Enterprise Rescues Toridor in 1822 Ship Action
A lone American frigate Enterprise under Lt White pursues and aids the Spanish brig Toridor after a pirate assault off Cayo Largo. The engagement ends with Pinto the black pirate killed and the pirate force routed, leaving 62 dead aboard the Toridor and the crew saved.
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Gulf of Mexico
Jamaica
Cape St. Antoine
Cuba
Cain
Havana
el Toridor
Hernani
United States
Gulf
Enterprise
White
Galviz
Toridor
Isle of Pines
Cayo Largo
Pinto
Hamilton
Baltimore
Tne
Philadelphia Times
The Wheel Bemoans Cheap Bicycles Harvest of Faults
The Wheel laments a flood of inexpensive bicycles. Riders report stripped threads porous tires broken chains and pedals and poorly assembled joints undermining the bargain bike craze.
Rough Arizona Rough Riders Sail Toward Cuba
A train leaving New Orleans carried 94 Arizona men labeled the “terrors” to Cuba. Led by C A Johnson they are veteran frontier packers and marksmen, ready for inland mule transport and potential combat with Spanish forces. They come from Beebee Tombstone Tucson and Benson and will be paid 40 to 100 dollars monthly.
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Arizona
Teddy
Louisville
Nashville
New Orleans
Cc. A. Johnson
Quartermaster’s Department
United States Army
America
Old Bay State
Mexico
Cuba
United States
Beebee
Tombstone
Tucson
Benson
Mr. Johnson
Tampa
Queer Old San Juan and Its Walled City Life
A Boston Transcript piece on San Juan calling it a perfect walled town with 250 year history, crowded ground floors, no running water, poor sanitation, and frequent epidemics. It notes 27 000 people in 1887 and an 1896 estimate near 30 000 with large Afro Latino population and subdistricts Marina Puerta de Tierra Catano and San Turco.
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San Juan
Havana
England
Marina
Puerta de Tierra
San Turco
Catano
Boston Transcript
Vanilla Custard Ice Cream Making Guide
Begin by heating a quart of milk in a double boiler. Beat six eggs yolks with a generous pint of granulated sugar, fold in the beaten whites, and add to the simmering milk. Stir until thickened but not boiled to avoid curdling. Remove from heat, whisk in a pint of cream, flavor with vanilla, cool completely, then freeze in a freezer.
Wellman plans fifty copper sledges for Arctic trip with dogs
The article notes Walter Wellman aims to equip fifty tin copper sledges each with a dog to pull. It describes their tubelike design and the harsh, cannibal-like supply practice used when food in a sledge is consumed during the voyage. It also recalls Washington street labor discipline during the 19th century.
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Walter Wellman
Pole
Wellman
Mr. Wellman
All Day Ocean Sail from Boston on Lewiston
The Lewiston steamer offers a daily 10 a.m. trip from Commercial Wharf with returns to Boston by 6 p.m. Enjoy vaudeville on board and couples have wed on voyages with souvenir spoons for every lady. Round trip fare is 75 cents, Saturday matinees at 2 30 p.m. cost 50 cents.
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Lewiston
North Shore
Isles of Shoals
Boston
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Queer Old San Juan
Corporation of
Washington
Asylum
Penitentiary Department
M, N. Sixth
Anacostia
Washington Star
Goddard
Canada
Maynard, Ciass
Romance of A
India
Brahma
Serringham
Crapaud
Schaffras
Catherine of Russia
Gregory Orloff
Orloff
Catherine
Gregory
St. Petersburg
Orlof
Neith Boyce
Lippincott’s
May
Higher Naval School
Germany
H. W. Wilson
Fortnightly Review
Glenwood Ranges
Concord Junction
Mass
Adelaide
Tuttles
Jones & Wetherbee
South Acton, Mass
H. P. N. Dahl
Cass On the Eye
Maynard
M Ss
Wilfrid Wheeler
Florist
Fairhaven Road
Concord
Horace Tuttle
Walden Street
J. C. Friend
Chaplin
H. King
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