Junk Dwellers of Back Bay Reflect City Tides
In Boston’s Back Bay a vast jumble of shanties and junk dumps hosts a floating community of junk gatherers. Men, women, and children comb ash heaps, markets, and city shoulders for scraps to subsist, while observers note hard luck, quiet resilience, and a shifting urban edge as Beacon Street rises nearby.
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Junk eatherers and their altered metal craft processes
The text describes transforming material into sheet row forms and paror and lighter stoves, sending old bones to grease boiling establishments, and extracting pith and marrow for phosphate manufacture. It notes domestic habits and profits of junk gatherers but says further detail will appear in future numbers.
Carl Funk's Fortune Revealed By German Consul Aid
A Baltimore tale tells of Carl Leonard Funk, a German waiter in Baltimore whose father died in Rome leaving a fortune. An attorney in Nurnberg reported 185000 marks, about 36000 dollars, to Funk via the German consul Mr Heydenrich who aided under oath. Funk vanished after moving to New York where he is said to have married and may hold the fortune.
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Baltimore Bulletin
Carl Leonard Funk
Nurnberg
Funk
Kernan’s
Summer Garden
Rome
Carl
Stephen
Germany
America
St. Louis
Chicago
Cincinnati
Louisville
Indianapolis
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New Central
von Lingen
Kimi Heydenrich
Heydenrich
New York
Four Grave Mistake Woman Believes Buried Husband
Josiah Hill, a gardener at Studebaker shops, was presumed dead after a June 1 1876 Evanston railway fatality. At Winnetka his ghostly double was spotted in a garden and the truth emerged that the husband and father survived, leading to a stunned reconciliation with his wife and daughter.
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South Bend (Ltd
Tribune
Josiah Hill
Iower Studebaker
Mill
Grant Place
Chicgo
Eyanston
L Vapston
Evanston
Josiah Hil
Ward
Mr. Kearney
Cook County
Mr. Hill
Winnetka
Vansion
Hill
Chicago
Kearney
Lismond
Man of wealth swindles traveler at Calvert depot
A Pennsylvania traveler at Calvert station fell prey to a confidence man who asked to watch his baggage and then caused a theft. The elderly scoundrel chose a moment to claim a bag and fled with the trunk contents after the victim handed over fifty dollars. The traveler reported the loss and continued home.
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Calvert Station
Pennsylvania
Holiday Street Theatre
Dupe
A Mysterious Law Student at the New York Law Library
Samuel J. Tilden, an aging financier linked to railroad interests, is seen daily at the New York law library studying statutes with a view to securing state legislation. He reportedly plans to claim canal tow-path rights to build a road-bed for a new transportation venture.
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New York
Samuel J. Tilden
Rairoad Projects
Scnewe
Berme
Time Canal
Tilden
Actress Weeps Into Police Office After Assault
On Saturday afternoon a variety actress, with eyes bound in red tape and a red nose, arrived at the chief of police office in tears. She claimed she had been assaulted by a married lady of the Company, who was jealous of the single woman.
Privately Executed Plea for Secrecy in Police Court
A distressed claimant sought to bar press coverage and hold a private police court for an alleged adultery case. Chief Chamberlain warned such sessions were rare, reporters admitted only when necessary, and the woman fled the room after securing her ward, returning later in a white frock to rejoin the matinee crowd.
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D. Said
Seyms Street
BOLO BALLOONIST PLOTS transatlantic balloon voyage plan
Professor Lemuel A King urges new Edison like breakthrough to control balloons. He details a 1880 transatlantic balloon attempt from Manhattan Beach with a 35 foot high enclosure, two 160000 cubic foot balloons, hydrogen gas, a 100 foot cable, and captive ascents for atmospheric data. He aims for a month long voyage contingent on funding and construction progress.
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Professor King
Manhattan Beach
Maphatean Beach
Old friend found horse in city sale tale
A Kentucky Confederate veteran named Charies Lindley recalled riding a horse he lost during the Civil War. The animal, later sold in Dallas to a new buyer, responded to its old name Sorrel Joe, proving its identity when the veteran touched its scar and ear pricked at the name. Lindley plans to reclaim the horse and return it to his Kentucky home.
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Gerry
Youchsufea
Jackerson
Charies Lindley
Nicholas County
Bev
Sorrel Joe
Lindsey
Suicide in Detroit Prison Ends A Despairing Cell
Thomas Collins, a 37 year old painter, was sentenced to six months for drunkenness and later found dead in his cell by a self inflicted stab to sever an artery with a small penknife. Coroner’s inquest returned a verdict of suicide between 8 and 9 pm after fellow guards noticed a blood pool near his bunk.
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Detroit Free Press
Thomas Collins
Justice Miner
House of Correction
Collins
Shorty
Linthe
Painter
Proper Horse Driving Method Survives With Gentle Guidance
An experienced trainer argues against overdriving and harsh rein work. He advocates letting the horse lead, with the driver only guiding and offering back-up confidence, condemning backhand pulls and taut lines as against nature and reason.
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Lim
The Fenian Leaders and Their Revolutionary Plans
A historical overview of Fenianism in Ireland and America, detailing key figures John O Mahony James Stephens and Michael Doheny, their rise during the 1848 famine, and the evolution of the movement from the Phoenix to the Fenian Brotherhood with organizational schemes and cross Atlantic activity.
Butler views on negro emigration to the West and GOP leaders
General Butler predicts ongoing migration of southern blacks to western states to be natural but not yet at its height. He argues states will try to deter movement by offering inducements, and warns it could shift voting power, potentially making states Democratic. He compares anti Chinese sentiment to rising labor tensions and questions congressional leadership, criticizing General Garfield.
