Italy to America the Columbus statue in New York
A New York Advertiser correspondent describes Italian artists at work in Rome on Christopher Columbus statue for Battery Park New York. The 18 half foot monument features Columbus in prayer with sailors and natives, atop a tall shaft with relief figures and medallions. Gaetano Hunso designed the work born in Sicily now in Rome. Battery Park chosen for site over Governor's Island.
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New York
Christopher Golumbus
Americana
Seale
Spain
American
Columbus
Heiney Hrive
Aoe
Gaetano Hunso
Catania
Sicily
Rome
Tewis
Governor's Island
Bay of New York
Battery Park
New World
Marble Carved Figures For Pedestal And Sides
The article describes using Carrara marble for large statuary and finer work, noting thin strata suitable only for small pieces. It mentions a Geniis figure on the pediment, a winged angel over the globe, and inscriptions on the base sides echoing a school days couplet about Columbus and 1492, with allegorical pictures planned for the front and back.
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Geniis
Costly Ancient Statues Worded In Gold Values
The text compares ancient statues with vast gold content, citing the Colossus of Rhodes at 300 talents and a Mercury statue by Zenodorun Thearuis costing 81 775 000, plus gold drapery for Athena and the Olympian Zeus covered in gold, with large implied values in dollars.
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Rhodes
United States
Mercury
Averni
Gaul
Zenodorun Thearuis
Athena
Parthenon
Olympia
Phidias
Omaha Bee
Remarkable Ride by Hessian Dragoons Under Captain Winsloe
Six officers of the Hessian Dragoon Guards led by Captain Winsloe set out last Thursday to cover six hundred kilometres in six days on the same horses. Their route aims for the Bavarian Chateau of Sandizel beyond the Danube, with mountainous sections and tropical shelter en route. Several Winsloe brothers serve as cavalry officers in the German army. Anutter was the first German officer killed in 1870 during the famous reconnaissance of Major Zeppelin.
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Hessian Dragoon Guards
Winsloe
Sandizel
Danube
Reaultia
Anutter
Zeppelin
London Standard
Our First Lighthouse and Historic Beacons
The Arat lighthouse in St Augustine Florida served as a lookout for early warning against approaching foes. It recalls Drake’s fleet passing the coast and looting the town. Ancient coast guards used ice towers and bonfires. Pharos of Alexandria stood as a famed beacon until an earthquake ended its 1600 year run.
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St. Augustine
Florida
Spain
Francis Drake
Coquiva Rock
United States
Pharos
Alexandria
Egypt
Ptolemy Philadelphus
Yator
Turning an Old Coffee Mill Into a Work Box
A clever girl repurposes an old coffee mill into a decorative and functional work box. Using a bhato chisel and gauge she carves a simple fat relief pattern on the four sides the top and the drawer, creating an ornamental yet practical piece.
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Abe
Polished Box With Silk Lining and Needlework Detail
The text describes a box finished to a smooth polish with beeswax, a silk lining inside, two pin tassions on the lid and the end, a sandpapered drawer for storing many spools of thread, as noted in the New York Tribune.
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New York Tribune
Talking Mocking Bird Earns Georgia Fame
An Atlanta Constitution note celebrates Mrs. Marshall of the Milledge-Wile Hotel for owning a talking mockingbird famed across Georgia. The bird mimics every bird and now speaks more clearly than a parrot, even joking through a sunlit exchange with a preacher receiving lunch and a prayer.
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Marshall
Milledge- Wile Hotel
Georgia
John Cane
John
Polly
Atlanta Constitution
Why Grant Ordered Corned Beef
After a world voyage and a banquet in his honor, General Grant requested a large plate of corned beef and cabbage. The carver fulfilled the demand, the anecdote recounted by the New York Journal captures a simple craving after a season of delicacies.
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Grant
New York Journal
Discipline at Peterhof Toll Bar A Russian Empire Tale
A Chronicle of the czar testing a sentinel at a level crossing near Peterhof The soldier refuses to open the toll bar despite imperial orders The emperor finally compels the train to pass and rewards the sentinel with a twenty five ruble note The anecdote reflects strict military discipline as essential to ruling power.
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Johnston
Peterhof
Chicago Herald
No Need of Dying Young
Detroit Free Press notes that prominent figures such as Bismarck Gladstone and Von Moltke credit long life to simple, regular habits. Regular cold baths temperance exercise and outdoor living are cited as easy life strategies. The piece argues there is little reason to die young given these practices.
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Bismarck
Gladstone
Vennyson
Fife
von Moltke
Ve Losers
Detroit Free Press
Dr. Sage
Alliance Column Narrows on Land Grants and Railroads
A polemic cites government subsidies to railroads and vast land ownership by the wealthy. Figures claim Vanderbilt, Standard Oil, Disston, Murphy and foreign nobles hold millions of acres. The piece charges watered stock, tax subsidies, and rail subsidies skew land ownership and profits away from workers.
