Topics of the Tine features vast failures and industrial output
The London Times lists monumental failures including I C Im Thurn Sandersons and Collie and Young Borthwick Co. Iron trade shows Birmingham manufactories shipping billions of items weekly. Waxstow the Boston forger is arrested in London amid questions of routes. The piece also covers book exports, the Washington Monument funding, a Madrid ministerial caucus, a proposed English Channel tunnel, and last year’s fire losses with hotel destruction leading.
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The
London Times
I. C. Im Thurn, Sandersons and Collie
Young, Borthwick & Co
Robert Benson
London Academy
United States
Narcotics use rising in the United States among women
The article warns that narcotics, though sometimes physician ordered, are increasingly used by women and may become habitual. It notes opium consumption has surged, affects many, with young girls using narcotics for sleeplessness. The London Lancet is cited on unhealthy sleep and rising dangers from chloral, chloroform, and ether.
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America
London Lancet
My Ships at Sea and Boots and Bravery
A verse and prose piece mix two scenes. A somber meditation on lost ships and a playful tale of Lydia White and two suitors, Tom Green and William Jones. The men chase a supposed intruder boots prank, only to discover Lydia engineered the boot trap to test their courage.
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Lydia
Synonyms and crowd terms in English language usage
A long discussion contrasts collective nouns for groups with examples like flock fleet bevy pack and crowd. It cites Adams on stagecoach versus railroad safety using French statistics to argue rail travel is now far safer than highway travel in Massachusetts.
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Engineers
Charles F. Adams, Jr
England
France
New England
Massachusetts
The Michigan Giant Freeman and a Royal Rear Guard Tale
An 1830s Ypsilanti giant named Charley Freeman astonished canal workers and river boat laborers with prodigious strength. He could lift logs, move boats, and outwork many men, but his life ended in a pauper's grave after dissipation abroad. A Hungarian lieutenant's brush with strict military discipline ends in a mercy reprieve and an unexpected dinner with archducal hosts.
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Michigan
Charley Freeman
Ypsilant
Huron River
Buffalo
England
Liverpool
Heenan
Sayres
United States
French trial of legged engine with six feet
Experiments in France test an engine without wheels that walks on six feet. The device uses three front and three rear legs with circular skates at the end of each leg. It claims to carry heavy loads up inclines, and a ten ton model on a railway runs four to five miles per hour, with potential speeds of eleven to twelve miles.
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France
Study of law and romance compared in old quip
A humorous line notes that making love and studying law share a common aim of preparation for courting, using legal training as a metaphor for readiness in romance.
Infuriated horse chases Needham through Danvers hills
In Danvers Massachusetts Mr J S Needham riding with a buggy was attacked by a wild horse racing alongside and striking the horse and buggy. The beast pursued down the Newburyport turnpike bite at wind pipe and winded carriage until it was restrained. Neighbors finally freed Mr Needham and his horse left with injuries. A second horse accompanying the incident is said to frenzy when it sees a white horse and has bitten its owner. Also noted are the death of Mrs Cartwright widow of Rev Peter Cartwright in Pleasant Plains Iowa at age seventy six and a retired schoolmaster who jokes about angling to stay himself.
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Lydia White
Tom Green
William Jones
Lydia
Mr. White
Jane
Green
Jones
Napoleon
Tom
Willie
Shanghai
Jupiter
Mr. G
Jack Berry
Berry
Pa White
Liddy
Jade
Stephen
Hungary
Massachusetts
J. S. Needham
Peabody
Danvers
Newburyport
Mr. Needham
Andover
Anima
Middleton
Cartwright
Peter Cartwright
Pleasant Plains
Iowa
Indiana
Victoria
Congressman Willis
Detroit Free Press
von Butow
Chicago
Mississippi
Brainerd
Minn
Peru
Heaven
Beautiful
Golden
Jerusalem
Prince of Wales
Madras
Boston Transcript
Leap year prompts women to seek rights and honor
The Brainerd Tribune notes leap year prompts local women to apply for marriage licenses while gossip mentions Miss Barnard from Anamosa and Miss Parker the English swimmer. Ellen S. Tupper faces forgery rumors, and Cecile Gaul is gifted a necklace by the Crown Princess of Germany amid social headlines.
