Rumors of Puriman water and imperial losses in Russia
The article notes that distilled water freshens coffee aroma by avoiding mineral carbonates, then shifts to a Puriman city in Russia with 35,000 engineers housed in cottages and a growing cooperative sector. It reports the death of a famed czarist cook Ingano, then a South Abingdon pie party fundraiser with name-pie auctions, and a New York theater anecdote about stage superstition. It ends with Pendleton family’s German ties and Cincinnati residence details.
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Ingano
Grand Army
South Abingdon
Massachusetts
New York
Superstitions and oddities from horse colors and tricks
The Arans of Sabara favor chestnut horses for activity and bay horses for hardiness while noting beliefs about color and luck. A German paper anecdote collection includes tales of revolution, charity, and curious medical cures using a wooden magnet capped with metal, highlighting early sensational observations.
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Arans
Sabara
Curious divorce case in Deposit ends with separation
In Deposit New York a divorce case results in legal separation between a woman and a man who died nearly eleven years earlier. John Summers of Groton died in an insane asylum in 1874 as a war pensioner. His mother sought a pension claiming death from army wounds while a woman claiming to be John Summers’ widow pursued her pension.
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Deposit
New York
John Summers
Groton
John Bummer
Hhis Persion
Mar
Libel suit ends in compromise and pirate tale cure
A Massachusetts libel case involving Lorenzo Nicnut Tincale against Cape Cod Folks ends in a settlement after the publisher’s appeal to the Supreme Court. A Providence Public Library trustee promotes a scrap-book antidote to dime-novel fever by contrasting headlines with police court reports and a boy's knife incident in Pittsburgh.
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Lorenzo Nicnut TincaLe
Cape Cod
Lorenzo
Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Nightingale
Providence Public Library
Providence
Pittsburgh
Equistrienne's Deadly Act Shocks Russian Circus Crowd
The Boston Transcript notes a dangerous stunt where an equestrienne in a Russian circus fired a pistol at her temple during a high speed ride. The horse collapsed on the sawdust, elevating fear and spectacle as a dramatic draw for the troupe.
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Boston Transcript
Popular Superstitions and the Thirteen Club Era
A lengthy editorial debunks Friday and Thirteen superstitions, citing the Thirteen Club in New York and social dinners. It argues against fear of the number thirteen, notes the club’s seven-year record of survivals, and urges education and rational thinking to banish Friday’s ill luck from business and daily life.
Among the Potters Wit at a City Dinner
A New York bar member recalls a dinner hosted by Rev Henry Potter with guests including Sir Thomas Bayley Potter and Eliphalet Nott Potter. Evarts humorously notes the row of Potter family clergymen and politicians, likening it to a country clergyman summoned to supply a city pulpit as the church grew imposing.
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Evarts
New York
Thomas Potter
House of Commons
Henry Potter
Potter
Ewart
Henry—Potter
Thomas Bayley—Potter
Clarkson N
D Potter
Eliphalet Nott—Potter
Tom
New Uses for Wood in a Curious Cabinet Display
A fruit dealer shows a cabinet of curiosities featuring pieces of wood from Mexico Jamaica and the East Indies. He recounts piles with holes from railroad work, lace-bark fiber used in fabric and whip lash, a lace cloth bonnet sent to Queen Victoria, and sterra beans whose rattling pods alarm tropical natives during tornado winds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
Jamaica
East Indies
Tropics
New York
Mailandk Mhepress
The Little Medical Lady and the Yankee Female Image
A scene from Henry James style prose contrasts a “little medical lady” with Northern Yankee stereotypes. Hansom, Transom, Nan Som, and Dr Prance discuss gender, education, and merit, with Prance downplaying male female superiority and noting mutual room for improvement.
Why Boilers Explode and What Triggers Them
A French Academy of Sciences committee studied boiler explosions to determine causes. They tested pure and impure water, stagnant water, and steam generation under various methods. Results indicate explosions attributed to superheating require exceptional, undefined circumstances, and more often result from loading boilers with excessive steam pressure.
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French Academy of Sciences
Lions In The Home Menagerie Show Gentle Nature
H H Cross for seventeen years bought animals for menageries and believes all animals become what man makes them. He keeps two lions in an apartment in New York, sold cubs for 1000 dollars, refused 6000 for parents, and reports no serious trouble with his lion family. The only incident was an incorrigible cub tearing a cage hole and resisting repairs until Cross used a stick. Cross notes lions need outdoor access and prefer solitude at times, and his animals have remained largely healthy since coming to America.
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Thirteen Club
New York
East End
Jack
Garteld
Number 11
Carlisle
Blaine
Cleveland
Pittsburgh Dispatch
H. H. Cross
Australis
America
St Paul
Glaciers of Alaska Described by John Muir Expedition
A fragmentary 19th century account notes Alaska hosting about 10 000 glaciers with over 200 feeding the ocean. It highlights John Muir’s 1879 1880 visits, the Muirelacier near Glacier Bay, and dramatic ice cliffs, crevasses, and ice river phenomena observed from the ice front and surrounding mountains.
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Alaska
John Muir
California
Glacier Bay
Mount Crilley
Glacihier
Carroll
Idaho
Where the Good Tea Grows
The writer argues Americans largely drink poor tea with the wealthy drinking little and workers consuming much. Sanitary authorities could condemn much of this tea. The best tea goes to Russia and England, with Russia drinking far more tea than England.
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Russia
England
Bowie and the German Heroism on a Cold Ohio Stage
A stagecoach tale recalls James Bowie confronting a German passenger who refused to stop smoking for an old woman and her child. Bowie revealed his identity, threatened immediate violence, and forced the offender off at the next station, sparing the woman’s health.
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Bowie
Ohio
Walter Raleigh
James Bowie
How the Mercury Is Put in a Thermometer
A Millstone article explains thermometer making from glass tube drawing to bulb formation, mercury filling, and sealing. It notes accuracy relies on careful manufacturing, bore evenness, and precise marks at freezing and boiling points.
Boston Visit Turns Chicago Art Gap Into G Dore Jest
A Boston-bound Western merchant, rich yet art-light, visits the Museum of Fine Arts. He mistakes Gustave Doré’s works for new and asks if the artist has improved, then jokes that Doré painted his Chicago house, exposing wealth and cultural gap in a humorous anecdote from Harper's.
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Boston
Chicago
Museum of Fine Arts
Gustave Dore
G. Dore
John
Edito
Harper's Magazine
The Fear He Entertained and a Chelsea Prisoner
An elderly Chelsea prisoner laments a fallen comrade on the embankment. He recalls sharing a pair of boots with the other man after losing his own leg, noting the shared fate of their injured feet as they contemplate recovery and loss.
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Chelsea
Eamy
Edinburgh
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Ladies’ Benefit Association
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Philadelphia Medical News
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Dioscorides
Pliny
W. B. Richardson
Friar Laurence
Colorado
JW Washington Fost
Ingland
Hansom
Transom
Nansom
Doctor Prance
Ransom
Henry Dames
Thomas Jefferson
New York Graphic
Aciers
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