Funeral Obsequies of Jefferson Davis in New Orleans
In New Orleans crowds gather for the state funeral of Confederate leader Jefferson Davis. Governors from southern states attend with staff and delegations as Louisiana guards, militia, and civic groups parade. Streets fill with black drapery, floral tributes, and mourners viewing the casket before Episcopal rites at Lafayette Square.
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Jefferson Davis
New Orleans
Georgia
Texas
Mississippi
Alabama
Louisiana State National Guards
Episcopal Church
Lafayette Square
City Hall
Obsequies of a Nation’s Leader Held in New Orleans
Funeral rites in New Orleans for a prominent leader were led by Bishop Gallagher with five clergy from various denominations. Twenty surpliced ministers attended along with clergy from several southern states and a 36-voice choir. The service featured a cannon-drawn caisson, a grand procession past city streets, and honorary and regular pallbearers from multiple states, while bells tolled and minute guns sounded.
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New Orleans
Gallagher
Potomac
Chesapeake
Mississippi
Mexican Sea
Markham
Martin
Bakewell
Thompson
United States
Ecity Hall
St. Charles
Calliope
Chartres
St. Louis
Royal
Gvovernors
Nichols
Louisiana
Lowry
Sataalseipol
Buckner
Kentucky
Gordon
Georgia
Richardson
South Carolina
Fowle
North Carolina
Fleming
Florida
Eagle
Arkansas
George W. Jones
Iowa
Charles E. Fenner
Sawyer Hayward
Thomas St. Watts
Alabama
Obsequies in Georgia Held Across State Memorials
Memorial services were held today in almost every town in Georgia. In Atlanta the funeral of Davis featured services at the state capitol which was draped in mourning and linked to the Confederate survivors procession along a mile long route.
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Atlantic
Georgia
Durl
Davis
Atlanta
State Capitol
Dingo
Memorial Services Held as Bells Toll in Several Cities
The city observed memorial services with a thousand schoolchildren, military and fire crews in mourning lines. Bells tolled at noon in Lyscuneus Virginia as businesses paused for services, while Episcopal churches in Charleston and nearby locales also held ceremonies in memory of Daves.
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Wiscuietan
Dee
Bella Wers
Lyscuneus
Charleston W. Vin
Daves
Explosion of Cannon Wounds Soldiers in Cotemus
In Cotemus South Carolina a premature cannon salute for Davis badly burns J. W. Furche who may lose his eyesight. B. W. Blanton suffers a shattered hand and a lacerated arm. several others receive minor injuries. The cannon, linked to South Carolina secession, was salvaged from the river after being thrown during Sherman's approach.
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Cotemus
S.C
Davis
J. W. Furche
B. W. Blanton
South Carolina
Sherman
Memorial Services Held for Davis Across States
Bareion North Carolina reports all state offices closed and business suspended during the funeral hours. Elaborate memorial services were conducted. Cotumata South Carolina notes the legislature and city hall held memorials at the same hour, the largest southwide homage since Calhoun’s death.
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Bareion
N.C
Davis
Cotumata
S. C
South
Calhoun
Richmond in Grief
Richmont Ohio Dec 11 business is suspended and draped in black. The white house once home of Davis during the war is shown in mourning along with street cars. Memorial services were held in churches and drew large crowds.
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Richmont
White House
Davis
Georgia’s Tribute to Davis Observed in Avacosta
Avacosta Georgia December 11 business is suspended as the city pays tribute to former President Davis. A military and civic procession with several hundred Confederate survivors marches to the opera house for public exercises honoring his memory.
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Georgia
Avacosta
Davis
Opera House
Alabama Mourns as Montgomery Holds State Funeral
Montgomery observes a citywide period of mourning with tolling bells minute guns from Capitol Hill and extensive memorial services. Large crowds attend ceremonies reflecting a somber community response to the loss.
Virginia's Grief Observed in Norfolk Services
Business paused across Norfolk and Portsmouth as residents gathered in large crowds to honor the memory of Davis with solemn services in the area.
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Virginia
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Davis
Memorial services honor Jefferson Davis in Tennessee
Tennessee towns from NasHvVille to rural hamlets held memorial services at noon in honor of Jefferson Davis, with ceremonies across Middle and West Tennessee reflecting on his legacy.
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NasHvVille
Tenn
Jefferson Davis
Middle and
West Tennessee
Cascade division strike threatens whole Northern Pacific
The Cascade division strike on the Northern Pacific railroad began last Sunday and, after three days of no freight trains in Tacoma or Seattle, now risks spreading to the entire line with Helena to Tacoma traffic suspended.
