National body directory listing officials and district reps
The Telegraph Directory lists national and state officers including Governor Holcomb Lieutenant Governor James E. Tait Secretary of State Win P Porter Auditor John Cowell Attorney General J B Meserve and others. It also shows senatorial and representative districts with listed names and roles across departments and boards.
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Overnor
Holcomb
James E.a
Tis
Win
Porter
John Cowell
J.B. Meserve
Methodist Episcopal and Catholic Services and Local Lodges
Community church services listed for Methodist Episcopal and Catholic congregations with Mass times and Sunday services. Also includes dense roster of local fraternal orders and lodge meetings with dates, officers, and meeting nights for groups like Royal Neighbors, Rebecca Thrice, Good Community orders, and Masonic affiliated bodies.
Oddities in Wills and a Miners of Morality
A survey of strange bequests shows a man leaving 1000 pounds to Agassiz and a plan to tan his skin into leather for a dramatic drum. Other wills include a Polish landlord’s posthumous opening game and a widow’s cap saga. Also depicted are reflections on women’s nature, a Nietzsche quote, and a practical minnow trap description from the New York Sun.
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Sanborn
Republic
Professor Agassiz
Warren Simpson
Bonker, Hill
Pittsburg
New York
Elbe
John Underwood
Horace
Milton
John Cuterwood
Glasgow
Elizabeth
Sydney Dickenson
New York Sun
Mies D and Angelina on marriage and brains
The dialogue mocks marriage with Mies D minus Angelina debating Lieutenant Y. The exchange highlights lack of brains, inapt skills, and the joke about keeping a husband in an aquarium as a witty quip from London Tit-Bits.
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Mies D
Angelina
Lieutenant Y
Mies A
London
Swear at Your Wife in Latin Prompted by Tribune
A fragment quotes a Chicago Tribune line where a man says John Henry should be home with his family and jokingly suggests Latin swearing. The dialogue includes a shrug and the phrase Honi soit qui mal y pense.
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John Henry
Chicago Tribune
Curious vegetarian crocodiles of Lake Chiuta reported
A British official notes Lake Chiuta crocodiles as strictly herbivorous, unlike true crocodiles, with tracks found miles inland suggesting root foraging. Natives claim they travel overland in winter. Efforts planned to obtain a specimen, per London Tablet.
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George Hoare
British Central African Protectorate
Locl
Lake
Chiuta
London
Versailles encounter reveals Bismarck with Arnim and scent
Lord Odo Russell visits Bismarck at Versailles and finds Count Harry Arnim, nicknamed the Ape, in a closeted room. Arnim fans himself and speaks of Havanas, while Bismarck sits near an open window as Arnim’s perfume overwhelms the air.
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Versailles
Odo Russell
Bismarck
Harry Arnim
Arnim
Russell
Osmium the heaviest metal and its rare uses
The article notes osmium as the heaviest metal with a gravity of 22.477, details its resistance to fusion, nonmagnetic properties, and potential uses in bearings, plus its alloy with iridium. It also references Joly and Moiseau on high temperature treatment and mentions popular science notes on the Great Chicago Fire with a vivid hat and shoe shower image.
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Smithson Tennant
Joly
Moiseau
Popular Science Monthly
Charles F. W. Mieglatz
Chicago
St. Nicholas
Mr. Mieglatz
Enys
Wells Street
Washington and
Randolph
Lake Streets
Wells and
United States Rail System Size and Growth Noted
The piece cites 36 000 locomotives 26 000 passenger cars 8000 mail cars and 1250000 freight cars. It estimates a passenger train at 184 tons and freight trains up to 550 tons. Passenger car costs range 34000 to 50000 dollars and sleeping cars 10000 to 20000 dollars.
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United States
New York Tribune
Judge Awakened by Armed Burglars in Night
A judge woke to two armed burglars in his room. Under a pistol, he remained calm as they searched. One thief claimed a watch, the judge urged it be kept as a keepsake. The burglar overruled his motion and offered an appeal. The spokesman said the appeal was allowed and the supreme court would sustain the lower decree.
