Irish Pictures and Belfast Views on Irish Governance
Gath in a late Irish letter estimates Ireland’s governance cost, noting salaries for the secretary and under secretary, vast public expenditures, troops, and pensions. The piece contrasts Dublin and Belfast, sketches Dublin architecture and history, praises Irish women, and recounts Belfast’s growth, linen industry, and Protestant-Scottish influences. It also mentions a monument to the burning of Washington by an Irishman and links to the broader imperial context and Irish emigration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gath
Phenix Park
Ireland
United States
Supreme Court
Sil
Duke of Schomberg
Emmett
Dublin
England
Gladstone
Belfast
New York
Ocean
Wicklow Mountains
Orange Mountains
Jefferson
Kingstown
Monroe
Dublin University
Elizabeth
James
United Kingdom
Air
House of Commons
House of Lords
Londonderry
The
Boyne
Dublin Exchange
Washington
James Hoban
Executive Mansion
White House
Dukes of Leinster
Brian Boru
Owever
Wexford
Roderick
Conor
Fortswith
Cass
John of
Qiven Elizabeth
Dublin Castle
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
St. Patrick
Christ's Church
Strongbow
Cork
Down
Graham
Graeme
Scome Grimes
Graome
McGregors
Grier
McKenens
McKeene
MccCannon
McNish
Menees
Spenser
Edward Bruce
James I
John Edgar
Service Society of
James L
Earl of Stafford
Holland
France
Duke of Ormond
Brabant
Isle of
Jersey
William of Orange
Washington City
Ross
Ross Trevor
Baltimore
Robert Ross
Bladensburg
Washinton
Halifax
Twentieth Foot
St. Paul's
Cel Ee
Wellington
Gough
Madman Clings to Fast Moving Train Ride to Pottsville
Depot Master recounts a dangerous Reading road incident on a thirty mile per hour train. A well dressed tramp, coal dust covered and hair brushed by wind, rode the outside then inside the car, swinging between windows and shouting threats to the conductor as the train neared Landingville and a bridge, finally vanishing into the hills near Pottsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reading Eagle
Thomas Boone
Reading Road
Wiganier
Port Clifton
Pottsville
Port Clinton
Landingville
Gold in Cheyenne bricks sparks mystery of old mine yard
A Cheyenne brick yard near Crow Creek yielded bricks containing gold. An observer mailed samples to a Denver assayer who reported 38 cents, 47 cents, and 24 cents worth of gold in three bricks. Investigations traced the bricks to a yard once near Crow Creek where placer mining was once active.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cheyenne
Wy. T
Leader
Denver
Crow Creek
Marriage For Money In American Fortune Fraud
A London World guest reflects on marrying Americans for wealth and warns to verify a would be spouse's fortunes. She recalls a friend whose American father faked a vast spring mattress fortune, forcing the couple to fund both households and even the fraudster behind the marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London World
Diamond Fields and the Precious Stones Book Review
A Paris publisher Rothschild brings out a new authoritative treatise on diamonds and gems. Four specialists cover science setting trade color and pearls while tracing chief diamond fields from India and Brazil to Cape discoveries and the French crown jewels. The volume surveys cutting, jewelry making, and modern industry with archival histories and notable stones like The Regent and Orloff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris
New York
Rothschild
Rue Des Saints-Peres
Cape
O’haly
Europe
M. Jannetaz
Sorbonne
Vanderhey
Chamber of Diamonds and Precious Stones
M. Fontenay
Chamber of Commerce of Paris
M. Contance
Simpson
India
Dekkan
Amara Kantaka
Radkonde
Golconda
Brazil
Ural
Humboldt
California
North Carolina
Borneo
Ebelinen
France
Germany
Italy
England
Baron Spinelli's Great Find at Suersula Museum
