General Gordon and Mrs Gordon recalled in wartime tale
An interview from Washington recounts General Gordon of Georgia, twice a U.S. senator, and his wife Mrs Gordon. They describe his Civil War wounds at Antietam and Petersburg, Gordon’s stoic return to battle, and a perilous mule driven runaway episode with an orderly named Mike ending in a pine woods escape.
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Johnny Boquet
New York Tribune
Washington
General Gordon
Georgia
United States
St. James
Johnny
Gordon
Petersburg
Napoleons
Romanoffs
Senate
Alabama
Antietam
Winchster
Mollie
Mike
Jean
Needle In Foot Linked To Child’s Thigh Mystery
A Louisville woman once injured by a needle in her foot carried it unknowingly through birth, and years later the same needle emerged from her infant son’s thigh. The story details her long fight to extract it and the discovery when the child cried during a bath. The needle’s journey from foot to thigh links mother and child in a remarkable medical oddity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville Courier-Journal
Harry Isaacs
Market Street
Miss Coblens
Arthur
Kinderhook Glutton Alexander Grant Dies in New York Yard
The renowned Hudson River figure Alexander Grant was found unconscious in a Valatie yard in Columbia County New York on Wednesday. A coroner's jury ruled the death due to apoplexy after detailing his extraordinary eating feats including twenty pounds of solids and a gallon of milk and coffee in a single seating.
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Valatie
Columbia County
N. Y
Alexander Grant
Hudson River
Grant
Chicago Irish leader Thomas Halpin dies at 58
Thomas M. Halpin aged 58, a prominent Irish leader, died in Chicago yesterday. He served as secretary of the Irish confederation movement in 1843 and helped publish the New York Nation with D Arcy McGee. He sat in the Illinois Legislature from 1872 to 1878 and produced Chicago s first directory. He also issued the Memphis Bulletin with Admiral Seimmes and Colonel McClure.
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Chicago
Thomas M. Halpin
D’ Arcy McGee
New York Nation
Memphis Bulletin
Admiral Seimmes
Colonel McClure
Delicate Question in Deadly Case Arises in Providence
In Providence on March 28 the body of Collins Chace was exhumed fifteen months after burial. A coroner's jury linked arsenic to his death. A chemical analysis of the stomach will be conducted to decide if arsenic existed before or after death, noting embalming use may affect the result.
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Providence
Collins Chace
Elsy Ann Chace
Snow Melts Across Minnesota as Seeding Nears
Reports from across Minnesota indicate snow largely disappeared except in southwestern counties with heavy drifts. Banks melting quickly prompt farmers to plan seeding within a week. Goodhue and Mower counties expect to begin this week. no fears of floods unless heavy rains arrive.
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St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Goodhine
Mower
Symposium on Mexico Highlights Mutual Trade Prospects
Boston Merchants' Association hosts a symposium featuring Senor Zamacona, the Mexican minister, discussing growing commercial ties, reciprocal trade, and railroads linking U S and Mexico. Ex-Speaker Wade, Judge Russell, and other merchants weigh tariff impacts and the need for closer massachusetts Mexico cooperation.
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Merchants’ Association
Mexico
Association Rooms
Bedford Street
Senor Zamacona
Washington
Republida
Claims Commission
Boston
Weston Lewis
Hoston
Commercial Club
United States
Europe
Massachusetts
England
Levi C. Wade
Wade
Russell
Railroad Commission
Central America
South America
America
Albion
Terra Alba
John Cummings
Caleb Tr. Fay
San Francisco
New England
E. F. Waters
The
Advertiser
Lewis
Radclyffe
Judge Russell
F. Waters
EB. W. Kinsley
W. H. Lincoln
W. O. Taylor
W. B. Wood
A. P. Martin
Old Man's Singular Will From Utica Last Week
Felix Schneider of Utica New York died last week and was buried from St Marys Church. He left about 8000 dollars in property with a 2400 dollar mortgage owed to Rev Father Fehlings. After debts and mortgage, half of the remainder goes to St Marys Church about 2500 dollars. Legatees include 100 dollars to each of three nephews in Germany and 25 25 25 5 to his children and Joseph, a shoe factory worker. The children plan to contest the will.
