New Hampshire History Gift to Society and Local Political Ad
The Register notes Ren Burien donated a valuable NH history collection to the New Hampshire Historical Society. A Reading alderman running for re election posts a notice denying payments for votes. The item also covers a Catholic bishop in North Dakota commissioning a railroad car for visitations, and various historical anecdotes.
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Ren. Burien
New Hampshire Historical Society
Reading
Tur Rt
John Shanley
North Dakota
Early disciplinarian John Rowlands of St Asaph
Hexsay M. Staxney built a reputation as a strict schoolboy at St Asaph England where he went by the name John Rowlands later adopted in the United States. As Union school master Rowlands kept order, often presiding in the teacher’s absence and punishing any defiance. He excelled in arithmetic and geography with a noted fondness for the latter subject.
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Hexsay M. Staxney
St. Asaph
England
John Rowlands
Union School
Rowlands
Baltimore Tobacco Board backs anti cigarette bill
Vue Tobacco Board of Trade in Baltimore assists the Society for the Prevention of Vice Among Children to end cigarette smoking in Maryland. A bill, already drafted, would add a $50 license for tobacco products and ban cigarettes with deleterious ingredients, effectively prohibiting paper cigarettes. Other measures seek to restrict cigarette sales to minors.
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Vue Tobacco Board of Trade
Baltimore
Society For the Prevention of
Wanderings of Lisur and Sains Amid Congo Forest Hardships
In a private letter Stanley's right hand man Lisur describes brutal losses among 600 Yanzibaris and 360 others in the Congo Albert Nyanza trek. He notes three weeks living on roots and fungi, with many dying en route to the Pasha, while whites barely survived until food arrived. Also mentions the six foot long Mepascolides Australis earthworm of Australia.
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Lisur
W. G. Sains
Stanley
Congo
Albert Nyanza
Unusual creatures and curious anecdotes raise local chatter
Readers encounter a vivid account of a gigantic worm in winding galleries, Creosote-like odor, and milky jets, followed by notes on Hamilton Club debates and an ironic two part women’s education joke. The column recalls sunken treasure tales, 18th century crusades in diamonds, and Henry Russell’s Ipswich lecture after a graveyard scene.
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Sidney
New Zealand
Middle Island
Tisbon
Vera Cray
Havana
Farmer Loses Fortune and Fiancée in Circus Card Game
Allegany County farmer August Miller visited a city with a circus side show and lost a thousand dollars in a card gamble. He pursued swindlers but recovered nothing. His fiancée, shocked by the event, ended their engagement and later married a minister.
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August Miller
Allegany County
Carlisle
Se Gauber
The
Baltimore News
Family Bible Bargain Sparks Quiet Shopkeeper Exchange
In a Woodward avenue bookstore a woman asks for a family Bible. The clerk offers a $4 Bible, noting the price once rose to $6 but only three in the family remain. The exchange hints at modest faith and frugal living in Detroit.
The Great Inventor and the Green Elixir Death
A satirical piece recounts 8 W Foss as an eccentric inventor whose devices fail to work and who pursues perpetual motion and flying machines. His quests include marine toboggans and a versatile bicycle boat. He ends by taking a large green pill and dying, a dark punch at failed innovation.
A Plea for Justice in a Texas Courtroom
Gen George F F Alford recounts the defense of Col Claib Herbert by Jones Rivers in Colorado County Texas. Rivers appeals to jurors through the orphaned boy’s pain and an old foreman's memories, prompting a dramatic verdict of not guilty after emotional testimony and a powerful appeal to shared history and duty.
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George F.F. Alford
Dallas
Texas
Jones Rivers
Brazos
Colorado
Georgetown
Col. C. C. Herbert
Claib Herbert
Colorado County
Virginia
Columbus
Exan
Confederate Congress
California
Col
Phil. Herbert
National Congress
Texas Cavalry
Fort Butler
Clarb Herbert
Howard
Herbert
Howat
District Court
Edwin Waller
If You Had Your Way Remaking An Ideal World
A long reflective column imagines sweeping reforms from abolishing sickness to ending famine and homelessness. It lampoons utopian fixes, notes practical resistance, and cites a New York couple, Thorn and Washington Star, as they drift toward marriage while sharing origins and ages.
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McGrinty
Union Pacific
Thorn
New York
Washington
Washington Star
The Girl Went on a Crowded Street Car
A stylish young woman boarded a crowded street car drawing sharp attention. An elderly conductor, in frail health, scolded her leading a bold fellow to defend her. The man claimed the case involved his daughter and recalled his late child who enjoyed masked balls, then the daughter left the car.
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Spain
Mamita
Married German Couple Born Near Baden Now in Washington
Paul and Albina Hellmuth, born Feb 1 1847 within four miles of each other near Baden Germany, now live in Washington. Their childhood days and distant paths kept them apart until life brought them together.
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Washington
Paul and
Albina Hellmuth
Baden
Germany
A True Kentuckian Tale From a Tacoma Globe Reprint
A humorous anecdote relayed by Walt Visscher describes a chance encounter in Cheyenne where a Kentuckian and the narrator, a Kentuckian, recognize their shared heritage. The exchange centers on dialect, identity, and a mutual drink request, ending with mutual pride in being Kentuckians.
Urban growth and the evolving city life in America
The article discusses America’s city expansion, 350 cities housing about 16 million people, and how immigration shapes a new urban character. It notes increased wealth and challenges, demand for political integrity, and the need for practical wisdom in municipal governance, then shifts to a vivid account of underground tunnel voyages near Boston with echoing caverns and torchlit boats in a four mile waterway near Chestnut Hill.
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United States
Boston
Newton
Chestnut Hill
Albany
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