Laling Tex Janes Town News Mixed Reports and Local Notes
Laling Texas notices report a failed printing attempt and a late feeder attendance from Geachem Institute. Contingents visit Lockhart Rancho and nearby towns. a beach observation night drew pleasant remarks. Local incidents include a gun accident and a governor lecture noted as poorly attended. Baptist church construction costs listed.
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Laling
Tex
Geachem’ Institute
Lockhart
Rancho
Marindale
Four Springs
Avairie
Smith
AL Feather
Goufm
Williams
Welker
Mull
Julbard
Gachrau
New ‘Baptist Church
Real Estate Transfers Listed in Local Record
Real estate transfers involve Prack Castignoni and wife to G B Koeake on Lakeview avenue for 1500 plus parcels on Ate Nowerantis for Forcke and Teal street. McNewton to Kaward Areias cover 67.08 acres near Gallinan creek with 16 percent tiling southwest of San Antonio. Mary Dresch to Ott Staffel includes tract near Presa, formerly Drewch home. Ophia Hartelman Adelbert Laver ito, Oto Staffel, part of block C on San Jacinto Street. Annie M Shepherd to Jolio fi includes blocks in Cite 5 with multiple lot numbers.
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Prack Castignoni
G. B. “Koeake
North Hill
Tot
Lakeview Avenue
Ate Nowerantis
Rand
Teal Street
Forks
Castigione
Fate
Waili
Black
Leal Street
McNewton
Kaward Areias
VCO
Annie M. Shepherd
Jolio Fi
Drifting Toward Eternal Harbor by Franvis A Rimkis
A reflective verse passage depicts drifting from earthly peril to heavenly rest. The speaker seeks divine guidance to avoid danger at sea and to reach a peaceful, eternal anchorage Beyond the dark river and storms the prayerful line expresses faith in a final, hazard-free voyage to a heavenly shore
Homesick Hippopotamus Reveals Affection in London Gardens
Renaissance-era column recalls Bayard Taylor visiting London gardens to befriend a starving hippopotamus. The animal showed joy when spoken to in its native dialect, proving memory and affection. The piece links this to broader notes on workers and living conditions in London shops and factories.
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Dubby Bayard Taylor
London
Taylor
Eurious
Agnite
Bayard Taylor
Boston introduces a gentlemanly valet academy
The Boston based note describes a new order among the gilded youth and a valet academy for gentlemen. It details matriculation via haircuts and shaven faces, livery, speech restrictions, and a course of menial training with daily immobility drills to achieve rigid posture and discipline.
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Boston
Jearns
Theist
Amade
Baston
Lamp lighter oversees illuminated cars on elevated rail
A New York Sun description notes a lone lamp lighter on the elevated railway who lights six ethanol lamps inside a car with practiced speed. He exits onto the station platform, ready to board the next train, as a match lights another lamp.
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New York Son
Signaling From Mars in a London Monthly Saga
The London Mortnightly Basin reports Sir Francis Gatton alleges Mars signals reach Earth. European observatories reportedly found a device recording Martian flashes with varying lengths and intervals, hinting at readable telegraphic messages if deciphered. The piece cites Sir Francis’s name to lend consideration, noting plausibility remains doubtful yet intriguing.
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Mars
Sir Francis Gatton
London Mortnightly
Earth
Sir Frank
Francis Gulton
Mara
Tarpest's Weekly
Overflowing Bodleian and Royal Family Note
A Pearsons Weekly excerpt discusses the Bodleian Library at Oxford overflowing with literature and the strain on resources as it expands into the Radcliffe Camera, Sheldonian basement, and Ashmolean basement. It notes a Paris judge in a separate vignette and a barrage of miscellany including venomous snakes and a royal birth timing mishap.
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Oxford
British Museum
Radcliffe Camera
Sheldonian
Ashmolean Museum
University
Pearson
Paris
Rother
London Telegraph
The Whaling Decimetry and Arctic Perils
The San Francisco Ware recounts the whaling industry’s trials amid declining whale stocks. Captain Green, veteran oil mariner turned recluse, sails the Reindeer to the Arctic wastes, enduring icebergs and storms. After two harsh years they sight a bowhead, then a whale school yields $60,000 in whalebones, yet misfortune shadows progress.
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Aignel Wervion
Refasg
Captain Green
Fresno
Mwain
Iui
Arctic
San Francisco
Honing Pigeons Fly Between Paris and St Denis
The article explains an ingenious method to trained pigeons to fly reliably in both directions. Pigeons from Paris are conditioned at St Denis for days then released to Paris at feeding times. they are made to fast briefly before flights and guided to arrive exactly at feeding time. Birds are taught to shuttle regularly between the two 80 mile apart points.
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Paris
St St. Denis
Seb
Liberty
St. Dente
Ba Santo
St. Denis
Binta
G. Revand
Popular Science Monthly
Made in Germany matches warned by London Truth
The piece notes imports labeled as British are used to deceive buyers. A matchbox bearing England's heroes and "Manufactured by Martin Harris & Co., Ltd." urges supporting English workpeople. Under a paper strip, investigators discover "Printed in Germany" on the box.
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Germany
London
Provinces
England
Martin Harris & Co., Ltd
Stratford
Artist Replies To Prize Notice In Funny Letter
An artist received a prize circular from a California dried fruit firm inviting entries for best design. He replied with a playful letter accusing the company of copyright and demanding payment for express charges. A separate anecdote tells of a school inspector asking a class about pilgrims, answered by a village boy with a witty misinterpretation, delighting the inspector for days.
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Arwell
California
Rnit
Gexriesex
Tom
New York
Fragmentary note hints at a family misunderstanding
A garbled excerpt references a family speaker named Dick-Paps and a discussion about an AMA, insoluble by context. The text mentions a Fel a niece and a mistaken belief about someone named Good Hove, suggesting a muddled private conversation rather than a public event.
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