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Northern Pacific
Tacoma
Wash
Cascade Division
Northern Pacific Railroad
Seattle
Helena
Owls Outshine Cats in Barnyard Feats
A Macmillan's Magazine excerpt extols barn owls as superior mousers noting their prolific feeding by dusk and dawn. It describes quiet flight, nest sites, nocturnal hunting, and the impressive daily kill rate of around forty mice per day as evidence of their value and charm.
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Macmillan
Mean man steals potato crop from widow at Dexter Me
A notorious local man in Dexter Me seized a widow’s half of a potato crop by night. He dug into the hillsides and removed almost all tubers leaving only a few, ruining the harvest and leaving the widow with a meager share. His actions are lamented as a ruthless display of theft.
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Dexter
Sorrowful spectacle in Sankville tragedy on Milwaukee River
Port Washington Wisconsin December 11 Mrs Claude Augustine her 17 year old daughter and two infant sons drowned in the Milwaukee river at Sankville. The 4 year old slipped on ice and fell through the hole as the mother daughter and two infants disappeared one boy perished before aid could reach them.
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Port Washington
Wis
Claude Augustine
Milwaukee
Sankville
Augustine
Miss Alta Sickles Elopes and Marries Local Bartender
Waite Plains December 11 Miss Alta Sickles daughter of General Daniel Sickles by his second wife eloped to Waite Plains today with Thomas Dingham a New Rochelle bartender and was married.
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Waite Plains
Alta Sickles
Daniel Sickles
Thomas Dingham
New Rochelle
The Johnstown Horror at the opera house
In Johestown Pennsylvania the fatal crush at the doorway during the panic killing several and injuring others. Doctors note no bones broken among the dead or wounded and blame the crush at the street doorway as the cause of death in all cases.
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Johestown
Opera House
Slaughter at Johnstown Opera House Amid Foreboding Calm
The Johnstown disaster report describes a panic at an opera house sparked by nervous foreboding after the Conemaugh flood. Ten killed, twenty-two seriously hurt, about fifty lightly injured. funerals set for Friday as crowds clashed at the exit and fights broke out in the confusion.
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Johnstown
Opera House
Conemaugh
Fight bidders offer $50,000 for Sullivan Jackson bout
Captain Cook receives a letter from Ellias Powell of Santa Fe Springs California stating a $50,000 guarantee to the fighters if the bout is held at his venue with no hippodroming and three sparring exhibitions to be staged at designated locations in California.
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Boston
Captain Cook
The
Poli News
Ellias Powell
Santa Fe Springs
Cal
Sullivan
Jackson
Powell
Mayor Murdered in Jacksonville Defense of Honor
This morning Louis Witkooski mayor of Starke was shot and instantly killed by A. B. Thrasher a lawyer. The supposition is that the deed was done in defence of a woman's honor.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Dee
Louis Witkooski
Starke
A. B. Thrasher
Cooney the Fox Found. Cronin Suspect Identified
Dodgeville dispatch reports a prisoner confined there for months is believed to be Cronin suspect in the Cooney the Fox case. The clue led to Milwaukee where the man was located as the likely Cronin fugitive.
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Cooney the Fox
Milwauker
Wis
Cooney
Fox
Dodgeville
Cronin
Hemingway charged with $75,000 embezzlement mystery
Dee K B Hemmingway a Whitnay Point druggist and private banker resigned Monday after disappearing since Saturday. He is alleged to have embezzled about $75,000, leaving investigators to trace his whereabouts.
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Binanameton
Dee
U K
B. Hemmingway
Whitnay Point
Disjointed Household Notes From An Odd Fragment
The fragmented text lists nonsensical reminders about molds, ammonia mixtures, stain care, and food smells. It references a donkey purchase by Howse Judkins and a peculiar name Naxnaioa, with scattered phrases about clothing drying and oil stains. Overall appears as stray OCR from a household column.
Chicago Divorce Filter Sparks Court Demand
Judge Horton of the county court dismissed rumors of Mrs. Waddingham divorcing her millionaire cattleman husband. He insisted she must appear in Chicago despite her being in New York with deposition offered. He warned against New York dumping divorce cases into Chicago.
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Chitoxga
Dee.m
Horton
New York
Chicago
President Harrison Returns From Chicago Visit
Washington reports President Harrison arrived back at o'clock this morning after a trip to Chicago. Paris notes a liquidation commission for the Panama Canal company has sailed for Aspinwall. Paris also notes a spreading influent epidemic affecting barracks markets and Ecole Centrale. Somerville mourns Mary F. Wil, aged 53, author of the nursery rhyme Mary Had a Little Lamb, who died yesterday.
