Various oddities and notices from the era
A collage of brief items includes youths jailed in Portland for murder, wireless talk in Cincinnati, a Paris fireworks inventor, and U.S. gold and silver outputs. It notes New Orleans building booms, a Yreka schoolmistress wrestling a steer, John Parnell’s vast peach farm near West Point, Ga, and French plans on Sahara canal work. Also mentions a New York lawyer David Duprey Field, a Tucson correspondent proposing Apache relocation, and satirical jests about volcano island cremation plans.
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John H. Parnery
West Point
Parnell
Amherst College builds experimental barn with cattle stalls
An experimental barn at Amherst College features cement floors and sides for cattle during feeding trials to prevent manure loss. A silo annex houses an engine and feed-cutting equipment, and a wing contains a twenty‑apartment piggery with doors opening to an alley where pigs will stand on a porte platform scale daily for testing different foods.
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Amherst College
American Consul Hosts Whimsical Vienna Birthday Party
The American Consul at Vienna held a sheet and pillow-case birthday party. Wearing masks and robes, a group of Americans joined in a supper with a cake bearing a cherry tree symbol. The tree was felled at the end while cherries were distributed, prompting amused onlookers.
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Vienna
Washington
Honest Man and a Toll Gate Lesson
A tale from the Arkansas Traveler about an honest man who stops at a toll gate and pays the keeper five cents to show respect. The old gatekeeper notes the payment, praising the traveler as honest. The scene ends with the old man sending a watchdog after the man, betting he will steal if he leaves. Also a stray line on Laser and Mazzini is included.
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Arkansaw Traveler
Samos
Laura
Grandpa
Laterry
Pittsburgh
Whitney
Boston
Alonprés
Busiess
New York Newsman Hears Fire Engines Then Rings In
A New York newspaper man heard fire engines on the pavement below and stepped to the telephone to report the scene. The action underscores the immediacy of urban reporting as emergencies unfold.
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New York
Buttler in Midnight Train Drinking Party Ends with Dismissal
Washington correspondent recalls Col George H Buttler once United States Consul General in Egypt and later Wagon Master in the army. After a trip he joined a drinking spree on a train where he urged all aboard to drink. A clerical passenger Bishop Simpson identified himself, objected, and reported to President Hayes. Buttler was ordered back to Washington and dismissed.
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Washington
George H. Butler
United States
Egypt
Hayes
Post Office Department
Dakota
Butler
Col. Butler
George Butler
Bishop Simpson
Methodist Episcopal Church
President Hayes
Lutler
The Lesson of the Stocking
A juvenile tale recalls a girl's struggle to finish a stocking as her mother pushes hard work. A misstep by the baby undoes weeks of effort, teaching that careless actions can destroy hard won progress and that vigilance and steady work are essential throughout life.
Grandpas Birthday and a Rocking Horse Riddle
A fragmentary schoolyard vignette shows a stage trick with a rocking-horse and island clues, then a family birthday at the farm with Grandpa evaluating which grandchild he likes best, interwoven with old memories and moral reflections. A later note recalls theater chatter and a parable about mercy and justice seen at a chapel.
Imperfect Curtain Rescue Steals Scene at Cosmopolitan
In a Parisian Romance at the Cosmopolitan Theater Ida Vernon faints mid play and the curtain sticks. Par Selle and Whiting improvise a graceful recovery lifting her to her feet and guiding her off stage without the audience suspecting an impromptu performance.
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Detroit Freee Press
Cosmopolitan Theater
Ida Vernon
Parselle
Whiting
Miss Vernon
Miss Verna
Brooklyn Eagle
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Troz
Portland
Ore
Gaurder
Cincinnati
Appalachian Range
Georgia
Carolinaa
THE
New Orleans Times-Democrat
Yreka
Cal
Norristown Herald
Sahara
North Africa
Great Desert
de Lesseps
Espitaists
Europe
Soudan
Red Sea
David Dupley FieLp
Tucson
Indian Territory
Pacific
San Francisco
Sandwich Island
Kalakaua
Gresham
Benedfin
Mazzini
Henry
Gracie
Ray
Baby Ray
Mary
Julian
Laura Lsarc
Burton
Burton Bert
Emma Gc, Dowd
Trinity Church
Edith
Hattie B
Lunatius
Tewksbury
Mass
Elin
Dudley
Charron
Ian
Dickson Hag
Tae
8Wild
Buffalo Bill
Lewis Vorrison
Marie Prescott
John
Owson
Wallack
St. Louis
Rhea
BeRnaaker
Fedora
Oscar W1de
Mary Andrson
Adus
Louis J ‘Ldrich
Hanlons
Geo
Hoty
James O’neill
Jrsey
Lily
Winthrop
Madison Square Management
Mason MitcuEeLt
Modjeska
Gill
Mary Anderson
London
Marys Anderson
Janaucschek
Willimantic
Marig' Antoinette
Rankin’s
Joseph Jefferson
Rip van Winkle
Patti
Nilsson
Albani
Salvini
Clara Moss
Modjlessa
John McCullough
John Gilbert
Charles Wyndham
Boucicault
Cot
Londonderry
Ireland
Lawrence Barrett
Paterson
N. J
Sacramento
Jal
Mlle. Rhea
Brussels
Vulara Morris
Cleveland
Ohio
James E. Murdoch
Philadelpha
Nat Goodwin
John A. Elisler
Phiadelphia
J.nother
Christ
Destor
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