Love and Madness and a Brooklyn Bridge Tragedy
A Virginia farmer driven to insanity by unrequited love is sent to Eastern Insane Asylum at Williams burg where he dies after a fall from a horse. The girl he loved, heartbroken, is later confined there as well. The item then shifts through a string of short anecdotes and humorous vignettes on crime, health cures, and oddities from various places, including a bogus Washington dispatch about Senator Pike, a drowning man at the Brooklyn Bridge, and multiple health quack warnings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mame
M. Husbands
Fulton Sr
N.Y
Portrer Drug and Chemical Co
Boston
Mass
Nottoway County
Williamsburg
Washington
Senator Pike
Balloon of 150000 cubic feet built in San Francisco
A large balloon constructed by Mr. Van Tamel in San Francisco can contain 150000 cubic feet of gas and is designed to traverse the American continent from ocean to ocean. The piece also advertises a patent medicine cure for various ailments, offering free copies in multiple languages and asking readers to send stamps with newspaper name.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
van Tamel
American
Manett
Mina
Reeve
Enguets
W. A
Golden
What has got into the boys in these towns
A compilation of juvenile violence and odd anecdotes: incidents in Gadsden Alabama where a drunken boy named Able killed Mrs. Cannon after being ejected from her home, in Rockford Illinois where three youths beat a companion to death, and in New Frankfort Indiana where John Paxton struck Alex Heard with a stick over a kiss. Also quips about a Chinaman, a NY Journal correspondent seeking a remedy for crying eyes while listening to singing, and an official order to postmasters to avoid religion or politics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gadsden
Ala
Able
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ADV
Potter Drug Uo
Sanford
Porter Drug & Chemical Co
Potter Drug and Chemical Os
Ely
Creal
ELY Bros
Owego
N. Y
Warner Sr
Cincinnati
Prine Fabrics
Geo
SalPpe
Athena County
Brooklyn Bridge
Profesor
Mr. Saunders
C. I. Hood & Co
Hood's
Sarsaparilla
Lowell
Germany
Bismarck
France
Acker
C. B. Henderson
Poe
Hatteras
Atlantic Ocean
Buffalo
May
Salvation Oil
Texas
Love Star State
Dec
Florida
Foac
Gro. Bancroft
Australia
Harrisburg
B. Ivy
Macon, Ga
Hood
Tom Waller
Little Giant
Connecticut
United States Senate
Acher
Widow Jones
John
New York Times
Nebraska
Duainess
Georgia State Insane Asylum
Judge Fletcher
Philadelphia
Pierce
Railroads of
America
Tux Chautauqua Literary Society
Osaka
Japan
Paris
Tex
J. E. Corley
Dr. King
Henderson & Minear
Leo Snyder
Omaha
Clark’s Point
New Bedford
Fort Laramine
Wyoming
Grrin
Leaghtier
Correspondert
The
New York Journal
Heten
Hazen
Py, Ackers
W. B. Hoke
Jefferson County
Rothchilds
RTS
Colden
Columbds
Sais
Mes Persos
Binear
Athens
Obie
Dun
Roorgy, &c
Mustin
W. H. Parker
George R. Walker
Court House
Main Street
Atrains, Ohio
D. C. Cornwell
Cal
Athens, Ohio
Walnut Street House
Walnut St
Bet
Ohio
Onseasen
W. M. Tucker & Co
Ropesacan & Skiles
U. S. Pension Claim Agency
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