Post Office Thief Caught Via Plug Tobacco Clue
A Chicago Post Office postmaster was accused after a missing five hundred dollars from a sealed registered letter. An investigator soaked the envelope and found tobacco residue under a microscope, linking the masticating thief to plug tobacco. The officer traced the habit through offices and arrested the postmaster, who was convicted and jailed in Joliet.
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Beecher Shifts Pulpit Rules For Family Like Service
New York correspondent describes Henry Ward Beecher as breaking formal church norms. He treats church as a home, speaks plainly, and delivers sermons with casual posture and improvised flair. Beecher navigates pulpit duties by trial and humor, even losing his text before starting the sermon.
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Charms To Lure Farm Youth With Home Labor Pleasures
A rural press discussion urges making country work attractive to boys and girls. Proposes giving youths plots, crops, animals, profits, and parental guidance to foster love of farm life. Advocates equal chances for girls, humane treatment of animals, and festive farm occasions to ease toil.
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Equitable Life of New York Leads 1870 Insurance Business
Review highlights Equitable Life of New York as 1870 leader with 40,295,799 in new business. It notes the mutual cash-basis company returns profits to policyholders and praises agent accessibility and company prominence. Details trace growth from 1866 to 1870 and 60,000 policies totaling over 250 million in coverage.
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Alvania Senate Endorses Cumulative Voting Bill
The Alvania Senate passes a bill to introduce cumulative voting in borough elections for town councils. In five member boroughs six officials would be elected, with voters distributing or cumulating votes among candidates. Proponents cite Buckalew’s system as fair to minorities and echo Illinois’ recent constitutional adoption.
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The Hair Switch That Brought a Spirit's Warning
A Massachusetts woman rents a false hair switch and soon suffers a strange sensation. She consults a Boston medium who relays a spirit claim that the hair came from a head hanged long ago and warns of a choking effect when worn. The tale adds that false hair retains the original owner's personality, suggesting insanity and crime as possible outcomes.
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Natural Consequences and Unlikely Inferences
A humorous essay notes that appearances can mislead. It warns that beckoning a mule, a doorway observer, or a street runner does not prove outcomes or motives. It cites mock examples from daily life to illustrate faulty inferences and suggests skepticism toward assumed connections.
Origin of handshaking and fidelity in ancient Rome
The piece notes Fides the goddess of fidelity and honesty worshipped by Numa with a white veil as her dress and joined right hands as a symbol. It connects this to Greek and Roman agreements where parties clasped hands, a practice still common today. It then cites the Ohio Railroad Commissioner reporting widespread rate law violations on state railways.
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Warsaw Mourns Paris Capitulation as Merchants Close Shops
The population of Warsaw, Europe's least large city with France, showed ardent sympathy when Paris capitulated. Polish merchants closed their stores and churches filled with mourners for the day.
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Sheridan's Cavalry Condition Powders and Johnson's Liniment Advised
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