Oddities and Edicts From The Time Weathered Notes
Acadian naturalist Dr Honeyman rears army worms in a glass case to study their metamorphosis into white moths marked by two dorsal spots. Oldest railway conductor Wm Coultier plans retirement and a $50,000 house after refusing to wear new uniform. Freemasons of Iowa dispute lodge dance ban. two officers lose posts. Kansas judge upholds admit one ticket for husband and wife at a circus, sparking women rights debate. Great Eastern hull bears dense mussel mass weighing about 300 tons. Russia indicts 612 men and 158 women on socialist charges. socialists hope for revolution. Nature notes a water shell engine trial in England using water to maximize explosive impact.
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Honeyman
Wm. Coultier
United States
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
London Standard
Russia
Procureur-General
Empire
Maine
Tuscaloosa
Alabama
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
Mississippi
Texas
St. Louis
South America
East River
New York
Oconomowoc
Wisconsin
J.A. Lapham
White League
New Orleans
J. Dickson Burns
Thomas W. Nichols
Canadian Bank of Commerce
Montreal
Joseph E. Johnston
Savannah
Virginia
New York Herald
Henry T. Blow
Saratoga
Venezuela
Congress
Brazil
District of Columbia
Grant
Chicago
E. W. McClaren
Trinity Church
Cleveland
Illinois
John Henry Hobart Brown
Cohoes
Fond du Lac
Sargent & Co
Boston
New York City
General Ticket and
Syracuse
New Mexico
Las Cruces
F. J. Tolby
Cimaron
Elizabethtown
New
New Newark Celluloid Factory Blast Sparks Curiosity
An explosion at a Newark New Jersey celluloid factory draws attention to a newly discovered material made from gun cotton and camphor. The essay describes its lightness, toughness, and coral like appearance used in jewelry while noting a deadly accident that proves its dangers.
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Newark
N.J
London completes Thames drainage system after long effort
The City of London finishes a costly drainage project begun a quarter century ago to keep the Thames waters un defiled. Underground sewers lead to the river mouth, where sewage washes into the German Ocean, a feat praised as a marvel of engineering despite obstacles. A second note describes a dramatic encounter near New Orleans where a mud nest wasp kills a doodlebug in a dust filled burrow battle.
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London
Thames
Storm and unrest sweep across cities and nations
A massive storm floods Galveston Texas water covers streets and key structures. Fires destroy Georgetown Kentucky and Little Rock Arkansas. thousands of cattle displaced. Band of counterfeiters broken near Tuscaloosa Alabama. Reports of robberies, rail accidents, and political shifts across the United States and Europe through mid month.
Correspondence Between Washington and Mississippi
Ex Senator Pease of Mississippi wires Attorney General Pierrepont that Warren county officers are able to prevent further violence. He cites a public sentiment shift with citizens ready to aid law enforcement and warns against federal intervention. Lieutenant Guthrie confirms local officers’ power and willingness of Sheriff to summon aid if disturbances recur.
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Pease
Miss
Pierrepont
Warren County
J. B. Guthrie
Attorney General letter urges Ames to secure order in Mississippi
Edwards Pierrepont writes Gov. Adelbert Ames urging use of lawful means and federal aid to quell violence in Mississippi. The President favors decisive action, with military support if necessary, and calls for leveraging state resources and the Legislature to restore peace amid postwar unrest.
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Senator Price
Mississippi
Washington
Gov. Ames
General Grant
Ames
Grant
Department OF Justice
Adelbert Ames
Jackson
Miss
Edwards Pierrepont
Scan of party lines and postwar tensions across states
A long notice reviews Democratic and Republican politics in Ohio Indiana Georgia and Mississippi. It cites figures like George PuGu Cyrus Pershing Henry Wilson Jeff Davis and Sherman remarks. It criticizes party corruption and media bias while portraying white terrorism and negro rights debates.
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Wisconsin
George E. PuGu
Ohio
Cont
Poorman
Congress
Danford
Hayes
None of Our Business Hint for Democracy in 1876
The Indianapolis Weekly News warns that Southern actions against African Americans and Northern Democratic defenses threaten to overturn abolition-based legislation. It asserts Jeff Davis embodies Southern sentiment and that violence against blacks is viewed as proof of irreconcilable enmity, with the 1876 outcome foreshadowed by past events.
