Aerial navigation claim and Newport vacation musings
A Eastabaga Alabama physician claims to have solved world navigation by steam and offers Philadelphia an air ship exhibit planned for 1876. A committee would inspect designs before use and the inventor would gift one right of use. Also notes Boston Transcript excerpts of New England summer joys and a Newport Vermont college boys vacation vignette with social chatter.
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Eastabaga
Talladega County
Alabama
Philadelphia
United States
New
Starvard College
Newport
Boston Transcript
Meakly
Eho
Wish I Head Dat Money New from Mason's Tickler Friends
A postwar conversation recalls old slave days as Uncle Joe and Marco Wilson discuss lost freedom money and changes since the war. The piece then shifts to Rowell's newspaper directory, noting over a thousand failures and $8 million in losses, blaming unpaid subscriptions for publishers' distress and comparing it to a farmer's debt when many owe small sums.
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Vicknburg
Oldarkey
Mason
Jon
Marco Wilson
Erie Eee
the Darkey
Jove
Joe
Yaas
Uncle Joe
Mr. Wilson
Darkey
Rowell
Republic of New York
Wople
Ioney
Church Journal
Honest galley slave tale and curious anecdotes
A long reminiscence covers an elderly man once known as the honest galley slave who eloped with a girl, faced trial for abduction, served ten years in the galleys, married, and moved to America before returning to France where he died, followed to his grave by thousands. The column also recounts a Maryland school anecdote about turning over a new leaf and a replevin case over a pet bird, plus vivid vignettes from Illinois and a crowd at a Grand Trunk station with colorful passenger interactions.
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Paris
America
France
Quincy
Illinoie
Morphy
Bschriber
Murphy
Bochriber
Newspaper Advertising Proves Best for Returns, Experts Say
The Union notes that newspapers are the only unfailing advertising medium for bringing returns and large profits. It cites thousands nationwide, from a man who spent his last dollar on handbills to firms investing hundreds of thousands to plaster ads across the country.
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Nan
Union
Detroit Shouts and Injuries Blur Into Odd Patent Claim
In Detroit a crowd gathered around a boy run over and hurt as a man tried to push a patent clothes-wringer claim, dropping to the pavement and then being treated in a drug store. Meanwhile Howard Kingsbury of Bangor Missouri swallowed morphine and lay on a bed with a device crossing his chest, as physicians treated him with a stomach pump.
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Detroit
Texas
Michigan
Howard Kingsbury
Bangor
United States Court Room
Knozville Press and Herald
Parisian Joker Joins Wedding Car Parade Prank
A Parisian with a taste for pranks followed a newlywed couple, hiring a driver and forming a 14-vehicle line. He jumped into the last car and waited for the procession to reach its destination amid startled onlookers. The groom complained to authorities about the audacious stunt.
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Oro
Dols
Quirky Bits and Moral Tales From A Wartime Paper
A collection of brief anecdotes and moral reflections. A colored church member debates conscience about temptation. An amateur undertaker carries out a hanging with a wary apology. A Hartford girl ponders moral mischief. A courtroom joke involves spittoons and lawyers. A five year old plays train shouting New York and Philadelphia, then Heaven.
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New York
Paternow
Joand
Philadelpha
Alster
Do you get off here question on steamer City of New Port
An exchange aboard the steamer City of New Port near Bullo ck's Point features a purser asking a passenger if she will get off, and a reply that she will do so when the boat reaches the wharf. A mother and child reading about Henry I spark a humorous remark about the king’s reaction to being tickled.
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iWe
Maryland
David
Reachman
City
Newport
Bullock’s Point
England
Henry 1
Time and tears in a parlor tale from Haddonfield
A lighthearted scene at Haddonfield where an impatient young man delays with his sweetheart while old folks in the parlor jest with him. A doctor’s wife pleads tearfully, but the youth quips that tears are useless, claiming they contain a phosphate of time and chloride of salt and water.
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Haddonfield
Columbia professor scolds youth over fistfight at school
A Columbia professor chastises a youth for using his fists and says we fight with our heads. The youth notes that his former school allowed headbutting as acceptable. An Alabama man attempts to lead a church and produce lead nickels concurrently.
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Columbia
Alabama
Leen
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