Juryman's Fall From Fame to Insane Asylum
The juror who once opposed a broad wall of eleven stubborn men and won Supreme Court approval has been placed in an insane asylum. Also reports deny Henry O. Furport’s claimed Mexican army captaincy and recount a Jersey City music professor paid in pennies. English patent medicines drew millions in duty, per Prof Attwood, who defends their demand. The singing teacher's penny-collecting plan ends when two school board members’ children are disciplined at the next meeting.
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Pennsylvania
Supreme Court
England
John Attwood
Society of British Pharmaceutical Chemists
Jersey City
Board of Education
Morony declines biography while ties to Louisiana rise
Paul Morony writes of his estate and claimed lack of need for a biographical notice though a Louisiana-born lawyer and son of a famed juris-consult, with family service to the state, prompts pride in Louisiana ties. A Sicily journey notes armed guards protect travelers and mine owners, as brigandage spreads amid centuries of misrule. Britain lists annuities and pensions with royal and governmental totals across civil, naval, judicial services.
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Paul Morony
New Orleans Bee
Louisiana
Supreme Court
Spain
New Orleans
Sicily
Gm Great Britain
British pensions and Anglomania in Boston satire
The text lists various naval and military pensions in Britain including large sums for Earl Nelson and the Duke of Marlborough, with others to run to eternity or cease after titleholders. It then notes Boston residents adopting English class attitudes as a governess seeks work, prompting a satirical exchange about governesses and servants.
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Ireland
Earl Nelson
Duke of Marlborough
Duke of Schomberg
Capt
Garth
William Penn
Boston
Beacon Street
New Haven Superintendent Promotes Moral Education Pamphlet
The New Haven school superintendent issues a course of study pamphlet urging teachers to weave moral training into all grades. It calls for personal interest in pupils and homes, reproof of faults, promotion of cheerfulness and politeness, and lessons on home conduct, public behavior, truthfulness, self control, and civic values.
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DuttTax
New Haven
Stained Glass Windows Made By Patchwork Design
Describes stained glass creation from molten color mixing to rolling into sheets and cooling. compares process to patchwork quilting with paper patterns. Explains transferring design to glass, cutting diamonds, joining pieces with solder and lead, and painting rare faces and figures for detail.
Cheese inquiry at Catskill boarding house seen in Eagle
A guest at a Catskill boarding house asks for three bits of cheese while about to eat dried apple pie. The landlady replies in a cast-iron tone that she cannot be sure there is any cheese and will have a waiter check the mouse-traps.
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Catskill Mountains
Brooklyn Eagle
Annie Glockner and Judge Higley Clash in Court
In Cincinnati Annie Glockner, 60, greets Judge Higley with sly exchange as he sentences her to twenty days. The exchange hints at familiar tension in the courtroom setting.
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Annie
Annie Glockner
Flash the Horse and the London Train Escape
A first person narrator recalls Flash a white-foot sorrel in a tale of daring on a night train. Amidst a tense carriage ordeal a young girl seeks escape while two crooks plot to abduct her. the narrator helps, escapes, and later recovers in London with Thompson and his mother, vowing never to forget the incident.
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Flash
Sammy
The Small Boy's Story of a Railway Key
A boy recounts trading a railway key for Letty's hair and bonnet trim. He attends music lessons with Herr Otto Finke in Luckboro and dodges using the key until a rush to catch a train alters his plan. The tale blends travel, family, and mischief with trains.
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Thompson
Letty
Herr Otto Finke
Luckboro
Finke
Waterland
Names For Postoffices See Shorter Distinct Nomenclature
The Postoffice Department aims to shorten and distinct-ify post office names to prevent mail delays. It favors brief names that are unique within and across states, reduces long forms like boroughs, and would like names that fit easily on six-inch envelopes, as noted by the Des Moines Register.
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Department
U. S. Postal Guide
Toolesborough
Boonesborough
Griffin’s
Sarah Battle and Whist
A quotation from Charles Lamb about Sarah Battle at whist. He recalls her snuffing, ringing for a servant, and resisting mingled conversation during play. Lamb notes she treated cards as her noble occupation and did not unbend her mind beyond her literary duties.
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Sarah
Charles. Lamb
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the Hegister
CG. W. Slater
Pustioner
Henry O. Furport
West Point
Camp Rice
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New York Tribune
Mexico
Texas
Maimon
Will Carleton
Harper’s Magazine
Redface
Love
Mosslands
Lockborough Road
Samuel Nixon
Mr. Samuel Nixon
London
Sarah Battle
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