Inauguration crowds and Montana politics dominate Townsend paper
The Townsend Messenger reports a grand inauguration turnout, notes Indiana gambling cases, and discusses Marcus Daly’s influence in Montana. It lauds Capt J H Mills’ appointment as State Commissioner of Agriculture and Labor and highlights editorials on journalism perks and coinage debates.
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Army of Friends
J. H. Mills
Montana
Anyother
Territory
Internal Revenue
Mantel Appointed U S Senator by Montana Governor
Gov. Richards appoints Lee Mantel of Butte to fill the Montana U S Senate vacancy after the Legislature failed to choose a successor to W F Sanders. Mantel is praised as brilliant and competent, an ardent silver advocate, and a loyal Republican despite party leadership, with Sanders noted for steering early Montana Republican seats to the Senate.
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Gov. Richards
Lee Mantel
Butte
United States
W. F. Sanders
Sanders
Montana
Washington
Mantel
Homes for Visitors to the World's Fair
The Northern Pacific Railroad notes possible hotel delays for the Chicago World’s Fair and promises low excursion rates. It offers a booklet, available at stations for fifty cents, listing about 9,000 private families hosting visitors May 1 to October 30, with names addresses and spare rooms, plus hotel listings and maps.
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Northern Pacific Railroad
Chicago
Humorous Snippets From Early 20th Century Papers
A collage of light jokes and quips from Detroit and Manchester columns and Puck style cartoons. The items include a tale about a possessive young man and sisterly pledge, a novel moral lacking tale, a witty epitaph, usage notes on dress and gowns, social dance banter, and a fashion bonnet cost in Washington News.
A Very Bad Case and Other Exchange Jests
A satirical dialogue features doctors debating a typhus case and a patient who did not pay. Quick quips follow about kissing a girl in Rome and views of Rome. A child asks to hitch a dog to a sled, but warns of biting.
Wordplay and Witty Dialogue Across Old Newspapers
A collage of cheeky quotes from historical papers including the Washington Star. It features humorous exchanges about free tickets amateur shows whist clubs and a joke on a daughter, merging satire and social snapshots of its era.
Old South Scene With a Harvard Visitor
A Harvard student visiting the south asks Aunt Lucy about a political cartoon from the Blaine and Cleveland era showing Cleveland in tiger skin with a bludgeon. Aunt Lucy guesses it represents John de Baptis as dressed differently. A faded pressed flower symbolizes the salary lost for a week, and the man’s character is judged by actions, not appearances.
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Harvard
South
Darkeys
Lucy
Blaine
Cleveland
Mastah
John de Baptis
Costey
Romance of Emin Pasha and the Widow Ismail
A short, late 19th century tale describes Emin Pasha's secret youthful love in Hungary. He became a misanthrope, later encountered the widow of Ismail Pasha while serving professionally and won her heart after Ismail’s death, per the Omaha Bee.
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Emin Pasha
Henry M. Stanley
Hungary
Ismail Pasha
Ismail
Fmin
Omaha Bee
Dr King’s New Discovery Praised by Sharpsburg Residents
J B Wilson of Sharpsburg Pa says he will not be without Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds noting it cured his wife who faced pneumonia after la grippe when other remedies and physicians failed. Robert Barber of Cooksport Pa also reports strong benefit from the medicine.
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J. B. Wilson
Clay Street
Sharpsburg
Dr. King
Robert Barber
Cooksport
The Auburn Attorney and the Two Stables Tale
A Lewis ton journal story tells of an Auburn attorney who hired a team for a few hours then left it at a second stable for eight days. Each stable assumed the other handled the matter and the attorney paid no mind until both presented identical eight day bills. The settlement amount was less than the stated prices.
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Lewiston
Auburn
ODELL
Drunk on Water from Sierra Madre Spring
A traveler recounts sipping ice cold water from a mountain spring in the Sierra Madre and becoming the drunkest man on the North American continent. He lists the spring as devil water warned by Mexican locals and recalls nearly a pint consumed during a brief canyon stop and two days of inebriation.
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Sierra Madre Mountains
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
North American
Why the Sea Ebbs and Flows Explained in Haunting Imagery
A poetical piece from the New York Herald portrays the sea’s tides as an army of drowned souls marching to the four points of the compass. The vivid description likens sea moaning to marching footsteps, stormy water hills, and white spray as captives struggle against undertow.
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New York Herald
Sirit
Polly the Bell Bird Foils Dining Room Burglars
A New World tale describes Polly the bird in a newly built Chicago home that uses electric bells. On a winter night two burglars entered a dark dining room while servants sheltered by a fire. Polly pressed the electric bell, summoning helpers who captured the intruders and saved silverware.
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Chicago News
Europe
Polly
Dr King’s New Discovery for Coughs and Colds
This ad promotes Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds with a money back guarantee. It claims relief for throat chest and Langs and offers trial bottles free at J R Weston’s Drug Store with large size priced at 50e and 1.00.
Harvest as an English season name urged over autumn
A writer in the Queen argues to revive the old English term harvest for autumn, noting fall is not exclusively American. He praises Anglo-Saxon roots and urges replacing autumn with harvest in seasons, pointing to harfestmonad and September as harvest month.
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New England
Japanese Population Surges Under Edo Reign Stats
Japanese statistician Mr Ono reports a population rise from 23,111,000 in January 1872 to 40,070,000 in December 1872. He cites a 13 per 1,000 annual growth since 1887, predicts doubling in 58 years, notes birth rates and illegitimate birth differences, and links wealth growth to restoration and lower child death rates.
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Ono
England
France
Spain
Japan
An Iconoclast Destroys Countess Guiccioli’s Fame
A literary critic claims Countess Guiccioli was not beautiful and had a dull figure. He recalls unreliable testimonies from acquaintances and recalls harsh comparisons, noting her death and unrefined manners as part of the critique.
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Guiccioli
Byron
Sally Im
Mme. de Stael
Napoleon
Pied de Stael
Parapee Palm Used By Gulana Aborigines For Food
The Parapee palm is cultivated by Indian aborigines of the Gulana for its fruit which they use largely as food. They plant it near settlements and wild stands indicate former Indian occupation. Fruit varies by season, sometimes seedless, sometimes seeded. When boiled or roasted it resembles a dry mealy potato in texture and taste. Each fruit is roughly pigeon's egg sized, borne in bunches of forty to sixty, with two or three bearing seasons annually.
Tree Growing on Utica Church Tower Attracts Attention
A mountain ash on the top of a Utica New York city church tower has grown for about fifteen years reaching seven feet tall. Roots invade masonry and the tree has bloomed with scarlet berries in recent years. Also explains the origin of the word pig for iron as a misheard sow analogy.
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Utica
N. Y
Electric Bitters Leads in Pure Medicine Market
A Leader. Electric Bitters has gained rapid favor since its introduction and leads as a pure medicinal tonic. It is recognized as the best medicine for stomach liver and kidney ailments and will cure sick headache indigestion constipation and malaria with guaranteed satisfaction on each bottle.
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