Proverbs and curiosities from The Register page
A collection of miscellaneous notes and anecdotes including a mock proverb on age, Queen Elizabeth anecdotes, Persian army reviews, a Marine Corps officer’s remark on heart disease, a caravan of royal messengers, a traveling menagerie quedah, circus poster honesty, marriage legality in colonies, woman suffrage views, ice removal in Montreal, and Hydrographic Bureau wave observations describing wave lengths and heights.
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Marine Corps
Navy
Hydrographic Bureau
Washington
Atlantic
Deserted wife tracks eloped pair to florist hideout
A wife in Iowa, pursuing her Maine eloping husband and neighbor’s spouse, spots a lawn sign reading Rosalie in a rural town. She urges her horse through a gate and finds the guilty couple at a skilled florist’s residence, ending the pursuit.
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Iowa
Maine
Rosalie
Wedding Gift Bonds Held By Father In Law In 1940s
Clarence A Posley, a West Point graduate, wed Dr Sterling's daughter in New York. The father presented $100,000 in United States bonds as a wedding gift and kept the money with himself during the couple’s wedding journey, where it remained.
Doctor’s dig for antiquities ends with graveyard tale
Dr Sterling’s death last January leaves property to his daughter and a $100,000 bequest to the son in law disputed by a friendly suit won by Posley in New York. Dr Samuel A Gree, famed Massachusetts health board member, once dug in a mound on Mount Desert misled into a local graveyard mystery involving Higgins children.
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Sterling
Posley
New York
Samuel A. Gree
Massachusetts State Board of Health
Mount Desert
Green
Secretaries and mistaken identity spark embassy of titles
The Whitehall Review recounts a brass faced secretary mistaken for Mr Jones by a visitor claiming to be Lord Randolph Churchill. A later scene with Prof Langston impersonating Thaddeus Stevens causes Judge Black to retreat, showing a comedy of errors in high circles.
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Whitehall
Jones
Statesman
Lord Randolph Churchill
Joan M. Laneston
United States Supreme Court
Garfield
Jeremiah Black
Langston
Thaddeus Stevens
Black
Jerry’ Black
Thad’ Stevens
Raising the Dead and Life After Death Questions
Dr Richardson in the Ascleprad discusses death, revival by artificial circulation and respiration. A dog revived one hour five minutes after death from chloroform. frogs revived after nine days. Methods include pumping warm oxygenated blood to match arterial pulses, hydrogen peroxide aiding reanimation, suggesting drowned or suffocated people may not be hopelessly dead if organs and blood remain viable. South.
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Richardson
Two Women Watch Ship Sail From A Hill
From the New York Ledger a quiet scene unfolds as two women gaze toward the sea. One mourns a potential loss of her son while the other holds hope of reunion. They wave kerchiefs as a distant vessel sinks from view, and twilight settles with prayers for safety and return.
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New York Ledger
Lida a servant girl and her unspoken burden
Lida, a simple servant girl with refined upbringing, works in a city household under Mrs Simpson. She endures poverty, homesickness, and silent suffering, supporting a family while her efforts go unacknowledged until illness and neglect lead to a quiet, unrecorded death.
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Lida
Mrs. Simpson
Belle
Maud Simpson
Mother
Benny
Father
Mistress
Harper Hospital
Tida
Potter’s Field
Detroit Free Press
Cat delivers mice to master and rescues house fire
A cat delays dinner yet brings a mouse to the master's plate then another, signaling care. In Holywood area a cat in a servant's wing claws a sleeping maid, wakes others with the smell of smoke, and the blaze is put out.
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Holywood
What Women Lack and Other Reflections
A short quoted meditation on gender and humor cites George Eliot about tastes straining affections. The piece invokes a Longman's Magazine line and notes a bird and seed metaphor for ideas spreading across continents. It ends with a remark on Tartary controlling much of the world’s cornfields.
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George Eliot
Jess
Longman’s Magazine
Reminiscences of Public Men by Den Perley Poore
A look back at 1826 House debates on refurbishing the White House with billiard gear and Adams politics. Includes Clay stories, Jackson support, Randolph encounters, and the shift of Washington news culture from downtown to uptown hotels and press offices.
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Carson
Congress
North Carolina
House of Representatives
White House
J. Adams, Jr
IL. Kerraud
B. F. Pomeroy
P. Thompson
House
Adams
Virginia
Pathor Ritchie
Tenth Legion
Jackson
Clay
Ghent
Benton
Southwest
Christendom
Washington
Republic
New Orleans
John Mandolph
Russia
John Quincy Adams
Milton
Salmasius
Randolph
Tristam Burges
Rhode Island
Burges
Andrew Jackson
Mr. Adams
Isaac Hill
New Hampshire
Sam Houston
Tennessee
Lewis and Clark
Pacific Coast
Jefferson
Adam
Major Macrae
Alabama
Mobile
Taylor
New York Tribune
Munerae
Seward
State Department
Nicholas Hotel
Pendleton
Crockford
Prindle’s
Frank Taylor
Brown's
National
Associated Press
Todd’s
Brown’s
Whitehurst
Pennsylvania Avenue
Fourteenth
E Streets
Corcoran
Fifteenth
I’ Streets
Larry” Gobright
Journal of Inebriety Views Alcohol Effects on Brain Centers
The Journal of Inebriety argues that cumulative alcohol action on brain centers is greater than commonly believed, noting many men who drink regularly through.
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The
Journal of
Cuban Railways In Cuba a glimpse of life on two Havana routes
Matanzas correspondent chronicles Cuba’s railway scene with a two line Havana to Matanzas system. He notes high fares, a long route taking two and a half hours, and the short route costing about a dollar fifty. First class cars are sparse, while third class reveals Cubans, ne vroes, and Chinese workers mingling with soldiers and tourists. Chickens ride under seats, vendors flood stations with fruits, cheese, and lottery tickets, and even lightning bugs intrigue visitors. A Chinaman rings a bell to start the train while a placard announces Proxima Estacion in Spanish at the car’s forward end.
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Cuba
Havana
Matanzas
Cienfuezos
India
Burmah
Europe
New England
Nevroes
United States
Electric
New Orleans
A Farm Bigger Than Rhode Island
Col Webb notes J. B. Watkins as the remarkable owner of the nation’s largest private farm, 1,200,000 acres in southwestern Louisiana. Watkins, a self-made man, built wealth across Kansas and beyond, now reclaiming marsh land with vast ditching works along a 100 mile coastal belt and driving rapid canal construction amid a push to promote cultivation and defend against land grabbers.
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Col. Webb
St. Denis
J. B. Watkins
United States
Louisiana
Rhone Island
Narragansett Bay
Western College
Kansas
Lawrence
Dallas
Tex
Lake Charles
New York
London
Texas
Fragments of Quotes From a Smoking Habit Parody
A humorous exchange from a Texas newspaper piece highlights Mose Schaumberg, Austin merchant, asking his wife for her photograph to paste in his cigar case while she refuses, noting the expense of his habit. The text also ponders sacrifice, noting many talk of small sacrifices while a great man can give up everything and say nothing.
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Mose Schaumberg
Austin
Vexas Siftings
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Church of England
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Caronick Hrary Darn
Montreal
Dominion Steamship Company
Ace
Den
Perley Poore
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