Fortune Telling and Fateful Glimpse at Littleton Fair
Cissy Thorne and her maid Emma visit a gypsy at a village fair. The mystic predicts a future husband, revealing Charles Wilson’s image in a magic glass which spooks Cissy yet leads to an eventual marriage. The tale widens to social chatter and a comic twist on superstition.
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Frogmore
Wilson
Cissy
Emma
Hurst
Thorne
Mrs. Thorne
Miss Thorne
Sibyl
Mary
Oi Ely
Charlies Wilson
Mockingbird Chorus Amid Local Racial Tensions
A fragmented scene shows a Ku Klux copperhead on the ground as a bluebird and others mock the past and urge reconciliation. Birds mock old feuds and pride as a fly buzzes by and a spider is dismissed in a rural setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spider
Johnny Reb
Havana's Grand Plaza Life Under Strict Social Rules
Cor. N. Y. Lepress describes an evening at Havana's Grand Plaza where varied crowds gather to hear the Marine Band, with strict escort norms for ladies and a clubby, surveillance culture. He contrasts customs with American circles, notes health and racial mixing, and sketches daily routines and cuisine in a traveler’s view.
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Havana
Marine Band
Susan B. Anthony
Sorosis Club
States
Ceither
Our Bay
Cor. N. Y. Lepress
Notable New Jersey Borderland Figures Across Fifty Years
A Bordentown correspondent recalls prominent locals within a half mile of his writing. He names T. Buchanan Reed the poet, Rear Admiral Charles Stewart known as Old Ironsides, Lucien Murat, and Joseph Bonaparte King of Naples and Sicily. Also mentioned is Jean Victor Moreau banished by Napoleon, killed at Dresden in 1813 while directing cannon fire from horseback.
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New York World
Bordentown
New Jersey
T. Buchanan Reed
Charles Stewart
Old Ironsides
Lucien Murat
Josep Bonapart
Naples
Sicily
Spain
Delaware
France
Jean Victor Moreau
Napoleon
Dresden
Moreau
English Fruit Crop Plunges Amid Severe Spring Weather
English agricultural papers report almost total fruit crop failure due to severe weather in March and April. Apples pears and small fruits are the smallest in memory while late frosts killed blossoms on trees that had survived winter. In contrast the United States enjoys unusually abundant fruit yields.
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Marcel
United States
Sheep Parade Through St. Louis Store Window
An entire flock of sheep trailed an old ram into a store window in St. Louis, attracting startled shoppers and causing a brief disruption as calm was restored and the animals were guided outside.
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St. Louis
Views on Chinese women and social role in 19th century critique
A lengthy critique argues Chinese women lack influence and social standing, describing their condition as slave-like and comparing their facial expression to an animal, while lamenting the absence of refined female sensibilities seen in American women. The tone reflects a period belief in gender and cultural superiority.
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America
Daring Nashville Lady Braves Lookout Mountain Edge
A young Nashville woman climbed over the verge on Lookout Mountain with aid from a photographer and a friend. She stood on a six inch rock fragment near the bluff and posed for a vantage picture, risking a fall to the trees and valley below. No other lady has attempted such a feat.
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Lookout Mountain
Nashville
Tennessee River
The Thunderer’s Illusion Heats Up with Electric Flames
The Missouri Republican reports a theatre shock as McVicker plans to end the sheet-iron stage prank by a new contrivance. An electric battery under the stage lights seven hundred burners instantly, heating platinum wires to white heat to produce a burst of flame. The device also creates real lightning and thunder when used behind the scenes.
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The
Missouri Republican
McVicker
Isin
Thunder Bay
The Icicle Metaphor of Character Formation
The passage compares character to an icicle that forms one drop at a time. Pure thoughts produce a bright, happy soul that shines like clear ice, while impure thoughts taint the mind, deforming character into darkness. It urges vigilance against evil impulses and desires.
