General Brevities From Across the Nation
A Kentucky woman bore five children in one day, four alive. In Baltimore a nun’s funeral used a pine coffin with rope handles. A Minneapolis woman found seventeen diamonds hidden in a desk once owned by her great grandfather. A ten year old left Sacramento on a Sunday school trip and rode to Boston for fifty cents. A Burlington Hawk-Eye note suggests green spectacles for Centennial visitors. A London King’s College doctor urges diet change to treat nervous diseases. Captain Ahlstrom swam the Danube from Vienna to Perth in 39 hours without gear. An New York undertaker advertises ice couches for the departed. Each winter Vermont spring water freezes and funds a summer ice supply for locals. Custer reportedly hailed a 7000-strong Indian village as he approached. Egyptian troops head to Turkey to quell rebels amid Christian-Muslim contrasts. Mrs. Barber of Ovid Mich bitten by a rattlesnake but recovering after antidotes and mud treatment. Deacon Parkinson warns of boys buying whiskey for fathers while their own drinking ensues. A Berlin funeral accident kills a mother at the grave edge. An Ems correspondent rhapsodizes imperial visits and harmony. Major Schiller pursues a rogue wolf with a dog in a dramatic early morning pursuit. A French delegation lists trades in the United States, including furniture makers, watchmakers, printers, and sculptors. Centenary Fourth celebrated at Virgil NY with identical speakers and officials as fifty years prior. London tailor Pootz leaves £120,000 estate despite lavish living and debts, remembered for a quip to Lord Hardwicke about mixed company.
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Anderson County
Baltimore
Minneapolis
Sacramento
Boston
Burlington
Fitch
General Sherman
Ashington
King’s College, London
Ahlstrom
Danube
Vienna
Perth
New York
Chittenden
Custer
Turkey
Barber
Ovid
Mich
Deacon Parkinson
Carson
Nevada
Berlin
Ems
Germany
Russia
Virgil
Pootz
London
Iplum
Lewis Jennings
Lord Hardwicke
Poole
Echoes of Custer and Sturgis in Washington Farewell
Washington cor respondent recalls General Custer’s cavalry pageantry and the death of young West Point graduate Jack Sturgis. The account notes Custer’s striking appearance, Devil the horse, and Sturgis’s brave, tragic fate with family sorrow and a note of his final letter about facing capture and scalping by the Indians.
Blue Eyed Siren Skips City After Swindling Suitors
A blue eyed woman, about 26, arrived timidly in the southern city district six weeks ago. She collected rings and jewelry from multiple suitors, then departed with the goods. Investigators reveal she was part of five French women aiming to fund a Philadelphia show by sharp tricks on locals. Reading Eagle notes she paid two dollars weekly board and helped wash to appear legitimate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Penn Square
France
Philadelphia
America
Reading
Eagle
Dead Heat Swells Mortality at City Morgue
The overheated days have produced a surge of deaths with the morgue and dead-house overflowing. A city assistant keeper reports dozens of coffins piled near the morgue and more bodies buried daily, noting over fifty unknown deaths since July began.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr. F
W. Y. Sun
Gooseberries Preserving and Household Remedies
Instructions on making gooseberry preserves with sugar and water, plus tips on keeping faded bouquets fresh, making blackberry wine, treating chilblains with warm water and mustard, a sour milk remedy, jelly making, and raspberry vinegar with step by step notes and quantities.
Why Do Physicians Differ In Diagnosing Ailments
A patient presents with dull head pain dizziness bad taste nausea headaches back and side pains scanty dark urine fatigue loss of appetite and variable breath. Some doctors call liver kidney or stomach ailments or consumption but all may be right and wrong. A single remedy that acts on all organs is claimed: SHAKER EXTRACT of Roots sold by A J White 319 Pearl St New York. Agents wanted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. J. White
Pearl Street
N. Y
Remarkable Lightning Storm Hits Albany Reservoir Site
A violent thunderstorm struck the Albany Prospect Hill reservoir site on Monday noon. Seventeen men including thirteen police were injured as lightning flashed among workers sheltering in a tool-house. Some were unconscious, clothing torn, others paralyzed. all escaped deadly harm.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
Martin & Kelly
Prospect Hill
McNamara
Hagadorn
Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic Promotion
An advertisement touts Schenck's Sea Weed Tonic as a remedy for heat lethargy and loss of appetite. It claims to mimic gastric juice, aiding digestion without harsh minerals, and notes endorsement by a company spokesman and physicians.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Schenck
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Maj. Schiller
Long Beach
Galena
Ill
Frenc
Custer and
Jack” Sturgis
Washington
Devil
West Point
Jack Sturzis
Sturgis
Seventh Cavalry
Jack
Sitting Bull
Washington Cor
Cincinnati Gazette
Home Interests
Germantown Telegraph
Naptes
Philological Club
Shallenberger
Murray Street
Natal
Lossuss
Snne
Latory
Echatee
Dercri Distry
Ion
Scammell
Louis
Madame Foy
Voy & Haemon
New Haven
Conn
Vornbrock & Fattmann
Sixth Bt
St. Louis
Nenport 73G & Sages
Desing, Ee
Iver GN
P. O
Aung
Montague & Lillibridge
Davenport
Iowa
Trabicco
Flor del Famar
Weary Clay
Jockey Club
Figaro
Partagas
Play de Cuba
KEY West
Haskell & CO
Zoo Washington Street
Mass
Railroad Gazette
Jackson Street
Chicago
Jessee Brockway
Nassau, Renna, Co
N.Y
J. B. Massey & Co
G.J J. Pcarawatti
Stinson
Cu Fortland, Me
Yonge & CO
Taliman's
Jay Bronson
Detroit
Honito Manuf Co
Cincinnati
Ohio
Imac
Taeinietesc Risa
W.K. Lanpheak
Coulter & CO
J. Worth & CO
Goodspeed’s
Peel
John T. Sherfey
S. Fourth Street
Aer
Carlton
Sewell
Chicago, Il
Vesey T
Oman & See & Co
Obieishi
ST. Louis Midland
Seeley
Walnut Street
Ague
Hopmann’shop
Peerless
Wringer
Excelsior Manufacturing
N. Main St. ST. Louis
Sound BT
Vibrator
Shepard CO
Nichols, Shepard & Co
Battle Creek
Liniment
Marion
Ortirentar
Clark Chicago
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