Italian Editor Describes Press Repression in Rome
The Messagero editor Sig. Luigi Cesana recalls daily censorship by the procuratore del re after a memorial article on the Paris commune. He plans a new edition to distribute privately, while lamenting laws from 1848 and the absence of press independence. He notes French influence, Feuilletons, and cooperation ideas.
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Cof
Rome
Via del Butalo
Sig
Luigi Cesana
Sig. Cesana
Procuratore del Re
Paris
France
Stefani
Burke
Milan
Italy
Secolo
Pall Mall Gazette
Gratis
Pungolo
Corriere de la Sera
L’italia
Genoa
Epoco
Naples
Turin
England
Europe
Two Vagabonds Talk of Odd Jobs in Outlying Professions
Two idle men in City Hall park recall peculiar employments. One describes courting funeral orders for a florist by reading death notices and delivering mourning cards. The other recounts living on wits, including a parrots ploy to draw diners away from a rival restaurant, ending with an ambulance ride. A Ben Butler anecdote follows about a congressional exchange at the House.
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City Hall Park
New York Evening Sun
Ben Butler
Calkins
Indianapolis
Wil W. Rooker
Paxton
Ohio
Sam Cox
Olio
Benjamin
Ben
Mr. Speaker
Speaker
Massachusetts
Clio
Omaha
Editor Uses Wrapping Paper For Special Queen Portrait
A southern Illinois editor mocks delays by printing a fake portrait of Queen Kapiolani on brown wrapping paper. The note promises an accurate likeness and skin tone reproduction, discounts extra copies at five cents, and claims to be from The Welkin Ringer via the Chicago Tribune.
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Kajones
United States
Welkin Ringer
Queen Kapiolani
Sandwich Islands
Chicago Tribune
Getting Into Prime Condition for a Prize Fighter
A Boston Post clipping extols self discipline and training as key to fitness. It cites a club man in Boston shaping habits, comparing prize fighter regimens with long pulls, punching a feather bag, and rest. It notes a Panician doctor claiming the pope looks ten years younger.
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Boston
Boston Post
The Old Log Cabin An Indiana Old Settler Sketch
A Civil War era reminiscence describes a log cabin built without nails or glass, detailing the construction, chinking, daubing, and rustic fittings. It recalls dimly lit interiors, a single room, hearth edge tables, pewter ware, a hustering rack, and shared community life at pioneer gatherings in Wayne County.
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Wien
Centerville
Wayne County
Dudge
J. B. Julian
Borme County
Ind
Old Settlers Meeting
A Railroad Problem From a Classic Railroad Teaser
A freight train one mile long stops with the caboose opposite the depot. The conductor orders a move to the next station five miles away. He walks along on top of cars and reaches the next station just as the engine arrives. The puzzle asks how far he walked and whether he rode at all during the five miles.
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Chicago News
Sunrise and Venice Poem Excerpt by Josquin Miller
A fragment from Josquin Miller portrays sunrise over the sea with escalating imagery. The speaker describes light rising from water like a blossoming tree, expanding through heaven toward a roselike blaze, with beams and oaths of fire, spires, and tongues of flame emerging from billows.
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Josquin Miller
In the Limekiln Club Demeans a Good Man’s Wise Counsel
A Detroit Free Press piece recounts the Limekiln Club address by Brother Gard ner, with Elder Toots Deacon Tillsbury and Esquire Jackson, urging humility, honesty, charity, and adherence to the Golden Rule. The humor and dialect illustrate social guidance on wealth, work, and moral conduct.
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Brother Gardner
Toots
Deacon Tillsbury
Esquire Jackson
Barry Promey
Providenes
Thad bin
Detroit Free Press
At a Dutch Breakfast Table from the Holland Corresponden The New York Graphic
A Holland breakfast scene describes eight to ten o'clock meals with a brass kettle and peat embers, bread and butter with rye bread often avoided, occasional gingerbread, and eggs boiled in the kettle. The younger men hurry to work in Haarlem, while others plan visits to the Hague or racing circles, then resume duties in Amsterdam by early afternoon.
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Malicious
Holland
Teun
Haarlem
Benedict
Hague
Amsterdam
Holland Cor
New York Graphic
Shylocks and Water Color Painters in New York
A Union Square portrait painter deplores the water color craze among city dealers and artists. He says oil paintings are banned by the wealthy in homes yet acceptable in halls. Dealers pay artists three to five dollars weekly, while charging customers forty to sixty dollars for water colors. He laments artists’ poverty and notes many talent-rich vendors struggle for meals.
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Union Square
New York Evening Sun
Four Difference in the Cost of Pottery Vases
The New York Sun manager W M Laffan hosts cartoonist Gillam for dinner at Lexington Avenue, showing two vases of similar size. Gillam prefers the red vase but admits little knowledge, while Laffan reveals the red vase cost 1500 dollars and the blue vase cost 16 dollars.
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New York Sun
W. M. Laffan
Lexsington Avenue
Gillam
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