Notable elderly friends and historic figures noted in brief
The item lists longtime locals and notable figures including David Hurt, G S Morgan aged 91 and 93 in Sut ton New Jersey. It mentions William Y Shearer Berks County justice of the peace since 1864 and his ninth commission next year. It records Pedro Alvarez a.k.a Mexican Croesus facing debt and lease of his mine. It notes Captain John Ryan veteran with a cane from three wars. It mentions Thram C Matthews in Derry NH receiving a 60 year old merchants letter of recommendation. Claude Trent Princeton Mo weighs 215 pounds and cannot fit in ship boilers. Chief Justice Fuller turns 75 in February and will complete twenty years as chief justice before the next election. Baron Speck von Sternburg German ambassador and Baroness go to Europe with Carnegie Scotland and a new farce Just Like a Man. The Pride of Jerico revival with James K Hackett and Marie Doro success in London. Felice Morris to appear in vaudeville The Old Old Story.
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Sutton
N. J
David Hurt
G. S. Morgan
Berks County
Squires
Wiliam Y. Shearer
Pedro Alvarano
Americaa
John Ryan
West Newton
Mass
Thram C. Matthews
Derry
N. H
Tryde Park
Mr. Matthews
Claude Trent
Princeton
Fuller
Supreme Court
Baron Speck von Sternburg
Europe
Baroness von Sternburg
Washington
Scotland
Andrew Carnegie
Modes of the Moment in Summer Gowns
Brooklyn Hagle notes the season’s dresses feature taffeta hems on white net waists, pink French touches, pink satin velvets for waist trim, and velvet bows at the front yoke. Drop skirts are sewn to the skirt to ensure even length.
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Brooklyn Hagle
Home Notes for Daily Household Care
Practical tips for daily upkeep including skin care reminders and food storage. Instructions cover keeping sandwiches moist with paraffin paper and tins, protecting furniture with tin foil under vase doilies, hanging a broom to preserve pliancy, and removing paint stains with turpentine and ammonia.
Poets' Club Forms To Revive Versemaking
English notes recall candlelit houses and chandeliers before 1834. A new Poets' club forms to revive verse. A London manuscript titled The Widow of the Wood is cited as curiosa, written by Browning's father. Road maintenance costs soar with traffic. Nottingham roads show ten vehicles now versus one twelve years back.
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House of Commons
London
Poets’ Club
Tondon
Robert Browning
Nottingham
Plays and Players Strongheart in stock company cast
Strongheart is adopted by stock companies and John C. Rice along with Sally Cohen are announced as cast members stepping into new stage roles.
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John C. Rice
Sally Cohen
The Ducking Stool
The text recalls eighteenth century English practice where a convicted scold was paraded to a pond and placed in a ducking stool. She was submerged repeatedly until the crowd judged her tongue had cooled, emerging chastened and penitent for future conduct.
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England
London
Susan B. Anthony Fined for Voting Case Remains Unpaid
A Chicago judge recalls Susan B. Anthony who was fined $100 for voting for General Grant. Anthony defended herself before the court claiming she owed creditors over $1,000 and pledged her arm rather than pay the fine, a penalty never enforced as she lived many years afterward.
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Susan B. Anthony
General Grant
Chicago
Anthony
Miss Anthony
Baltimore American
Deadly Indian Cobra Alarms Observer With Timing
An English official observed a cobra bite a fowl and timed the venom's effect. The bird screamed within seconds, then calmed as it moved, with red comb and wattles turning dark. Within two minutes it staggered and died after three and a half minutes. Wound near the wing tip showed dark coloration.
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India
The Bribe That Failed
Father Dempsey offered a six month abstinence incentive to Delaney among his boarders. Delaney boasted he could abstain and write a larger check, calling himself a No. 1 mechanic, as recounted by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
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Father Dempsey
Delaney
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Rapid Rhymer in action at London theater
The dramatist and poet George MR. Sims watched a new piece produced at a leading London theater. He then wrote a verse length critique in rhyme. As the paper neared press time a boy delivered the poem verse by verse from Sims to the composing room, walking between them for an hour.
