conrad of Roxand Roxanfels. After a dramatic exposure and a royal arrest she leaves Paris, her husband kills himself soon after, and she endures as Sylvia Seton the rest of her life.
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Nibbs
Sir John Protocol
KX. C. B
Diplomatic Service
Sir John
Maton
Mr. Nibbs
Jack
Prince Imperial
Napoleon
Odeon
Pugsley
Sylvia Seton
Sir John Chuckle
Theatre Francais
Bouboi
Porte St. Martin
Conrad
Prince of
Prince X
Mile. Z
Sylvia
Amelia
Roulettenburg
Legation
Pugley
Prince Conrad
Rexand Roxanfels
Mme, la Prinocesse
Protocol
Paris
Roxanbloxanfels
Hoxanbloxanfels
Europe
Klein Kohlwasser
Roxandloxanfels
Amalia of
Wilhelmine
Ira
Prince Albrecht
Baron Bocksbentel
Roxanb Roxanfels
Vorwarts
Roxandloxantels
Albrecht
James’ Redgel
How He Broke the News
A humorous yet grim vignette from the Lincoln Journal recounts a committee member delivering bad news about Quimby’s arrest. The wife’s shock, the crowd’s reactions, and the narrator’s reluctant duty capture the chaotic moment, ending with the narrator vowing not to join such a chorus again.
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Quimby
Roafer
Sol
Lincoln Journal
Bear Back Ride Becomes River Capture Tale
A Birmingham correspondent recalls Beaver Jack Smith's near trap capture of a big black bear along the Tallapoosa River in Randolph County Alabama. Held by a steel trap chained to a tree he rode the animal across river rough terrain and a chase, finally the bear submerged, then released the chain and escaped. Smith chose life and paid work over hunting bears, noting bear hunting is not his trade. The piece also rails against pretentious diction and urges simple speech.
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Alabama
Jack” Smith
Georgia
Birmingham
Ala
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Smith
Tallapoosa
Randolph County
Jack
Brain
Druin
Brain 9
Archbishop Receives Simple Village Welcome in Perthshire
The late Archbishop of Canterbury visits a Perthshire village and learns letters were collected at the general shop post office. The shopkeeper shares a tale of his son in London who heard the Archbishop preach at St Paul’s Cathedral and was very satisfied. Time is described as a silent barber.
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Weill
Tait
Perthshire
Cantebury
London
St. Paul's Cathedral
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