Terms: Fifty Cents Per Year In If Not Paid Within The Lay
An old newspaper notice item notes a payment deadline and terms of one year at a specified rate. The garbled OCR hints at a delinquency or late fee consequence but is unclear. The fragment mentions a sum of $1.50 per year and a condition if payment is not made within a given period.
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Heaven
J. Blanew White
Scientific American
Bob Ingersoll
Chicago Times
Earl of Beaconsfield
Marquis of Sa Iebury
St. George’s Chapel
Windsor Castle
London Times
CrepaRr Rapids
N. Y
Euclid
Only Me and Pet Signify in a Mother's Heart
A fragment describes a child whispering in a hall about a word tied to a pet. The response causes a sob from a mother and a sudden pang of guilt, as the child proclaims the truth with a tender, evolving bond. A Congregationalist note closes the scene.
Unknown wanderer at Scituate returns to calm haven
In mist at Scituate two mountains loom as a possible Indisman is whispered. A distant gun stroke startles, then fog thickens and the mysterious wanderer vanishes. The unknown mourners on the shore declare relief that he is at rest in the calm haven.
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Scituate 2
The Great French Duel as Told by Mark Twain
Mark Twain recounts a fictitious duel between Gambetta and Fourton in Paris. The spectacle features absurd planning, weapon debates, a sunrise clash at Plessis-Piquet, and a comic yet perilous outcome as both duelists escape injury and Twain sustains minor harms.
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M. Paul de Congnee
Paris
M. Gambetta
M. Fourton
America
Universal Brotherhood of Man
France
Mark Twain
An Iowa City Tale And Senate January Minutes
A humorous Iowa anecdote recounts a Maine visitor in Burlington about guns Indians and a fake deer story as the narrator spins tall tales. The January to February senate notes cover bills on pensions tramps banks schooling Bible teaching tax rates dog laws and Sunday sports bans with votes and committee actions.
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Senate
Committee On
House
Sturgeon
Congress
Dalzell
Covert
Poe
Owens
Committee On Soldiers and Sailors’ Orphans’ Home
Orphans’ Home
Eylar
Alexander
O Ile State Treasury
United States
Yeas
Committee On Claims
Buhl
Mr. Seifert
Mr. Sextro
Judiciary Committee
Danford
Hostetter
Darke
Sextro
Dhouse
Jackson
Clermont County
Titanum the Giant Flower Found in Sumatra
A new giant bloom named Titanum was found by Godo ardo Beccari in Sumatra. He sent six bulb roots to Italy but customs in Genoa refused entry to all living plants over Phylloxera fears. The fate of the cargo remains unknown. Small Venetian glass jars are used as pendants for watch chains.
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Sumatra
Italy
Fanfulla
Opera gossip and theater rivalries headline New York
The Inter Ocean reports rumors about Rosnati the new tenor of the Strakosch troupe who is said to be a masher and to have annoyed Clara Louise with amorous displays. Giulia Maria debuts at Booths Theater amid jealously staged by a rival debutante in a box. A separate note notes Mrs John Wilhelm fed five hundred fifty tramps and gypsies last year near Womelsdorf, Pa.
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Kellogg
Rosnati
Strakosch
Clara Louise
Giulia Maria
Booth’s
New York
Chicago
John Wilhelm
Womelsdorf
France and Britain Vie as Richest European Nations
A pair of papers, one from Paris and one from London, compare wealth of France and the United Kingdom. French estimates cite public property at 3.0 billion dollars and private wealth at 45.11 billion, totaling 46.11 billion, against Britain's 42.50 billion. France appears richer by about 3.61 billion, though critics note possible exaggeration.
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Europe
France
United Kingdom
Great Britain and
Ireland
London
Paris
Louvre
England
Saturday Review
Lengthy sermons of old compared to modern pace
A Christian Union note recalls 17th century sermons lasting two to three hours with hour glasses as clocks. Nonconformists deriding drunkenness preached long enough to exhaust patience, while Barrows and Smith faced sleepy audiences and a witty rebuke from a lord. A Danish pastor used a shuttle to wake sleepers and press the point that sacred truths deserve attention.
