Open Sunday trading pressure and wedding anniversaries noted
The Register reports Jewish merchants urged to stay open on Sabbath as a major issue. It also notes Judge William T. Crow’s 60th wedding anniversary with Elizabeth Blackwell in 1826, his six children and forty seven grandchildren, and other varied items including royal staff, industry, and international curiosities.
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William T. Crow
Carnesville
Georgia
Elizabeth Blackwell
Lost mine legend draws prospectors to Bald Mountain
A reported tale from Bald Mountain in Placer County Colorado recounts three men vanishing on the Gap trail in the 1850s and later reappearing demoralized with dust totaling ten to fifteen thousand dollars. Their bodies were found weeks later in a canyon, deepening the mine’s myth and attracting many seekers.
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Bald Mountain
Placer County
Colorado
Old Gap
Michigan Bluff
Kidd
Milk digestion warned by slow sipping
The text notes that drinking milk rapidly harms digestion as the stomach acid forms a hard curd that digests slowly. It recommends taking milk slowly, eating with other foods, or sipping by the spoon to ease the stomach.
The Most Elegant Thing Quote Insight
A Cleveland Leader quote reflects on true elegance as minimal wants and self sufficiency, contrasting a false culture that equates style with furniture, dress, and display. It frames elegance as restraint and independence rather than consumption.
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Merson
Cleveland
Custers Last Charge Remembered In Poetic Verse
An epic poem recounts Custers Last Charge with dramatic imagery of battle at the Big Horn. It frames the clash as a heroic American spectacle, praising soldiers' courage and the enduring legend despite heavy odds and the aftermath of bloodshed.
Love Across the Atlantic Ocean Survives a Shipwreck
An English carpenter's son recounts winning Winny Lansrame in Canada after risking life aboard the Antarctic. During a horrific Atlantic wreck, he clings to Winny in frozen rigging, they survive, marry in Montreal, and return to Indian Creek farm with their baby, celebrating a hard earned fortune and love.
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Canada
Ontario
Indian Creek
England
Winny Lranscome
London
Mr. Loftus
Dick Havntry
Indian Creek Farm
Liverpool
Devonshire
Mr. Branscome
Miss Winny
Liverpool Express
West End
Atlantic
Newfoundland
Antarctic
Winny
Tenied
Tran
Nipgit
Weill
Squire
Montreal
Stowe Rights Allegedly Plundered by Foreign Readers
James Parton asserts that Harriet Beecher Stowe in Hartford faces a £200,000 to £280,000 loss from foreign readers due to lack of international copyright protection. He cites other American authors like Irving, Cooper, Longfellow, and Hawthorne as similarly affected as their works gain global circulation. The Century notes the ongoing damage grows daily.
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James Parton
Hartford
Connecticut
United States
Harriet Leecher Stowe
Commonwealth
Eclipses and the Moon Sun Geometry Explained
The piece explains solar eclipses caused by the moon moving between Earth and the Sun. It describes why eclipses are not always visible, the roles of nodes, and how distances affect total, annular, and partial eclipses. It notes the moon’s elliptical orbit with distances from 221000 to 259600 miles. It ends with a humorous interjection about mean men and bad coffee.
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Earth
Frolics of a Father in a Sleepless Night
A Chicago Tribune piece recounts a new father's comic yet exhausting sleepless nights after his baby Adolphus arrives. He endures nightly crib challenges, napless days, and repeated attempts to soothe the child with the famed trot trot and sh hush hum, hoping for relief but finding only fatigue.
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Tom
Adolphus
Chicago Tribune
Too Many Critics And The Virtue Of Charity
An editorial urges readers to avoid dwelling on neighbors faults and instead practice charity. It argues critics lose public favor and undermine trust, advocating focus on good qualities and discreetly concealing flaws while living by benevolence.
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Tlloona Tribune
Treatment of Infants and a Snoring Man Joke
In a domestic scene a mother advises a nurse to use a thermometer to check bath water temperature, while a colored nurse jokes that blue water means too cold and reddened water means too hot. A second quip notes a man who snores slept like a top, his roommate retorting he slept like a humming top.
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Chile
Jexas
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