Monument to Taney rises in Baltimore by Walters
The Register reports a massive Taney statue in Baltimore, duplicating the Annapolis bronze by Rinehart, funded by William T. Walters. Also recounted are tales of rich misers, reforming printers, a gambling defense letter, a hot well near Harlem, and estimates of American women workers across occupations including nurses and physicians.
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Taney
Baltimore
William T. Walters
That City
Rinehart
State Capitol
Annapolis
United States
Southern Senator Clingman joined Confederacy in 1861
The article recalls Thomas L. Clingman once a North Carolina senator who left Congress to align with the Confederacy and was famed for his evolution from fire eater to a mild man claiming to have found a mineral superior for electric lights. It also surveys late 19th century steamship counts by nation and vessel type, noting increases despite a general downturn, with detailed ownership by country and tonnage.
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United States Senate
Thomas L. Clingman
North Carolina
Senate
Nathaniel Mann
Congress
Fish in Woman's Stomach Stuns Virginia City Chronicle
A married Virginia City woman troubled by stomach pains reportedly vomited a four and a half inch fish after an emetic. The fish, believed dead hours earlier, was preserved by Dr. Parker who suggested it may belong to a drout chub or sucker family. The incident prompted astonishment and relief for the patient.
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Virginia City
Nev
Parker
Release at Leicester prison sparks anti vaccination protest
Over 1 030 people gathered before Leicester prison to witness the release of Wm Smith who had served seven days for refusing vaccination. City leaders organized a protest opposite the jail, refused police orders to disperse, and passed anti vaccination resolutions attacking authorities for jailing a conscientious objector. The report notes public vaccination costs and cites a New York Sun description of a mild elderly beaver wearing man seen in public.
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Leicester
Singland
Wm. Smith
Smith
Vingland and
Wales
New York Sun
Loreto's Santa Casa Treasures and Descriptions Revealed
Loreto nuns recount the French sacking of Northern Italy and Spain, stealing the Virgin of Loreto and jewels. The cedar statue endured captivity 1797 to 1801 before the Pope restored it to Loreto with pearls emeralds and topazes. The husk measures nineteen palms high forty three long eighteen wide and two and a half thick.
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Loreto
Italy
Spain
Paris
Pius the Seventh
Pope
Palestine
Reminiscences of Public Men and Political Quips
Anecdotes feature Alexander H. Stephens and a ghostly possum tale. Lincoln critiques a lawyer’s attire to puncture rhetoric. Ben Hill on Confederate pledges to avert civil war. Taylor and Hayes era stories include receptions, mispronunciations, and humorous tariff hints. Historic quips reveal personalities and era attitudes.
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Alexander H. Stephens
Georgia
Henry
Lincoln
Abe
Ben Hill
Washington
North
Yeas
Senator Hill
Wormley Hotel
Old Capitol
Hannibal
Richmond
Humphrey Marshall
Alex Stephens
Marshall
Mr. Stephens
John P. Hale
Stephens
President Hayes
Mrs. Hayes
White House
Gen. Taylor
Trip
Donelson
Europe
Berlin
Austria
Col. W
Jack
Col W
Lincoln on Treason and Barrels of Wit at Conference
The article recalls Lincoln during a conference with Confederate Commissioners. Lincoln states rebels forfeited immunity from punishment for treason, a point echoed by Hunter who asks if they are traitors and fit for the hangman. Lincoln agrees, praising his own magnanimity and humor as the scene shifts to a West Virginia incident with a barrel metaphor.
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Lincoln
Hunter
Mr. Hunter
Confederacy
Mr. Lincoln
West Virginia
Ward H. Lanum
Chicago News
Counterfeiter Violinist Ns Napoleon Impersonation Tale
A tale from the early 1800s recounts violinist Boucher in St Petersburg who bore a striking Napoleon likeness. The Czar Alexander I used a ruse to test him by dressing him in Napoleon’s uniform and presenting him to the Empress as the great man at a private audience.
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Napoleon
Boucher
St. Petersburg
Alexander EL
Monsieur Boucher
Imperial Guard
Legion of Honor
Moscow
Cyar
Omission of the Comma Causes Meaning Shifts
A London Exchange note cites examples where missing punctuation altered meaning. It discusses a Times letter on war predicting deaths and mutilated victims and a prisoner's alleged theft statement corrected by proper commas.
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Times
Dean Alfred
Society For
London Exchange
The Elephant as a Logger in Ceylon
A Boston Courier writer describes how elephants in Ceylon tow timber from interior forests to the sea coast. Drove crews of five to ten elephants work in pairs to lift and place logs on rollers, then drag a waterborne raft to shore. They operate quietly without drivers, then resist harnessing until prodded, finally enjoying a bath at the water’s edge before the raft is built and towed to ships.
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Ceylon
Boston Courier
Fight to Leave Town Ends With Detroit Bound
Jack Collins, a light-weight actor from Fighting Creek, was challenged by a local tough who warned of a mauling. Collins accepted, won the one-sided bout in three minutes, and the fighter paid his bill and funded Collins’s trip home to Detroit.
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Jack Collins
Detroit
Fighting Creek
Collins
Detroit Free Press
Sensation in a Village Church and New Cephalopods Found
A St Paul memory recalls a church occasion where a fervent prayer ended with a prankish plea for “a speedy entrance into the kingdom” prompting amused but indignant elderly congregants. The report also notes the Challenger expedition revealing thirty-two new cephalopod species with some giants up to sixty feet long.
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St. Paul
Peple
Israel
Locomotive as a cheap hygrometer and celestial notes
An English observer says the locomotive can gauge humidity near railways when steam lingers or vanishes. A Scientific journal questions human heat output for crop needs. Old tips for finding direction rely on moss and tree growth. London fogs may persist due to location and drainage. September sky highlights list Venus Jupiter Mercury Uranus Saturn Mars and Neptune with star timing.
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Old Allen Thompson
Erneist Hart
Smoke Abatement Institute
London
Essex
Harrow Weald
Venus
Jupiter
Mercury
Uranus
Saturn
Mars
Neptune
Mercury Mines and Uses Across Four Localities
The article notes four abundant mercury regions California Austria Almaden Spain and Peru. It explains cinnabar ore, its heating to yield quicksilver, and its use to separate metals like gold and silver. It warns mercury vapor is toxic and cites Austria mine fires poisoning 1300 workers and river pollution.
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California
Austria
Almaden
Spain
Peru
Kiven
What Key West Looks Like in a Historic Sketch
A compact historical sketch describes Key West as a six square mile, very flat island with a highest point around fourteen feet. The city sits on the western end, prior to the 1886 fire it was densely settled and resembled a West Indian town with wooden, sparse brick buildings and broad, clean streets. Coral rock roads yield poor soil, coconut trees dominate, and gardens require a pick rather than a hoe. few vegetables are grown, while flowering shrubs thrive.
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Key
West India
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