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Christian Union
Barrows
Smith
Asiatic Trick Reveals Hidden Treasures and Jars
The London War correspondent describes a tactic of burying grain and building surface tombs to hide wealth under as a trap for invaders. Mohammedans revere shrines called ziarats, making digging risky. In Delhi during the mutiny vast wealth was hidden with little recovered. The bazaar fort houses contain deep buried jars, some five feet deep, similar to Schliemann’s buried treasures.
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London News
Delhi
Pegasus Beats Freight Train In Nine Mile Railroad Derby
Jim Wyatt boasted of owning a horse named Pegasus that outran an eleven o clock freight to Lovejoy. Mounted on the horse last Friday night a rider was thrown as Pegasus bolted from the track for nearly nine miles and finished well ahead of the pursuing locomotive. Reliable witnesses, including the engineer, will vouch for the extraordinary feat.
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Jim Wyatt
Centra
Lovejoy
Pegasus
Franklin's Versailles Attire Evolves From Plain to Elegant
The account notes an accidental early appearance in a drab suit due to late delivery of his court attire. Later evidence suggests he wore a black velvet embroidered coat with a small sword in France, and portraits indicate a handsomer dress.
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Franklin
Versailles
France
Celestial allusions warn of pestilence tied to planetary alignments
A Providence Journal column argues that pestilence and disasters follow solar disturbances linked to Jupiter Saturn Uranus and Neptune. It claims planetary perihelia near in 1880s will intensify sun storms and weather, urging caution despite uncertain science.
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Jupiter
Turn
Uranus
Neptune
Saturn
Eres
Earth
Aphelion
Tall men and the joke they endure
A narrator observes how tall men are routinely teased about height. He pities the tall man, notes their good nature, and describes a fantasy of taller scorn for the taunter. He ends by asking if tall men have rights worth respecting and reflects on social teasing.
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Honeeye Falls
Rhodes
Uranus
Gasgow Lord Provost Consoles Shareholders Over Bank Collapse
The Lord Provost of Glasgow consoles shareholders after a bank explosion loss totaling six million pounds, noting that amount equals six months of local liquor expenditure for inhabitants.
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Gasgow
Advertising rates for Clermont Courier
Legal and transient notices are priced at $1.00 per square for the first insertion and $0.50 for each subsequent insertion. Yearly discounts are offered. Business cards up to six lines cost $84.00 per year.
Untitled Poem Fragment From Midwinter Scribner
Poet laments unreturned love and hopes for a sign from the beloved. The speaker pleads for a new bloom as proof of blessing and contemplates death’s limits. The piece explores longing, memory, and spiritual continuity beyond the grave.
Jumbled jokes and notices fill late 19th century columns
A collage of quips, snippets, verses, and notices from a late 1800s page. It includes jokes about cabbies, a Norwich preacher, Dan Rice's horse, scientific bon mots, mock dialogues with Lord Beaconsfield, and civic chatter from London and New York. The tone ranges from humorous to editorial, with brief literary verses interspersed.
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Boston Transcript
Jedediah Wilkin
Jed
Yonkers Gazette
Norwich
London Times
Dan Rice
Excelsior
New York
Scientific American
Mr. Blaves
Sheffield
Bath
Peru Engineer Hoax Confounds Easton College Faculty
A man calling himself Louis Ramel deceived Easton College by posing as a Peruvian mining engineer and investor. He entertained Professor J M Silliman, received gifts and hospitality, showed charts and minerals, and left with a forged $5,000 check after not paying hotel bills, prompting return by detectives.
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Louis Ramel
Easton College
J. M. Silliman
Peru
Silliman
New York
Still
Easton
Games of chance would snot 80 aw ful naughty
The fragment hints at a slangy line about games of chance and moral judgments but lacks clear event or facts to form a coherent news item. No named entities or date details are present to establish a proper card.
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Lay. I
Caroline A. Mason
Sonnet
Marek Twain
Atlantic Monthly
Sol
Colt
Navy
M. Noir
Becaue
Pacific
Fourton
Myrincipal
Legion of Honor
Hawkeye
R. J. Burdette
the Hawkeye
Maine
Great Western
Iowa
Burlington Court-House
Burlington
South Hill
Meigs Schenck
Sitting Bull
Baptist Collegiate Institute
Wortman
Medicine Lodge
West Hill
Texas
Leffler
Ohio Legislature
Henry County
Planetary Quartet
Providence Journal
Che Clermont Courier
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
Midwinter Scribner
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