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Newspaper
Plainfield Courier
Location
Plainfield, New Jersey, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1891
Page
4
A first person narrator recalls a famed detective George Markson and his rival Smollett in a London criminal chase. The tale centers on a bank robbery case from Westminster, Markson’s travels, and a tense mission to Holloway as the rival pursuer closes in.
In a damp London alley Miles helps a desperate man escape with his son after a failed crime. The father risks his freedom to shelter the boy in Liverpool, while Miles faces a damaged reputation but sees his plan succeed as Smollett remains at large.
A Turkalia resident in Livonia claims to cure hydrophobia using glowbug sized insects gathered in ly and dried in bottles. One dose mixed into bread allegedly causes fever and a three hour frenzy before the patient awakes cured. Source notes this as a sensational claim from the New York Sun.
A 19th or early 20th century reflection argues for kindness among women and critiques behaviors tied to appearance marriage and motherhood. It laments fashion and private households, urging women to value character over display and questioning the future of domestic work and family life.
A survey of royal personages including Queen Victoria, the Earl of Dudley, the czar, the Siamese king, and the empresses of Austria and Japan. Noted antics include riding bicycles and tricycles, nicknames for Emperor Wilhelm, and Japan’s pursuit of women’s education with students imitating erudition but not dress.
An assortment of figures on daily life and technology including average sleep time, cruiser power costs, electric road numbers, historical spectacle invention, Missouri print debt, U.S. wealth per capita, widow counts in cities, Philadelphia housing, and world tunnel lengths.
The fragmentary quotes explore self education, divine inspiration, greatness, standard of worth, truth in conversation, humor, wit, and the impact of moments. Notable voices include Disraeli Cicero Hazlitt Temple Bacon Thackeray.
A compact humor column contrasts road repairs with moral polish and warns against overcool reactions in danger. It ponders tramp numbers in the South due to Northern work, jokes on winter arriving on skates, and lampoons seasonal sayings with playful dialect.
A column of short, homely maxims about apology, marriage, honesty, and parenting. The writer notes a father weighing his newborn and the fear of abandonment, with a quirky line about a wife named Stephenie. Published in the Sowner ville Journal.
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