British rifle team visits New York and US politics loom
A weekend arrival of a British rifle team in New York is reported as the Democratic State convention heads for Albany on September 11. War and treasury plans surface with talks of an army appropriation, October sessions, and westward crop fortunes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Albany
Secretary of War
Pennsylvania Coal Company
Washington
Congress
Bikuben
Sheridan
Madras
India
Calone
Richard Grant White
Galaxy
Walter Scott
Nigel
White
Chicago Journal
Detroit Prep Press
Rochester
Philadelphia
Colorado
Turase
Fry
Paris
Carraty Baps
Mississippi
Bosphorus
Peru
Legend of the Long Ago Folktale From Yosemites Valley
Yosemites correspondent recounts a Native American legend about a beautiful maiden of the valley who resists the Night Wind spirit. He abducts her, she perishes at a rock over Pohono Falls, and her spirit is said to bless the waterfall with rainbows and shifting streams. The tale notes the name Pohono meaning Spirit of the Hail Wind and warns against night travel near the falls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mighden
Mue
Yosemite
Robert McLane
Louis
Gun
Lew Wallace
Washington
Ile
Lew
Ate
Forgery Case Strikes War Department Over Honor Discharge
A private soldier forged a War Department order to obtain an honorable discharge with pay and mileage. Townsend’s clerk detected the mismatch between the order and the soldier’s record, revealing a forged signature of Assistant Adjutant General Pelonze. The fraud, likely printed in official War Department style, deprived the man of two years of service and cost several hundred dollars in pay.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Department
Army
Adjutant General
Sixth Infantry
Townsend
Pelonze
New Arm At Port Newport Exhibition Stuns Navy Officers
Captain William Gardner unveiled a compact firearm at the torpedo station on August 16. The weapon, weighing about forty pounds with a single strong barrel, promises high fire rate and reliable operation, surpassing Gatling and Mitrailleuse in durability and ease of use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Gardner
United States Navy
Gardner
K. l. Breeze
Selfridge
Norton
Bunce
Navy
Caumon
Sring Caape
Europe
Niers
Iso
Ife
Newport
Ft. 1
Pigeon Flight Ties Dover to London on Express Rail Line
A Belgian pigeon themed to a Cannon Street house rode the Continental Express from Dover to London. Thrown from a carriage at departure it circled briefly then flew toward Sittingbourne and Maidstone, apparently following the nearest rail route to London. The third train arrived twenty minutes before the locomotive despite the pigeon’s assumed fifty mile per hour speed.
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Dover
London
Cannon Street
Sittingbourne
Maidstone
Conductor Helps Passenger Ride After Fare Refusal
Conductor James Tinney on a Jersey City to Paterson run allowed a young woman with a baby to ride rather than drop her at a station. When she alighted at Paterson he took the baby as collateral until she paid the fare. The woman chased him, paid up, and reclaimed the child, revealing sufficient funds in her pocketbook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Tinney
Jersey City
Paterson
Tinney
What Tinney Would Do If Mother Refused Payment
The Middleton Press ponders the case of Mr Tinney and a mother who might abandon her baby if she would not pay. The piece questions legal and ethical avenues and the possible steps Tinney would take to protect the child.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mr.Tinney
Middleton Press
Territorial Divorces in Sinois
Governor Cullom receives a cry for pardon from a man seeking to wed a Utah divorcee living near him in Illinois. He claims Utah divorces are unconstitutional and asks for a gubernatorial guarantee of pardon if indicted for bigamy after marriage. Springfield Register notes the governor has not yet promised.
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Cullom
Utah
Illinois
Springfield Register
Howard
Joseph
Bernstein
Germany
Bell
Gail Hamilton
Mount Vesuvius
Chicago Journal
New York
Alexander Dumas
Paris
Count Vou Arsim
Bismarck
Iho
Ragatz
Switzerland
Carlsbad
Hampton
White Sulphur Springs
Wade
Washington
Sherman
War Department
Racy Notes on War, Arts, and Public Life
A collage of brief items riffs on Mesmerizing wars and politics with satire. Mentions General Howard Chief Joseph Sitting Bull pursuit, Mary J. Black death, DeBar’s theater head, Pope music, Mars satellites, and various public figures. Wry observations mix humor with current events and cultural notes.
Mexican Mus Linimmat Promises Pain Relief For All Ailments
A historic advertisement extols a liniment named Mexican Mus Linimmat as a universal remedy. It claims to heal burns sprains cuts and many injuries, asserting it has saved lives and restored work animals, surpassing all other liniments.
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Neekly Pender
H. Glafors
Cueyenne
Wyoming
Schipka Pass
Berlin
Belgium
Holland
Sweden
Portugal
Schildan
Saxony
Council of Ministers
MacMahon
Gambetta
Lille
Nso
North Carolina
Dav, Vance
Minnesota
Iowa
Wisconsin
Kansas
Asona
Denver
Champion Vaughan
Wand
Ignatieff
Gortschakoff
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Silver Lake
Kil Carson
Ohio State Journal
Ohio
Pendleton
United States
Henry B. Payne
Payne
New York City
Hudson River
J. M. Toucey
Shakespeare
Willie
Warwickshire
Ingland
Samuel
Temple Courts
Nazareth
William Shakespeare
Mary Shakespeare
Sinois
Supreme Court
Galveston
Nover
Sitting Bull
Liberty
Aurora
Daily News
Mars
Earth
Trubbell
Putnam County
New York World
Mary J. Black
Colonel Ingersoll
Laporte
Ind
Bren Debar
DeBar
St. Louis
Mississippi River
Tie
Mark Smith
de- Bar
Lifayette Maupin
Athens
Mr. Alden
New York Times
Vatican
Joseph Cook
Henry Clay
Missouri
Protestant Episcopal Church
Boston
King Alphonso
Lowell
Madrid
Joyce
Oakey Uiull
Smith
Montana
Cardinal Antonelli
Pio Nono
Webb
Cardinal McCloskey
Scranton
Madame Titiens
Rose “Yuinge
Tady Macbeth
Salt Lake City
Sring Ye
Sterling
Pacific Coast
Rubinstein
St. Petersburg
Turkey
Enr Perks
Saratoga
Pape
Eli
Brianamm Youna
Tlward
America
Globe
West Point Military Academy
Minnie
Morton
Senate
Butler
South Carolina
Louisiana
South
Mme
Adele Jeanne Marie Patti
M. Louis Sebastien I
Henry de Roger de Cahuzac
Marquis de Caux
Patti and Caux
Adele Jeanne Marie
Old Caux
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