House Struck by Lightning in Broad Street Residence
The Miller residence on Broadway was struck by lightning this morning at about eight o'clock. The bolt hit the corner of the cornice but caused no injuries. Nearby windows showed damage and smoke was seen, though no one was hurt. The event was witnessed by Paty Seen Harriman.
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Harriman
Mra. Miller
Barber
Order of Daughters of Rebecka
Eglantine Street
Waterspout bursts near Carson City causing deaths
A waterspout near Carson City led to fourteen deaths, with authorities reporting the grim toll and ongoing search efforts. Local officials urged caution as rescue teams surveyed the area and documented victims amid ongoing hazy conditions and storm damage.
Fragmentary city parade and crowded shores report
A garbled OCR note describes a city parade and seaside crowds with crowded trains and a grand display. It mentions a large turnout of thirty six cars and a notable event along the coast, but many words are unclear.
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Eppcopeiets
Ocvean
Three Story Brick Building Burns in New York
A July 26 blaze in New York destroyed a three story brick building’s rear section with two hundred persons evacuated and remaining property losses estimated at $56,000. Fire consumed oil and caused extensive damage including a shop area and adjacent spaces.
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Less
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Lees
Newberg
Burns
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Death From Morphine Attempt Reported
A brief death notice from Musrnuts dated July 27 notes a morphine related incident linked to Byneha Ptteoner and mentions Sheeran jail. The fragmentary item records a fatal outcome and legal context without graphic detail.
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Musrnuts
Bee
Sheeran
Weather forecast for Tennessee region with cloudy skies
Weather summary notes cloudy conditions across the Tennessee region with northerly winds. Temperature trends described as stationary or falling, with a low to mid range noted and periods of light winds.
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Wasurreron
Tennessee
Ielingsadea
Oman
Alchemist Turns Potter in a Silent Town Tale
A muddled reminiscence describes a man who sought to turn base metals into gold but ends as a potter. He journeys along a riverbank, encounters luck and loss, and by surprise a woman forges porcelain. The narrative shifts from alchemy to craft as the man's fate changes from wealth to humble creation.
Fragmented lament on life and government ethics
A fragmented, archaic text muses on sacred life and the value of human life, questioning authority figures like lords or bishops and pondering origins and kinship in a lament about society and governance.
Waste of Health and Strength in the Young
A plea to women about health, education, and laws of nature. The author condemns ignorance of ventilation and oxygen, urging rational education to protect young bodies and reduce suffering from disease. It argues for informed care in homes and chastises excessive confinement and neglect.
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Mei Bok
Beasemer Seloon Steamer Aims For Channel Passage
The News describes the Beasemer Seloon Steamer as a three hundred and forty foot vessel with a four foot freeboard, built to endure rough seas across the British Channel. It features a paddlebox layout, a central saloon, a promenade deck, and life rafts, all designed under Bessemer’s machinery to keep the deck area stable and calm for passengers.
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Prinriple
Wats
Bessemer
Thames
Ste
M. P
Breakup talk and health fears in a Southern city
A French friend urges calm as a woman plans to break up housekeeping amid health issues and a rumor of a broken engagement. The discussion touches on societal expectations, a feared household breakdown, and the presence of many Southern families with Black attendants visiting Branch.
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Mr. Arcourt
Scahkel
Branch
Flood Ravages Pittsburgh Area Kill Count Soars
Special Dispatch reports July 27 describing a devastating flood in Pittsburgh districts. Estimates put fatalities around 150 with hundreds missing as waters rose rapidly. Butchers Run Wood's Run Saw Mill Run and Liberty streets suffered severe damage including collapsed buildings and submerged depots. Union Depot and tunnels flooded three to four feet with trains halted. Multiple wards and streets faced ruined property and sweeping water, prompting mass救 searches.
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Republicans Set Convention Delegate Rules In Ohio
Special Dispatch notes that a Republican Beate Convention will be issued Wednesday with one delegate per 400 votes for Noyes and one per 200 votes. The convention will have 535 delegates with Hamilton County allotted forty. Certificates showing the Ohio River Transportation Company of Bellaire with $2,000 capital were filed today.
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Daily Times
CoteMats
Noyes
Hamilton County
Ohio River ‘Transportation Company
Bellaire
Murder and Lynchings Reported in Tean Potson Area
Chapter of Nervors from Tean Potson, murder and lynchings cited with seven decomposed bodies found in a pond near St. Charles. Fatal shooting after a feud near Duval’s Bluff. Authorities seek leads as two men jailed or bailed. Weather hot, crops doing well.
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Davis Bluff
Rosser
Burleson
St. Charles
Duvall
Dand Son
Jenaliey
Fevroho
Indian Bay
Illness at Brussels Congress as Leopold’s Health Quiets Delegates
The Brussels Congress reports Prince Leopold is seriously ill but deeming no alarm necessary while most delegates arrive for the opening session. Credentials and preliminaries dominate today’s agenda. Sir Anne Lene is listed as the Great Britain representative.
