Epithets from a Seventeenth Century Newspaper Fragment
A sanitized composite from 1683 items reports on Grand Opera house finances in Denver and a year of operation. Utah polities and women voting issues. California wine output and market concerns. a Grand Island reunion of soldiers and sailors praised for discipline. humorous anecdotes about President Hill and Uncle Rufus Hatch. epitaphs and graveyard inscriptions from England and Oxfordshire.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California
Grand Island
Omaha
Rufus Hatch
St. Us
President Hill
Manitoba Road
Hotel Lafayette
Hill
Mr. Hille
Shaman
Wall Street
Frontier
America
Utah
Salt Lake Bune
Fragmentary Murmurings and Witty Snatches In The News
A garbled page fragment cites scattered remarks and ads including a rumor about a man named Henderson a reference to a Mississippi negress Moss and four births a doctor office recruitment ad and a quip from Sidney Smith. The text also mentions farmers profiting from flowers and a remark about a rich relative’s death.
Henry Watterson Portrait Drawn By Louisville Correspondent
The Kansas City Times writer calls Henry Watterson of the Courier Journal a bold, blunt figure, likening him to a human bull-dog. The piece, filled with vivid details of his eating, drinking, poker, and debts, notes he is forty two, once a young man not yet in Louisville, and now a sporadic writer who writes on inspiration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisville
Kansas City
Arabi Pasha Portrait Drawn by Philadelphia Artist
A Philadelphia artist who met Arabi in Alexandria last winter offers a detailed sketch of Arabi Pasha. The portrait describes a tall heavy-faced, sullen man with a sharp eye, a black moustache, frail underpinning, spindle legs, broad chest, and a lobster-pattern build that recalls a negro more than a cordial Arab leader.
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Philadelphia
Arabi
Alexandria
Arabi Pasha
Rich gold bed discovered in Nova Scotia and other world notices
A broad collection of brief items reports a gold discovery in Nova Scotia a rise of American palace cars in Italy dancing waning at Saratoga a new first class hotel planned in Mexico and other varied notes from industry travel and society including coal vein finds in California and a vast St Petersburg room lit by twenty thousand wax tapers
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Nova Scotia
St. Petersburg
Whispers on Notables Health Faith and Havoc
Whispers report Mr Blaine in unusually good health while General Robert Toombs of Georgia is to join the Methodist church and be baptised by Bishop Pierce. Mr Beecher skips the White Mountains and claims a cure for hay fever at Peekskill. James M Schaeffer is rumored heir to a Holland fortune of 1.6 million. P T Barnum seeks 120000 cash to exhibit Jumbo in the South. Charles O Conor resides in a Nantucket mansion, seen rambling with hat on his head and hands in pockets.
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Blaine
Robert Toombs
Georgia
Methodist Church
Pierce
Beecher
White Mountains
Peekskill
Reading Times and Dispatch
James M. Schaeffer
Bill Poster
Holland
P. T. Barnum
Charles O’conor
Nantucket
Women admitted to Cambridge musical degrees on equal terms
The Cambridge University examination for musical degrees is opened to women under the same conditions as men. The Paris Conservatories appoint Pauline Viardot Garcia and Miolan Carvalho as judges for singing classes, marking the first time women are honored in that role. The report also notes various political notes, travel, and cultural items.
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Cambridge University
Pauline Viardot Garcia
Miolan Carvalho
Ambroise Thomas
Paris
Political Turmoil and Violent Death Reported Abroad
Cholera rages in Manila while the Archbishop of Canterbury recovers. In Ireland a man named Thomas Quinn is shot dead near Athlone while driving a donkey cart. In Vienna 26 radicals are arrested including Herr Most. The Times notes land naturalization as socialism in disguise. Turkey and Greece trade frontier offers as Greece mobilizes if talks fail.
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Cantrbury
Harrison
Dublin
Thomas Quinn
Athlone
London Times
Radical
Working Men’s Society
Vienna
Herr Most
The
Freiheit
British and international notes in current foreign items
Earl Spencer plans to reinstate 208 of 225 dismissed Dublin metropolitan police. Cholera deaths reach 170 in Manila and 279 in nearby villages. Dublin police laud Spencer’s support. Crown Prince Frederick William’s cavalry drill sees two senior French officers detained in civvies. Japan Corea talks settled with £500,000 compensation to Japan and £50,000 to victims’ families. Albanians on the border staged but tensions calmed with Montenegro. Earthquake damage rises, city losses reach hundreds of thousands with multiple fatalities. Aspinwall rail and telegraph disrupted. many bridges out of service.
