Nine new yellow fever cases in Memphis and four deaths
A late report lists nine new yellow fever cases in Memphis with four deaths. Other items note the Consolidated Bank of Montreal suspension, deaths including Walter Hibberd and Captain Dodson, a river collision near New Brunswick, and the Odd Fellows reunion drill awarding a Rochester encampment a carved vase.
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Clayton
N. Y
St. Lawrence
Perseus
Binghamton
Sarah Bostwick
James Cleveland
Goquack Lake
Battle Creek
Mich
Cleveland
Odd Fellows
Long Branch
Rochester
Newark
N. J
Washington
New York
Ocean Hotel
Parole not a good stayer and other notices from London and world
The London Sportsman says Parole is not a good stayer. Lord Salisbury reports the last Russian soldier has left Eastern Roumelia. In France the War Minister says 40000 men will be furloughed in August due to crop conditions. Kingston Jamaica protests Crown officials’ extravagance. Canada does not renew the cattle import ban from the U S. the order expires next month. Odessa Chamber fears more U S wheat exports via Mississippi mouth deepening. Cleveland iron masters announce a 5 percent wage cut awaiting arbitration. Consolidated Bank of Montreal will not reopen after heavy demand, harming about four hundred widows and orphans. A US Commercial Agent in Nottingham gloomy on crops from wet season. England faces shortages and Rosia and America may supply bread.
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London
Lord Salisbury
House of Lords
Roumelia
Jamaica
Kingston
United States
Canada
Odessa Chamber of Commerce
Mississippi
Cleveland
England
Consolidated Bank of Montreal
Nottingham
Rosia
America
Threats to U S Consul Prompt Arrests in Gibraltar
The London Globe reports that Horatio J. Sprague, the United States Consul at Gibraltar, received a demand for 3000 to be deposited at a apot under threat of death for him and his family if refused. Spanish authorities arrested fourteen suspects during the probe, and Sprague later received another threatening letter.
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London Globe
Horatio J. Sprague
United States
Gibraltar
The Child Voyager Across the Night Train
A lone Irish orphan girl named Effie McLearns travels alone from Ireland to Fort Kearney with angels in rough company. Conductors and passengers rally to care for her while she recalls a mother in heaven and a soldier father, and a tag on her neck tells of kinship and farewell from her late family.
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Ireland
New York
Effie Mc
Fort Kearney
United States of America
Baltimore real estate lease plan boosts home ownership
Baltimore 99 year ground leases with eight percent annual rent transform buying into a mortgage like system. A laborer pays sixty dollars yearly on a thousand dollar lot while building his house for a thousand dollars. The arrangement lets owners benefit from rising values and reduces tenement housing. This fosters self owned homes, thrift, and a stable manufacturing city image.
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Baltimore
English Ladies Want of Style in London and Paris
Lucy Hooper rebukes English women for lacking style, citing a Baltimore Gazette critique. She notes London ball attire includes gray and black silk with high necks and diamonds, white satin with long sleeves, and evolving fashions such as sealakin jackets and muslin over wool petticoats. Parisian hats brim with feathers.
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Lucy Hooper
Baltimore Gazette
London
The True Wife by Oliver Wendell Holmes
A meditation on marriage likening a genius to a grand ship propelled by a faithful wife as the unseen tug. The speaker notes that without the wife's steady toil and brave heart, the proud vessel would fail and drift with the tides.
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Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fish Ball Recipe from Early American Agriculture Text
To make fish balls soak fish in warm water, not boiling, for an hour twice, drain nearly dry and chop fine. Mix one part fish to two parts boiled potato, add a batter splash and salt, form into balls, fry in lard. Dip in beaten eggs to reduce fat. Also notes digestion and nutrition. Kidney-Wort offered for piles.
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Cor. Third and Howell Sts
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Fifth St
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J. M. Porter
Grand Lodge of Masons of
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