Mormon Plural Marriages Gain Land Preemption Edge
The article explains under U S land laws a widow or head of family may preempt land but a married woman cannot. It notes that Mormon plural wives, not being lawful wives, may act as heads of households and obtain homesteads, allowing a man with sixteen wives to have fifteen homesteads.
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United States
No man collects anything he uses says Lord Spencer Dibdin
The passage argues against mere collecting by noting Lord Spencer and his associate Dibdin as prominent reading collectors. It contrasts a New York Quaker with a rope museum of instruments used by criminals, implying collectors value ideas over practical use.
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Lord Spencer
Little Dibdin
New York
Elm tree where Washington led forces at Cambridge
An ancient elm in Cambridge Mass stands encircled by an iron railing and a granite monument but shows age. Last week a branch over thirty feet long and about a foot in diameter fell, signaling the tree will likely disappear with other Revolutionary relics.
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Washington
United States
Cambridge
Mass
Western inventor drafts simple self-harm inhalation method
A western man devised a crude technique using Indian rubber tubing connected to a gas burner to inhale gas. He assumed a relaxed posture and appeared to pass away as if under laughing gas in a dentist's chair.
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Tie
Ife
Bessemer Proposes Giant Naval Cannon for War
The inventor Bessemer plans a twenty yard long cannon with a thirty inch bore and eight inch thick walls to fire a five ton shell. He would split the powder into multiple cells and trigger them in sequence, delivering successive impulses before the shell exits the barrel.
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Bessemer
Woman in Union City Bit by Fear Behaves Like Dog
Mrs Dozer of Union City Indiana was bitten by a dog two or three weeks earlier. She feared hydrophobia so strongly that on Thursday she warned others to flee, claiming she would bite. She gnawed a wooden chair and barked like a dog, but has since recovered.
Paper as Armor for War Vessels Reported
The article states paper can absorb sword thrusts bayonet impacts and rifle impacts and that an inventor claims paper plating offers greater resistance than iron plating for war vessels. The claim highlights paper’s expanding role from peacetime arts to military protection.
Grasshopper Invasion Spreads Across the Town
The Concordia Empire reports a vast herd of about 1 million grasshoppers crossed the town last Wednesday. They moved from the North to the South, stretching roughly sixty miles east to west, and faded as night approached.
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Concordia Empire
Hey
Eads Receives LL D From Missouri In Bridge Honor
The degree of LL D was conferred on Captain James B. Eads at the last commencement of the State University of Missouri for his skill in constructing the Mississippi bridge, admired by leading scientists in Europe and America.
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James B. Eads
State University of Missouri
Mississippi
Europe
America
Troy Man Denies Arsenic in Paper Collars Colors
A Troy man declares that no arsenic has been used in paper collar manufacture since a prior uproar. He attributes gloss to laundries using starch white wax gum arabic bluing and sometimes spermaceti.
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Troy
Baby with heads facing opposite directions born in Indiana
A baby born in White county Indiana has heads facing in opposite directions described as a Janus like birth. Locals consider the name Horace Greeley for the child. In Versailles Kentucky a 13 year old boy lost an eye when a rubber sling missile struck him.
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White County
Indiana
Janus
Horace Greeley
Versailles
Train backtracks sixty miles to fetch detached sleeping car
A Kansas Pacific train was compelled to reverse course for sixty miles a few nights ago to recover a detached sleeping car. Crew and passengers were not harmed. The incident prompted a routine delay but concluded without further complications.
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Kansas Pacific Railroad
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Ohio
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Pennell
L. Stauter
Albaribra
Horth Star
Orambe
Alabassia
Durham
John L. Staster
van Wert County
Dent
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Jas. C. Casto
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W. A. Buckingham
2 Hat and Cap Store
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Old Country
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Middlepoint
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John Stransler
Harness & Saddles
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Swineford’s
DD. G. Rison
Chuerrth OF Main
WWA
J Latham & C
Washington St
Thos
Cully
Evcr
Willshare Township
Vam
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Ersa
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