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Fredrick William
Japan
Corea
Albania
Montenegro
Aspinwall
Nominations for Congress Face Broad Party Splits Across States
Barstow's Vermont majority is about 22 000. Republican John T Rice Michigan, Democrat John J O Neill Missouri, Republican J Scranton Pennsylvania, Democrat HK B Barnum Minnesota, Democrat G W Wallace Ohio Democrat W C Oath Alabama Democrat W K Turner Nebraska bolting Republican Jude Wever Nebraska RepublicanEdward Breitung to succeed Jay A Hubbell Michigan Republican J C Buchanan Texas Democrat Storm Pennsylvania Democrat Illinois Democrats urge state to reject prohibition as violation of individual rights and free government principles.
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Barstow
Vermont
Chicago
Congress
X—O. L. Spalding
Michigan
C. C G. Pawning
Reno
Nevada
Russell Errett
Thomas M. Bayne
Pennsylvania
Ross J. Alexander
Ohio
Thomas Wilson
Minnesota
Henry Dewns
Louisiana
Reubin Woolman
New Jersey
Edward Howland
Luther Smith
Alabama
Thos. J. Henderson
Winois
A. E. Stevenson
Illinois
A. J. Hunter
John T. Rice
John J. O'Neill
Missouri
J. Scranton
B. Barnum
G. W. Wallace
W. C. Oath
W. K. Turner
Nebraska
Jude Wever
Edward Breitung
Jay A Hubbell
J. C. Buchanan
Texas
Storm
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Epitapes
Grand’ Opera House
Denver
Council Bluffs
Crow Agency
Montana
Dunn
Salt Lake Tribune
Ogden Tubercle
Childwald Orurdayard
England
Nestlesed
Oxford
Shire
Father
Wimble
Wolstanton
Enderson
Moss
Isband
Sidney Smith
Cincinnati
Hte
North Star
Henry Watterson
Italy
Saratoga
City of
Mexico
D. D
Egypt
Great Britain
Coal Creek
Fremont County
Henry Villard
North Pacific Railway
New York
Phillipsburg
Tennessee
Tiffany and Co
Odds and
Detroit Free Press
Lyons France
Bicycle Club
Lyons
Naples
Nice
Genoa
Rome
Florence
Turin
United States
Martha Washington
George
Harriet Buswell
Lincoln
Ill
Paila
Maine
Baltimore
Tariff Commission
Cuba
National Telephone Exchange
Boston
Bodie Bank
Higginsville, Mo
St. Paul
Milwaukee
Etienne
Melville
Liverpool
Columbia
South Carolina
Columbus
S.C
Capt. Haile
L. W. R. Blair
Francis Waylan
Osage
Womans Christian Temperance Union
State of
Field
Circuit Court
China
Alaska
Hanlan
Ross
Courtney
Lee
Washington
el Paso
Organ Mountains
Oswego
Rio Grande
International & Great Northern
Garfield Monument
John L. Thompson
Gen. D. Swain
FE. T. Filson
Annie Young
Frankford
Mich
Overton
Canada
Creedmoor
Syracuse
N. Y
Hannibal
Tariff Commissons
Kansas
Pensacola
Wood’s Hall
Edison House
Carney
Huebner
Swanpscott
New York Silk Exchange
Brownsville
Fort Brown
Matamoras
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Texas Pacific
Riley
Tencyck
Elliott
Panama
Isthmus
Providence
Francis D. Moulton
United States Circuit
Os F. Chaffee
Wm. Sprague
Canonchet
Kate Brown
Philips
Brown
Dodge City
Princess Louise
Rock Island Road
San Francisco
British Columbia
Social Science Association
Theo, Bacon
Jas, F. Colby
Edward Benison
Northwest
Ft. Leavenworth
B. G. Seymour
D. Sass
Wyoming House
Tles
Ft. Brown
Kewanee
Des Moines
Dakota
Brave Bear
Yankton
Johnson
Ft. Sully
Hannibal & St. Joe
Billings
Pullman Palace Car Company
Pullman
Manila
Greece
Turkey
Earl Spencer
Ireland
Metropolitan Police
Manilla
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