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Ohio
Souther Alliance
Vanderbilt
Standard Oil Company
Disston
Pennsylvania
California
Murphy
Massachusetts
Schontey Estate
Pittsburg
Alleghany Cttica
United States
Stnca
Minisis Gental
Uctreland
Aburce
North Carolina Farhiora Alliance Congress Note
A fractured report from North Carolina notes a May 17 conference where ninety one counties endorsed the St Louis platform and Ocala demands. It praises Alliance members as independent thinkers and calls for unity amid political gloom following President Polk’s death, with W S Barnes signing as secretary-treasurer.
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North Carolina
United States
Farhiora Alliance
St. Louis
Ocala
Order
Aucker
Polk
Barnes
N. OS
Bravery At Sea Saved 18 From Calu Steamer Disaster
Theological students at Evanston Illinois aided by life saving crews on November 23, 1859 braved a winter storm on Lake Michigan. Five surfmen reached the scene at 1 a m and after battling sleet and freezing temps launched a boat and saved all eighteen aboard the Calu. Washington Sear, a raisin producer in California, owns 1200 acres in Yolo County and the largest vineyard spans 96 acres in Tulare County.
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Lake Michigan
Evanston
Mort Sheridan
United States
Yolo County
Cal
Tulare County
Wise Words on Death and Love From Timeless Aphorisms
A collection of old maxims on marriage, honesty, and human nature notes that men lie to women during courtship, women adapt their clothes to fit, and true bonds endure beyond grief as friends fade with new paths. The fragment highlights humor and caution about fortune and behavior.
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Fortunne
Altesn
Mau
Bhutan
Fragmentary Lines Hint at Reigning Belle and Named Figures
Jotted fragments mention "The Countess de Rigour" and "American-some Wellers tow" with a reference to a reigning belle. A shadow of a remembered schoolmate, Samanths ru, appears, suggesting a gossip column snippet and incomplete proper nouns.
Newsy Gleanings From A Distant Year
A collage of global notes lists sugar crops in CoBa and watermelons in Bourn Canopto, inflationary forecasts for Brazil, Morocco partition talk, and a Paris cholera strain. It reports Maine militia size, Berlin’s exhibition plans, and California fruit prices. Also notes German emperor’s Chicago Exposition band ban and Northwest ram crop gains.
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Kentucky
Asia
Expany
Universitien
Bourn Canopto
4Ikrmary
Berlin
United States
Mackerer
Maine
Weat Point
Santa Clara
California
Gunenar
Pxrxoto
Brazil
Spain
Italy
Morocco
Germany
Paris
France
Chicago Fire Destroys Nearly Two Thousand Instruments
A Chicago blaze swept through a storage or shop area burning nearly 2000 musical instruments. The fire consumed drums violins guitars and brass as authorities investigated the cause and scale of the loss. No injuries were reported.
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Chicago
Statesman
Ladies favor Syrup of Figa as safe laxative for all
The California Fig Syrup Co promotes Syrup of Figa for women urging true genuine artele label. Separate notices advertise Niagara Falls excursions by the Tf & D line from Cincinnati July 2 with routes via Detroit and Michigan Central. prices five dollars to Niagara Falls return and ten dollars to Thousand Islands. tickets valid for days. Advertisement mentions Brown's Iron Bitters as tonic and notes the New York City trade school with 9700 journeymen trained in ten years.
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California
California Fig Syrup Co
Niagara Falls
Tf & D
Toronto
Cincinnati
Detroit
Michigan Central
Thousand Islands
New York City
William Astor Caasten
New York
Africa
Sonming Fone
W. L. Douglas
Yeny Place
Minas
Presbyterian ties mark campaign participants in Toledo era
A fragment notes four figures in a pending campaign connected to Presbyterian faiths. It mentions General Stevenson active in the Presbyterian church while Mr. Cleveland and Mr. Whitelaw Reid are noted as regular attendees at Presbyterian services. The piece also cites a public certificate sworn on December 6 before J. W. Gleason.
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Az Palit
Gen. Stevenson
Presbyterian Church
Cleveland
Whitelaw Reid
Presbyterian Divistrations
Toledo
Fras J. Crener
A. D
J . W. Gleason
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Etatur
Pedmetat
Anomerote Taro
L. L. Polk
Mimmons
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Hery
Phalant
Hell
George Howard Witton
Lincoln
Ned
Jane Nth
Louter Prom Hroureary OF
Korthy
Carolina Faumerr
Death Alliance
Russia
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Hood
Arkansas
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Bedcham
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Swift
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Ottawa
Kan
Sexorrio Co
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Gaia
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P. M
Pavilion Centre
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Brat
Oder
Cnll
Ludlum & CO
Awauten
U.c.caine & Co
Del
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Warren, Pa
Toll Ae Ee Nee
Zee
Alwayd
Fred'k Dutcher Drug CO
Br. Amand
Poplin
Young ‘Pedis
Bradfield Regulator CO
Atlahta
Darcy Aurion
Harter Medicine CO
St. Lovie
South
Senola
Lovell Diamond Cycles
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