Specter and clock hands puzzles from a dawn walk
A Newcastle Chronicle note describes a witness sighting a man believed to be a wraith near a grave in a morning garden, with a camera under his arm, and explains clock hand positions on signs. The piece also cites a New York Letter on Lincoln’s death time and jokes about chess and race topics from various papers.
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English Birds Doof Song and Other Fragments
A collection of literary and natural history notes includes reflections on the English songbirds headed by the nightingale and its famed melody, followed by mentions of the skylark, woodlark, and others. interspersed are short humorous anecdotes and curiosities, including a comic tale of a prodigal son and a note on Australian convicts.
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Mistakes on the Wire Telegrapher Errors and Funny Mixups
A column recounts humorous telegraph transmission errors, including a wife’s message misread as Forget and then Forget mank, plus misreads like How’s the weather for How’s mother. It notes the strain of miscommunication on the sender and operator, with anecdotes from Chicago Herald and others.
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Shoe Index Fads and Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters
A Victorian era fragment argues shoe care as a character index and touts Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a nationwide remedy. It claims shoes reveal personality, warns against counterfeit rivals, and asserts the tonic combats malaria, dyspepsia, constipation, nervousness, rheumatism, kidney trouble, biliousness, and loss of appetite through public endorsement and medical praise.
Odds and Ends from a Distant Dispatches Fragment
A crowded jumble of curiosities and oddities spans places from Mesasan mountain to Chicago law on poisoned cigarettes and a 12 year beard in Liberty Maine. Reports mention the Blaine club in Bear Harbor Maine, a 36 by 40 inch log measuring 410 feet, prairie dog extermination in Kansas, a Chinese telegraph project across the Gobi, urban apartment trends in Constantinople, glacial effects on the Union Pacific near the Columbia river, a Browning Browning cast at Chicago’s Art Institute, cremation urn designs in Philadelphia, a Milan newspaper department inviting bill settlements, and a temporary resident list linked to debt notices.
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Russo-Roman intrigues and throne transfers in saga of Ivan
Fragmentary excerpt recounts a Romanesque power struggle where Ivan abdicates to a baptized Tart ar Khan named Sinics, then courts influence while denying withdrawal from affairs. He revives monastic charters, confiscates revenues, and seeks control of foregone incomes, hinting at broader spoliation and political maneuvering.
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Unclear Acquaintance Dialogue at Local Drug Store
An informally told incident from a Piscataquis County drug store features a talkative man describing his improvised preparation. He explains sulfur placement and a rum mixture, offering a disturbing yet nonsensical account of his plan and its intended use.
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Piscatagiss County
Lewiston Fournal
On What Greatness Depends
The quote asserts true greatness lies not in outward reach but in virtue and the energy of acting on God’s will. It emphasizes sincere love and pursuit of goodness as the measure of true greatness. Seen in The News.
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W. E. Channing
Seashore Excursion to Atlantic City Cape May and Sea Isle
An August 2 excursion offers low fare train service from Pimneburg Wheeling Pend stations to Washington and Atlantic City Cape May and Sea Isle. Tickets valid for twelve days from sale, with return on regular trains. Stops at Washington allow views of Congress and Potomac trip to Mount Vernon. Pullman cars on both journeys. Consult schedule for rates and times.
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Excursion to Niagara Falls Announces Second Tour
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad promotes a second Niagara Falls excursion on Thursday, August 2, with a first train from Washington at 5 65 p m and Baltimore at 6 00 p m. The trip includes through Pullman sleeping cars, ten day tickets with stopovers at Burdett, Watkins Glen, Geneva, Rochester, and Geneva return. Contact Charles C Seal, General Passenger Agent, Baltimore for details.
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Low Rates to Denver Excurison Tickets From East Lines
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad offers round trip excursion tickets to Denver from points east of the Ohio River. Tickets priced from $47.40 from Baltimore and Washington, valid for return on trains leaving Denver August 19, 23, and September 13. Routes include via Pittsburgh, Akron, Chicago or via Parkersburg, Cincinnati, St. Louis with double daily express service and Pullman sleeping and dining cars.
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Cowboy Attacks on Train Show Fatal Shootout Near Clarksville
A commercial traveler recalls a Little Rock and Fort Smith train holdup near Osx think where two robbers confronted passengers. The conductor shot and Kane of Little Rock was killed, a brakeman wounded, and one robber killed while another was wounded. the assailants were later captured. The traveler, Kane, barely escaped and later followed the robbers to Clarksville, Arkansas.
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