A Man of Mary Homes. Most the German Rebel in London
A sketch of Johann Most, editor of Freiheit, tracing his career from a German bookbinder’s youth through prison, exile in London, and leadership of the German socialist movement. It notes his radical rhetoric, clashes with Marxists, and the fall in influence after moving to England and facing legal troubles.
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London
Johann Most
Great Titchfield Street
Whitechapel Road
Oxford Street
Freiheit
Forts
Herr Most
Mdon
Augsburg
M. Blanqui
Berlin
Clerkenwell
Bow Street
Ilegal
Sieve
Vienna
A Captain's Cruelty Aboard the Charles Dennis
John Lawson describes a brutal voyage aboard the Charles Dennis under Captain Carney. After a man overboard, rescue delays, threats, desertion at Yokohama, and the loss of six crew, the ship later vanished with two more missing and fear and protests follow in Yokohama and New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Lawson
New York
Ophelia
Empire Stores
Brooklyn
Yokohama
Japan
Charles Dennis
Bath
Carney
Indian Ocean
Cape of Good Hope
Australia
John Thomas
Pedela
Lloilo
Philippine Islands
Iloilo
Straits of Macassar
China Sea
Allas Straits
James W. Elwell
South Street
Messrs
Willet & Hamlin
Wall Street
Efford
Especor
Effora
William Nelson
Charlie
Loftus Marthin Wolff
Norway
Hamilton Street
New York City
Portugal
Arlie
Carlyle Left Watch to Nephew Thomas in Memorial Note
The entry records Carlyle bequeathing his watch to his nephew Thomas son of his brother Alexander Known as Alicks Tom as a memorial of affection and gratitude, outlining the intention and hopeful sentiment behind the gift.
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Carlyle
Thomas
Alexander
Alick
Tom
Napping Snapshots From Colonial Church Meetings
Obadiah Turner records in 1646 how a zealous officer used a long staff with a fox tail and thorn to wake sleepers in Rev. Samuel Whiting’s meeting. Allen Byrdges pricked David Balland’s hand. Thomas cried out dreaming of a woodchuck. Women’s bonnets hid sleep, Whiting claimed preaching to stacks of straw.
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Obadiah Turner
Lynn
Mass
Samuel Whiting
Allen Brydges
Mr. Thomas
Allen
Quicklie
David Balland
Mr. Whiting
Land of statesmen and dreams in transit
A traveler on a train crossing the Ohio line muses about entering a land filled with post offices, consulates, marshals, and the future of supreme judges. He frames the view as a grand, though ironic, invitation to his imagined republic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio Line
Pauper Policies Raise Alarm Across Pennsylvania
Reading dispatch reports mutual aid life policies exploiting paupers in state almshouses and poorhouses. Agents from Harrisburg issue $50,000 daily coverage on aged and infirm, with coal operators and outsiders collecting most payments. Widespread, cheap capital, rapid class growth, and widespread abuse prompt fears of profiteering from deathbed life insurance.
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Reading
Penn
New York Sun
Pennsylvania
Harrisburg
Henry Berger
State Department
Lebanon County
George F. Brown
Frederick County
Richter
The Small Drawer and The Big Bureau Of Domestic Life
A woman keeps the smallest bureau drawer for personal keepsakes ribbons lace ruffles old letters jewelry handkerchiefs fans and other bright items. A man stores the largest drawer with socks neckties a pipe braces and ends protruding far beyond the edge.
The Soprano Reigns in The Choir of Macbeth
A critic rants that the soprano dominates the chorus likening her to a powerful witch from Macbeth. The piece laments her aggression and control over music committees and ministerial voices, while noting others as mere choir members and her poor reading.
The Soprano's Singing Masks Reading Flaws
A critic notes that a soprano delivers a heavenly solo while bungling a hymn reading. The congregation remains pleased, unaware of the vocal technique behind the imperfect reading, a typical soprano flaw in performance.
Triges Of Type and the Proof Reader’s Misprints
A New York proof-reader with twenty five years’ experience contributes a series on misprints in books and newspapers. The piece catalogs humorous errors from a Brooklyn trial and other pages, including napkin for cover, cop versus gate, bursted guns, Cunningham from Nyack, and many more typographical slips that amused readers nationwide.
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New York
Good Templar Gem
Brooklyn
St. Bartholomew
W. Batholow
Cunningham
Nyack
Oakum
Ireath
Dartmouth
Africa
Fatality in Vienna mill air pipe tragedy at Pilsen works
A 19 year old laborer Anthony Kaczander suffocated in a hot air pipe under the main furnace at the Gelferth and Fuerth paper mill in Pilsen. After hours of cleansing, the pipe end was bricked up and the man perished unseen, his charred remains found when the tube was opened.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Messrs. Gelferth & Fuerth
Pilsen
Anthony Kaczander
Kaczander
Aga
Struggling octogenarian hitches home ox cart tale
Lumberton correspondent recounts Meredith Gaddy aged 70 from seven miles away bringing a corn load by ox cart after lunch and whiskey. The diminutive ox collapses halfway. He drags the cart the remaining six and a half miles, then toasts more whiskey, claiming he could go ten miles more. He is father to a large family with four sets of twins.
