Former Congressman Hawkhead elected to succeed late Sen ator Morgan
Alabama legislature selects former Congressman Hawkhead to replace the late Senator Morgan. The report notes various other wartime style items and incidents across the United States, including a post office burglary, labor and trade disputes, and weather and public safety notes.
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Hawkhead
Alabama
Morgan
South
San Francisro
United States
Order of Elks
General Treasury
Crystal Hall
Ontario
Peculiarities of Criminals and a Soldier’s Trouser Change
A 19th century column cites the Des Moines Register and Leader on a schoolyard boast and publicizing payoffs as a sign of advertising. It also notes police views on repeat crimes and the gambler’s urge to risk again after failure. The piece then recalls the 1828 British Army adoption of trousers replacing breeches and leggings and the saucy note about soldiers supplying waistcoats from their shilling-a-day pay.
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New York Tribune
Horse Guards
Tommy
London Chronicle
First Gas Tubes: William Murdoch’s Lantern Inventions
The British engineer William Murdoch, a Scots mining worker at Redruth in Cornwall, pioneered gas lanterns for lighting tunnels and moors. He built a bag lantern with a tube allowing gas to ignite, lighting his way home at night and earning the nickname demon of the Cornish moors.
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Wiliam Murdock
Redruth
Cornwall
Murdoch
Londo
Telegraph
Voice of the People in Georgia Press Feud
Bol Toombs denounces a Georgia back country paper mocked as Vox Populi the voice of the people at a public meeting in Marietta. The speaker inflates its scope claiming eight years of existence and a weekly circulation of 100, while calling the editor illiterate.
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Voice of the People
Bol Toombs
Georgia
Mysalve
Marietty
Vox Populi
Elder reproves drunk parishioner in Beotland tale
In a Beotland village an elder scolds a liquor troubled woman at church. The exchange ends with Sarah insisting she has fled the tempter, Emily retorts that she will not fare better with another liquor.
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Beotland
Sarah
Aweel
Ranch name Focus earns witty origin tale
The Focus notes how three sons sent home asking for a name for their cattle ranch. The reply Focus seemed odd until explained as The place where the sons raise ment. The quip reflects a rural humor from Lippincott's.
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Lippincott's
Don’t touch the canvas. Juliet may be dead in tomb
A Kansas City Independent note warns against moving a scene in which Juliet lies dead in a tomb, saying touching the canvas could let in a draft and reveal the corpse.
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Juliet
Abe
Kansas City Independent
Word lesson on imbibes ends with a usage prompt
A teacher explains that imbibes means to take in and asks for a sentence. Fanny answers with My aunt imbibes boarders, illustrating the word in context.
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Fanny
If You See It in the East Oregonian
A brief note remarks that sightings or notices in the East Oregonian are considered negligible or zero in this context, implying no additional items. The line reads as a terse editorial or snippet, offering no further details or names.
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East Oregonian
The
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