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Hlalnyss
Prince Leopold
the Dell
Leopold
Brussels
Anne Lene
A Fowl Destroyed by Floods in Vienna Storm
A Vienna dispatch reports a severe storm devastating Azrall. Sixty four houses were demolished and most residents could not escape. Railways across the area suffered extensive damage and travel halted.
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Vienna
Azrall
VARA July 27 Clash and Raids Reported in Insurgent Areas
A battle between troops and rebels estimated at eighty to one hundred engages left several dead, many wounded, and dispersed fighters. Spaniards lost a ship and more were killed as Bilvero Prieto bandits attacked Bayre. Prisoners include a son of a local official. Minor skirmishes occur in the Santiago district with ten armed men raiding homes and plantations. A general decree orders the House of Correction moved to the Pinesy island.
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Sidon
Caetiok
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Santiago
House of Correction
Pinesy
Farley case in police court continued to August first
In police court this morning the case of James Farley charged with abusing family was continued till August 1. An advertisement for one hundred cigar makers this morning caused a near blockade of Fourth street, resembling a crusaders’ parade.
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James Farley
Fourth Street
Burglars Target Mount Airy Home of Mr H C Hail
Burglars entered the residence of Mr H C Hail at Mount Airy on Saturday night, broke a window, and stole 100 dollars in cash and a chain valued at 100 dollars. Notice to the thieves has yet to be obtained.
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H. C. Hail
Mount Airy
Juvenile defendants sent to House of Refuge
Newton Darland and Frank Batue, both under twelve, were committed to the House of Refuge by Judge Marchant this morning for incorrigibility and vagrancy respectively.
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Newton Darland
Frank Batue
Marchant
Passenger prostrated by heat on excursion train to Aurora
E Siedenburg, a passenger on an O M railroad excursion to Aurora yesterday, was overcome by heat and considered in dangerous condition for several hours. This morning he improved and is now regarded as out of danger.
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E. Siedenburg
Aurora
Coroner's Wandering Notes Stir Ancient Seaboard Gossip
The fragment hints a jovial coroner charmed by sea pleasures at Put in Bay and Kel ley's Taland, writing to coast authorities in terse maritime prose. The text blends eccentric banter with drifting homebound sentiment amid portside merriment and nautical allusions.
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Kelley
Taland
Work House Sentences From Morning Court
The following Work House sentences were handed by Judge J. M. Brazier in vagrancy cases. Sallie Collier received 3 months. Geo. eel and ope da tet erly condu eac at Mead 3 days. We Ferrill 21 months for elinvane cy. Henry Williams 30 days for disorderly conduct. Franklin 30 days. Kate Taylor 3 months. Sallie Huston and others 30 days for battery.
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New Comics tease birth of a bouncing boy
Ferdinand Augustus is named for Eugene W Lippert, a bookkeeper with ties to the CIXCINS ATI Tina i. The piece hints at a great renovator of the human omen and mentions an additional patient related event, noting a girl weighing a certain amount.
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Eugene W. Lippert
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Obituary Notes On Aged Citizen And Pastor Illness
Personal notice declares Mr. John Whetstone, an elderly fellow citizen, is rapidly failing and bedbound for months, with limited visits allowed. Reverend Robinson, pastor of Christie Chapel, is ill at his daughter's home in Morrow.
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Board to meet on Union Bridge Level contract award
The Board of Control will hold a special meeting to discuss the last award of the Union Bridge Level contract. A special engineer may be proposed to supervise the job, but directors are reluctant to pay daily watchmen. Eastern Hamilton County residents expect the levee sooner than anticipated.
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Eckel clique seen weak on Woollard Normal School choice
The text suggests the Eckel faction lacks confidence in their push to place Geo. B. Woollard in charge of the Normal School. Eckel is described as the chief agitator, with the board of education facing a tough task to appease their demands amid local political maneuvering and upcoming elections.
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Geo. B. Woollard
Board ‘of Education
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Nellie Grants Childhood in Galena Tale
A Lacon home journal recalls General Grant's Galena years and a dinner with the wealthy merchant family F. Nellie notes frugal napkin humor, saying they do not use napkins at their house. The anecdote is presented as a true, printless memory.
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Nellie
Comet Heat Weather Destroys Trees at Geneva
A fierce storm near Geneva Wisconsin early Sunday toppled trees along Lake Geneva causing damage to private property and boats. The large home of Woodhams and Willard was wrecked and several grounds were seriously harmed though no lives were reported.
