Eager World News From The Week Past
The week past brought reports on Japan's educational plans, a milestone for the first colored female medical student in New York, a French challenge to Prussian officers, and medical views on brain disorders. Also covered are San Francisco horse racing, trade dollar depreciation in China, the Varton marriage debate, English rail contract norms, and a narrative of family tragedy amid hunter’s woods.
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Synacuae University
New York
Sarah M. Logan
Washington
France
San Francisco Bulletin
China
California
Bulletin
Fatal Fire-Hunt Ends in Tragedy for Creole Family
Jacques Estrin, eight, pleads with his hunter father Pierre as they venture into Brule swamp for a fire-hunt. A mistaken shot kills Jacques and a young colored boy, Edmond, and Pierre returns home with the dead child to a ruined life. Monique Endures grief while Pierre becomes morose, later killed in a vendetta, in a case tied to St. Landry parish.
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Wilson
Edmond
Pierre Betrin
Jacques
Jacques Estrin
Pierre Estrin
Opelousas
Louisiana
Mamma
Monique
Monique Estrin
Pierre
Tom
Live Oaks
Brule Swamp
Estrin
Papa
Lipa
Companion
Bt. Landry
Merie B. Williams
Influence of Different Potations and Women’s Drink
A police officer recounts how a drunken woman’s beverage signals vary: ale or beer for mild disturbance, sour wine and cake for sickness, sherry and egg for merry excess, throat br’reath brandy and water for tears. From palace to gutter, many women are seen under the influence daily in a large city, though only the most unfortunate reach public notice or court.
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Jhe
January Leaves Buds On China Trees Across Nation
An old county piece notes unexpected January budding of China trees amid warm spell. The writer recalls 1827 28 winter echoes and a tale of cotton stalks yielding gloves, offering a curious glance at weather lore and vintage reminiscences, with scattered anecdotes about poetry, Cheyenne humor, and local curiosities.
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Democrat
Remedy for dyspepsia proposed in Beaton Globe column
A Dyspersia correspondent urges publishing a lime water and cow’s milk remedy for indigestion. The letter claims four tablespoonfuls of lime water mixed with a gill of milk cures a distressing dyspepsia within days, citing personal relief since weeks ago and noting the source as Scientific American.
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Beaton Globe
Tome
Scientific American
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Lake Charles
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Japan
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Labar
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Bearborough
Leeds At & P
York
Maer
Guy
Gay
Kilkenny
Faries
Maida
Abe Ron
Cremona
Black Hills
Dubuque
Piie
Burlington Hawkeye
Benton County
Paria
Boston Post
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