A Very Queer Case Of Converse With Two Living Persons
A Danbury Connecticut worker known as Dumminy can talk only to his mother and the widow McCann and her daughter. Doctors attribute a nerve based paralysis of speech, while townspeople note the odd ante natal influence and pre birth conditioning. He communicates with two designated people, and remains mute with all others. a curious mystery cited by the New York World corresp.
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Connecticut
Ilis Sangeness
John Tice
Dumminy
Danbury
McCann
Pudgeley
Ryder
New York World
Will There Be Railroads in Heaven
A reflective meditation on guardia ns of public safety and envisioning railroads in the afterlife. The speaker cites Bill Arp and a fanciful vision of trains moving electricity powered cars and rails of rosewood and diamonds, imagining universal access and eternal journeys.
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Swedenborg
Bill Arp
Atlanta Constitution
Difficulties in the Lodge rooms Revealed by Secret Society Official
A Globe-Democrat report quotes a prominent secret society official describing threats and dangers within lodge rooms. He claims to carry a British vall dog in his hip pocket for protection as he enforces the society's rules and warns that his life has been in danger for two weeks amid sworn comradeships.
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Globe-Democrat
Americans in London and English ignorance of home sights
A United States traveler in London notes English lack of interest in domestic landmarks such as the Tower of London and Stonehenge. He recounts a San Francisco friend’s surprise at Yosemite and contrasts foreign exploration with complacent local tours, illustrating a curious national self-ignorance.
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England
India
Egypt
South Africa
Switzerland
Yosemite Valley
Frisco
California
Yosemite
Stonehenge
Giant's Causeway
Stratford On Avon
Hampton Court
the Tower
Buenos Ayres Printing by Convicts
In Buenos Ayres government printing is done by convicts with ministers reports and official receipts. The manager is a practical native printer who showed several volumes of these reports and they were well made, though the tabular matter lacked proper rules and mitering.
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Buenos Ayres
Durance Vile
Chicago
Leisure as the Bird and Wheat in a Folkloric Verse
A fragmentary poem contrasts leisure across creatures and seasons. It likens the bird to care for its young, praises the wheat’s patient growth and the poet’s own rest, and imagines a distant, uneasy leisure above where Love awaits like Noah's dove. The archaic lines evoke cyclical birth, fear of scarcity, and nocturnal stillness.
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Noah
Feun Iugelow
Large Bank Checks and Cash Supply in London
A London business tale highlights the rarity of million-pound check cashing. A financier notes few banks hold such cash. A £65,000 check required Bank of England cash, and deposits aroused suspicion among banks unused to huge sums. The piece contrasts actual cash with vast financial activity. Lemonade at the Circus shows a con artist tricking a vendor, earning five cents while praising the drink, then moving to a three card monte scam under disguise.
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London
New York
Mills, Glynn, Currie & Co
Bank of England
United States Treasury
New York Tribune
Chicago Tribune
Aloha Greeting From the Sandwich Islands
The Boston Herald admires the queen of the Sandwich Islands and suggests a new decorative motto "Aloha oe" for crafts. It imagines this phrase on shoebags, dusters, a silver hair brush backing, and New Year cards as a charming sentiment for gifts to a loved one.
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Sandwich Islands
Glueck Auf
Aloba
Boston
Queen Kap
Boston Herald
A Decidedly Dangerous Risk of Excursions
A Globe-Democrat piece warns secret societies against railroad and steamboat excursions lacking prohibition clauses. It argues such events risk life and large damages, noting potential sums of 100 000 to 200 000 and that societies are shaping constitutions to address these dangers. A Chicago Times comment follows on horse cars and rear occupancy harming draft and load drawing.
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Globe-Democrat
Chicago Times
The Indian Girl's Prayer Recited by Teacher
A short quip from Harpers Bazar features a little Indian girl asking God to bless the poor and make them fat if possible, after her teacher urged prayer for the needy. The humorous exchange reflects a child’s literal interpretation of a charitable plea.
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Harper’s Bazar
Evening with Kalakaua The King of Hawaii Revealed
John Swinton recalls an evening with King Kalakaua in Kansas City, praising the monarch as a learned, urbane ruler with broad knowledge of ethnology and science. The writer highlights Kalakaua as a roisterer deserving broader respect beyond notoriety, noting his thoughtful conversation on Hawaii, its people, and history.
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Malakaua
Seven Islands
Mexico
Kalakaua
Roysterer
John Swinton
Kansas City
Swing Promise Instead of a Grave Marker
A dying girl asked her father to spend money on swings for park children rather than a monument. He promised, but the girl recovered and the pledge was not kept, noted by the Albany Journal in a reflective tale about philanthropy and family duty.
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Tou
Mae
Albany Journal
Origin of the Squidge in Circus Tickets
A Forepaughs circus anecdote explains that admission tickets were once called squidges. A southern circus door guard refused entry to a moneyless boy who cried that he needed a squidge or squidgum, and the term spread among youths as a ticket name. The story cites the Chicago Herald as the source.
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Chicago Herald
Pleasant Parting Attention and Mail Bag Tradition
Pleasant parting custom described for sending a mail bag with letters dated for delivery. The practice enlivens voyages and offers daily surprises from friends. Louise Chandler Moulton and other celebrated writers like Nora Perry and Geraf Fay Adams are noted for contributing poems and sketches.
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Louise Chandler Moulton
Nora Perry
Gecaf
Wealthy syndicate plans canal purchase and railroad to drain Dismal Swamp
The Boston Transcript notes a wealthy syndicate intends to buy the Dismal Swamp canal, build a railroad along its banks, open its locks, and drain one million acres of alluvial soil, enriching the surrounding agricultural region.
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Boston Transcript
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