Governor Brodie urged to keep University of Arizona nonpartisan
An editorial from Phoenix argues Governor Brodie should appoint a nonpartisan board of regents, resisting a Democrat on the University of Arizona board. It condemns partisan influence, praises Brodie’s past choices, and warns that politicizing the university would be calamitous.
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Phoenix
Brodie
Board of Regents
University of Arizona
Arizona
United States
West Point
Annapolis
Star and Union Labor War Sparks Tucson Debate
The Arizona Star’s refusal to affiliate with the Typographical Union sparks broad disapproval in Tucson and across the Territory. The union presses for fair pay and cash at week’s end, while Colonel J F Wilson repudiates the Star’s stance in an interview with the Prescott Prospect.
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Arizona Star
Typographical
Tucson
Territory of
Arizona
Star
The
J. F. Wilson
Congress
Prescott
Wilson
Tucson Star
Texas Republicans Push Ahead With Congressional Nominations
The Texas Republicans proceed with their Congressional nomination process despite recent heavy rains signaling possible weather-related delays or impacts on events and schedules.
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Texas
The Gapriges Of Women And Marital Discipline
A San Francisco wife has her husband summoned for aggravated assault and battery after he disciplined her. She later seeks to withdraw the warrant arguing a wife may object to such discipline. A New York divorce suit cites a husband’s table manners as the alleged cause for estrangement, questioning if culinary quirks justify ending a marriage. The column critiques gender norms and marital power.
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San Francisco
United States
New York
Womanly fears and fearless sturgeon tale discussed
The piece muses on why women allegedly faint at mice yet Heroine Miss Hallie Erminie Rives sails through danger when a sturgeon capsizes her canoe and forces a calm rescue. It questions gendered notions and notes Arizona editors continually run sad death notices.
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Hallie Erminie Rives
Virginia
Miss Rives
Atlantic City
Pleasant Contrast Between Summer Resorts and Prospectuses
Those obliged to stay home can find comfort in the clear difference between summer resorts and their pamphlet descriptions. The line contrasts leisure promises with practical, real offerings, suggesting homebound readers still access appealing ideas.
Prison Superintendent Named for Territorial Prison
Governor Brodie appoints William M. Griffith as superintendent of the Territorial prison praising his strength character and extensive knowledge of human nature. The notice frames the selection as prudent for an institution demanding high business capacity patience and firmness. A second note jokes about Prohibition complicating travel near Maine and Massachusetts.
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William M. Griffith
Territorial
Brodie
Griffith
Territorial Prison
Porto Rico shows gains under free trade says Hunt
Governor Hunt’s reports from Porto Rico praise a treasury surplus, rising education, falling death rate, and a 50 percent surge in exports. He credits free trade with these gains and contrasts Cuba’s poverty, warning that free trade could help Cuba too, despite sugar industry opposition.
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Hunt
Porto Rico
United States
Allen
Washington
Cuba
Dumas and Hugo Tactics in Securing Theatrical Plays
The article recounts how Dumas and Victor Hugo used strategic pressure to secure favorable productions at the Porte St. Martin. Dumas staged modest requests to unsettle the director while Hugo offered flexibility and persuasive praise to win casting and setting concessions. Hugo leveraged ensemble harmony and threats to withdraw to shape the final staging.
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Dumas the Elder
Victor Hugo
Dumas
Porte St. Martin
Mile
Georges
Mme
Dorval
Bocage
Lockroy
Provost
Hugo
Frederick
Harel
Raucourt
Laferriere
Milo
Horel
Memorial epitaphs in mining camps amuse Colorado figures
A Colorado ex congressman recalls a Leadville grave marker for Jim O'Brien. The wooden slab bore "Jim O'Brien departed for heaven at 9:20 a. m." A humorist added "Heaven, 4:20 p. m. O'Brien not yet arrived," triggering local excitement over the joke in the mining camp lore.
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Colorado
Leadville
Jim O’brien
Jim O'Brien
Heaven
O'Brien
Native Mountain Dwellers Faithful To Their Peaks
The passage notes that highlanders of Scotland Tyrol and the Swiss share a strong homesickness for their mountains. Mountain peoples feel a deeper attachment to homeland than flat country inhabitants, even as they travel the world in search of fortune.
