Canada Basks in Growth as St John Rebuilds and Politics Stir
A survey of Canada shows rapid growth from Toronto to Montreal and Quebec with Manitoba attracting settlers. It notes business revival in 1881, the Windsor and St Louis hotels expansion, and cautious talk of annexation while praising Canadian governance. The piece then details St John NB rebuilding after 1877 fire, the dual Protestant Catholic school system, Boston’s aid during the blaze, and profiles of notable locals including Hon. John Boyd and General D. B. Warner with praise for civic leadership.
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United States
Canada
Delsarte
Hancock
Garfield
Edward Blake
Toronto
McKenzie
Mr. Blake
Blake
Sir John Macdonald
Sir John
Ontario
St. John
N. B
States
Boston
C. R. Ray
Simeon Jones
D. B. Warner
General Warner
Thomas Furlong
St John Leaders Rebuild After Fire As Boyd Shines
Artemus Ward's idea of rising to emergencies frames public resilience after the St John fire. William Boyd, party to the recovery, smiles through hardship and rises to leadership as a senator in Canada. His partner Daniel boasts an esteemed estate near the city. The Windsor at Montreal gains new management from Dufferin hotel staff.
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Canada
United States
Toronto
Ottawa
Montreal
Quebec
St. John
North America
British North America
Manitoba
Minnesota
Boyd
Artemus Ward
Mr. Boyd
Daniel
Dominion
Royal
Windsor
Europe
New York Our
Teaching Him the Business in a New Orleans Shop
A Poydras street clothier trains his clerk by selling an old overcoat with a stuffed purse as a lure, telling of schemes to the next customer while a negro buyer clads in a cheap pair of brogans. The plan centers on a mock goat trick and a supposed buyer from Canal Street, with money passing hands as the storefront hustle unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Orleans
Herman
Poydras Street
Detroit
Hevy
Mister Jones
Canal Street
Canal Streets
Hoffenstein
Doan
Canal
Bob Edson
Dedham
Iyde Park
Robert Edson
Folson
Milton Street
Renaville
Robert
Dorchester
Hyde Park
Charles Bunker
Boston
Roberts
California
Getting Drank After Dark in a London Public
A London public scene described by Prentice Munford shows after dark crowds in East End venues. Barmaids work the crowded circular bars as patrons drink at two pence to sixpence measures. The piece portrays a nightly, persistent cycle of drinking and rowdy gaiety in the city’s pubs.
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London
Prentice Munford
East End
Oxford Street
Horace Greeley Tribune Compared With Whitelaw Reid's
A critique contrasts Whitelaw Reid's tact with Horace Greeley's Tribune. The Sun argues Reid favors expediency over principle, lacking original genius or moral vigor, while praising Greeley’s fervor and integrity. It mocks managerial pretensions and includes mock dialogues about performance and art in Europe.
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Horace Greeley
Tribune
Whitelaw Reid
New York Sun
A Noble Earl and His Lifelong Philanthropy
A cable reports the eightieth birthday of Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of Shaftesbury in Guildhall London with Lord Mayor presiding. He championed the ten hour day and mine safety reforms, freeing women and children from coal mines and improving labor conditions.
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Earl of Shaftesbury
Guildhall
London
Anthony Ashley Cooper
Parl
Shaftesbury
Great Britain
West End
Earl of
Punch Ha
Barrow
Woodstock
Maassachusetts
Lord Ashley
Sadler
England
Children’s Employment Commission
Staffordshire
Shropshire
Warwickshire
Leicestershire
Cumberland
Halifax
Bradford
Leeds
Derbyshire
Durham
Lancashire
Scotland
South Wales
Ireland
House of Commons
Commons
Lord Palmerston
House of Lords
Earl
Civic tribute to a life spent facing metropolis social issues
A London civic banquet honors a long life spent grappling with urban social problems. The respectful remembrance reflects broad workingman affection and city gratitude for efforts to improve conditions and leave a better world.
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London
A Kick That Captured Paris Society of All Grades
A portrait of La Schneider and her scandalous rise to fame in 1865 Paris through the can can and risqué operetta scenes. The piece details her influence on crowds, royalty, and bankers, the empire’s decline, and Schneider’s shifting fortunes as Paris embraces and then abandons the spectacle.
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Paris Society
la Schneider
Wood
Boulogne
Laburnums
James Gordon Kennett
Prince Murat
King of
Paris
Offenbach
Elysian Fields
la Bellé Helene
Opera Vbcouffe
Napoleon III
Sehineider
Duchie
Bismarck
Empire
France
Pal
Mark Twain
Schneider
Jaris
Soiled on Stocks at Carson City Saloon
A Vic Muller's saloon scene in Carson City captures local panic over stocks and margin trading. A red headed man vows to quit after overhearing talk of Sierra Nevada, Pine street bets, and a rumored diamond drill, then rushes to a lawyer to secure papers for a margin loan on his house.
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Carson City Appeal
Vic. Muller
Appeal
Bierra Nevada
Sierra Nevada
Pine Street
Mackay
Europe
Leadville Revival Swindlers Burn Down Church Mine Fortune
An itinerant miner recounts a tale of a gang who exploited a First Baptist Church revival to cover theft. He lost a claimed fortune when rivals jumped his claim and the church burned soon after, sparking a supposed mine worth millions. He jokes a Winchester would have settled it.
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Leadville
Ory
First Baptist Church
Hotel Mail Says College Help Fired From Resorts
White Mountain and other summer resort hotels have unanimously decided to stop employing college students as dining-room wait staff. The key reason is dissatisfaction with the students who are deemed incompetent and unfit due to their sedentary and studious habits.