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Lumberton
N.C
Meredith Gaddy
North Carolina
Chicago Water Declared Unfit Without Boiling
The Chicago Board of Health says lake water is heavily charged with organic impurity after the flood. Swift river currents carry foul matter into the lake, with dredging by drags and tugs loosening debris to deepen channels. When winds shifted south, impurity fouled the water supply crib.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Board of Health of
Frightened by Wind Fears In Americus Youth
A young man near Americus is terrified by strong winds. Neighbors report him abandoning ploughing to cling to a stump when breezes rise, and once he woke from sleep and clung to a veranda post for hours. He dreams of a great storm destroying trees and fences, leaving his family puzzled by the fear.
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Americus
Gallery Gossip and a Bad Eye Claude Duval Theatrical Punchlines
Seen from the gallery, readers hear idle talk about Sarah Bernhardt during a Washington matinee. The crowd misreads a French stage scene with Claude Duval and Bunny, describing a bad man with a bad eye and a shaken tale of romance and theft amid comic misadventure.
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Sarah Bernhardt
Washington
the National
Sarah
Tony
Claude Juval
Jack Sheppard
Claude
Claude Duval Kem
Two Guiseppes and Italian Republican Hope
Grace Greenwood writes from Chicago News on the fragile throne of United Italy. Republican passion, Mazzini's memory, and Garibaldi's reception show the lasting force of liberty in Italian streets, while Vatican power and Nihilist blast fail to shake the republic's essence.
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Mazzini
England
Italy
Mazarni
Sardinia
Guiseppe Garibaldi
Guiseppe Mazzini
Quirinal Palace
United
Grace Greenwood
Chicago News
Vatican
Garibaldi
Europe
Victor Hugo
Milan
St. Joh
Heaven
Joseph Mazzini
Capitol
Counterfeit Detektives: Secret Service Chief Recalls Great Brooklyn Case
James J. Brooks, head of the Secret Service, recounts the Brockway Brooklyn operation as the greatest of his tenure. He details $100 notes, a Philadelphia engraver, and a wary Doyle linked to $230,000 in bonds. The tale includes printers next to a Brooklyn police chief, 217 notes issued with 207 recovered, and ongoing circulations of $1, $5, and $10 notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Brooks
Secret Service Department
Washington
Sail
Brockway
Brooklyn
Treasury
Philadelphia
Spencer
New York
Chicago
Doyle
Europe
Swallow Swarm Flocks to Baltimore Home Chimney
A Baltimore scene near East Baltimore Street and Collington Avenue drew a crowd as a large flock of swallows sheltered in Officer Henry Wolf’s chimney at 472 East Baltimore Street. After initial confinement they dispersed, the birds filing out as windows and doors were opened, then returned to the sky en masse, and spectators speculated the flock had returned from a winter roost.
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Baltimore
East Baltimore Street
Collington Avenue
Henry Wolf
East
Baltimore Street
Wolf Residence
Hana
Portland copper smelting breakthrough by Professor Bartlett
The Portland Argus reports Professor F L Bartlett has melted ore with 40 percent zinc and drawn pure copper into 200 pound bricks at the Portland works. This marks a historic feat not done by U S smelters before, as prior ores were shipped to England for processing. A steam blow pipe supplies the heat to complete the process.
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The
Portland Argus
F. L. Bartlett
Portland Mene Works
England
Bartlett
Walter Paine's Canadian Mill Plans in Montreal
Walter Paine, the Fall River fugitive, is named agent for a new Montreal mill named the Merchants' Company with a $400,000 capital owned by local merchants. The brick four story plant will measure about 280 by 80 feet and house 25,000 spindles. King spinning will produce warp and filling, wide goods will be made, and a bleachery will operate on site. Machinery deliveries are set for next November with the mill expected to run by March 1882.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Canada
Walter Paine
Fall River
Merchants’ Company
The Ruling Passion In Court At Cincinnati
In Cincinnati a packed district court witnessed Haskell, a century-long court crier, collapse from paralysis at noon. He was revived briefly, cried out Oyez to the judge, then suffered a second collapse and was sent home, likely not to recover.
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United States
Cincinnati
Haskell
Oyez
District Court
Iowa Man Finds Missing Money After Pocket Book Reveal
An Iowa man named Rice faced a broken heart when his wife left for Missouri. He kept his pocket book closed, but when he finally opened it he found not money but wads of newspaper. Another wad followed, and the sad truth emerged: the money was gone.
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Vienna
Chemnitz
Saxony
Mayence
Reichstag
Berlin
Sony
Paris
Plotzensee Bastille
Buckle
Stocker
England
Iowa
Rice
Missouri
Snow castle novelty built in Prince Edward Island
Thomas Butler erected a snow castle in his Prince Edward Island field. The 40 by 27 foot structure held 450 people, with a 17 foot entrance hall. It operated as a coffee and tea sale for charity at four pence admission, raising funds for the poor. Evening concerts drew full houses as gas lit the snow hall, and the notice ends with a Hop Bitters health claim.
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Thomas Butler
Prince Edward Island
Grist Mill Puzzles Solvers and Winners List
The page presents a Grist Mill feature with multiple readers submitting solutions to Diamond and Cross-Word puzzles No. 264 to No. 268 from The Weekly Globe. It lists prize winners Maud Lynn Sphinx Odoacer Trebor X T C Globe I Guess Z Bre Will C Miss G I Wonder and others, plus notes on corrections and acknowledgments.
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Maud Lynn
Baltimore
Sphinx
Heston
Masa
Ons Odoacer
Gibson
Penn
Odoacer
Trebor
Globe
I. Guess
Z. Bre
Will C
Miss G
I. Wonder
Annex
Tius Marx
P. P
Geo
Lew
Korn Kake
Jennie May
Gussie M
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