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Scotland
Tyrol
Sacked Heart and Humorous Quips From Newspapers
A collage of quotes from Washington Post Chicago News Seattle Post Intelligencer and Duck humor recounts a lawyer near Galesburg whose defense impressed peers and a veteran’s blunt remark on oratory. Jokes about love and obedience punctuate the clipping with terse quips and one liner banter.
Hoax reveals accidental fortune through wreck damages
A Philadelphia Record item notes a hoax about wealth, stating the man earned money accidentally after losing a leg in a railroad wreck and collecting damages. The dialogue framing suggests a trick question about money from misfortune.
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Joax
Philadelphia Record
Contentment and trouble of laziness in Uncle Eben
A Washington Star quip notes that contentment is desirable yet hard to distinguish from plain laziness. Uncle Eben calls out the fine line between satisfaction and sluggishness, reflecting on everyday effort versus ease.
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Eben
Washington Star
Impacted Ear Wax and its Proper Care
The article explains that ear wax or cerumen comes from glands in the outer ear canal, forming a protective layer. It warns against using ear spoons pins or hairpins and describes how moisture or washing can push wax inward. Impacted wax causes deafness, especially after baths, and recommends gentle warm water syringing by a physician or trained nurse when possible.
The Cook Book Tips for Sauces and Breakfast Bacon
Practical kitchen notes on avoiding lumps in sauces by cooking flour and butter together, choosing dressings, salting corned beef, croquette texture fixes, lemon custard crust precooking, prunes in gingerbread, prune juice in dough, and frying bacon in hot saved fat for three minutes.
Baptismal Record T J Jackson at Fort Hamilton Church
The New Orleans Times Democrat notes that Thomas Jonathan Jackson later known as Stonewall was baptized at St John’s church inside Fort Hamilton New York on Sunday April 29 1849. The baptism was conducted by sponsors Colonel Taylor and Colonel Dimmick of the U S Army and the baptismal font remains preserved at the site.
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Robert E. Lee
Thomas Jonathan
Stonewall
No Excuse. Fire brigade member blamed for late response
A volunteer fire brigade member did not arrive until after the blaze was under control and faced sharp reprimand. The firefighter claimed he could not help it, living far from the site, but the chief insisted on closer proximity to future fires.
How the President Is Paid and the $1 Cent Warrant
A historical note explains presidential pay by months rather than days, resulting in near-constant monthly salaries of about 4,166 dollars. It recounts a Cleveland era error sending three warrants of 4,166.66 and a treasury cent warrant never cashed.
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United States
Cleveland
Treasury Department
White House
The Professor and the Cow on Campus
A university professor walking deeply absorbed in his new book collides first with a stray cow and then with the wife of a fellow professor. He bellows at the cow and later realizes his mistake, prompting an awkward social clash resolved by the faculty to restore harmony.
Word Twister Spooner Puzzles Church Guests
In a humorous anecdote from Oxford, Professor William Archibald Spooner becomes famed for malapropisms. At a service he directs ushers to sew ladies into their sheets and requests pigs fleas as fruit. He later jokes with Mrs Goodwin about tea and a mix up with Miss Goodwin.
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William Archibald Spooner
Oxford University
Soft encounter in London ends with mistaken identity
A brief dialogue shows a passerby mistaking a stranger for the Earl and striking him from behind. The stranger apologizes, the confusion is cleared, and they part amicably in polite London weather.
Calm Physician Faces Grim News From Patient’s Parents
A Baltimore doctor rushing to help a sick child of colored parents senses the child has hours to live. He delivers the hard truth gently, and the mother replies with quiet faith, saying there is room for him in heaven but they are strained here.
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Tom Reed
Baltimore
The Father Refuses More Cake to Quiet Child
A narrative fragment shows a stern father insisting no more cake to a sobbing little girl who pleads for dessert. The exchange ends with the girl acknowledging the consequence of continued noise.
Rice as emblem of fertility in wedding custom
An old negro preacher split his sermon into two parts. He first covered all de things in de text and then all de things not in de text. The article notes rice as a symbol of fertility and explains the custom of throwing rice after a wedding to wish the couple a large family.
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