Oddities and scandals from The Register era notes
An array of short items from Taylor County Georgia to Reading Pennsylvania recount a dead man found in a cabin and verdict by a coroner’s jury, a seven time married woman, a Vermont man with locked jaws, a freewheeling Virginia senator, a pig tail saying, and fashion statements by congressmen. Dutch Sumatra railway plans promise 200 million tons coal with six year construction at 16 million florins.
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Taylor County
Georgia
Tur
Sumatra
Notable Talk and Portraits From an Early Denver Era
A writer praises American dynamism and witty vanity, then profiles Donato Fletcher who rose from $5 to wealth in Denver real estate, later noting Letitia Tyler Lemvir and Mrs Semple. The piece recalls suffrage debates and lampoons school essays by “original thinkers” in Boston. A lecture by Robert Huan Mitts concludes the excerpts.
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Letitia Tyner Lemvir
Tyler
Louise
Washington, D.C
Semple
Boston Journal of Mderation
Mosquito
Herodotus
Herod the Great
Virgil
Diogenes
Alexander the Great
Quinine and Madder Threatened by Synthetic Chemistry
Chemical advances endanger madder cultivation and indigo production as coal tar and synthetic quinine near commercialization. In Ireland military deployment rises with 30,090 troops, while Austins Cornin, Reading road head, is profiled for his finance career and club membership.
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India
Fortunate Quartet of Pittsburgh Messenger Boys
The first Pittsburgh telegraph office once employed four lads nicknamed Andy, Bob, Billy and Harry. Andy Carnegie became a top American financier, Bob Pitcairn rose to General Agent and Superintendent of the western Pennsylvania Railroad, Billy Moreland served as Pittsburgh City Attorney, and Harry Oliver amassed steel fortune and narrowly missed a U.S. Senate seat. The World notes these former messengers were real strivers.
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Pittsburgh
Andy
Bob
Billy
Harry
Andy” Carnegie
United States
Bob” Pitcairn
Western Division
Pennsylvania Railroad
Billy” Moreland
Oliver
United States Senate
Messenger Boys
New York World
Lincoln Bible Gift Moves to Lincoln Memorial Church
The Bible once owned by Abraham Lincoln and held by his son Robert T. Lincoln was recently donated to an Episcopal mission near Chicago. The mission plans to build a Lincoln Memorial Church on the site.
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Baltimore
Abraham Lincoln
Robert T. Lincoln
Chicago
Lincoln Memorial Church
New York World
Change in Philosophical Thinking on Miracles
Historical sermon argues belief in miracles grows as a priori disbelief fades. It cites Pauls letters as strong resurrection evidence and notes modern skeptics later concede the miracle. The piece links shifts in philosophy away from materialism and pantheism to personal will, God, and miracle credibility. The excerpt ends with a Boston Transcript anecdote about Theodore Parker altering the Lord’s Prayer to Lead us from temptation.
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Cleveland
Huxley
Jesus Christ
Paul
Christ
Christ. Pauls
Baur
Critical
Dr. Baur
France
Germany
God
Mr. Parker
Theodore Parker
Parker
Music Hall
Boston Transcript
Revising the Lord's Prayer and a Sailor's Critique
A venerable religious circles figure recalls Theodore Parker’s early preaching and a Boston sailor who visited Parker’s study. The sailor praised the sermon but disliked Parker’s habit of closing prayers with the Lord’s prayer, remarking that the sentence came from the Bible.
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Theodore Parker
Parker
Music Hall
Mr. Parker
The Ugly Howling Ape in Dutch Guiana
A Popular Science Monthly description of eight ape species in Dutch Guiana focuses on the howling ape. It details appearance, size, habitat, social structure, and a remarkable vocal apparatus in males and females. The article notes the eerie concert and questions what prompts the cry.
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Dutch Guiana
Ilouatte
Itoli
Tropical America
Popular _ Science Monthly
A Negro Justice of the Peace Confronts a Circuit Judge
An Arkansas Traveler vignette shows a negro justice of the peace accusing a judge of bias over the Boyle Simons case. The dialogue reveals mistrust of juries and a demand for fair treatment, ending with a punchline about an absent minded Cincinnati hotel clerk misfiring a church call.
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Squire
Simons
Boyle
Jedge
Brudder
Arkansaw
Cincinnati
Microscopical Wonders From The Waverley Magazine
A Waverley Magazine excerpt describes a microscopy session led by Mr. Hopkins. It covers examining a fly’s tongue, horsefly tools for feeding, sawflies on twigs, a honey bee’s stinger, hornet wing hooks, bee’s foot, water beetle paddle, a catcher plant’s siliceous stars, and diatoms. Polarized light reveals vivid colors and forms.
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Mr. Hopkins
Hopkins
Hebrew butchers and the schochet certification process
The St Louis Globe Democrat describes the path to becoming a shochat, requiring age 25, deep Bible and Talmud knowledge, a year of apprenticeship with two schochatim, and a certificate from the chief rabbi. The knife must be flawless. tests include water ripples and expert sharpening.
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St. Louis
Globe
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Prim American Tories at Hingham Mass
In Hingham Massachusetts fifty years ago three elderly ladies, the Barker sisters, remained loyal to the British Crown. They recalled William IV and wore court mourning when George IV died, claiming the king’s pension reflected their father’s Revolutionary War service and their loyalty as “eating the King's bread.”
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Hingham
Mass
William IV
Misses Barker
England
Massachusetts
Parker
Barker
George IV
Leopards Trained for Hunting Described in Indian Practice
A Letter from Siichs details how cheetahs are trained for antelope hunts in India. Trainers start with full grown leopards, hood the animal, and drive it to ambush gazelles and buck. The cheetah hunts by sight, not scent, and often uses trees or hay stacks as vantage points before striking. The process includes blood tribute to the animal and a return to the cart after the kill, with natives offering vivid but cautious explanations of the sport.
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India
Siichs
Maj. Jordon
Erie Canal in ear lesson and vicissitude joke
A city near New York teachers test pupils on anatomy and vocabulary. One student answers Erie Canal to a question about the ear canal, drawing amused visitors. Another pupil misuses vicissitude, saying his mother sent him to vicissitude a dollar bill, reflecting playful miscomprehension.
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New York
Christian Register
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