Surviving ante bellum Cabinet ex-members listed
The Register notes only surviving ex members of ante bellum cabinets, including George Bancroft, Jefferson Davis, Joseph Holt, and Horatio King. A New York writer estimates Beecher’s earnings over forty years from salary, lectures, publications, and weddings totaling about 875,000. Congressman Springer of Illinois plans to decline renomination and move to New Mexico. An elderly Cal. woman aged 110 lives with her son. A 13 year old girl’s growth has halted. she weighs 35 pounds and is 32 inches tall. Coffee preserves heat while alcohol raises body heat yet lowers temperature overall.
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George Bancroft
Navy
President Polk
Jefferson Davis
President Pierce
Joseph Holt
Horatio King
President Buchanan
Dry Creek
Cal
Tru
Concord (N. H.) Medical Society
Roger the Claimant Fails to Impress Dublin Audience
A crowded Dublin lecture by The Claimant drew loud cheers for the audience as others hissed. Roger appeared in evening dress, tall and dark, with a solemn, undertaker-like bearing. His twenty minute speech was described as uninspired and plain.
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Dublin
Roger
Criticism and intrigue surround Miss Love and the President
The piece notes Chinese and US currency history, then shifts to Miss Love visiting Miss Cleveland. Described as past forty with blue-gray eyes and wavy hair, she wears white at a German event, handles a fan gracefully, and speaks well. Despite gossip about an engagement, friends deny marriage plans, following a friend selling her photo to publishers for money.
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Miss Love
Cleveland
Etiquette in the British Commons and New Austro-Hungarian Rifle
The piece notes breaches of Commons dress rules as Arch and others appear in tweed with stovepipe hats, while new members misaddress the Speaker and mix claps with cheers. It also highlights the Austro-Hungarian service rifle test showing rapid firing via spiral springs, five cartridges loaded per crank, yet mixed officer opinions on its battlefield advantage.
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Joseri Anrcy
Arch
Commons
Trish
Mr. Gladstone
Mr. Arch
Darby
Joe Cowen
Richard Lalor
von der Goltz
Cogitations on the Top Rail and moral musings
A Detroit Free Press quote collection argues life lessons in humor and prudence. It notes sleigh bells outshine speed, vanity, honesty, and pride as social dangers. Dr Haxmonp predicts baldness a millennium hence while mocking Mormonism’s vitality.
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Detroit Free Press
The Nobis Lady Miss O Grady Revealed
The streazer in friendly banter asks who the refined woman is and whether she comes from nobility or wealth. The friend answers with a smile and declares the elegant figure to be Miss O Grady as she moves in stupendous style.
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China
United States
East
Nobis
Miss O'Grady
On a pugilist and other obituary couplets
A collection of engraved epitaph lines describing a pugilist who died after a fatal blow, a dyer, an angler, a horsecar conductor, a termagant, and a trombone player. The verses note their traits and deaths with somber, humorous tone, ending with the Boston Courier’s assertion of rest for neighbors.
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Boston Courier
Max Cramer Secrets and the Haunted Melrose Mystery
A man recalls the Melrose death of Alice Leith and the eerie theft of her body. Max Cramer, plagued by guilt after attempting to revive her soul, dies amid a chilling confession of his deadly experiment. The narrator and Leith family confront the tower room revelation showing Alice sleeping but lifeless.
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Thave
Leiths
Mark Graham
Melrose
Graham
Leith
Tsat
Max Cramer
Mr. Treith
Max
Mr. Leith
Alice
Ife
Heidelberg
Drirt
Thad
Teneath
Alice Leith
Onions For Eight Hundred At Union Square Theater
In a New York Letter a plain man sat in a Union Square cheap restaurant and ate a beefsteak with onions as 800 others watched via theater odors. The kitchen’s smell wafted into the Union Square auditorium where melodrama and fried onions mingled, causing collective discomfort.
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Union Square
New York
Misleading Odor in St Louis Insurance Figures
Tid bits note the insurance in force in St Louis is 1.67 billion dollars. The excerpt presents a dialog about a midnight stove incident and a misperceived odor linked to old shoes. The historical context hints at urban risk and liability concerns in a bustling city.
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St. Louis
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Ilinois
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Boston
Concord
Ball
Webster
Munich
Bunker Hill
Bartlett
Dartmouth College
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Lastani
Bell Telephone
Interior Department
Gladstone
the Treasury
Home Secretary
Board of Trade
India
the Admiralty
Treland
Trench
Tonquin
London
Haxmonp
Thos, W. Tresidder
Death
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North Woods
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