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Felix Schneider
Utica
N. Y
St. Mary’s Church
Schneider
Father Fehblings
Germany
Fehlings
Joseph
Premature Explosion Blinds Miner Near Pittsburg
Thomas Kelly, a miner near Pittsburg, was ramming a powder charge when a premature explosion drove the tool from its orifice. It tore one eye from his face, tore the countenance, and left him completely blind with sulphur and gas in the air.
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Pittsburg
Penn
Thomas Kelly
Miner in Collapse Cries for Death After Inhaling Poison
A miner gasps and groans as he inhales poisonous vapor from a va porcelain mine incident. He pleads for someone to take his life offering $20 to anyone who will end his suffering and implores the doctor to cut his throat for relief.
A Portuguese Witch in New Bedford Case
The Mercury reports a Portuguese immigrant Michael Almade and his 13 year old daughter Catherine Sylvia in New Bedford amid alleged witchcraft. The girl falls in a trance, furniture moves, objects break, and she speaks in English during spells. Neighbors blame a Griffin street woman. a potential slander suit looms as Almade fears devil possession and seeks aid.
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New Bedford
Mercury
Michael A. Almade
Howland Street
Old Colony Railroad
Catherine Sylvia
Meseaye
Almande
Almade
Brothers sacrifice to save passengers on Baltimore and Ohio train
John and Michael Sullivan, brothers and B&O workers near Memmier station Penn, risked death to free a jammed rail just as an eastbound train approached. They loosened a crowbar barrier to avert catastrophe, but were struck by the engine. Both men died, leaving families.
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Baltimore & Ohio Road
John Sullivan
Michael
Memmier Station
Penn
McKeesport
Port Perry
John
Nightlife at uptown restaurant after concert
After a recent concert several people gathered around a table in an uptown restaurant at 11 oclock. The group included young women of diverse nationalities. The French girl chose clear soup and wine, the German girl cold pene salad and Erlanger beer, the English girl ham and omelette with tea, and the American pair ordered oyster stew and pink ice cream with macaroons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uew York Herald
Sealing Ships Return With 25000 Seals As Losses Mount
St Johns Newfoundland reports two sealing steamers arriving with twenty five thousand seals after eight days at sea and three days on the grounds. A small sailing vessel was lost near Willingate with two men drowned. Fifteen steamers remain jammed in ice in Green Bay.
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St. John’s
N.F
Eadh
Willingate
Green Bay
Oyster police cutter battles pirates on Chester river
In a clash on the Chester river the oyster police cutter engaged a fleet of about a dozen oyster pirates, fired with its swivel, fatally wounding two men aboard one vessel. The cutter captured two boats with crews totaling about thirty men and jailed the detainees at Chesterfield.
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Laltimore
Chester River
Chesterfield
Belmont County Horse Plague Resembles Clanders
In Belmont county a new horse disease has suddenly become prevalent. It resembles clanders and is deemed incurable and contagious by veterinary surgeons. Many horses have died and scores are prostrated. Fears grow it will spread as owners seek guidance amid unknown causes.
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Belmont County
Fall of a Warehouse at Greenwich Point Philadelphia
In Philadelphia on March 26 the Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company building a two story brick storage warehouse at Greenwich Point saw its south wall collapse yesterday morning. Several workers were buried in the ruins. Samuel L Vandersiice was killed and Fred Bartlett suffered injuries to an arm and leg. The remaining workmen were only slightly hurt.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Salt Manufacturing Company
Greenwich Point
Samuel L. Vandersiice
Fred Bartlett
Loudonville crowd forces ban on Haysville bully
In Cleveland on March 28 a bully from Haysville insulted editors of two Londonville papers. The town marshal arrested him but citizens intervened, dragging him out beyond Loudonville's town line and binding him with a rope until he swore never to return.
