Oleomargarine Tax Revenue Projection and Butter Output
The Register notes an estimated one million dollars in annual revenue from a two cent oleomargarine tax based on fifty million pounds consumed domestically. It cites exports nearing thirty eight million pounds and places U S butter production in 1880 at seven hundred seventy seven million pounds. A trap door in Rev Joseph Cook’s ceiling allows private escape to his study prompting a quip about public halls.
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United States
Joshrn Cook
Joseph
Ancient Burr dueling pistols and a fatal Kentucky feud
J W Dexter of Denver owns flintlock pistols claimed to be Burr and Hamilton duel weapons. The case includes a flask and bullet mold. In Kentucky a feud escalates as Bunton kills Adams after Adams shoots at Bunton. A monument to Prince Bismarck at Lippline is unveiled with a commemorative inscription and a telegraphic response from Bismarck.
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J. W. Dexter
Denver
Burr
Hamilton
Sypher & Co
New York
New Yorker
Aaron Burr
Prince Bismarck
Lippeline
Otto von Bismarck
Landwehr
German Empire
Hildebrand
Wendel
Kissengen
Bismarck
Old Brigham Young daughter elopes to fame and poverty
A portrait of Brigham Youngs eldest daughters romance to a newspaper man ends in New York where he goes blind, she sings in a concert saloon to support him, and they drift to Chicago where she grinds a hand organ to survive. An urban social glimpse follows with a boy guarding a drunken patron then thwarting two men planning a theft. Baldwin Locomotive Works reports engine 8000 shipped with history of rapid production milestones.
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John Brigham Young
Utah
Brigham Young
New York City
Chicago
Steam locomotive production and hoax relics recalled
The article traces locomotive output from 1866 to 1884 with numbers 4 500 to 8 000, noting brief build rates and a half century milestone. It also recounts Gov. Thompson’s appointment trials with office seekers and a Washington Herald anecdote about Henry W. Smith and an authority on appointments. It closes with a vivid description of John Wilkes Booth’s pistol and dagger relics, including the Ball and pistol details, the muzzle loader’s craftsmanship, and Booth’s insistence on a spare cap.
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Austett
Supervising Architect
Treasury Department
Washington
Gov. Thompson
William E. Smith
Mr. Smith
Department
Gov
Washington Herald
John Wilkes Booth
President Lincoln
Lincoln
Philadelphia
South
Booth
Life Preserver Joke On Mississippi Steamboat Tale
An Arkansaw man offers a woman a life-preserver bottle during a storm on a Mississippi steamboat. She fears the boat sinking and, after knocking, receives the bottle with the warning to drink. She fears the arrant man and eventually drinks, then turns the bottle aside as he quips touch it light. The anecdote ends with her refusal to enjoy river travel.
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Mississippi
Arkansaw
Eaven
Akhmim Necropolis Reveals Ancient Burial Practices
M Maspero describes Akhmim hill tombs with multi level pits, layered mummies, and mix of Greek to ancient dynasties. Rich and poor interred differently, with temples and undertakers handling preservation. Animals also buried in hypogea. Egypt's riches imply remains for many generations.
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M. Maspero
Museum of
Boulaq
Akhmim
Nile
Thebes
Egypt
Working Horses Unshod in California Farms
An editorial argues for leaving work horses barefoot where climate and terrain permit. Shoes are costly and risky due to underqualified blacksmiths. trim every month or six weeks suffices. Horses on rocky trails or raised in hard soil may need forefoot protection, while soft-ground stock can thrive unshod, as shown by Indian horses.
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California
San Francisco Chronicle
Reform in Pockets Across All Ages Stirring Debate
A St. Paul Globe excerpt reports a push to ban side pockets in trousers, arguing they harm posture and health. Reformers favor hip or pistol pockets to maintain straight shoulders and encourage active use of hands, predicting a new fashion and policy issue in upcoming campaigns.
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St. Paul Globe
Lost in an African Forest With Elephants Ahead
Narrator recounts guides leading through a trackless forest toward Rombo and Tavella. Dense undergrowth and six to seven foot woodland enclose explorers as elephants crash a zigzag passage. Nightfall looms as men tire, pant, and seek rest in the forest maze.
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Rombo
Tavella
We All Know Jenks First Banker
Two bankers discuss Jenks in Cambridge Chronicle dialogue. One notes meeting him and the other recalls he struck them for five dollars.
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Jenks
Cambridge Chronicle
Description of a Chinese house and customs in Canton
In a new China book Miss Gordon-Cumming describes a large Cantonese residence as a patriarchal clan encampment with open halls, ornamental roofs, and irregular portals, then intimate rooms and carved wood partitions. The narrator meets the host family including a 13 year old bride, notes heavy rouge on women, shaved brows, and gilding of hair as fashionable adornment.
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China
Canton
Russian women doctors gain footing in Saint Petersburg
The St. Petersburg Gazette notes progress as female doctors, long supported by war ministry patronage, gain official status and diplomas. Plans include integrating women’s medical schools into high constitutional schools with organized structure and funding. The city would fund facilities and allow practical study in local hospitals, urging other towns and nations to follow.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
War Ministry
A Drug Store Tale of Snakes and Scented Secrets
In a Boston Globe humor piece a druggist and his junior assistant hear a tall man’s tale of fieldwork in the Middle States. The speaker recalls snakes discretely in a rubbish pile and a dramatic encounter with a nasty creature mistaken for a leg threat, ending with a quip about a porous plaster.
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Middle States
Jim
Earth
Boston Globe
Polish Plate Glass With Velvet and Rouge
To polish plate glass rub gently with white cotton wool then with velvet covered pad charged with fine rouge. The surface becomes highly polished and free of scratches. About 25,000 typhoid deaths occur yearly in the United States. Maintaining Europe’s standing armies costs about 800 million dollars annually.
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United States
Europe
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