Bowan Gray and the Drunken Father on a Boston Street
Bowen Gray, twelve, struggles to move his drunken father home while a mob of street urchins and a boastful store clerk named Claude Spiker mock and threaten them. Bowen endures mud, dust, and slurs as he fights to keep his father upright, seeking help from a reluctant ally and avoiding police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowen Gray
Bowen
Gamins
Beau
Captain Gray
Toper
Oliceman
South Cove
Claude Spiker
Marshon, Jord & Co
Mr. Spiker
Claude
Spiker
Mr. Marshon
Mr. Jord
Foster
Old Colony
Twig
Lyell
Bowen and Billy Bulger Help Drunken Captain Home
Bowen Gray and Billy Bulger fend off a gang and carry Captain Hillman Gray home to Aunt Patty’s two room house. The sadly ill navigator, once wealthy, rests as Bowen confronts looming hunger and his sister reveals there is nothing to eat, with Bowen vowing to help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bowen Gray
Beau
Billy Bulger
Lowen Gray
Toper
Billy
Owen
Bowen
Gray
Beach Street
Federal
Hillman Gray
Hillman
Aunt Patty
Lilly Bulger
Claude Spiker
Hilly
Claude
Jehose
Clodham Spiker
Clod
Ciod
Bill Bulger
Patty
Hungry waif plots grim route to work and food
A boy wanders seeking work and food, unable to beg or tell his teacher of hunger. He tries selling his books for a dollar but loses the money at home. The scene ends with a promise of continuation, depicting struggle and resilience amid poverty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Honery
Poe
Rival Whalers Remembered at Sea and Shipboard Deceptions
A former sailor recalls marvellous days of Marblehead Nantucket and New Bedford whaling. Tom Clewline Ralph Racket and captains Slawson Norley recount shanghaiing Benny the crimp, signing with Mary Ann and Cetacean, and eventual reconciliations in Honolulu.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Clewline
Nancy
Marblehead
Martha’s Vineyard
Nantucket
New Bedford
Tom Slawson
Mary Ann
Ned Norley
Ralph Racket
Cape Cod
Haven
Benny
Ralph
Ned
Rachet
Tom
Old Tom
Stansorf
Ralf
Carey
Baftin’s Bay
Capt
Honolulu
Largest St Pauls bell cast by Taylor & Sons in Loughborough
The new St Pauls Cathedral bell, the largest in the kingdom, was cast at M. Taylor & Sons foundry. Twenty one tons of metal formed a mould filled in about four minutes. It will weigh at least seventeen and a half tons when cooled. Transport to London may be by road as Midland Railway declines. A Yale professor nearly lost sleep driving her to insanity before Celery and Chamomile Pills.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Daily News
St Paul’s Cathedral
Messrs. M. Taylor & Sons
Loughborough
Leicestershire
Midland Railway Company
Yale College
Dr. Benson
St. Mary le Bone Road
Marribon
Marrivona
St. Mary's Church
Amelia
Thomas Spragg
K Knight
Henry McAlister
Peculiar Properties of His Marvellous Discovery
Jonathan Spottiswood narrates a life of scientific ambition and forbidden vivisection, detailing pausodyne trials that suspend deathlike states, a dramatic lab purge by an angry crowd, a subterranean setup, and a mansion-disorienting voyage ending in asylum after awakening to Amelia Spragg’s gravestone years after her death.
Self Honored in Marble The Prisoners' Friend Monument
Philadelphia Record reports on William J. Mullen, called The Prisoners' Friend, whose South Laurel Hill family lot features a grand monument. Details describe a battle‑scene design with a jail door, an owl, a bat, and an angel blowing a trumpet, plus a penitent mother and extensive inscriptions praising his philanthropy and prison reform efforts.
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Philadelphia Philanthropiet
Philadelphia
South Laurel Hill Cemetery
William J. Mullen
Lde
Mullen
Willian J. Mullen
William James Mullen
Lancaster County
State of
Pennsylvania
Church of the Evangelists
Sean
Mr. Mullen
Builder of fortune from a ward of land in Chicago
John E. Owsley a major Chicago property owner died last Wednesday. He came from Kentucky to Chicago when the city was young to collect a whiskey debt. A debtor offered land on the West Side in payment but Owsley refused and was tricked into signing a receipt. He later paid his board with the deed but kept it and returned to Kentucky believing he had been cheated. Chicago real estate rose in value turning the worthless tract into his fortune. He was 58 and owned twenty acres in the business district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John E. Owsley
Chicago
Kentucky
Poisonous rabbit bite shocks Virginia City reader
Otis of Horse Creek California was bitten on the thumb by a rabbit in September. He nearly died from the bite after swelling and pain. A local doctor tested the rabbit, finding a hollow upper tooth with poisonous fluid. Two drops of the fluid killed a lamb within an hour.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Virginia City Enterprise
Otis
Horse Creek
Cal
Pennsylvania farmer swindled over patent wagon tongue rights
A Pennsylvania farmer is duped when a stranger offers county rights for a patent wagon tongue for 250 dollars. Days later another man arrives claiming county rights and offers 400 dollars, pays 10 dollars to bind the deal, and the farmer sends 250 by note to the first man. Neither man reappears and the farmer’s note later comes up for collection in a nearby town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pennsylvania
Publications of the World by H P Hubbard Revealed
New Haven December 24 A giant work by H P Hubbard of New Haven gathers world newspaper statistics. It lists 42,74 newspapers and periodicals with annual circulation around 10.5 billion copies and covers Europe North America Asia South America Australasia Africa. It notes New York Boston and London as major centers and promises a bank directory of about 20,000 lenders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Haven
Boston
United States
Ht. P. Hubbard
Hubbard
Africa
East Indies
Earth
Globe
Europe
North America
Asia
South America
Australasia
Australia
Far East
Germany
Great Britain
France
London
Yard
Reading
Chicago
St. Louis
Loy Publishers
China
Iceland
North Pole
New York
India
Turo
Rance
Spain
Russia
Aty
Beaton
Paris
Tab
IL P. Hubbard
Whenspaper
Bank Directory
Ireland
Arabian Horses in Jeru Salem Insights From a Consul
The article discusses origins and traits of Arabian horses, tracing lineage to Ismael and Bedouin breeding. It notes Arabian size, build, intelligence, and endurance, with five recognized strains. It contrasts pure Arab with English thoroughbreds and mentions prices, crosses with Russian stock, and concerns about deterioration from close breeding and scarcity of care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fort Madison
Desert
Arabia
Euphrates
Jordan Valley
Palestine
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Beau Gray
Oliver Optic
William T. Adams
Bruiser
Gawins
Bit
Ian
England
Paulodyne
Jonathan Spottiswood
Rip van Winkle
Mr. Cavendish
Monsieur Lavoisier
Sr. Priestley
Birmingham
Cal Linna Wus
Ava
Amelia Spragg
Thomas Sprage
Thomas
Royal Society
Strand
Dr. Priestley
St. Giles
Bath
St. Mary le Bone
Hampstead
Products OF the Press
H. P. Hubbard
New York City
Pans
le Petit Journal
Lloyd’s Weekly
Town and Country
Sydney
The
Adelaide Observer
Jerusalem
Milwaukee
Wis
Wisconsin
St. Jacobs Ol
Baltimore
J. A. H. Schlichter
Pera
All Drugeisis
North Eutawst
C. W. Senson
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