Heroic Treat WEnt. Chicago Love Sick Swain Hoaxed
A Chicago Times tale recounts M D Lee, a United States Express clerk, being pranked by friends led by TE C Donnelan and William Ryan. An elaborate fake romance with a supposed mistress Hattie Luddington spurred Lee to plan a duel, only to learn the entireExchange was a prank staged near Garden City Hotel and across Chicago streets, ending with public ridicule and laughter.
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Chicago Times
Garden City
Sherhan Street
M.D. Jee
United States Express Company
Lee
A. Cameron
Edward Paley
Donnelan
Tiuren
Hattie Luddington
Hattie
Eis
Saratoga
Long Branch
New York
Chicago
Luddington
Colonel Luddington
William Ryan
Ed Daly
Coty
Nng
Labor in Italy Reveals Mills Of Suffering And Poverty
A correspondent reports from Salerno and northern mills where thousands of workers, mostly women and children, endure brutal 12 to 14 hour days with meager pay. Labor costs are hidden in bread rations, fines, and forced entry into factory work, while hospitals and schools are absent and conditions provoke silent resentment.
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Italy
Salerno
Esky
Oaeracy
Perils to False Teeth in Surf and Bathing
A Third Avenue dentist discusses denture losses in surf and bath settings. A temporary assistant recounts cases of teeth being lost while swimming or sneezing, noting dentures can loosen when water hits the mouth and that many people wear false teeth. The women and men mix at baths, with some suggesting leaving teeth in dressing-room safes.
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LN Y. Sun
Third Avenue
Ana
Bear Attacks Doom and Narrow Escape in Early Settlement Tale
In Delaware Water Gap a veteran recalls building a tavern by Mount Union and fending off five bears in a single night. He and fellow trappers faced close calls, a knife, and gunfire as Sam Ketcham and Hank Peters aided the group, killing bears and saving lives in a dramatic frontier episode.
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New York Times
Delaware Water Gap
Penn
Giens
Mount Union
Bears
Kittatinny
Jersey
Gap House
Aera
Sam Ketcham
Hank Peters
Sam
Sam Ad
Bill Stivers
Gerker
Luc
Fle
Divorces in France Rise in 1878 Report
A 1878 report from France's minister of justice cites 3277 judicial separations sought, the highest total yet. Wives filed 2802 of the petitions, with workingmen and their spouses among the largest social groups pursuing separation. The data shows a broad spread across social classes including cultivators and property owners.
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France
Galignani
Spots on London Society and the Morality Debate
L. J. Jennings reports from London to the New York World on a lax moral climate in elite circles. He cites the Buller divorce case and widespread infidelity among the upper classes, arguing public opinion now tolerates, even rewards, scandal. He warns a reckoning is coming for aristocracy and fashionable society.
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L. J. Jennings
London
New York
Buller
Lotus Club
Society of
Pepys
France
Dubarry
Louis & Vieralme
Bright
Mr. Bright
Rare Passion for Plants and Flowers Dashed by the Chinese Critic
A Sacramento Record item describes a street florist on J Street near Fourth who has built a green house for rare flowering bulbous plants and memorized specialist books. An Oriental acquaintance, Tom Ah Did Yon, advised on bulbs and a Sicily fly specimen sparked a quarrel of meaning when the Chinaman compared the rare bloom to Hubbard squash, ending with the florist selling his stock without reserve.
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J Street
Fourth Street
Sacramento Record
Vick
Tom Ah
Sicily
Man accused in alley plot over strawberry shortcake plan
A Milwaukee Sun item describes a night-in alley scene near the Plankington House where a man chatted with two boot blacks about a "princess" strawberry shortcake scheme. Police halted the group as the napkin folded cake and a confusing tale unraveled amid suspicions of deception and disguise.
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Milwaukee
Leopold
Louise
West Side
Plankington House
Josiah
Living Heads and Skeleton Boys At Cincinnati Infirmary
A Cincinnati correspondent recalls a visit to the Franklin County Infirmary where two brothers, Charles and Frank Monlbach, aged nineteen and twenty-one, appear as living skeletons with intact minds. Doctors describe a rare inherited muscle disease, possibly pseudo muscular hypertrophy, causing progressive atrophy and wasting while brain function remains.
