The gigantic spider web over New York City streets
A San Francisco Chronicle piece paints New York as a vast tangle of elevated rails, corrugated iron depots, and endless wires. It depicts streets crowded with girders, oil stains, and roofs turned into depots, with cables crisscrossing Broadway and lines owned by multiple companies and private interests.
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J. E.R
San Francisco Chronicle
Fourth Avenue
Forty-Second Street
Elevated
Ninety-ninth Street
Chird Avenue
FeGrba
Chatham
Bowery
Third
Sixth Avenue
aeSt
Vanderbilts of Trade
Aldewalk
Broadway
America
The Orre Prince of Nihilism and Other Observations
A collage of social caricature and commentary. The New York Sun ridicules public braggarts and foreign stereotypes while profiling Prince Kropotkine as a flawed nihilist. Additional items note drainage reducing consumption and a Lowes firm developing cheaper sport shot from row.
Salvation Army Periodical Circulation Totals Noted
A Salvation Army overview cites wide reach of its periodicals with the English War Cry at 800000 readers and regional titles such as The Little Soldier 60000 The American War Cry 25000 and The French War Cry 15000.ML De Onn comments on the small fraction of known plot varieties used.
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Salvation Army Periodicaln
Salvation Army
News growth and changes in journalism discussed
The piece traces how telegraph and modern reporting have expanded news coverage, altering public perception of crime and world events. It cites The Youth's Companion and Labouchere in Milwaukee as examples of evolving press influence and the push for free news trade.
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Emoreat
New York Associated Prows
San Thia
Telegraph
Soh Ghoiy
West
New York City
Ourournals
P.eople
Rooster Heads Off in Chloroform Trick at City Alms-House
A Richmond Whig report recalls Dr Lancaster performing a headless chicken experiment in the city alms-house dispensary. The physician claimed the rooster would walk again, later seen roaming the floor despite lacking a head or sight. A second piece describes a journeyman humorist with a bizarre parade of props and a mule, shocking staff before permission to store the items is granted.
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Richmond
Lancaster
Puck
Origin of the Fire Department in New Amsterdam
Quaint 1648 account notes Petrus Stuyverant appointing four fire wardens to inspect thatched roofs in New Amsterdam. A penalty of three guilders per chimney funded leather buckets and hooks and ladders, marking the origin of New York’s fire department.
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Chicago Journal
Petrus Stuyverant
New Amaterdam Village
Fire Department
New Yor
Not Surprising in The Promise of May Play
The Norristown Herald notes Mr Teunyeon's new play The Promise of May fails to deliver. The critique says it lacks a ballet bloodhounds train robber hero or an educated mule, and audience expectations are unmet with no surprise in success.
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Norristown Herald
Teunyeon
Ito
Notable Confederate Hero's Athens Dinner Remembrance
A writer recalls Sherman's raid near Athens Georgia and Col. W C P Breckinridge of the Kentucky unit capturing prisoners. He describes a heroic parade into town, a grand dinner, and Breckinridge's nervous, humorously awkward recollection of being introduced to guests after weeks in the saddle.
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Atlanta Constitution
Athens
Sherman
W. C. P. Breckinridge
Athena
Breckinridge
Col. Breckinridge
Subby Dougherty
Eyaeates
How Thurlow Weed Made $200000 Was It Whisky Secrets
Milwaukee reports Thurlow Weed amassed wealth via a single whisky speculation. The tale says Weed learned in advance of Chase’s tax proposal, bought New York whisky, then sold after a $1 per gallon rise, profiting substantially. Seward was blamed for leaking cabinet secrets.
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Thurlow Weed
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Honda
Retary Chace
Seward
Lincoln
Weed
Sulphur Gargle Report Prompts Diphtheria Remedy Trial
A Philadelphia Record editor recounts a northern city case where flour of sulphur applied with a clay pipe to diphtheritic membranes produced rapid relief for two dying children. The piece notes diphtheria is blamed on organisms near the tongue roots and suggests the remedy could be tried alongside physician treatment.
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Chicago Tribune
Philadelphia Record
Before Pockets What Cincinnati Saturday Night
An odd meditation on pockets tracing their invention from ancient times. The piece notes how early people carried items without pockets and mentions girdles and cutpurses, ending with a provocative line about wealth and reach.
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Cincinnati
Million spent to finish the wall at Fifty-eighth Street site
New York Sun reports the collar under the apartment row at Fifty-eighth to Fifty-ninth streets and Seventh Avenue has been blasted to rock. Excavation reaches thirty-six feet, with 425 feet of building grade rise. The project includes a central tunnel, drainage vaults, and coal storage. Architects Mossra Hubert & Pirraon estimate rock removal at 45 128 cubic yards costing about 112 800 dollars and total cost to top of collar around 430 000 dollars.
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New York Sun
Fifty-eighth
Fifty-ninth Streets
Seventh Avenue
Fiftyninth Street
Fifty-eighth Street
Servanta
Mossra
Hubert & Pirraon
Fire devastates Newhall Ho Hotel killing many inmates
A blaze swept through Newhall Hotel at dawn causing a death trap on the sixth floor. Dozens leaped from windows as flames filled the air and guests reported terrified shrieks. Rescue ladders struggled to reach upper floors amid collapsing structure.
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Milwaukee
Doz’ries
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Lemuel Smith, Jr
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Fetterman
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Sturgis & Goodell
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Goshen’s Hole
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Johnson County
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H.ford
Cheyenne, Wyo
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Medford
Ben I. Antisdel
Belwaukee
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Royarl Briggs
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