Bow Street Runner’s Narrow Escape with a Pistol Threat
A Bow Street runner recounts a perilous prison transfer to Suffolk including a face off with his prisoner’s wife on a speeding express. He disarms danger with a shock pistol bluff, delivers the man to Bow Street, and later to Woolwich hulks, grateful for the providential escape and the man’s confession of danger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Suffolk
Woolwich
Bow Street
Barker
Tom
I&s
Missus
London
Cheerful Harry and Eel River Dan Clash in Pilot City
In a February raid at the Raftsman Home in Pilot City, Eel River Dan confronts Cheerful Harry after mistaking a meek man for a foe. A knife wound to Dan ends the confrontation. Dan survives but leaves town, while Cheerful Harry resumes sheep herding in Trinity mountains.
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Eel River
Dan
Pilot City
Ville
Big M Ke
Eel River Dan
Mendocino
Trinity
Jordan
Weare
Harry
Dr. Squills
Piet City
Practical Household Recipes and Preserving Tips
A compendium of kitchen how tos including cider vinegar from cider and water, orange and lemon preservation methods, baked fruit desserts with pineapple cake and meringue, pickles and mixed pickles recipes, scalloped potatoes, green apple and Virginia batter breads, tomato stews and pies, bean salads, cabbage and tomato dishes, jam making, renovating a black hat, fried cucumbers, corn puddings, fruit creams, and general guidance on food prep and storage.
Love's Silences and Silent Home in Berkshire
A reflective poem by Elaine Goodale on summer meadows and silent beauty, paired with a domestic vignette about a six summers old embryo president and a Sunday misread as tomorrow. The piece contrasts nature’s responsive hush with human moments, concluding with a gentle note on home and memory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rica
Earth
Berkshire
Elaine Goodale
Sunday Morning Hymn At The Ancient House
The poem paints a quiet New England morning with bees in apple trees and a church organ drifting from behind elms. A narrator feels shut out from a mysterious temple of blue red and gold lights, seeking only one singing voice. Sarah Jewett
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Els
Temple
Priest
Sarah Jewett
Romance and Royal Legends in London Gossip
The piece recounts legends about ex Prince Louis Bonaparte and imparts a Bath tale of a young mother whose husband’s identity is linked to a photographed portrait. A second tableau in Chislehurst shows a veiled visitor to the empress and an implied marriage rumor. The report closes with a Mississippian tragedy of a deer hunt turning fatal for Arthur Gibson.
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London Telegraph
Louis Bonaparte
Paris Figaro
Bath
Landiay
Woolwich
England
Bawn
London
Chislehurst
Camden Place
Baying
Imperia
Bowe
Wweire
Zululand
Judie a French stage beauty in operatic world profile
The London World admires Judie as a beautiful French actress with olive complexion and dark hair, noting her ability to blend home life and stage, her willful charm, and Offenbach’s remark on her. The piece contrasts her style with other stars and recounts a broader scene of Gilbert and Sullivan works, Emma Abbott, Mary Rocks decline, and Christine Nilsson’s farewell London season.
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London
Judie
Juno
Heaven
Hamor
Offenbach
Jodie
Sabe
Gilbert and Sullivan
Newark Times
R. D’oyly Carte
Opera Comique Theatre
Fifth Avenue Theatre
J. I.ford
Baltimore
Washington
Fora
América
England
America
Conservatoire
Paris
France
Fifth Avenue
Gilbert
New York
Boston
Cincinnati
St. Loui
Chicago
Emma Abbott
Grand Opera House
Grand English Opera Company
Zelda Seguin
Misa Marie Stone
William Castle
Tom Kari
William MacDonald
E. A. Stoddard
Ellis Ryse
Edward Seguin
Cary Florio
Paul
Virginia
Victor Masse
Miss Abbott
Faust
New York Graphic
Romo
Juliet
Andere
Fanchon
John T. Raymond
Colonel Sellers
New York Sun
Fleur-te- Lis
Wolfert
Irving
George Fawcett Rowe
Wallack
Mr. Raymond
Tissington
Rowe
Hardenbure
Bram Lones
Mr. Shannon
Baltus van Tassel
Mr. H. Lee
Dolph Haverstraw
Kate Fosythe
Katrina
Mme. Ponisi
Dame Haverstraw
Courtney Barnes
Emma
Connie Thompson
Phoebe
Gaiety Theatre
John
Ena
Sellers
Germany
Vienna
Rip van Winkle
Dundreary
Asa Trenchard
Thunderer
Mary Rock
Little Fairy
Times
Dublin
Tom Moore
Edinburgh
Tom Thumb
Madge Wildfire
Sir Walter Scott
Federal Street Theatre
Forrest
Bowery Uheane
Julie de Mortimer
Lis Richelieu
Earl of Murray
Clara Fisher Maeder
John Drew
Joseph Burke
Jobn Gilvert
Brooklye
New Jersey
Christine Nilsson
George W. Smalley
New York Tribune
Nilsson-Rouzaud
Sarah Bernhardt
Albert Hall
Mme. Nilsson
United States
Madrid
Spain
Jimne
M.vancorbel
Grand Opera
Her Majesty’s Theatre
Anntis
M Ambrose Thomas
Francesca da Rimini
Madame Nilsson
Europe
Ono
Mme. Nilsson-Rougaud
Mar ‘Eis
Zane
Sue
Russia
M Rouza
Prince Albert
Mme
Nilso N
Mm. Gerster
Miss Kellogg
Kvenin
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Piase
Wrath
Missouri
Tak Globe
Ulus
Sonny
New York Commercial Advertiser
Prince Imperial
New Orleans Picayune
David Kennedy
Old Hickory
Simpson County
Miss
Arthur Gibson
Leonidas
Augustus Magee
James Brown
Rosa Kennedy
Mr. Brown
Gibson
Brown
Madame Judie
Comedie Francaise
Hernani
Joan Hollingshead
Ami Fritz
L’avyare
Femmes Sxvanves
L’ Emnacelie
Messrs. Hollingshead & Mayer
Gayety Theatre
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