Montt Chosen President of Chili by Liberal Electors
The Liberal party electors in Chili select Admiral Don Jorge Montt as President for five years. Inauguration is set for December 26 and Montt is viewed as a unifying, decisive figure likely to expand executive power while stabilizing relations with the United States.
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Liberal Party
Chili
Don Jorze Montt
Admiral Montt
United States
Balmaceda
Don Jorge Montt
Chill
London
Montt
President Fonseca Declares Dictatorship in Brezil Crackdown
Martial law proclaims, troops patrol Rio streets and public buildings. Censorship bars telegraphic messages as President Fonseca asserts executive prerogatives and clashes with Congress over acts of dictatorship amid riots and opposition.
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Devoro da Fonseca
Brezil
DE Fonseca
Congress
Senate
Rio
Searmy
Fonseca
Req Fonseca
Max O Rell on America and Irish roots in witty critique
The piece profiles Max O Rell aka Paul Broud arriving in London with a suave manner and sharp notes. It cites his Irish ancestry and pilots his views on gender and society comparing France America and England and ends with his wish to be an American woman.
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Max O’ Rell
London
Ireland
France
Senet
John Bull
America
RAF
Jonathan
Mustache and Character and Other Dialogues
A collection of brief humorous and ethical notes. The text discusses a pie scene where a wife responds to taunting about her cooking. It then pairs a barber column on mustache influence with a joke about two Irishmen boasting about their married life and a boy.
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St. Antoine Street
Fannie
Detroit Free Press
National
Hancing
Clancy
O'Grady
Faith
Buffalo Enquirer
German chemist claims boot sole treatment doubles wear
A German chemist has invented a preparation that, when applied to shoe soles after finishing, allegedly increases wearing capacity from five to ten times and renders them waterproof. The right to use the coating has been sold to the Bavarian Government for army use, with tests reportedly successful in German service.
Reed Now: Bath Woman Falls Through Sidewalk
A stout Indian woman over 300 pounds fell through a Bath Missouri wooden sidewalk. The incident prompted the Street Commissioner to order her to walk in the middle of the street in the future. The Chicago Herald notes the event as a humorous local alert.
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Bath
Chicago Herald
Oldest Inhabited Dwellings and Aging Notables Highlighted
A fragment from a 19th century style column notes long lived people and historic items. It mentions the Van Etten house near Albany as the oldest inhabited dwelling in the United States, a plow used 115 years, and a pine board framed picture 190 years old. It also references General J. F. Farnsworth, Aunt Casey Ketchum aged 101, Stephen and Mrs Osborn celebrating 72 years of marriage with ages 101 and 92, and Julia the 36 year old oldest male in Ray county Missouri. Also mentions William W. Whelidon, editor in Philadelphia at eighty six, and his work on early American wealth history.
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Fegeburg
Washington
J. F. Farnsworth
Congress
Casey Ketchum
Crawfordville
Ind
Baltimore
Stephen Osborn
Ville
Tenn
United States
Ray County
Julia
William W. Whelidon
Keystone
Philadelphia
American Statesman
Nicknames of Great Men From Historic Figures
A fragmented list of famous US figures and their nicknames including Mad Yankee Elisha Kane and Old Rough and Ready Zachary Taylor. Other attributions cover Grand Old Man William Gladstone? and various strong monikers for Lincoln Grant Webster and Chase. The text weaves a catalog of epithets without full context.
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Elisha Kane
John A. Logan
Daniel Webster
Rebecca
A. S. Grant
Phil
Phillip Sheridan
Andrew Jackson
W. E. Giads
Honest Man
James
Richard
Benjamin
Stephen A
Ballsplitter
Abraham
Wizard
Smile Starting Fancies in a Century Notebook
Old quotes and aphorisms mock vanity and aging. Collected snippets critique work and social attitudes, with lines about aging, duty, and irony. The tone resembles a light editorial montage from several papers.
Sound Sayings and Wit on Labor and Life
The piece offers maxims on happiness and work urging action over idle talk. It warns of idle servants and the danger of revealing weak spots, stressing that only the active savor life and know the value of labor.
Sunday Reflections On Pride And Fate In Machiavellian Aphorisms
A collection of pithy maxims reflecting on pride, practicality, and fate with quotes about art, pockets, coats, tongues and a jab at the mill of the gods, citing the New York Herald.
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Jove
Mber
N. Y. Herald
Lessons in Etiquette for Social Graces
A compact guide outlines simple etiquette tips. It covers presenting flowers by buying them, accepting dinner invitations, and eating a light breakfast with no lunch. It explains leaving a room by stepping with the right foot, then rolling the door shut, and declining invitations with a brief apology and mailing a letter.
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Mall i
Odd Romance Snippet From Pul Music and Drama
A humorous fragment quotes a little man calling his sweetheart Tot and a woman declining flowers candy or babies. It also notes a man unable to afford a theater outing yet ordering a case of wine in a playful Pul Music and Drama item.
Monument Marks First Camden and Amboy Railroad Track
A granite monument unveiled in Bordentown New Jersey on November 12 marks the 1831 laying of the first track between New York and Philadelphia by the Camden and Amboy Railroad Company. The monument features a bronze bas relief from the Amboy locomotive John Bull, now preserved as a historic symbol of early rail travel.
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Begum
Bordentown
N. J
New York
Philadelphia
Camden and Amboy
Amboy
John Bull
England
Stevens
Suse
Newcastle-on-Tyne
Chestnut Street
Cripps
Robert L. Stevens
M. P
M. E. Green
Hoboked
New Jersey
Mme. Murat
Prince Murat
Napoleon Bonaparte
WeGroes Returning to Africa with Liberia Voyage
The trim bark Liberia under Capt Page sails from New York for Monrovia and Sierra Leone carrying seventy two passengers including four white professors to establish an industrial school in Monrovia and sixty eight Southern colored refugees seeking independence and citizenship away from oppression. Rev. Robert ONeill leads the party asserting blacks belong in Africa where God intended freedom and self rule.
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Liberia
Page
New York
Monrovia
Sierria Leone
Tennessee
Cat Fleida
Georgia
Piorda
New York City
Robert O'Neill
Florida
Africa
America
Mr. O'Neill
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Wasl
Max O'Rell
Amer
Bull
Albany
Great Wen
Elmira Gazette
Atchison Globe
Boston Transcript
Columbus Post
Binghamton
Detroit Press
United Tea and Coffee Growers Association
West Front Street
M. Ulrich
Jacot
Elkwood Cafe
J. B. Miller
Dent’s Gloves
Shallock & David NO
Plainfield Produce CO
Ratitan Mills
North Avenue
R. J. Shaw
Shaw's Wine
MK Thlyr
Front Street
Park Avenue
Brown & Sharp
Sharett’s
A. M. Griffen
East Front ST
Metilor
Coal & Wised
E. H. Holmes
Lehigh Coal
Madison Avenue
O. M. Dunham’s
West Front Mreet
Derry
Det
Mana
Lam
Omertilis
Easton Mata
Red Mall
Trenton
B. R. Pope, P. M
A. D. Cook & Bro
John Johnston
South Avenue
8. E. Flower’s Art Store
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