Naples reports Baron Spinelli invited visitors to a Cancello museum housing artifacts from Suersula excavations. Bronze bracelets, amber vases, Greek lekythos, and a Hiero workshop cup reveal ancient craft, burial rites, and trade. A petrified rat in Brooklyn’s Union Street building also draws curiosity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London Daily News
Naples
Baron Spinelli
Canc@lo
Suersula
Pliny
Corinth
Korinthos
Leukas
Spinelli
Nola
Anesidorus
Hieron
Makron
Athens
Hiero
Brooklyn Union-Argus
Union Street
Edward Kane
Dealing in Menageries and the Reiche Brothers
A vivid account of Henry Reiche and Reiche & Bro, famed German bird and wild animal dealers. The piece traces their rise from New York canary peddlers to Hamburg’s vast depot, supplying Europe and America with lions, tigers, elephants, hippos, and exotic birds. It notes high profits, global hunting networks, and Reiche family prominence in Bergen New Jersey.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chatham Street
New York
America
Canaries
Napoleon
Henry Reiche
Reiche & Bro
Asia
Africa
Hamburg
England
Germany
Charles
California
Reiche
Panama Bay
San Francisco
Revehe
Manis
Tropics
Seiche
Desorts
Namburg
Europe
Central Park
Para
Central America
Nile
New York Aquarium
Arctic
India
Savannah
Atlanta
Zoological Department
Vanderbilt
Beiche
Schoharie
N. C
London
Kelly
van Amburgh
Ceylon
Bergen
N. J
Herman Reiche
Loeat Colleges
Easil
Asl
Alexandria
Racine Love Story Ends With Police Interruption
In Racine Wisconsin the wedding of Josie Parks to Jim Parks nearly ends in chaos as Josie’s father Peter Smith confronts the groom with a rock at the wharf. A policeman intervenes, and the couple depart for Milwaukee on a wedding voyage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Racine
Wis
Peter Smith
Josie
Jim Parks
Ragine
Jim
Key
Milwaukee
Tbek Tay
Jill
Covetous Friend and the California Bond Plot
The San Francisco detective report describes two married friends in California who covet a man’s registered bonds. One man kills the owner by a fall and later burns his wife, then with the other wife’s help impersonates the deceased. They return to San Francisco, attempt to sell the bonds, and a Kansas City widow later seeks transfer in her husband’s name. The treasury watches for any bond transfers amid questions of murder and theft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamburg
Charles Reiche
Mr. Reiche
Central Park
San Francisco
Mullett
South California
Arctics
Reiche
Washington
Baltimore Sun
Treasury Department
Detective Corps of
California
United States
Treasury
Kansas City
Sho
Sharks and courts and crowds on the Strand
A collage of humorous vignettes and brief notices from the era including verses about sharks and the sea, a courtroom scene in Little Rock with a comic exchange over guilt, a justice alley assault case with juror objections, a Watermelon and Crow scene in Galveston, a Dallas tale about a man and ice cream, and a hedge bet about Cain and Abel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit Free Press
Griswold Street
Indiana
Ohio
Maine
Abel
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Irish Pictures
City of
Duke of Leinster
Dublin Society
Kildare House
Historical Society
Donnybrook
Ameeneas
Matahid Castle
Theingdom
Talbot
Maryland
Wyoming Territory
Diamond Fields
Crown of
Pitt
Porteal
Hyderabad
Louis the Fifteenth
Berlin
Kohinoor
Victoria
Krishna
Lahore
Gonanest
Prince Albert
Dunvid Brewster
Brewster
Queen Victoria
Amsterdam
M. Voorsanger
Garrard
Haymarket
Shah Jehan
Borgias
Lorgis
Nadir Shah
Delhi
Saffras
Prince Orloff
Catherine the
Safras
Sancy
Nicolas D. Harlay
Levant
James the Sloepeend
Louis the XIV
Paul Demidoff
Sir Jamsetjee Jeej
Ec Preine
Hope
Saimne
Beresford
Cape Fields
Plin
Hungary
Said Pasha
Egypt
Faris
Tuileries
Japan
Red God
Atlanta Constitution
Mis
Thave
Lhave
Science
Little Rock Gazette
Sims
Rascal
Jedge
Cobb
Simms
Little Rock
Ant'ny
Titusville Worth
Justice Alley
Galveston News
Jim Crow
Gubner
Cutner
Senator
Old Jim
Sayers
Crow
Dallas
Board of Trade
Chicago Tribune
West Side
West Washington Street
Cara
Beatrice
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