Mediter ranean squadron sails July with four vessels
The Mediterranean squadron will sail on July 2 and include Independence a 74 gun ship of the line commanded by Bainbridge and Capt Crane Base sloop Chepawa brig L N X schooner L N X Lieut. Storer The Independence was on trial for heavy 32 pounder guns and was reduced by replacing lower deck cannons with lighter middle deck guns. The pilot will leave the squad after 2 pm. Defeat of the British is reported in Nalapance Fort Goorkha country where Gillespie was killed and natives defended strongly per the Bombay Gazette.
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Mediterranean
Independence
Bainbridge
Crane
Ridgely
Cheppawa
Reta. L.nx
Storer
lMebthouss
Bombay Gazette
Nalapance
Bitunca
Gillespie
System Gazette
Fifty Years Ago Factory Fire Destroys Parts of Plant
A late evening blaze tore through the main building and north wing of a factory, with the south wing's finished carriages and paints destroyed. Firefighters halted spread. losses estimated between 30000 and 60000 dollars. Hydrants from City Water Works proved crucial, saving the main establishment.
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Gible
Imain
Varniches &c
City Water Works
Mr. Wood
American Martyr to Science James Orton Remembered on Titicaca Isle
A memorial movement forms among early 1870s Vassar alumnae to honor American explorer Professor James Orton buried on a remote Titicaca island. Howard Albes sparked renewed memory via the Pan American Union bulletin. A fund committee plans a marble shaft to mark his grave and celebrate his scholarly legacy.
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South America
Lake of Titicaca
James Orton
Vassar
Orton
Howard Albes
Monthly Bulletin
Pan-American Union
Orton's South American Explorations and Legacy
A compact biography recounts Prof. Orton born 1830 Seneca Falls and his 1866 Rochester University appointment, leading Smithsonian expeditions to the Andes and Amazon, ethnological finds, and later death in 1877 near Titicaca. It notes his remains and a monument by a Scottish engineer on Esteves Island, with a brief index of where his collected specimens reside. Also mentions old time boxers and 1744 boxing challenges, plus Wilson naming Abraham S Elkins as American Commissioner and Alaska town-site auctions at Ship Creek starting July 9.
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Ysan. Orton
Seneca Falls
New York
Williams College
Andover Theological Seminary
Rochester University
Andes
Amazon
Smithsonian Institution
Orton
Washington
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Science
Boston Society of Natural History
Peabody Academy of Science
Vassar College
Ingham University
United States
South America
Para
Lima
Peru
Lake Titicaca
Great
Beni River
Edwin Ruthven Heath
Heath
Hale and Hearty
Kansas City
Missouri
Titicaca
Jack Slack
England
Daniel Smith
Daniel
J. Daniel Smith
Suffolk
John Slack
Norfolk
Slack
John Slark
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Gregory Street
Ireland
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B. F. Walker
Kennebec, Me
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Committee On
Viola
Charles Hountoon
DeWorest Avenue
Order of the Eastern Star
Sansone
Jerome
May
Huntoon
Parker Fales
Worcester
Mass
Irving Ferguson
Tom Rowan
Tom Honan
India Tea
Brmingham
Golden Valley
Bowery Depew
India
Arnold
Depew
Tom
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Keeley Institutes
Teas
Ronan
Party of Reform
Tammany Hall
the Battery
Harlem
Chauncey Depew
Bugs
Chauncey
Tony
Delmonico
Mayor Strong
Bowery
Reformers
Ronaff
Chiropractic
L. C. Bouton
Palmer School of Chi
Wissner Service
Columbia Records
Wissner’s
Main Street
Wissner Pianos
Wissner
Wissner Piano
Columbia
Wilson
Abraham S Elkins
Government
Seward
Fairbanks
Alaska
Ship Creek
Flossery
Lord & Taylor
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Fairfield Avenue
Superior Fabrics
DAVIS
Post Office News
Filbert Philadelphia
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Comaca
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Resaurant
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Warren Street
Wewark
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