The Locket Mystery and a London Exchange
In a London drawing room tale a battered old locket and a hidden diary drive a moral drama. Miss Steele helps a German exchange seek fortune, while accusations of guilt threaten her young love Robert. A Paris foundry man holds the key to truth and justice.
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London
Times
Jule
Miss Steele
Lizzie
Fanny
Papa
Harry
Harry Steele
Robert
Sam
Crescent Place
Mother
Robert de Lert
Paris
Alphonse Mooney
Platform demands for treasury notes and legal tender system
The Indiana delegate platform advocates retiring national bank notes in favor of treasury notes with legal tender status, calls for greenbacks as full legal tender, and supports government issuance of money. It seeks state taxation of United States notes, limits on debt funding, and a six percent maximum interest rate. It also urges silver coinage, repeal of the resumption act, fiscal sanity, mining and labor protections, coal mine ventilation, and school funding safeguards. It denounces Republican leaders and calls for reform of federal judiciary powers and political reform, ending with a Mexican war veterans pension parity.
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Indiana
Treasury
United States
Congress
Democratic Party
Circuit Courts
Republican Party
Samuel J. Tilden
Thomas A. Hendricks
Fragmented Love Sonnet About Shared Heart
A poem contemplates mutual love and the impossibility of two hearts in one breast, pondering trust and separation. The speaker laments doubt, vows to stop pining, and notes the beloved may possess his heart as well as she possesses hers. The verse explores love's mystery and emotional tug between certainty and hesitation.
Col Dahlgren’s Leg Inscriptions In The Navy Yard Cornerstone
The Chicago Times recounts a wartime relic at the Washington Navy Yard, a metal plate in a red brick shop cornerstone honoring Col Alrie Dahlgren U A W wounded July 6 1863 amid Gettysburg era skirmishes in Hagerstown. It notes the leg was sealed within the wall for years as a memorial while his father Admiral Dahlgren led the navy.
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Col. Dahlgren
Dahlgren
Washington Navy Yard
Cal
Alrie Dahlgren
Hagerstown
Gettysburg
United States
Chicago Times
France pays most indemnity despite crushing burden
The German federal council reports that France has paid most of the war indemnity, leaving $3,285,350 to be divided. Total indemnity reached $1,051,012,814 with expenditures of $458,702,213. Bavaria received $367,370,275. Württemberg $21,249,329. Baden $15,459,110. Southern Hesse $8,185,630. former North German Confederation $110,536,350.
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Bavaria
Wurtemburg
Baden
Southern
Hesse
North German Confederation
Epigraphic mockery of Job wealth figure in Burlington Hawkeye
The Episcopalian questions Job's wealth, estimating figures of 370 000 570 000 and 870 000 dollars before reverses. The quip notes all wealth was exhausted by misfortune and death, suggesting even a bank cashier could not steal more, and mocks the Bible naming.
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Job
Burlington
Bargain of a Wife’s Parting Words Turns Pun
A joke about a husband and wife turns on a play on words. A gentleman recalls his wife’s sweet farewell before marriage saying goodbye. After marriage she now says buy buy, prompting the friend to remark the spelling changed but the spell remained.
Sensations During Hanging and a Political Reversal
The article discusses reports of sensations during hanging, noting a brief pain followed by colors and pleasurable feelings before oblivion, with various cases cited. It then reports a legal reversal in Louisiana where J s Anderson is released from prison after a forgery conviction is overturned on technical grounds, and critiques the presidency associated with Hayes.
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the Quarterly Review
Lord Bacon
Ife
Montagnac
France
Marshal Turenne
J@s
Anderson
Louisiana Returning Board
New Orleans
Supreme Court of the State
New Orleans Custom House
White House
Hayes
New York Sun
Quietly Tolerant Advice on Handling Wrongdoers
The passage counsels peaceful retreat from wrongdoers. It argues that when cheated or abused, end association. if slandered, live so others doubt the accuser. The core message favors cool, calm, and solitary avoidance as the wisest policy.
Widow's Advice Sparks Second Dream of a Husband
A widow counsels her daughter that at her age it will be time to dream of a husband. The exchanges reveal the daughter’s heedless vanity as she responds with a flippant remark about a second opportunity.
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Jule
Times
The Year Without a Summer in Derby Memory
Old Derby residents recall 1816 as the year without a summer. A harsh sequence of mild and cold months brought frost and ice through spring to December, destroying crops, freezing corn, and driving prices to four to five dollars per bushel for next spring planting.
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Derby
New England
New York
Massachusetts
Maine
Pennsylvania
Middle States
Curious History of a State Wisconsin’s early governance timeline
The text traces Wisconsin from discovery and French claim in 1690 through British rule, American territorial status, and eventual statehood on March 13, 1848. It details successive governance by France, Britain, Ohio, Virginia, Indian Territory, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin Territory, ending with statehood as the thirtieth state.
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Wisconsin
France
Great Britain
Ohio
United States
Indian Territory
Ilinois
Virginia
Illinois
Michigan Territory
American Union
Between Dog and Fish War Preparation Compared by Analysts
The piece cites Prince Gortechakoff’s quip that a war between Russia and Hogland resembles a dog fighting a fish. It notes Parliament’s 30 million dollars for a stronger navy, already stronger than Russia, and Britain’s 4.7 million dollar purchase of Turkish steam ram Mendewhase, now the Superb, plus other ships, signaling a decisive maritime buildup.
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Prince Gortechakoff
Russia
Country merchant returns gifted castor after price tag
Covington Kentucky correspondent recounts a city visitor who bought a dollar castor in Cincinnati, tagged it $14 and gave it as a gift to a Methodist preacher. The preacher, unable to keep such a costly item, returned it and asked for groceries worth $14 in exchange, leaving the merchant moved by the scene.
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Covington
Cincinnati
Hen Post Reflects on Dying Old Hens Sold for Spring Chickens
A fragment notes a somber mood among hens as they near death and the prospect of being sold for spring chick production, highlighting the grim fate of laying birds in poultry farming.
Ingenious Tapers and the National Debt Quip
Eminent statisticians are quoted as calculating that the ingenuity and labor of impecunious tapers in obtaining free drinks could, if directed to a useful purpose, reduce the national debt in six years and eight months, a witty historical aside on waste and reform.
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Yepr
Fea
Julia
Ioa
Two Hearts
Syr
Big Bill Pata
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