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Woodhams & Willard
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Dunlap
Seporter Bayth Attacked by Henry Mortens Varieties Figure
W C Bayth a seporter tied to the Pittsburgh repatch was assaulted Friday by Henry Morten owner of Mor ten's Varieties and knocked down Smyth acting on legal affairs confronts Morten who accuses Bayth of writing an article for Mor ten's Varieties as one of the targets.
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Pittsburgh
Henry Morten
Morten
Smyth
Morrs
Rumors on Bristow Transfer and Washington Monument
Special report notes rumors that Bristow may seek a different position while Hamé could head the Russian mission. Bristow’s fortune growth lessens reluctance to office though he prefers legal roles. The Washington Monument Society circulates appeals to postmasters and societies urging subscriptions and congressional petitions.
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Supreme Bench
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Washington Monumental Society
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New Loan Treaties Ratified and Extradition Pact Endorsed
Washington July 27 The Western Associated Press reports flattering prospects for the new loan treaties with port ratified. Negotiations for the five percent bonds balance are expected to conclude soon. The President issued proclamations ratifying the Peru extradition treaty and the friendship commerce and navigation treaty with the Peruvian government.
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Washinctox
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Peru
Railroad Flood Delays Panhandle Trains After Bridge Washout
Special dispatch reports Panhandle trains delayed as two bridges near Mansfield were swept away. A heavy slide occurred in the area and the Cleveland Pittsburgh Bridge over the Beaver River was carried off by the flood.
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Daily Times
Panhandle
Mansfield
Cleveland
River flood devastates Ale City with drownings and ruin
Special dispatch reports massive flooding along Spring Garden Avenue in Ale City and Saw Mill Rue. Hundreds of buildings washed away or ruined. many first floors destroyed, some upper stories swept into streets. Dozens of fatalities and missing persons modeled by wrecked bridges, collapsed hills, and livestock losses.
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Wall Street Scene and Fraud Arrests Tie to Bank Bond Theft
New York reports Louis M. Vanetten freed by Gov. Dix then rearrested for passing a ten thousand dollar U S bond linked to a theft at St George's Hotel. Robert J. Watson faces similar charges at the sub Treasury. Stock Exchange activity is dull with a 2 percent showing in five stocks and a brokers procession in response to the day’s events. The Calón arrived at Aspinall with sixteen crewmen from the City of Guatemala ashore at Wattling Island. rest aboard.
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Robert J. Watson
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Navy officer’s death and child-stealing case updates
Philadelphia reports all suspects in a child-stealing case have been released except one man held for further examination. Commodore Thompson Daragh Shaw, a retired navy officer, died yesterday in Germantown at age 75. no new intelligence on Ross’s missing child.
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Philadelphia
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Germantown
River flood reports and river traffic disruptions
Special Dispatches detail river levels peaking around July 27 with up to 6 feet 6 inches in places and rapid rises. Coal losses include sunk boats and barges near Brumiton Island and Birmingham Bridge. several vessels reported sunk or damaged. River conditions hinder freight, with boats breaking loose and wrecking operations noted at Evansville Granite Point and nearby towns.
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N. J. Bigley
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Portland Bar
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Business Fair
Amateurs Boat Race Postponed by Rain at Schmidt's Bath
The planned amateur boat race at Schmidt's Bath House was postponed due to heavy rain. Organizers say the event will be rescheduled soon with local participants and spectators awaiting confirmation.
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Prominent admirers plan a grind sonelia feature
A group of aquatic sports enthusiasts aims to organize a grind sonelia within the Exposition. Details on venue, participants, and dates remain to be announced as organizers seek support and coordination for the event.
Police Court Dockets Shuffle Gambling Charge
Police Court this morning faced a docket listing defendants including A Jones E H L Brown A liffe Geo Rivers Richard Sayers and F Green charged with gambling. The cases were continued and no clear facts or charges could be determined by Judge Marchant at Foeseslew Pattison.
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Marchant
Temperance Leagues Organize Across City Wards
Temperance groups in the First and Second wards mobilize for action with solid guarantees and active members. Suburban efforts outpace the city wards while a new fall push appears likely. Citizens backing constitutional reform and temperance push voice resolve to safeguard families.
Pict Niegeld Relivery at Trapp Place for Free Scheabia Aid
A Saturday relivery event at Mr. Henry Trapp’s residence raised funds for a free scheabia district. Old pioneers entertained the crowd while candidates Helm Jones and Rev Faylor appeared. Congregational reunion meetings followed with ministers Rev Trendricks and Rev Jen from Cincinnati among those present.
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Cincinnati
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Barracks concert and local notices excerpt
The programme at the Barracks features Olive Branc March and other pieces by Reeves Ross Keller Becker Ringlebhen Li bitzky and Dowhbing. In a separate local incident a colored woman seeks her lost boy Robert, once enslaved in Kentucky. A fatal coal pile accident near Madison Street is reported, and two boys rescue a frightened lost boy on York Street.
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