Hymns Authors and the Veil of Fame
A survey notes famous hymn writers like Robert Lowry Annie Sherwood Hawks and Fannie Crosby, yet many remain little known on streets of New York and in Plainfield New Jersey, highlighting how renowned songs create obscurity for their creators. A second piece, BABY AND THE BOTTLE, recounts a railcar incident where a missing nursing bottle prompts a chain of bottle deliveries to a mother and nurse, delighting passengers as bottles arrive from several stations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Lowry
Plainfield
N. J
Richmond
Fillmore Kennet
New York State
Annie Sherwood Hawks
New York
Fannie Crosby
Jesus
Aturst
The Oysters in His Cellar and the Tippecanoe Tale
AHarper s Young People style reminiscence recounts a farm family storing real live oysters in a cool damp cellar, feeding them to keep them alive, a Kentucky tale of Gen William Henry Harrison wooing Miss Monarch Fenwick, a ring gift, and the famous Lake Park dinner near Frankfort with Monarchy and future presidential guests. The item weaves a curious domestic anecdote with the presidential legend and a ge n town memory preserved in Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper
F. B. Bosworth
Mary L. Todd
William Henry Harrison
Frankfort
Monarch Fenwick
United States
Samuel Todd
Ding
Harrison
Husand
Gabrielle
St. Catherine's Academy
Lexington
Ivan
Belle Point
Lake Park
Frank P. Blair
Montgomery Blair
Cincinnati
Giants of Those Days Giants of Old Time Remarkable Heights and Notes
A collage of extraordinary human heights and ancient giants from Pliny to folklore, with measurements from Rouen to Rowen. It includes Ferregus at twenty eight feet, Galabra at ten feet, and Kintolochus Rex at fifteen and a half feet, plus scientific notes on giants and related curiosities. The article also cites Professor Silliman on degenerating humanity and reports on rubber marching heels, rear-view eyeglasses, and aurora height studies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Europe
Rouen
Gerapius
Galabra
Pliny
Arabia
Claudius
Funnum
Eugene II
Philadelphia Press
Chevalier Scrogg
Teneriffe
Ferregus
Orlando
Charlemagne
Rowen
Mao
Kintolochus Rex
Silliman
Pennsylvania
Mount Washington
Royal Danish Academy
M. Adam Paulsen
Godhead
Cape Farewell
Spitzenberg
Train Flagging Anecdote and Miscellany From 19th Century Papers
A railroad wage tale from Michigan describes a grocery keeper acting as station agent who flags a limited passenger train at 5 am. The conductor asks for passengers, the agent replies none, thinking someone might alight for rent. The item sits among humorous quotes and brief anecdotes from Detroit Free Press and other papers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michigan
Detroit
Postprandial caution from Sir John Macdonald speech
A young reporter recalls Sir John Macdonald correcting his notes after dinner. The premier advises the reporter to be sober before attempting to quote a speech. Also included is a comic scene from Texas Siftings about Amanda Sykes and a preacher offering consolations amid grief, with strong dialect dialogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Macdonald
Sir John
Bowne
Occanion
John
What She Said and the Lettuce Opium Claim
A dramatic exchange has a man denouncing a woman as cold and unfeeling while she responds with a musical, evasive retort. The piece then digresses into a quirky note about lettuce containing opium like poppy leaves, claiming no reported deaths from lettuce poisoning and noting sleepiness after eating mature lettuce leaves.
The Kaiser's Wife and Border Food Alternatives
The empress of Germany reappointed the minister of public instruction to bar admission of young girls to Berlin art museums without guardian supervision. In Texas and on the Mexican border drought hardship is mitigated by mesquite beans, ground into coffee-like flour, sustaining hundreds amid reports of famine fears. A baptism event in Kansas was postponed due to rain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan Moffatn
Onone
Moffat
First National Bank
Moffatt
Perea Palng
San Francisco Examiner
Moffit
Clay County
Denver
Colorado
Senator Tabor
Vulture Mine
Arizona
Mexico
Germany
Berlin
Texas
Howell Price
Sanatoro
Rio Grande
Ose
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Drownings and Ancestral Tales in a Boston Column
A Boston reader recalls a near fatal river drowning with hallucinatory imagery and a rescuer pulling her from the water. The piece shifts to a tale of two ancestral figures in Concord battle lore and ends with a critique of national song and symbols by Rossiter Johnson.
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Mass
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Ind
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Ford Cent
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V. Ixbraxapolis
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Carter
Mall
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Andrie
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