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Miss Barnard
Anamosa
Iowa
Jennie June
Massachusetts
Miss Parker
Ellen S. Tupper
Germany
Cecile Gaul
Baltimore
Brainerd
The Un-Fair Sex and Local Anecdotes in South Street
A column of urban vignettes sketches courtship, finance woes, and a dog dispute in New Haven. A man laments rich rivals while a coat pocket letter prompts guilt, a produce dealer vows grand romantic gifts, and a New Haven resident sues over a neighbor’s nocturnal dog howling.
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South Street
New Haven
American and English newspapers compared in humorous contrasts
A critical look at how American papers jest with squibs and varieties while English outlets stay grave. The piece notes mass appeal of American humor, contrasts with Punch style, and cites dialogue about Massachusetts marriage law and San Francisco firecracker manufacturing with figures for capital and output.
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Punch
England
Traits of Charities Lamb in Twichell's Scribner March issue
Rev. Joseph H. Twichell recalls Charles Lamb through India House clerk Ogilvie anecdotes. Lamb mixed sharp quips with kindness, aiding many, often housing and aiding literary aspirants while remaining single for his sister, a sacrifice few would share.
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Lamb
Joseph H. Twichell
Charles Lamb
Scribner
India House
Ogilvie
Wawd
Dodwell
Charley
Birds in Borrowed Plumage in New York Fashion Theft Case
New York correspondence reveals a University Place outfit loaning dresses to women and men for events from $5 to $500 with extensive alterations so garments appear new. Customers include charity ball orders. gowns are reshaped by workers to avoid recognition. Prices range from $5 walking suits to $25 nightly dresses and $10 full evening wear.
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New York
Chicago Tribune
University Place
Fourteenth Street
Flora McFlimsey
Miss Millionaire
Senator Christiancy’s Quiet Capitol Wedding to Miss Lugenbeel
Washington dispatch notes the marriage of Michigan Senator Christiancy to Lillie Lugenbeel of the Treasury Bureau. The ceremony was private at the bride’s boarding place, Rev Dr Sunderland officiated, and Senator Ferry acted as groomsman. The couple left for New York for their honeymoon as Christiancy nears sixty four.
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Washington
Inter-Ocean
Christiancy
Michigan
Lillie Lugenbeel
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Treasury Department
Sunderland
Ferry
New York
Congress
Senate
Advertising rates listed for the Clermont Courier
The Clermont Courier offers legal and transient advertisements at 1.00 per square for the first insertion and 0.50 for each additional insertion. Yearly reductions apply. Business cards up to six lines cost 6.00 per year.
Love Lorn Indiana Youth Addresses Minneapolis Lady In Poem
A barely legible verse from Indiana to a Minneapolis woman describes unrequited love for Clara the lily of the west. The speaker recalls a three day courtship, betrayal, and a fatal imagined duel with a rival in a shady grove. The piece presents melodramatic romantic emotion and a dramatic dream sequence.
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The
Minneapolis Tribune
Indiana
Fragmented musings and clipped anecdotes from a era column
A collage of brief vignettes and quips including digressions on Pears and Romans, vanity about royal marriages, reflections on death, dental vanity in Congress, shop talk, a chromed gift mystery, a Chicago interview, racially charged language, a hunter’s luck, a vision of heaven’s gate, a Madras royal pageant, a country editor’s joke, a Boston meteor description, and a domestic closing scene with boots.
Quotations on Life, Jealousy, and Character
A compilation of brief literary maxims. Hawthorne reflects on time and flowers as life fades. Holland notes the rarity and value of immune femininity. Holmes warns how contact with a hand can drain vitality. Phelps observes some people wear a gossip-proof armor through life.
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Hawthorne
Holland
Holmes
Phelps
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Washington Monument Association
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Canevas del Castillo
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TSE
English Channel
Suez Canal
Ferdinand de Lesseps
M. Lavelley
Htumor
Parton
San Francisco
China
Christianecy
Turkey
Clermont
Minaplis
Clara
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Liley
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Soar Oprest
Cara
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