Various Oddities and Notes From Around the World
A grocery clerk in New York counterfeits one dollar bills with pen and ink, now jailed. French taste mocks English dinners with a grotesque roast scene. Massachusetts governors through the 1700s and early 1800s are listed. France’s telegraph runs a deficit until 1873 and balances in 1874. A London correspondent is run over by a cab. Sun rays ignite fires in Vermont from reflected light off milk cans and cloth.
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East
New York
London
Paris
Victoria Street
Vermont
Friction Drives Progress and Odd Notes on Food and Local News
Friction enables trains to move by grip on rails, while a New York study tallies weekly city food consumption including millions of eggs, thousands of cattle and fowls, and significant seafood and produce. The Choctaw Nation reports eleven months of school spending, new academies, improving attendance, plus stray local notices and advertisements from Gowdy Brothers and others.
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New York
Choctaw Nation
Violent Attacks and Public Proclamation in Louisiana
News notes a deadly night assault on three colored men in Coahoma County Mississippi, with two white suspects jailed. Public meetings condemn violence, pledge law and order, and a peace committee forms. Also reported are local accidents, a lynching, suicides, court suits, political results, rail, and river incidents across the region, plus a Louisiana proclamation calling for peace and dispersal of disorderly groups.
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New Orleans
Coahoma County
Mississippi
Sam Garner
Murray County
Louisiana
Spring Place
Proclamation by Louisiana Lieutenant Governor on East Feliciana unrest
The Executive Department of Louisiana reports that certain hostile groups in East Feliciana and neighboring Mississippi border areas have created mob violence and disorder. It notes the violent expulsion of legally elected parish officials and the forced adjournment of local government proceedings as part of the turmoil.
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Louisiana
Strats
Executive Department
New Orleans
East Feliciana
Mississippi
Fashions Drift Through Evening Wear and Accessories
Styles show dresses with modest fullness and new wool skirts, black satin boots revive, poloxraise suit shapes emerge, fall bonnets in black velvet with cape-lined linings, a plain crown brim hat with blue silk binding, a long fan chain worn at the waist, and a milk white felt evening hat edged with cashmere lace and ostrich tips.
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Detroit
William Fleming the latest Enoch Arden in Monroe
The item reports William Fleming of Monroe returning after a two year absence to find his wife not remarried, reacting with strong language, and contrasts with various local anecdotes on manners, fashion, and oddities, including a Texas man on a levee and a rail carriage idea by Mr. Massey.
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St. Joseph Orphan Asylum
Clark Avenue
Fifteenth Street
St. Louis
James Duffy
Michael Hanlehan
Hanlehan
Hackettstown
N. J
James Ricker
Ricker
William Fleming
Monroe
Enoch Arden
Benbury Avenue
Texas
Vicksburg
Miss
Massey
St. Joseph
St.Je's
Mr. Doze
Milwaukee
Stove Cement Recipe for Joints and Moral Maxim
StovE CEMENT FOR THE JOINTS OF Iron Stoves is described with mica and ash mixed with clay salt for a stiff paste. A separate maxim notes that when offended, one should raise the soul above reach of offense.
Advertising rates for Glermont Courier
The Glermont Courier lists advertising and transient ad rates. Legal notices and transient ads cost $1.00 per square (ten lines) for first insertion and $0.50 for each additional insertion. Business cards up to six lines are $6.00 per year with liberal yearly reductions.
Address to a Brand Brandy Bottle Poem
An old brandy bottle is blamed for ruin of the speaker who recalls health wealth and beauty. The speaker vows to abandon drink, reclaim his money and nose, and warns the bottle will be smashed. The verse blends self mockery with descent into alcoholism and a pledge to reform.
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Burns
Canadian Agricultural Society
St. Louis
Rocue Ester Chronicle
Ralston
Instinct of Newfoundland Dogs Put to Test
The London Graphic reports two Newfoundland dogs rescue a drowning man by grabbing his coat tails as a water rescue ends with both dogs returning to shore with bits of cloth. The incident leaves the man to be saved by his own friend’s master who plunges in.
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London
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