Queer Happenings From a Far North American Almanac
A collage of curious incidents from diverse locales includes a 12 year old Portland mother with a nine pound infant, a Keokuk bird impaled on a lightning rod, a Kansas woman with five husbands and a vigilante past, and odd animal and human tales from Nevada and Virginia.
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Portland
Oregon
Keokuk
Town
Marshall County
Kansas
Jared Dingman
Detroit River
Wisconsin
Samuel Hickson
Shamrock
Richmond
Provins
Paris
John Eller
Alden
Milwaukee
Chicago
Cascade Lake
Nevada
Yankton Works
Consolidated Imperial Mine
Matthew Winnie
Winnie
John B. Conyer
Palestine
Ind
Lincoln County
Putliao
Pion-Piion and His Mother in The London World
Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul, now fifty eight, bears multiple names from his father and resembles the elder Napoleon and his brothers. He stands taller than most Bonapartes, with hair only lightly grizzled and a smooth complexion. The passage notes his preference for personal comfort over public business and hints at life’s lighter handling by the subject.
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Lucien
Talleyrand
St. Augustine
Paris
Prince Imperial
Napoleon
St. Augustine's
Bonapartes
Catherine of
Jerome
Catherine
Madame Patterson Bonaparte
Martinet
Holland
Germany
Saxe-Weimar
Clotilde
Sardinia
Napoleons
Jooking
Victor Emmanuel
Pion-Piion
London
Napoleon Joseph Charles Paul
Joseph
King Frederick's Joke and the Abbot's Retort
A London Telegraph retells how Frederick the Great of Prussia sparred with a Catholic Abbot at Camenz. The Abbot sought a royal favor the king granted a bass singer and a joke ensued about naming the singer Fredericus Secundus. Frederick later conceded he had been bested in jest and never spoke of it again.
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Frederick
London Telegraph
Frederick the Great
Cament
Tobias
Camenz
Berlin
Neustadt
Dosse
Fredericus Secundus
Rain and Umbrellas, A Curious Weather Law
The New York Times notes a humorous link between carrying an umbrella and the weather. It observes that people who take an umbrella in cloudy mornings often see clearing skies, while those who go without may face rain by late morning, suggesting a playful natural law behind daily forecasts.
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New York Times
Umbrella Law Explains Weather Influence, Harkness Finds
Prof Harkness tests umbrella effect on rainfall and proposes two theories. If umbrellas absorb moisture rain diminishes. if umbrellas alter atmospheric electricity, weather shifts toward drought or rain depending on usage. Findings suggest umbrellas can modestly regulate dry and wet spells.
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Harkness
Smithsonian Institution
United States
New York
Boston
Philladelphs
Prof
Richard
Fox and His Times in Trevelyn's Early History
The review highlights Charles James Fox’s emergence amid London society’s debauchery in the Georgian era. It cites ministers, Dukes, and political figures from Grafton to Weymouth and Sandrich, noting opulent excess and nightly orgies at Medmenham Abbey and Brook’s.
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Fox
Mr. Trevelyn
Charles James Fox
Harper and Brothers
London
Duke of Grafton
Ascot
Rigby
Lord Weymouth
Earl Sandrich
Medmenham Abbey
Duke of
Queensbury
Society as a vast casino in the era of corrupt politics
The text portrays 18th century society as a pervasive gambling scene where women gamble away wealth and never demand payment, while politics mirrors vice. Junius cites corrupt ministers, Fox falls into the era’s temptations, but the figure’s reforming effort earns him a tempered regard for resisting political corruption.
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Junius
Fox
Mr. Travelyan
Wives Honored by Three Wealthy New York Men
Three rich men recall how their spouses helped them through hard times. One wife managed the household and cut costs after business failure. Another nursing wife supported him during illness and kept frugal comforts. The third wife, a keen reader and mother, crafted her own children’s dresses and preserved family care at Auburn.