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Supreme Court
Worthington Builds First Butte Church From a Fight
The Chicago Chronicle recounts Bishop Worthington of Omaha who, after boxing and rowing in college, defended himself against a town bully in Butte Montana. Impressed gamblers pool $1,800 to support his mission, funding the town's first church.
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Bishop Worthington
Omaha
Far West
Worthington
The
Theological Seminary
Butte
Mon
Gy Henry
Sid Bill Johnson
Fle
Chicago Chronicle
Hastings Hide and Tallow Co Advertisement
Hides wanted with price quotes for all kinds salted and dry hides. No urtage or commission. goods received free at city depots and same day returns. Prices for horse, bull, elk, deer, pelts, tallow and grease listed. mail in your hide and receive same price per pound.
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Tauke
Colorado
Wyoming
Leon
Easton
Hastings Hide & Tallow Co
Origin of Kalamazoo and a Twain prank tale
The Kalamazoo legend traces the name to two ancient lovers Kahla and Mahzoo on the Grand River. A Chicago Times Herald excerpt recalls their romance and then contrasts Berlin streetcar fare antics by Mark Twain, whose tickets joke led to a $500 tale for him.
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Kalamazoo
Oshkosh
United States
Michigan
Kahla
Mahzoo
Levere
Kshla
Mahzool
Ochicago Times- Herald
Editor as community doormat vows to back town in elections
An exchange cartoon laments a editor who acts to serve the community, promising to back town interests and promote supporters while condemning opponents and personal flaws. The note brushes on political stances and personal denigration within a provocative public sphere.
Alder man Blank’s office move to the Cloudland building
In a Chicago News item Diggs probes whether Alder man Blank still holds a second floor office. Biggas confirms a move to the nineteenth floor and suggests the change came after he realized he could not win a higher office, so he rented space there.
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Diggs
Alderman Blank
Cloudland
Biggas
Biggs
Chicago News
Vienna Lottery Ruin Drives Fatal Despair
A woman who spent all her money on the municipal lottery in Vienna hanged herself. The long list of suicides linked to the lottery contrasts with citizens’ support, which officials say helps keep down taxes.
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Themelves
Vienna
Question on true earthly happiness and weather wisdom
The piece cites a soulful exchange about happiness tied to weather as a measure of comfort. It then notes Andamanese widows carry their husband's skull as a portable treasure box for valuables. It adds that fewer French ships pass Suez than German Italian or Dutch and that Chinese rice paper is made from rice straw.
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Suez Canal
Crying Child Puzzles Mother in Indianapolis Journal
A mother asks what her child is crying about and the child responds that it does not know why, creating a tender exchange captured in the Indianapolis Journal.
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Indianapolia Journal
What to Eat Omit Breakfast Meal Question
A teacher asks the class what breakfast meal is called. Several students answer oatmeal, reflecting a simple morning eating topic.
Bat with a Beak Demonstration in a Basement Shop
A Chicago Journal anecdote recounts a wise man demonstrating a bat’s poor day vision by jabbing at its eyes in a Washington Street basement shop selling butter eggs and chicken pie. The bat bites the finger, the man bleeds, and a friend notes the lesson.
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Washington Street
Chicago Journal
Homesick reply from Swedish maid echoes homesickness
A youth’s companion excerpt features a Swedish maid speaking imperfect English to her mistress about homesickness. She notes she is content with wages and kindness, yet longs not for her current place but for the place she cannot be.
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Inna
Real Henson and Brown discuss school director run
The exchange shows Brown declining to run for school director citing farm duties road work timber and party tensions plus personal reasons including his wife’s wish, while Smithera remarks on Brown’s candidacy. A London writer advertises manuscript services for aspiring authors and Europe’s coal heating usage is noted.
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Smithera
Brown
Harper's Bazar
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