The Registier Feels The Times Include Oddities And Notes
A 75 year old Mrs Canfield weds Henry Baldwin aged 22 in Connecticut. A London circus shows Blondin the horse walking a nine inch wide rope at twenty feet, guided first by sight then blindfolded, with a safety net below. In Fort Myers Florida a paw paw tree bears heavy fruit on a single year old trunk. Prof Muttrich reports forests temper summer temperatures, reducing daily swings more than pine forests in winter.
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London
Blondin
Signor Corradini
Muttrich
North Georgia marble praised as finest in world
The Tar Atlanta Constitution notes North Georgia marble as the finest globally. A local quarryman has cut a 16 by 4 foot counter for the Kimball House from a single block and claims the supply could yield flawless columns 80 feet long and five feet wide. He predicts quarries will remain barely used for a century with exhaustless marble in every shape and color.
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Atlanta Constitution
North Georgia
Kimball House
Love and contrasts in a kingdom of contrasts
Heine dreams of angels and marries a grisette while Freytag marries his house keeper. Bacon joins a loud voiced chambermaid on holiday as Keats pours out his soul to Fanny Brown. The piece contrasts idolatry with curiosity and vanity in a curious, poetic reflection.
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Heine
Freytag
Bacon
Keats
Fanny Brown
Unusual Rain Scene and Germ Study Report
Engineer Coon Thompson recalls seeing a tall man with an open umbrella during a heavy rain as the first train entered Cireenville Indiana. Dr. Pest of Petersburg reports a centrifugal test reducing germs by 90 percent, claiming motion may purify water. A New Haven society debutante hosted fifty ladies and twenty dogs. a dog fight broke out among the pets, ending with guests leaving in chaos.
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Coon
Jerry Thompson
Cireenville
Indiana
Pest
Petersburg
Pehl
A Trip to Mexico by J Margati Dialects of Telephone Call
In a pleasant account Mr. J Margati describes a telephone chat in polished Castilian. The central office replies Mande usied meaning At your command, after which preliminaries begin with a greeting to a senorita and courteous exchanges.
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Mexico
Mr. J. Margati
Senorita
Deathbed portrait twist and curious tales from era
An elderly dialogue opens with formal courtesy before stories unfold about a French painter’s deathbed plea and a request to speak with Don So-and-So. The piece also covers a Charleston distillery for pine wood oil and a Webster anecdote on public service. It recounts a Texas woman fending off a bull with a shawl, a Master in Chancery scene with Sarah Althea Hill’s marriage paper, and a manicure-style nail inspection by Mrs. Sharon.
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Charleston
South Carolina
Tt. N. Piper
Chicago
San Francisco
Sarah Althea Hill
Sharon
Gambling in New Orleans and the lure of chance
A Chicago Times correspondent notes gambling permeates New Orleans through two centuries of history. The piece links local gaming to Latin cultural influence, cotton speculation, and postwar social changes, arguing the city’s appetite for risk remains intense despite past upheavals. The essay closes with a moral remark on the will guiding action.
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New Orleans
King Cotton
Chicago Times
Care of Infants Advice From The American Cultivator
The American Cultivator advises feeding infants every three hours by day and a last feeding near 10:30 pm to sleep through to around 5 or 6 am. After four months, six hours at night without food is noted, with milk amounts and positions for feeding. It warns against night nursing and outlines suitable foods, milk regimens, and hygiene for infants and nursing mothers, plus later solid foods and safe substitutes. It also covers weaning age, artificial feeds, and careful preparation of infant meals.
Calf raffle ends with a fighting cow surprise
A widow raffles a prized calf amid friendly bets and a bustling store scene. John Samarindyck wins but discovers the calf will not provide milk, only grow into a fighting cow, prompting him to decline the prize and seek milk elsewhere.
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John Samarindyck
Famarin Dyck
John
Somarindyck
Bob Jones
Samarindyck
Lirora Blade
Protecting forests amid dwindling timber supply says builder
A well known builder argues for forest protection as timber shipping shifts globally. He notes the United States and Canada have fallen from first to twentieth in timber exports, while nations like Germany and Spain maintain large forests. He cites Europe’s limited access to distant timber and warns only a few countries can supply cheaply. The discussion highlights looming shortages and the need for sustainable forestry.
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United States
Canada
Sweden
Norway
Poland
Russia
Baltic
Ural Mountains
St. Petersburg
Finland
Vistula
Konigberg
Tresit
Dantzig
Germany
Austria
Italy
Spain
Australia
Bohemia
Gallicia
Transsylvania
Portugal
France
Eagland
New York Mail and
Ierpress
A Serious Accident
A brief dialogue from Texas Siftings recounts a man who avoids injury after a horse runs away with him and jokes about another man who ran off with a horse, was pursued by a sheriff, and faces five years in the State penitentiary.
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State Penitentiary
Texas Siftings
Lodge Initiation Ordeal Turns into Harrowing Tale
A former saloon keeper recounts his brutal initiation into a lodge and months of coercion highjacked by members including a meatman and grocer. After fleeing and reporting to police, he faced fines and left the saloon business to pursue speculation, vowing never to trust secret societies again. Green's melon toads are praised as a practical husbandry innovation by an observant American Agriculturist note.
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Green
A Famous Naturalist Seth Green Remembered For Fishes And Birds
Seth Green is celebrated worldwide as a master of angling and aquatic life study. He blends practical pisciculture with keen natural observation, noted for his vivid explanations and ability to unite nature’s forces for human benefit, extending beyond fish to his garden and plant interests.
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Seth Green
Green
Bob Burdette Interviewed in Brazen Lecture Candidacy
The interview reveals Burdette’s long, wandering career from 1876 starting in Iowa, with Redpath Lyceum Bureau support, travels through Iowa Kansas and beyond, a homecoming to Ardmore Pennsylvania, and planned California trip. He notes humorist peers, age antics, and his four lecture subjects while confessing stage nerves.
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Iowa
Redpath Lyceum Bureau
Boston
Kansas
Newton
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Ardmore
Pennsylvania
California
Perry
Mr. Beecher
Gough
Mark Twain
Joseph Cook
St. John
Talmage
Hair care advice from Prof Wilson condemns washing
The article cites Prof Wilson of Vingland as a hair authority who condemns washing and favors brushing to promote circulation. It argues that cutting hair does not boost growth and criticizes many baldness cures as ineffective, recommending ammonia lotions and a camphor mixture for scalp stimulation.
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Wilson
Vingland
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Registier
NEW Harmony
Ind
Don
New York
Webster
Massachusetts
Nanyiz Hoours
Hall’s Station
Texas
Parents and Children
Ponce de Leon
Atlantic Ocean
Florda
Lake de Puniak
Chevalier
Fountain of Youth
Joaquin Miller
Independent
Buffalo
Dulress
Thad
Jecl
Bob Burdette
Reinke
John Blake
Boston Courier
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