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Tennyson
Byron
Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Maud
Auburn
Princess Alice and Her Husband from the Whitehall Review
In a Whitehall Review feature, Louis III Grand Duke of Hesse Darmstadt is praised as a prince and soldier. The piece notes the Darmstadt palace opposite a church, Princess Alice’s royal life, family ties to Russia and Bulgaria, and memories of tragedy including a fatal fall and diphtheria deaths.
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Louis TV
Grand Duke of
Hesse- Darmstadt
Louis III
Nimpress
Russia
Prince von Battenburg
Bulgaria
Queen Victoria
Alice —Murray
Buckingham Palace
Darmstadt
A Queer Trade Card Player In Paris Found New Occupation
France breeds odd jobs, with a man named L Amateur strolling Paris streets under a green cloth tray to entertain invalids or idle folk. He offers card, domino, and dice games for a small fee, a novel way to earn in the social shifts of Paris. The Quatorzieme, once rumored to entertain dinner parties with thirteen guests, is noted as rarer and often less profitable.
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France
Paris
L’ Amateur
Quatorzieme
Briliat-Savarin
forging a character through toil and discipline
A quote on personal development frames character as earned through effort. It urges discipline, perseverance, and active self shaping rather than dreaming. The message emphasizes work, grit, and making oneself through consistent practice and resolve.
Attorneys at Law in Sullivan Indiana Office
Attorneys at Law operate from 7 South Side in Sullivan Indiana with services in real estate and insurance. Offices overlook Sullivan County Bank and provide legal services from a local Sullivan address.
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Attorneys At
South Side
Sullivan, Ind
Attorneys Hays and Blue Public Square Sullivan Notice
John T. Hays and P. H. Blue attorneys advertise in Sullivan Indiana offering special attention to collections. Offices located at North-east corner Public Square and No 7 Commercial Row respectively.
Attorney at Law MM Buff Opens Terre Haute Office
The attorney at law announces office at 107 Maine Street Terre Haute Indiana between 4th and 5th south side. He will attend all courts in Sullivan and give undivided attention to professional business.
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Maine Street
4Th
South Side
Terre Haute
Indiana
Sullivan
Physician F Buff M D Practice in Sullivan Indiana
Dr F Buff physician and surgeon maintains office over Kellys jewelry store in Sullivan Indiana. He attends calls promptly day and night and gives special attention to chronic ailments and diseases of females.
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Kelly
Sullivan
Indiana
Physician and Surgeon in Sullivan Indiana
A physician and surgeon maintains an office above Humphrey's Grocery on the north side of the public square in Sullivan Indiana.
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Humphrey’s Grocery
North Side
Public Square
Sullivan Indiana
Testimonial on Kendall's Spavin Cure for a horse
An 1875 statement describes treating a bone spavin with Kendall's Spavin Cure. The owner claims the lameness ceased and swelling reduced, and that the horse has shown no lame symptoms or growth in the affected check points since treatment.
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Stoughton
Mass
B. J. Kendall & Co
Gents
Ouand
Kendall
Chase
Parkhr
Beast
B. J, Kendall & CO
Enosburgh Falls
Vermont
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Princess Alice
Her
Husband
The
Whitehall Review
Breas & Massie
Attorneys At Law
Young’s Store
Jean* T. Gunn
Gout Sor & Coulson
Attorneys-at-Law
Buff & Patten
McCammon
John T. Hays
Attorney At Law
Croner Public Square
P H. Blue
Commercial Row
F. Buff, M. D
W. W. Johnson
Curry & Dutton’s
North Side Square
Insurance
Fred Briggs
General Fire Life
Nga Os Me Nepati
Warner
Lormerly
Craig
Bright
Warner’s
Warner:s
Warner's
Dragygists
Kine Everywhere
Iss
H. H. Warner & Co
Roghester
N, Y
P. N. Granger
St. Albans
B. J. Kexpath
R. A. Gains
Fresburg Falls
John G. Jenne
Franzz Liszt
Theo. Thomason
Mason & Halin
Mason & Hamlin Organ Co
Wabash Avenue
George F. Hughes
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