Burglar and duchess of danger meet in New York drawing room
Janet Kimbolton encounters Dandy Dick Carshalton in a dimly lit estate, a famed burglar who longs for danger over wealth. He reveals a tormented past, a love lost to ambition and poverty, and plans for an ultimate exit. She learns his life is a perpetual chase, and he departs to resume crime as she faces her lonely fate.
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Mississippi Representative Recalls First White Domestic Servant
In an amusing Washington Times tale, Representative Williams of Yazoo District Mississippi recounts his first encounter with a white domestic servant on a pre dining car Northbound trip to Europe. He describes surprise at a waitress’s role and his awkward dining table moment amid racial assumptions.
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Washington Times
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Galid
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Shad Arrival Sparks Curious Ohio River Catch
Shad were scarce in Connecticut waters yet appeared in large numbers in the Ohio River near Cincinnati, where a profitable catch was made within five miles of the city. Before 1876 shad had not been caught in the Ohio. the first specimen that year was sent to the Smithsonian Institution.
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Ohio
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G A R Encampment Vets Recall Civil War Grand Review
Washington notes recall a Grand Army encampment that revived memories of the Civil War era. Veterans paraded along Pennsylvania Avenue, with presidents and leaders who shaped the nation, and the capital city’s pageantry returning as a testament to unity forged from war.
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the Republic
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John Quincy Adams
Calhoun
Jackson
Orapitel
Whee House
Banker Jay Cooke and Civil War bonds legend
Jay Cooke, the Philadelphia banker who financed the government bonds during the Civil War, suffered a second attack of brain congestion at his summer home near Put-in-Bay, Ohio. Born in 1821, he built Jay Cooke & Co. and led wartime finance, later facing financial lows. The piece recalls Meade, Sherman, and the grand review of Virginia, Georgia, and Tennessee troops, celebrating liberty and a new birth of freedom while mourning Abe Lincoln.
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United States
Put- 10-Bay
Ohio
Sandusky
BE. W. Clark & Co
Jay Cooke & Co
Northern Pacific
Oventz
Virginia
Meade
Merritt
Custer
Ninth Army Corps
Parke
Fifth Corps
Gridin
Humphreys
Sherman
Capitol
Trustee of Providence and the Baers of Reading
FF Baer, described as a determined mine owner and Reading Railroad president, is portrayed as a religious, reserved, forceful leader with vast industrial interests employing thousands. His wife, Mrs Baer, leads the Reading Woman's Club, and both figures are central in Reading society.
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George F. Baer
Great
Reading Railroad
Joseph S. Harris
Baer
Reading Woman’s Club
Reading
Mission Work in Alaska by Sioux City Pastor Couple
Rev. Charles F. Ensign, pastor of the Third Presbyterian Church, Sioux City Iowa, will travel with his wife to Eagle Alaska to undertake missionary efforts among miners and soldiers. Eagle lies on the Yukon River at the Alaska British Columbia border where two companies of soldiers are stationed. California is producing dables a foot a circumference.
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Charles F. Ensign
Third Presbyterian Church
Iowa
Eagle
Alaska
Yukon River
British Columbia
Presidents Wound Opened And Bone Slightly Affected
President Roosevelt underwent another operation on the abscess in his left leg. In Indianapolis a simple needle relieved the trouble, but Sunday a knife opened the cavity and exposed the bone, which was slightly affected by Dr. Rixey. Doctors expect rapid healing with complete drainage and no complications.
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Roosevelts guests and politics in a bustling era
A collage of 1900s notes covers Roosevelt dining car provisions and staff needs for travels, Neely war exhibit funds and Cuba, Wall Street crops, and naval fuel tests. It references Peary, Botha, and Harrison stamps while detailing treasury, pension, and army logistics.
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