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Gurfield
Honest dealings end in exposure in a Teutonic trader tale
A bustling commercial traveller from Teutonic extraction used a brash sales pitch to run up a large bill in a prominent small-wares warehouse. He claimed his employer made the finest goats in New York and spoke in a caricature of German, boasting cheap goods. The same man tried the old trick at a second front, warning of shadowy bargains, but the first store canceled the order and the drifter fled amid angry boots, ending the ruse.
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Nio Yorick
Avon Brice House
Lundord
Dublin statue of Grattan in bronze or marble debate
A New York Times Dublin correspondent claims Grattan’s statue is marble, while an American attorney admirer argues the statue in Dublin last year is bronze. He studies the statue, praising it as a single great man and a refined conception of art.
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Dublin
New York Times
Grattan
Italian Bass Singer Praised by Critics in Dublin World
The World notes Italian papers praise a new bass singer whose voice is described as broad deep and rich. Municipalities honor the performer in a statuesque fashion after notable acclaim.
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Dublin
Con
Opera Debut in Milan Sparks Name Confusion
A letter recounts an Italian opera debut misnamed Signor Omani, likely Cork born Mr. O Mahony. The writer recalls hearing him in Milan Conservatoire concerts with a rich Irish accent, then recognizing him aboard a Turin train. The piece ponders whether the real Dabony of Milan might appear, noting the singer’s Italianate sound despite the Irish origin.
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Signor Omani
Ignor Foli
S. Lhat
Milan
Conservatoire
Signor
Journeyiog
Turin
O'Mahony
Cork
Italy
York
London
Signor Oniani
Foi
Riots in St Petersburg and Kiev Nihilist Uprising
The New York Herald prints a St Petersburg letter detailing the Kiev Nihilist riot and the assassination of Prince Krapotkin. Police raided a university press. fierce gunfire lef t to multiple police and student casualties. High rank arrests followed, including Countess Junin and Mile Herzfeld. The piece links Krapotkin’s death to the capture of political prisoner Pomín and notes socialist demands for his release.
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Kiev
Krapotkin
Tirty
Fhree
Staeens
Universty
Miles Herzfeld
Herzfeld
Prince Krapokin
Kharkolf
Gul
Fomin
Vuinurolsky
Endarmes
Pomln
Pomin
Waiting for Her Lover A Seaford Bride Deserter Tale
Miss Sarah Callaway a seventeen year old Seaford girl waits on the Georgianna steamer for a fiancé who never returns. Cousin Charles Ross left her on the pier after a hurried search for a minister. The bride's trunk remains aboard, while her pocketbook goes with the fugitive. The alarming scene unfolds from Camden to Baltimore via the Chesapeake Bay voyage.
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New York
Charles Ross
Seaford
Georgianna
Cambadge
Miss Callaway
Potter’s Landing
Tiis
Carles Ross
Buard
Sam Welsh
Welsh
Ross
Sorlock
How to Throw a Fly by Seth Green Advice to Anglers
Seth Green, famed fly fisher and fish culturist, offers three core fly casting principles. Keep the rod back to about forty five degrees, then deliver a quick forward stroke, allowing the line to straighten behind before another forward stroke. Avoid a wide backcast and ensure the line straightens before hauling.
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Seth Green
The
Rochester Expréss
Giant oysters haunt coast lore with century old records
The Troy Times reports extraordinary oyster finds from earlier years. A Mobile oyster of 1840 measured three feet one inch long with a wide warted shell, opened and cooked in a stew. A later 1865 East River batch yielded a spotted, spiny specimen whose status at death is unclear.
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Xavier Francois
Jeferson Market
The Zulu War Disaster at Ekowe
London reports a fresh British setback in Africa as Colonel Pearson at Ekowe faces starvation and a desperate sortie fails amid Zulu attacks. Reinforcements are urged as Cape Town dispatches detail 4000 Zulus overwhelming 104 men escorting ammunition wagons.
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Lonpoy
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Stombe
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Onty
Moriarty
Iekone
Eightieth Regiment
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Lerby
Luneberg
Kowe
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Tuguela Run
Will of Mme Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte Probate In Baltimore
In Baltimore on April 9 the orphan court probated the 1871 will of Mme Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte. Executors Jerome Bonaparte renounced. Charles J. Bonaparte to act. Estate valued about 1.2 million including real estate in Houses and ground renta. Real and personal legacies largely to grandsons Jerome Apoleon and Josepe Honaparte with life estates and remainder to their issue. Charles Joseph Bonaparte to receive all personal property and portraits and diaries. No other legacy noted.
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Orphan Court
Mme
Elizabeth Patterson-Bonaparte
Thomas Donaldson
I. Nevett Steele
Jerome Bonaparte
Charles J. Bonaparte
Jerome Apoleon
Josepe Honaparte
Charles Joseph Bonaparte
Charles Joseph
King Jerome
Stuart
Geneva
Massot
Kingon
Interesting Facts About Oil from Oil City Derrick
A fifteen year table of illuminating petroleum exports shows growing volume from 1864 to 1878 with rising production yet fluctuating value. Early years saw price gains despite lower output, while later years produced more oil at lower per gallon value, prompting questions about producer costs and waste.
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Oil City
Bureau of Statistics
Treasury Department
Aiodi
Reported Vanderbilt will case compromise rumor disput
New York April 9 The city hears a claimed settlement in the Vanderbilt will case but William H. Vanderbilt denies any deal. The rumored terms allegedly allocate 300000 in debts pay Greeley estate priority and give Cornelius J. Vanderbilt 200000 interest plus 60000 from William H. Vanderbilt with legal costs covered. Mrs Lebau now Berger allegedly received 1000 and costs. Vanderbilt denies any such agreement.
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Vanderbilt
Cornelius J. Vanderbilt
Greeley
William H. Vanderbilt
Lebau
Berger
J. Vanderbilt
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