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Indianapolis Weekly News
Jeff. Davis
South
Orator of the Pacific Urges Republicans to Stand Firm
In San Francisco on August 20 1875 Hon Thomas Fitch delivers a rousing Republican defense. He laments Democratic restoration aims and invokes Liberty temple and war imagery to urge Californians to close ranks and sustain party loyalty.
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Union Hall
San Francisco
Cal
Thomas Fitch
Fitch
Pacific
Temple of Liberty
America
Hampton Rocks
Winchester
Atlanta
Sumter
Republican Party
California
Hell
General Spinner’s Geo and Conchology Collection
General Spinner houses the state’s finest geo logical and conchological specimens at his New York home.
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New York
Pigeons and Atlantic Crossing Debates and Courtroom Jest
A discussion argues that pigeons cannot reliably cross the Atlantic yet could progress with training and landmarks. The writer speculates a future bird might fly Japan to Belgium aided by scientific breeding, then contrasts with the present limits of sight and endurance. The text shifts to a Detroit Free Press style courtroom scene where Rufus Jackson, a fat Milwaukee man, is examined about an asthma related stumble, delivering a quip filled testimony and a ten dollar demand from the judge.
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Atlantic
Japan
China
India
Europe
England
Spain
Belgium
London
Brussels
Cockcrow
Aged Beauties Across History and Mythic Elopements
A historical survey notes that famed beauties remained influential well past youth. Helen of Troy, Cleopatra, and Livia are cited with late-life allure. modern figures like Diane de Vollers, Ninon de l Enclos, Mdme. Recamier and others are described as enduring symbols of beauty and power into middle age and beyond.
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Helen of Troy
Troy
Paris
Pericles
Aspasia
Cleopatra
Anthony
Livia
Augustus
Diane de Vollers
Henry II
Orleans
Catherine de Medicis
Anne of Austria
Europe
Buckingham
Richelieu
Ninon de l’Enclos
France
Louis XIV
Mdme
de Maintenon
Catherine II of
Russia
Empire of
Orloff
Molle
Mars
Recamier
Barras
French Songbird’s Weeklong Gamble in Hampshire Weds Romance
A Parisian actress disguises herself as an Alsatian peasant and travels to Hampshire to sing in villages. She earns copper from villagers and attracts an English officer who falls in love, but she refuses his offer to travel en troubadour. She returns to Paris after winning the wager as the officer stays behind. The tale ends with a French quip about the drum.
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Paris
Hampshire
England
France
Southampton
Farnham
Beranger
Bohemienne
Aldershot
Mademoiselle
Love
Monsieur
Clermont Advertising Rates and Policies
Legal and transient ads cost 1.00 per square ten lines for first insertion plus 0.50 for each further insertion. Yearly advertising receives liberal reductions. Business cards up to six lines priced at 6.00 per year.
Paradise Bloom for the Graveyard of Joys
A lyric evoking a crystalline bloom linked to Titania and celestial figures. The speaker gathers a pure flower as a symbolic bridal crown and heavenly chalice, praising its beauty and linking it to memorial reverence and eternal joy.
Fragmented humor and aphorisms from a periodical reading
A collage of quips and ditties on drinking, reason, fashion, and life. It mixes lines aboutToasts and misfitting Turkish pants with reflections on virtue, memory, and the limits of speech, citing poets and a Michigan paper anecdote.
Train Conductor Confronts Lone Widow Over Escort
On a Atlanta bound train an old widow rejects a young man's offer of companionship. The conductor asks if she has a companion, she insists she travels alone with only a sheep skin covered New Testament for protection, and rebukes the idea of a fellow traveler, urging independence. The conductor steps aside as she asserts she can manage alone.
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Atlanta
Martha Ann
Ukiah Editor Urged Women to Sit Out Campaign
Belle Lynch of the Ukiah Dispatch rebukes the editor of the Democrat who suggested women should not edit papers. She jabs at him to put on an apron and knitting tools and retire from the political fray. The item also notes using coarse cobweb as a styptic for bleeding faces.
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Ukiah
Cal
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Toronto
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Lewis C. Eisenschmidt
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Prussia
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East India Avenue
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Pencil
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Michigan
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