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George MR. Sims
London
Sims
Governor Chamberlain Wins Oregon Senate Primary
Oregon Governor George E. Chamberlain, a Democrat, won the state’s U.S. Senate primary as Republicans swept other offices. The legislature, largely Republican, would elect a Democrat to the Senate, creating an unusual split and a pledge-based chamber dynamic.
Lady Mary tilyn Responds In Burned Servant Incident
In Peterborough infirmary the bishop of Peterborough's wife Lady Mary tilyn comforts a burn victim as an evangelist accosts her with a pile of tracts asking if she is saved. She answers dryly that a bishop’s wife can expect to be saved.
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Mary Tilyn
Peterborough
Lady Mary
London Globe
Colonel Stewart Case Highlights Tension in Army Ranks
The War Department moved Colonel William E Stewart from Florida to Fort Grant Arizona after he refused retirement. Officials label him temperamentally impossible, with reports that officers and enlisted men struggle to work with him. Stewart, a California native, will retire for age in 1911 if not elevated to brigadier general.
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William E. Stewart
Coast Artillery Corps
U.S. A
Stewart
Florida
Fort Grant
Arizona
War Department
William F. Stewart
California
Elastic conscience case upsets governor race and jury
Promoter Truesdate Scott is acquitted of misappropriation after a political battle. Prosecutor Rowland Ruddock loses influence and the case unfolds amid a gubernatorial contest. Margaret Cushman, Scott’s wife, confronts Ruddock about exerting elasticity in duty to convict.
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Truesdate Scott
Rowland Ruddock
Scott
Ruddock
Ruvklock
Law School
Margaret Cushman
Margaret
Douge
Aoman
Deire
Studdock
Linesdale Scott
Planus
Tam
Truesdale Scott
Blunder of a British Clerk Shaped Revolutionary War Outcome
The piece notes that a copied dispatch error by a British clerk helped misdirect Burgoyne's plans. Poor timing and delays led Howe to act independently, allowing Burgoyne to be trapped and forced to surrender at Saratoga, a turning point in the American Revolution.
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Real Britain
Burgoyne
London
Mohawk
Studson
Lake Champlain
Oswego
New York
Albany
Hudson
Willian Trowe
New England
St. Leger
Canada
William S Tawe
George Germaine
Reading
George
America
Howe
Washington
Philadelphia
Saratoga
Chicago
Soap Bubbles Showcase Delicate Blowing Techniques
An article in Windsor Magazine explains step by step methods to make large bubbles. It covers preparing a castile soap solution, blowing six inch bubbles from a pipe, and stacking six to twelve bubbles inside one another with a wet straw technique.
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Windsor Magazine
Meredith Nugent
Advertising and the merchants in the advertising age
Mark Twain and advertising are used to illustrate the rise of mail order and catalog circulation. The piece argues catalogs and home newspapers drive local trade and urges merchants to embrace advertising to compete with mail order giants and avoid losing customers.
No Tears Nor Hills
A quip about Tears and Hills told to Bishop Rowley Hill of the Isle of Man. A clergyman with the surname Tears bids farewell, noting a future meeting in heaven. The bishop replies that heaven lacks Tears, and the parson retorts that paradise has plains but no hills.
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Rowley Hill
Isle of Man
Goodby
Plains of Paradise
London
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the Hall OF Fame
Jerico
James K. Hackett
Marie Doro
Felice Morris
Felix Morris
Chamberlain
Charles W. Fulton
Oregon
Roosevelt
George E. Chamberlain
Colonel Stewart
Irene C. Adams
Mark Twain
Enterprise
Virginia City
Nev
Mark
Sam Clemens
United States
Postat
Messures
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