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Cincinnati
CoLuMars
Drury
Franklin County Infirmary
Charles
Frank Monlbach
Frank
Charlie
Hammond
Victor Hugo Rebuffs Tip Then Rewards Paris Coachman
During Voltaire’s centenary, Victor Hugo refused a coachman’s tip, insisting the honor of driving him was payment enough. Hugo later forced the rider to accept twenty francs and donated it to the New Caledonia political prisoners fund. The tale notes the coachman Charles More’s modest presence at Hugo’s dinner despite his refusal of tips.
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Voltaire
Victor Hugo
Galle
Monsieur Victor Hugo
New Caledonia
Charles
More
Cocher
Avenue d’Eylau
Senate
Charlies More
Victor
Clarette
le Temps
Monsieur Charles More
Gallé Tuertre
Claretie
To Europe by Air Francis Reed Porter proposes balloon voyage
Francis Reed Porter urges a funded aerial crossing from Coney Island to Europe or Africa by a capacious balloon and floatable car. He outlines safety, ballast management, wind reliance, and a 1000 mile over-water trial to collect data while aiming for a September or October departure from New York. He invites inquiries at No 12 Waverley Place, New York, July 26, 1880.
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Coney Island
Europe
Africa
Montgolfier
Terra Firma
Ener Te Lane
St. Louis
William Hyde
New York State
Nova Scotia
American Aeronautic Society
Waverley Place
City
Francis Red Porter
New York
Is Masonry infected with infidelity in Indiana
A Cincinnati despatch reports Masonic circles in Indiana debating expulsion over Chainey’s rationalist views at Evansville First Unitarian. Chainey, once Reed Lodge chaplain, denied God’s existence and mocked prayer. other Masons with similar beliefs face action. Debate concerns whether infidelity affects Masonry’s core.
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Cincinnati
Indiana
Chainey
Times
First Unitarian Church
Evansville
Ind
God
Reed Masonic Lodge
Masonry
France
Grand Lodge
England
America
Midsummer law in verse and a tale of Ida Smith Smith
A New Jersey Law Journal verse covers a Paterson area oil train crash with negligent railway duty and a dramatic flood beside the Passaic. The piece then shifts to Ida Greeley Smith, Horace Greeley’s daughter, described as a striking heiress and wife of Colonel Nicholas Smith, amid a festive Saratoga scene full of portraits and family detail.
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New Jersey Law Journal
Kubnys, Jewett
Horace Greeley
Saratoga
Ida Greeley Smith
Nicholas Smith
Mrs. Smith
Ida Greeley
Hourace Smith Greeley
Nicholsa
Gabrielio
Horace
Dinner with Hugo Inspires Paris Cab Driver Tale
The narrator recalls a dinner with Victor Hugo where a woman serves soup and a child offers kindness. He, an eager poet like Tam, reflects on verses read aloud by guests, including Hugo. Despite fame, Honest Charles More remains a cab driver, valued for simple life memories and loving family.
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Tam
Victor Hugo
Charles More
Paris
Society of the Uses
A Printer's Dream in Louisville Post Tale
A tired printer sits in a patched coat dreaming of debt. In a vivid vision Morpheus guides him to an iron door guarded by Satan who promises a subscription debt punishment in a hellish workshop using red hot chains glass and lead. He awakens shaken unsure if it was real.
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Times
Lee
Mr. Donnelan
Dencan A. Cameron
Mt Payson - Luddington
E.€. Donnelay
M.D. Lee
Weajons
Vistos
Manelauchter
Bag
Bill Stivers
Bill
Depew Avenue
Nyack
New York Sun
Louisville
Morpheus
Lower
Hades
Satan
Peare
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John Inders
Ts Badpoiente Ateset
Harrison Streets
Labor IN
Tuscany
Ginori
Occia
Association For the Prevention of
Pete
Myself
Hill
Lilay
Hank
Apeonate
London Society
Ohio
Francis Reed Porter
New York Herald
Tanner
Ferdinand
Columbus
Spain
Portugal
Galileo
Fulton
Erie Railroad
Paterson
Passaic
Recorder
Josh Billings
Michael Dawson
Loughlin
Michael
Annie
Ned
Sing Sing
Detroit Free Press
Monroe Avenue
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