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Cleveland
Haysville
Londonville
Loudonville
Countess Yesterday Cocotte Today In Forneys Progress
A 15 year old Austrian countess from Vienna fled home and entered a partnership with a well known cocotte. The report cites her beauty and mature appearance as noted by observers, highlighting scandal surrounding aristocratic offspring.
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Cocotte
Forney
Vienna
Toodles Kept Coffin at Home and Cure Reference
A fragment notes Toodles kept a coffin in his house and speculates that if alive today he would have used Warner's safe Kidney and Liver Cure. The text conveys a macabre and ironic reference to medical cures within a historical context.
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Toodles
Warner
Land Ownership and the British Land Question Essay
A Dublin journal review discusses a collected set of essays by Shaw Lefevre on the land question. It surveys land ownership in Ireland and Europe, highlighting primogeniture, entail, and land reform ideas, with reference to the 1870 Irish Land Act Bright clauses and Gladstone’s Midlothian stance.
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Dublin Preenan's
Shaw Lefevre
M. P
Her Majesty
Bin
Channel Islands
Spain
Bohemia
Italy
Sicily
Vranve
Norway
Sweden
Switzerland
Baden
Rhine
Prussia
Bavaria
Hesse
New York
Ireland
Mr. Shaw Lefevre
Orlando Bridgman
Mr. Gladstone
Midlothian
Murrough O'Brien
Shawn Terre
Baldwin
Beatrice Under the Parental Regime in Royal Life
London correspondent reports Queen Victoria’s youngest daughter Beatrice leads a constrained life under strict court etiquette. Her duties are few beyond accompanying the Queen at ceremonies. She recently attended the Lyceum to see The Cup and enjoyed it, while the Queen has not attended a theatre since Prince Consort's death and may never again.
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Mr. Almade
Chiffin Street
Catherine
London
Philadelphia Telegraph
Beatrice
Windsor
Balmoral
Osborne
Windsor Park
England
Petenee
Lyceum
Mr. Tennyson
Prince Consort
Trix
Labor meeting aims to curb rent hikes in New York
A large Germania Assembly rooms gathering in New York on March 25 convened to curb rent increases in tenement districts. Chairman Rovert H Bartholome urged organized resistance, boycotting unfair rents, and publishing tenants' departures with rent amounts. A 21 member committee will plan actions, cooperating with the Irish league to divide the city into districts for resistance.
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New York
Germania
Itovert H. Bartholome
M. Schaefer
Irish League
Tenement Rent Strike Plan Aims to Spark Landlord Ejections
A committee system would organize subscriptions and assign an agent to each tenement. Starting May first, tenants would refuse to pay rent if raised, pressing landlords to eject tenants. Estimated cost to landlords would total about two months' rent.
Automatic Manger For Horses Invented At Berrauy
Henry W Hathaway of New Berrauy claims to have invented a clock work manger that can feed one to many horses at any hour without human aid. Morning feed is placed in a revolving row of boxes and, at set times, drops a weighted beam to release each box in sequence so horses can eat while the owner sleeps.
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New Berrauy
Henry W Hathaway
Bank failure and various political and civic items
The report catalogs a Bank of Rome failure with assignment, declines in Danish mission by General Raedean, and a rush of 4000 immigrants aboard five steamers at Castle Garden. It notes Louisiana levee spending, Newfoundland shipbuilding, high level St Lawrence bridge work, and mixed political and criminal items across the United States and Canada.
