Southern editors face dangers and humor in press culture
The piece surveys violent clashes with editors in Arkansas and the South, noting a Friday of deadly and brutal incidents including a Hot Springs shooting and a Searcy assault. It praises southern writers for humor drawn from local life and stereotypes, including depictions of the negro and recurring characters like the colonel and editors who relocate to Texas or Arkansas.
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Arkansas
Hot Springs
Charles Mathews
The
Hornet
Searcy
Darkey
Texas
Icelandic Settlers Fused Peaceful Life with Viking Ferocity
Blackwood's Magazine notes Iceland was settled by well to do Norse warriors who lived solitary homesteads yet formed a poet class of skalds. The Icelandic settler led a double life being a peaceful farmer at home yet a ruthless sea rover abroad, a blend of piety and ferocity shaped by harsh northern winters.
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Blackwood
S .Magasine
Iceland
Very
Norway
Peacy
Debates and Decrees in Egypt and Nearby
Reports from Alexandria Cairo and London detail Arabi Pasha papers offers from foreign officers rejected. The khedive capitalizes on amnesty plans amid court martials and decrees while British and Ottoman authorities discuss troop withdrawal and security.
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Arabi Pasha
Walsh brother hanged after jury mercy recommendation
Dusim reports a Walsh brother found guilty to the murder of Kavanagh. Jury recommends mercy for youth and there is no positive evidence he fired the fatal shot. The prisoner calls witnesses fake and is sentenced to hang on October 28. Also reports anti Jewish riots in St Petersburg with arrests. Grey released on £500 fine after judge notes improvement in Freeman's Journal.
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Caro
Cairo
Betpt
Camo
Upper
Egypt
Flegs
Dusim
Walsh
Galawap
Hes ‘Pean
Mar Gar
Cumatabie Kavansagh
Latteefract
Sles
Kavanaugh
Viewna
St. Petersburg
Destin
Lawson
E. Dwyer Grey
Justice Lawsom
The
Freeman’s Journal
Long-distance pedestrian race ends with record by Littlewood
In Bremingham on September 80 the six days pedal? pedestri an match for the Sir John Astley belt concluded. Littlewood achieved 415 miles, covering 414 in seventy hours and twenty minutes to beat the American Cobbler’s 414 in seventy-two hours. Littlewood won $250 for first, Littlewood of Birmingham second with 77 miles? and Corbett of Aberdeen third with 847 miles. Pearce of America finished sixth with 305 miles. The event ran twelve hours daily.
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Bremingham
John Astley
Littlewood
Cobbler
America
Birmingham
Corbett
Aberdeen
Pearce
Honolulu Society Grows Amid Foreign and Native Mix
The Honolulu population stands at about 10 000 with Americans making up roughly half and natives Chinese and English the rest. Merchants are mostly American and English with a few Chinese. Native numbers have fallen from 400 000 at mission times to about 30 000 today. Missionary families favored puritan limits but new settlers brought enterprise and land grants. Education and modern ideas influence locals, yielding a refined society on par with other cities.
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St. Louis
Honolulu
Islands
Blood health and Dr Guysett remedies described
An advertisement extols the bloodstream as vital and prone to disease. It promotes Dr Guysett’s Yellow Dock and Sareaparilla as a blood builder that strengthens circulation, purges poisonous humors, and renews vigor, urging readers to request it from their druggist.
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Citadel of Life
Guysett
Pocketbook Loot Sinks Man After River Rescue
A Jacksonville man traveling through Vicksburg falls overboard as his pocketbook escapes his grip. He gasps about saving the pocketbook, but the crew rescues him after the second submersion. He laments no pocketbook with the drowning.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Union
Vicksburg
Death by Own Hands Shocks City Woman Rider
The Pueblo News reports Miss Pinnee, once a rising rider from Greeley, Colorado, traveled with P. A. Baxter to Lawrence, Kansas, stayed as man and wife, then he reportedly disappeared. She bought toxine, photographed herself, wrote letters, and killed herself en route to Topeka after boarding a train.
