Staten Island Count Counterfeit Ring Busted by Secret Service
The U S Secret Service under Colonel Whitley and operative Applegate break a large post Civil War internal revenue stamp counterfeiting ring. They arrest colonel Robert Clark and about a dozen conspirators after raids in New York and Staten Island uncovering stamps for cigars wallets and bank checks and a hidden room with plates and dies.
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United States
Whitley
United States Secret Service
New York
Maryland
West
W. W. Applegate
Walker
Oldbach
Washington
Broadway
Mr. Oldbach
Applegate
Secret Service Division
New England
Boston
Secret Service
Internal Revenue
John Breme
Breme
James Walker
Jack Robinson
Volney Wright
Wright
Phil Hardgrave
Hardgrave
Amity and
Mercer Streets
Chief Whitley
Nassau Street
Hart L. Pierce
Pierce
Staten Island
Robert Clark
Colonel Clark
East Thirteenth Street
Col. Whitley
Clark
Mr. Applegate
New York Regiment of Volunteers
White Spots on the Map Exploring Unknown Global Frontiers
The article surveys vast uncharted regions from Arabia and Tibet to New Guinea and South America. It cites Dahkna in Arabia as a 400000 square mile desert, Tibet’s lower Brahmaputra area, and jungled interiors of South America with fever, armies of ants, and deadly snakes. It notes minimal exploration, shifting colonial control, and rumors of hill tribe rule in the Himalayas.
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London
Germany
France
Holland
Arabia
Lord Salisbury
Africa
Sahara
Tibet
Brahmaputra
United Kingdom
Lhassa
New Guinea
Crown
Paris
South America
Amazon
Himalayas
India
Siam
The Unwise Samaritan Parable in Drab Fashion
A Puck style gag recounts a improvised biblical tale of a woman traveling to Jericho with a backless gown. A passing priest and Levite ignore her plight while a Samaritan shows indulgent concern until the woman rebukes him, illustrating that discretion is the better part of valor in a humorous misreading.
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Jerusalem
Jericho
Puck
Joke Dialogue About A Vacation Prac tice
A doctor asks a new graduate to look after his office while on vacation. The junior fears lack of experience, but the physician jokes that his practice is fashionable and sends male patients to play golf while shipping female patients to Europe.
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Europe
Quip on Dinner Host and Cellar Preference
The line humorously notes a dinner host named Blank is not known for his cellar. The respondent remarks that meals are typically served in the dining room, implying modest or practical entertaining spaces.
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Blank
Solomon and the Boastful Butterfly tale turns on a king and a wooing butterfly
A Midrash tale recounts Solomon hearing a butterfly boast of strength. The female rebukes the male, he boasts he can topple a stone palace, and the king challenges his lies. The butterfly quips that married men often speak grandly to their spouses.
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Solomon
Cleaned Out Exchange Between Grouch and Spouse
A humorous exchange shows Mrs Grouch-Oh asking if anything remains after marriage. Grouch responds calmly that nothing in the shape of a pocket remains.
Longevity and Industry in Lowell Weavers
A Lowell dispatch notes the death of the city’s oldest weaver, a 71 year old who kept working despite age and comfortable means. The piece argues textile work can sustain older workers and highlights thrift, industry, and faithfulness in New England mills, urging balanced view of factory life.
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Lowell
New England
Fall River Herald
Birth Certificate in Salt Bottle Rover of Ages
A Strand Magazine note recounts a novel birth certificate used to prove age for a pension. In one family a clear glass bottle holds the child’s name and birth date cut from a newspaper, sealed with salt and decorative salt arrangements, and stored on a dresser for over seventy years.
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England
Strand Magazine
Elephant’s Trick in Loading Steel Tubes
A British road officer recalls an elephant unloading steel tubing from a ship. After slipping twice due to oil, the elephant rolled a tube into a sand pile to pick up oil and sand together, then used his trunk to lift and carry the tube. He repeated the method for the remaining pipes without guidance from his keeper.
Writers duel to draft worst Wordsworth line
A London Daily Chronicle writer debates the finest line in English poetry and then challenges a contest to craft the weakest Wordsworthian line. He cites Prof. Churton Collins praising Swinburne and notes Tennyson and FitzGerald attempting the faux failure with “A Mr. Wilkinson, as clergyman.”
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London Daily Chronicle
Churton Collins
Swinburne
Tristan
Iseult
Chronicle
Tennyson
FitzGerald
Wilkinson
American Artist Steichen Honored for Luxembourg Museum Mural Work
Edward Steichen, the New York photographer, receives a major honor for his selection to design a large portion of the mural decorations for the Luxembourg museum in Paris.
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Edward Steichen
New York
New Luxembourg Museum
Paris
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