Paris Bird Combats Raise Cruelty Concerns
Paris customs report on combats de pinsons where chaffinches are caged and sung for betting Sundays April to June. Birds blinded with red-hot wires after ten days in darkness, then forced to sing while spectators tally songs. Protest notes cruelty and lack of enforcement amid betting culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Juai Aux Fleurs
Paris
Uarche Aux Oiseaux
Sovietirs de Combats de Piusens
Boston Transcript
Odd frontier memory and a Meigs origin tale
A Detroit Free Press excerpt recalls a harsh enslaved tale with a brutal overseer and a repentant slave, then shifts to a Hartford Courant portrait of Return Jonathan Meigs Jr. The piece explains Meigs’s unusual name origin in Middletown when a rejected suitor was urged to return, leading to a lifelong family name and later posts as Postmaster General and Ohio governor.
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Jonathan Meigs, Jr
Ohio
Hartford Courant
Middletown
Jonathan Meigs
Meigs
United States
Moon Still Guides Us Through The Night
A humorous Chicago Ledger piece argues against blaming the moon for human woes and mocks sensational astronomical hype. It defends lunar steadiness and the value of moonlight, contrasting science chatter with practical living and social rhythms. The narrator insists the moon stays faithful, lighting our lives without being swayed by changes or speculation.
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St. Louis
Chicago
Luna
Chicago Ledger
Waterbury
Chicago Ledge
M Raey
Far West
Franklin Street
An Observant Youth Quote From Sunday School
A Boston Journal excerpt reports a clever Sunday school boy misquoting a verse and answering questions with humorous wit. The pupil suggests “Hold a grater to Solomon's ear” and quickly replies that a man walks with a woman when asked about Cain. The piece closes with a reminder to stop talking and look wise.
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Boston
Solomon
Cain
Boston Journal
TWO NOTED MINSTRELS WHO HAVE WON FORTUNES AND STAGE LIFE
Emerson, Belfast born and Washington linked, rose through Sweeney and Newcomb minstrel troupes to fame in Germany and Australia. He later led Waverly’s troupe in San Francisco earning $500 weekly and toured royal courts. Primrose, equally famed, praised the art and himself grew rich along with Emerson by not wasting public favor.
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Billy
Emerson
Australia
Belfast
Itt
Joe Sweeney
Minstrels
Washington
Iss
Newcoml ¢ Miinstrels
Germany
Isid
America
Waverly
Warner
George IL Primrose
Merson
Primrose
Cuba's Struggle and Wealth Described in U S Report
A historical extract discusses Cuba near Florida, noting a despotic government muzzling the press, a yearly tax take of 70 million with 50 thousand officials, and Cuban brimming with brigandage and ruin. It cites Spain's war costs, a Polk era purchase offer of 100 million, and claims about Cuban beauty and nobility while describing numerous titled residents and licensure taxes.
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Cuba
Madame Columbia
Florida
Spain
Polk
Howells rises from printer to famed novelist and editor
The passage notes William Dean Howells starting as a country newspaper typesetter, then moving to the Columbus State Journal as an exchange clipper, writing poems for the Adlaiudic, serving as Consul to Venice, publishing Venetian Life, and becoming assistant editor of the Loxton Magazine where he gained fame. It questions the belief that mastery of language requires formal classical study.
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Howells
America
Oho
Columbus State Journal
Adlaiudic
Venice
Loxton
Ephis
Living Monuments to Pain Conqueror St Jacobs Oil
A Latin inscription on Sir Christopher Wren's tomb prompts readers to look around as living monuments to the power of St Jacobs Oil. The text claims thousands and millions today free from rheumatism and related diseases show the oil as a conqueror of pain.
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Christopher Wren
St. Paul’s Cathedrae
London
St. Jacobs Oil
Stockton man recalls rock struck fight and alleged injury
A Stockton man recalls a quarrel with a stranger ending in a rough fight. He says he struck his opponent on the head with a rock, feared killing him as the man swelled and was confined at home. The opponent survived but bears lasting effects and an inflated ego.
Universal Language Prevails English Most Newspapers
In a quip about a universal tongue, the piece notes that roughly half the world’s papers are in English and the share is growing each year. It cites the idea as already in operation and functional, with other marketing and health ad snippets interspersed in the page.
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Daris
New York
Vlriberne
World's Dispensary claims cure of chronic diseases in Buffalo
A broad boasting ad describes a Buffalo institution with eighteen physicians offering cures for chronic ailments from respiratory to digestive, women’s diseases, and skin conditions. It promises home cures via correspondence, lists various treatments, and markets an Invalids' Guide Hook while mixing in assorted medical and consumer notices.
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Buffalo
America
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Lie Lewis
Tsom
Jake
Massa
Hrink
Hawk
Dr. Sage
Jet Davis
Clinton and
Midison Streets
Union Depot
Hour & Gates
Gale
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Lis Halo
Wapazine
the Women’s Styr
Yank
Johnny
Tru
Ely
Thele
Daugrvisis
Ely Bros
Owego
N.Y
Calwell, Hazard & Co
Bothaarve
Chas
SS. McMillen, Sibley, Jackson Co
Lot Ewews
Samuel Porter
Crete
Waois
Brom
Mackey
Lows Infantry
Charrh
Sigournes
Low
Caswenn, Hazard & Co
Dorden, Selleck & Co
Chicapo
Lyon
Saeco! Star
Mark
TUR Charles A. Vogeler Company
Baltimore
Maryland
Vv. Ae
Chicago A Ledger
Bes
Stony Paper
Valentine Bros. Dane Fille
Wis
Jostrephens
Lebanon
Che
Loe Preva
Eteaye
Weaver Organ & Piguo Co
York
BO Murray Bil Co
Stesth
St. N.Y
Mitten
Temple Music
Tlt
Aventa
Canvaaders
Lasalle Nt
Aleirn
NG Mills
Raebstner
Raespner & CO
Fanad St
Hala
Yanee
Standard Silverware Co
Mielzner Stove Repair CO
West Kandolpt Street
Lorillard
TS. Dean Pianos
Stecer & Sauber
Wabash
Ill
THE
Ger Egerans
Grant
Rey
Newlin
Cal
National _Publishing
Lafonitia
Donovan
Brewster St
Detroit
Mich
M. P. Schrock
West Lakes Street
Jan
Trance
Dt Expresa Priitin
Athlophoros
Wall St
Chicaco NI CO
Washington St
Ile
Ifpage
Pullman Puluco Car Co
Mason & Mami Ocean & Pinho Co
New Orleans Exposition
Lepage
Louttan
New Orleans
Russia Cement CO
Gloucester
Mass
Frazer
Nork
H. H. Green
Green
Dones Avenue
Atlanta
Perry Davis
Pain Killer
Uae
Ss O Yee
Cc. E. DePry
Ph. G
Midi
Rankin & Co
Anylady
Territor
Russ
Dan
Styx
Montgomery W
Wabash Avent
ARD & CO
Dunham Praque, du Page Co
Ilinois
France
Wayne, Ill
Chicago & North-Western
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