The Global Pickpocket Trade in London Paris and Beyond
A New York Sun London corresp describes a 100000 strong pickpocket network based in St Giles Whitechapel and the Thames wharves. It details training routes to London and Paris operations, receiving houses meuniers and quiet, precise methods differing by nationality, and the British method of silent capture. A separate Bethany Oil Creek blaze reports a 70 foot flame along Buffalo Creek attracting thousands of spectators before dying out with minor damage.
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London
St. Giles
Whitechapel
Thames
Paris
Champs Elysees
Grand Opera
Meuniers
Bobby
Bethany
Buffalo Creek
Wheeling Intelligencer
London Cor
New York Sun
Winters in the City of Mexico and Tenor Hunt in Churches
A Boston Herald piece recalls a mild Mexican winter with early spring bloom and scant snows, contrasting northern harshness. It blends in a New York World report on church choirs in Brooklyn and New York seeking tenors, with high salary hopes for a few sought singers.
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Brooklyn
Grace Church
St. Bartholomew’s Church
Franz Remmertz
New York World
Gardening for profits and pleasure in a sunlit season
The text extols seedsmen offering summer harvests at low prices, noting that rain and sun are free and gardening hours extend life. It praises garden work as a shared partnership with nature, accessible even in a window box, and highlights the creative joy of cooperating with the natural world.
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Nature
Kate Field
Washington
Flimsy World’s Fair Hotels Raise Fire Risk at Park
The Chicago Herald warns that hastily built wooden hotels near Jackson Park for the World’s fair are structurally insecure. Several have collapsed and more show weak foundations. Fire threats loom, with two already burned, risking lives and property if a blaze starts and spreads quickly.
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Jackson Park
Chicago Herald
Surge in Diamond Imports Drives Duty Revenue
Customs records show duty paid on about 120 million dollars of cut diamonds over 24 years, with 90 million imported in the last 12 years. Earlier years saw 1 to 1.2 million, while 1888 and 1889 reached about 11 million each, tenfold the level of twenty years prior.
Simmering Well Douses Mount Vernon Farm
Four miles southwest of Mount Vernon Texas Marvel Holbert dug a 60 foot well last July but found no water. He reexposed the bore last week and hot steam and a 6 inch hot water vein burst from the bottom to 18 feet depth boiling like tea. Cor Galveston News.
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Holbert
Mount Vernon
Tex
Marvel Holbert
Galveston News
Turtle and Bear Fight Ends with Fatal Shot
In Covington Pennsylvania a 20 pound snapping turtle clung to a 300 pound bear’s nose during a yard scuffle. The bear tried to scale a fence and move to the next yard but was shot by the owner after the bear’s advances were blocked. The turtle held on until the bear’s flesh was severed, then carried away the portion in its jaws.
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Covington
Bruin
Bostor Burget
Carriage Repair and General Jobbing Shop Opens
The proprietor opens a new shop with Tucker the blacksmith to handle carriage repairs and general jobbing. All work will be neatly and promptly completed.
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Tucker
Household Wisdom on Cleaning and Stain Remedies
A dated compendium lists household tricks for removing stains and preserving items. Techniques include using alcohol and salt on grease, camphor with silverware, copper coins for window paint, brine for ink, boiling water for fruit stains, and oxalic acid for bands, among others.
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Mickel
Roth
Home Remedies and Household How Tos From Yesteryears
A collection of practical tips including bunion relief with hot apple infusion, grease clearing with potash, mayonnaise dressing from yolk and olive oil, and making modeling clay with dry clay and glycerine. Each item outlines simple steps and cautions for home use.
How Naval Vessels Receive Names and Copper Bathing Ropes
Instructions describe dipping ropes in a copper sulfate bath at twenty grams per liter for four days to prevent rot and parasites. Naval naming rules assign first class ships to states, second class to principal rivers, third class to cities, and fourth class to the president’s chosen names.
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United States Navy
Lime Water Preparation Steps Described
The text instructs shaking an ounce of pure caustic lime in a pint bottle with water. After the lime settles, pour off the clear liquid and store it in a well stoppered bottle.
How to Destroy Lice on Plants Instructions and Tactics
A brief guide explains treating plant lice with a syringe to apply soapsuds or tobacco water or a weak chlorine solution. It emphasizes direct contact on affected foliage and repetition as needed to control infestations.
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Ondon
Mexico
Table
Valley
Aguas -Nieves
Cor
Boston Herald
Turtle and Isear
E. Jones & Co
J.P. Fletcher
Just
L.cleary
Wirs
Williams
Main St
Maynard
H.P. N. Dahl
Naylor
Nason St
H. P. N. Dahl
Francis B. Munroe
Concord
Concord Junction
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
Middlesex
Lucinda Brown
Sudbury
Charles Thompson
Cambridge
The
Sudbury Enterprise
George M. Brooks
H. Folsom
Register
E. Bothwell
Prop
Flair Dresser
Formosa
Japan
Java
Caskell and Taylor
Sumner Street
Maynard’s Block
Neil Currie & CO
Maynard, Mass
Blagksmithing
Main Street
Daniel
J. Y. Tucker
E. P. Gleason
Adams
Loewe
Thoreau and Hubbard St
Mass
D.c.handley
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