A Woman’s Diary Tale of a Jury Trial
A witness recounts Herbert Ringland describing a sensational trial in which twelve women served as jurors. The prisoner, Thomas Adolphus Sweetword, was accused of bigamy with five wives. The verdict came not guilty after a three day deliberation, shocking the narrator who denounces it as a biased portrayal of women. Annie Stone Syekes.
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Herbert Ringland
Thomas Adolphus Sweetword
Sweetword
Annie Stone Syekes
New York by Night The Spectacle of the Lights
A portrait of Manhattan at night from river viewpoints detailing the river lights, downtown and uptown building glows, ferry and steamship activity, river and street reflections, bridges, and the poetic charm of electric illumination.
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New York
Manhattan Island
North River
Manhattan
Lower Jersey
St—B & Martin
Harper's
World's Highest Monument Cornerstone Laid in 1848
The cornerstone of the Washington monument was laid on July 4, 1848, by President Polk at a site overlooking Washington Georgetown Arlington and Mount Vernon. The marble shaft rises to 655 feet, with a base fifty five feet square and a tapering shaft above five hundred feet reaching under thirty five feet.
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Washington Monument
Washington
Georgetown
Arlington
Mount Vernon
Polk
Marble blocks and capstone details of 1884 derrick tale
The account describes 15000 marble blocks two feet thick raised by steam powered elevator within iron framing, with the aluminum capstone set December 6 1884. It notes the derrick name origin from an English hangman and mentions the word ruffian linked to the Rif pirates of Morocco.
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Derrick
Morocco
Riff Country
Humor and Philosophy in a Green Lawn World
A collection of wry maxims on smartness, seasonal chatter, and daily quirks. It contrasts sightseers who admire lawns with those who gripe at grass, hints at romance and bashfulness, and quips on wealth, gender roles, and diplomacy in tricky times.
Nerves and Heaven Essays Amid Curious Natural Observations
A miscellany excerpt covers the limits of senses and heart endurance, then shifts to reflections on heavenly love, followed by notes from Far Eastern Impressions about a heron nest and a gas lamp anecdote from early London. It blends trials of perception with curiosities of natural history and technology.
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London
Samuel Clegg
Westminster Bridge
Clegg
Royal Society of London
Rewritten Tale of Jonas and Eliza
A Washington author trades ornate description for plain facts in a published revision. The editor offers $25 for a straightforward story about Jonas who, poor, rises to wealth on Wall Street, bankrupts his father, saves Eliza from a mill pond accident, and gains paternal forgiveness before marriage.
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Washington
Jonas
Eliza
Papa
Wall Street
Washington Post
Traveling monks and their striking hats in Korea
A fragment describes a large umbrella shaped frame worn by monks in Korea. The conical hat measures about a foot and a half at the brim, tapers to a point, and is covered with rush matting. it is edged in white cotton and bound by cane. Nuns are seen with similar staff and hats.
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B F. T Hatch
M. P
A Feminine Falling on a Canadian Lake
A woman writer recounts crossing a calm lake with Indians. She speaks to prove a superstition, shouting to shatter echoes. The Indians row in silence, reaching shore safely as the leader remarks that the white woman cannot keep silent.
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Indiana Farmer
No Dissection In Jersey Reflects Legal Prohibition
The report notes that many states assume lack of friends to bargain prevents objections to dissection. It states New Jersey bans human body dissection by law, and thus no such procedures are in operation there.
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Jersey
New Jersey
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