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White Mountain
Fish Rain Delights Lafayette Merchants on Third Street
Periodic rains drenched Lafayette with a heavy afternoon and evening shower. Minnows reportedly fell from the sky, measuring one to three metres, scattering along Third Street on the west side of the square. Witnesses described the phenomenon with interest as several merchants displayed specimens.
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Lafayette (Ind
Third Street
West Side
Telegraph error costs Western Union clerk dearly
A Western Union operator in Pittsburg sent a business message with a missing word, changing "cannot" to "can." The slip caused a loss of between $1600 and $1700, and the clerk is held liable under company rules.
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Western Union
Pittsburg
The Latest Fashionable Idiocy in England
A London paper condemns the latest fashionable idiocy the baby stare practiced by young ladies. It involves opening the eyes wide without lifting the brows and slightly turning the mouth corners upward. The mouth position is supposedly formed by repeating the word mouse many times.
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London
England
Wasted Wealth and Spendthrift Histories Explored
In Tur Grong last Monday the Dedham arrest of Clifton Chase for larceny renews debate on how wealth is spent across generations. The piece chronicles Robert Edson and Coburn Coburn heirs, noting lavish dissipations, mismanagement, and the resulting urban growth from former lands. It contrasts thrift with extravagance, reflecting on how guardianship and inheritance shaped local fortunes and town development.
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Tur Grong
Clifton Chase
Dedham
C. Churchill
Hyde Park
Milton
Coburn
Nathaniel Coburn
East Dedham
James
Nathaniel
Motherbrook
Nathan
James Coburn
Waldo
Guardian
Clifton
West
Indiana
Novelty Theatre
Boston
Moustached Girls in a Midwestern Tale
In a St. Louis Post-Despatch feature the professor explains that many dark complexioned middle aged women show facial hair, especially on the upper lip and chin. The piece describes shaving, depilatories, the painful electric method, self- procedures, and a Washington avenue practitioner charging high prices for beard removal. It warns young men to test the woman’s upper lip while courting.
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Bungler
Washington Avenue
Newsboys and bootblacks find a home on Bromfield Street
A Boston article details the Newsboys and Bootblacks reading room on Bromfield Street, describing a homey, well equipped refuge with baths, gym, library about 150 volumes, piano, and a magic lantern. It notes daily attendance averages around sixteen, with a peak of 742 in March, and outlines savings, employment placement, and a self-driven debating club started by the boys to aid in personal growth.
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Bromfield Street
Tih Gloobe
Hirromfield Street
Montgomery Wace
Montgomery Place
J. G.holland
Oliver Optic
Louise M. Alcott
Victor Hugo
Abbott
London News
Jack
Chickering Wake
Suffoilk Savings Bank
Right of Asylum Czar urged not to abolish
In the Intransigeant Henri Rochefort advises the Czar not to insist with Bismarck on abolishing the right of asylum. He argues foreign states should stay open to political offenders to allow escape from Russia and warns abolition could invite future extradition pressures and dangers to sovereigns.
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Eignse
Henri Rochefort
Prince Bismarck
Russia
Hartmann
Alexander
Rat Fire Cruelty Sparks Outrage in Pottsville
In Pottsville Pennsylvania a group of boys trapped a rat with turpentine and set it ablaze. The animal escaped the trap and crawled up a boy’s pant leg causing him to scream and flee, while others watched in alarm as the rat limped away, hair burned off.
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Pottsville
Penn
Africa
Man in Chase for Transit Feats Is Remanded
William Geary of Washington, drawn to rapid transit, stole a locomotive from the Baltimore and Ohio railroad and rode the tracks. Arrested and freed by the court, he then attempted another engine theft, then seized two horses and a hack. In court he threatened to steal Barnun's elephant for a ride, and the judge ordered an examination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Geary
Washington
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Geary
Barnun
Untitled rhinozerus rant from Yonkers Gazette
A fragmentary Yonkers Gazette piece describes a rhinozerus living in Ashur with a bizarre warning about pinning him down. The odd dialect humor hints at a creature with a dangerous nose and tooth-gear, suggesting danger to anyone near.
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Yonkers Gazette
Rhimozerus
Ashur
Description of William Walter Whelps Profile
Thearisian depicts Mr William Walter Whelps as small with coarse black hair cut short and bangs across a low forehead. His gray eyes are obscured by cloudy eye-glasses, nose is short and pug, mouth large with a small black moustache, complexion sallow, and face thin and hatchet shaped.
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William Walter Whelps
Gambetta and Girardin Exchange a Four O'Clock Note
The late Emile de Girardin once penned to Gambetta a note reading Thursday 4 o clock a m The hour at which I rise Gambetta replied The hour at which I retire The exchange shows a curiously formal duel of schedules between the two figures with a humorous edge reflecting their rival perspectives
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Emile de Girardin
Gambetta
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Quaint
Windsor Hotel
Mebec
Russell
St. Louis
New York
Alvion
Thiteadeau Brothers
Torl
John Boyd
Daniel & Boyd
London “Public
Muainesa
Pir
Co Ission
Ashley
Carson
Norfolk County
Hartford & Erie Railroad Company
Tle
Edson
Texas
Spint
House of Correction
Mother Islands
River Street
Hyde Park Town Hall
Central Avenue
Business Street
Readville
Rob
Bobin
Tun Goons
Isaac Whiting
Whitings
Coburns
Nathan Coburn
Ife
Isaac Whiting, Jr
St. Louisa
Association
Bromfeld Street
Dudley
Howard
Jefferson
Fanover Street
Themelves
Bub
Plenipotentiary
Phelps
Gambetta and Girardin
Beaaeu
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