Rat Killer Bulldog Saves Old Boston Mine From Pest Plague
In Wilkes Barre Pennsylvania miners at the Old Boston colliery faced rampant rats harming corn, gear and lunches. Miner Frank Sheridan pits his bulldog Tige against the rats. after initial setbacks the dog handles hundreds, earning beef and whisky as rewards.
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Old Boston
Delaware & Hudson Company
Wilkesbarre
Gwillym Evans
Evans
Old
Boston
Davy Davis
Davy
Frank Sheridan
Sheridan
Tige
Tiger
Denny Dooks
Snow-Faced Maneaters of Zerucca Read a German Paper
A New York showman recalls a staged cannibal exhibit featuring Snow-Faced Maneaters of Zerucca. A reporter questions the realism and discovers one cannibal reading a German newspaper, highlighting the moral and sensational tension around live curiosities. The item sits amid a stream of lively, unrelated short tales including a dog Curly’s Otter duel and local feats like the Uncle Sam coasting sled in Farmington New Hampshire.
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Zerucca
Dying Man’s Joke Bequests Fictitious Hoax At Paris Hospital
A shabby consumptive, claiming to be a southern French landowner, is said to have dictated a will at a Paris hospital leaving large sums to the director, chief physician, and patients. The will proved fictitious, the bequest a hoax, but the hospital paid for a funeral before learning the deceit and found humor in the episode.
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Paris
France
Barber's Black Eye Becomes Lesson In Family Peace
In Chicago a barber recalls a night out with friends ending with a swollen eye after a slipper strike from his mother-in-law as he hid under bedclothes. She later apologizes and brings breakfast, now treating him kindly as if guiltless. A Dubuque County misread snippet describes a subterranean lake of lead crystal bottom near Dubagne.
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Puss
Mr. Vanluvanee
Chicago
Chicago Evening
Dubuque County
Dubagne
Northwest Territory
Mexican deer and wild boar sightings near Yaqui valley
An American traveler reports hunting experiences in Sinaloa and the Yaqui valley. He describes small tame Mexican deer with long white tails and their flight, plus a wild boar he accidentally killed after hearing snorts in dense cover.
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Sl. Antonio
Mexico
Culiacan
Sinaloa
Ohio
Remarkable Sea Battle Between Gull and Snake
A British steamship Nessacre report describes a gull attacked by a yellow speckled snake tied to its back. The scene unfolded off latitude 47 53 N, 33 58 W on January 9 as about fifty seagulls watched and the ship crew observed the snake’s bizarre grip and the gull’s flight and flight into the smokestack tunnel. The account also details forest wildlife including squirrels and a large black bug with a spear-like tail, plus notes on local reptiles and the mecha fire starter used by natives.
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Oak Ridge
Mr. Guy
Reynard
Curly
Victor
Gilcer
Hydrographic Office of the Navy
Washington
Nessacre
Boaton
London
Lewis
United States
Mexico
Have Only One Glass Becomes Barroom Beeswax Tale
A New Mexico man and a Chicago friend order drinks in a Chicago saloon. The bartender uses beeswax marks on a single glass to indicate portions, teaching that in New Mexico whisky is the only drink and the glass is shared until emptied.
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New Mexico
Chicago
Death of Russian diplomat M De Giers and rise in empire
Russian foreign affairs figure Nicholas Carlovitch de Giera died in St Petersburg on January 36. Born May 9, 1820, in Sweden, he joined the Imperial Lyceum and entered foreign service at eighteen. His career spanned Moldavia, Transylvania, the Ottoman frontier, Egypt, Wallachia, Moldavia, and Persia, earning high honors and shaping Russo Persian ties.
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Nicholas Carlovitch de Giera
St. Petersburg
Imperial Lyceum
Czarskoe Selo
Moldavia
Czar
Transylvania
Luddera
Sublime Porte
Roumania
Wallachia
Turkey
Russia
de Giers
New Russia
Bessarabania
Egypt
de Giera
Persia
Teheran
St. Vladimir
De Giers rises to head Russian foreign affairs
The article traces M. de Giers career from a Swedish service award to leadership of Russia's foreign office. It notes his roles as adjunct minister, director of the Asiatic department, and eventual actual foreign minister after Gortchakoff. It highlights his influence during the Berlin congress and his standing with the emperor and European powers.
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Berne
Stockholm
M. Datchakoff
Sweden
White Eagle
St. Alexander Nevaky
de Giers
Asiatic Department
Prince Gortchakoff
Gortchakoff
Foreign Office
de Giere
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Oat
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New York
Manea
Walton, Kan
Leonard L. Guy
Cranberry Creek
Scranton
New York Sun
Uncle Sam
Farmington
N. H
New England
Harvey Pearl
Mr. Pearl
Flineks
Dintourage Tramp
Bellas Me
TEES
Curly Shook His Head
M. de Giers
Gortechakoff
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