Tim Grand Lodge selects Austin for next annual meeting
A weekly dispatch notes the Tim Grand Lodge O. of F. selects Austin Texas for its next annual meeting. It reports Czar backing officers as part of a broader political and financial scramble with global notes on Russia France and Chicago business activity.
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Tim Grand Lodge Lo, O. Ff
Austin
Texas
Tim Czar
France
Chicago
Sherman
Bucharest
Connolly
Precocious by the Sea at Long Branch Breakfast
A Long Branch correspondent recalls an 8 year old boy at breakfast who jokes about coffee fixing him, boasts of five seasons visiting the town, and flirts with fashionable sisters while his mother eyes diamonds and social polish.
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Long Branch
N. J
Tie
Mamma
Maurice
Dissolving Brotherhood Faces Financial Collapse
A printer's view notes the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers fraying as pay for striking members proves unreliable. Members report only ten dollars weekly instead of fifteen, sparking calls for dissolution as earnings shrink and officers secure salaries, risking insolvency across the union.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Wagingeers
Central
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Erie
Indelible Murder Blood at Comique Theatre
A description recounts blood stains on walnut paneling after Mabel Hall was murdered by Edgar Moore at the Comique Theatre. The restaurant adjacent to the venue, later a barber shop, is scrubbed weekly yet the stains remain, prompting musings on indelible blood and curses.
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Mabel Hall
Edgar Moore
Comique
Mabel
St. Louis Dispatch
Moonlit Misadventure on School Street Steps
In a Concord street scene a courting couple on School Street ends with a comic tumble as the man spasms, flails on the steps, and a large rat emerges from his trousers creating a slapstick moment. The event unfolds under a starry night with pears as silent witnesses.
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Concord
N. N
George
What Pasha Means and Its Ranks in Ottoman Rule
A historical explanation of the title Pasha or Pacha in Ottoman practice. It covers origin from Persian elements meaning runner or support, usage for governors and high-ranking officers, and the three tail-badge ranking system from one to three tails.
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Pacha
Turkey
Circumventing Royalty Eight-Horse Bet at Hyde Park
Boston sportsman Tom Perkins, famed for skill with teams, bet he could drive an eight Horse team through Hyde Park. With seven horses and one mule he proved his point, claiming even royalty cannot make eight horses out of his lineup. The feat drew a large crowd at the Royal George Hotel.
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Tom Perkins
Boston
England
States
Perkins
Hyde Park
Royal George Hotel
Boston Traveler
Newark Shooting Ends in Jealous Husband’s Fatality
A man named Gommersoll was shot and killed in Newark on Monday by a husband driven by jealousy. The incident appears linked to a domestic dispute.
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Gommersoll
Newark
Diverse 19th Century News Doodles and Rumors
A sweeping column of eccentric notes. Susan B Anthony speaks for suffrage in Colorado. Janes R Doolittle urged for Wisconsin governor. Various oddities include a Burlington Iowa mayor’s defalcation of 100000 dollars, a New Orleans rifleman, and a caricaturist in Dubuque.
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Susan B. Anthony
Colorado
Wisconsin
Janes R. Doolittle
Burlington
Iowa
Bubuque
William Harencourt
New Orleans
Chicago
Cairo
Soldier Mistakes Madman for Jesus at Malaga Fort
A Spanish sentinel at a fort outside Malaga challenged a midnight visitor who answered Jesus of Nazareth. The sergeant, thinking it a prank, struck the intruder, only to find a gentleman of high standing, insane. The man’s rebuke exposes the peril of mistaking faith for folly.
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Spain
Malaga
Jesus of Nazareth
Harper’s Magazine
Union Pacific Faces Heavy Losses After Recent Disasters
The last thirty days hit Union Pacific hard with 400000 spent to curb the Missouri River, the Omaha bridge destroyed and 250000 in repairs ahead, and 75000 to 100000 lost to express robbers, though the pay car arrived on time. First Counselor John W. Young contemplates a second wife, Miss Cobb, Brigham Young’s step granddaughter. Confederate General Dorrest is 56 and seriously ill, his plantation work on President's Island marked by long hours and intense effort.
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Dillon
United States Circuit Court
Davenport
St. Lous
Joshua Wheeler
Kentucky
Sothern
Lord Dundreary
Iperor Aleck
Russia
Charles D. Evans
New York
Michigan
General Sheridan
Europe
Jones— Jones
P. T. Sheridan
Greece
Constantine Canaris
Athens
Smith
WH. Alexander
Strakosch
Miss Kellogg
Virginia
Daniel Ward
Stickleyville
London Court
Uencoe
Rosecrans
St. Martins
John T. Raymond
Colonel Sellers
Leland Hotel
Springfield
Springfield Tratel Company
Messrs
Horace S. Leland
N. B. Higgins
Barton
Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
Rhea Barton
M. Thiers
Union Pacific Railroad
Missouri
Omaha
John W. Young
Brigham
Miss Cobb
Dorrest
President’s Island
Washington
General Longstrent
Georgia
United States Marshal
National Agricultural College
Chicago
Timur
Lehigh & Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Coun Zicwr
Constantinople
Pranklin
Patent Office
Pleynaa
Biela
Schipka Pass
Northumberland
Durham
Grant
Union Pacific Company
Srumrm Mann
Col. Wood
Scully
Portland
Puget Sound
U. S
Oliver Wolcott
San Francisco
Poland
Germany
Austria
Bismarck
Andrassy
Florance Nightingale
Linu
Barnny
Maryland
Welles
Pleyna and
Conkling
Spencer
Ohio
Texas
Barnum
State Press
Tur Presidential party entertained in Lynchburg Virginia
A dispatch notes a presidential party gathering in Lynchburg Virginia on Monday, with mention of Ginn MCCLELLAN nominating for governor of New Jersey. Other items report water damage to Land Office records in Washington, a possible U.S. marshal appointment in Georgia, and various political and military updates across the nation.
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Sulaman
New York Evening Post
U.S. Senate
Ohio
Washington
Chicago
Michigan Avenue
Tur
Lynchburg
Ginn. McClellan
New Jersey
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Mehemet Ali
Czirowitz
Phila Delptila
Ilames
Cronp
Mr. Shively
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Gen. Howard
Henry’s Lake
Shively
Yellowstone
Kansas
the Times
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Bare
Kansas City
J. HE. Krebill
Indian Territory
St. Louis
Leavenworth Times
Pasha Means
Charles Powell
Indianapolis
Peru
Laporte
Ind
Columbia
Minnie Walters
Warrisburg
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Middlebury
Massachusetts
Emerson
Louis Kossuth
Pesth
Union Pacific
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Greenback Party
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