Yellow Fever Victims A Graphic Southern Scourge
Savannah faces a devastating yellow fever epidemic with 1000 deaths since August 20. The city’s population drops to 21,000 as 800 residents are sick, with 153 new cases reported on Saturday. Vacant livelihoods and widespread destitution follow, while officials warn a hard freeze may help only by mid November.
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Atlanta
Savannah
Brunswick
W. D. Chipley
Southern
Virginia Midland
Steve Chipley
Louisville
Col. Lamar
Old New Orleans Man Seeks Shelter Behind Tramps’ Room
A. Venier, once a wealthy New Orleans merchant, arrives at Southern Station seeking a night’s lodging. His tale recalls a life destroyed by his wife’s infidelity, a Cuban affair, cholera deaths of three children, and twenty three years in a madhouse before final wandering to Baltimore.
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Southern
Capt. Delanty
Paul Veniler
New Orleans
Paul Vaniler
Crescent City
Martinique
Venner
Lake Ponchartrain
Madame Veniler
Cuba
Baltimore
Mobile
Baltimore American
Culverwell
C. Price
Culverwell Medical CO
Ann &J
New York
Orphan sisters witness tragic wedding death and madness
Three sisters at 2137 Third Avenue recount a wedding and a fatal slumber death followed by a sister's violent decline. The bride Maggie dies after a nap while the unmarried sisters suffer a religiously driven madness, chasing visions and endangering themselves. The case is followed by unrelated notes on suffrage anecdotes and a pension for George Smith’s widow.
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Sullivan
Third Avenue
Maggie
St. Paul’s Roman Catholic Church
Ninth Avenue
New York Sun
Two Phillies visitors sell hair to fund trip home
Two Reading residents returning from Philadelphia spent all their money on shows and purchases and lost their return tickets. With no friends or time to write, they fled to a barber and sold their hair for 3.75 dollars each to fund their journey back home.
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Philadelphia
Reading
Reading (Pa
Yelling at Horses Warned Against by Boston Cultivator
The piece condemns the common habit of sharp vocal shouts and sudden rein jerks at horses in both city and country. It urges gentleness and kindness as wiser, humane, and more effective methods to achieve proper behavior and control of equines.
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Boston
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