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Washingtion
Harrison
Chicago
Panis
Paris
Ecole Centrale
Somerville
Mass
Mary F. “Vler
Labor Federation Talks Relations With Other Unions
Boston December 11 The movement to establish fraternal ties and shared operation with other labor groups shows progress. The isolated policy of locomotive engineers blocks a railway men’s federation while a conference with the Knights of Labor continues regarding farmers organizations.
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Labor Federation
Boston
Federation of
Railway Men
Knights of Labor
Bid Withdrawn At Slave Auction In 1848 Jacksonville
In Winter 1848 Jacksonville Florida an auction sale of a deceased planter's estate with seventy to eighty slaves occurs. A boy is paired with an old man who is his free West Indies father and bidder. The bid of 400 is challenged by a fresh bid of 450 and then withdrawn to let the boy go to the father. The crowd cheers as the boy is sold to the old man.
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Jacksonville
Fla
West Indies
Tlder
Sry
Hs Hammer
Dangerous Blonde Archetypes in Historical Texts
The passage catalogs famed figures linked with yellow or blue eyes and blonde hair, referencing Lioretia Borgia, Lady Macbeth, Mme Monthazon, Marie Antoinette, Bloody Mary, Marie de Medici, Catherine, Heroidas daughter, Delilah, and Mrs Maybrick, framing hair color as a recurring symbolic trait across historical figures.
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Lioretia Borgia
Grant White
Lady Macbeth
Mme, Monthazon
Mme
Smon
Marie Antoinette
Bloody Mary
Marie de Medici
Catherine
Heroidias
Herod
Delilah
Mra. Maybrick
Dentists and Chewing Gum Fortune From Local Pioneer
A Brooklyn man who profited from a chewing gum idea is highlighted. He sought a substitute for India rubber used in gums and discovered a market by providing idle jaws with a chewable product. The story blends dental praise with a rags to riches angle.
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Brooklyn
Jom
Cleveland and Grady at Boston banquet discuss tariff and race
Four hundred business leaders gather at Hotel Vendome Boston for Boston Merchants Association dinner. Ex president Cleveland defends tariff reform and ballot reform, while H W Grady of Georgia argues about southern race, labor, and voting dynamics. Carnegie and others listen as policy and national unity themes dominate.
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BostTax
Boston
New England
Hotel Vendome
Boston Merchants’ Association
J. A. Lane
Association
Cleveland
Grady
W. B. Putnam
2. A. Collins
John Lowell
Willian FE. Russell
Leopold Morse
H. W. Grady
Georgia
South
Iowa
Caukes
Independent slate wins seats on Chicago waterway board
December election in Cueaco shows independents securing six of nine seats on the new waterway commissioners board. Democrats and Republicans each field five candidates, aiming for a majority, with partial returns indicating a three independents, three democrats, and three independent republicans split.
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Cueaco
Chicago
Board of Nine Waterway Commissioners
Illnois
Electric Flashes Report Strikes and Debates
Beene New York December 12 printers strike for higher wages causing several papers to be unable to issue. Urica New York December 12 funeral of Justus H Rathbone with Knights of Pythias in attendance. Derroth December 12 Irish National league treasurer wires 15000 for tenants defense fund. ArnuesNs December 12 Crete authorities beat Christians chained. Lospos December 12 Parnell says he is recovering and hopes to speak Tuesday at Nottingham. Ottawa December 12 Americans win international chess tourney 31 to 19 ½. Geneva December 12 Colonel Clibborn arrested for defying expulsion decree and released upon 5 dollar payment.
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Beene
Urica
N. Y
Justus H. Rathbone
Knights of Pythias
Derroth
Irish National League
Irish League
ArnuesNs
Crete
Lospos
Parnell
Nottingham
Ottawa
Canada
United States
Geneva
Clibborn
Salvation Army
Switzerland
Humor of the Scots and their declared punchlines
The New York Sun cites Scottish pensioners inviting jokes from constituents. Entries mock Scots humor with puns on whisky, clergy, doctors, and a funeral undertaker, ending with the claim that Scots are great yet not very funny.
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New York Sun
Athan
Laughter Types and Character Traits Across Speech
The passage links laughter styles to personality, noting broad Latin A laughs as open and honest but vulgar when excessive. dry A as respectable yet reserved. Latin E as phlegmatic. timorous O as malign. and utterance of oo as bold yet traitorous.
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Daniel EB. Sickles
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Judkins
Pyeck
WIRED
Dangerous Blonde
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W. L. Putnam
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