Young Georgia lawyer among U S. brightest hopes
The Register notes Wa GrauaM aged 15 gains Carterville Georgia bar likely the nation s youngest lawyer. A Missouri doctor reports a farmer with nine children eldest 10 youngest 2 in good health. A Kentucky lottery prize case ends with governor pardon. A Lafayette Indiana paper mill experiments with sorghum bagasse pulp for wrapping and blotting paper. A live lynx visits the Hudson Mass. home biting hands and scratching residents before being slain.
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Missouri
Philadelphia Medical and Surgical
Icicle accident kills Arkwright Center man in Laono
Charles Banks of Arkwright Center died after an icicle from a Laono store roof shattered, inflicting a fatal skull wound. Storekeeper William Smith, struck and knocked unconscious, later recovered enough to sit up. Francis Beett witnessed the fall and helped. Banks died at 6 am Sunday after being taken to his father in law’s Fredonia home. He leaves two wives and three children.
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Laono
N. Y
Arkwright Center
Charles Banks
William Smith
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Banks
Francis Beett
Adam Miller
Fredonia
Wealthy Davis and his wardrobe habits observed in Washington
A Washington letter-writer notes David Davis may be worth about five million dollars yet spends modestly. His preserved wardrobe is never discarded while fit. He uses a dyeing shop on Four-and-one-half street where a cleansed vest, two yards wide, flaps in the breeze. The shop serves many rich patrons including Justice Miller and General Sherman, who care about such trifles. The owner says the rich and middle classes support the business, not the truly poor.
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David Davis
Justice Miller
Supreme Court
Gen. Sherman
Shermans
Washington Monument
Heaven
Treasury
Capitol
Great Pyramid
St. Peter's
Nix
Reminder of old graft tales from the Garf ield era
Tax civil service reform recalls a Senate anecdote about Hitt then Assistant Secretary of State. A persistent applicant sought sponsorship. upon learning the man had a wife and four children, Hitt offered to push his case if the family moved away. A reporter then revealed the applicant was a Pension Bureau clerk whose wife ran a boarding house.
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Hitt
Garfield
Washington
Bob
Tom
Arkansas
Pension Bureau
Pve
Havre Past and Present in Harper’s Magazine
Thomas W. Knox contrasts Havre with London and Paris, tracing Havre’s rise from a 16th century fishing haven to a modern city with over a hundred thousand residents. He notes Harfleur’s decline, Lezarde’s silting, and remnants like a Gothic church and royal chateau, then extols a scenic four mile drive from Havre to Harfleur and Rouelles as a celebrated glimpse of France near Havre.
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Chicago
San Francisco
London
Paris
Europe
Harfleur
Francois I
la Havre de Grace
Francois
Lezarde
Normandy
Rouelles
Mont Geon
Ingouville
France
Thomas W. Knox
Harper's Magazine
The Washington Monument Ascent a Terrifying Feat
A Washington letter writer extolls the peril of ascending the unfinished 375 foot Washington Monument via a central elevator. Passengers endure grinding ascent, darkness, and a 400 foot drop risk with a netted edge. Views of the Capitol and city panorama afterward redeem the ordeal.
Faithful Messenger and the Treasury Secret Agent
Years ago the Express Company refused currency transport between Washington and New York on Bristow's terms. He removed the contract and relied on trusted agents, notably Thomas Cavanaugh, who once carried 750000 dollars in a bag after night duties. The system rested on honor with no protection beyond Cavanaugh's integrity.
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Washington
New York
Bristow
Thomas Cavanaugh
the Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Cavanaugh
Nervous Departure After Near-Strike Incident
The narrative describes Cavanaugh growing nervous toward the end as a close coupé detains him along the avenue. In a sleeping car he sleeps poorly as someone appears to reach across his throat for money he held in trust. Relief comes when the dreadful responsibility ends and he resumes his ordinary duties.
