Life Plant and Other Notions From an Old Paper
A garbled 19th century miscellany references a life plant also called life tree, a hardy moss-like life form from Jamaica and the West Indies with claimed indestructibility except by boiling water or red resin. It notes improvised uses of torches at funerals, social quips about hoop skirts, travel witticisms, and several patent medicine pitches touting bitters, tonics, and syrups as cures and aids for digestion, malaria, debility, and nursing mothers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamaica
Baros
Westies
Brooklyn Eagle
Hostetter
Gainsborough
Sirown
Legislation Adjourns After Lengthy Georgia Session
The Georgia legislature adjourned sine die after a turbulent session with a mock session in both houses. Speaker Atkinson received a silver tea service, and Senator Persons presented it on the floor. The day featured pension bills, state board of health debate, road and railroad measures, tax and treasury actions, and final adjournment plans with numerous bills tabled or carried to Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House
Senate
Georgia
Atkinson
Eboifenillet
Clay
General Assembly
Persons
Saterday
Colored College of
Carrid
Treasury
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Treasury Investigating Committee
Deaf and Dumb Institute
Cave Springs
Normal School
Milledgeville
State Normal School
Rock College
Athens
Grand
Chicamanga
Hogan
Lincoln
Wheeler
Walker
Pearce
Houston
Georgia House Passes Bills on Courts and Public Roads
The Georgia House moved to pass measures including a DeKalb city court bill and a tax on medical and drug bills, with other acts covering liens for mechanics, road law submission, and public notices. A late session saw debates on marriage, unemployment, militia reorganization, and liquor licensing. The Senate considered bond payments, taxation, and various charter and reform bills before adjournments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sénavoc Wany Wuakliy
Candler
DeKalb
Reese
House
Tursday
Dee
House of Representatives
J. G. Camp
Douglas
H. W. J. Ham
Greenville
Augusta
Glynn County
South
Georgia
Bulloch County
Quitman
County Commissioners of Liberty
Wrightsville
Effingham County
Senate
Graham
Appling
Jenkins
Kibbee
State Bank
Hill
Northeastern Railroad
Mondsy
Ana TinTue
Sena
Enate Monnday
Tallulah Falls
Cubana City
Thomas
Murray
McIntosh
Western and Atlantic Railroad
Southern Banking and Loan Association of Atlanta
Ockleknee
Bank of Shellman
Boston
Aily
Montgomery County
Thomas County
Atlanta
State University
United States
Graggville
Normal School
Jag Tavern
Winder
Bacon
Clay
Northwestern Railroad
Brunswick, LaGrange and Western Railroad
Georgia Volunteers
Ft. Gaines
Boifeuillet
Bibb
Train Robbers Captured After Long Pursuit at Austin
A Sunday night train robbery gang is captured in Austin Texas after a 30 hour chase. Dick Wallace and Sam Denton are arrested with a passenger’s watch and money found on Denton. Bill Bronson resists arrest and is wounded and jailed. Burleson remains at large heading west with officers closing in.
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Austin
Texas
Dick Wallace
Sam Denton
Denton
Bill Bronson
Burleson
Weather, accidents and crime sweep through early news
The cold wave lingers as St Paul averages 20 below. A deadly gunpowder blast at Waltham Abbey kills one and injures nine. Rumors of an influenza epidemic at Prince Bismarck’s house are false. Derby Cotton Mill in Shelton resumes full time as orders rise. A Panama dispatch predicts war between Ecuador and Peru. Oceanic reports the Matsuye maree foundered with 30 drownings. Jeremiah H Murphy ex-congressman dies in Washington. Elise laden with kainit reaches Charleston bar with record depth. Milwaukee court hears Jenkins embezzlement case. Post office cash robbery totals around 4000 with no capture. Canton firm C Aultman & Co nears receiver, assets near 2.7 million, liabilities 1 million. Chicago notes influx of hungry and homeless, police prepare to manage crowds.
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St. Paul
Waltham Abbey
England
Prince Bismarck
Derby
Shelton
Conn
Panama
New York
Ecuador
Peru
San Francisco
Oceanic
Matsuyemaree
Shonoharos
Jeremiah H. Murphy
Congress
Iowa
Washington
Elise
Hambere
Charleston
Charleston Bar
Milwaukee
Wis
United States Circuit Court
Jenkins
John C. Spooner
Plankinton Lank
Canton
Hains
Lewis Miller
Akron
Chicago
Brennan
Howard Schemes Unraveled by Expert Witnesses in Jackson Trial
Jackson Tenn special reports the G F B Howard fraud case as evidence from Saturday harms the defendant. Witnesses describe how William Lord Moore and Ross and Leger solicited victims with claims of European inheritances, with Howard later joining and collecting money for phantom inheritances abroad. The testimony weakens the clergyman’s defense and tightens his legal jeopardy.
