Topics of the Time on Royal Property and Fair Plans
The piece contrasts Crown and private property in English palaces, noting Balmoral and Osborne belong to the Queen while Windsor and Buckingham Palace hold little of her own wealth. It mentions Boston Mechanics Fair exhibits for women and a looming Czar threat to the throne, with possible royal movement and heirs’ reception.
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Royal
England
Balmoral
Osborne
Windsor
Buckingham Palace
Boston
Engineers mistaken for convicts at governor’s visit
A group from the American Society of Civil Engineers visited the ex-president near Governor Butler’s Lowell home. Rumor spread they were convicts and a crowd pursued the party, only to learn they were civil engineers visiting the governor.
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American Society of Civil Engineers
Butler
Lowell
Mass
Meteor theory links sunk ships to sea meteors
The Pankma Star and Herald advances a theory that many lost vessels may have been sunk by meteors. It notes destructive meteors fall about every 870 years and compares hitting a ship at sea to a bull's-eye miss at a barn door, while recalling a Fountain County man struck by a meteor.
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Pankma Star and Herald
Unige
Star and Herald
Fountain County
Telephone use does not enlarge the ear say New York official
The general superintendent of a New York telephone company refutes the claim that constant telephone use enlarges the ear. He argues that even with future more powerful instruments, sensible people will not accept such a theory and notes central office operators as an example.
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New York
Paris waiter GENISCAIN dies after gastrotomy failure
GENISCAIN a Parisian waiter who swallowed a Bbpoon and had it removed by gastrotomy has died. He previously subsisted on rum and soup but attempted a heavier meal during a physician's absence. He ate bread and cheese causing inflammation and suture rupture, with an improbably long French loaf likened to an alligator’s scales.
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Geniscain
Ostrich Farm Planned Near Anaheim California
A new ostrich enterprise with 630000 capital forms in California after a hen lays two eggs. The venture secures 640 acres near Anaheim in Los Angeles county. Dr. C J Sketchley, formerly of Cape Town, will supervise as chief ostrich farmer.
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California
Anaheim
Los Angeles County
C. J. Sketchley
Cape Town
Enigmatic Satmr Mosse and Imperial Court Notes
A tall gray man Satmr Mosse is described as intelligent and resolute with a theater home and luxurious belongings. The Emperor of Germany invites the Crown Prince to the coronation of the Kazaar of Russia set for May 27 amid Nihilist objections and security concerns.
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Kingdom Cotbo
Bill Rex
Unser Fritz
Satmr Mosse
Australia
Germany
Qazar
Record of disasters overwhelms the year’s start
The year has seen a string of deadly events from the New hall house fire to the Braidwood calamity, including the Milwaukee fire and the Cimbria wreck. In about fifty days a catalogue of fatalities has overwhelmed the public record, with many blaming late elections for the spike.
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Newhall House
Braidwood
Milwaukee
Cimbria
California
Senator Taber Dinner Proves Statesman in Washington
The piece mocks Senator Taber arriving in Washington with wealth and jewelry, praising his first dinner as a display of statesmanship. It claims his banquet of twenty cost $1,000 with flowers costing another $1,000, and laments that his brother senators wish he had appeared sooner and stayed longer.
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Senator Taber
Washington
Senator Tabor
Tabor
Sketch Theft at Ischl Ends with Gifted Cane
Dore, while visiting Ischl, left a valuable sketch album in a paletot pocket. After dinner the album vanished and he returned in fury. The next day a parcel arrived with a letter from an anonymous donor confessing the theft and sending a gold headed cane as a compensating token. The namer Doreney was later identified as the giver.
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Dore
Ischl
Doreney
The Georgetown Convent's Missing Nun Sister Lorenzo
A 19 year old nun at Georgetown near Washington, named Sister Lorenzo, disappears after nineteen years in a convent. Learning of her ailing parents and a $20,000 estate, she leaves with a bronde wig, returning to worldly life and refusing to rejoin the convent. Locals report she has become popular with neighbors.
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Georgetown
Washington
Lorenzo
Chicago Whisky Affects May Observations
A Chicago man, reportedly drunk, activated eight fire alarms before arrest. The piece mocks overindulgence during the Masonic conclave, noting the urge to call for a fire engine after drinking Chicago whisky. It ends by lampooning tax culture and a claim about Mosaic nutrition.
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Chicago
Peck
Milwaukee Sun
Leprosy case from Honolulu travels to Philadelphia for advice
A 34 year old Honolulu native with leprosy history is sent to Prof Grogs in Philadelphia by Drs Hagen and Trousseau. Initial treatment by Dr Shoemaker offered tonics and chaulmoogra oil with needling, but doctors deem the disease incurable and advise relocation to a cold mountainous area and mental diversion. The article then shifts to a historical note on the Tuileries and French royalty.
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Philadelphia Times
Hagen
Trousseau
Sandwich Islands
Grogs
Atient
H. A
Honolulu
New Hampshire
Sandwich
Philadelhia
J. Gross
Theody
John V. Shoemaker
Shoemaker
The Last of the Tuileries Falls to Demolition
The Tuileries palace in Paris, burned in 1870, is being demolished after its ruins were sold for 6000 dollars. Contractors cart away charred stones as a garden is planned for the site, reflecting on the palace’s long, troubled history.
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Tuileries
Paris
Benefit of Clergy Abolished in George IV Era
A historical overview explains the privilege of clergy in felony cases, allowing educated clerics to be tried by ecclesiastical courts or for compurgation. It traces the expansion to laypersons and women, the later abuse and punishment with lettered marks, and eventual abolition in the reign of George IV.
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Edward Eii
Tohn
William and Mary
Henry VII
Persion
George IV
Amusing Fragments From The Past Newspaper Parade
A miscellany of light anecdotes and sly jokes, featuring a wary husband and wife exchanges, a fashionably boastful woman, a telegraph family, a costumer with masquerade humor, and a New York cyclone tale. Also includes Texas Liftings and an anecdote about Louis Blanc mistaken for a page boy.
Don’t Pay It Club Upsets Railways With Seat Fight
A Chicago club of gentlemen refuses to pay a streetcar fare until a seat is secured. The movement has grown large enough to alarm railway officials as members organize to stand their ground for seating.
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Chicago
Two Ways of Being Happy
There are two ways of being happy as stated in the text. One path is to diminish our wants and the other to augment our means. The excerpt ends abruptly, noting that the result is the...
Each Man Chooses His Easier Path
The remark notes that each man must decide for himself and pursue what seems easiest, highlighting personal choice and self-reliance in making decisions.
The Kola Nut A Potential Drink For All Seas
The Kola nut, introduced eight years ago in England, contains active principles of coffee and cocoa and offers a substitute for alcoholic drinks. Native to Africa, it reportedly boosts digestion, reduces thirst, and sustains energy on long journeys. Claims include sobering tipsy drinkers and easing cravings, with purported benefits for liver health and skin.
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England
Africa
South America
Jamaica
Papefio
Daniels
Preserving Power of Soil and Buried Remains
Observations on how lime and other soils can retain features of buried bodies for years or centuries with notable examples. Mentions Washington Wayne Burns Hampden and Lord Nugent records, plus a child's quip about grandfather's milk and a patent medicine claim of bottled sleep.
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Gen
Washington
Gen. Wayne
Robert Burns
John Hampden
Ben
Lord Nugent
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