Browning, Miners and a War Time Farm Tale
A collage of historical notes covers Robert Browning’s life and influence, Hungarian miners’ strikes, Mormon activity in Georgia and Alabama, and a Western Indiana tale of Johnny Willis fending hawks and groundhogs. Interleaved are Civil War recollections of Mrs. Mayes and a comic army pocket-book joke involving Col. Hayes and a soldier.
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Mayes
Torent
Twenty-third Ohio
Washington
Chivelia Sealer
Ste
Olin Pavetas
Ballie
Hiyoe
Virginia
Uncle San
Mex. Hayes
Col. Hayes
Mrs. Hayes
Tate
Cal Hayes
Hayes
State Regulation urged by Dr Grnudden on Railroads
Dr Washington Grnudden urges state regulation of railroads and claims the darkest page in American history would be any record of railway managers corrupting courts and legislatures.
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Washington Grnudden
Mechanical voting cards described with punched holes
A Pittsburg American Manufacturer article details a device using punch cards to classify voters by race and birthplace. Cards are 6 by 3 inches, holes in each position trigger mercury circuits and numeric counters, with electrical sorting into groups or states for tallying.
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Pittsburg
Unpublished 19th Century Snippet Dialog Reveals Parlor Humor
An excerpt from New York Weekly presents a cheeky exchange about family money and marriageable daughters. A young man greets a Dick with playful mischief while a peddler hawks Doctor Fooler's Splice Root Bitters, breaking into a boarding-house scene with sharp humor.
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New York Weekly
Fooler
Tomo
Jay
New York
Superstitions and the Evil Eye Across Cultures
A historical note surveys beliefs in the evil eye from Naples to England, China, Japan, and beyond. It links infant protection practices, praise offerings, and luck to a shared fear of misfortune, with anecdotes on reactions to compliments and how opinions differ by class and region.
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Tus
Honma
Italy
Carniola
Coll
Fenlotin
Naples
Itty
China
Japan
England
Dana
London Saturtay Review
Impeachment and Jury Rules Spark Alien Domiciled Trial Debate
An ancient English privilege allows aliens charged with crime to demand juries with half foreign members. A recent trial revealed a French juryman could not understand English, undermining the proceedings and the verdict.
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England
Madero
Vision of Wendell Johanson hair of snow gains believers
A Swedish born young woman in Minneapolis, Wendell Johanson, reports a divine dream that her hair turned white as snow after a vision of heaven, a mark she and locals say signifies a Christ chosen life. Neighbors, a doctor, and clergymen corroborate her changed appearance and spiritual witness.
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Mise Johanson
Minneapolis
Ellie
Wendell Johanson
Minneavene
Cuilen
Pearly Gates
Miss Johanson
Polk Street
Phoebe Dall Plain
Dell Plain
Frank EB. Rea
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Sweden
Jerusalem
Misa Johanson
Mixes Johanson
Christ
Minneapolis Tribune
Lost Arts lecture hints at Roman cup miracle
Lat Arte describes Wendell Phillips speaking on the Lost Arts. A tale of a malleable glass cup from Roman times is told as banishment and return to Rome during Tiberius era. The cup is crushed on marble but not brazen, bent back with a hammer into a tape, then restored.
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Met
Spain
Wil
Elizabeth
Mark Ducarlot
Myrmecides
Artiona
Cornelis van Drebble
London
Scott
Richard Coeur de Lion
Salindin
Sandin
Richard
Saladin Cave
Saladin
Giese
Calcutta
Pittsburg
Wendell Phillips
Rome
Tennis Costume Extender Dinney in Green Silk Stockings
A London Court Journal item describes a tennis costume ensemble in gray green silk and buttercup embroidery. The outfit includes green silk stockings, pigskin shoes, a divided petticoat, a light bodice, and a green verger jacket with embroidered edges, all styled for freedom of movement in a tennis dress.
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Dinney
London Court Journal
Massachusetts Father’s 1 Cent Per Sack Contract Fails
A Massachusetts father promised his son a penny for every sack the boy captured in a Fourth of July effort. By the day’s end the child had 640 bags and the father paid $1.49, but the contract did not continue beyond that.
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Massachusetts
Trichinatis, Ranham and Bolognas Diet Favorites Die
Joseph Palmi of New York City died at Bellevue Hospital after contracting trichinosis. His muscles were infested with parasitic worms, reflecting a long history of eating those sausages.
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Joseph Palmi
New York
Bellevue Hospital
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Tiliudatry of Public Instruction
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