The Tilessenaer in Townsend Montana
A collection of various quips and notes from Townsend Montana including remarks on language logic and social quirks. Mentions Gen Merritt and a Kentucky court award of 3333 dollars for a three finger loss, plus rail projects in Asia Africa and the Americas.
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trans-Siberian Railway
Asia
Africa
Cecil Rhodes
Cairo
Cape
Intercontinental Railway Commission
Buenos Ayres
Municipal ownership pivots as Manchester housework goes private
A Manchester resident mails a request for house cleaning to police headquarters and a gang of scrubbers and window washers appear to do the work while the house keeper travels. The note hints the eighteenth century paternalism gives way to a more material twentieth century government.
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Chicago
Toledo
Manchester
England
London
Desperation in a New York Tenement Family
Ellen Granfield and her husband Ernest, nurses by training, sink into dire poverty in New York City. With a damp three room tenement, their belongings pawned away to buy food, they face eviction while their fight for work and stability continues.
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Ellen Stuyvesant Granfield
New York City
Peter Stuyvesant
Ellen Stuyvesant Olmstead
Old
Chambers Street Hospital
Ernest Granfield
Ellen Granfield
Mrs. Granfield
Phoebe Ann Stuyvesant
David Stuyvesant
James Olmstead
Connecticut
Ellen
Reception Hospital
East Sixteenth Street
Commissioner of Charities
Granfields
Stuyvesants
Manhattan Island
Ernest
Granfield
Early US House Speakers by Region and Notable Figures
Among 32 speakers, 15 hailed from the South, 13 from the North and East, and 4 from the West. Kentucky, Virginia, and Massachusetts each produced four speakers, while James K. Polk remains the only speaker to become U.S. president. Frederick A. Muhlenberg of Pennsylvania was the first speaker, with his statue in the Capitol’s statuary hall.
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National House of Representatives
Mason and Dixon
Alleghanies
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Virginia
Massachusetts
James K. Polk
United States
Frederick A. Muhlenberg
Pennsylvania
Capitol
Statuary Hall
National Museum Sends Two Scientists to Study Mexican Ethnology
On May 1 the National Museum began work by sending Dr. J. N. Rose and Dr. Walter Hough to Mexico. Rose will study economic botany and desert regions for commercially or medically valuable plants while Hough focuses on primitive arts of Yaqui and other tribes. They will visit Casas Grandes near Oaxaca, one of the world’s largest prehistoric ruins, but will not collect archaeological specimens due to Mexican export laws.
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The
National Museum
Mexico
J. N. Rose
Walter Hough
Rose
Hough
Casas Grandes
Oaxaca
Bluefields Duty Dispute Mirrors Farce in Nicaragua
The unrest in Bluefields involves American merchants paying duties to a de facto rebel government. They argue payments made to the usurper’s collector cannot be repaid or used by Zelaya’s side, highlighting a just claim against double taxation and creditor protection. The issue centers on legitimacy and the defender of rights amid the rebel shift.
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Bluefields
Nicaragua
Zelaya
He Couldn't and She Could. Mrs. Jollyboy Stray Stories
A humorous strip caption contrasts honesty and deception as Mrs. Jollyboy confronts Mr. J on his whereabouts. She quips about telling a lie when she hears one, highlighting in a playful tone the clash between candidness and pretense in domestic banter.
Tobacco Use in French Navy Reported
A survey notes only 8 to 10 percent of French navy men chew tobacco while 56 percent smoke. It concludes that at least 40 percent are total abstainers from the weed.
Serious Hints on Dress With Flippant Comments
A Boston Journal extract discusses a pamphlet advising elite households on servant attire. It prescribes coachman dress with six buttons two back and two bottom, matching harness trim, silver for Bryanites, silk hats, new headwear, cigars for duty, green baize aprons, and ducal crest buttons. The piece mocks class pretensions and the risk of servant misidentification.
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Boston
England
Boston Journal
Postury: a woman’s scorn at expansion debate
In a Detroit Free Press vignette a small group of women discuss expansion and the Philippine claim. One woman defends posterity while another, who has lost her only son, wears a look of scorn at the cost to others.
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Detroit Free Press
Philippines
An Even Thing Cited In Court Laughs The Bar
A Detroit Free Press source recalls a circuit court scene where a drunken attorney rose as friend of the court and humorously noted that with one side represented only by Brother Double blank it was about an even thing. The judge and courtroom filled with laughter.
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Detroit
The
Free Press
Circuit Court
Fter
Mr. Blank
Brother Doubleblank
Blank
What They Do with Them
A southern man returning from Boston explains to a neighbor that in Boston people boil small white beans for hours mix in sawbelly and molasses and then eat them. The exchange highlights regional food notions and humor.
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Boston
Pugilist and Sports Writer Debate Fourth Round Description
A sporting news reader recalls a rival landing a solar plexus blow in the fourth. The professional pugilist asks for clarity, wondering if the fourth refers to a paragraph chapter or act, in this Washington Star excerpt.
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Sporting News
Washington Star
Lilly Clare's Quiet Gift of Love and Home
In a bleak December tale, Lilly Clare, driven to sewing for subsistence after her family’s ruin, is helped by Percy Monroe and his mother. A grateful Lilly heals at their home, falls in love with Percy, and they wed in a simple, joyous ceremony.
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C. D
Lilly Clare
Lilly
Dr. Herlbert
Percy Monroe
Front Street
Percy
Miss Clare
Mrs. Monroe
Mr. Monroe
Napoleon's Gentle Lesson To A Youth At Waterloo
On Waterloo day Napoleon descended to mount a horse. A novice equerry Godin struggled and nearly tipped the emperor. Napoleon returned, comforted the boy, and advised gentleness when helping a man of his size. Fifty seven years later Godin recalled the moment with tears.
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Napoleon
Waterloo
Gudin
Godin
Molasses Mispronunciation on Virginia Plantation
A New Orleans Item report recalls a Virginia farm scene where a young darky named Jonas asks for molasses and is corrected by a plantation girl who insists he say molasses. He protests he has had none yet, and the exchange ends with her letting him be.
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Virginia
New Orleans
Darky
Jonas
Property rights in Philippines favor children over husbands
A Philippine rule states that after a husband's death a wife receives no share unless she has executed a deed in the husband's favor with a lawyer's oversight. Absent such deed, the deceased man's property passes to his children and blood relatives, not to the wife.
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The
Philippines
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Tilessenaer
H. Baton
Montana
Merritt
Kansas City Journal
Missouri Legislature
National Guard
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