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Pinnee
Pueblo News
Greeley
Col
Lawrence
Kansas
Piinee
P. A. Baxter
Toka
Lindley
North Lawrence
Topeka
Prinee
Miss Curtis
Unclear Claim About Dr Guysett’s Yellow Dockie
Letter from Jerry Wincner of Wiciaw Kentucky praising Dr Guysett’s Yellow Dockie as the best blood medicine. He claims it cures pimples and praises its efficacy, though the text is garbled and unfinished.
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Jerry Wincner
Wiciaw
Guysett
Catia Geel and the Weever Wolves in a Runic Rhyme
A fragmented verse describes Catia Geel leading a group called the Weever Wolves through shifting lines and a mock battle cadence. The text evokes a counting refrain and a cryptic command to let the old cat speak.
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Catia Geel
Danny Chins
Coffee praised as vital stimulant and health aid in era review
A period article defends coffee against claims of harm, citing Drs. Bock and Segar and highlighting coffee’s nervous system effects, energizing properties, nutrition, and medical uses. It extols coffee’s role in fever, asthma, and general vigor while contrasting with narcotics and stressing its safety for habitual drinkers.
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Bock
Leipsic
Henry Segar
Paris
Ple
Jomand
Voltaire
Fontenelle
Forbidden Kiss Ends Acquaintance In Harsh Rejection
A brief romance is shattered when a man kisses a woman without consent. She renounces friendship and demands he leave her life. He pleads for forgiveness and offers a final favor before departing, insisting the moment will haunt him.
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Mel
Curious photograph move shocks famed cheese maker
A renowned cheese maker demanded better pictures from a Paris photograph and criticized the proof as unacceptable. The photographer, the Ca pher, explains the image moved, prompting the remark about the cheese never behaving like that.
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Paris
Omsha Visit Includes Metropolita n Hotel Stay
Visiting party to stop at the Metropolitan Hotel located at 12th and Douglas Bates with lodging priced at 2.00 dollars per day.
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Omsha
Metropolitan Hotel
Cor. 12Th
Douglas Bates
Fragmented Southern Folklore Quip
A southern boy recalls his father’s mule with a mournful line noting one end of him was incomplete. The brief jibe hints at a rough, rustic humor from rural life and oral tradition.
Dog Collar Sparkles in San Francisco Jewelers Court
A Cincinnati party ordered a gold and silver quartz dog collar from F Badgley of 205 Mont fome Street San Francisco for 300 dollars. The item drew comment as Badgley supplies quartz jewelry to a world audience and even the British Museum agent recently sought a specimen.
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Cincinnati
Pacific Coast
F. Badgley
Montfome Street
San Francisco
Badgley
British Museum
Ee Neecity
Oregon Exchange
Phosphor browse scales conductivity vs metals
The fragment notes that phosphor has an electrical conductivity about two and a half times that of iron or steel and one third that of copper, with a reflection on fearless pursuit of honor.
Parallel Worlds of Pseudo Remedies and Hotels
A jumble of old ad lines mocks health cures and business pitches. Notes praise for hair restorers, tonics, and patent medicines, including Dr. Thomas’Eclectric Oil and Hop Bitters. It also advertises Grand Union Hotel in New York and Metropolitan Hotel in Omaha, plus quotes about vanity, virtue, and endurance.
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Petit Corporal
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Brussels
Henry M. Stanley
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Colorado
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N. Y
W. C. Beach
Buffalo Rubber Type Foundry
Pee Glenn
Hill
Pope
Redding
Daniel Pratt
Dr. Benson
Noah Bates
Elmira
Sterne
Good Baptist
Berger
Hop Bitters
Bitters
York City
Damon
Grand ON Hote
Grand Central Depot
Grand Union Hall
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Voltaic Belt Co
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Dye
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Burke
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Phantom
Lower
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Jersey City
Gilena
Adasmatic
Prem
Boston Giebs
Lenere
Irsidore
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Mn Amd
Thomas Eclectric
Foster, Milburn & CO
Buffalo, N.Y
U.S.A
Axmeyer
OLS
Ciga
Macwovery
Lanomis & Nyman
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Fearon & Cole
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Viva
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Binghamton
Binghamton, NY
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Veser St
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OVD
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Amon
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