Vast Daily Papers Assert Regional Leading Status
A compilation notes Dakota leading daily papers in the region and Portland Oregon as the wealthiest city by population. It cites Kansas corn projections and a Colorado tale of a lynching linked back to Arizona. Observations include Langtry’s altered social standing and Gen W S Harney’s birthday dinner for eighty with Generals Terry and Gibbon. A one legged man wins damages in multiple cities after crutch mishaps.
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W.S . Harney
Minnetonka
Terry and Gibbon
Leadville
Kansas City
Terre Haute
St. Louis
Philadelphia comedian George Howard overcomes deafness
George Howard, a Philadelphia comedian, is recovering from a deafness that threatened to incapacitate him. For a time he could not hear his own lines, and his wife, sitting in the audience, had to signal him to proceed when his interlocutor had ceased to speak. The infirmity was so well concealed that the public never suspected.
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George Howard
Philadelphia
Cyes
Toby
Mulberry Street
New York
Lulu
Rockland
Vinalhaven
Farini
Hires
Bavaria
Fort Sewall
Marblehead
Manchester
Boston Post
Detroit Tree Press
Doctors and undertaker line Coun cil Bluffs street
A paragraph describes a street in Council Bluffs Iowa where two houses host physicians with a tombstone between them and an undertaker across the road. A neighboring physician near a livery stable shares a wall with a former hospital, prompting the Nonpareil to challenge any other city to match this healthcare cluster.
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Council Bluffs
Iowa
United States
Democratic committee squabbles echo in Ohio and California
The New York Times reports the Democratic national scene with Rose Crans’s personal stake in California and Ohio influence. Representative Flower leads the central committee aiming to supplant Crans while avoiding New York gubernatorial race duties. The Boomerang relays Sun posts on Hoyt and the local pay line, criticizing Democratic efforts to back Hoyt for delegate to Congress.
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New York Times
Washington
Democratic Committee
Ohio
California
Rosecrans
Representative Flower
Central Democratic Committee
New York
Sun
Hoyt
Tis Nibbs
Mystery of Missing Man Unravels After Burial Paper
The case of Frank J. Tully reveals how vanishings in New York prompt clues. After eight days missing, a paper found with an unclaimed dead body leads to the discovery that he was struck by a streetcar on August 20 and buried on Harris Island.
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Frank J. Tully
New York
Tully
Twenty-third Precinct
Corone’s
Potter’s Field
Tuttle
Harris Island
Sala
Federal Offic
Many varied items and remarks fill the page
A collage of notes covers theater touring plans from New York, meetings with Rev. Barnes in Chicago, Texas peach shortages and brandy making, a proposed Harrison statue in Indianapolis, and voter demographics. It also includes anecdotes on Sherman Wolseley, oysters, jokes, world events, and political updates from Michigan, Ohio, California, and beyond.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Barnes
Chicago
Indianapolis
Texas
Wm. Henry Harrison
Tippecanoe
Circle Park
Illinois
New York
Jay Gould
George Bennet
Maysville
Maid Narsaic's Adventure
Fragmentary verse fragment asking whether kindness can recover a wayward pursuer. The speaker compares a reckless figure to a wavering seeker and ponders if a kind word or cold suspicion might lead to truth.
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Maid Narsaics
Berlin Sculptor Holbig Dead at 68
Reports note the death of Johann Holbig the renowned German sculptor at age sixty eight in Berlin. The item appears among various foreign items, mentioning coronation timing and political receptions.
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Berlin
Johann Holbig
Ranch Range and Berde Stock Notes on Cattle Shipments
Market notes report rapid cattle shipments from Texas to St Louis by Carothers & Searight, with four day fifteen hour run. Colorado ranch activity includes William Drake’s farm profits, wheat and corn yields, and farm value. Sheep and wool markets show large clips and price ranges, while Chicago receipts ease and cattle prices weaken amid large range herds and notable shipments from Boomerang and Wyoming.
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Texas Live Stock Journal
Pryor
Sunset Railroad
Carothers & Searight
San Antonio
St. Louis
Fort Collins Express
William A. Drake
Richard DeClay
Drake
Colorado
Texas
Sweetwater Gazette
Ualifornia
Wyoming
J. W. Bristol
Bristol Station
Colo
W.B. Miner
Hugh Barton
J. H. Bristol
Bennett
Chicago
Commons
Boomerang
Marsh & Cooper
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Dakota
Portland
Oregon
Frontier Counties
Kansas
Arizona
Churchoun
Missouri
North Carolina
M. P
Josh Billings
Billy Florence
Joe Jefferson
Wade & Butcher
Courier- Journal
Eddie T
Rascal
Brown
Filkins
Boston Transcript
George
Chicago ‘Tribune
Patrick
Cetewayo
London
Catawayo
Eugene Sue
Massachusetts
Samuel
Nashville
Lynn Lynton
St. Peter
Heaven
Hell
Alaska
Mme, Jerome Bonaparte
Baltimore
Madame
David H. Stone
Michigan
N. J. Terrill
Geo. &. Cable
Virginia
Wm. H. Brown
Congress
Harrison
Ohio State Democratic Committee
Albert GO
Jan
Louisiana
W. H. Hatch
W. H. Doane
Sherman
Geo. Foster
Keifer
Maine
Voorhees
State Central Committee
B. Green
Fairfield
Ill
Wm. Howard
Pennsylvania
A. V. Powderly
George L. Yaple
Isaac Stephenson
Wisconsin
Henry Libby
Dr. Updegraff
Daniel Ermentrout
Judge Payson
Mariah
Desiah
John Dunn
Boyle
Limerick
Paris
DeLesseps
St. Petersburg
Canterbury
England
Italy
Holland
Spain
de Lesseps
Naples
Dublin
Constitution Committee
Range and Berde
Laramie
Rock Creek
Philadelphia Commission House
J. M. Culver
O. P. Goodwin
Keogh Bros
Green River
Moonday
John Wood
Tusler
Eldridge
Maybarry
Bass
Bosler
Mayberry
Lynch
Laois
IBM
Pensacola
Catton Fron Ham
Flen Brady
Merricky
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