Lincoln Kin in Berks County Ties to Boone and Hanks
In Eastern Pennsylvania a Lincoln kinship network traces Abraham Lincoln’s Berks county forebears to Mordecai Lincoln, with links to the Boones and Hanks families. The article notes lineage through Exeter and Exeter township, naming Mordecai, John, Thomas and Abraham Lincolns, and mentions Abraham Lincoln of Lancaster as a later resident. Mr. Lincoln, a farmer near Churchtown, is a Republican.
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Pennsylvania
Abraham Lincoln
Reading
Berks
Court House
Turnpike
Daniel Boone
Kentucky
Boones
Exeter
England
Friends’ Meeting
Churchtown
Lancaster
Samuel Lincoln
Hingham
Mass
Mordecai
New Jersey
Lincoln
Exeter Township
Berks County
William Penn
Exeter Station
Mordecai Lincoln
John
Thomas
Hannah
May
Ann
Sarah
Abraham
Lincolns
Hardin County
Thomas Lincoln
Nancy
Virginia
Nancy Hanks
John Hanks
Rockingham County
Miss Hanks
Lancaster County
White Hall
Caernarvon Township
Mordecaii
Mordecais
Abrahams
Johns
Thomases
Boone
Hanks
Shenandoah Valley
Old Barbarian and the Corset Lore in a City Office
A gray, obliging merchant prince discusses corsets in from France as a clerk asks about a shipment. The piece surveys money laundering, peeped husbands, and a satirical tale of vanity in a neighborhood, ending with a blunted exchange about love and checks.
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Fourth Street
France
A Love Match at the Stovetop
Chance Depew and cronies discuss a Chicago marriage between the Duke of Badenbroke and Miss Spondulix. One declares the match love driven by money and notoriety, while Chance asserts they married for love and knows both parties.
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Chance Depew
Acker, Merrall & Condit
Duke of Badenbroke
Miss Spondulix
Chicago
Chance
Duke
Shelter and Clothing for Mankind
The passage notes vast disparities in living conditions worldwide with 500 million well clothed and 250 million having virtually no shelter. It discusses factory ventilation, citing air quality impacts on worker output and simple methods like turpentine or acetate ether misting to purify air in workrooms.
College boy saves nearly a dollar and a half
A column of remarks notes a parent asking about a son in college and the reply praising frugal living. The exchange highlights the boy saving almost eighteen cents daily from his last month allowance, reflecting thrift values and small but steady savings.
First Born's Narrow Escape Haunts Harrowed Father
In the Cleveland Leader an anxious father questions fate after his infant narrowly avoids disaster. Veronica consoles George as they recall the moment the baby peeked from the stairs and a fall was narrowly averted. The couple finds relief with their sleeping child in the crib.
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George
Darling
Veronica
Cleveland
Black leopard at the Zoo hints at rare color form
The London Graphic reports a jet black leopard kept in the lions' house at the Zoo. Visitors overlooked the animal perched atop a tree trunk, head fixed against the wall, waiting for feed then snarling. The creature, alive but solitary, may soon be moved back as it arrived on approval with a mate that died or proved unmanageable.
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Lions’ House
London Graphic
Massachusetts Supreme Court fines two Worcester papers for contempt
The court affirmed the trial ruling that Gazette Company of Worcester and Telegram Newspaper Company of Worcester violated court proceedings by publishing material about an offer to Loring in a Holden railroad crossing case. Each newspaper was fined $100 for likely obstructing justice.
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Massachusetts Supreme Court
Supreme Court
of Gazette Company of
Worcester
Telegram Newspaper Company of
Commonwealth
Loring
Holden
Gazette
Telegram
Monstrous Walnut Log Shipped From Michigan Cass County
A Mishawaka correspondent notes a black walnut log section from Cass county Michigan. Fifty one trees were bought for 10000 dollars cash. The 100 feet long, 22.99 feet circumference, 7 feet diameter section dwarfs several others in the clump. Five men can encircle the tree with extended arms. Most trees have been felled and are being cut up for shipment to England.
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Mishawaka
Ind
Cass County
Michigan
England
Remedies for chilblains and corns with a hook swinging note
The text offers home cures for chilblains using lemon and salt, a compound ointment with almond oil Venice turpentine lanoline and beeswax, and a corn treatment with permanganate boracic acids and soap. It then describes a hook swinging ceremony in India where a devotee is bound to a rope and raised as others spin a lever, tearing flesh without flinching.
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Venice
India
Oout-Of The-Way
Unverified Home Remedy for Cure Mentioned
A remedy suggests timeframes for a cure and lists preparations including salicylic acid and Indian hemp dissolved in collodion as steps to take if a cure is not achieved.
Typhoid Deaths Compared in Philadelphia and New York
A Philadelphia Ledger comparison shows typhoid deaths nearly as high in Philadelphia as in New York last year, despite New York’s population being more than three times larger.
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Quaker City
Philadelphia Ledger
Philadelphia
New York
New Doctor Neighbor With a Name That Hurts Business
A riddle hints at a physician moving next door whose surname would ruin his practice. The clue reads like a pun on a provider’s name. Phil Graves is the suggested character, implying a grave impact on reputation.
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Span
Spick
Phil Graves
Hindoo belief leads to perilous rite ends in tragedy
After the swinging, the man was taken down more dead than alive and carried off by his friends. The text notes that adherents often become intoxicated before performing the rite.
Private Grave Yards and Chinese Burial Customs
The article notes China lacks large cemeteries as families maintain expansive private graveyards. It argues land is largely dedicated to the dead, reflecting burial worship as a central aspect of Chinese religion.
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China
Municipal Gas Works Owned by Over 200 Towns
Report notes more than two hundred municipalities across England Scotland and Ireland have taken ownership of their gas plants. The shift marks a widespread move toward publicly owned energy infrastructure.
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England
Scotland
Ireland
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