Detective Reels In Parson for Gold Lined Overalls Stash
In Tennessee detective Arthur Wood unravelled a case of buried gold. He trailed a preacher suspected of theft at a widow’s plantation near Chattanooga. Hidden under a rug in a Sunday school room, a trap door revealed $20 gold pieces stuffed in worn overalls. The preacher confessed, the missing funds were returned, and the accused fled the country.
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Arthur Wood
Chicago
Pinkerton Agency
Tennessee
Chattanooga
Wood
New York State
Telnister
Arthur
Chicago Herald
Future transit will outpace horse cars in city streets
In a New York Gun editorial, the writer predicts the day when horse cars become obsolete, noting their draughty, poorly lit, unheated boxes. He argues for powered transit with bigger, sturdier cars, better heating, and safer operation despite crowded streets.
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New York
Deaf and Dumb Rooster Draws Buffalo Curiosity
A Buffalo outskirts owner possesses a deaf and dumb brown Leghorn rooster with no crowing or clucking yet remaining master of the coop. The bird lost its voice after a barbed wire incident but still leads the flock, wakes and motivates others, and even appears to understand dining cues by lip movement.
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Buffalo
Black Rock
Barnum
Lo’elock
Deaf and Dumb
Buffalo Express
Cape mackerel and snoek fishing off Cape Colony
Blackwood's Magazine describes Cape fishing, noting Cape mackerel drift lines and dried shark skin bait. It highlights the snoek fishery as the chief commercial catch, with earnings of 25 to 30 shillings per day, seasonal disappearances in June to August, and May as the peak month for catching and exporting dried fish to Mauritius.
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Cape
Devonshire
Thyrsites Atun
Cape Colony
Mauritius
Blackwood
The Value of Money in a Broker's View
A broker reflects on money's worth noting that long effort under a steady salary makes a thousand dollars real to one. He warns many in a city of wealth could not raise fifty thousand in cash and says idle money leads to ruin. He claims personal success came from leveraging tips like a reporter with a good item.
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Wade Tampton
Hampton Legion
Brandy Station
Pleasonton
Meads
Gettysburg
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Pittsburs Dispatch
Building Materials In Vogue Fireproof Terra Cotta Use
A New York Commercial Advertiser note says porous terra cotta bricks best resist fire water and frost. Modern building favors iron encased in terra cotta tile brick and fireproof coatings with hollow tiles faced by vitreous tile slate or brick. Iron and steel framed structures now commonly use fireproof coverings.
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New York Commercial Advertiser
Ideal Christian Doctor of Trouston Sets High Example
A visiting young minister praising a Texas physician who blends wealth with unostentatious faith. The doctor funds daily door to door charitable work, offers free treatment, travels to poor suburbs, and funds a mission church while running cottage prayer meetings. He even covered the minister’s travel expenses.
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Texas
Trouston
Carmé
Funeral elegies and the rise of poetaster versifiers
The Scottish Review notes the post Restoration fashion of paying rhymsters to write funeral elegies. It critiques Maidment’s collection, calling many elegists poor in truth and craft. It cites an infamous epitaph and a squalid obituary notice to lampoon the era’s lowbrow verse.
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Dublin
Jones
Wallace
Sea Air Effects on Tea and Ale Across Voyages
A small town gathering discusses sea air altering flavors in imported goods. A speaker notes ale improves on sea voyages to India, while another observes tea loses quality despite tight packing as it travels from China via sea to Europe and overland to Russia. England prizes shorter sea journeys for tea.
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England
India
China
Russia
Europe
New York Tribune
A Philosopher at the Billard Table
Mr Herbert Spencer visits the Senior billiard room and plays a game with a young major. After a deliberate miss, the major runs out as Spencer philosophically notes dexterity in games of skill hints at a mind balanced or ill spent youth.
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Herbert Spencer
Spencer
Hot Water Cure for Neuralgia
A towel folded and dipped in hot water is wrung and placed over the affected area to ease neuralgia. This simple treatment is said to relieve toothache, colic, and rheumatic pains quickly, with especially prompt relief for congested lungs and sore throat when applied thoroughly.
A Kerosene Spider Trap Reported
A correspondent notes kerosene can attract and destroy spiders. A cup under the reservoir collects drops and draws insects by odor, then rapidly kills them.
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Ite Oder
Local merchants vow growth after strong first year
The business team reflects on a successful inaugural year and pledges to expand offerings. Daily fall shipments arrive, with larger quantities and better goods than before. The firm promises a complete, stylish line at very small profit and guarantees satisfaction. Customers who feel misrepresented are asked to call for exchanges or refunds.
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D. Shear
Warren
Ourist
Warren County
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