Strangest Crimes and Oddities Highlight The Register
The Register reports a Louisville doctor arrested for stealing a dead woman's heart after a post mortem. Other items note Irish rent ads, Chicago library tramps, Washington letters against slavery, a rediscovered copper mine near Tucson, a grand stove bridge plan for Minneapolis, fire department foreman training, anecdotes about George Pullman and Vanderbilt wills, and a Milan Ohio farmer losing $20 in a straw bed but recovering most of it.
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Louisville
George Washington
E. W. Stoughton
Washington
George Sands
Milan
Ohio
Death penalty debate and Vanderbilts in society
The piece surveys Maine's death penalty repeal and calls for inquiry into crime prevention, noting rising murders and court convictions. It critiques social standing of the Vanderbilts amid a lavish house-warming, and reflects on the Guiteau trial jury's independence from lawyer rhetoric, praising the jurors' discernment.
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Maine
Congress
Astors
Astor
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Vanderbilt
Cornelius
W. K
St Jacobs Oil Endorsed By Dr Speck In Family Use
A Wilmington physician connected with the Wilmington Every Evening testifies to St Jacobs Oil as a universal remedy. He reports quick relief for sore throat and scarlet fever effects in a child, and improvement in toothache and rheumatic pains. Other newspapers praise the remedy, while fraud warnings appear about imitations.
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Wilmington
Del
Daily Republican
J.F. Speck
Speck
St. Jacobs
C. St. Jacobs
Schmidt
Tormpkinsville
Staten Island
N. Y
St. Jacops Orn
ST. Tacons
St. Jacoss
The Genius of Bad Taste In Pursuit of Publication
A young man cut from college seeks wealth by writing. He crafts seventeen pages on one leaf, parades ancient and modern learning, then tries to pass off crude Anglo Saxon prose. After multiple failed submissions he yields to bad taste and gimmicks, sends it by mail, and suddenly succeeds with a publisher. Century Magazine.
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Century Magazine
The Missing Jewels and the Moelfra Bag Mystery
A jeweler recalls traveling from Dublin to London in 1859 with valuable jewels in a black bag. The bag is swapped for rusty iron and wood, triggering a police inquiry. A year later a mysterious passenger, the man from the journey, reveals he found wreck relics and had mistaken the bag as his own. He explains how a forged relics cache and family tragedy connected to the Royal Charter wreck led to a long, tense pursuit and eventual confrontation.
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England
Dublin
Holyhead
Ireland
Moelfra
Anglesea
Taylor
London
Chester
Cima
Crewe
Scotland Yard
Milsien
Australia
Liverpool
Melbourne
Moalfra
Venetian Extravagance and the Costly Fashions of Venice
Frazer's Magazine outlines how Venetian women in past eras spent lavishly on shoes, cosmetics, and dress, with high heeled boots over a foot tall that required multiple attendants. It details baths with musk and milder preparations, nocturnal vanity, and gambling excesses culminating in later decrees, yet Venice saw persistent indulgence in luxury and gaming, culminating in famed gambling houses Ridotto and Casini.
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Inter
Venice
Council of Ten
Ridotto
Casini
Monaco
Hamburg
Frazer's Magazine
Bag Mix-Up Revealed by Inspector at Crewe
A man suspects a bag mix up with another traveler. His mother warns of a surprise and the inspector confirms another passenger mistakenly took his bag. The two bags match in size and weight, contents intact, and the inspector is paid for his prompt action.
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Arthur
Crewe
A Boston Girl in Chicago Discusses Herbert Spencer
A Boston resident in Chicago reflects on civilization versus savagery and reads Herbert Spencer. The essay explores his philosophical ideas of higher life, love, and the humor of an unmarried thinker, noting the incongruity with romance and ending with Spencer’s sixty years without marriage.
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Boston
Herbert Spencer
Spencer
Errors of Collocation and an English Piano Sale
A Connecticut paper quotes grim phrasing about suicide after bidding his wife farewell and an Ulster epitaph praising an accidental shooting by a brother. The highlight is an English advertisement for a piano in an oak case with carved legs, offered by a lady soon to cross the Channel.
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John Phillips
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