Pension expansion eyed adding twenty thousand to rolls
The new pension legislation is projected to add 20 010 pensioners and cost about 2 500 000, per the pension commissioner. Other notes include village reports of a cracked church bell in Schieithein Germany dated 1462 and consular rules barring officers from reporting private business reputations. Paris hotel prices soar as exhibition crowds swell.
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Duchess of Fife Diary Quotes Queen Victoria On Dislikes
The diary quotes Victoria saying she has no dislikes in old age. It notes Charles Napier once said he dislikes no one but would break bones with a broomstick, then claimed it was not his mind and that he is a child in God’s hands.
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Real worth lasts as states honor figures after death
A father recalls naming his son for Colonel Blank before his history unfolded. Senator Hoar, at a Statuary Hall statue ceremony, urged delaying honors until subjects have been dead fifty years. The remark reflects a view that a person’s record and public esteem change over time.
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Hoar
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A Romantic Bowling Green Marriage Sealed By Promise
In Bowling Green Ohio Harrison Cheney about seventy wed Agnes May eighteen in a marriage born of a long promised arrangement. Cheney cared for a dying lover and later for her child who grew up to marry before Cheney fulfilled the promise with this union. A New South Wales case ruled a former prisoner may sue a minister over damages for injury while jailed.
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Harrison Cheney
Agnes May
Cheney
Pennsylvania
The Husband Who Cooks Delights and Dares
A Baltimore News piece recounts a humorous complaint from a woman about her husband who loves to cook. He dons the chef’s role at night, causing smoke and scorched meat, while the household endures the culinary catastrophe and moral support from the wife. The mock confession ends with praise for the rare husband with cooking zeal.
Bakers in the Middle Ages and London bread controls
An English technical journal item outlines strict regulation of bakers in London medieval times. It notes fixed loaf sizes, shop sale limits, bans on baking at night, oven heating with fuel, and lending flour to others. It describes bread grades from simnel to tourte and their social meanings.
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Iowa
London
Prince of Wales Refuses Album Writing in Jest
The Gem recounts the Prince of Wales playfully declining to autograph a lady's album. He jokes that verses written for the album were later sold to fund a Stuart restoration effort and quips that writing in the album could fund abolishing the monarchy.
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London Daily News
A Boer Campaign Romance Continues at New Kelso
Bluebell refuses Moore's marriage proposal as Boer advances loom. Moore tries to woo her, but she stays loyal to her father and country. A sudden insult to Sam at the stables sparks Bluebell's anger and foreshadows conflict.
I will not marry him father Bluebell refuses Moore
Bluebell Leslie confronts her father Adam Leslie over an arranged marriage to Gerald Moore. He threatens ruin and exile unless she complies, while she insists she will not surrender to a life with a man she despises and distrusts. Bluebell retreats to her room as the dispute continues.
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Philadelphia merchants praised for frank advertising
The Frank Advertiser notes a Philadelphia ad showing a $4 hat advertised at $3.50 with the line What do you get when you buy a $4 hat at other stores Stuck. The piece cites that such candid breaks appear across major papers, suggesting bold merchandising compared with New York ads.
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New York Sun
Escape Report Reveals False Marriage Claim
A gaunt muscular woman entered a Utah county seat city hall to check if Jack Peters was married. The clerk finds John Peters had a license two years earlier to wed Eliza Waters. The woman declares she is Eliza Waters and confirms Jack Peters has escaped.
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Jack Peters
John Peters
Lize Waters
Eliza Waters
Lize
San Francisco
Theatrical agents scour foreign markets for attractions
A witty remark from Puck questions the efficiency of New York theatrical agents who seek new plays abroad while implying many already secured works deserve closer inspection. A humorous note then comments on a near sighted woman misreading bargain advertisements during laundry.
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