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Bank of
Rome
Raedean
Castle Garden
Mahone
Virginia Readjuster State Committee
Beecher
Great Northern Belt Railway
Wisconsin
Green Bay
St. Croix
Illinois
Springfield
New York
Oleculary Marine
New York City
Louisiana
Newfoundland
St. Lawrence
Coteau Landing
Canada Atlantic Railway
General Longstreet
Turkey
United States
Georgia
L. C. Voorhees
Brooklyn
Pacer
William A. Forth
Evansville
Ind
New Orleans
Charles O'Brien
Orient
San Francisco
Knickerbockers
Athletics
Pacific Coast Blood Horse Association
James
Slagham
German Empire
Pennsylvania House of Representatives
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Arkansas
Evarts
Europe
Emanuel Lumm
Altoona
Penn
Michael J. Reilly
A. Chateh
St. Louis
Cody
de Young
Kalloch
Third Avenue
Asher Getchell
Lewis Getchell
Baring
Lackawanna
Weehawken
Mexico
Presidio
Cherat
Fort Davis
Texas
Ilasco
New York State
Chamber of Deputies
Lisbon
Santurday
Sampio
Chamber of Peers
Ony
St. Petersburg
St. Mary's
N. S
Isabel
Liverpool
Gull-island Cove
Holyrood
Washington
Raum
Creek Underwood
Janos
Old Mexico
Wheeling
W. Va
City
Theodore Keller
Cincinnati
Charlie Ross
John Webb
Jeffersonville
Webb
Barnum
Bayonne
N. J
James Walsh
Barbara Green
American Checker Pager issued from Barker Cambridgeport
Boston, March 30 1881 announces Charles F Barker’s American Checker Pager a 170 page cloth bound volume with 22 openings 6 4 variations 35 tactical positions including 22 by Wardell and Lyman priced 75 cents postpaid orders to Charles F Barker No 8 Houghton Street Cambridgeport Massachusetts end game Wheeler Johnson show Black White White Wheeler to move and win
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Boston
Charles F. Barker
Houghton Street
Cambridgeport
Mass
Messrs
Wardell
Lyman
Charles F. Eee
Maas
Solution of Position No. 818 by O H Richmond
The snippet presents a problem titled Solution of Position No. 818 by O H Richmond. It includes numbers and cryptic markings: 8.8610 27.24 12., 11.,18 27 -28.194 and fragmented text. The readable content centers on a mathematical or puzzle solution authored by Richmond, with unclear numerical data and formatting.
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O. H. Richmond
Solution of Position No. 819 by William Barrender
In the 18.14 38.88 10.09 problem solution by William Barrenger, the work presents a set of position data with results 9 and 6, followed by series 27, 28 and 22.17 210 22.2. The text includes scattered numeric values and abbreviations, indicating puzzle steps and final answers without a narrative context.
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William Barrenger
Checker News Championship Match Opens in Boston
The great checker contest for the American championship with a $400 stake began at the Milli ken House in Boston on the 21st. Charles F. Barker of Boston and James Ree Jr of Pittsburg led a large crowd as week one ended with a drawn score.
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Charles F. Barker
James Reed, Jr
Barker
Reed
Jmarker
Fife
Lt Ry
Lison
Laird and Lady
Glasgow
Checker News
Boston
James Ree, Jr
Pittsburg
Penn
Milliken House
Senves
Nihilists of Russia Display Heroic Spirit in Death
Washington Post discusses the Nihilists of Russia and compares their courage to Christian martyrs. It recalls a milk shop keeper who killed ten police and then himself as a dramatic act exposing a mine under a street. The piece argues fear of death erases for Nihilists and Christians alike, deeming such resolve sublime yet unstampable.
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Washington Post
Russia
RENEW AT ONCE TO RECEIVE THE NEXT GLOBE ISSUE
In a brief promotional notice the paper urges readers with subscriptions in arrears to renew promptly. It warns that paid time has expired or will soon expire and suggests forming a five member club to secure free copies, following terms listed in another column.
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The
Globe
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Mrs. Gordon
Gen‘al
Appomattox
Sixth Corps
Spottsylvania
Rapidan River
Lee
One Hundred and Fourth Pennsylvania
Libby Prison
Libby
Stonewall Jackson
Malvern Hill
Whiting
Fort Fisher
Jackson
Ois
Republic
Sever Zamacona
Ohio
Philadephia
Gladstone
France
Mirabeau
Jena
Tilsit
Steen and
Hardenburg
Westphalia
Christendom
Arthur Young
New York Ten
Hf. Wheeler
C. Johnson
Black
White
Wheeler
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