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Jackson
Tenn
G. F. B. Howard
London
New York
William Lord Moore
E. Ross
Joseph Leger
Moore
Ross
Europe
Supreme Court of Chancery
Leger
Arawa's News From Honolulu Reports No Restoration Yet
The Austrian steamer Arawa arrived at Victoria on Tuesday bringing updates from Hawaii. Queen Liliuokalani has not been restored, no trouble in Honolulu, and annexationists held a mass meeting on November 25 appealing to Congress. Troops fortified the government house with sandbags while the ship sailed.
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Hawaii
Arawa
Victoria
Sam
Lilioukalani
Honolula
Honolulu
Congress
Cleveland
Gresham
Blount
Provisional Government
Government House
He Castle
Quotations and farming economy from period sources
A long composite passage cites famous maxims and proverbs, then discusses agricultural feeding values. It includes quotes from Franklin, Confucius, Cromwell, and others, followed by a sustained focus on bran as animal feed, its relative value versus middlings, and Brown’s practice of mixing bran with corn cob for beef, hunting human digestion benefits and costs.
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Northwest
Brown
Position for Healthy Sleep
A Worthington's Magazine excerpt advises sleeping on the right side after meals, arguing left side sleep hinders digestion and causes mouth taste. It explains anatomical food movement, heart action interference, and lung compression, suggesting back sleep is natural but uncommon, so cultivate right side sleeping for repose.
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Worthington’s Magazine
Worth Remembering Quote on Responsibility and Hope
A reflective passage urges taking responsibility for actions over feelings and cultivating pleasant thoughts to shape a better life. It contrasts genuine effort with sentimental talk and notes the Columbian stamps will fade with the year, hinting at practical limits.
Odds and Ends Reflections and curiosities from history
A collection of pithy sayings and odd facts, praising caution, finance, and decorum. Notable items include estimates of Rome’s catacombs and burial counts, Massachusetts city sizes, and a range of antiquated trivia about Columbus era artifacts, Berlin, and British crown plate discussions.
Senator Stanford and Womankind
Senator Stanford praised women with equal rights at Stanford University and left most of his fortune to his wife in his will. The piece questions whether the couple’s joint legacy will sustain the university, noting the $2,500,000 bequest as insufficient for current needs. The text cites Harper's Weekly on potential posthumous family divergence.
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Senator Stanford
Stanford University
Stanford
Child’s Quirky Exchange Sparks Yard Chore Plan
In a humorous exchange from Street & Smith's Good News a mother asks her son to rake leaves, while the boy humorously cites a list of ailments before agreeing to the task. He jokes about piling leaves and setting them on fire to jump over them, then proclaims taking up the rake.
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Street & Smith
Artistic Salt Cellars Bring Novelty To Tables
A New York Press item notes old fashioned salt cellars return as artful novelties. Silver cat and dog designs fall to the wayside as pansy shaped salt cellars gain favor, with gilded twisted handles and enameled centers on salt spoons. Tinted glass filigree encases also appear among ultra fashionable tableware.
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Mr. Thinkhard
Brothers
America
Allnson
New York Weekly
Ifty
Ae Tron
Hall
F. J. Carney & Co
Toledo
C. E
Druegiste, T.c
Beechag
Hood
Samyou
Walter Baker & CO
Dorchester, Mass
Tree
Woolley
Whitehall Street
Atlante
Lil
Huuman
Cicero
St. Bernard
Coke
William of Orange
Rivarol
Beaconsfield
Chesterfield
Wisdom
Confucius
Walter Scott
Daniel O'Connell
Charles Lamb
Oliver Cromwell
Samuel Rogers
Globe- Democrat
Aefe
Dr. Pierce
Golden Medical Discovey
B. P. Winey
Bor Elder
Converse_ Co. Wye
Della Stevens
Mass
Odds and
Rome
Massachusetts
Union
Rochefoucauld
Schtucknee River
Florida
Remington Typewriter Company
Higinbotham
Lion Brewery
Munich
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Charles F. Mayer
Berlin
India
George IV
Senator
Stanford and
Womankind
Tonerict
Kinsey
Sherman
Blaine
Depe Butler
Conne Whit
Horace Greely
Daniel Wromarck
Gladstone
Carlisle
Hoys
Housh & CO
Exchange
Bost
Mctin Reed Russell
Aw Reichuster
Bis
Ling
Sifg.Co
la Crosse
Waulogions D.C
Rae Eee
BIUNE
Bloomville
Plymouth Rock
New York Press
Jonce J. B. Hit
Superior Court
Walker County
Dr. Kramer & Co
Bincnamros, N.Y
Scott
Scott Bowne
Eppard
Sheppard
Isaac A. Sheppard & CO
Maedicine
Tadigestion
Jg Rae
Ripans Chestiong
Pin la Brsiess University
Maclean, Curtis & Walker
ALN. T
Bere
Reevestt
Seal TY
RTT Pode Orakars
Rees Oetehi “A
Steur SeSalionn
Rostain
Persica
HESS
the American Publishing. CO
Jersey City
H. J
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