Baby Pianist Carrie Edwards Shocks Chicago Circles
A seven year old pianist in Chicago astonishes audiences with advanced skill, performing complex pieces and writing music after hearing it once. Descriptions recount a child prodigy who began at age three and later played a violin and piano duet, with reports of rapid recital appearances and remarkable memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carrie Marie Edwards
The
Mist
Chicago
Carrie
Jane
Occa
Costly Mausoleum Erected Near Chapel Hill
A grand mausoleum in Wes county, described as a monumental tomb in granite. It features a long stone stairway, a 42 by 28 by 24 foot structure, bronze gates, an Italian interior, and sixteen catacombs. The project, linked to the Huntington family, has lingered five years and remains unfinished.
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P.ientimveton
New York
Woodlewneem
Mr. Huntington
Fiftyth Street
Fifth Avenue
Chapel Hill Atover Wes
Shithern Wacifle Railroad
Ain
Hester
Alamo Haunting Tales Stir San Antonio legends
San Antonio reports revive old Alamo hauntings with cries and footsteps heard in the station cell where Bowie was slain. Guards and prisoners recall moaning ghosts and rattling chains as storms lash the building, while locals debate whether these sounds are real or imagined.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alamo
Santa Anna
Davy Crockett
James Bowie
San Antonio
New York Advertiser
Crockett
Bowie
Ps Popyicesta
Santa Aygua
Stay at Home Like Longfellow Says in Poem Mother Read
A dialog argues against leaving the home and preferring work over play. It cites Longfellow’s sentiment that staying home is best, noting books, nature, health, and duty as reasons to remain. The piece references a poem read by a mother and mentions future growth and nation to come.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longfellow
A Race for Life in Snowbound Colorado Mine
In autumn 1458 I and four School of Mines associates invested in Colorado mining property. Snow halted shipments, workers demanded wages, and I faced threats from armed miners. We bribed with notes, fled under guard, and rode eight miles to the station as miners pursued. A tense escape unfolded through freezing cold and perilous terrain toward safety.
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School of Mines
Colorado
Venines
Publo
New York
Mater
Reynolds
Ihis
Thad
Ie Wiric
Nather
Malcolm Brothers
Ants and centipede tale and wedding garland trends
A fragmentary newspaper item recounts a tale of a centipede killed by ants in the Santa Cruz valley near Tucson, with ants carrying centipede remains into a hole and a note about a spider comparison. It also mentions Russian bridal garlands and a bride named Bistrot with a red hair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hich
FRACTURED OCR: TRAIN STARTS ASSTANTS SLOW TRAIN MOVEMENT
A fragment from Illustrated American notes that when the train began moving the observers slowed their pace, leaving questions about the sequence of events and the apparent delay in motion.
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Illustrated American
The Moorish Merchant and the Ring of Wealth
A merchant returns from a long voyage to find his relatives cold. He hides his shabby clothes and shows a ring, prompting warmth as they assume he is rich. The Moor notes the crowd’s eagerness comes from wealth, not virtue, summing with Wealth maketh many friends, but the poor is separated from his neighbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William
Philadelphia Press
Bizarre Ancestry and Oddities From Past Headlines
A quirky roll of names notes senators and representatives with a kidney quirk, clan-born child names Pearl and Snow, a nine-son baseball cluster from Sturgeon Maine, and an 83 year old river steamboat veteran Captain J M Todd of Decatur Alabama. Also listed are extraordinary youngsters and a Vermont war veteran couple living on a farm near New Hudson, with a marriage date in 1517 and a pension since 1818.
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Senator Worcott
Colorado
Clark
Missouri
Button
Fort Scott
Kan
Pearl
White
Snow
Kirk Hackman
Sturgeon
Decatur
Ala
J. M. Todd
Tennessee
Ean JaAnrow
Iinois
Writs Goopwin
Newbury Center
Vermont
Indianp
Connecticut
Hannah Graves Crumpton Ward
New Hudson
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the Baby Pianist
Marie
St. Jame
the Alamo
Spirits of Crockett and Bowie
Troethius Herodotus
Africa
iUcrodotus
Nile
Stanley
Ruwenzorl
Sig
Robberchi Bricchetti
Sonmmli Land
Indian Ocean
Charles K. Harris
Milwaukee
Bill
Theo
Wade Whipple
BY A. Tendon Wowrie
Layliens
Saeed
He & G. Mover
Soares
Gil Gao Ver Mene
Svtachow
Strikon
Stadies Wien Mig
Malcolm
L’airfax
Econductor
Per Hon
Slate
Philadelphia
Abd
Adena
B. Matheson
Chambers’ Journal
Quet
Santa Cruz
Tucson
Ledoka
Sam
Bistrot
Soen
Ira Huntington
Sting
Motely
Obstite Consulting
Atlanta, Ga
A. J. Tower
Boston
Mass
L. C. Cornwell
Juliet Romeo
Sun
Celluloid CO
Broadway
Hood
Office—Law Building
Wo & Wood
Attorneys Ax Law
Court House
Main Street
Athens
Ohio
U.S. Patent Office
G.A Snow &Co
Patent Office
Washington, D.C
U.S
Coultrap
K. Tinker
G. W. Blakeley
Omce
Washington St
Homes and Hearths
Address Homes Ad Hearthos Publishing CO
York
Rosveree, Jones & Worstell
Attorneys AT Law
E. Davis
Attorney AT Law
Office — Law Building
L. A. Gratigny
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