Sandle’s Soliloquies Shirt Buttons Tale
A comic tale in old fashioned frame about Job Caudle and his wife Mrs. Caudle. Deliberate, active Caudle struggles with shirts missing buttons and a wife’s carelessness as a source of domestic friction. The piece spins into a mock moral about marital harmony and a will that hinges on buttons.
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Job Candle
Shakespeare
Mr. Candie
House of God
Job Caudle
Caudle
Mr. Caudle
Mrs. Caudle
World of
Letters
Osapail
Solil
Andi
Job Candie
Mrs. Candle
Mr. Candle
Mrs. Hartwell
the Wilkinsons
Skylarks
Free Mason Lodge
Society
Hartwells
Wilkinsons
Moses
Job
Candle
Eccentric Oyster Saloon Bet Ends With Swallowed Ten Dollar Piece
Five men met at an oyster saloon in San Francisco when Alberge laid a $10 gold piece as a bet that the five could share an oyster supper. Francois swallowed the piece to prove the boast, later choked on a half dollar, was treated with emetics, and recovered. Alberge recovered the stake by paying about $13 for antidotes and care.
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Sutter and
Dupont Streets
San Francisco Chronicle
Alberge
Francois
Holland
Dupont
Albeold
Cornwall Landing
Hudson
Preston
Ledyard
St. James Chum
Poquetannoc
Bigor Ooreyman
the Twain
Veritable Veteran Pierre Milon Remembers Napoleon’s Era
The Philadelphia Times profiles Pierre Solidore Milon, a 93 year old Piedmontese violinist and veteran of Napoleon's army. He recalls Naples, Paris, Vesuvius eruption, Jena and Moscow campaigns, Polotsk cannon capture, and his long musical career in America. He details service, injuries, and life after war, including teaching, touring, and family.
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Philadelphia Times
Chestnut-street Theatre Orchestra
Simon Hassler
Napoleon
Grand Army
Pierre Solidore Molin
Légion of Honor
Julianna Street
Callowhill
Nice
France
Italy
Europe
Marquis of Rochambeau
America
Duke of Savoy
Naples
Paris
Torre del Greco
Mount Vesuvius
Conservatoire
Cherubini
French School of Music
Grand Opera House
Boildieu
Church of Notre Dame
Pierre Solidore Milon
Legion of Honor
Milon
Polotsk
Baron de Wimpffen
Louise Michel Returns to Paris Amid Crowd Support
The Paris front page describes Louise Michel's triumphant entry into Paris after Versailles and New Caledonia, greeted by Communists she aided. Notable figures including Rochefort Clemenceau and Louis Blanc embraced her as police managed a dense, celebratory crowd.
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Rochefort
New Caledonia
Paris
London Daily News
Louise Michel
Versailles
Louise
Cayenne
Montmartre
Chief du Service
Democratic Committees
Mdile
Hubertine Auclere
Mme
Olympe Audouard
Marseillaise
MM. Rochefort
Ollivier Pain
Clemenceau
Rue Amsterdam
Dieppe
M. Rochefort
MM. Humbert
Cypriani
MM. Louis Blanc
Tony Revillon
Barocet
la Republique
Charlotte Corday
Ponsard
Mr. Rochefort
M. Clemenceau
M. Louis Blanc
Shean
Rivoli
Dejeuner
Lagny
Plucky Girl Battles Buck in Damaging Water Rescue
Miss Lottie Merrill, an eighteen year old hunter from Wayne County, chased a 275 pound five pronged buck across an inland lake in Damascus. The buck struck the skiff, sinking it, but she swam, stabbed the deer’s neck with a knife, and towed the carcass ashore. She plans to mount the head as a keepsake.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
Damascus
Penn
Henry Merrill
Lottie Merrill
County of
Wayne
Miss Merrill
Didn't Belong in Chicago Lady Wins $1000 Verdict
Mrs. Clara Brady sued Cleveland for 15000 damages after injuring her by stepping into a three by twelve inch hole in the Twelfth street bridge at night. The jury awarded 1000 as the defense argued the hole was small. the attorney measured the plaintiff's foot to prove it possible to fall through the hole.
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France
America
Marseilles
Salem
Mass
Boston
New York
Noah
Ainted
Napoeon
Alps
McCleran
Clara Brady
City of
Cleveland
Twelfth-street
Alon
Cornwall
IKE BABCOCKS TRIBE A Jan 1800s mountain clan described as pests
A New York Sun style exposé profiles Ike Babcock and his sixty descendants living as a reclusive mountain clan near Cornwall on the Hudson. It portrays them as idle, illiterate, and antisocial, with details on their homes food and ritual, and notes local officials consider them a county disgrace and propose action.
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Hudson
Ike Babcock
Cornwall
Clara
Ike
Schunemunk
Woodcock Mountains
Dark Hollow
Calf theft tale and oddities from the era
A sensational arraignment reports Slim Nick, an Arkansas Negro, on a calf theft charge with testimony and a defiant defense. The prose blends comic dialect and courtroom bravado, followed by miscellaneous items about California news, pocketbook pranks, Mrs. Grant incidents, a Galveston exchange, and a New England marriage license fiasco.
Deceptive Appearances
A Galveston shoemaker spots a wealthy customer in a restaurant with a feast and calls out the lack of funds for boots while the customer in a discreet whisper urges not to judge by appearances and says no further payment is expected for the indulgence.
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Galveston
Beauoes
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Mr. Caudie
John
Imperial Army of
Vesuvius
Washington
Fourier
Sam
Russia
Moscow
Marshal St
Wilna
Tombort
Waterloo
Nisines
Garcia
Prince
Rossini
Roderigo
Halifax
Red Jacket
South America
Terra del Fuego
North
New Orleans
Philadelphia
Chestnut-street
Garcia Laved
Milan
Chicaco
Hiow
Hudson Highlands
New York Sun
Babcock
Valentine
Mr. Valentine
West Point
Sig 5
Hia
Everbody
Ludson
Amos M. Hollett
Canterbury
Newburg
David
James
Shadow
Olid Ike
Ile
Suestion
Justice Foliett
Slim Nick
Justice of the Peace
Udas
Judas Scarratt
Judas
Jackson
Derrick Dodd
California
London
Calaveras
San Francisco
Patrick Purfey
Clay Street
Purfey Mansion
Madelaine
Dhves
Legth
Pedler
Ulyss
Darkey
Tam
Griswold Street
Marriclin
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