Curious mixed bag of people and events in The Register
The Register reports a crowd of eclectic notes including the Duke of Fife’s stance on royal grants, a Minneapoli s drubbed by a new law sentencing drunkenness, editor Davin M. Stoxp’s relentless work, and various anecdotes about figures like Takaiser, Jovor Hinton, and Horace Guckney. It covers a wreck of oddities from a Newport smallpox case to a lawyer's vast fortune and a half-million-dollar ambergris find aboard a Portland schooner.
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Tur
Fannie Chase
Lewis, Chase & Whitten
Portland
Veseal
Rights of street soil and friendly northern horses
A column contrasts property rights in street soil in Randolph Massachusetts with a discussion of humane treatment of animals in Russia Norway and Sweden. It notes the fee ownership to the street middle, a contractor dispute over loam removal, and observes kindly, intelligent horses in the North, where drivers avoid whips and horses respond to calm speech.
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Randolph
Mass
Selectmen
Russia
Norway
Sweden
Copenhagen
Drosky Wen
Denmark
London
Cuffy's Horn Storm Echoes in Georgia Revival
An Indianapolis Journal excerpt recounts a tale from a Georgia Ascensionist revival. Cuffy and a companion hid in the gallery as the service urged readiness for the Lord to come, and a hunting horn sparked a comic distraction that left them alone in the church with a promise of punishment.
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Georgia
Dar
Maria Gaba
Cuffy
Duffy
Maria Craba
Cniffy
Gabriel
Indianapolis Journal
Trifles and Humors From 19th Century Columns
A collage of wry maxims and sketches on manners and money from periodicals. It pairs light satire with social observations, including notes on politics, religion, and human folly. The prose showcases aphoristic humor about money, honesty, and character.
The Secret City of St Louis Mayazi
A dark poem-like meditation on a hidden metropolis within St Louis, detailing unseen crowds bearing sorrows and broken vows. It presents a city of constant labor with no leisure, its inhabitants chronicled in endless census records, reflecting collective woes.
Held Up in the Rocky Mountains by Train Robbers
J Cameron Lees recounts a November night on a San Francisco to New York train halted by five masked robbers. They failed to crack the mail car safe, took registered bags, and fled, leaving passengers to protect their money amid moonlit perils and UT anecdotes from California travelers. The tale ends with uncertainty over the robbers’ capture, noting a later telegram of another similar hold up on the same line.
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San Francisco
New York
Rocky Mountains
Saltake City
Jordan
Salt Lake
Castle Gate
Neyo
Limor
Desirabille
Sambo
Drimmer
Laia
Tia
Traving
Hin
Init
Sam
California
Mayne Reid
Kansas
Los Angeles
America
Rockies
Scientific view of cyclones and cloud bursts explained
The Baltimore Herald explains that what laypeople call cyclones are whirlwinds or tornadoes and cloud bursts are reported as local rains. It describes how intense heating and moist air create rotating updrafts, hail, and wind bursts, with funnels forming and sometimes causing vast damage. Cloud bursts are rare, while related rains are often labeled as cloud bursts in press dispatches.
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United States
Baltimore Herald
The Autocrat of the Seaside Kitchen Dominates Guests
A Detroit Free Press tale recounts hotel guests uniting to force changes in the seaside inn dining room. The kitchen boss, a dignified head cook, refuses pepper adjustments, prompting a mass walkout of forty rooms and eventually a concession: the peppered soup and clams are tailored to guest taste.
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Detroit Free Press
White slave trade supplies Turkish harems in Asia Minor
Mme Paschkoff reports Circassian women are bought and sold for harems across Batoum and the Caucasus. Slaves, some eager to be sold, endure menial or luxurious lives while Russia tolerates the traffic amid lax supervision. The trade persists despite prohibitions and official complicity.
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Mme. Paschkoff
Sinope
Asia Minor
Circassia
Sondon
Russia
Constantinople
Pasehkoff
Batoum
Black Sea
Canucasus
Turkey
Anit
New York
Sra
A Wayward Child Wife on Santa Fe California Express
On a Kansas City dispatch, a married couple from Lexington came to Union station last evening. The husband, Robert Deering, described as well provided, revealed he married Enina in California after a long courtship. Enina resisted discipline, left him, and became entangled with two women aboard. A quarrel ensued, and the husband sought police aid to recover his wife and regulate the situation.
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Santa Fe
California Express
Union Station
Kansas City Dispatch
Burgess
Robert Deering
Lexington
Los Angeles
Enina
Rett
California
Name of Josc kin's head man recalled in telegraph mixup
A Chicago man hosts a cordial New York visitor. An forgotten telegram prompts him to ask for the head man at Joskin's firm. The reply comes as Simpkins. They plan to lunch and visit club friends downtown.
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Chicago
New York
Chicago Imu
Joskin
Simpkins
Sose
Gretna Hel Hotspur Threats Echo Chicago Feud Note
A fragmentary exchange from the New York Weekly hints at a domestic dispute in Gretna Hell involving Hotspur and a threat to break up a home. The dialogue colors a heated debate on moral options, with hints of seeking drastic action but preferring lawful restraint in a civilized city context.
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Hotspur
Riend
Chicago
New York Weekly
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New Harmony, Indiana
Duke of Fife
Minneapolis
Davin M. Stoxp
New York Journal of Commerce
Takaiser
Jovor Hinton
A. T. Stewart
Stewart
SavaGeer
Pacific Mail
Newport
Savage
Horach Guckney
Dr. Chapin
PB. T. Barnum
Tuar
Omaha
Himg-wa
China
Albert Pike
Boston
Harvard
Washington
Jonathan Phillips
Josiah Quincy
John Winthrop
Samuel Adams
Young
Carrett
Oklahoma
Lincoln
Cimayrron River
Hattie D
Tom
George Washington
Pusxels Hopason Buexert
St. Louis Magazine
Binghamon Republican
BY Yaving
J. A. Miller
Yeu
St. Louis
J. Cameron Lees
Aitchison Globe
Gretna Hel
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