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Cavanaugh
Transplanting Trees in Winter Techniques from Prairie Farmer
Mr E W Cornell of Clinton Corners New York outlines a winter transplanting method emphasizing digging before soil freezes, packing soil around the root ball, covering with litter to prevent freezing, and using a lever to move the tree onto a soil heap. He stresses providing fertilizer at removal and notes the approach reduces loss, even for large evergreens, by preserving fibrous roots until larger roots reestablish.
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E. W. Cornell
Clinton Corners
N. Y
Snobbery in New York Society Over Working Women
A New York church community debates whether to socially accept a pastor’s washerwoman mother, criticizing society’s disdain for women who work for wages. The piece condemns snobbery that shuns working women, notes private schools teaching women to avoid being seen as working girls, and argues against condescending attitudes toward labor.
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New York
Aéx
Evolution of the modern match from its early forms to safety distinctions
The article traces match development from 19th century “Jucifers” to the congreve and the silent and safety matches. It notes key inventors, firms like Bryant and May, and estimates global production, including 60 million daily in Europe and millions in Britain and America, with taxation impacts on output.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Vienna
England
Fox
Burke
Johnson
Dobereimer
Bryant and
May
Babbage
Europe
Messrs. Dixon
Manchester
London
France
America
Common Phrase Origins and Misattributions
An item noting corrections to misattributed quotes. It cites God tempera the wind to a sphered lamb from Maria in Sterne's Sentimental Journey, spare the rod, He who spareth the rod hateth his son, and other phrases often mislinked to Scripture or ancient hymns, with a historical reference to Mansions of the blest in Revelations.
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Maria
Laurence Sterne
Solomon
Butler
St. John the Divine
Eversham
Remarkable aged couple near Blue Knob marks long marriage
A remarkably aged couple, Uncle Johnnie Hill aged 96 and Fannie Hill aged 97, live near Blue Knob in this county. They have been married nearly eighty years and shared great happiness throughout their long partnership. Uncle Johnnie is hale and hearty, enjoys young company, and remains active each morning.
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Blue Knob
Johnnie Hill
Fannie Hill
Johnnie
Ancient Kentucky couple tied to fifth generation
An elderly, long married couple in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, are noted for enduring partnership and daily duties. The husband supervises stock feeding in all weathers, while the wife manages the home and reads well without spectacles. Uncle Johnnie recounts a Mississippi River journey on the first steamboat.
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Johnnie
Mississippi
New Orleans
Elizabethtown
Curious and Scientific News Tidbits From Berlin to Vienna
A compact survey reveals magnets on travel chess sets in Berlin, a method to stabilize Honky without fermentation, and formic acid for flavor preservation. Earthquake timing around lunar phases is debated, while unripe grapes yield high extracts and acids. An English model chair offers 180 movements, and Candolle notes only about 300 of 140,000 plant species are used by humans.
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Obed Frye
Hudson
Mass
Fryes
Charlotte Frye
Obed
Frye
Inon
Berlin
E. Myhus
M. de Candolle
Greece
Italy
Lucullus
South Australia
Canada
Vienna
Bruce Spray
McColganan
Chadwick
North American Review
James J. H. Gregory
Marblehead
Darwin
Annoyances in Heaven and a 99-Year Golden Trumpet Keeper
A dialogue recounts conversations with Mr Longfellow and Mr Whitier on spiritualism death and the soul’s progress. They discuss life mysteries and heaven lacking perfect contentment, suggesting annoyances may exist beyond. The note adds that Mrs Mauveart, age 99, maintains the Golden Trumpet Hotel in Reichenbach for eighty consecutive years and remains vigorous.
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Mr. Longfellow
Mr. Whittier
Confucius
Lancet Correspondent Describes Hidden Sneezing Effect
A Lancet correspondent notes that when he cannot meet someone he hides away and discovers an effect as slow as a snail, suggesting a subtle impact from avoidance or distancing behavior.
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Lancet
Anndighs
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